After figuring out the whole story, Li Rui couldn't help but grin. So many generals came to him to complain. It seems that Beigong Jing has abused them very much during this period!

He looked at Yang Zhi and Yang Yong: "Didn't you go to join Yang Xiu? Why did you come and complain with them?"

Yang Zhi and Yang Yong did go to join Yang Xiu.

Yang Xiu expanded his army, and his subordinates increased from 500 military strategists to more than two. With more people, there were naturally more officers needed. Unfortunately, she did not have many outstanding generals, and there were no outstanding generals and officers among the imperial guards assigned to her by Sima Fan. This was given by Sima Yue's old turtle. I don't know if the damn old turtle was suffering from the fantasy of the victims. I always felt that everyone in the world would betray him and harm him, especially the imperial guards who had been betrayed several times, which became the target of key doubt. So he ignored Hu

The army was approaching, and the situation became increasingly dangerous. He insisted on cleaning up the imperial guards. Some imperial guards who were quite capable but suspected of being loyal to the emperor, such as Wang Yan, who had made great contributions in the First Luoyang Defense War, were executed by him. A large number of generals and officers were demoted and suppressed and left the imperial guards. The consequence of the large number of outstanding generals and officers being cleaned was that the combat effectiveness of the imperial guards plummeted. After experiencing the Yongjia Rebellion, the imperial guards lost a large number of veterans with rich practical experience and their combat effectiveness hit a new low. It was not easy for Yang Xiu to select excellent officers from among them.

Yang Zhi and Yang Yong defected to Yang Xiu in this context. After all, they are also members of the Taishan Goat clan. Although they are the side branches in the side branches, they are still a family. Now the Taishan Goat clan has suffered a fatal blow, with talents withered and their vitality is severely damaged. Naturally, these side branches have to stand up, otherwise the Taishan Goat clan will be in danger of being eliminated from the ranks of aristocratic families.

Yang Xiu did not treat them badly, promoted them to become lieutenants, divided the veterans of Yueqi into two groups, divided them into two groups of four hundred people and handed them over to them. For these two brothers, this is undoubtedly a good thing that a pie fell from the sky. If they stayed in the Wuhuan Tuqi, at most they could only be the brigade coach, but now they became the troupe coach, and they could wake up laughing in their dreams!

However, they soon found that they were laughing too early!

When they heard Li Rui's question, the two brothers' eyes turned red and they almost burst into tears. They cried in a crying voice: "Sir, you don't know the friendship between Miss Yang and the Major General! We are so miserable during this period. Pei Wei and the others are fine. Three armies can be rotated, but we have no rotation at all! As long as the Major General goes out to hunt, Miss Yang will definitely follow us, and then we can only follow us... Whoever is miserable is so miserable!"

Li Rui: "..."

Well, think about Beigong Jing hunting frequently during this period, think about how sticky Yang Xiu is, he can roughly imagine how miserable the two brothers have been during this period. Those three armies are fine, and they can still rotate. They can go down the mountain with fatigue after a few days of hunting in the mountains. But Yang Zhi and Yang Yong are different. She follows wherever Yang Xiu goes, and she has to follow wherever Yang Xiu goes...

No one is more miserable than them.

He looked around the generals and saw that these young men who were once full of energy looked haggard, unshaven, and looked like they were being played with. He couldn't help but feel sympathy: These guys have been living a little miserable during this period!

But……

It's nothing to do with him. Beigong Jing won't pull him over mountains and rivers to chase bears and tigers!

He sighed and said, "That... the rare major general is recovering. If you want to do more activities, you can bear it. Ah! In fact, there is nothing wrong with going up the mountain to hunt a few times. You can not only taste delicious wild game but also hone your body and will. You can kill multiple good things in one fell swoop, but others can't ask for it!"

The tired generals looked at him in disbelief when they heard this. With their limited IQ, they could not think of how the thirty-six and a half degrees of mouth could say such words as minus 60 degrees, which made people's blood coagulate when they heard it.

Li Rui waved his hand and said, "You don't need to show this expression. Have you not noticed that the Major General's mood becomes particularly good every time he leads you to hunt?"

The generals wanted to cry. She really felt very good, but we were so miserable that we didn't even cry!

"Also, haven't you noticed that after you went up the mountain to hunt, the meat prices in vegetable markets in various counties in Nanyang have become quite cheap. Even ordinary people can cut a few kilograms back and try it?"

Yang Zhi and Yang Yong flattened his mouth and were about to cry. Where did the common people cut wild boar meat and bison meat in the vegetable market? It was clearly the meat on their bodies!

Facing the grief and angry eyes of everyone, Li Rui spread his hands and said, "Look, although you are very unhappy, the Major General is very happy. The people of Nanyang are very happy. So what else can I say? Even if it is just to make the Major General and the people of Nanyang happy, you should continue!"

