Seeing the two piles of things on the table, Yu Bende immediately reached out and took one from it to his eyes, and looked at it carefully.

It is a round thing, white, soft, and fluttering. After Yu Bende touched it, his first feeling was paper. Then when he turned it slightly, a thin layer suddenly fell off this scroll, and after rubbing his fingers, it was indeed paper!

However, this paper was different from all the papers he knew: not only was it extremely soft, but it was also rolled up like a bamboo shoot shell, wrapped like a round stick, and there were small needle holes on it, and there would be a string every other section.

"I'm afraid it's not easy to write, right?" Yu Bende questioned while glancing at Xiong Dao through the hole in the middle of the paper scroll.

Although he has never seen this kind of strange paper, but Yu Bende has not been a knife and pen official for half his life, and he immediately judged that this is a kind of inferior paper: although it is whiter than all the paper he has ever seen, this kind of paper is too soft, not to mention, the pores are still large, and the ink will diverge, and he can't write at all, and the most inferior straw paper on the market is this virtue.

Xiong Dao didn't refute, just smiled and said, "Tear a few and stack them again." ”

Yu Bende reached out and tore the paper as he said, and easily pulled a piece from the row of needle eyes, which made him suddenly understand the function of the row of needle eyes.

"It's exquisite." After muttering, he began to fold the pieces of paper. However, this fold found a difference: the paper of this era, whether it is high-grade bamboo paper or low-grade straw paper, is very afraid of folding. Even if it is good paper, it will also break if you fold it twice, not to mention bad paper, and the slag will fall off if you shake it.

And Yu Bende did not break until he folded the palm-sized piece of paper into a thumb cover, and the piece of paper in his big hand still did not break.

Plain white, easy to tear, soft, and resistant to folding, Bende is not a fool, he now knows that this kind of paper is certainly not used for writing, but where is it used? He had a faint feeling, but the window paper just couldn't be broken.

Just when Yu Bende was frowning and thinking hard, a voice came from the side: "The so-called rabbit has three holes, and people have three urgency"

"Oh, this thing is toilet paper!" Yu Ben Demao suddenly opened and slapped himself on the thigh hard.

Xiong Dao saw that he understood, so he smiled and said: "You take all the twenty volumes on the table, and when you go back, please ask the old lady of a large family to try it, and you can try it yourself, and you will know the beauty if you use it." ”

Yu Bende nodded again and again, he had a premonition with his rich life experience that this was a good thing that could occupy the "high-end market".

Speaking of toilet paper, before the Yuan Dynasty, China was not allowed to use paper to wipe the buttocks. Because at that time, paper production was not easy, and wiping the butt with paper was a desecration of culture.

This situation was changed during the Mongol Yuan period, because the Mongols did not urinate the rhetoric of the literati. After the Ming Dynasty, the toilet paper industry has also developed to a certain extent, the most representative of which is one of the 24 yamen of the Inner Palace.

Yes, the Treasure Money Division sounds like it prints money, but this yamen specializes in making soft straw paper for the emperor to wipe his buttocks, and the wine and vinegar noodle bureau are both of the same level.

However, institutions like the Treasure Money Division are a special case after all. In the 17th century, the vast majority of China's population still used straw paper with toilet chips and bamboo sticks when it was convenient, and the cost of straw paper was quite high, and only a few large households could afford to use it.

And Xiong Dao is now eyeing this high-end market.

Originally, he planned to produce writing paper in the Jiangnan area this year, but after the annual meeting, this idea was stopped because it would rob ordinary businessmen of their jobs.

So Mr. Xiong can only turn around, take the high-end route, fill the gap in the market, produce toilet paper for the old ladies to wipe their buttocks, and use luxury goods to earn silver from large families.

"I don't know if this cotton paper has a name? How to operate this industrial chain? Yu Bende is now already thinking about how to start implementing the project.

"This is called Jierou toilet paper, and regular products will have outer packaging in the future." Xiong Dao began to explain to someone: "On my side, I will soon open papermaking workshops in Fuzhou and Jiangnan to produce toilet paper." There is no shortage of bamboo and wood in Fuzhou, which is a good place for papermaking. But it's not bad here in Jiangnan, there is one thing that is both local and cheap."

When Master Xiong said this, he stopped and glanced at Yu Bende. And the latter is blessed to the soul at the moment, and a word popped out of his mouth as soon as his eyes lit up: "Cotton pole!" ”

"Yes, it's a cotton stalk." Xiong Dao nodded, revealing a relieved expression of "you are very business-minded": "It doesn't matter whether it is a cotton stalk or a rice stalk, bamboo and wood, it can be turned into this kind of cotton paper with my technology." ”

Speaking of this, Xiong Dao threw Yu Shuban a cigarette, and then helped him light it: "This workshop, you have to give out the land, the factory, the workers, and another 10,000 taels of silver, and I will provide papermaking secrets and production machines, and we will divide the account 55." ”

Hearing this, Yu Bende nodded slowly after pondering for a while: "I did this deal!" ”

Yu Shuban seems to be solemn, but in fact, his heart has already blossomed, even if he has obtained the secret technique of papermaking, he has already earned it, it's a big deal to break up and start a new mountain, isn't it? However, he would not have thought that without the sulfuric acid supplied by Master Xiong alone, he would not be able to play papermaking. Not to mention the machine, if you break a bearing, you have to lie down.

