Gao Yuan and his entourage stayed in Yunzhong County for six days, in addition to inspecting the Yan immigrants, Gao Yuan also crossed the Yellow River and inspected the border areas between Yunzhong County and Qin. Of course, this time the inspection did not make a big fanfare, but changed into civilian clothes, and only took dozens of people to ride out.

Although from the map, Yunzhong County bordered Xihe County and Jiuyuan County of Qin, and Qin State also built a Great Wall on the border of Qin and Zhao to prevent the Zhao army from attacking from the northern front, in fact, there was a huge buffer zone with a width of more than fifty li between the two sides, and the Qin State did not have many troops stationed in this area, and the troops were mainly concentrated in the northwest and the Xiongnu border, rather than the border of Qin and Zhao.

Because the Yunzhong County area was originally an area of the Lou Fu people, it was actually a wild land in the past, although Zhao Guo drove away the Lou Fu people and set up Yunzhong County, but he has always regarded Yunzhong County as a chicken rib, and basically did not have many troops stationed in Yunzhong County, so there is no need for Qin State to garrison too many troops here.

The plateau crossed the border of Qin and Zhao very smoothly, and observed less than a kilometer away from the Great Wall of Qin, but this Great Wall is not the same as the Great Wall in the plateau imprint, not only is it not tall, but only the base is made of stone, and other structures are made of rammed earth, and there are many places that have been damaged, the Qin army here is not much, almost every nearly ten meters of distance, there is only a Qin soldier stationed. Therefore, Gao Yuan also thought that if he really sent a large army to attack Qin from this area, he could break through the border of Qin very easily.

After seeing the border of Qin and Zhao, Gao Yuan also decided to return to Daijun, this time it took almost a month, nearly twice as long as expected, but he finally completed the task of this trip. It's also time for the return.

It took only four days to return to Dai County from Yunzhong County, and Ning Qi, Shen Shen, Zhao Xuan and others who guarded Dai County went out of the city for ten miles together to welcome the return of the plateau and his party, and congratulated the plateau on the victory of defeating the Xiongnu. And many people also spontaneously went out of the city to greet them.

Because the plateau has been in power in Daijun for more than a year, although the powerful forces of Daijun have been severely suppressed, most of the people in Daijun have indeed benefited a lot from it, so the people are indeed very enthusiastic about the plateau, and the people in the area of Daijun have also been plundered by the Xiongnu in the past.

Of course, the plateau also reassured the people with good words as usual, so that they could go back and have a good rest, so that they would not have to worry about the invasion of the Huns in the future.

After entering the city, Gao Yuan immediately recruited Ning Qi, Shen Shen, and Zhao Xuan and told them that he planned to raid the Xiongnu's Yinshan camp. After hearing this, the three people were also taken aback. However, I heard that Gao Yuan said that Jiang Huanwu and Ling Feng had been sent to Yinshan to investigate the reality of the Xiongnu, and when they returned, they would determine the plan to march into the army, and they would be a little relieved. It seems that there is still a spectrum of doing things on the plateau.

Later, everyone also reported to Gao Yuan about the affairs of Daijun during this time. In fact, it is also some routine business, and if there is any major event, if there is really a big event, someone would have been sent to report to the plateau.

However, there is also good news, that is, the autumn harvest of Daijun has been completed, and according to the reaction of the villages, there has been another bumper harvest this year, although the tax has not yet been harvested, but this year's fiscal revenue will certainly not be bad there. However, the taxes set by the county are not high, and if you rely only on tax revenue, it is difficult to maintain the government's expenditures, although Gao Yuan has tried his best to reduce the government's official expenses, but to maintain an army of more than 70,000 or 80,000 people, as well as nearly 200,000 war horses, it still needs a lot of expenses.

However, this year, he received compensation from the Yan State and a huge fortune from suppressing the powerful forces, so in the next few years, Daijun's financial funds and materials are very sufficient. If there is no large-scale war, there is no problem in maintaining 10 years of fiscal easing. And the plateau is temporary, and there is no need to worry about finances.

After dealing with official business, Gao Yuan returned to the inner house, and at this time, Li Yinghong, Geng Yanyu, Yun Yao and others had also settled the inner house, and Yun Juan and Yun Na's aunt and nephew were also placed in the mansion of the plateau by Li Yinghong. Anyway, there were still many vacant rooms in the mansion, enough for their aunt and nephew to live in.

After settling down, Yun Na was very happy, because although the plateau did not carry out large-scale repairs and construction of the mansion, but this is already the best residence in the Daijun City, and Yun Na has been living in the Bailing clan in the past, rarely going out, so she feels fresh and curious about everything, when Yun Juan was tidying up the room, Yun Na visited around the mansion with Jiang Mingxia and Luo Huan, because Yun Na herself is still a little childish, so during this time, She and Jiang Mingxia, the little girl, had a very good conversation, and when she came back, she added another Luo Huan, and as a result, the three children played together. And Yun Juan doesn't bother to care about her now, she just lets her do whatever she wants.

