The World of Yellow Sky

Seeing Yang Ji's expression, Xu An said with a smile, "Mr. Yang will know when he fetches the paper. What is it used for?"

"well……"

Yang Ji immediately took a piece of "Yellow Sky Paper" from the desk next to him.

Xu An took the yellow sky paper, gently covered it on the engraving block, and pressed it slightly.

Yang Ji's eyes froze, he had already thought of the key point!

"Wonderful... wonderful... wonderful!"

Yang Ji couldn't help applauding, and Fu Qi also showed surprise.

Pang Bo on the side still didn't understand Xu An's meaning, and hurriedly tugged at Yang Ji's cuff and asked, "Wen Zhong, what's the use of this?"

Yang Ji looked excited, and pointed to the engraving in front of him and said.

"Paint ink on the engraving block, then cover it with paper, and then just lightly brush, the words on the engraving block will appear on the paper immediately."

Pang Bo's complexion changed drastically, and he quickly picked up an engraving block, looking at the densely packed small characters on it.

If it is true as Yang Ji said, this small engraving block has hundreds of characters on it, and it can be recycled after being painted with ink and then covered with paper, so how many books and files can be copied in one day.

Pang Bo had thought before that if Xu An wanted to set up so many elementary schools, he would improve the papermaking method, but now that there are not enough officials, copying books is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it takes a lot of time.

Pang Bo now finally knew why Yang Ji and Fu Qi looked so excited, this is a transformative invention!

"Could it be that this is also the law taught by the immortal?"

Pang Bo held the engraving plate carefully, for fear of damaging it, his voice seemed a little trembling.

"nature."

Xu An nodded, engraving and printing, plus the "jute paper" that is easy to store, the two combined into one, gave Xu An the confidence to open a school.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, knowledge, books, bamboo slips, all of these existed in the hands of nobles, and it was very difficult for ordinary people to just read and write. Many ancient books were held in the hands of those powerful families.

For example, Hao Zhao, his methods of defending the city and equipment are all learned from the books and classics in his own home.

One reason is that the bamboo slips are not easy to carry and difficult to spread, and before the advent of engraving and printing, most of the books and classics were copied by hand, which also caused the remaining books to be quite limited.

Xu An sent Wei Lv to Hedong County to eliminate the powerful family. Another point is to search all the precious books and classics of the powerful family.

The Yellow Turban Army is incompatible with parallel imports from a powerful family. Although Hao Zhao is a son of a powerful family, his joining the Yellow Turban Army is just his subjective opinion, and his family may not agree.

It has been a while since the Yellow Turban Army unified the Shangdang, but in fact, except for the forcibly coerced civil servants who work under the supervision of the Eagle Wolf Guard, most of the powerful families, even if they succumbed, did not let their family members The willingness of his nephew to become an official in the Yellow Turban Army.

After all, almost all the actions of the Yellow Turban Army violated the interests of these powerful families.

Let's just talk about land tax. Now the Yellow Turban Army collects land tax. All powerful landlords need to pay land tax according to the land they own. Wolf Guard Tiqi has been investigating Yintian.

Without such messy taxes as counting tax, oral tax, and poll tax, the tax paid by ordinary people is indeed much lower.

However, under the rule of the Yellow Turban Army, the powerful family had to pay more taxes, which directly violated their interests.

This is also one of the reasons why the powerful families in Hedong County resisted so hard.

The powerful landlords in Bingzhou quickly surrendered because there was no better way. After all, the Yellow Turban Army only violated their interests, but what the Huns wanted was their lives and money. There is no need to compare which is more important. .

Therefore, the officials and tyrants in Bingzhou can still be driven by the Yellow Turban Army for the time being.

Of course, if the Han army gains the upper hand again, these tyrants and officials who had already succumbed in Bingzhou will definitely show their fangs again and resist the rule of the Yellow Turban Army.

Therefore, Xu An wanted to seize the world and defeat the heroes of the late Han Dynasty. The limitations of the Yellow Turban Army prevented him from relying on his family. He had to take another road full of thorns.

And this way is to rely on the masses.

As for the masses at the end of the Han Dynasty, they were illiterate, and the powerful landlords controlled the township and the mouthpiece.

And to control the mouthpiece, it is necessary to open up the wisdom of the people, so that more and more people can read and write, so that the government orders of the Yellow Turban Army will not be distorted by those entrenched and powerful landlords who are entrenched in the village.

When the elementary school is gradually developed and the enlightenment education is gradually expanded, an official newspaper will be established at that time, and the Chinese language rights can be further increased.

This is the power of publicity!

There were only a few people outside the house, and the footsteps were even louder.

It was only at this time that Yang Ji realized that at some point, the inside and outside of the house were already full of Tiqi from Eagle Wolf Guards.

Even Liu Pi, the commander of the Eagle Wolf Guard, was among them.

Xu An stood up slowly, with a frosty face, looked around at the craftsmen in the house, and said coldly: "'Yellow sky paper' and 'engraving and printing' are the top secrets of our army. If there is anyone who leaks, the nine clans will be implicated!"

