In Liu Wei's palace, although Ye Zhao was surprised by the formation in the palace, he did not show any timidity and bowed to Liu Hong without being humble or arrogant.

"Ye Qing doesn't have to be too polite." Liu Hong smiled and reached out to help him, "I heard that Ye Qing prepared a gift for Wannian to congratulate her birthday. These days, Wannian has been talking about it, which made me curious. Today is Wannian's birthday. I and my mother come to join in the fun. Is this your gift?"

"Not bad!" Ye Zhao bowed.

"Then open it." Liu Hong said with a smile.

"Here!"

Ye Zhao nodded, walked forward in person, took off the cloth cover on the car, revealing the things inside, but when he saw the thing, everyone, including Liu Wei, was a little disappointed.

"Ye Qing, is this Cai Hou paper?" Liu Hong looked at the objects in front of him, and the workmanship was quite exquisite, and the paper looked more sophisticated than the Cai Hou paper that Liu Hong had seen. Ye Zhao used paper to make an exquisite box. Although it looked rare, for the royal family, there were so many exquisite works of art, all of which were made by masters. Judging from the style, the things in front of him were not pleasing.

"Based on Caihou paper, I have recruited some craftsmen to study it. Not only is the paper more durable, but the most important thing is that it is cheaper than Caihou paper and uses less stuff." Ye Zhao smiled and took a piece of scattered paper from the frame and handed it to Qian Man beside him: "Please check it out."

The papermaking technique after Cai Lun's improvement was actually quite practical. However, although Cai Lun's papermaking materials are cheap, the workmanship is very complicated and not suitable for promotion. Ye Zhao found a lot of relevant documents, and he combined his understanding of paper to craftsmen to continue to improve. The paper made now is not only of the texture of the paper is not worse than that of Cai Hou's paper, but most importantly, he already has the ability to mass production.

Liu Hong took the paper, and there were also ones in the palace, but not many of them. After all, it was not a common thing. Even though the paper technology has been mature, the clothes lapels have been around for nearly a hundred years, but they have never been able to become as popular as Cai Lun had imagined. There are workmanship factors and other reasons for human obstacles.

Liu Hong pulled the paper, but did not pull it away, frowned slightly, thinking about something, looked up at Ye Zhao and said, "You think this paper is cheap? How to make a cheap method?"

"I asked someone to make an instrument, which can be operated in just three or five people. If you take turns to rest and work, as long as the materials are enough, each instrument can make thousands of paper sheets a day. If there are hundreds of instruments operating at the same time, as long as there are enough people, there will be 100,000 paper sheets a day." Ye Zhao looked at Liu Hong with a smile and said, "Your Majesty, if this thing can be promoted, the long-cherished wish that was not fulfilled during the He Emperor period will be completed in your Majesty's hands!"

Cai Lun improved papermaking technology back then, claiming to be the sharpest sword in the world. If it could be promoted, it would win over the hearts of scholars all over the world. Unfortunately, the technology was only initially mature, the process was complicated, and the output was not large. Secondly, although there was no clear document to explain what happened that year, since Emperor He died, this matter gradually faded away. There was no second Cai Lun who came out to continue promoting it, causing papermaking technology to stagnate for a hundred years, and even many technologies could not be recorded.

Ye Zhao had long noticed that the class in this era is gradually solidifying. First of all, there are so many resources in the world. The East and West have been going through for four hundred years, and the top interests have basically been distributed almost the same. Even if there is any change, they will be divided and devoured within this circle. Even if Ye Zhao has worked hard to make contributions, it will be very difficult to squeeze into this circle.

Secondly, the bottom lacks the opportunity to get in touch with knowledge. Ye Zhao wants to break this circle before the chaos in the world, but he himself does not want to be backfire. Once this thing is promoted, the benefits that will be touched are too huge. Even if the circle is broken, Ye Zhao will be unable to escape unscathed. Therefore, he wants to hand over this important task to Liu Hong to complete, and only the emperor may be able to withstand this backfire.

When Liu Hong heard this, his heart suddenly became hot and he looked at Ye Zhao with a burning look: "Ye Qing is willing to present this papermaking technique to the court?"

"No," Ye Zhao nodded, then smiled bitterly, "I just hope that Your Majesty will not make this thing public for the public... I don't want to be the second Marquis of Cai."

When Liu Hong heard this, he looked at Ye Zhao and nodded silently.

Cai Lun had a brilliant life. He served four young emperors in succession, served as the marquis and the nine ministers, but after the magnificence, he was endless and bleak, and eventually committed suicide. The explanation given by the official side was that Cai Lun committed suicide because of fear of crime, but Cai Lun was the nine ministers! From the perspective of the official world today, it is not because of the relationship between the nine ministers, but it has a large number of relationships. Even if he is guilty, Liu Hong had to carefully consider it. He could scare a minister who is respectful of crime and commit suicide because he was afraid of crime. Liu Hong could probably guess something.

"Who can you have a way to promote this thing?" Liu Hong suddenly looked up and looked at Ye Zhao and said.

