Li Er Bixia has been a little troubled lately.

It has been more than three months since he knew the existence of those high-yield crops, and seeing that this season's grain is about to be harvested, this year's Datang is still relatively smooth, and the Turks have been cleaned up fiercely at the beginning of the year, and Datang has been very calm for a year, and no foreigner dares to provoke Datang at this moment, so foreign affairs are relatively stable.

As for internal affairs, what made Li Erbixia feel most entangled was the war between the court caused by the labor reform policy, that is, the battle for free labor between the five Shangshu except the Ministry of War, which was relatively stable.

But it was this battle for free labor that also made Li Erbixia particularly annoying, and for the first time in his life, he realized that these usually elegant and extraordinary literati also had such a fierce side, and they would move their fists if they disagreed, this was still in the court, what would it be like if they were in private? Li Erbixia was furious and had no choice but not to intervene, and this intervention only found that his ambiguous attitude had made the military department almost a training ground for several months.

Each of the five Shangshu sent the strongest and sharpest officials in the department to occupy a corner of the Ministry of War, so as to facilitate the competition for these free labor, as for the Ministry of Works, Shangshu Wu Shi Tong is directly sitting in the Ministry of War, looking down on the group of officials, there is a lot of momentum when the husband is closed, in other words, Li Erbixia also thinks that the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War are the departments that need to use the most Turkic slaves, as for the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Officials to come here to do?

Once investigated, Li Erbixia was furious, and the biggest reason why these departments of the Ministry of Rites, Officials, Criminal Department, and Household Department robbed the Turkic labor force was to instruct these Turkic slaves to do chores, and then do some private things for the officials of various departments, such as building houses and tidying up housekeeping, and even instructing Turkic slaves to buy things! His mother's entire Turkic slave is regarded as his own slave, or the one who doesn't have to pay, this time Li Erbixia is angry, and immediately ordered that in the future, all departments that need to use Turkic slaves need to play directly themselves, and they will manage it by themselves, and take back the power of the military department to control the public slave department, and directly set it up under the direct jurisdiction of the emperor! And these officials who turned "public slaves" into "private slaves" were punished on a large scale.

The Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Crime, the Ministry of Household and other departments died down, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Wushi Tong led a group of ministers of the Ministry of Industry to achieve a comprehensive victory, and the other departments were unhappy for a while, as for the Ministry of War, those who needed these slaves were not lost, but they drove away the troublemakers, and the Ministry of War finally calmed down, Hou Junji breathed a long sigh of relief, damn, these days can make Hou Junji miserable.

So the war in the court came to an end and returned to calm, but Li Erbixia's heart became more and more unsettled, and the source of all this unrest was because of Suning and those high-yield crops according to him.

Agriculture is the foundation of the country, this kid sees it very thoroughly, business is also the foundation of the country, but compared to agriculture, business needs to be vigorously guarded against and restricted, this is also this kid's unique view, Li Erbixia doesn't understand that this is weishenme, but out of trust in Suning, and looking at him with a serious face, Li Erbixia thinks, young people, should go through the experience, Suning is still too young, at this time, more experience and experience, a few more hits to the south wall is not bad, and it can be left to Chengqian at that time.

For Suning's feelings, Li Erbixia is not too deep, but he feels that Suning's treatment has given him a very different feeling, which has brought unprecedented changes to Datang, and Li Erbixia always feels that Suning still has a lot of things to say to him, what is there in his head? Li Erbixia was very curious, but those eyes, as well as the things in the eyes, made Li Erbixia involuntarily want to believe him, believing that the high-yield crops he said would definitely make Datang not worry about hunger.

Is this possible?

The closer to the autumn harvest day, the more restless Li Er Bixia became, restless, and the Straight Sect Empress Changsun was very worried, for Li Er Bixia's recent strange behavior and sad face, it made Empress Changsun feel very uncomfortable, she knew that Li Er bixia weishenme and felt annoyed, weishenme and restless, couldn't eat and sleep well, and even the favorite rock sugar lotus seed soup in the past couldn't drink it.

Looking at the white sugar and the rock candy that she had never seen before, Empress Changsun could understand the contradiction in Li Erbixia's current heart, that thing was that she also felt quite incredible, there really was that kind of crop in the world? If there really is that kind of crop, Datang will really have no worries about famine, so won't that emergency plan be handled smoothly? So how much credit would that be? What kind of work? What kind of praise and reputation will Li Erbixia get?

If you were the emperor, you would be so restless!

It is said that Suning's kid is really restless, and he still wants to do business, and he also went to find Xiaogong's family, and he got in touch with the royal family in a big way, and even found Qin Qiong's daughter as a daughter-in-law for his brother, and then helped Qin Qiong treat his illness, it is said that Qin Qiong can already walk normally, and even dance a few times with a sword, although it is impossible to go back to the battlefield, but it seems that there is no problem in spending his old age in peace.

As for the rest, Qin Qiong has been away from the court for several years, and she has no influence on the government, that is, a group of friends can still rely on, and what else is there?