All the generals were about to collapse: "Sir, no..."

Li Rui interrupted: "Men can't say it's not possible! Even if you bite the bullet, you have to push me! Otherwise, I will tell the people of Quannanyang that you can't do it!"

All the generals: "…"

They dare to bet with their heads. If this guy really wants to go out and say something, he will definitely not say that they are tired and unable to climb the mountain. Instead, he uses his mouth that is so angry that he is not worth his life to lead the topic in a direction that a child is inappropriate. In less than three days, the people of Nanyang will know that they are not good at it! When they really reach this point, do they still have the face to see people? I am afraid they will hide their faces in their crotch!

After sending these unlucky guys away, Li Rui thought about it and found paper and pen, wrote a letter to Beigong Jing, urging her to take care of her health and not to be too tired. Now her condition and injury has healed, she has been a serious illness after all, and she is afraid that it will damage her vitality. If she is overworked, it may cause the root cause, which is not good.

After a while, he wrote it smoothly, and hundreds of words sprinkled in a smooth manner. As he was writing, he found that the ink was gone and called the Shutong: "Why is there no ink?"

Shutong was a little panicked: "Big... Sir, I've used up my ink!"

Li Rui said: "If you use it, go buy it!"

Shutong said: "Sir, I can't buy it!"

Li Rui was surprised: "Can't buy it? Why?"

In his impression, ink is an ordinary thing. You can buy a large bottle with just a little money. How could you not buy it?

Shutong said: "Nanyang does not produce ink, only in a few places such as Mojiangdong and Luoyang. Now the war is in chaos, the business roads are cut off, and many goods are in stock! Mo Nanyang has not had much inventory. When you came out, you only brought half of the ingots, and now you have used up!"

Li Rui couldn't help but curse: "Damn, why is there anything in Nanyang? I'll endure food and salt shortage. Even worthless things like Mo are lacking. What's the point!"

Shutong carefully reminded him: "Sir, ink is not a worthless thing! Ink ingots are very precious, one or two gold one or two ink!"

Li Rui curled his lips: "One or two gold or one or two ink? Nonsense!"

The four treasures of ancient study were each very particular. The ink was made of pine oil ash, and it took two years to make an ink; the pen was made of good bamboo, good birds and beasts' hair, and each pen had its own characteristics; the inkstone was carved and polished by craftsmen with one knife and one knife, and each side was extremely exquisite; the paper... Oh, it seems that the four treasures of the study were just a little bit of paper, so it would not be so outrageous.

The expensive price of pen, ink, paper and inkstone is definitely not affordable for a family that has no food and clothing. The expenses in books, teachers, travel, visiting friends, etc. will only be more expensive. These make reading a very luxurious thing and are basically inseparable from ordinary people.

But are these things really that expensive?

In Li Rui's opinion, this is purely nonsense. Others don't know, but he doesn't know yet. In the Song Dynasty, movable type printing technology had long developed and matured, but the expensive printing technology was not eliminated for a long time and was still popular. Why? The reason is very simple, it is to do it on purpose and do not want to reduce the cost of printing, so that more people can afford books. People who play these things have changed their destiny by reading. Now they want to break the way for the people below to change their destiny. In this way, how many of the high costs of the Four Treasures of the Study House are pushed up by man-made? For example, this ink ingot that is more expensive than gold, it is just processed with soot as raw materials. Since it is soot, why must it be done with soot produced by burning over the years of years of tung oil lamp or pine oil lamp? The ash collected through other channels cannot do it?

This is probably like selling diamond rings, and it’s a joke to cheat money by telling stories!

He had already made up his mind and found a way to arrest education when the food problem was solved. If he wanted to arrest education, he had to find a way to reduce the cost of studying. The cost of the four treasures of the study must be made. He had already thought about the pen and used a quill to replace it. Since he used a quill, there was no need for an expensive inkstone. Just hold ink in the whole bottle or even a bamboo cup. As for the simple paper, the bark paper is still a bit troublesome. Just use straw as the raw materials for papermaking. The bark suitable for papermaking is not easy to find, but there are as many straws as you need!

As for the ink...

It’s better to look at the essence through the appearance. Even if this ink is said to be out of the sky, it is only made of soot. It takes two years to make a ingot of ink. Most of the time spent in the past two years is spent on accumulating soot. It’s not that particular, soot is just soot. Why do you have to accumulate little by little oil lamps? Scrape it in chimneys, charcoal kilns and other places, and you need to get it back and sif it’s sieved. Isn’t it just right to use it?

Have a try if you have time.

It takes two years to make an ink ingot? But it’s upside down. In my eyes, you can’t be quick, and the things produced in large quantities are all slags!
Chapter completed!