"Shang!" Ye Zhao said in a deep voice: "If this thing is only distributed by the imperial court, it is probably not available to Luoyang and will be taken away by major families. Your Majesty can recruit craftsmen to make a batch, and then secretly find some innocent merchants to sell it to various places. On the one hand, it can go beyond the officialdom, and on the other hand, it can also add some wealth to Your Majesty. Of course, if you can print some words on it, it will be of higher value!"

Although there is no woodblock printing technology, in this era, there is actually a saying of rubbing. Liu Hong's eyes were shining brightly when he heard it. Although Ye Zhao just said it casually, Liu Hong understood the value better. If he could use these paper rubbings to print a large number of books and sell them to the people, not to mention those rich families, even ordinary people could provide Liu Hong with a lot of money.

It is said that the world is royal, but his family knows his family affairs. Liu Hong has always been planning to establish a new army, but unfortunately he has been struggling to form a new army without money. If these things can be exchanged for a large amount of money, it will not only break the monopoly of the aristocratic family on culture and continuously increase talents among the people, but also raise him enough military pay. This is a matter of killing two birds with one stone.

"I remember your loyalty in my heart. As long as Ye Qing does not let me down, I will always protect Ye Qing's wealth!" Liu Hong looked at Ye Zhao solemnly. He was a little lucky that God actually sent such talents to him.

Ye Zhao smiled and said, "I thank Your Majesty for your trust!"

"Hmph~" Liu Wei pouted her mouth in dissatisfaction, looked at Ye Zhao with a bad look and said, "Bad man, are you giving me a gift or a gift to my father?"

"Oh, Weier is eating." Liu Hong couldn't help laughing happily when he saw this.

Ye Zhao bowed slightly and said, "Don't worry, princess, I have said that the gift I gave today will definitely satisfy the princess!"

"That's it?" Liu Wei pointed at the 'cardboard' in front of her angrily.

"This thing has another mystery!" Ye Zhao said with a smile.

"What's the secret?" Liu Wei frowned and looked at Ye Zhao.

"It can fly!" Ye Zhao pointed to the so-called cardboard box and smiled: "Also, don't the princess think it looks like a light?"

"Light? Fly?" Liu Wei walked to Ye Zhao curiously and looked at the paper lantern in front of her. She had seen the lanterns, and woven them into a frame with bamboo strips, and then covered them with a thin cloth. The lanterns in front of her seemed...

“How to fly?”

"Torch!" Ye Zhao took a torch from the guard and handed it to Liu Wei and smiled: "The princess needs to light this lamp himself. I will let the people from the entire Luoyang City celebrate the princess' birthday."

"How to click?" Liu Wei looked at Ye Zhao with some confusion.

Ye Zhao asked someone to lift the lamp, revealing a thin wooden plate below, which was filled with a thick wick, filled with lamp oil.

"The princess just light it."

Liu Wei was somewhat expectant and lit the wick according to Ye Zhao's instructions. Ye Zhao ordered people to put the lampshade back on. Then, in the surprised eyes of Liu Wei, Liu Hong, Dong Hou and a group of guards and eunuchs, the entire paper lantern was slowly illuminated, and words appeared on it:

"I wish the princess who have lived for thousands of years!"

"It's flying, it's really flying!" Liu Wei looked at the paper lantern in front of her excitedly, and she swayed into the air.

The paper lantern, which was more than one person tall, gradually flew above the palace, and was extremely eye-catching under the dark night.

The appearance of this paper lantern was like a signal. A large number of paper lanterns suddenly flew from all directions in the entire Luoyang City. The more and more paper lanterns gathered, and they kept rising into the air. Tens of thousands of them flew from every corner of Luoyang. The entire Luoyang City was quiet, and everyone was watching this shocking scene.

In order to create this scene, Ye Zhao not only called his servants, his family generals and everyone in the Luoyang Prefecture Office, but also spent money to invite more than 2,000 women to help him put the paper lantern.

Countless paper lanterns rose into the sky and floated over the entire Luoyang City. Moreover, until these paper lanterns flew to a very high place, someone discovered that these paper lanterns were faintly gathered into several words, which were the words written on Ye Zhao's first paper lantern:

A thousand years old princess is a thousand years old!

Such words lasted for a quarter of an hour before gradually dispersing.

"So beautiful!" Liu Wei looked at the paper lantern that gradually dissipated and didn't know where to float. Her beautiful eyes were blurred. She suddenly turned her head and looked at Ye Zhao and said, "Bad man, thank you! This is the best gift Weier has received since her lifetime."

Ye Zhao's face was full of darkness. When this emperor called him like this, wouldn't he be afraid that Liu Hong would misunderstand anything?

"Ye Qin, good trick!" Liu Hong looked at Liu Wei with a confused and happy look on his face, then looked at Ye Zhao, suddenly laughed, and gave Ye Zhao a thumbs up.

"Uh...but the trick is so lewd. I hope I can smile with the princess and I will feel at ease." Ye Zhao suddenly felt something was wrong. He looked at the paper lanterns all over the sky, then looked at Liu Wei's expression, and the smile on his face was a little stiff.

"What's the name of this lamp?" Liu Wei suddenly looked at Ye Zhao.

Kongming Lantern!

Ye Zhao really wanted to say this, but it seems that Zhuge Kongming doesn’t know if he was born and cultivated a bright lamp? It seems to be good.
Chapter completed!