Earlier, officials had already submitted a letter to advise Guo Peng not to conduct a census of population and land acres in such detail and frequent manners, which would be a lot of pressure for the grassroots.

Recording data requires a large number of record carriers, but these things are very lacking.

Whether it is bamboo slips, silk books, or paper, the prices are not cheap. They cannot be used on such a large scale. If they are used too much, it will be inconvenient to even store them.

In the past, bamboo slips were used to reuse. When writing typos or when they need to be updated, you can use a carving knife to scrape off the previously written words and continue writing.

Now, in order to compare the authenticity of the data, such behavior is not allowed, so the department that makes the bamboo slips can only make the bamboo slips thinner and thinner to reduce costs.

But this will increase the time required to make bamboo slips, making the bamboo slip manufacturing workshop exhausted.

Tian Feng, who is also in charge of the Ministry of Works, repeatedly expressed his hope that Guo Peng would consider this issue. Guo Peng refused to listen, but instead scolded Tian Feng for being unfavorable.

Whenever there is a war or when manpower and material resources are needed, local governments are required to conduct a detailed and comprehensive census of population and land acres. In normal seasons, census is stipulated every three years and no errors must be made.

Tian Feng was worried about this.

This fiscal expenditure is very high, the Ministry of Works is under great pressure, the local government is under great pressure, and the grassroots officials are under great pressure, and they run up and down to convey messages all day long, which is extremely painful.

However, Guo Peng said that population and land are of great significance to the imperial finance and military. All materials come from population and land. If you cannot fully understand these, the court will make mistakes when implementing policies.

Whether it is an emperor or an official, you must have a clear understanding of how much population and land you have, and you cannot be confused.

Otherwise, if a decision is made wrong, the entire country will suffer losses, and even social unrest will cause and starve to death.

Instead of letting the people suffer and hunger, shouldn’t you officials who have generous salary from the country make some efforts?

Is I giving you so much welfare to make you the masters act arrogantly?

If you can't do it, get out!

The government does not need to drink tea to support the elderly!

Guo Peng set a strict rule to supervise the lazy government, and used a large number of central government officials to conduct data statistics to create a very basic and original concept of big data.

Based on the comparison of data from each party, the data summarized to the central government can be judged.

The judgment method is also very simple.

Once a certain data in a certain place has a large difference from the average data of the surrounding counties and villages, or if the past data in the area itself is vertically compared and finds a large difference, you can immediately determine that there is something wrong with the place.

Once a problem was determined, Mr. Guo immediately ordered a person to be transferred from the Central Ministry of Personnel and the Censorate to form a picket team and set off to the local area to investigate the matter immediately.

Basically, if you find out the problem through this kind of inspection, you can check it out one by one. The central picket team can find out a group of rice insects who are not doing anything or deliberately conceal the problem.

This set of big data from the central government is full of power and unprecedented pressure, allowing the central government to penetrate into the grassroots level with unprecedented pressure, making grassroots officials in the Central Plains with developed transportation and Hebei regions suffering from the central government.

In their opinion, Mr. Guo is everywhere, and he can find problems no matter what. He can't be lazy and do anything.

They are really hard.

But it doesn't matter. Mr. Guo is very confident and never worried that these people will give up because they can't give up the tempting power and benefits.

They knew that there were many people who were staring at them and waiting to replace them. Their eyes were red when they stared at them. They could only obediently be exploited by the central government and by Guo.

This is wonderful.

Guo Peng’s request is this, but the consumption of bamboo slips is really large, the price of silk is too expensive, and the output of paper is very low, which is indeed very stressful to the finances.

This is a fact. After each quarter's financial statement report comes out, the expenditure on writing carriers is astronomical. No wonder Wang Can and Tian Feng always come over to complain to Guo Peng.

To this day, the handling of the Shouyangshan Martial Arts Hall and the teaching scale of 500 people have finally made the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Finance unable to help but raise this matter again.

Wang Can and Tian Feng jointly submitted a statement, asking Guo Peng to reduce the use of bamboo slips and reduce the frequency of using writing tools, so that everyone can take a breath. Local museums need to take a breath, and the central government also needs to take a breath.

That's really too much money, and the finances are almost overwhelmed.

Well, it seems that it's almost done.

Mr. Guo then realized that the time had come.

It's time to start replacing bamboo slips with paper.

This is not what I forcefully asked for, but you took the initiative to ask me.

It's not my fault.

In fact, when Guo Peng went to Luoyang to study, he found that rich people in Luoyang were very popular with using a kind of paper produced in Qingzhou.

This kind of paper has been greatly improved compared to Cai Lun's paper back then, and of course it is not very useful.

Guo Peng also used it back then, both writing and painting ink and water landscape paintings. The experience is not very good, the ink absorption ability is relatively poor, and it is also particularly expensive.

Later, as time goes by, the paper from Qingzhou has been greatly improved.

The texture is getting better, of course, the price is getting more expensive, and the people who can use it are still upper-class scholars and rich local tyrants.

Later, before and after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, a paper called Zuobo Paper became inexplicably popular in Luoyang.

According to Guo Peng's inquiry, in Donglai County, Qingzhou, a paper craftsman named Zuo Bo stood out and mastered the great papermaking process. The paper he made exceeded all local paper in terms of quality.

Therefore, it was naturally sought after by literati and poets.

Cao Cao, who was an official in Luoyang at that time, wrote a letter to Guo Peng on Zuo Bo paper. After Guo Peng read it, he felt that the Zuo Bo paper was not very different from the paper he made of bamboo.

Of course, it is still very expensive. Cao Cao specially wrote letters to Guo Peng on Zuo Bo paper to complain about the expensiveness of Zuo Bo paper.

But during this period, Guo Peng could clearly feel it.

After arriving in Luoyang, before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, more and more people used paper in Luoyang City.

Over the years, the production and quality of paper have obviously made an extraordinary leap.

However, this leap was severely hit after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, especially after the Second Yellow Turban Rebellion in the Zhongping period. The war and population losses caused the writing culture to go against the current, and bamboo slip writing became the mainstream again.

The reason is very simple. Qingzhou was both the hardest hit areas during the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

Especially during the Second Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Qingxu Yellow Turban almost occupied the entire Qingzhou. Over the years, the local living order was completely disrupted, and the papermaking industry was naturally interrupted, and paper production could not be continued.

Qingzhou was the papermaking center of the Eastern Han Dynasty. When Qingzhou was in chaos, the entire Eastern Han Empire began to lack paper on a large scale, so naturally they had to pick up the bulky bamboo slips and expensive silk again.

The historical process of paper writing was interrupted and even a backtrack began.

After Guo Peng became the governor of Qingzhou, he spent more than a year to wipe out the Yellow Turbans of Qingzhou, settled Qingzhou again, stabilized social order, and rebuilt Qingzhou under his control, so that Qingzhou gradually became a paradise for troubled times.

So from then on, people who fled from Qingzhou continued to return to their hometown in Qingzhou to settle down.

Zuo Bo is one of them.

It was still late for him to return to his hometown. He returned to his hometown before Guo Peng fought against Lu Bu. After Guo Peng defeated Lu Bu, Zuo Bo submitted a letter to Guo Peng and asked Guo Peng to allow him to re-engage the manufacturing of Zuo Bo paper.
Chapter completed!