??Yuwen Wen, the governor of Bazhou who entered the capital and the Duke of Xiyang County, bowed to the emperor during the court meeting and cried and wanted to avenge the royal family. Unexpectedly, the incident of being so excited that he kowtowed too much that he fainted on the spot. As soon as the court and the public broke out, he discussed it.

Yuwen Wen, Duke of Xiyang County, and Yuwen Liang, Duke of Qi, and Yuwen Liang, Prince Yuwenming, are the only remaining adult royal family in Zhou State. Since Yang Ni usurped power, more than 50 royal families in Zhou State have died. Therefore, everyone understands Yuwen Wen’s grief and anger in his heart:

Is there anything more sad and angry than this when I knocked my head until I fainted?

The emperor kindly tried to keep the Duke of Xiyang County. Seeing that he was too sad, he fainted on the spot and sent a carriage to escort back to the envoy's residence. He also sent an imperial doctor to the residence to diagnose the disease. He also allocated precious herbs from the palace to prepare for the need for timely treatment.

The court also made corresponding arrangements to prevent the residence from receiving other officials so that the Xiyang County Public Security Bureau could recover from his wounds.

As for the outside world's rumor that the envoy Yuwen kowtowed too much, causing brain problems, daily mouth and eyes, and incontinence, the court denounced this kind of rumor, calling it a rumor spread by Yang Nixi.

Yu Wenwen, who was rumored to have become a fool in the mansion, was concentrating on "pulling the list". The bruises on his forehead had been smoothed down, and there was no abnormality except the traces of the black green.

There were several people standing in front of him, first of which was the leader of the guard Zhang Dingfa, then the master Bo Zheng Tong, and the rest were the "personal people" in his mansion. At this time, Yuwen Wen was making a major arrangement.

"It's not convenient to go out these days, so I'll leave the procurement matter to you." Yuwen Wen said.

"Langjun, here is the capital...when will the glass mirror be sold?" Zhang Ding asked. He had to spend money to buy things, or exchange things. This time, Yuwen Wen came to Yecheng thousands of miles and brought several glass mirrors worth a lot of money, waiting to be sold in Yecheng for money and silk.

"Shopkeeper Liu is working on it, and it will be settled tomorrow, so don't worry about money. Although Yecheng is in the north, copper coins are also very useful. Don't worry about the other party not accepting copper coins."

"Emistress, I think there are many books in Yecheng, but I don't know the way when I first arrived. I don't know if the government can send someone to help, so as not to seek the search everywhere, but I don't know the key points.

"Zheng Tong said.

"It's okay, the court has arranged personnel and will come to the residence in the afternoon. Then you will communicate with him about related matters."

"The government has a lot of books, but I don't know if it can be borrowed. After all, it takes a lot of time to copy books, so I'm afraid that the supervisor will not let go."

"I have also negotiated with the court in this matter. Now the matter has been negotiated. If there is not enough manpower, you can communicate with the government and ask them to arrange for people to copy the books by hand. As for the cost, everything is easy. Just pay the bill." Yuwen said with a wave of his hand.

"It is inevitable that the handwritten manuscript will be missed. Time is rushed, and the officials may have missed if they fail to check it."

"As long as you are not too outrageous, it doesn't matter if you have any typos or other words."

"If there is no real book, you must copy it now, and you don't know the deadline?"

"It's enough to increase the price appropriately, but you must be careful of when the other party will ask when the official will leave." Yuwen Wen specially explained, "Also, be careful not to be alone when traveling, so as not to be kidnapped and killed by someone."

"Especially, Store Manager Liu, you have a glass mirror in your hand. Be careful when traveling, and don't be swallowed by the red-eyed rich merchants."

"Yes!" everyone replied.

Yuwen Wen implemented the matter one by one. He is now "injured" and is resting in the residence, and even the matter of entering the palace to meet the emperor is postponed. If he jumps out shopping, it would be too much.

So he arranged for his subordinates to buy things separately, and the shopping list was drafted overnight when he was in Bazhou, just waiting for "buy, buy, buy" now.

In Yecheng, Yuwen Wen had to come even if he didn't want to come, so in order to turn bad things into good things, he drafted a shopping list with complicated content, and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of business trips to contribute to his "farming" career.

