Li Shimin frowned and seemed very impatient. Why are so many people looking to see me today?

He looked down and continued to look at the memorial: "Supreme him come in."

Zhang Qian nodded and said yes.

A moment later, Wei Xuanzhen came in, and when he saw Li Shimin, he immediately knelt down and wailed: "Your Majesty, I... it's so painful, it's so painful."

Li Shimin finally moved his eyes away from the memorial, raised his eyes and looked at him: "Since you are so miserable, why do you speak so vigorously?"

Wei Xuanzhen was speechless for a moment, but no matter what, she must inform His Majesty of Chen Zhengtai's hateful behavior, and she must bring the liar Chen Zhengtai to justice.

He cursed the Chen family in his heart and then said with a sad look on his face.

"Your Majesty, I am popular."

Li Shimin curled his expression and glanced at Wei Xuanzhen, who looked pitiful, and couldn't help but say, "Tell me, what's the matter?"

Wei Xuanzhen burst into tears and sued Chen Zhengtai, saying that she had been deceived by Chen Zhengtai and cheated of the land.

When he talked about his emotions, he was already choked and couldn't speak, and he pounded his chest and said sadly.

"This is really angering between humans and gods. Your Majesty, he bullied people too much. He exchanged a few dozen kilograms of grain for one acre of land for the Wei family. The Wei family suffered heavy losses, a total of 100,000 acres of land..."

"Let's wait!" When Li Shimin heard this, his expression moved. He actually took a piece of paper, then picked up the pen, hesitated for a moment, and then said to Zhang Qian beside him: "Get the abacus."

"ah……"

Wei Xuanzhen: “…”

Zhang Qian came hurriedly after taking the abacus. Li Shimin carried the abacus and fiddled with it several times in a row, and finally said: "Wei Qing family, it turns out that you still have 15,000 stones of grain in your family?"

Wei Xuanzhen felt a little confused.

He originally thought that Li Shimin was on the first level, that is, there were people in the royal family who dared to bully him, and Chen Zhengtai deserved to die.

And as long as he stands on the second level, as long as he sues himself, Chen Zhengtai will take off his skin with his clever tongue.

I didn't know that His Majesty was on the third floor and he was thinking about the food from the Wei family.

So Wei Xuanzhen immediately said, "Your Majesty, this is the life of the Wei family."

His voice was hoarse, looking like he was crying without tears.

At this time, he consciously stood on the fourth floor. This is the foundation of our Wei family. Your Majesty is the emperor, how can you think about it?

Li Shimin obviously stood taller than him.

Logically speaking, what Wei Xuanzhen said makes sense.

But……

Li Shimin said coldly: "The Chen family is willing to give up tens of thousands of stones of food to serve the court. Your Wei family has received much more grace than the Chen family, but now the lives are suffering, and the Wei family is indifferent and is still petty?"

This reprimand was so scared that Wei Xuanzhen was sweating profusely and did not dare to say anything again.

After all, other families are just pretending to be poor and say that they can't survive anymore, so you get a few hundred stones and he gets a few hundred stones. This is very reasonable. After all, Li Shimin cannot confiscate their homes.

But the Wei family is different. They admit that they have a lot of food in their homes. I can count it clearly. It is clear, do you still want to deny it?

The Chen family took out all the grain to help the people. In the face of such a major disaster, your Wei family not only pretended to be deaf and dumb, but also wanted to frame the loyal and good people.

It's outrageous.

Li Shimin had a calm face. Seeing Wei Xuanzhen speechless and unwilling to do so, thinking that at this moment... Guanzhong was in a hurry and he was no longer caring about anything else. He sneered: "I ordered you to offer you five thousand stones of grain within three days. Otherwise, I will never let you go."

"Your Majesty..." Wei Xuanzhen was stunned. Five thousand stones... This is the blood and sweat food exchanged for his own land.

He murmured to himself: "Your Majesty, you can't do this...this...this..."

"You take your leave. If the Wei family cannot pay the food within three days, I will go and get it myself!"

