General Qin

"Congratulations, Mr. Li, for becoming a doctor."

In Li's mansion, Zhao Tuo, Shejian, Zhonglimei, Lu Wan, Heiyu and other cronies all congratulated Li Shiqi with wine.

While drinking with everyone, Li Shiqi shook his head and said, "I, a drunkard who plays tricks on lips, would one day become a doctor of Qin State. I really can't think of it."

Heihip smiled and said: "That's good, you drunkard is a master of lip service, just go and scold those doctors severely to relieve us."

Lu Wan also nodded in agreement: "Of course, Mr. Li is unparalleled in eloquence. He just happened to enter the palace of doctoral studies and kill those rotten scholars."

Li Shiqi chuckled, turned around and cupped his hands at Zhao Tuo: "Young Mansion can feel at ease in the future, if I, Gao Yang, a drunkard, enters the Doctor's Palace, I will definitely teach those people to have no peace day and night, and dare not cause trouble again."

"With Mr. Li here, I'm naturally relieved."

Zhao Tuo raised a toast to the other party, and secretly praised Shi Huangdi's actions in his heart.

Before, Prime Minister Zuo Wang Wan was instigated by Chun Yuyue and others to use the flaws of the paper to question him, but Zhao Tuo, who had been prepared for a long time, counterattacked.

Afterwards, seeing that the situation was not right, and the benefits of printing and paper were spread, many doctors immediately expressed their affection to Zhao Tuo, and even the doctor's servant Zhou Qingchen came to visit Zhao Tuo.

Zhao Tuo knew very well that Li Si, the lieutenant of the court, did not deal with these doctors, and that disputes involving faction ideas could not be arbitrarily involved, so he declined the visit of these people on the pretext of being busy with work.

At the same time, Dr. Qi Diaobi and other doctors who had opposed him even wrote to the emperor, intending to resign and leave, but was refuted by the first emperor.

Zhao Tuo guessed that Qi Diaobi and the others must have been frightened by him and slipped away on purpose.

But after the first emperor ascended the throne, his character became more domineering.

It's the kind of "You can leave only if I want you to leave. If I don't say anything, who dares to say leave".

The first emperor not only refused to let these doctors resign and leave, but also issued a special edict to conscript Li Shiqi, the elder of the right concubine, as a doctor of Xuegong.

The meaning it represents is naturally self-evident.

Following Li Shiqi's entry into the academy, relying on his title and name, and Zhao Tuo behind him, he attracted all the doctors and a group of Confucian scholars. Fighting with a group of Confucian scholars headed by the iron-headed doctor Chun Yuyue, they fought against each other with academics all day long and became one.

This made Zhao Tuo completely relieved.

With Li Shiqi restraining him in the academy, he thought that the group of doctors who made trouble for him before he came would never happen again.

In addition, Hei Ji, Zhong Limei, Lu Wan, Li Shang and others were not idle, and were assigned to the military officer system of the lieutenant and Weiwei, while Shejian entered the Taiwei's mansion to work under Wang Ben.

After this incident, Zhao Tuo once again fell into the busy work of the Shaofu.

By May, after months of overtime, the sword-to-plough project was complete.

The weapons of the six countries in the past were cast into a large number of agricultural tools and sent to various places, which can be regarded as benefiting the world.

At the same time, the large project of Shutongwen was jointly led by several departments to promote it all over the world.

Contrary to Zhao Tuo's expectations, the common saying in later generations that the Qin State unified the world's writing with Xiaozhuan is not entirely accurate.

After announcing the abolition of the six languages, the official script was promoted along with the seal script.

Lishu is an auxiliary script of Xiaozhuan. It evolved from the ancient Lishu that appeared a long time ago. Compared with Xiaozhuan, its script is simpler and easier to write. The grassroots officials of Qin State basically use Lishu for administration.

Since the Qin State is practical, it will naturally not abolish this kind of writing with higher work efficiency.

Therefore, the Qin State used Xiaozhuan as the official script, which was mainly used for official edicts, stone carvings, inscriptions, etc. Official script is still used for administrative and unofficial writing at the grassroots level.

The so-called Shu Tongwen does not refer to the use of Xiaozhuan to unify the writings of the world, nor does it refer to official scripts specifically, but should be the overall Qin writing.

Of course, how to advance the Shutongwen project is not under the control of the Shaofu.

Zhao Tuo's role in this is just to keep producing paper and taking the opportunity to promote engraving and printing.

By June, a large number of papermaking workshops had been built in Guanzhong.

