He wiped his sweat, sat on the threshold, and took out a book from his pocket.
This was the elementary soap making book he bought from the system store. It described the most primitive soap making method.
"Chen Jun, what is this?"
Maid Kui and Maid Hua were very curious. They looked at the book in Chen Wei's hand and asked.
Only then did Chen Wei realize that there was no paper in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Nowadays, many ancient books and written records were carved from wooden slips, bamboo slips, or shells.
As the saying goes,'five cars of learning are wealthy'.
In other words, when the literati of this era traveled, they had to bring five carriages of bamboo and wood ancient books. Otherwise, they would not be able to move them at all.
Because it was too heavy.
Paper was indeed one of the four great inventions of the ancient country. It had a far-reaching influence and a wide range of uses.
There were also paper making books in the system store, but they required very expensive merit points.
As Chen Wei had come up with a plan to solve the problem of the Chen Kingdom, the Yue Jun had indeed given him a grace period to repay the debt.
Therefore, the system rewarded him with some achievement points.
Where did these points come from?
Chen Wei realized that as long as he did something for the country or issued some policies, the system would reward him with merit points.
He was the monarch, and every day, there were people in the country who were affected by him.
The negative impact would not deduct any contribution points.
Only a good influence would increase Chen Wei's achievements.
Thus, the contribution points were increasing at every moment, just not by much.
Most of the time, it was at the level of 10, 20.
After successfully requesting the Yue Sovereign to extend the repayment date, Chen Wei received 1176 contribution points.
"This is a book, made of paper."
Chen Wei handed the book to them and glanced at it.
Due to the system's automatic matching, the words written in the book were all from this era.
Since Chen Wei had transmigrated with the memories of the original owner, he naturally understood this.
"Wow, what a light book!" Servant Kui praised.
Chen Wei thought for a moment and waved his sleeves." Servant Kui, servant Hua, I want to issue a decree. You two quickly kneel down and receive the decree."”
Kui and Hua were shocked. Their delicate bodies trembled and they knelt in front of Chen Wei.
"I order the two of you to study this book and make a large amount of soap to sell in the market to raise money for my army.”
"This servant…this servant will obey."
Although Kui and Hua were commoners, they could enter the monarch's residence as maidservants.
Therefore, they were of higher quality than ordinary civilians.
He knew how to read.
Therefore, Chen Wei was most at ease when he handed this task to them.
Making soap didn't require such high skills. Chen Wei couldn't make it alone, as that would be too slow.
Ying Xiao promised that he would be back within ten days.
In other words, within ten days, Chen Wei had to raise the military pay for the frontlines.
And this soap was the solution that Chen Wei had thought of.
During the Pre-Qin period, women could be merchants.
This era was very open-minded and was not restricted by Confucianism.
Therefore, besides feeling a little nervous, the maids Kui and Hua didn't think that they couldn't do it.
Instead, they were very excited as they flipped through the soap-making book. They were eager to give it a try and were happy to be favored by the monarch.
As the soap making method was very simple, Chen Wei had already prepared the materials.
This also allowed the maid Kui and the maid painting to be quickly mastered.
They were very skillful and meticulous. The finished product was actually 30% better than Chen Wei's.
Chen Wei stood at the side and corrected their mistakes from time to time.
However, he sighed in his heart. Who said that women were inferior to men?
They had the ability to take on this task.
However…selling honey locust to pay the army was really a dream.
No matter in the past dynasties, there had never been a story of selling soap to fight a war.
Chen Wei could be considered to have created a new era.
Firstly, there was no super practical daily necessities like soap in this era.
Secondly, Chen was a small country. Even if there was a war, the money from selling soap was enough.
Unless it was the original owner's father, who was really a f * cking 'talent'. He actually spent 500,000 taels of money to fight a war and still lost.
Actually, Chen Wei had also thought of another possibility.
In his memories, he hadn't been in power yet, so he didn't know at all.
Would the five hundred thousand taels be eaten by the Cai, Zuo, Peng, and Cao families?
As for the late king, he was well aware of it, but because he was old and weak, he could not stop it at all?
This resulted in the troops at the front line not having any pay, and there was no doubt that they would lose the battle.
Sigh, old father.
Now that I'm in charge, I'll naturally find a way to investigate this matter.
No matter what, five hundred thousand taels of silver was not enough to defeat a Nanman tribe. It was indeed too fake…
Later, Sikong doctor Zuo Han came to report.
He said that he had gathered all the coppersmiths in the city and they were waiting for Chen Jun outside the national headquarters.
Chen Wei hurried to the outside of the hall and saw the coppersmiths in the city.
There were about 40 of them, all of whom were experienced craftsmen. They had forged many bronzes and armaments for the Chen Kingdom.
Half of them were the national team's coppersmiths, who specialized in forging bronze for the national team. The other half were the civilian coppersmiths.
"Greetings, Chen Jun!"
The coppersmiths knelt down one after another. They were all rough people and did not understand etiquette, but they were very respectful to the sixteen-year-old monarch in front of them.
"Doctor Zuo, you can leave first.”Chen Wei waved his hand.
Zuo Han's eyelids twitched as he looked around.
He didn't know what trick Chen Wei wanted to play by gathering so many coppersmiths, so he wanted to stay here and watch.
"Yes, I will take my leave."
However, Chen Wei told him to leave and he didn't dare to stay here.
Zuo Han turned around every three steps and reluctantly left the Monarch's Residence.
Chen Wei knew that Zuo Han must have spies among the coppersmiths.
The king's manor had already alerted the commoners in the city by gathering all the coppersmiths in the city. It was impossible for them not to pay attention.
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