Wuzhong County, Xiangda Mansion.

When he heard that Gao Chu, a confidant general under Xiang Zhuang, was assassinated outside Wuzhong County, Xiang felt that the situation was serious and immediately sent someone to find Shusun Guan, Qu Yi, Wu Qi and other aristocratic clans to discuss matters.

"Ling Yin, it's a big trouble now." Wu Qi said loudly as soon as he sat down, "Xiang Zhuang was worried that he could not find an excuse to cross the river. Now that Gao Chu was assassinated, he had an excuse to lead a large army across the river!" After saying this, Wu Qi said again, "Look at it, Xiang Zhuang must be able to go east at this time, and he must fight with Xiang Tuo."[]

"I don't think so." Qu Yi said tit-for-tat, "More than half a month ago, you also said that Xiangzhuang would cross the river with great force and use iron-blooded means to kill Xiang Tuo and Xiang Guan, but what's the result? Xiangzhuang did not cross the river rashly! Then now, Xiangzhuang would not cross the river rashly because of Gao Chu's assassination, let alone Gao Chu's nothing is wrong now."

Wu Qi frowned and said, "It's not that Xiang Zhuang doesn't want to cross the river, but because he is not prepared enough!"

Qu Yi sneered: "If I remember correctly, it seems that you didn't say that more than half a month ago, right?"

"You!" Wu Qi pointed at Qu Yi and said unhappily, "Qu Yi, why do you always sing the opposite tune with me?"

"No, I don't want to sing the opposite tune with you." Qu Yi waved his hand, and turned his eyes to Shusun Guan who was sitting in front of him and Xiang He who was Xiang on the chairman, and said solemnly, "I just want to say that Xiang Zhuang is not just a brave and fierce man like we were worried at first. Facts have proved that Xiang Zhuang is brave and resourceful, and can bend and stretched, and is enough to shoulder the important task of reviving the Great Chu!"

After saying that, Qu Yi knelt down from the mat, bowed to Xiang and said, "Ling Yin, no matter from any perspective, the general of Xiangzhuang is better than Xiang Tuo, and Xiang Guan is more than ten times more. Therefore, let's not hesitate anymore, hurry up and welcome General Xiangzhuang to come to Wuzhong to preside over the overall situation of Chu!"

Xiang was silent and turned his attention to Shusun Guan.

In fact, Xiang had never thought of inheriting the throne from the beginning. Although several of the dozen Chu clans who supported Xiang did have the idea of ​​supporting him in inheriting the throne, such as Wu Qi, from the beginning, this sign was decisively suppressed by Xiang. There was a reason why Xiang's attitude was ambiguous.

Although Xiang did not have an army, the forces of the dozen Chu clans behind him were quite a bit of a minority. Once Xiang expressed his attitude early on supporting Xiang Tuo or Xiang Guan, the fragile balance between Xiang Tuo and Xiang Guan would be immediately broken. In this way, a civil war broke out in Jiangdong immediately, which Xiang he would never want to see.

Today, the Great Chu State has a weak national strength and military strength, and can no longer kill each other.

Therefore, after returning to Jiangdong, Xiang did not immediately express his attitude, and even deliberately made a statement that he was interested in fighting for the throne of Chu. In this way, Xiang Tuo and Xiang Guan would not dare to act rashly.

Of course, another very important reason why Xiang did not immediately express his support for Xiang Tuo or Xiang Guan is that Xiang he believes that Xiang Tuo or Xiang Guan is not enough to shoulder the important task of reviving the Great Chu. Xiang he also wants to see if Xiang Zhuang, who fought thousands of miles and broke the great trend of the Han King sweeping the world, could take this important task?

Therefore, since Xiang Zhuang's army approached Jiangdong, Xiang has been watching coldly.

Meeting Xiang's gaze, Uncle Sun Guan stroked his long beard under his chin and said, "Ling Yin, let's wait a little longer. Let's see how General Xiangzhuang will deal with Gao Chu's assassination, and then make a decision."

Xiang nodded silently. If Xiang Zhuang could handle this matter calmly and rationally, it means that he was indeed a person who could accomplish great things. If Xiang Zhuang was passionate and had a big army crossing the river in anger, it means that Xiang Zhuang was just a warrior who lacked political intelligence. At best, he was another former king, and he was not enough to plan for major events!

After a pause, Qu Yi suddenly said, "You guys say, who sent this Tianyan?"

"Who knows?" Wu Qi spread his hands and said, "Maybe it was sent by Xiang Guan, maybe it was sent by Zhou Yin, Ying Bu and others, maybe it was sent by Liu Bang, Han Xin, Peng Yue and others, or it was a bitter plan played by Xiang Tuo. However, one thing is certain, this Tianyan is definitely not ours."

"There is another possibility." Uncle Sun Guan said lightly, "The person was sent by Xiang Zhuang."

"Hey, Xiang Zhuang sent it?" Qu Yi said sternly, "Shusun clan, what do you mean..."

Shusun Guan smiled faintly and did not answer, but Qu Yi fell into deep thought. If Tianyan was really sent by Xiang Zhuang, it was undoubtedly an excuse to cross the river. Then Xiang Zhuang's army would probably have to cross the river in a big way. Once Xiang Zhuang's army crossed the river, then the melee with Xiang Tuo and Xiang Guan would probably be inevitable.

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Papermaking workshop in the eastern suburbs of Liyang County.

After more than half a month of exploration and attempt, the paper was finally sent to the bus, and the Gongshuya and his daughter were created.

