Chapter 34 Zhao Si is the biggest good news this year!

Author: March

Chapter 34 Zhao Si is the biggest good news this year!

"This is the defect of not having paper!" Zhao Si looked at the silk in front of him with a rather distressed look and sighed.

"Isn't this just paper?" Wang Li asked doubtfully, pointing at the silk.

It is worth mentioning that the word paper was not born after the invention of paper.

In fact, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, paper referred to silk.

The word paper itself is extracted and fused from silk.

"I'm not talking about this paper..." Zhao Si waved his hand.

"How do you make paper?" Zhao Si scratched his head. Zhao Si had read a lot of novels, some of which were about party affairs and described the papermaking process in great detail. The problem was that Zhao Si regarded this plot as a pretense when reading it.

Watched the plot.

I remember the protagonist making paper, when the paper came out, he was shocked and made a fortune...

Our understanding of the papermaking process is limited to knowing that paper is made from plant fibers.

"It doesn't matter, as long as you know the principle." Zhao Si quickly arranged a task for the military craftsman.

papermaking!

As for how to make paper?

The help Zhao Si gave was to tell the military craftsmen that it was made of plant fiber.

The military craftsmen didn't know what to do, but fortunately it wasn't a big project. Let's study it first. Maybe Zhao Si would think of it after seeing some of the craftsmen's steps.

As long as it does not involve large-scale production, it actually does not consume much manpower and material resources. Besides, Zhao Si does not make paper for himself, let alone invest his own money.

"Didn't you keep asking me what I wrote before?" Zhao Si looked at Wang Li with a teasing smile on his face.

Zhao Si was busy recalling and checking calculations before, and most of Wang Li's questions were vague and confusing.

Now that I have some free time and I have almost summarized it, I finally have time to teach it to others.

As his little friend, Wang Li naturally had to be the first to endure the torture of mathematics.

"This is a book on arithmetic that I saw overseas. It is simple and practical to learn."

Wang Lixin nodded as he thought it was true, and Zhao Si started tutoring Wang Li in mathematics.

And on the other side...

On the galloping road, the First Emperor was driving.

Meng Yi presented the urgent message from Wang Ben from Xianyang.

"How to turn brine salt into green salt? The cost is similar to that of boiling salt? Is it possible to reduce the cost?" Although he was surprised, the First Emperor calmly read the entire prompt.

Because the salt-drying method has not yet been successfully tested, the urgent report above is about Zhao Si's cooking of salt.

Through various means, the brine salt is made into high-quality green salt.

All that is consumed is manpower and firewood.

"A lot of salt comes from the Qi land. In addition to the cost, transportation along the way is also very expensive. In addition to purchasing Qi salt, various places in Guanzhong can only mine well salt mines, but they are still not self-sufficient. If there is this method, the price of salt in the world can be brought down.

A lot!" Meng Yi said.

Most of the salt mines in inland areas are of varying quality. Except for the finest green salt, the quality is not as good as the sea salt from Qi Di.

Qidi has been the largest salt-producing area in the world since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and even beyond. It is not an empty claim that half of the world's salt is produced in Qidi.

After the First Emperor unified the world, although he did not implement the dictatorship of salt and iron, he immediately controlled a large number of salt producing areas in Qi to expand production.

They even built an extra section of road to the salt production area to reduce transportation costs.

But that’s about it. The cost of boiling salt is very high. Coupled with the transportation cost of sending it all over the world, the price of salt has remained high.

Needless to say the importance of salt!

Zhao Si's salt-making technique can, on the one hand, alleviate the current situation of half of the world's salt supply. According to this method, salt mines in various places can be used, and transportation costs are greatly reduced, which can save a lot of money.

The most important thing is that Da Qin can also greatly alleviate the problem of not having enough salt.

In fact, even Qi is a salt-producing land.

However, using the relatively primitive method of boiling salt, the output has never been too high. It is more than enough to supply the entire land, but it is not enough to supply the world.

Except for Qidi, there are simply not enough edible salt mines in other places, and even if Qidi has expanded its production after the First Emperor's conquest, it is still far from enough to feed the world.

Not to mention, the quick report also mentioned that Zhao Si is experimenting with the salt-drying method, which is expected to further reduce costs.

"good!"

The First Emperor pressed the memorial and showed a rare smile.

The return journey was not pleasant for the First Emperor.

He chose to return to Xianyang early because of physical discomfort, but the journey was still tiring and his physical discomfort became stronger and stronger.

At first, I just had occasional chest tightness and shortness of breath. Now, with the fatigue of driving and horse racing and the passage of time, I always wake up sweating profusely and am out of breath even after walking a few steps.

Even the effects of the "elixir" are getting worse and worse, and people are often in a situation where they can't feel energetic.

Along the way, apart from the return of Zhao Si, there was also some bad news.

Meng Tian raided the Hetao in northern Xinjiang. Now he has no way to advance, but he cannot easily withdraw.

The laborers building the Great Wall recently staged a mutiny, but it was easily suppressed.

Zhao Tuo has not made much progress in Baiyue. According to Zhao Tuo's approach, it may take Da Qin ten years or more to gain a firm foothold in Baiyue.

Fusu once again wrote a letter proposing the enfeoffment system.

On the way back, he met another assassin, but he killed him before he even got close to him.

"How about promoting Ban Liang Qian in various places?" asked the First Emperor.

"I'm afraid it will take decades." Meng Yi replied.

The commodity economy of the Qin Dynasty was extremely underdeveloped, so

Among the four-step strategy of writing in the same text, driving in the same track, unifying weights and measures, and unifying the currency, the unified currency was placed last by the First Emperor.

This is not to say that a unified currency is not important, but compared to the other three, a unified currency must be ranked at the back.

and!

Books and documents can be moved on the same track simultaneously.

Unifying weights and measures and unifying currency cannot go hand in hand.

It is precisely because the First Emperor put the unified currency at the end of the list, and it was barely completed in the last year of his death. Therefore, after the death of Qin, all the princes in the world came together, and the currency once returned to chaos. Until the early Han Dynasty, there were still various

The use of mixed currency.

"ten years……"

Another decade!

The First Emperor frowned.

The land of unifying Qin is completely different from the land of unifying the world.

If any policy is implemented in Guanzhong, it will not be so slow, but the world is so vast?

Although Meng Tian had expelled the Xiongnu and regained the most fertile Hetao area in the north, it would take more than ten years to immigrate to guard the border, reclaim farmland, and build the Great Wall.

The same is true for Baiyue in the south. Zhao Tuo attacked from both sides, one hit and two enemies, and his methods were biased towards Huairou. It would take ten years to achieve results.

Currency reform is another ten years of work...

Many of the policies currently being implemented are like bottomless pits.

It will take ten years or even longer to gradually generate benefits, and it may take a hundred years to recover the costs and generate returns.

The First Emperor has become increasingly unwell in recent days, and it is hard to say whether he will have those ten years or not.

In recent years, the largest investment has been in the fleet that went to sea.

Of course, the premise is that what Zhao Si said is true.

For example, the yield of sweet potatoes is really 500 kilograms per mu, corn is really twice as short as wheat, and the charts and maps of overseas places are real.

Looking at the report in his hand, the First Emperor's calm face finally showed a hint of relief.

"Speed ​​up and return to Xianyang as soon as possible!"

Recalling that Zhao Si talked about overseas scenery in front of him, the First Emperor was surprised to find that this boy Zhao Si turned out to be the biggest good news this year.
Chapter completed!