Chapter 272 The road is long and the road is long

Yang Ji, Fu Qi, and Pang Bo followed Xu An out of the house, only to find that all the craftsmen in the workshop had been gathered together.

The eagle and wolf guards have completely controlled this place, even if they spread their wings, they cannot escape from this place.

Not only paper makers, but also craftsmen who carve were gathered.

Xu An bent down and bowed solemnly to the craftsmen in front of him.

Xu An looked solemn, and said sincerely: "In order to calm the world, I can only wrong you for a while."?

"This matter is of great importance. If the technology is stolen by the Han Dynasty, I am afraid that its power will be greatly strengthened, and the aristocratic family will be more powerful, but ordinary people like me will have more difficulties."

Although the Han Empire is currently facing internal and external troubles, its war potential is far superior to that of the Yellow Turban Army with only one Bingzhou and half of Hedong County.

If the improved papermaking and woodblock printing techniques were captured by the Han Empire, not to mention how powerful the aristocratic family would become because of it.

After the information was leaked, Xu An would definitely not be able to publish newspapers anymore. With jute paper and woodblock printing, the Han Empire had huge financial resources and the support of countless powerful families.

On the battlefield of the public opinion war, the Yellow Turban Army will only suffer a crushing defeat.

Now Xu'an occupies Bingzhou and half of Hedong County, but the total population under his rule is only one million, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there is a threat from the Huns in the north.

The Han Empire had a total population of more than 4000 million. It is undoubtedly difficult to defeat a huge empire with a population of more than 100 million with a population of 4000 million.

Xu An's only chance of winning is to take advantage of the current internal and external troubles of the Han Empire to develop and grow stronger. When the world is in chaos, the Han Empire is divided, and the heroes rise together. A silver lining.

The way to win is to develop the people, develop the masses, use the weapon of public opinion to strengthen the belief of the people under rule, and lay a solid rear before the troubled times come.

"Later, the Eagle Wolf Guard will be responsible for transferring you to a hidden dock, where you will live for a long time, and I will take your family members there to ensure that you have no worries about food and clothing. "

"There are bazaars and blocks in Wubao, where you can find everything you need."

Xu An made a plea, and he had no choice but to do so. The jute paper and engraving and hard brushing techniques must never be known to others.

Therefore, before making paper and engraving, Xu An ordered Liu Pi to call the Eagle Wolf Wei Tiqi who was born in the Yellow Angel, and the Yellow Angel to act together to make the paper workshop and the wood workshop all They have been monitored, and they are strictly prohibited from contacting outsiders, in order to prevent any possible information leakage.

However, to Xu An's surprise, the people in the workshop didn't seem to resist too much, on the contrary, there were quite a few excited faces on their faces.

"I don't know if I can ask the great virtuous teacher a question..."

An old man with almost white hair and beard came out of the crowd and asked a little nervously.

Although Xu An wondered why these craftsmen behaved, he still replied: "Old man, you can speak freely, as long as it is a question that I know, I will definitely answer it for you."

"What the great virtuous teacher said, is it true to guarantee that we will have no worries about food and clothing?"

Xu An nodded and said: "Of course it is true. What Xu said is true. Now that everything is ruined and all walks of life are short of manpower, it is really a last resort for you to move to Wubao."

Just as Xu An was talking with the old man in front of him, he suddenly heard a slight sob in his ear.

Xu An looked up and saw that among the craftsmen in the workshop, some were secretly wiping away tears.

The old man bent down, bowed deeply to Xu An, and said in a trembling voice: "My lord, Meng Zhong, thank you for your kindness, the virtuous teacher, the virtuous teacher treats us craftsmen so kindly..."

All the craftsmen in the workshop saluted together and read aloud: "Thank you, great virtuous teacher, for your kindness!"

Xu An's expression was strange. He clearly restricted the freedom of life of these people, but why were these people grateful to him?

Yang Ji at the side also noticed Xu An's strange expression, so he approached him and asked, "Ming Gong, why is there a look of doubt on your face?"

Xu An whispered: "I'm just curious. Why did these people thank me when I forcibly moved their family to Wupu?"

Yang Ji was taken aback when he heard the words, and a strange expression appeared on his face. He looked at Xu An's face, and found that it did not seem to be fake. After thinking for a while, he finally answered Xu An's doubts.

"Most of these craftsmen are craftsmen affiliated to the imperial court. They often make weapons and equipment for the imperial court with only a meager salary. As far as I know, many craftsmen are actually barely making a living."

"Duke Ming moved their family to a safer Wubao, and ensured that they have no worries about food and clothing. Isn't it a kindness? If Duke Ming said that their freedom was restricted, these craftsmen could not travel freely from place to place. .”

"There is no need to worry about food and clothing, and there is a salary, and Duke Ming treats him with courtesy. Isn't this kindness?"

Yang Ji's words awakened Xu An.

This is the Han Dynasty, not the later generations. These small people in the Han Dynasty, these craftsmen, peddlers, were really pitiful without dignity, struggling to make ends meet, and often even starved of food.

"Long sighs to cover up tears, how hard people's lives are..."

The hardships of these ordinary people living at the bottom of the Han Dynasty far exceeded Xu An's imagination.