This kid really has the ability! If those crops are really successful, what are these things? Forming a party for personal gain? It's not, don't say that Li Erbixia doesn't believe it, I think it's funny after watching those twists and turns, a family of five, Suning doesn't even have an official position, what kind of party is it? What is the private business? Su Dingfang soaked in the barracks all day and night and didn't ask about political affairs, and Suning didn't show a tendency to care about politics at all, but cared a lot about making money.

Whatever you do, you will talk to Li Erbixia, give a reason, and do everything under Li Erbixia's nose, smart, understand, it is impossible to be a king without suspicion, but if the courtiers do everything above board, why should the king be suspicious? Just like Kong Yingda reproached Li Ruihan and said, rumors are fiercer than harsh politics, if everything is known, then there will naturally be no cracks to drill into the rumors, and the twists and turns will not be released.

It's just, can that thing really be done?

Empress Changsun looked at the bowl of rock sugar lotus seed soup that had been cold and had not been touched at all, sighed lightly, becoming more and more worried, and only looked forward to the arrival of the autumn harvest soon, so that Li Erbixia could put his mind at ease, so that he could save his body! This Suning, if you can see him, you will definitely want him to look good!

Walking on the way to Li Erbixia's study, Suning suddenly sneezed and sniffed depressedly, Suning felt that someone must be scolding him behind his back, no need to ask, it must be Changsun Chong, these days, this kid shows loyalty to Princess Changle every day and expresses love, Princess Changle doesn't seem to have accepted this expression, which makes Changsun Chong very depressed, and his eyes look at Suning are becoming more and more resentful......

Shaking his head, secretly cursing Changsun Chong, Suning took out a few particularly white and durable papers from his arms, secretly proud, these papers are Suning's newly made paper, and the process taken is still the production process of the Ming Dynasty, although there is a process of making paper with bagasse in modern times, but the jishu and machines required by that process are not possible in the current Tang Dynasty, that requires too much modern technology, and it is obviously not in line with reality to transfer this process to ancient times.

But the production process of the Ming Dynasty was copied to the Tang Dynasty, it is still feasible, for this reason, Suning recruited a group of strong men who had nothing to do during the slack period on his Zhuangzi, as well as the old farmers who were liberated after the arrival of the ploughing cattle as craftsmen, and prepared a large workshop, ready to make paper in accordance with the process of the Ming Dynasty, but suddenly found that the bamboo needed to make paper had to be soaked for a hundred days, which made Suning very depressed.

Although it is said that it is all bamboo paper, but the Daming version of bamboo paper is definitely hundreds of times higher than the Datang version of the glass seaweed like bamboo paper, and the materials are cheap, easy to make, as long as there are raw materials, the whole process can be completed in a few days, there are no raw materials at the beginning, Suning is very depressed, after hearing about the closure of a workshop, especially after there are a large number of soaked haode bamboo in the workshop, Suning immediately paid for the workshop, and took more than 20 other domestic servants and papermaking craftsmen, directly accepted as the servants of the Su family.

There are more of these skilled craftsmen, forcing them to swear never to leak the news, and their families have also moved to Zhuangzi to settle down, these craftsmen are grateful, they were originally domestic slaves, and now they are just replaced by a richer local tyrant master, nothing is not haode, they naturally swore an oath, and after that, Suning told them the whole process, and it happened that Suning has a large amount of bagasse, although it cannot be used directly, but the syrup obtained after cooking can be used for decolorization, It makes the texture of the paper tougher, the color is whiter, and the waste is reused, killing two birds with one stone.

It's just that the damage to the ecological environment is relatively large, and the wastewater makes Suning feel very depressed, where to throw it? Poured into the river? Datang is not interested in environmental pollution, most of the water in the river can be drunk directly, if you accidentally drink someone to death, it is not looking for death!

Poured into the ground? That land is in ruins! This kind of thing can't be done, waste water ditch? It is also used there, the groundwater is going to be polluted, and after thinking about it, Suning reluctantly ordered the waste water to be boiled dry temporarily, and the pollutants in it can be buried with soil, and there is no other good way.

But even so, such a low cost still makes Suning very happy, compared to the high price of rice paper, hard yellow paper, which has a particularly long production cycle of paper, Suning as long as you get enough bamboo, and then soak, continue to soak, after a hundred days, it has entered a virtuous circle, do not worry about no raw materials available, bagasse can also be obtained in a steady stream after sugar production, waste utilization, secondary use, the cost is lower, in this way, the paper made, still need to worry about no one can afford it?

This is Suning's most satisfactory achievement, no matter whether it is a chair or table or delicious, it can't cause a change in the actual sense of Datang, but paper can, low-cost paper as a carrier of culture can be popular all over the world, can let those poor scholars who have no books to read, break the monopoly of the wealthy family on culture, although the process is very long, but it cannot be broken, because in this era, no one would have thought that the starting point of the vigorous cultural revolution in the near future, Just a small, paper-making workshop.