At the same time, the manufacturing process of bamboo paper was also explored.

The large-scale production of bamboo paper has further reduced the cost of paper. Coupled with supporting woodblock printing and orpiment, it has almost become a general trend for paper to replace bamboo slips, and no one has any objections.

The technology trees for papermaking and printing are almost done by Zhao Tuo, and Zhang Han is responsible for all follow-up affairs.

Zhang Han was promoted to a noble by the emperor because of his achievements in papermaking. He was extremely happy, and he was even more grateful to Zhao Shaofu who entrusted him with this important task.

On the day of his promotion, Zhang Han bowed heavily to Zhao Tuo.

"Zhang Han will never forget the favor of being promoted by the Shaofu in this lifetime!"

As soon as Zhang Han's words came out, it meant that he had been completely subdued by Zhao Tuo.

The relationship between the two is no longer just the simple superior-subordinate relationship in the past, but also mixed with the flavor of kindness.

"Shaorong is serious."

Zhao Tuo acted calmly, but was actually very happy in his heart.

From the perspective of later generations, Zhang Han should be the most capable general in the war at the end of Qin Dynasty, except for the overlord and the soldiers.

"Zhang Han is already in his hands. Han Xin will come to vote sooner or later. Looking at the world, who can be the enemy?"

Zhao Tuo's face is full of self-confidence. With his efforts, Qin State is developing towards a better side. As long as the interior does not collapse, he, Zhao Tuo, is not afraid of anyone on the battlefield.

After completely handing over papermaking and printing to Zhang Han, Zhao Tuo stopped asking and shifted his focus to currency engineering.

After a series of preparations in the early stage, a large number of new dragon pattern coins began to be minted and sent to various places.

The guards and lieutenants of various counties and counties received the edict and began to recycle the old coins and replace them with new coins, gradually completing the major event of unifying the world's currencies.

The several major projects in Zhao Tuo's hands are either over or on the right track, so he doesn't need to spend too much energy and attention. This makes him, who has been busy for more than three months, finally breathe a sigh of relief.

At this time, it was late June in the twenty-sixth year of Qin Shihuang. Zhao Tuo heard that the nobles from Qi, Wei, and Han countries escorted by Tu Sui were about to enter the pass, and they would arrive in Xianyang in about half a month.

It's just that Zhao Tuo doesn't pay any attention to these things now.

His focus was on family.

After returning from work in the government office, Zhao Tuo could see Ying Yinman sitting in the gazebo in the courtyard.

She was wearing a blue skirt, with her head lowered, looking at a thread-bound book in the setting sun, with a plain and gentle smile on her face.

After the two got married, Ying Yinman could not go out to play at will except to go to the Royal Garden for entertainment. When Zhao Tuo went out to work, he couldn't help but feel bored in the mansion.

Zhao Tuo felt sorry for his bride, and in his spare time, he wrote some interesting stories on paper and compiled them into books for Ying Yinman to entertain at home.

Such an approach has indeed added a lot of color to the life of the princess.

"I have seen the lord."

Seeing Zhao Tuo approaching, the servants and maids around immediately bowed to salute.

Ying Yinman, who was reading with her head down, was startled awake, looked up to see Zhao Tuo, and said, "My beloved is back."

Zhao Tuo waved his hand to let the maids and servants leave, and stretched out his hand to grab the girl's waist, saying, "Miss me?"

Ying Yinman glared at him, with a sly smile on her face: "If you catch me, you will be missed."

As she said that, Ying Yinman, who looked dignified and quiet just now, seemed to have regained her agile girlish appearance.

One turned sideways, dodging Zhao Tuo's palm, and wanted to run out with a chuckle, looking like he wanted to play a game of hide-and-seek with Zhao Tuo.

Zhao Tuo was not in the mood to play around at all, he was so frightened that he sweated profusely, and shouted: "My princess, don't run away, there is still one in my stomach!"

Hearing this, Ying Yinman showed a helpless look, and finally stopped.

The slender palm was involuntarily placed on the lower abdomen. Although nothing could be seen from the flatness, there was still a faint smile on the corner of the mouth.

Only then did Zhao Tuo let out a long sigh of relief, walked to her side, bent down, and pressed his head against the princess' belly.

"Did you hear that?"

"heard it."

"Did you really hear that?"

"Yes, the little thing is calling father."

Zhao Tuo was talking, but there were two questions in his head.

Boys and girls?

What name should I choose?

Speaking of A Tuo's children, do you have a good name to recommend?

In the midst of tangled names.