Li Mengxi brought a pile of wooden sticks, went back and wrapped the sticks in paper and wrapped them in a circle. After wrapping the four rolls of paper, he put them together. Sure enough, the four rolls of paper were the same size, neat and beautiful.

At this point, in the eyes of others, it is good enough, but Li Mengxi feels that there are still some shortcomings.

The only drawback is that the rope used to tie the paper is hemp rope, which is shoddy.

Later, Li Mengxi went to bring silks of various colors. He asked Jian Yong, "Mr. Xianhe, which color do you think goes best with the paper?"

Jian Yong was stunned when he was asked. Jian Yong hesitated for a long time and then said, "It's all done."

Unable to get an answer from Jian Yong, Li Mengxi had to make his own choice.

As for silk, there are high-end and low-end silks. High-end silk has light and dark patterns, while low-end silk has no patterns and is all one color.

I don’t know what the aesthetic taste of the late Han people was, but Li Mengxi preferred pure and clean colors. Therefore, after many comparisons, Li Mengxi chose a piece of dark green bamboo-colored silk.

Comparing paper with silk, jade white paper and dark green silk match very well.

Li Mengxi bit a piece of silk with his teeth, and then tied the paper awkwardly.

After tying them, Li Mengxi looked at the knotted ropes. He frowned, "No, it didn't look good."

Boom boom boom, Li Mengxi ran out again.

Jian Yong was stunned again.

After a while, Li Mengxi came back, and he brought Liu Shi, the embroiderer.

The only purpose of bringing Ms. Liu here is to use the skillful hands of the embroiderer Ms. Liu to design beautiful and beautiful knots.

It is said that there are specialties in the art. After Liu's careful planning, Liu used beautiful knots to tie up the paper. The knots were of appropriate strength and tightness, and more importantly, they were beautiful.

Li Mengxi reached up and gently pulled the knot, and the knot opened as soon as it was untied.

At this point, everything is perfect, but there are still some shortcomings.

Liu, Jian Yong and others don't know about paper, but Li Mengxi knows it very well. If the paper is tied up with a rope, it will be fine at first. However, the paper is elastic and will expand outward. Over time, the rope will bind the paper.

Wherever it was, it cracked.

The journey to Luoyang was long and bumpy, so the paper would be easily damaged. In view of this, Li Mengxi asked Mr. Liu to tie each roll of paper into three strips, one for the head, one for the middle, and one for the tail.

Yes, it is much stronger and the paper is not so easily damaged.

After a long time, Mrs. Liu tied up all ten thousand pieces of paper and took care of them. Five or six feet of silk had been used.

After everything was done, Li Mengxi said to Jian Yong, "There are still some gift boxes missing. So, when Sir comes to Luoyang, I will take a look around, buy all the gift boxes, put them in the paper, and the gift will be complete."

Hearing this, Jian Yong looked at the pile of paper rolls. These paper rolls were neat and beautiful, and they were tied with delicate and small knots.

Jian Yong thought that after taking care of it to this point, he could just give it away.

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Li Mengxi went to the warehouse and handed Jian Yong the less than a hundred guan left in the warehouse. A hundred guan could not buy good gifts, but it was enough to buy some beautiful gift boxes.

Jian Yong followed Li Mengxi everywhere, running back and forth, but Jian Yong couldn't get a word in. Jian Yong found that the little military advisor was too attentive and took everything into consideration.

The two went to collect vehicles together. Since paper is not an ordinary material and is afraid of water, Li Mengxi specially found a few vans and filled the vans with some soft rags, and then put the paper in to prevent collisions.

Worried that the vehicle would leak if it rained, Li Mengxi hired someone to dismantle a few old tents and cover the interior and exterior of the van with darkness.

Also afraid that if it rained heavily and rainwater drifted diagonally into the car, Li Mengxi ordered people to hang straw mats and add curtains at the door.

With these multiple preparations, the delicate paper will not get wet.

Soon it was daybreak.

That night, Li Mengxi summoned some people to give secret instructions.

These additional personnel went to Luoyang with Jian Yong. After arriving in Luoyang, these people had different tasks.

Li Mengxi had another plan. In order to implement the other plan, he carefully selected a team of nearly 300 people to prepare and arrange to join Jian Yong.

At night, in the city lord's mansion, Li Mengxi and Jian Yong secretly spied for a long time until late at night.

After spending the night and eating the next day, Jian Yong and others were ready to set off.

The configuration of Jian Yong's group was very special. There were nearly 400 people in the group. None of these 400 people were on foot, but all were traveling with carriages.

To reach Luoyang before Liu Xuande, and to have enough time to move around, the speed had to be fast. Therefore, Jian Yong and others used the method of fast horses and light carts, using a mule or war horse to pull a light cart.

, pull up the tent on the car and pack the food and grass with five or six people.

In order to allocate enough horses for Jian Yong and his party, many war horses were also appropriated.

Before leaving, Li Mengxi said to Jian Yong, "Xianhe, get on your way early."

Jian Yong nodded, jumped on the carriage, saluted Li Mengxi with a fist, then waved his whip and drove away.

The carriages went very fast, and each carriage drove away in a hurry. After a while, the whole team disappeared into the skyline.

Guan Yu watched Jian Yong and others leave. He came over and asked with a smile, "Xi'er, what did you ask Xianhe to do?"

Li Mengxi glanced at Guan Yu and said, "I will get rid of Xianhe and go to Luoyang to take care of the surrounding areas so that I can win over people and support Duke Xuande."

Guan Yu nodded and couldn't help but say hello.
Chapter completed!