On the boating stream, in the creek and forest, at the place where the majestic wind rises, a bamboo fragrance comes to the nostrils, which seems to have an indescribable fragrance and nobility.

In the previous life, Fang Jun also traveled to Anji Dazhuhai, even if the bamboo sea in front of him has been cut down for thousands of years, to the era where Fang Jun lived, it is still vast and thriving, and it is still one of the most extensive bamboo seas in the south of the Yangtze River.

Moreover, the current Jiangnan has not been fully developed, and the sparse population has led to the lack of reclamation of the mountains and rivers, and everything maintains a thriving natural original ecology, which makes this bamboo sea more vast and magnificent, and the giant bamboo towers to the sky, lush and green, and walks in the meantime, there is indeed a sense of being out of the world.

Lu Xiaoyu looked at Fang Jun leisurely admiring the beautiful scenery, and wondered: "It was unknown before, it turned out that the chief manager turned out to be a gentleman who listened to the wind and admired the moon and had noble interests, which was disrespectful and disrespectful. ”

Fang Jun stood at the bow of the boat and laughed: "What, is this a mockery of Ben Hou?" ”

Seeing that Lu Xiaoyu smiled and didn't answer, he didn't care much, he was not a master above, and the magnificent scenery in the eyes of others seemed to him at this moment, but in his opinion, it was all golden copper coins......

Fang Jun waved his hand, as if he wanted to include all the boundless bamboo forests in front of him, and said proudly: "It's not that Ben Hou looks down on your Lu family, guarding such a large bamboo sea, and actually falling to the point of poverty, it is really 'dying of wood in the cold winter', extremely stupid!" It's all money! ”

Lu Xiaoyu's face was gloomy and extremely unhappy. Even if Fang Jun is the chief manager, but he despises and insults the Lu family so much, Lu Xiaoyu categorically refuses to allow it.

He exclaimed, "Why are you stupid? Could it be that with a small paper-making secret recipe of yours, you can bring the Lu family back to life? My Lu family also has a papermaking workshop, and I don't necessarily know how much money I can sell! ”

I don't blame Lu Xiaoyu for being angry.

Nowadays, bamboo is very widely used, edible bamboo shoots, bamboo shoots, medicinal bamboo, bamboo juice, can also make paper, people's houses, boats, bridges and vehicles, not only related to people's livelihood, but also extremely important military materials, to build a simple dock trestle, bamboo is an excellent material.

Compared with wood, bamboo is lighter, easier to process and use, resistant to water and insects, and faster to mature, although far inferior to wood in terms of sturdiness, but has so many advantages that it can be used as a substitute for wood in many ways.

However, even so, it can't change the fact that bamboo is everywhere, and it is really worthless......

With such a large area of bamboo sea, it is completely possible to take what you want, and there is no need to control it at all. The natural growth of the bamboo sea alone can fully supplement this consumption. Moreover, such a huge bamboo sea is naturally not something that can be occupied by a single family, everyone guards this bamboo sea, and they all want to beg for food from it, compete with each other, and the bamboo is naturally worthless.

Moreover, the bamboo knots are horizontal and the growth rate is extremely fast, and the villagers around Zhuhai often not only cannot benefit from it, but suffer from it. When the spring breeze has not melted the residual cold of the winter, the new bamboo shoots quietly germinated on the ground, after a spring rain, the bamboo shoots broke through the ground, pointing to the clouds, the so-called "Qingming a foot, the valley rain a zhang", is a portrayal of her youthful vitality and vitality......

Not only do you cut down bamboo, but you also need to dig up the roots to prevent the spread of bamboo forests from encroaching on the already small amount of cultivated land. As for the cut bamboo, except for a small amount used to make various utensils, most of it is used to burn as firewood.

In this state, want to sell for money?

Hehe......

What's more, the Lu family also has a papermaking workshop, and the bamboo paper produced is not only small in output, but also extremely poor in quality and worthless. The reason why Lu Xiaoyu cooperated with Fang Jun at the very beginning was not so much because he liked Fang Jun's ability to make money by "turning stones into gold", but because the Lu family wanted to hug Fang Jun's thigh, hoping that Fang Jun's rise would bring benefits to the Lu family.

Anyway, the current situation of the Lu family is like this, no matter how bad it is, how bad can it be?

Fang Jun saw that Lu Xiaoyu was not convinced, and did not say much, smiled and continued to enjoy the beautiful scenery, pondering how to transform this precious wealth given by nature into a real copper coin......

The light boat leisurely descended the water, turned a few bends, and a wide river bay appeared in front of it.

Lu Xiaoyu propped up the penny and propped the canopy boat to the shore, and a servant had already run out of a row of houses at the foot of the mountain on the shore and tied the cable at the bow to the wooden stake on the shore.

