The Ultimate Weapon

In truth, Wang Xuan would have preferred Tian Feng to take charge of Beihai Commandery. There was no other reason—Tian Feng simply had more experience. Unfortunately, he had arrived too recently, and his old-fashioned ideas and methods still could not be properly integrated with Wang Xuan's approach. He needed to remain under Wang Xuan and be tempered gradually. At the same time, Wang Xuan had also discovered the fact that grassroots officials were in desperately short supply.

Damn it, speaking of this, the blame still had to be pinned on Liu Bei.

He had gone out on that damn diplomatic trip and come back with Beihai Commandery and a million refugees. Otherwise, there would not have suddenly been such a huge gap in talent development.

If things really came to that, he would have to bring out papermaking, this ultimate weapon, ahead of schedule.

In fact, the papermaking technique in Wang Xuan's hands was already extremely well-developed. Although it could not yet be called completely industrialized production, semindustrialized production was no problem at all.

Once he had the thought, he acted on it. The next day, Wang Xuan summoned the craftsmen and explained his requirements. Now that he had papermaking, he might as well go all the way and develop movable-type printing too.

The hundred thousand books brought back from Luoyang last time were not there for decoration. Although the national library Wang Xuan had designed had not yet been completed, the books had been continuously sorted and organized.

Since he had decided to let loose this time, Wang Xuan could no longer worry about so much. Although he had yet to completely control all of Qingzhou, all the various warlords under Heaven had problems of their own to solve. During this vacuum period, it might not be a