The First Emperor already had a choice in his mind.
Although the situation was not optimistic, he calmly chose to cooperate with Xia Wu and receive treatment.
As for delegating power? That is impossible.
This time, he gave up immortality and chose the present. He chose to believe in Xia Wuji and Zhao Si.
Xia Wuqi did not say that there was no way to cure it, nor was he helpless.
Although it can be felt that Xia Wu is not very confident, the auspiciousness has arrived. This time, the First Emperor believes that destiny is his.
On the other side, Zhao Si was on her way home by car.
"Hey... I wrote it for a whole day, more than two thousand words..." Zhao Si sighed inside the carriage.
I had been holding back for a whole day, deleting, deleting, and revising before writing a maritime plan that satisfied me. When I put it to the First Emperor, I only read it after a few glances.
Looking back, in my previous life I only focused on urging updates, but completely ignored the hardships of the authors. I only wrote two thousand words. How heartbreaking it is to think about those authors who wrote ten thousand words a day and were still criticized?
I hurried home. I got off work early today. It was not completely dark yet, and the servants had already prepared meals.
After Zhao Si enjoyed it in a hurry, the maid at home prepared hot bath water for Zhao Si to bathe in to wash away the fatigue and hard work of the day.
"Master, please take a bath!" The maid bowed and took off her clothes for Zhao Si.
"Forget it, I'll do it myself!" Zhao Si looked down and saw that he had become a little angry in recent days, but if he thought about it carefully, he had been drifting at sea for so long, and Zhao Si was really not good at forcing men to lock up men, so his good days could only be wasted.
Now that we have finally landed on shore, there seems to be nothing wrong with enjoying ourselves?
"Forget it, I won't be on duty tomorrow anyway!" Zhao Si consoled himself and stopped the maids who were about to leave, and plunged into the gentle countryside with peace of mind.
The next day...
Zhao Si got up early again. When he looked up, he saw that the sky was still a little dark. Just as he was about to get up, he suddenly remembered that he was not worthy today. The First Emperor did not mention his name. He also caught up with the doctor's order, which was on holiday for the past two days. During the class, I didn’t have to get up to go to work at all, I just lay in bed again.
After tossing and turning on the bed for a long time, Zhao Si stretched out and got up from the bed until daybreak. The maid had already prepared Zhao Si's toiletries.
I was only halfway through washing when a maid knocked on the door and came in.
"Master, General Wang is here to visit!"
"General Wang? Which General Wang?" Before Zhao Si could think of Wang Li, Wang Li's loud voice could be heard outside.
"Zhao Si, Chief Zhao, Minister Zhao, I'm here to find you..."
Upon hearing that it was Wang Li, Zhao Si hurriedly opened the door and went straight to the outer courtyard. He saw Wang Li standing in the outer courtyard in a smart outfit.
"You have a rest today. If you have free time, you and I will go hunting in the wild. We will not come back until we are drunk!" Wang Li is a typical person who loves to play and loves to play. He likes to hunt even though he can't catch a few prey...
"The voice is really loud, across two yards..." Zhao Si rolled his eyes and patted Wang Li on the shoulder.
"I'm not taking a bath, why don't you take a bath today?"
"endlessly."
Zhao Si knew as soon as he heard this that Wang Li was asking his father to approve the leave request again.
"Your father still allows you to leave the camp?" Zhao Si asked in surprise.
Wang Ben was very strict with Wang Li. Normally, Wang Li was not allowed to leave the camp except for Xiu Mu. Now Wang Li was in Lantian, right under his father's nose. It could be said that he was bored out of his mind.
It wasn't until Zhao Si went to Lantian to farm under the order that Wang Li asked for leave on Zhao Si's behalf and was able to go out often. After all, he was farming under the order... Zhao Si came first in everything.
"I told you that I had something to ask you about, and my father was right." Wang Li said with a smile.
"If you say that, I really have something wrong with you..." Zhao Si smiled.
"Have you eaten? I didn't get up until I had eaten one dish." Zhao Si took Wang Li and went straight to the pavilion in the courtyard. The officials hurriedly brought some futons to the table and the two of them sat down.
"What's going on?" Wang Li asked.
"Don't I have fifteen hectares of land? I plan to take care of it myself. You can get me some seeds. I need all the grain seeds and some mulberry trees. In addition, get me some rice seeds and seeds of all the vegetables and fruits that are available now. come over."
The maid had already brought morning snacks and broth, and Zhao Si was talking as he ate.
Zhao Si plans to build an agricultural nursery on his current fifteen hectares of land.
The high yields of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn are clearly influenced by the aura of raw jade, and Zhao Si has no reason not to develop and utilize them.
Grains, vegetables, melons and fruits are all grown. You must know that today's grains, including vegetables and fruits, have not yet been fully domesticated, and the yield and growth capacity are far from those of later generations.
Under the influence of the aura of raw jade, these grains can be induced to undergo transformation.
Wheat and rice, these two things are much more important than sweet potatoes and potatoes. If they can transform, it will be of greater significance to Da Qin.
Combined with the amazing yields of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, Zhao Si feels that doubling the current wheat and rice yields should not be a big problem.
"You can send your servants and concubines to farm the land at home, or you can rent it to the officials and officials, so why bother to take care of it yourself? If you really can't go back to the time when my family is farming, I can just help you farm it. There is no need to work so hard. Besides, it's not a good time for farming now. When... growing rice here takes a lot of effort, just irrigating the paddy fields requires a lot of effort, and hunting in the countryside is more important." Wang Li answered seriously.
