"Congratulations to Mr. Li for becoming a doctor."
In Li's mansion, Zhao Tuo, Shejian, Zhongli Mei, Lu Wan, Heiyi and other close relatives all raised wine to congratulate Li Shiqi.
While Li Shiqi was drinking with everyone, he shook his head and said, "I, a drunkard who plays with his lips, can actually become a doctor of Qin one day. I can't believe it."
Black Buttocks smiled and said: "That's good. You are a drunkard and a master of words. You just go and scold those doctors to relieve our anger."
Lu Wan also nodded in agreement: "Of course, Mr. Li's eloquence is unparalleled. He is just in time to enter the Doctoral Academy and kill those corrupt scholars."
Li Shiqi chuckled, turned around and cupped his hands to Zhao Tuo: "Young Master may feel at ease in the future, but if I, a drunkard from Gaoyang, enter the doctor's academy, the group of Dingjiao people will have no peace day and night, and they will not dare to cause trouble again."
"With Mr. Li here, I feel relieved."
Zhao Tuo raised his wine and gave the other party a toast, secretly applauding the First Emperor's actions.
Previously, the Prime Minister of the Left, Wang Wan, was instigated by Chun Yuyue and others to use the defects of the paper to challenge him, but Zhao Tuo, who was well prepared, turned against him.
Afterwards, seeing that the situation was not right, and the benefits of printing and paper being spread, many doctors immediately showed their favor to Zhao Tuo, and even Dr. Zhou Qingchen, the servant of Dr. Zhou, came to visit Zhao Tuo.
Zhao Tuo knew very well that Tingwei Li Si was not able to deal with these doctors, and that the disputes involved factional ideas and he could not get involved at will, so he declined the visit of these people on the pretext of being busy at work.
At the same time, Dr. Qi Diaobi and other doctors who had opposed him actually wrote to the emperor and wanted to resign and leave, but were refuted by the First Emperor.
Zhao Tuo guessed that Qi Diaobi and the others might have been frightened by him and wanted to slip away.
But after the First Emperor ascended the throne and became empress, his character became more domineering.
It's the kind of "I want you to leave, so you can leave. I haven't spoken, so who dares to leave".
The First Emperor not only refused to let these doctors resign and leave, but also issued a special edict to recruit Li Shiqi, the chief of the right concubine, as a doctor of the academy.
The meaning of this is naturally self-evident.
As Li Shiqi entered the academy, with his title and reputation, and Zhao Tuo behind him, he won over various doctors and a group of Confucian scholars. A group of Confucian scholars led by Dr. Chun Yuyue, an iron-headed scholar, formed a quarrel. They attacked each other academically all day long and became one with each other.
This made Zhao Tuo completely relieved.
With Li Shiqi constraining him inside the academy, he thought that the things that the group of doctors caused trouble to him before would never happen again.
In addition, Heiyi, Zhongli Mei, Lu Wan, Li Shang and others were not idle either. They were arranged into the military attache system of lieutenants and guardsmen, while Shejian entered the Taiwei Mansion and worked under Wang Ben.
After this incident, Zhao Tuo once again fell into the busy work of the Shaofu.
By May, after months of overtime work, the Forging Swords into Plowshares project was completely completed.
The weapons of the Six Nations in the past were forged into a large number of agricultural tools and sent to various places, which was regarded as a benefit to the world.
At the same time, the large-scale project of writing and writing is also jointly led by several departments and promoted throughout the world.
To Zhao Tuo's surprise, the common saying in later generations that Qin unified the world's writing with Xiaozhuan was not entirely accurate.
After the announcement of the abolition of the Six Kingdoms script, the official script was promoted along with the seal script.
Official script is a supplementary script to Xiaozhuan. It evolved from the ancient official script that appeared a long time ago. Its characters are simpler and easier to write than Xiaozhuan. The grassroots officials of the Qin State basically used official script for administration.
Since the Qin State is practical, it will naturally not abolish this kind of writing that has higher work efficiency.
Therefore, the Qin State used Xiaozhuan as its official script, mainly used for formal edicts, stone carvings, inscriptions, etc. For grassroots administrative and unofficial writing, official script is still used.
The so-called "shu and writing" does not mean using Xiaozhuan to unify the world's writing, nor does it specifically refer to official script, but the overall Qin writing.
Of course, how the book and text project is promoted is not under the control of the Shaofu.
Zhao Tuo's role in this was just to continuously produce paper and take the opportunity to promote woodblock printing.
By June, a large number of papermaking workshops had been built in Guanzhong.
