Chapter 333 Cai Hou Paper
Chapter 333 Cai Hou Paper
The Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was also dumbfounded. More than one million people remained chaste?
This was really beyond their expectations.
As a result, the Qing Dynasty became the target of attack by all dynasties.
What's the purpose of asking so many people to remain chaste?
I don't want this to go on. Everyone should just be a widow and live their lives relying on the chastity arch.
The emperors of the previous dynasties could not understand what the emperors of the later dynasties were thinking.
The initiator was Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Because he set a precedent, subsequent emperors of the Ming Dynasty followed suit. Things like chastity arches, burying people alive with the dead, foot binding, etc. were most popular during the Ming and Qing dynasties.
During the Qing Dynasty, even if the emperor abolished it again and again, it was of no use; the Han people still had to bind their feet in various ways, which was so insane and horrible.
The emperors of the Qing Dynasty issued decrees to abolish the chastity arches.
I didn't know before that so many people would fight for this chastity arch. Now I know that even the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was abolished, so it is naturally impossible for their Qing Dynasty to continue.
If you continue, you will be scolded to death.
Many of their systems were copied from the previous Ming Dynasty.
That’s why it’s getting more serious.
Li Wu sighed deeply. "Fortunately, I have also seen that the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties are also trying to make changes. However, the highest rates of female and female infant mortality were still in the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially in those more remote areas. You should all be able to hear what I say, right?"
Li Wu looked at the sky with a half-smile and fixed his eyes on it.
Others didn't dare to look into Li Wu's eyes. They always felt like they were being seen through. They were under a lot of pressure, and many were so scared that they knelt down again and admitted their mistakes.
The barrage was full of people who had done wrong admitting their mistakes, saying that they shouldn't have beaten someone to death, drowned someone, abandoned someone, and so on.
It makes people feel cold in their hearts.
Many women were so scared that they hugged each other. They were just ordinary words, why did they look so scary?
These comments made Li Wu laugh. As expected, there are still so many pedantic people. Well, for the ancients, it's normal. Fortunately, compared with when she hadn't appeared, it was much better. Out of awe of the emperor and her, many people didn't dare to do anything too excessive.
There are also many people who seem to have no ears and continue to do as they please.
“You all know how to admit your mistakes, but you just won’t change, right? In view of the fact that many people died during the Ming and Qing dynasties, and a lot of changes were made, I have decided to give you a condition. I hope you all will keep up the good work. The matter of improving the status of women is not over yet. If the changes are good, there will be more opportunities in the future. Therefore, the emperor who takes the lead must do a good job, and the founding emperors must set a good example. Most of the emperors who come after him look at how the founding emperor does,” Li Wu said. So, if the founding emperor does a good job, then everything will be fine.
After all, as the leader, the emperors behind him would naturally follow suit.
The emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties also promised to make changes, but fortunately they had one condition.
The emperors could not tolerate those who dragged their feet. They felt that their dynasty should have had three conditions, and they wanted to trade even more things with the little immortal!
"Now please, ancestors, post the things you want to trade on the barrage," said Li Wu. They were all sent by the emperors themselves. Li Wu looked at them one by one, and then traded them one by one.
After getting the deal, the emperor asked his ministers to watch it together and then gave orders to develop the things. The ministers followed his orders and worked hard.
There is no idle minister. If you want to be idle, it means you don’t want to live!
"The deal has been completed," Li Wu breathed a sigh of relief, but she was exhausted. There were too many dynasties. Li Wu drank a glass of water and gulped it down. Only then did she feel alive again. She was so exhausted from talking that her mouth was dry.
Sitting on the chair, he continued, "Now let's see who the next traders will be."
Speaking of this, everyone became excited and hoped that they could go up.
Being able to go to Tianmu means that one will be famous in the future, and the fame will be quite big. They also want to see what the future is like. Although they have seen it countless times in Tianmu, it is not as good as going there in person, right?
They can also know about their future. Of course, the most important thing is that they can trade. Hehe, this transaction is what they value most.
"The first person in the first group," Li Wu paused, "is quite familiar to everyone. He is Cai Lun, a famous eunuch and inventor in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He improved the papermaking technique and was later called the Paper God or Paper Saint.
Cai Lun used cheap materials such as tree bark, rags, and hemp heads to make paper that was both thin and cheap, and this kind of paper was also called Cai Hou Paper.
This paper has become one of the four great inventions.
Although Cai Lun was not a very good person, his contribution to improving paper is indelible. "
Really, if it weren’t for Cai Lun, how would paper be used?
Although there was paper before Cai Lun, that paper could not be called paper. At most, it was straw paper, rough and a bit expensive.
It was not until Cai Lun's improvements that paper came into use and became more common afterwards, because with paper, more things could be recorded, unlike the bamboo slips before, which were heavy and could not write many words.
When there was no brush, you even had to use a knife to carve the words, which was really difficult.
During the reign of Emperor Ming of Han, Cai Lun was so happy that he was smiling. Long before that, he had been granted a title of nobility by the emperor. It was unprecedented for a eunuch to be granted a title of nobility.
But he was still banned as an exception because he improved paper, and all of them had been using paper for a long time.
So no one will object.
The comments were all praising Cai Lun, saying that his invention was great and that they were now much more relaxed.
Especially during the Qin and Han dynasties and before Qin, paper was used. Paper has become an open secret. Papermaking is relatively simple, and the materials used are even simpler, much simpler than bamboo slips.
This is what Qin Shihuang saw when he was watching videos. Other dynasties that did not have paper all learned from him.
Even in the era of paper, paper was still expensive at that time, and we learned a lot about it. Now paper is even cheaper and most people can use it.
The price has been brought down.
"The first one is Cai Lun, could the second one be Bi Sheng?" Li Wu covered his mouth and laughed, and the barrage of comments also speculated that this was it.
They also have a recipe for gunpowder, but it hasn't been made yet. After all, there are too many things to make, and they can't be made in a short time.
Doesn't it mean that you can just make it casually after looking at the recipe? You have to study it bit by bit and do various experiments?
"The second person is Bi Sheng from the Northern Song Dynasty, the inventor of movable type printing. The emergence of movable type printing changed many things and had a profound impact on later generations."
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