The entire papermaking process is basically no different from the little man's book Xiang Zhuang read when he was a child. He first mashed the raw materials such as tender bamboo, reeds, wheat straw, etc. to form a mud surface, then put them in the sink and stir them well. Finally, put them in the sink to wash them with a fine bamboo curtain. When the pulp becomes a thin layer and attaches to the bamboo curtain, take out the bamboo curtain and overturn it, so that the "paper" covering the bamboo curtain is flatly covered on the wooden board, then press heavy objects on the paper, squeeze out the moisture in the paper, and then bake and dry the paper, and a piece of paper is finished.

Xiang Zhuang immediately named the freshly baked paper "Public Paper".

But to be honest, the quality of the first batch of public transport papers was indeed not very good, the color was dark yellow, and the paper surface was also rough. Xiang Zhuang thought it was so uncomfortable when he used it to wipe his butt.

But the bus, the couple quickly improved the process and added a bleaching procedure before pulping. In fact, it was to put the raw materials and limestone together and boil them in water until they faded. Then, the wooden boards that squeezed the paper were improved. As a result, when the second batch of paper came out, not only did the color turn white, but the paper surface also became much smoother.

Xiang Zhuang was overjoyed and immediately took a piece of dried white paper, dipped it ink and wrote three large regular characters "gongshu paper" on the paper. Then he looked left and right, quite proud. Bailixian, who was standing beside Xiang Zhuang, was stunned by the sight of Gongshu, because they had never seen such a font.

Xiang Zhuang, who was excited, forgot about this.

In fact, the Chinese characters of this era have just evolved into small seal script and are in the transition stage to official script. As for regular script, it will be decades later and will not appear until the official script matures. In history, regular script was not used first by Wang Zhong, a master of calligraphy until the beginning of the Han Dynasty. As for this world, it must have appeared.

Because Xiang Zhuang will definitely have to carry out movable type printing next. In terms of carving and typesetting of movable type printing, the advantages of regular script are obvious compared to small seal script, and the transition between Chinese characters from official script to regular script is not stiff. For example, Baili Xian, just a little stunned, immediately recognized that Xiang Zhuang wrote the three words "public paper".

"General, are these three words you wrote? Is it a public paper?" Bailixian asked tentatively.

Today, Xiang Zhuang has given Bai Lixian too many surprises. I won’t talk about the stack of public papers placed in front of Bai Lixian. As a scholar, Bai Lixian knows very well what this thin white paper means! What shocked Bai Lixian even more was that the font written by Ding Zhuang was much easier to write than seal script!

"Yeah." Xiang Zhuang nodded and said nonsense, "I think scholars should be upright and upright, and the characters they write should be square and straight, and they are straight. I heard that Shang Jun's tomb has a tall and straight tree called Kaishu, so I want to call this Kaishu, Ziliang, what do you think?"

"Kai style?!" Bailixian couldn't help but feel slightly moved when he heard this.

"Yes, it's called Kaiti." Xiang Zhuang said again, "Ziliang, I want to trouble you with something."

Bailixian quickly bowed and said, "If you have anything, the general will give you the order."

Xiang Zhuang nodded and said solemnly: "Ziliang, I would like to ask you to write a comparison table to convert the words that often appear in various books into regular script. Is there any problem?"

Bailixian said without hesitation: "No problem."

Although Bailixian has seen the so-called regular script for the first time, this is really not a difficult task.

In this world, there are many things that you can't imagine before they appear, but once they appear and once they break through this layer of window paper, everyone will immediately know what's going on. Just like the effect of stirrups on cavalry, Kaiyi has similar effects for readers.

Xiang Zhuang said happily: "Then I'll be fine, you are lucky."

Bailixian said again: "I don't know when the General wants this comparison table?"

"Of course, the faster the better." Xiang Zhuang said, "If possible, tomorrow will be."

"Okay, I will definitely do it before noon tomorrow!" Bailixian thought for a moment and agreed. The number of words used in various books is 100,000, but only a few thousand are commonly used, and the number of words is not large.

At this moment, Jin Xiang suddenly hurriedly walked up and bowed, "General, Jiangzuo Express horse urgently reported that General Gao Chu was assassinated in Wuzhong, but fortunately there was nothing serious."

When Xiang Zhuang heard this, his face changed drastically, and then he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"But..." Jin Xiang paused and said again, "Sister Qin Yu was seriously injured."

"Hmm?" Xiang Zhuang suddenly became nervous again when he heard this. Gao Chu was very concerned about Qin Yu. If Qin Yu had a few shortcomings, Gao Chu would not have turned Jiangdong upside down? Xiang Zhuang asked, "Is Qin Ji's life or death now? Is Gao Chu still not doing anything wrong? "

Jin Xiang shook his head and said, "General Gao Chu did not do anything wrong, but Sister Qin Yu has not escaped from danger yet."

Bailixian changed his expression slightly, "General, have you sent a large army across the river to support him?" Bailixian knew very well that Gao Chu was not only Xiang Zhuang's confidant general, but also a big shot among the Chu generals. In a sense, Gao Chu's position in the Chu army was even above the Chu army's generals, such as Huan Chu, Ji Bu, and other Chu army generals, so Bailixian made this proposal.

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ps: I accompanied my mother for a comprehensive inspection yesterday, so I didn’t update yesterday, and I didn’t even have time to send a notice. Today I apologize to everyone. Because of yesterday’s interruption, the swordsman broke his promise again. The swordsman said that this book is for constant updates, alas.
Chapter completed!