Fang Jun jumped off the bow of the boat first, and the servant bent down to salute and said respectfully, "I've seen Erlang." ”

Hearing this title, it is a servant of the Fang family.

Fang Jun let out an "um" and asked, "How is the situation, is it still going well?" ”

The servant smiled and said, "Erlang, don't worry, although we didn't use bamboo in our original recipe, the principle is the same, but after a few corrections and adjustments, the paper produced is no worse than when we were in Guanzhong." It's just that if you want to keep improving, you still need time to slowly understand and experiment. ”

Fang Jun agreed to the cooperation of the Lu family, so he transferred the craftsmen of the paper workshop of Lishan Farm to develop a new type of bamboo paper.

Guanzhong Shaozhu, the original formula naturally cannot be used raw, and it must be developed separately on the basis. However, the papermaking formula that Fang Jun knows is to use plant fibers to precipitate paper, and what raw materials to use may be as good as that, only need to adjust the ratio in detail.

Bamboo fibers are tough, and bamboo paper has been produced since the Jin Dynasty.

This kind of paper made of tender bamboo as raw materials, was the favorite paper of Wang Xizhi's father and son, and most of the authentic works are written on this kind of bamboo paper, "If the two kings are genuine, it is mostly Huiji vertical bamboo paper, and it is rare to cover the north paper after the East Jin Dynasty and the South Crossing, and the father and son of the right army are more in the Huiji." Its paper is about a foot high, and the length of the ruler is half, which is used by the Gaijin people, and it is generally so. ”

From the Jin Dynasty to the present, it has been quite popular, but the process is complicated and the output is very small, almost a symbol of literati status.

There are very rich bamboo forest resources here, and the bamboo hemp is thick, flexible and slippery; There is abundant mountain spring water, clear and clean mountain spring, which is the ideal water for papermaking, and the quality of the paper produced is absolutely not bad.

Lu Xiaoyu walked over from behind, heard the servant's words, and was taken aback: "Is it really made?" What about the quality? ”

It should be known that although the art of papermaking was improved by Cai Lun in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the process was not widely spread, especially the production process of bamboo paper was regarded as "top secret", except for the core craftsmen of each family workshop.

As soon as these craftsmen sent by Fang Jun arrived here, they occupied this papermaking workshop and drove away all the craftsmen of the Lu family, just like a bad look of "magpie's nest dove". Previously, the Lu family was dissatisfied with this, and some people even thought that Fang Jun wanted to occupy the Lu family's paper workshop......

But he didn't think that he had only been here for a few days, and when he drove all the craftsmen of the Lu family away, he developed his own paper-making method.

But if that's all it takes, Lu Xiaoyu is naturally dissatisfied, if he can't be lean in the supremacy of quality, why should the Lu family cooperate with Fang Jun? It's not that I can't make ......

The servant smiled and said respectfully: "Back to Lu Langjun's words, our Fang's paper mill has never been known for its quality, and the goal we pursue is to 'make paper accessible to everyone in the world'." ”

The tone was respectful, but the expression was proud.

How dare a little servant speak out in front of me?

Lu Xiaoyu laughed angrily, pointed at the servant and said, "It's a joke! You are a servant of the workshop, not even a craftsman, so you dare to say something unashamedly, 'so that everyone in the world can use paper'? Do you know how much each knife of paper costs? How much does it cost to ship elsewhere? What is the annual income of the people in the world? A knife of paper can be worth a year's income of a small family, and if you buy paper, he won't eat? ”

The servant looked at Fang Jun, and when he saw that the head of the house was smiling and walking towards the workshop, he did not stop his faux pas, and knew it, so he followed behind Fang Jun and said to Lu Xiaoyu: "Therefore, we will use the practice of sacrificing the quality of paper to increase the output of paper, so as to reduce the cost of paper." ”

Lu Xiaoyu was extremely dissatisfied with this servant, snorted in his nose, and said disdainfully: "It's really a servant of the prime minister's family, and I'm not afraid to flash my waist when I speak!" Even if the paper is poor, the cost is not affordable for ordinary farmers, otherwise why are only a very few people in the world able to afford to buy and read books throughout the ages? ”

This time there was no need for the servants to speak, Fang Jun had already said slowly as he walked: "Therefore, making the people of the world affordable for paper is only the initial achievement, and Benhou's ambition is to make the people of the world affordable to read!" ”

Lu Xiaoyu was speechless......

How arrogant must it be for someone to say something so bold that it's almost like a dream?

Books are a luxury, and those who do not have assets cannot afford it, so knowledge can only be in the hands of a few, thus forming a family gate. If all the people in the world can afford to read, then the cold family will definitely rise, where is there any family gate?