At the same time, the manufacturing process of bamboo paper was also explored.
The large-scale production of bamboo paper has further reduced the cost of paper. Coupled with the supporting woodblock printing and orpiment, paper has almost become a general trend to replace bamboo slips, and no one has any objections anymore.
Zhao Tuo has almost selected the technology trees for papermaking and printing, and all subsequent matters have been handed over to Zhang Han.
Zhang Han was promoted to a noble rank by the emperor for his achievements in papermaking. He was extremely happy, and he was even more grateful to Shaofu Zhao for entrusting him with this important task.
On the day of his promotion, Zhang Han bowed deeply to Zhao Tuo.
"Zhang Han will never forget the grace of promotion from the young master!"
As soon as Zhang Han said these words, it meant that he had been completely conquered by Zhao Tuo.
The relationship between the two is no longer just a simple superior-subordinate relationship in the past, but also mixed with the flavor of kindness.
"Shaorong's words are serious."
Zhao Tuo acted very calmly, but he was actually very happy in his heart.
From the perspective of later generations, Zhang Han should be the most capable general in the war of the late Qin Dynasty, other than the Overlord and the Soldier Immortal.
"Zhang Han is already in his hands. Han Xin will come sooner or later. Looking at the world, who can defeat him?"
Zhao Tuo's face was full of confidence. With his efforts, the Qin State was developing towards a good side. As long as it did not collapse internally, Zhao Tuo was not afraid of anyone on the battlefield.
After completely handing over papermaking and printing to Zhang Han, Zhao Tuo stopped interfering and shifted his focus to the currency project.
After a series of preliminary preparations, new dragon-marked coins began to be minted in large quantities and transported to various places.
After receiving the edict, the guards and lieutenants of counties and counties in various places began to recycle old coins and replace them with new coins, gradually completing the great event of unifying the world's currency.
Several big projects in Zhao Tuo's hands have either ended or are on the right track, and they no longer need to expend too much energy and attention. This makes him, who has been busy for more than three months, finally breathe a sigh of relief.
It was already late June in the twenty-sixth year of Qin Shi Huang's 26th year. Zhao Tuo heard that the nobles of Qi, Wei, and Han escorted by Tu Sui were about to enter the customs, and would arrive in Xianyang in about half a month.
It's just that Zhao Tuo doesn't pay attention to these at all now.
His focus was on family.
After returning from work in the government office, Zhao Tuo could see Ying Yinman sitting in the pavilion in the courtyard.
She was wearing a green skirt, her head lowered, reading a thread-bound book in the sunset, with a plain and gentle smile on her face.
After the two got married, apart from being able to go to the royal garden for recreation, Ying Yinman could not go out for fun at will. When Zhao Tuo went out to work, he inevitably felt bored in the mansion.
Zhao Tuo felt sorry for his bride. In his free time, he wrote some interesting stories on paper and compiled them into books for Ying Yinman to entertain himself at home.
This approach indeed adds a lot of color to the princess's life.
"I've met my lord."
Seeing Zhao Tuo coming, the servants and maids around him immediately bowed and saluted.
Ying Yinman, who was reading with his head down, was awakened. He looked up and saw Zhao Tuo and said, "My beloved is back."
Zhao Tuo waved the maids and servants away, stretched out his hands to wrap his arms around the girl's waist, and said, "Did you miss me?"
Ying Yinman glared at him, with a sly smile on his face: "If you catch me, I will miss you."
With that said, Ying Yinman, who looked dignified and quiet just now, seemed to have returned to her smart girly appearance.
He turned sideways to avoid Zhao Tuo's palm, chuckled and wanted to run out, seemingly wanting to play a hide-and-seek game with Zhao Tuo.
Zhao Tuo, however, was not in the mood to play at all. He was so frightened that he was sweating and shouted: "My princess, don't run away, there is another one in your belly!"
Hearing this, Ying Yinman showed a helpless look, and finally stopped.
The slender palms were placed on the lower abdomen involuntarily. Although it was so flat that nothing could be seen, there was still a slight smile on the corner of the mouth.
Only then did Zhao Tuo let out a long sigh of relief, walked to her side, bowed down, and put his head against the princess's belly.
"Did you hear that?"
"heard it."
"Did you really hear that?"
"Yes, the little thing is calling his father."
Zhao Tuo was talking, but he was thinking about two questions in his head.
Boy or girl?
What name would be good?
Speaking of Atuo’s children, do you have any recommendations for good names?
I'm still confused about the name.
(End of chapter)