These words have reached their peak of ruthlessness.

Wei Xuanzhen was a little confused. At this moment, he suddenly began to wonder, who asked him to come to His Majesty to be so accused?

Looking up, he saw Li Shimin being murderous, so he had to look in a daze and stand up and leave.

Li Shimin waited for Wei Xuanzhen to sue, but he couldn't help but scold him angrily: "It's really outrageous. He dared to sue my disciples. If it weren't for Chen Zhengtai, I wouldn't know how many people starved to death today. This person was so obsessed with profit, so he was so impressed by this."

Zhang Qian smiled beside him: "Yes, yes, Your Majesty's word is a gem, and he will tell you in one sentence."

Li Shimin squinted his eyes, not relieving his anger: "The Wei family really has no good people. Please write it down. From now on, I will not go to Concubine Wei to bed!"

Zhang Qian's body was shocked and he looked at Li Shimin in horror. He couldn't help but think that the Wei family is going to suffer a lot now.

...

Li Xiao has also complained a lot recently in addition to selling salt.

Chen Zhengtai was too lazy to listen to his complaints, but he paid money from the salt shop from time to time, and the profits of the salt shop were thrown into Erpigou.

The school needs to be built and the white salt needs to be refined. In addition, it also needs to undertake a lot of tasks of raising chickens and killing locusts.

In addition to consuming food, these also require countless money.

Chen Zhengtai had something to say to Chen Fu, the more salt this guy ate, the more stupid he felt.

"What does Li Xiao know? If people lose land, people and land will be saved; if people and land will be lost, people and land will be lost. This principle is the same in terms of management. If people lose money, people and people will be saved. He only looks at the small profits in front of him, but he doesn't know that the most precious thing in this world is people. Do you understand?"

Chen Fu looked at Chen Zhengtai with a confused look on his face, but he seemed to understand it, and the little chicken nodded with a pecking rice.

"Look, after following me, you even seemed a little smarter."

On a horse, he took Chen Fu to a newly built workshop near the salt field.

Here...a group of laborers selected from refugees are busy.

People are indeed the most precious. They give them two meals a day, even if they just drink porridge, they are willing to be grateful and give you seven or eight hours day and night.

The most important thing is that when Chen Zhengtai appeared, these sweaty laborers still looked at Chen Zhengtai with gratitude.

This made Chen Zhengtai feel a little embarrassed. This young master really turned the transaction into a charity.

This workshop covers a huge area, with special furnaces, exhaust chimneys, and large pools. The water stored in the pools are all clear springs brought to the nearby mountains.

Chen Zhengtai's fourth uncle is already here, and he is busy. He has accumulated a lot of management experience in salt refining. This time, Chen Zhengtai asked him to bring some backbones here. The fourth uncle has been staying here and staying away these days.

"Young Master, what is it for here?"

"Paper making!" Chen Zhengtai said: "Look."

Chen Fu was curious about how the young master was interested in papermaking.

At this time... all the processes were in place. Then the fourth uncle began to direct people and brought out a large amount of "clinker" from the warehouse, as well as a bucket of white slurry.

The more Chen Fu looked at him, the more he felt confused. He was also a knowledgeable person. He had seen all kinds of papers in the Chen family. People said that the papers were made of tree bark, wolfberry or vines, and it took a lot of effort.

In Chen Fu's opinion, there are many processes for making paper, so the price is particularly expensive, which is absolutely unaffordable for ordinary people.

Just say that the books made of paper are valuable at this time, and only high-class families like the Chen family can collect them. Even so, when the young master practices running script after a young age, he does not practice it with paper, which is too wasteful. Instead, he uses bamboo slices and pens to write on the running script. After finishing writing, Chen Fu took a knife and gently cut off the bamboo strips on the top of the bamboo strips, and then asked the young master to continue practicing calligraphy on the newly cut bamboo slices.

But now when he heard that the young master wanted to make paper, he was inspired. Paper is a priceless treasure and is the most valuable. Even the worst paper on the market can be exchanged for a lot of money.

