Pingyang County!

April day on earth.

The river water is clear and the willow branches are hanging low.

The sky was drizzling with drizzle, sometimes there was no.

It looks like a hazy mist and rain. During the walk, it looks like a fairyland.

The older girls and wives were walking on both sides of the river bank with oil paper umbrellas and wooden clogs, fantasizing that they were also a beautiful fairy and went down to the mortal family to look for that good man.

The vendors have the most keen sense of smell, carrying loads, pushing carts, and following them up the river bank.

They don’t sell, so as not to ruin the “fairy”’s elegance.

The stalls were placed in one place, and someone came forward to inquire for the purchase.

There are also people with strong financial resources who ask people to build thatched houses in a wide area as tea room.

If you place a few pots of flowers, a few calligraphy and paintings, and a small thatched tea room, the grade will come up all at once.

Literary scholars, especially students from Songshan Academy on the mountain, love this artistic conception the most.

Drink tea, enjoy flowers, and appreciate beauty...

Life is so happy!

"If I can win the imperial examination this year, that is the real pleasure in life."

"Brother Wu is very talented, and he is sure to win the college entrance examination. He is ready to win the fame of scholars. When he is in the autumn examination, he will win the title of Juren. Next year, he will strive to win the fame of Jinshi in one go. He will directly seek a job in the county magistrate's office and be a colleague with Mrs. Yan. After three or five years of experience, he will be able to leave Bo County and Dongyang County and become a parent official in the place. Brother Wu has a bright future, and I would like to pay a cup to you."

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say! We are classmates and we will enter the officialdom in the future, so we must support each other."

"We also know this truth without Brother Wu's words."

"We are students from the serious Songshan Academy, and we are definitely not comparable to that wild path. However, you should not take it lightly. Beware of those wild paths."

The wild way these students refer to the group of students who read from the free literacy class.

Especially in the years when Ji Ping was the county magistrate, he vigorously promoted the literacy class.

The requirements for completing the literacy class have been repeatedly improved.

From the first five hundred words to the next eight hundred words, to the current two thousand words.

certainly……

The two thousand words graduation standard is for students who are top students.

Ordinary people who know five hundred words and can write and calculate can finish their literacy class.

The literacy class is free, and there is no need to spend money on pen, ink, paper and inkstones. Of course, the roughest pen, ink, paper and inkstones are also used.

For example, yellow surface paper that is so rough that it feels hard to wipe the butt, and there are still straw on the paper.

Students at Songshan Academy are disdainful of such papers.

The serious student is also disdainful.

I was afraid of blinding my eyes when I took a look.

But it is the favorite of the students in the literacy class.

However, such paper is indeed rough and hard to wipe the butt, but it is cheap and durable.

A piece of paper costs only two or three cents, even if your family is poor, you can afford it if you save it.

This was in the past, and I couldn't even think about it.

In the past, pen, ink, paper and inkstone were monopolized by the aristocratic families.

At that time, the cheapest paper cost eight or nine hundred cents at a time.

The general price of paper is only one or two cents of money.

Paper is expensive, books are expensive.

Books are expensive, so the cost of reading becomes extremely high.

This means that only children from landlords’ families or above can afford to read.

until……

Pingyang County opened a papermaking workshop and created the roughest yellow surface paper. It directly suppressed the price of the paper to a knife for one or two cents, which was so cheap.

It's a little better, not that hard, and it's still very qualified to wipe the little butt. It only costs more than a dozen cents per knife for the same rough paper.

This amount of money can be afforded by working for a few days and saving up after saving.

The price of paper has been suppressed, who has facilitated?

It is naturally convenient for the majority and poor children.

In the past, I could only practice calligraphy on the sand with branches.

Nowadays, you can use a serious brush to practice calligraphy on serious paper.

With cheap paper brushes, you can write freely and practice freely. Even poor children can make great progress in writing.

If you persist in writing all year round, you may not be able to compare with those children from aristocratic families who have been enlightened and studied since childhood.

certainly……

All of these require time to accumulate.

In short, cheap paper gives the vast number of children who cannot afford to pay Shu Xiu and want to study, which is a broad possibility.

In the past, in the countryside, in a village, and in hundreds of households, perhaps only one family could afford paper.

Now, in a village, I dare not say that every household can afford paper.

Suppressing the price of paper and starting small things will cause a qualitative change in the lives of ordinary people.

At least, you don’t have to continue suffering with your little butt!

certainly……

The cheap paper, pen and ink books fundamentally harmed the interests of the aristocratic families.

Pen, ink, paper and inkstone have been in the hands of aristocratic families for hundreds or thousands of years.

The aristocratic family is in a monopoly position.

Not how profitable this industry is.

No matter how high the profit is, it cannot compare to the profits of salt. Salt is the real tool to make money.

The monopoly of pen, ink, paper and inkstone is equivalent to monopoly of knowledge and culture inheritance and ideas.

This world and this dynasty can only move forward according to their will.

Because only they, the children of aristocratic families, are qualified to enjoy cultural education and have the ability to govern the world for the emperor.

The high pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and the high reading costs, are probably not able to bear the small landlords in remote areas.

The threshold for reading is so high that people of all sizes will have a lifetime, let alone getting in touch with books, not to mention getting in touch with paper.

until……

Pingyang County Yellow Table Paper was born, and it instantly pulled the paper off the altar, and everyone could afford paper.

It greatly harmed the interests of the aristocratic families.

This made the majority of families more angry and panic than Pingyang County’s salt trading.

Yan Yunge is digging for the roots of the aristocratic family!

What are the benefits for her?

Such cheap paper can’t make money, and it is of no use except to bring convenience to the common people and give poor children the opportunity to study.

The aristocratic families made small moves openly and secretly, but they couldn't do anything to Yan Yunge.

Just because...

Yan Yunge is playing by himself in the encirclement.

Pingyang County has no aristocratic family, and it had moved many years ago and was out of business. I never thought of coming back to compete with her for territory.

Her family Xiao Yi is not a decoration, and the county soldiers are not a decoration.

The newly seized territory, Bo County and Dongyang County, are vigorously carrying out actions to suppress the differentiated families.

At present, cheap paper is only circulated in these three counties.

Paper sold to other counties is also high-end promulgation, and only one or two cents of money can be bought for one knife.

In addition, Pingyang County won the imperial examination and was unable to enter the court to serve as an official, or even step out of the territory of the three counties to serve as an official, which prevented the two sides from having a large-scale conflict over pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

if……

Yan Yunge dares to promote cheap paper all over the world, and all the families in the world will unite and defeat her.

It is obvious that Yan Yunge also knows the risks here.
To be continued...