Compared with Chang'an, Luoyang, Yecheng's economic level is also not inferior. Thanks to the confrontation between Zhou and Qi, the end of the Silk Road was not only in Chang'an, but also in Yecheng.

The commerce is prosperous, so the logistics volume is large. The goods trafficked from the Western Regions and beyond the west are also dazzling in Yecheng, so Yuwen Wen will not miss this opportunity.

There are many things to buy, and the focus is on three categories: horses, seeds and books.

The first priority is to buy horses. There is no horse-producing land in the states of Shannan, and the source of war horses is only for purchase. Now the imperial court will definitely allocate war horses to Shannan, but no one will complain that there are too many horses, so Yuwen Wen will not miss this opportunity.

There is a horse market in Yecheng, and Yuwen Wen has money, so he can buy as much as he can. The more he has stallions that have not been slaughtered, the better. He needs stallions to breed the population in a small horse farm in Bazhou.

In the Yangtze River Basin, the horse breeds I see on weekdays are all Sichuan horses or mountain horse breeds like Yunnan horses. It is rare to have the opportunity to come to famous northern cities, so Yuwen Wen naturally has to go to the horse market to purchase crazily.

Buying horses is a science. A layman rashly enters the market without a second choice except being cheated. It is easy to buy a slow horse at a high price. Yuwen Wen has many flying eagles and dogs in Chang'an. He has seen countless famous horses and horses. He can barely be considered a water expert, but he still has no choice but to buy a horse and has to help him.

The helper is Zhang Dingfa, the former leader of the horse bandit. This person has dealt with horses for a lot and has rich experience. Although he is vague about his previous experience as a horse bandit, Yuwen Wen knows that this archer and horseman is skilled, and he thinks he has had military experience.

Zhang Dingfa spoke with a faint accent, and it was not a shame to be familiar with Yecheng. Yuwen Wen did not intend to make a big fuss during this trip, but his wife Yuchi Chifan was worried about his personal safety, so he sent "industry expert" Zhang Dingfa to accompany him to guard him. As for the safety of the mansion, it was left to Yuwen Shiwu and Fu Youcai.

So Yuwen Wen handed over the important task of buying a horse to Zhang Dingfa. This person is considered a native of Yecheng and has dealt with horses a lot. Therefore, he saw that the horses were of great quality, so he asked Zhou Faming to help him refer to it. After all, the other party had to buy some things when he came to Yecheng this time, so it was natural to buy horses.

By the way, he also let Tian Yilong, a local tycoon in Bazhou, see the world.

Buying horses is a priority, which is conducive to fighting, while buying seeds is conducive to farming, that is, farming. How to use limited land to increase yield and income is Yuwen Wen’s focus. This time, he came to the north, naturally he had to buy seeds of millet and wheat, and the seeds of other crops were also purchased together.

Especially crops that are only available in the north, such as "Liaodong Red Legs", "Rong Shu", "Goguryeo beans" and other northern crops. The Liaodong Red Legs are red rice, Rong Shu, and Goguryeo beans eaten by Emperor Wu of Wei Cao Cao, and soybeans are domesticated and cultivated in the Northeast region. These are all what Yuwen Wen wanted to get.

Well, according to the words used in later generations, this behavior is called "seeding".

Anyway, he had to look for things closely related to Geng Zhan in Yecheng and buy whatever he had. Anyway, the glass mirror he brought was worth less than ten thousand yuan, so it was enough to buy these things.

If you want to practice the "magic skills" of farming and fighting, you must have secret books to help, so buying books is also a major event. Yecheng is the capital of Qi, a place where Shandong gentry and aristocratic families gather. The corresponding books are in demand, so you can find books that are not available in Jiangnan.

The secrets that Yuwen Wen wanted to buy were related to farming wars, and as for Buddhist scriptures, they were exempted. Therefore, "Qimin Yaoshu", which was written decades ago, was the first to be affected, and other books like this were the focus of purchasing.

"Qimin Yaoshu" was written in the late Northern Wei Dynasty. It has been about forty years so far. It records the production technical knowledge of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, and other departments in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. It is one of the five major agricultural books in the Central Plains in later generations.

