Signing in to Datang: Rebellion at the beginning

Chapter 114 Papermaking

To deal with aristocratic families, relying on force alone cannot solve the fundamental problem, but will cause some bad consequences.

Although forcibly suppressing them, it can also cause certain serious consequences to them.

But this will bring many disadvantages. After all, these aristocratic families not only hold many books and literati, but also have various forces.

So if you want to deal with them, you have to start from the root.

Forcible suppression by force alone can only solve superficial problems and cannot solve essential problems.

Otherwise, the emperors of all dynasties would not be able to solve the problems of these aristocratic families.

In Li Ke's eyes, dealing with aristocratic families is actually much easier.

He still knows a little about history, and he understands very well how the great families in history declined.

To put it bluntly, the aristocratic family has a profound heritage.

If you want to disintegrate them, just make their background less important.

And their background is obviously the book resources accumulated over the years.

With book resources, the aristocratic family can create a group of literati, and literati are very important to this world.

Therefore, the imperial examination system appeared in the Sui Dynasty, and the reason why the Tang Dynasty continued to use the imperial examination system was also to use the imperial examination system to create more poor students for use by the court.

In this way, the imperial court can use fewer people from aristocratic families, and the power of the aristocratic families in the imperial court will naturally be smaller.

But looking at the entire Tang Dynasty in history, the aristocratic families have always been prosperous. The reason is that although the imperial court set up imperial examinations, ordinary people rarely read books.

Naturally, not many of them can participate in the imperial examination.

Even if there is, they will be operated by the aristocratic families who are officials in the imperial court to carry out various secret operations, and continue to hold such forces in their hands.

Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty in history, although many policies were put forward to deal with the aristocratic family, almost none of them had any effect.

Even the imperial examination did not show a particularly large advantage.

To put it bluntly, there are still too few scholars, and the reason for the lack of scholars is that the cost of studying is high.

Ordinary people are not like aristocratic families, who have books, resources, time, and financial resources to support their studies.

Most ordinary people need to support their families. Not to mention books, they may not even have enough food and clothing for three meals a day.

So ever!
To solve the aristocratic family, we must first solve the problem of books, so that people in the world can read.

Fortunately, as a time traveler, Li Ke understands how books are made better than anyone else, nothing more than two points!
Make paper and print!
In this era, the technology of papermaking is very backward and the cost is very high. Things like paper are not affordable by ordinary people.

Therefore, in terms of paper alone, the cost of this book is already very high.

As for printing this one.

In the early Tang Dynasty, only woodblock printing appeared.

As the name suggests, it is to carve characters on wooden boards and paint them with a layer of ink for printing.

This cost is also very high.

After all, it is necessary to make the engraving mold page by page.

How many pages are there, how many engraving blocks need to be engraved, and if the book is not printed, the engraving block will also be useless.

In addition, there is another way is manual transcription.

Undoubtedly the cost is also very high.

The two major problems of paper and printing lead to very high production costs of books, which is why books are in the hands of aristocratic families.

After returning to the palace, Li Ke, after sorting out his thoughts, proposed to the ministers the idea of ​​punishing the aristocratic family in an early court meeting.

At that time, some officials stood up to oppose Li Ke's decision, and these officials were all civil servants.

As I said before, literati are the most indispensable among the aristocratic families, and they also control many literati. There are many literati in the world, either come from the aristocratic family, or learn from the aristocratic family.

During Li Er's period, there were many civil officials, even people from aristocratic families.

Although Li Ke is now the emperor, there are still some people in the court who are related to the aristocratic family, which is inevitable.

Li Ke didn't care about the voices of these people.

Li Ke didn't sneer until someone mentioned the book.

Then he directly called out the minister of the Ministry of Industry, and dictated a set of papermaking techniques above the main hall.

The papermaking technology he mentioned is not much different from the existing ones.

However, most of the papermaking materials at this time were hemp.

On this basis, Li Ke proposed that some types of trees and bark can also be used to make paper.

Moreover, the concept of a production line was also proposed, and at the same time, the reform of papermaking tools was proposed...

Li Ke said this question in detail in public, and the officials of the Ministry of Industry were shocked.

Although papermaking has begun to take shape, Li Ke can still be so perfect, which surprised everyone.

The officials of the Ministry of Industry are very excited. This perfect papermaking technology will obviously greatly improve the papermaking industry.

When Li Ke told everyone the specific and perfect method of papermaking, everyone thought it was over.

However, Li Ke continued to look at the ministers, as if he wanted to propose something!
(End of this chapter)