Straight man of steel

Chapter 271
As for these few booklets, Lao Zhao has been tracing and engraving them day and night, and it will take at least half a month to complete them all.

There are already a lot of standard wooden boards in the house. This time it is no longer as big as a piece of paper. Zhang Yuan has made all four boards of paper. It is always convenient to wait for printing and then cut them. Some.

Zhang Yuan heard that some smart people have begun to imitate himself, and also engraved characters on wooden boards, and then printed them with ink. As a result, the resulting fonts either did not absorb the ink at all, and easily scattered.

Otherwise, it will be glued on, and the paper cannot be torn off. Of course, if they choose to engrave it into inscribed reverse characters, they may succeed. In the end, it is just a waste of ink, and a whole page of black paper is not easy to read.

Because Princess Pingyang has never lowered the price of paper, and even because the Taixue is about to open, and there are more scholars in Chang'an City, Princess Pingyang also ordered that the price of paper be increased by 30.00%.

This move caused those literati to complain endlessly, but there was nothing they could do about it. The royal family would not discuss business with others.

After explaining everything to Lao Zhao, and asking him to let him carve everything, he took a sample and sent it to Du County. Zhang Yuan left early the next morning.

When he arrived in Chang'an City, he immediately sent the memorial he had written at home to the palace. Seeing that many officials were still using bamboo slips, Zhang Yuan felt a sense of superiority.

This sense of superiority is not because I have more money than other officials, but because I see these officials have money but dare not spend it.

If it is said that these officials can’t afford paper, don’t say that Zhang Yuan doesn’t believe it, Liu Che probably won’t believe it either. But before the price of paper comes down, these officials will probably write a paragraph on the bamboo slips in order to show their incorruptibility. Memorabilia of time.

The memorial was handed in, and the next step was to wait for Liu Che to contribute money and people to the construction of the Taixue.

In the past few years, the treasury and the royal family's own internal treasury have been full of money. Building a Taixue is nothing.

Sure enough, not long after Zhang Yuan's memorial was handed over, Liu Che wrote an accurate word on it.

And also asked Chu Da, the Minister of Shaofu, to fully cooperate with Zhang Yuan in building the Taixue.

When Chu Da came with a large plate of miniature models of Taixue, Zhang Yuan was also amazed at the high efficiency of those craftsmen.

"How long did it take for the model to be completed?"

"Ayuan, do you really think that those people remade it, these are all patched together from other palace models.

It seems that as long as it conforms to the system, it is not ugly. "

Hearing Chu Da's explanation, Zhang Yuan also understood.

There are only a few kinds of architectural styles in this era. As the highest academic institution in the country, Taixue naturally has to follow the specifications of the palace.

Just copy a few of the side halls of Weiyang Palace and Jianzhang Palace, in short, it can't be more luxurious than Jianzhang Palace.

"That's fine, just build the temple like this, and I'll think about how to make the landscape of the rest of the place."

"Okay, I will ask Shanglin Yuanling to take the craftsmen and materials to Du County.

It shouldn't be too troublesome to build this Taixue. With the framework of the original building, it can be put into use in only half a year. "

"Six months?"

"Half a year, that's pretty fast."

When Zhang Yuan thinks about it, it took a year or two for such a small place in his home to be completed. These emperors used tens of thousands of manpower to build their own mausoleums. .

"Well, anyway, I will leave all of this to Brother Chu, and I will go back home and wait quietly for the completion of the construction of the Taixue."

Chu Da patted Zhang Yuan on the shoulder, as if he had given everything to me.

The most worthless things in this era are materials and manpower, which fundamentally eliminates the possibility of cutting corners.

There is no big problem for a palace to be used for hundreds of years, so as long as this imperial school can last for a period of time and gradually become rich, it can be passed down after expansion and renovation.

All Zhang Yuan can do is to separate Taixue from Chaotang, hoping to make a good start.

Time can easily pass by in this state, when a person puts all his energy on one thing, or when this person has no goals and lives in a daze every day.

Zhang Yuan is the latter, he completely empties himself, doesn't care about anything, his whole brain only has the function of nodding and shaking his head, and by the way, he also has the function of opening his mouth to eat.

Half a year has passed, and the big man has ushered in the third year of Yuanguang under Liu Che's rule.

Wrapped in thick animal fur, Zhang Yuan watched the ice and snow melt and everything began to recover.

It was at this time that Chu Da sent someone to say that the Taixue had been completed, and Zhang Yuan woke up slowly from his numbness.

Time to get down to business.

"Old Zhao prepares horses."

"Here."

Zhang Yuan didn't travel alone this time, but brought a dozen or so 16-year-old teenagers with him.

Even if you can't enroll in Taixue, it's a good thing to stay there and listen to it. It's not easy for Xiaoqing's education level to teach these children how to read.

Galloping on the snow, although it is very cold, but the heart is comfortable. After holding back for a long time at home, feeling the air outside makes people feel that the whole heart will open.

When he arrived in Du County, Zhang Yuan found that earth-shaking changes had taken place since his first visit.

The overgrown weeds and weeds in the outskirts of the city were all cleared away, and the city became popular.

In the end, Liu Che did not approve the return of the former people in Du County to live. He felt that this would be very detrimental to his image.

But on the one hand, in order to protect his own face, on the other hand, he really felt that the existence of Shanglin Garden made the lives of the people not very convenient, so the emperor decided to follow the ancient system.

All the folks who built Taixue stayed in Du County, and then moved all their families here.

Originally, several big families in Du County also moved back.

All of a sudden, Du County became a city with a population of tens of thousands.

Now that the ice and snow have begun to melt, and the construction of Taixue has been completed, the peasants put down their hammers, picked up hoes, and began to cultivate the land allocated to them by the magistrate of Du County.

It has been snowing heavily this year, and this land has not been planted with any crops for many years. As long as these peasants work hard, they will surely have a good harvest this autumn.

Zhang Yuan rode a horse and prepared to take these boys into the city, but he did not expect that a city guard appeared at the gate of the city.

Zhang Yuan didn't think there was anything strange about this, so he rode his horse and planned to rush in, but was stopped.

(End of this chapter)