Fan County was a little far away, so on the third day of departure, Song Yan returned with the money and grain looted from the Fan County Treasury. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

With the money and food of the two counties, there is no need to worry about food and military salaries for at least three months.

At the same time, the caravan formed by Song Yan had already set off two days ago, and the main goods for sale were all kinds of books printed and bound by movable type printing presses, as well as paper that could be used for writing and painting.

Ordinary paper is sold for one penny, and fine inkstone paper is priced at 100 yuan a piece.

After an eight-day long journey, the caravan came to Shangdang County, the kingdom of Chu.

In Qi Chu Yan Zhao Qin, the perished Qi State has the widest area, the Chu State has the most prosperous literary style, the Yan State has the most cavalry and the most powerful, the Zhao State is rich in all kinds of weapons and armor, and the Qin State is most famous for having a female appearance who can change the law.

The leader of the caravan, Jiang Kui, is a very intelligent person.

After entering Shangdang County, he did not go to the market to sell books and buy paper, but planned to visit Mo Fei, the dean of the Jixia School Palace.

Jixia School Palace is the most prosperous place in the Chu State and even in the Shenzhou Continent.

Its dean, Mr. Mo Fei, is known as the first poet in the Shenzhou Continent, so even the King of Chu has to treat him with courtesy.

It's not easy to meet Mo Fei, it took a lot of money for Jiang Kui to get through the relationship and meet Mo Fei.

"What is this?"

Looking at the brocade box presented by Jiang Kui, he was very disliked, he was a person who cherished his reputation very much, and he didn't like to receive gifts from others.

Jiang Kui hurriedly said: "Don't get me wrong, Mr. Mo, this brocade box contains a book of poetry, and more than 200 poems are recorded in this book of poetry. ”

Hearing this, Mo Fei showed a puzzled look, how could a small brocade box hold more than 200 poems.

With a hint of curiosity, Mo Fei took the brocade box and opened it.

I was stunned for a moment, it was a book with a pale yellow cover, and the word "Book of Songs" was written in a small seal.

Picking up this thin book of poetry, and opening it, the white characters and black characters, and the extremely neat font were printed into his eyes, and he was originally plain and waveless, and his expression became extremely excited.

Turning the pages of the book continuously, they are all the same white characters and black characters, and the content recorded is the Book of Songs.

"What is this?" asked Mo Fei with a trembling voice.

Jiang Kui said proudly: "Mr. Hui, this paper was invented by my general!" As he spoke, he offered another thing with both hands.

"What is this?"

Holding the paper, which was as white as snow and smooth, Mo Fei asked again.

"This is called inkstone, and it is specially used for a great literati like Mr. to leave ink treasures. ”

Jiang Kui explained.

"Good, good, good!" Mo Fei looked at it for a moment, and couldn't help but praise loudly: "How this thing is made." ”

"Mr. Hui, this thing was made by my general, and I don't know what the small one was made of!"

Mo Fei was a little disappointed, and then asked, "How much is this thing?"

"Mr. Hui, this time I brought two million pieces of blank paper, 100,000 pieces of inkstone paper, and thousands of books of Zhuzi Sutra in various bindings. ”

"What is the value?" Mo Fei's eyes lit up, and his tone was a little urgent.

Jiang Kui said respectfully: "Before leaving, my general has an order, if it is purchased by a great writer like Mr., a piece of ordinary white paper is a penny, an inkstone paper is a hundred yuan, and a book of Zhuzijing bound into a book is a thousand yuan. ”

"Okay, very good, this batch of papers and scriptures, I bought them from Jixia Xuegong!"

Two million pieces of white paper for a total of 2 million yuan, 10,000 pieces of inkstone paper for a total of one million dollars, a thousand dollars for a total of one million dollars, and a thousand-fold Zhuzi Sutra collection of a thousand dollars, a total of one million dollars.

In other words, this time the income totaled 4 million dollars.

The people who can enter the Jixia School Palace to study are all the sons of princes and ministers, so the Jixia School Palace is quite rich, and millions of dollars are just a drizzle.

