Three Kingdoms: I ran for my life all the way, but was forced to become the master of this world!

Chapter 167

After the failure of Ma Chao's Northern Expedition in Western Liang, the Han Dynasty seemed to have entered a period of peace, and Cao Cao, Liu Zhang, Liu Bei, Ma Teng, Han Sui and other princes also began to immerse themselves in development. The prosperity of Jingzhou made them fully realize the importance of commerce, and the interests of merchants were protected, not only between the states and counties, but also caravans as far as Wuheng, Sanhan, Baiyue in the south, and Yueshi in the west.

Due to the impact of years of war, the population of the Han Dynasty is less than half of what it was before the Yellow Turban Rebellion. If you want to dominate the world, you can't do without a population, but you must have money and food to have a population, and you must be able to let the people live and work in peace and contentment.

Therefore, various princes also formulated some policies to reward farming and childbirth, and Cao Cao also implemented the settlement of land in the north, so that many barren lands were replanted with crops, and the displaced people were gradually resettled.

Of course, there are still wars happening, but it is far from the Central Plains, and not many people pay attention. In other words, the other princes did not have the ability to interfere. That is, Jiangdong Sun Quan sent 20,000 troops and entered Jiaozhou under the banner of mediating the conflict between Cang Wu Taishou Wu Ju and Jiaozhou Shi Lai Gong.

With the advent of the new Han paper, there were more people under the Great Han Tian. The sales of paper spread throughout Dahan, and at the same time, other businesses developed, such as the production of brushes, the production of ink, etc., which were much larger than before, and the quality was constantly improving.

The harvest season for rice, millet and other crops has arrived, and the whole of Jingzhou is a busy scene. Commerce is prosperous, but the price of grain in this era is always the highest, and the people attach great importance to harvesting, and the government also attaches great importance to it. Under the personal leadership of local officials, the county soldiers of each city also participated in the harvest.

This year's grain is growing very well, but according to Jingzhou Mu Liu Jun, only when it is received in the granary can it be considered a bumper harvest, and it is not considered at all when it grows into the field.

Because of the unpredictable weather, torrential rains, floods, and locust plagues that occur every few years, everything will take away the food in sight.

There is also a celebration in the Jingzhou pastoral mansion, Liu Jun's two wives, Cai Yu and Fan, are getting closer and closer to the date of childbirth, and the old lady Cai Shi has moved directly to the backyard of her two daughters-in-law.

When she came, the state pastoral mansion, from the housekeeper to the subordinate, all became nervous, and did not dare to snub in the slightest, in today's words, it was definitely a special nursing.

Liu Biao originally had three sons, but now there is only one orphan seedling left for Liu Jun, who is not filial and has three, and no descendant is the greatest, and the old lady Cai regards the two unborn grandchildren more important than her son Liu Jun.

However, Liu Jun has not been in the mansion recently, he is busy with another matter, and he is very busy.

The quality of the paper meets the requirements, so the next step, Liu Jun plans to start printing books.

According to the understanding of history, woodblock printing appeared in the Tang Dynasty, and by the Song Renzong period of the Song Dynasty, Bi Sheng invented letterpress printing.

However, after Liu Jun came to this world, he really discovered that China's printing technology can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. Because of the seal of this era, it is already very popular.

A small seal can be seen as the predecessor of woodblock printing. The seals are made of bamboo, fired with earthen embryos, and polished with stone. And the words are inverted on it, if the paper could have been popularized earlier, it is believed that woodblock printing would have been formed.

The printing that Liu Jun wants to do now is naturally not engraving, but directly developing letters.

There were not many craftsmen who could engrave seals, and Liu Zhong asked Ma Zhong to collect almost all the skilled craftsmen in this area of the thirteen states of the Great Han through the Skynet, a total of more than 100 people.

However, the characters they engraved varied in size and quality, and after screening, there were more than two dozen people who satisfied Liu Jun.

After Liu Jun's repeated thinking and the practice of craftsmen, the material of the typed was finally selected as stone.

Compared with bamboo chips, wood or earthen embryo firing, although stone is difficult to carve and takes a long time, it is not easy to be damaged and the clarity of printing is high.

After these selections, Liu gathered many craftsmen and divided the labor for them.

The first is to polish the bottom plate.

The stones with a relatively fine texture were selected and ground into small cubes with sides about two centimeters long, which were much smaller than the seals of the time, so it was not easy to make. In order to improve speed and quality, Liu Jun is divided into coarse grinding and fine grinding. There are many people involved in rough grinding, as long as it is roughly fixed. Fine grinding is done by experienced stonemasons.

Then there is the rubbing text.

Since the book is to be printed, the text must be a unified font, and Liu Jian personally wrote this item.

Although Wang Xuan, Pang Tong, Ma Liang and others are very well written, Liu Liang prefers his own calligraphy, which is a real willow character! And specially made a small pen for him, and the writing is smaller than usual. The craftsman reverses the word on the polished stone.

Then comes the last and most difficult process, where craftsmen slowly carve off the stones next to the font, so that the font stands out and makes a base plate.

Although Liu Jun did not leave day and night, the craftsmen were well paid, and their work was hot, but the speed of progress was not fast.

However, Liu Jun is not in a hurry, everything has been done according to the process, and it is not far from the appearance of the first book.

A month later, Liu Jun's task had already been completed, because the number of Chinese characters in this era was not very large, and he was satisfied with the base plates made by the craftsmen, so he did not have to be here every day, so he returned to the prefecture pastoral mansion.

Of course, there is another reason, that is, Cai Yu and Fan Shi are about to give birth.

When he entered the backyard, he was blocked by several subordinates. It is an ancient custom that when giving birth, men must not be present, and husbands are no exception.

Although Liu Jian was a little uneasy, there was no way. In fact, these midwives are equivalent to the doctors and nurses in obstetrics and gynecology today, they have rich experience in delivering babies and understand some simple medical knowledge.

Liu Jian had no choice but to find Zhang Ji and give some guidance to these midwives together, mainly in terms of rescue and nursing. At first, these midwives seemed very disdainful, but when Liu Jun told them some experiences in later generations, they were still shocked, and even looked at Liu Jun with strange eyes.

How can a man in his twenties understand this? And it is talking about some of the difficulties they have encountered in the past. In the end, it can only be attributed to the fact that Jingzhou Mu Liu Cong is not an ordinary person, but a heavenly god who descends to save the people from suffering.

Of course, Liu Jian didn't know what these people thought.

After everything was arranged, Liu Wei had to go to Sun Shangxiang. This time, Coke broke the second lady.