Because Qin Zheng was busy with Goguryeo, he finally chose to give up his plan to take this opportunity to attack the remaining half of Youzhou.
Similarly, Chi You of the Yellow Turban also chose to refuse the action because he was busy with other things.
Of course, Chi You was not busy with fighting, but other things.
Just when Li Xiang led his army to Mengjinguan, a sudden rainstorm broke out. And with this heavy rain, a piece of news that shocked everyone in the world suddenly came out.
Li Xiang slowly took out a few pieces of soft paper from his arms, but an inexplicable smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. In this era, papermaking and printing finally became available. At the same time, these two technologies also spread throughout the Han Dynasty through various channels.
Moreover, the emergence of these two technologies instantly caused huge fluctuations in the world. These two technologies are a disaster for the family, a disaster that can completely overthrow and weaken the family's foundation.
And Chi You, who had spread these two skills, instantly became a thorn in the eyes of the aristocratic family all over the world. He was a thorn in the flesh and wanted to kill him quickly, even though Chi You's original relationship with the aristocratic family was not that good.
Of course, Chi You himself also gained huge gains after spreading these two technologies. Not only did he fundamentally suppress the aristocratic families in the world, but Chi You also received support from a large number of children from poor families and civilian students. Originally, the Yellow Turban Army had always lacked civilian officials, and the ratio of civil servants to military personnel was seriously unbalanced. However, as Chi You spread the two technologies of printing and papermaking throughout the world, some literati began to gradually join Chi You's Yellow Turban Army.
Although the two technologies of printing and papermaking were digging into the roots of aristocratic families, Chi You became gospel and brought hope to the children of poor families and the pitiful few civilian students.
It is said that the rich in martial arts are rich in literature and martial arts. Practicing martial arts requires a lot of nutrition to supplement your body's consumption. But in an era when cheap paper was not yet widely available, the price required to learn literature was no more expensive than learning martial arts. It was even much more difficult to learn literature than to learn martial arts.
In this era, it is not that there is no paper. Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty has already transformed papermaking technology. However, despite this, due to cost and quality issues, bamboo slips were mostly used in this era.
In this era, the spread of culture is in the hands of aristocratic families. For example, the books of this era were basically volumes of bamboo slips, and the preservation of these bamboo slips was extremely difficult, and they even had to be copied and re-collected every once in a while.
And the only ones who can do this are the aristocratic families.
As for ordinary people, they are still struggling for the most basic food and clothing every day, so how can they be in the mood to do those things? Therefore, even if these ordinary people were given bamboo slips, they would not be able to preserve them.
As for those children from poor families or powerful people in the area, maybe they are financially wealthy, but if they want to truly learn knowledge, they still need to seek help from those aristocratic families.
Because this knowledge is almost impossible for others to learn except for people from these aristocratic families. Just like some of our modern science and technology, if there is no one to teach you, and you just rely on your own brain to imagine it, I really don’t know how many generations it will take. People may come up with some ideas, but if they don’t have relevant experience, they may not be able to come up with them for dozens of generations. This is the so-called knowledge monopoly.
In the Han Dynasty, this situation was extremely normal. These aristocratic families had always monopolized this unique knowledge, so they had always been among the upper echelons of society.
As for where Chi You got the two technologies of papermaking and printing, it was naturally passed on to him by Li Xiang. Even in order for Chi You to obtain these two technologies smoothly, Li Xiang spent a lot of thought.
The story starts with Zhou Cang. After all, Zhou Cang is also the sword-carrying general of Master Guan Er. He is considered a moderately famous figure in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
After the Yellow Turban Uprising captured Zhoucang, Li Xiang also thought about recruiting Zhoucang to surrender for his own use. But it may be that the bond between Li Xiang and Zhou Cang is limited, or it may be that Li Xiang really does not have the unique aura of Guan Erye. In short, Li Xiang's road to surrender failed.
Even if Li Xiang came forward in person, Zhou Cang was unwilling to let go, as if he wanted to be loyal to his great mentor Zhang Jiao.
However, although he failed to recruit Zhoucang successfully, Li Xiang did not kill him, but imprisoned him.
It was not until later that Li Xiang thought about bringing the two technologies of papermaking and printing to the world through Chi You's hands that Li Xiang finally remembered the existence of Zhou Cang. Rather than keeping Zhou Cang in prison, it would be better to make good use of his remaining value.
So, driven by an invisible hand behind the scenes, Zhou Cang accidentally discovered a way to escape. And Zhou Cang did live up to Li Xiang's expectations and successfully escaped.
Of course, in order to make the play more realistic, since it was necessary to send out manpower to hunt down Zhou Cang who had escaped, he even had to kill him directly. Due to Li Xiang's deliberate actions and a few inadvertent coincidences, Zhou Cang finally escaped back to Yanzhou and the Yellow Turbans' headquarters despite being scarred.
Immediately afterwards, Zhou Cang, who thought he had finally escaped, the first thing he did after seeing Chi You was to tell him that he accidentally heard some news when he was in Bingzhou. But at this moment, everything developed according to Li Xiang's plan.
Under Li Xiang's intentional actions, several spies from the Floating Water Room who were considered abandoned among the Yellow Turbans were discovered by Chi You and Zhou Cang, and the mission of these spies happened to be to collect craftsmen for Bingzhou.
As Bei Chiyou, the spies from the floating water rooms, found out, the batch of craftsmen collected by the spies from the floating water rooms naturally fell into the hands of the Yellow Turbans.
What happened next was very logical. Chi You unexpectedly obtained the two technologies of papermaking and printing from the hands of the craftsman.
Chi You, who had obtained these two technologies, did not act rashly. Instead, he chose a good opportunity. While all the princes in the world were attracted by Dong Zhuo's affairs and couldn't get away, papermaking and printing were like this. It was released in Dahan.
No matter what the mood of those world-famous families is, at least Li Xiang is very happy now.
It is true that Li Xiang also comes from a noble family, but Li Xiang is also a prince who wants to reach the supreme position all the way. Moreover, with the help of the system and the assistance of outstanding figures from all dynasties in China for 5,000 years, Li Xiang believes that the supreme position finally belongs to him.
And once he ascends to that position, in order to stabilize his rule, he must weaken the family, but now he is just moving these things forward.
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