Xu An looked at the elated and even weeping craftsmen in front of him, but felt a little sad.

He remembered the scene when he sent troops to Hedong County. He led the Yellow Turban Army through the fields and official roads. , out of the way respectfully.

Xu An was a little curious at the time, he stopped a farmer on the way and asked why his attitude was so respectful. .

The farmers' answer is very simple, because with the Yellow Turban Army, there are no bullies running rampant in the countryside to bully them, and there are all kinds of suffocating taxes.

Thanks to Xu An's exemption from counting taxes, head tax, and a large amount of taxes, and the removal of several mountains that weighed on their heads, these many farmers finally have some meager savings.

Only today did Xu An realize that he seems to have been paying attention to the peasants and peddlers, but ignored the plight of the craftsmen.

There is still a long way to go before the world of yellow sky in the dream, and the peaceful and prosperous world of singing and dancing, the road is full of thorns and mud.

The task was heavy and the road was long, Xu An looked resolute, and he clenched the Han sword at his waist.

In this world, there are aristocrats who are luxurious and rich, and powerful people who are well-clothed and well-fed, but more people are struggling at the bottom of the society, but they cannot even guarantee food and clothing.

The road is long and far away, and I will search for it!

Chapter 273

Fu Qi looked at the happy craftsmen in the workshop in front of him, but suddenly remembered something, and asked Xu An with a frown.

"Duke Ming said that 'Yellow Sky Paper' and 'engraving and printing' are top secret. These craftsmen know the secret and are sending it to Wubao. Then the three of us have also learned about it, so we also want to go to Wupu with them?"

Yang Ji and Pang Bo looked at each other, their expressions slightly darkened.

They came here following Yan Zhong's call, and they had not been officials in the Yellow Turban Army for too long, so they didn't have much trust in terms of trust.

Xu An brought Yang Ji, Pang Bo, and Fu Qi to come here before, and he wanted to use these deeds to make the three of them more loyal. After all, these three almost came with their families, and they also brought a large number of literate talents to the Yellow Turban Army. .

Xu An said apologetically: "Of course the three gentlemen don't need to go to Wubao, but this matter is the top secret of our Yellow Turban Army after all, so I hope to send some wolf guard tiki into the three gentlemen's homes."

Another reason is that Xu An wanted to install Tiqi into the home of the three of Yang Ji, but because Yan Zhong had invited them here before, Xu An was a little worried that Yang Ji and others were unhappy, so he didn't do this. It just so happens that this incident can also be used as a pretext.

Hearing Xu An's words, Yang Ji and the others breathed a sigh of relief, but it didn't hurt to send the wolf guard's Tiqi supervisor.

They had already heard about the role of the Eagle Wolf Guards, but they were invited to come under the rule of the Yellow Turban Army. Whether it was the notorious Eagle Wolf Guards or the well-trained Yellow Turban Army, they all respected them.

So Xu An wanted to send Eagle Wolf Guards into their home, and it didn't arouse too much resistance from the three of them, and the "yellow sky paper" and "engraving and printing" were indeed very important.

Yang Ji said with a smile: "Of course this is possible. With the protection of the eagle wolf guards, those young people will not dare to make trouble."

Xu An made up his mind, and said: "Since this is the case, the three gentlemen should go back to the government office first. I still have a few things that I need to trouble the three gentlemen. I will explain a few words and come right after."

Yang Ji and others agreed, and walked out of the workshop under the guidance of Yinglangwei.

"Liu Pi." Seeing that Yang Ji and others had left, Xu An walked up to Liu Pi, and told him: "This matter is top secret, half of the hope of establishing Huang Tian's career is within it."

Liu Pi bowed slightly: "Please rest assured, my lord, the Eagle Wolf Guard will keep it strictly confidential."

"We must be extremely careful in this matter. Select personnel, all of them are selected from the yellow angels, and they will be screened and screened again."

Xu An was still a little worried.

"Leave the rest of the matter aside. I want you to be responsible for this matter yourself. But after this matter is dealt with, and the state's public trial, you have to put it on the agenda as soon as possible. I have already handed over the full responsibility to Wei Lu in Hedong County. Although many officers in the Bingzhou Army are the sons of powerful men, don't be willing to let go of those who commit crimes just because of this."

……

After bidding farewell to Liu Pi, Xu An rode his war horse and hurried all the way back to the government office.

As soon as he walked into the house, Pang Bo in the room asked: "Duke Ming, you said earlier that there are still a few things you need to trouble me for, and would like to ask what are the specific things?"

Xu An knelt down and replied: "The House of Internal Affairs has a lot of affairs, and all the affairs are basically concentrated in the House of Household Affairs. I think such things are cumbersome and very inappropriate, so I want to break it down."

Yang Ji slightly raised his eyebrows and asked in doubt: "Subdivision?"

Xu An nodded and said, "My Yellow Turban Army doesn't collect taxation, poll tax and other miscellaneous taxes, but only collects land tax and business tax."

"Nowadays there are so many troops, and almost every ten people have to support one soldier. In addition to other expenditures, the pressure is quite heavy. You are also aware of these."