After transporting the paper and books to the Jixia School Palace, after handing it over, Jiang Kui got 4 million yuan.

When he got the four million money, he ordered his men to take the money and buy food.

Nowadays, the price of grain is getting higher and higher year by year, about four yuan per liter of corn, 4 million yuan, to be able to buy 1 million liters of corn.

One million litres of corn is not a small amount, and it will not be available for a while.

It took nearly ten days to buy millions of liters of corn, and during these ten days, the paper also caused a sensation in Shangdang County of Chu State.

Before the advent of paper, the carrier of writing was cheap, a bamboo slip cost about five yuan, and the expensive one was white silk, and those who could afford silk were all nobles.

Therefore, after the emergence of paper, a cheap and convenient carrier, it has swept the entire Shangdang County in just ten days.

And Jiang Kui, a paper merchant, has also become famous, and he will be visited by countless people every day.

And signed orders for tens of millions of blank papers and hundreds of thousands of inkstones.

Jiang Kui signed an order at the Shangdang Congress, and Linshui County is also stepping up the production of ordinary white paper and inkstone.

At the same time, the 30,000 troops led by Gu Min, together with the auxiliary army and the people, a total of 50,000 people, came to Yi'an County.

After arriving in Yi'an County, Gu Min's tens of thousands of troops only had enough grain and grass for three days, and when he proposed to ask the county Shouhetai for grain, the other party directly opened the treasury.

Looking at the empty treasury, Gu Min was dumbfounded.

If there is no food, how can there be no food.

Gu Min couldn't help but be furious, and ordered someone to take Hetai down on the spot, and then sent someone to Fanjun to ask for grain while interrogating where Hetai's grain went.

That night, Hetai and Yexian personally escorted hundreds of truckloads of money and grain out of the city, which could not withstand investigation at all.

Therefore, in just one day, Gu Min investigated the whole matter clearly, and Hetai actually sent grain to Qi State.

After learning the news, Gu Min couldn't help but be furious, and just as he was about to give the order to kill Hetai and Yexian, Song Yan appeared.

Then he used his puppet magic power to enslave Gu Min and nine army jackpots together.

Subsequently, like Zhao Yan, Gu Min carried out a purge of the army, killed all the diehards loyal to Zhao, and then led the army to defect to Qi.

The number of soldiers of Qi increased from 26,000 to 56,000.

After taking another 30,000 troops without blood, Song Xiu and Shen Poison were more in awe of Song Yan, and Meng Bozhao's attitude was more respectful.

And Song Yan also took the opportunity to take the entire territory of Yi'an County and the entire territory of Fan County.

In this way, the three counties can form their own angles and work together to defend against the enemy.

For ordinary civilians of Qi State, it is a joyful thing for Qi to have the territory of three counties, but for Song Yan, it is a troublesome thing, and having three more counties means that many people follow him to eat.

Fortunately, not long after taking the 30,000 army, Jiang Kui came back smoothly with a million liters of grain.

Also with them were some merchants from Shangdang County.

Jiang Kui's return made Song Yan very happy, and rewarded the entire caravan.

What made him even more excited was that the merchants who came back with him needed to buy paper.

To this end, Song Yan also personally met with these merchants, selling each merchant two million pieces of ordinary white paper, 100,000 pieces of inkstone, a total of 22 million pieces of ordinary white paper, and 1.1 million pieces of inkstone.

The income reached 33 million dollars.

However, after satisfying these merchants, Song Yan asked that if he wanted to trade next time, he would have to exchange it for grain, and it would be five pieces of ordinary white paper per liter of corn.

After the sale of paper opened up sales channels in the Chu State, Song Yan ordered Jiang Kui to set off with a caravan to the Qin State, and at the same time arranged for two other caravans to go to the Yan State and the Zhao State.

After the caravan set off, Song Yan further expanded the paper mill, because the current paper mill could only support the sales of the Chu State, and if the sales of the Yan State and the Zhao State were opened, the output would not be able to keep up with the sales.