"Hmm!" Xiong Dao took a puff of cigarette and added with a smile: "At the beginning, I accounted for 5% of the shares, but also to help you block the knife. Besides, brother, you don't have the strength to be a channel at all, so it's better to be honest and be a workshop owner first. ”

"But when you gain a firm foothold in the future, I promise you to buy back shares at any time, and the price will be based on the current price."

When Yu Bende heard this, he couldn't wait to kneel down and kowtow to Master Xiong on the spot, such a condition of advancing and retreating freely, if he didn't agree, he would be mentally retarded.

But there were surprises to come: there were more than 20 rolls of toilet paper on the table, and several stacked boxes of black lacquer.

When Yu Bende opened one of the boxes, he found that inside were square bamboo plaques the size of thumbs, engraved with patterns, flowery and green, a bit like dominoes in a gambling house.

"This is? Horse tags? ”

"Yes! This is called mahjong tiles, and it is much more fun than horse tags. ”

Horse tag is the predecessor of mahjong tiles, there are 40 cards in the whole deck, divided into 100,000 guan, 10,000 guan, suozi, wen qian 4 kinds of suits.

Horse hanging was very popular in the Ming Dynasty, especially at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the scholars and doctors indulged in playing horse hanging all day long, after the death of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Weiye of the Qing Dynasty even thought that the Ming Dynasty died in the Suiguan Jiluo.

Although this statement is biased, it also proves the absurdity and idleness of the gentry class in the late Ming Dynasty. And Xiong Dao's timely launch of mahjong cards is aimed at the pockets of the scholar class: 40 pieces of horse hangers can be played to linger, and 144 pieces of the ultimate killer king is out, isn't it a big sale? Just look at the people who fought on the mahjong table for three days and three nights in later generations.

Yu Bende quickly figured out the basic gameplay of mahjong, because there were not only mahjong tiles in the box, but also a beautifully printed drawing in his eyes, which not only had text explanations, but also various card types of winning cards.

Xiong Dao began to explain to Yu friends how to operate mahjong tiles. Generally speaking, like toilet paper, it is also a local factory, and then sold nationwide.

However, mahjong is not the same as toilet paper, this thing is easy to imitate, so Xiong Dao told Yu Bende that his workshop will only sell high-end goods in the future and follow the brand strategy. As for the low-end bamboo mahjong imitated by those folk craftsmen, let it be, and it should promote employment.

So what is high-end mahjong? These boxes on the table are.

These boxes of sample mahjong are machined, with a cowdom surface, bamboo as the base, and celluloid as the card. In short, they are all made of composite materials, polished by mechanical processes, the surface is very smooth, and the card pattern is neat and uniform.

And Xiong Dao also told Yu Bende that if he wants to set up a factory, he also needs to recruit an additional group of veteran craftsmen, and in the future, he will launch handmade jade mahjong, jade mahjong, and Indian gem mahjong that dominate the top big guys.

After a business experience, Yu Shuban was scratching his ears and cheeks, and he couldn't wait to start rolling up his sleeves tomorrow and doing a lot of money, but Xiong Dao told him: He can only choose one of the two businesses of toilet paper and mahjong.

In the end, Yu Shuban could only go home with a large pile of samples.

After going back, after discussing with his eldest son who was on an errand in the Yamen, Yu Bende ordered the second child to pass the most famous "embroidery girl" in the county to the family the next day.

Although this kind of embroidery girl is not a person with the "three aunts and six women", but with a good needle and thread and being able to speak, in terms of entering and leaving the back house of a large family, it is the embroidery girl who is more popular.

Of course, this generation is not a good thing: "Entering and exiting everyone with kindness, because please teach his daughter, he has many people who lure out of the cabinet every day." ”

Yu Bende invited this old woman not to ask her to abduct people, but to order her to advertise, whether it is toilet paper or mahjong, in fact, the female dependents who stay in the back house every day and have nothing to do are more suitable sales targets. In addition, whether the user experience of toilet paper is good or not, the ladies and ladies will only tell the embroidery girl.

This truth was reached by Yu Bende after discussing with his eldest son for half a night.

So the embroidery lady distributed the two samples to the back houses of several large families.

Later in the day, there was a steady stream of feedback from customers. Unsurprisingly, both goods were a great success.

Treated with sulfuric acid, the only toilet paper that can really be called "white" in this dimension is not only extremely soft, but also can be separated at will, and this wonderful soft paper brings a quite shocking user experience to the old ladies and ladies.

As for mahjong, not to mention, on the same day, someone asked for delivery to the back house of the big family, counting the wife, miss, small two, small three, and little n, and it is not a problem to easily make up three or five tables.

So the second child of the Yu family, who ran to collect user feedback information, was scolded for being bloody: There is no goods, what are you promoting here?

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