"You don't understand... I am doing this for Qin and farming for Your Majesty!" Zhao Si shook his head.
Just kidding, Zhao Si himself is not short of food, clothing, or money. The reason why he is so concerned about this kind of thing is purely for the sake of his family, country, and world.
Nothing can change the fact that during the Qin Dynasty, more than two thousand years ago, crops were not fully domesticated and agricultural production was poor.
The key is that Zhao Si's raw jade aura can just affect it. If sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn can raise the lower limit of the Qin Empire, then grain rice can raise the upper limit of the Qin Empire.
The Qin Dynasty placed heavy emphasis on agriculture and farming. In addition to the fact that the world has not yet been fully developed, the key reason for the increase in grain yield per acre is that grain seeds have not been fully domesticated. The most important reason is that the domestication of grain seeds in the feudal era really took hundreds of years as a unit and was not a day's work.
"Ouch!" Wang Li was shocked. He wanted to say something weird, but after thinking about it carefully, Zhao Si didn't seem to have said any empty words, so he could only nod.
"Okay, then I'll get the seeds for you. If you're short of manpower, just tell me. I just need to tell you that if you cultivate at this time of year and plant some messy things, you probably won't be able to make ends meet."
"rest assured."
With the aura of raw jade, even if he throws seeds on the ground, he will not make ends meet. Besides, Zhao Si is not thinking about making money.
"In that case, help me make some preparations after dinner. Originally, I planned to go to the market to buy some. But the seeds in the market will definitely not be as complete as yours." Zhao Si said with a smile.
"That's right!" Wang Li was noncommittal.
This is the case for the great aristocrats of this era. The products in the aristocratic industrial park may even exceed the range of market products.
After saying this, the two of them settled down to eat.
After a while, after eating and wiping clean, Zhao Si, Wang Li and others stood up and prepared to set off.
"By the way, you said you had something to do with me. What was it? Isn't it a reason to trick your father into allowing you to go out?" Zhao Si wiped his mouth and asked casually.
"How could I be like this?" After saying this, Wang Li took out a stack of paper from his arms.
"Nuo, I got the paper you were talking about." Wang Li handed a stack of paper full of inferior fiber and rough texture to Zhao Si's hand.
Zhao Si was overjoyed when he heard the sound. He took the brown paper and rubbed it slightly.
The texture was rough and the fibers were too large. Zhao Si shook it hard a few times, and several pieces of the paper were already torn apart.
It is also relatively brittle...extremely lacking in ductility and softness.
"wait for a second……"
Zhao Si ordered his maid to get pen and ink to write on it, and then quietly watched the ink stain.
"Unexpected!" Zhao Si nodded looking at the handwriting that had turned into ink balls.
I have barely managed to have the ability to hold the ink. At least I have to be careful not to see it through my back, but the ink smudges quite a bit... The words have to be written relatively large, and it is very easy to smudge. Even if it looks good, it will make you dizzy and messy.
In summary, it's not very good for writing, but if it's used for wiping butts, it shouldn't be a big problem except maybe a little rough.
Of course, you have to stack several pieces together, otherwise they will be broken accidentally.
It can be seen that the raw material is still hemp.
Moreover, it has only been more than a month since the last failure. The production speed was too fast, which resulted in such poor quality.
"Go back and tell them later, don't worry, try using wood and bamboo, and extend the time to one hundred or two hundred days. Don't be impatient after one or two months." Zhao Si explained to Wang Li.
Papermaking in ancient times couldn't be rushed. If you want to make good paper, time is slow. Just the soaking step doesn't know how long it will last. The more thoroughly you soak it, the looser and rotten the fibers will be, and the better the quality of the paper will be.
It is a fool's errand to want to produce good paper on a large scale in one month.
"Let's do this..." Zhao Si thought for a moment and said.
"Get twenty taels of gold from home!" Zhao Si told his ministers, and within a moment, the ministers presented him with twenty taels of gold.
"When you go back, all you have to do is put this in the military craftsman's place and tell them that all you need to do is make paper that satisfies me. These twenty taels of gold will be theirs. Let them look at these twenty taels of gold day and night and ponder over it. Don't be impatient! In addition, I will only deal with His Majesty's papermaking later, and find ways to get some titles for them. In the future, they will specialize in papermaking and will not need to perform other duties." Zhao Si said.
The main reason is that Zhao Si is no longer in Lantian. Papermaking is not the craftsmen's job, and even if it is made, the credit will fall on Zhao Si. It is inevitable that the craftsmen are eager and not attentive enough.
It's easy to stimulate their enthusiasm and creativity, just give them a title, money, and give them a space to create without distraction.
Although this batch of paper is of poor quality, it has obviously proved that the steps proposed by Zhao Si are not wrong. Next, just follow these steps and try and make mistakes to create usable and qualified paper.
It is inevitable that paper will replace bamboo slips, and Zhao Si hates bamboo slips deeply.
Zhao Si believes that at least half of the reason why his handwriting is not beautiful enough must be attributed to the inconvenience of writing on bamboo slips.
Zhao Si and Wang Li are now two departments. If there is any inconvenience to those craftsmen, they must report it to their superiors.
This group of craftsmen have production experience and have gone through trial and error, which can save a lot of time. As for whether this group of craftsmen will stay in Lantian or be transferred to Lang Zhongling, it depends on the negotiation between Meng Yi and Wang Bi.
After all, the credit for making paper is not small... Zhao Si doesn't care about this thing. Meng Yi and Wang Bi can make the decision. He just wants the blank paper to come out quickly to save his poor calligraphy.
(End of chapter)