But when he saw everyone bringing a bucket of "clinker", Chen Fu was stunned. What about the bark, the wolfberry, and the green vine?

At this time, the labor force, which had been training for a long time, was already busy...

Chen Zhengtai stood by and watched with relish.

Since the ancestors invented paper, and in the Eastern Han Dynasty, people improved paper and became able to write on paper, which was almost a great progress.

By the early Tang Dynasty, many different types of paper also appeared. However, in this era, papermaking was particularly troublesome. There were dozens of steps required. Starting from selecting materials, it was then cut, steamed, soaked, peeled, and dried in the sun to make the skin. Then, the skin was soaked, and it was necessary to go through steaming, washing, pressing, selection, bleaching, washing, pressing, continuing to select and select inspection, material making, washing and other pulping processes. This is only the second step. The real difficulty is still in the latter. You also need to dispense the whole material with water, glue, picking paper, pressing baking paper, selecting paper, paper cutting, etc. before this paper can be made.

The most difficult thing is not the cumbersome process, but also the fact that any mistake in these countless processes may be wasted all previous efforts and eventually become waste.

Chen Zhengtai paid special attention to the papermaking process of this era and found that those who can make paper are skilled craftsmen, and they are protracted and protracted, and the manpower and material resources they use are amazing.

Chen Zhengtai improved the papermaking process. In fact, his method of improvement was very simple. He just fermented the papermaking materials in advance and made them into clinker. At the same time... he adopted the bleaching technique.

These skills appeared in the late Qing Dynasty, when papermaking technology had made great progress after thousands of years of development. The manufacturing process of paper became less and less rare, and no longer needed skilled craftsmen, nor did it take long-lasting time. From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, paper had begun to be manufactured on a large scale. Although it was not exaggerated to the point where it could fly into the homes of ordinary people, it was no longer a rare thing for the people.

To put it bluntly, human progress does not lie in how rare treasures can be made, but in how to produce more products in large quantities with the least manpower and the simplest process.

………

The kiln in the workshop has already started to fire.

The clinker was poured directly into the boiling water in the furnace, and then the Lao Li began to stir with a long stick, constantly heating the boiling water, stirring it to make it into pulp...

All of this is like magic. The extremely difficult pulp made here is easily mixed, and the latex pulp is particularly even.

The manufacturing process, which had taken countless hours, was actually magical and completed in just a few hours.

Chen Fu was stunned.

Chen Zhengtai’s fourth uncle is an honest man. No one can see his joy or anger on weekdays, but today, his eyebrows are stretched out. Although he has experienced this process many times. A few days ago, Chen Zhengtai asked him to choose the raw materials for fermentation and conducted several trial productions. But at this moment, he was still a little surprised.

It is so easy to make paper?

Not only has the process been reduced by more than a dozen, but ordinary labor can be completed with a little training, what is even more terrifying is that after the final cut, the paper is bleached later and then dried. The texture of the paper is particularly smooth and extremely white.

Most of the papers of the Tang Dynasty were yellowed.

Although you can use more technology and use more expensive raw materials to make it white, the price of hard white paper is even higher than that, and only real princes and nobles can barely use it.

After the stacks of paper were cut, they finally formed. Chen Zhengtai stepped forward, touched the texture of the paper, observed its color, but shook his head in his heart. This paper... is still much worse than the paper in later generations.

But on the other side, the fourth uncle looked at the paper, and his eyes were whirling in his red eyes. The man in his thirties had his lips trembling, and he was so excited that he couldn't do it himself: "What a good paper, it's really a good paper. With this paper, even if our Chen family has no salt, it is enough to gain a foothold among the surnames in the world.

He said, wiping his tears: "No wonder Uncle San taught me to listen to you in everything, saying that when you were born, your body shines golden. Our Chen family..."

Chen Zhengtai hurriedly said: "Don't shine golden, just shine silver. If you hear the golden light, you will have misunderstandings..."

Uncle Fourth: “…”
Chapter completed!