Daqin: When I return from sea, I will offer you a map of the world

Chapter 34 This kid Zhao Si is the biggest good news this year!
"This is the defect of not having paper!" Zhao Si glanced at Fenbo in front of him with distress and said with emotion.

"Isn't this just paper?" Wang Li pointed to the silk and asked doubtfully.

It is worth mentioning that the word paper was not born after the invention of paper.

In fact, during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, paper refers to silk.

The word paper itself is extracted and integrated from silk.

"I'm not talking about this piece of paper..." Zhao Si waved his hand.

"How do you make paper?" Zhao Si scratched her head. Zhao Si had read a lot of novels, some of which were about the party, and the papermaking techniques were very detailed. The problem was that Zhao Si took this plot as a fake I watched the plot.

I remember that the protagonist made paper, and when the paper came out, he was shocked and made a fortune...

The understanding of the process of papermaking is limited to knowing that paper is made of plant fibers.

"It doesn't matter, as long as you know the principle." Zhao Si thought again and arranged a task for the military craftsman.

papermaking!

As for how to make paper?

The help Zhao Si gave was to tell the military craftsmen that it was made of plant fibers.

The military craftsmen didn't know what to do, but fortunately, this is not a big project, let's study it first, maybe Zhao Si will think of some steps of the craftsmen after seeing them.

As long as it doesn't involve large-scale production, it doesn't take much manpower and material resources. Besides, Zhao Si doesn't make paper for himself to make money, let alone invest in it himself.

"Didn't you keep asking me what I wrote?" Zhao Si looked at Wang Li with a teasing smile on his face.

Before Zhao Si was busy recalling and checking calculations, most of Wang Li's inquiries were just vague and confused.

Now that I am free, and I have almost summed it up, I finally have time to teach others.

As his little friend, Wang Li naturally had to be the first to endure the torture of mathematics.

"This is a book of calculations that I read overseas. It is simple and practical to learn."

Wang Lixin nodded thinking it was true, and Zhao Si started math tutoring for Wang Li.

And the other side...

On the road, the first emperor was driving.

Meng Yi presented the urgent performance from Xianyang by Wang Ben.

"Make brine salt into green salt? The cost is similar to that of boiling salt? Is it possible to reduce it?" Although he was surprised in his heart, Emperor Shihuang still watched the entire prelude calmly.

Because the sun-dried salt method has not been successfully tested, the urgent report above this time is about Zhao Si cooking salt.

Through various means, the brine salt is made into high-quality green salt.

It consumes nothing more than manpower and firewood.

"A lot of salt comes from Qidi. Apart from the cost, the cost of transportation along the way is also high. In addition to buying Qiyan salt, all parts of Guanzhong can only mine well salt and salt mines, but they are still not self-sufficient. If there is this method, the price of salt in the world will be able to come down. A lot!" Meng Yi said.

Most of the salt mines in inland areas are of good or bad quality, except for the top-grade blue salt, which is not as good as the sea salt in the same area.

Qidi has been the largest salt producing area in the world since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and beyond.

After the first emperor unified the world, although he did not implement the dictatorship of salt and iron, he immediately controlled a large number of salt producing areas in Qidi to expand production.

They even deliberately built an extra section of road to the salt production area to reduce transportation costs.

But that's all. The cost of boiling salt is high, and the transportation cost of sending it to the world has caused the price of salt to remain high.

The importance of salt needless to say!

On the one hand, Zhao Si's salt-making technique can alleviate the current situation that half of the world's salt is available. According to this method, all salt mines in various places can use it, and the transportation cost is greatly reduced, which can save a lot of money.

The most important thing is that Daqin can also greatly alleviate the plight of not having enough salt.

In fact, even Qidi is a salt-producing land.

However, with the relatively primitive method of boiling salt, the output has not been too high, and it is more than enough to supply the whole land, but it is also insufficient to supply the world.

Except for Qidi, there are not enough edible salt mines in other places, and even if Qidi has expanded its production after the first emperor conquered it, it is still far from enough to support the world.

Not to mention, it is also mentioned in the prelude that Zhao Si is experimenting with the salt drying method, which is expected to further reduce costs.

"Not bad!"

Emperor Shihuang pressed the memorial and showed a rare smile.

The return journey from this journey was not pleasant for Shi Huangdi.

He chose to return to Xianyang early because of physical discomfort, but he was still exhausted along the way, and his physical discomfort became stronger and stronger.

At first, it was just occasional chest tightness and shortness of breath. Now, with the exhaustion of the horses and horses and the passage of time, every time I wake up, I always sweat profusely, and I am out of breath after walking a few steps.

Even the effect of "elixir" is getting worse and worse, and people are often in a situation where they can't get up.

Along the way, apart from Zhao Si's return, there were also some bad news.

Mengtian swept Hetao in the northern border, and now there is no way to enter, but he cannot easily withdraw.

The laborers who built the Great Wall recently staged a mutiny, but it was easily suppressed.

On the Baiyue side, Zhao Tuo has not made much progress. According to Zhao Tuo's approach, it may take Daqin ten years or even more time to gain a firm foothold in Baiyue.

Fusu once again wrote a letter to introduce the enfeoffment system.

On the way home, he met an assassin again, although he had already executed him without even approaching his driver.

"How about promoting half taels of money in various places?" Shi Huang asked.

"I'm afraid it will take decades." Meng Yi answered.

The commodity economy of the Qin Dynasty was extremely underdeveloped, so

In the four-step strategy of the same book, same track, unified weights and measures, and unified currency, the unified currency was put at the end by the first emperor.

It's not that the unified currency is not important, but that compared with the other three, the unified currency has to be placed in the back row.

and!

Books and text cars can be carried out simultaneously on the same track.

The unification of weights and measures and the unification of currency cannot go hand in hand.

It is precisely because the first emperor ranked the unified currency at the end, and it was barely completed in the last year of his death in history. Therefore, after the fall of Qin, the princes of the world rose together, and the currency once returned to chaos. Instances of currency adulteration.

"ten years……"

Another ten years!

Emperor Shi Huang frowned.

Unifying the land of Qin and the land of unifying the world are completely different.

If any policy is implemented in Guanzhong, it will not be so slow, but how vast is the world?
Although Meng Tian had expelled the Xiongnu in the Northland and regained the most fertile Hetao area, it would take more than ten years for the immigrants to defend the frontier, reclaim the cultivated land, and build the Great Wall.

The same is true for Baiyue in the south. Zhao Tuo attacked on both sides, one attack and two transformations, and his methods were biased towards Huairou.

Another decade of currency reform...

Many of the ongoing policies are like bottomless pits.

It will take ten years or even longer to gradually generate benefits, and I am afraid that it will be able to recover costs and generate returns in a hundred years.

Shi Huang's body has become more and more unwell these days, and he may feel that it is hard to say whether he has had those ten years or not.

In recent years, the biggest investment has been the fleet that went to sea that year.

Of course, the premise is that what Zhao Si said is true.

For example, the yield of sweet potatoes is [-] catties per mu, corn is really twice as short as wheat, and the charts and maps of overseas places are real.

Looking at the memorial in his hand, Shi Huangdi finally showed a trace of relief on his solemn face.

"Accelerate, return to Xianyang as soon as possible!"

Recalling that Zhao Si talked about overseas scenery in front of him, the First Emperor was surprised to find that Zhao Si was the biggest good news this year.

(End of this chapter)