Chapter 444: [The money that is famous for keeping money in history]

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"This is the money you pay for. Thank you for your hard work, it should be what you deserve!" Li Chengqian said with a smile.

This is something that can be kept in history, and it is worth spending some money.

Xu Jingzong laughed and then took the small gold bar: "Okay, this ink is indeed expensive, so I will use this money to buy some good paper and pen to write!"

Seeing Xu Jingzong accepting the small gold bars, Li Chengqian felt that his relationship with Xu Jingzong was getting closer. He drank a few cups of tea with him intimately before leaving here.

As for this kind of favor, you should manage it in this way to feel reliable, otherwise the other party will help you for no reason, who would believe it!

Two days later, Li Chengqian was called by Old Li. As soon as he entered the door, hey, why is Xu Jingzong here?

Xu Jingzong did not dare to wink with Li Chengqian. Old Li was flipping through a green book. After a while, he raised his head and questioned Li Chengqian: "You have the nerve to write this little thing into the Records of the Grand Historian. How embarrassing, and you are not afraid of those ministers laughing about it?"

"Well, Father, this is a diplomatic incident for us, so we will naturally write it into history books so that we can become more mature in diplomacy with other countries in the future and serve our diplomatic cause in the Tang Dynasty!" Li Chengqian found a big reason and said loudly.

Lao Li thought it made sense for him to say this, but he was very disdainful. Why didn’t he talk about Lao Li himself? So can Lao Li be happy?

"That's good. Xu Aiqing, I think there are a few things that are not perfect here, you can change it..." After Lao Li and Xu Jingzong finished talking, they turned around and said to Li Chengqian again: "What are you talking about in diplomatic history? Well, there is some benefit. You can study it and then create a diplomatic history."

Li Chengqian didn't expect to get a task like this, and he was really unlucky.

"That Lu Dongzan has been almost recovered from his injuries recently, and the new Tubo envoy is about to arrive. You can prepare it!" Old Li revealed a piece of information to Li Chengqian.

When Li Chengqian heard this, he said, oh. It’s almost a month passed and it’s almost here.

Lu Dongzan has a very good physique. After being stepped on by more than 100 people in Li Chengqian, he recovered to eight or nine after only one month. And those disabled players, although they were unable to cure them, their bodies recovered very quickly, which was known from the mouth of Sister Hippo.

Well, the Tubo people are quite sensible. They didn't hurt the hippo who went to treat them.

This may be Lu Dongzan's calming effect!

After walking out of the Ganlu Palace, Xu Jingzong whispered to Li Chengqian: "Your Highness, do you know that the emperors of all dynasties have not read this historical book by themselves."

Li Chengqian's mind changed, what Xu Jingzong wanted to say was that Old Li violated his professional ethics and checked historical books that other emperors would not have investigated.

Xu Jingzong wanted to be heartbroken with him, but Li Chengqian couldn't accept his words, so he smiled and said, "Xu Shizhong, this old thing cannot be followed too blindly. Why can't we read this historical book? Those former emperors were heartless and too lazy to read the historical books you worked hard on by Xu Shizhong. My father was checking the historical books to affirm the fruits of your labor!"

When Xu Jingzong heard this, he smiled and said, "Yes. Yes, I will definitely send the fruits of our labor to Your Majesty every few months in the future!"

Farewell to the smiling Xu Jingzong, Li Chengqian went to find Kong Yingda and Master Yu Zhining.

Their dictionary printing was denied by Li Chengqian because Li Chengqian felt that their paper was not useless and was too expensive.

More importantly, the number of printed items is expected to be too small. Only five or six hundred copies have been printed. Is this still called a dictionary? It is almost the same as a limited edition.

But why the dictionary that was promoted became a limited edition, the problem lies in the paper.

Paper is too expensive!

Li Chengqian went to the papermaking workshop two days ago to take a look. Although he was driven out by the choking smell in the papermaking workshop, Li Chengqian still waved his hand at that time and said, "I'll invent a kind of paper!"

Now that he is recovering from his injuries, or Li Chengqian is too lazy to be in the Xichi Courtyard, his bones are about to become stiff, so he comes out to walk around. Then he goes to Kong Yingda and invents his Cai Lun paper!

Soon, I arrived at Chongwen Hall, met Confucius and Master Yu, and then headed towards the Maling Manor.

"Your Highness, why don't you go to the papermaking workshop of the Ministry of Works?" Kong Yingda asked strangely.

Two days ago, Li Chengqian went to the papermaking workshop of the Ministry of Industry and invented new paper. Why don’t he work in the papermaking workshop now?

"This is my new invention of paper. It is not easy to get it to the Ministry of Works. If the invention fails to succeed, wouldn't it be embarrassing? Now Maling is my manor, and there is also a papermaking workshop there. Although it is small, there are few people, so I don't worry about embarrassment." Li Chengqian said so.

Although Kong Yingda didn't understand Li Chengqian's words, she still said oh, then nodded and got on the carriage.

Yu Zhining, who was on the carriage behind, smiled slightly, obviously knowing Li Chengqian's wrong thoughts, and only an upright person like Kong Yingda would not hear it.

When we arrived at Xiamaling, the fat butler Zhu Jie was waiting for Li Chengqian, and even the boss Chen Qiuming, the flower-dew boss, was waiting.

After Li Chengqian came down, he accepted their salute and waved to Chen Qiuming to go back to his job without having to talk about so many rules.

When Zhu Jie took them to the papermaking workshop, Li Chengqian told the two papermaking masters about Cai Lun paper in his mind. The two papermaking masters were stunned. It was obvious that what Li Chengqian said was somewhat different from their traditional papermaking process.

But Li Chengqian is the crown prince. Even if the crown prince wants to make a fuss, they have to do as he does, so they have to do as Li Chengqian's way.

Kong Yingda and Yu Zhining did not know the papermaking method that Li Chengqian said, and they did not understand the papermaking process. They just heard that the raw materials mentioned by Li Chengqian were very cheap. It seems that if Li Chengqian could make paper, then the paper would definitely be very cheap!

They stood aside without interrupting Li Chengqian.

They stood for a while and couldn't stand the smell of the papermaking workshop. Kong Yingda couldn't help but sigh: "I never expected that the paper we, the gentle scholars, wrote every day, was created by these people who couldn't read big words in such a bad environment!"

Yu Zhining, who was about to flash outside the workshop and breathe a breath of fresh air, heard this and his foot that had stepped out shrank back.

He responded, "Yes!"

Li Chengqian walked over with a wet towel covering his mouth and nose and said, "You can't let scholars use paper for granted. You should take them here to see how the paper is made. This will make them cherish the paper and study more seriously!"

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Chapter completed!