Daqin Engineers

This is actually a propaganda warfare used by Shen Bing.

It is actually very difficult to fight a propaganda war in this era. The reason is that propaganda tools are very backward in this period.

Radio?

speaker?

TV?

...

Not at all.

If you want to distribute flyers, you may have to work overtime to make thousands of bamboo slips, and then transport these thousands of bamboo slips to the enemy... If you are lucky and not found by the enemy, you have to distribute the bamboo slips around, but they have to stick them on the wall It's not easy.

However, with paper, this becomes simple.

It is much easier to write first.

Shen Bing hadn't wanted to get rid of printing for the time being, so he used a simple and direct method: gather all the literate people in Shouchun, and set up a sample for them to copy day and night.

Needless to say the source of the paper, Shen Bing only needs to build another papermaking workshop in Shouchun.

Fusu was the supervising army of the Liang Army, so he could not hide anything from him.

Just kidding, the so-called "monitoring army" means that the king sent to monitor this army, and is hiding it from him?That is almost deceiving the monarch and intending to rebel.

However, Shen Bing originally didn't intend to hide it from Fu Su and there is no need to hide it.

Fusu was very interested in this papermaking technique. After all, after spending so many years under the Great Confucian Chunyu Yuemen, he was born with a good calligraphy and writing style.

Fusu carefully watched the entire production process, and when the pieces of paper were peeled off the copy board, his eyes widened in surprise, and then he stared angrily and asked Shen Bing:

"Dare to ask the lieutenant, how much does it cost to make a piece of paper?"

Shen Bing answered according to the facts:

"The subordinates have never calculated it, because there is almost no cost."

If there is any cost, it is some wooden barrels, copy boards and the like.

Of course, this is also because Shen Bing is a lieutenant who has tens of thousands of free labor, otherwise the labor cost still has to be calculated.

Fusu said angrily:

"Since there is no cost, why does a piece of paper in other markets cost ten dollars?"

"The lieutenant knows that many people are hungry for half a month just to buy a piece of paper?"

This is the truth. Although the paper has been reduced to five yuan in Daliang Yuntian, it still needs eight yuan and ten yuan or even higher in other places.

Ten dollars is two catties of rice.

In this era, eating is already tense. In order to save two catties of rice, we will reduce the amount of food, so half-starved and half-starved for the first half of the month are common.

Shen Bing replied:

"My son's remark is bad."

"I have never used paper for sale, only used it to pay off debts."

"As for the price of paper on the market, it has nothing to do with Liangjun."

Fusu thought for a while and felt that Shen Bing was right. He had also spent a lot of money to buy a lot of paper, so he knew its source.

But Fusu was still aggrieved:

"But the deputy has become an accomplice of profiteers by doing this."

"If the cost is so cheap, why not make it convenient for the world to sell it at a low price?"

Shen Bing replied:

"My son, first of all, I can't do business while waiting in Shiwu."

"If business is allowed, this piece of paper will only sell for half the money, and I can get rich overnight."

"Secondly, the son thought that if the price of paper was cheaper, it would be convenient for the world?"

"The son should know who most of them need paper!"

So Fusu was speechless.

Because the people who need paper will never be people who work in the fields, or even ordinary scholars...

The reason is simple. Ordinary poor scholars will still use bamboo slips considering cost, but it is more troublesome and not portable enough.

The reason why some people are hungry to buy paper is that it is fresh and fashionable, and it is not necessary to use it.

Therefore, most of the people who need paper are wealthy senior officials.

Take Fusu, for example, he has never used bamboo slips since he started writing and painting.

Therefore, at this time, the price of paper is high, and the proper thing is to rob the rich and help the poor...

When the education penetration rate is high, ordinary people will have a demand for paper for writing, and then the price of paper will affect ordinary people.

Then Shen Bing added another sentence:

"However, if the son wants to use paper, he can pick it up at any time."

Fusu "hum" without replying.

Fusu himself didn't understand what was going on. He couldn't understand Shen Bing's actions but couldn't tell what was wrong with Shen Bing.

In fact, it is not only impossible to tell where Shen Bing was wrong, but also Fusu believed that what Shen Bing said was right.

Perhaps this is the reason why Fusu is not used to... His subconscious mind is still on Chunyu Yue's side. Shen Bing is right, which means that Chunyu is wrong, so Shen Bing should be the enemy, at least ideologically. enemy.

Then, Fusu saw that many noble children were concentrated in the lobby to copy...

In this period, it was the children of nobles who knew how to read. If there were exceptions, it was Confucianism.

Although Confucianism at this time raised many pedantic great Confucianists because of its immature and unrealistic thinking, its progress was to put forward the idea of ​​"there is no class".

The so-called "education without class" means that everyone can be educated, regardless of merit or inferiority.

This is a gospel in an era when the right to education is basically monopolized by the nobles, and ordinary people can only farm, be exploited, and oppressed for generations.

As a result, many commoners became Confucian scholars to learn the principles of governing the country, and then they were recommended to enter the officialdom and embark on official careers.

However, this situation is a minority after all, and the vast majority of those concentrated in the lobby are still noble children...Shouchun surrendered completely, so many educated aristocratic children of the original Chu Kingdom were left behind.

Fusu asked in surprise:

"Why did the lieutenant gather them here to be tortured?"

Shen Bing replied:

"My son, I just copied something, not tortured."

But think about it, Shen Bing himself feels that they are quite similar to when Xiao Xiao was punished by the teacher.

Fusu took a "sign" and looked at it... to be exact, it should be a "leaflet".

I saw a few small grid paintings with text on it. It probably said that as long as the Chu people surrendered to the Qin army in the Huaihe River, they could get a field and a house, and they could produce new farm tools and enjoy a better life.

Fusu couldn't help but laughed, saying:

"The deputy did this in the hope of persuading Chu Min to vote for Qin?"

Shen Bing replied:

"Exactly, the son thinks it's wrong?"

Fusu shook his head and shook the "leaflet" in his hand, and smiled triumphantly:

"If this thing allows Chu Min to vote in Qin, why don't we wait for the hundreds of thousands of troops to expedite the expedition."

"The lieutenant took this matter too simplistically."

"The lieutenant needs to know that if Chu Min wants to vote, the only word is benevolence."

Shen Bing only smiled without answering.

He believed that Fusu should replace "benevolence" with the other two words "interests."

When speaking of interests between countries, the people also follow their interests, especially the people in the Central Plains who do not have foreign hatred.