The book quotes nearly 200 ancient books and summarizes the methods of folk agronomy, horticulture, afforestation, sericulture, animal husbandry, veterinary medicine, breeding, brewing, cooking, storage, and wasteland control over hundreds of years.

It also includes the processing of agricultural and sideline products (such as brewing), food processing, stationery and daily necessities production, etc. It also includes all kinds of contents such as processing of agricultural and sideline products (such as brewing), as well as various contents such as food processing, stationery and daily necessities production. Finally, it lists many "non-central products", namely vegetables and fruits that are not produced in the north.

Although from the perspective of later generations, the knowledge recorded in "Qimin Yaoshu" is somewhat "backward", for this era, this book records practical techniques, so Yuwen Wen, who was determined to farm, needed to use it as a reference book to guide various agricultural, forestry, fishing, and animal husbandry production.

Then the question is: Where can I buy such a treasure book? The answer is that the chance of buying it in Yecheng will be higher.

In this era, it is easy and not easy to buy books. What is easy is that there are many book shops selling books in big cities. What is not easy is that many books you can name but may not be sold, because booksellers may not have ready-made ones.

The printing technology of this era is not yet developed. Not to mention movable type printing, even woodblock printing has not even appeared. Books can only be spread by hand copying. Therefore, it is not convenient to buy "non-mainstream" books. You have to go to a commission to buy books, or order them in a bookstore specializing in buying and selling related books.

"Qi Min Yaoshu" was "published" in the Northern Wei Dynasty, so the chance of meeting it in Yecheng is relatively high, of course, only the manuscripts can be bought.

Hand-made books are also called "school books". People who use books to copy books to make a living to subsidize their family income are servants. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ban Chao, who joined the army, joined the pen and wrote a pen to the official books. His family was poor and made a living to send a living to the government. It was very hard to copy books, so he was moved and said, "school to join the army."

There are two types of books: official books and people's books. Ban Chao was a book for officials, that is, the government paid money and hired people to copy books. The other was private money and hired people to copy books. In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Kan Ze, the minister of the Eastern Wu, was poor since childhood and often served as a book for others, which was the latter case.

During the Han Dynasty, the phenomenon of relying on books (copying books) to make a living was only occasionally seen, which shows that this phenomenon was not common at that time. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty to the present, as the demand for books has increased, the scale of the books industry has also increased day by day.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were frequent turmoil. In order to expand their power and learn from the governance of the government, the various regimes gathered books on a large scale. Therefore, the demands from other aspects under this policy also stimulated the development of the book copying industry.

During this period, literature, history, and metaphysics were very developed, and all kinds of masters emerged. They wrote a large number of works, which had to be quickly and widely spread by copyists. Other scholars were inspired and created more works after obtaining them. This also led to an increase in the number of private books and stimulated the demand for books.

Then there is the need for official education. In this era, official schools are popular and abolished. Some prefectures and counties have established county schools and village schools, and recruited students. Private schools have always been very prosperous. It is not uncommon for literati and scholars to open their doors to apprentices, and there are fewer than a hundred people and thousands.

In this era, Buddhism and Taoist schools have developed comprehensively. In order to compete for the rank of honor and believers, Buddhism widely translated Buddhist scriptures, Taoism created Taoist books, and hired people to copy them to spread them widely. People have extremely strong demand for Buddhist scriptures and Taoist books.

With huge demand, business opportunities came, and the number of book merchants in various countries and regions increased day by day. In order to make a lot of profits, book merchants hired people to copy books and set up book shops for sale. Especially in Chang'an, Luoyang, Jiankang, Yecheng, Jinyang and other cities, the most prosperous, with book shops lined up one after another.

So Yuwen Wen summoned Xu Shao, Hao Wu Bo and Zheng Tong and several "cultural people" to discuss for a long time and draft a book list to "return with full load" in Yecheng and then expand it in Bazhou. Therefore, books similar to education are also the focus of purchasing.

He wanted to set up county schools so that aspiring children among the common people could read and write.

Everything is ready, it depends on whether there are original books that can be copied by hand. Yuwen Wen looked at the long list in his hand, especially the dense list of books, and said to himself: "It turns out that selling books is so profitable..."
Chapter completed!