As soon as Gao Yuan and Li Yinghong returned to the inner room, they found that Lin Wenzhu was talking with Geng Yanyu, of course, they were waiting for them, it turned out that the caravan sent by Lin Wenqing to Qi sent back the news, the paper produced by Daijun was very good in Qi State, and it was all sold out, and there were many businessmen who inquired whether there was still paper to buy, and there were also a few businessmen who were willing to establish a long-term cooperative relationship with Daijun and buy paper directly from Daijun. The head of the caravan is negotiating with the merchants of Qi State.

This is good news for Takahara, although Daijun has accumulated enough money and materials to support several years, this method of accumulating wealth cannot be repeated, and it is not advisable to raise taxes in Daigun, so Takahara must find a long-term stable source of income. And papermaking was pinned on the plateau with great hopes, and now it seems that the initial results are quite good.

At this time, Lin Wenqing said again: "Lord, the first batch of books has been printed, and I have brought you a few samples." As he spoke, he picked up a stack of sample books from his side and placed them on the table.

In fact, Li Yinghong has always been very interested in the printing technology proposed by Gao Yuan, so when Lin Wenqing took out the book, Li Yinghong immediately said: "I'll take a look." As he spoke, he picked up a book.

The book is about a foot long, about seven inches wide, and about three points thick, with a blue cover, with a rope on the left side, a white rectangle on the upper right side, and two black lines bordering it, with the words "The Art of War" written vertically on it. Li Yinghong opened the cover, first of all, a scarlet page, with a brief biography of Sun Wu and a table of contents of the thirteen articles of [Sun Tzu's Art of War], and then turned a page to the first article [Beginning of the Calculation].

Of course, Li Yinghong is familiar with the reading, so she didn't pay much attention to the content, but paid attention to the style of the book, and even turned a few pages, each page is printed on one side, each word is about half an inch in size, arranged vertically, and according to the requirements of the plateau, a simple punctuation mark is placed in the place where the sentence is broken, and the content of the main body is seventeen pages, plus the scarlet pages of the whole book is only eighteen pages in total. However, the paper produced now is very thick, and with the cover and back cover, it does not feel thin.

After flipping through it, Li Yinghong closed the book and said: "Great, I'm really good, it's much more convenient than the wooden book, I think this kind of book must be very good to sell, if I have to choose, I will buy such a book when I leave." ”

Gao Yuan looked more carefully than Li Yinghong, although the quality of the printing is a little rough, and each word has a slight water-draining raw edge, but on the whole, it is generally passable, and it is not affected by reading, so it is quite good. The cover of the book is obviously thicker than the paper inside, indicating that there has been a lot of progress in papermaking, and two different kinds of paper can be made.

And this time, a total of four books were printed, in addition to [Sun Tzu's Art of War], there are also four books [Analects], [Shangshu], and [Shangjunshu], of course, all of which are books with fewer words, and the most is less than 30 pages.

Lin Wenqing said on the side: "This time only these four books were printed, each of which printed 200 copies, and now other books are being carved, and the next batch of books are [Wu Qi's Art of War], [Han Feizi], [Spring and Autumn], [Book of Songs], [University], [Lao Xiao], [Zhuang Xiao] These books. ”

Gao Yuan asked again, "Mrs. Wenchun, what is the price of the book?" ”

Lin Wenqing said: "Now the preliminary price of the paper used is doubled, a two-foot square piece of paper, can be cut into six pages, this [Sun Tzu's Art of War] needs three large sheets of paper, the price of a large paper is two hundred and forty yuan, then three pieces of paper is seven hundred and twenty lines, double this price, plus the cover and seal, labor costs, a total of 1,600 yuan." Other books are priced in this way. ”

Gao Yuan also nodded, 1,600 yuan is not a small number in this era, that is, the average craftsman only earns a few thousand yuan a year, so ordinary people can't afford it at all, but compared with bamboo slips and wooden slips, it is still much cheaper, and the market price of a set of wooden slips [Sun Tzu's Art of War] will not be lower than at least two thousand yuan. Of course, buying books is more profitable than paper.

However, for ordinary officials and disciples of the clan, of course, the price is not a problem, and the object of selling the book is mainly them. Because a set of wooden tablets [Sun Tzu's Art of War] is at least a dozen catties, put up a lot of them, wrap them up in a big bag, and people who are a little worse can't carry them, and the biggest advantage of paper books is here, so as Li Yinghong said, officials and disciples of the world will definitely choose such paper books.

In the future, when paper books become popular and the cost drops, the price will be slowly lowered so that more people can afford to read books. This process may be very long, but compared with another time and space, papermaking has been advanced by more than three hundred years, and hundred printing has been advanced by six or seven hundred years, so there is no need to rush to spread papermaking and printing all over the world, and use these two technologies to create a little more wealth for yourself.