Mrs. Xue didn't understand what Yu Ye Ping was going to do.

Her head was filled with a lot of questions.

Ye Ping motioned for her to sit down.

"Come on, come on, let's sit down and talk!"

"Ye shopkeeper, did I not do a good job? Or what's wrong with me? ”

In her opinion, it was not her doing something wrong that caused Ye Ping to talk to her.

I haven't done it like this before.

"No, you're doing a great job! I came to you for something else. ”

"What is the matter with me?"

"I came here because I had something to ask you for."

"Oh? What is it? Just say, don't say something like that, we can say that we are a family. ”

"That's right, now our demand for paper is getting bigger and bigger, and our output has been at the top, in this way, although we print more, but the cost has not been able to come down, so I think"

"Shopkeeper Ye wants to make his own paper!?"

It's comfortable to talk to a smart person, you just click on the question, and she will tell you the result.

"That's right, we're going to make our own paper!"

Ye Ping said very decisively.

"Your wax paper has done very well before, so this time, I want you to take the lead in making paper, in order to bring down the price, after all, the paper bought from others is someone else's after all, and they are in our hands, and we don't know how many hands they have had! So, I want to solve this problem at the source. ”

This is Ye Ping's true idea, papermaking, in order to maximize profits.

Now there is only 50% profit, which is far from enough.

It's better to reach more than 80 percent, that's cool.

I agree with that! But even if we do it now, our size will become larger and larger, and it will be more and more difficult to control the future. ”

Mrs. Xue is not wrong, if this is the case, then Ye Ping doesn't know how many people to recruit?

Does he have enough money? Now he also has a scale of 1,000 people, and more than half of them are borrowed from the imperial court, and these people are not enough to produce books. Do you want to hire again?

The answer is yes, because just the paper needed for a day, he has to set up a large factory, and the ancient paper is produced by hand, which is also a problem of efficiency.

But Ye Ping thought more deeply than Mrs. Xue.

Cost is one problem, and the other problem, that is, the family, these families can't let him make money all the time, he puts the price so low, it's a blow to the family, they will definitely find a way to suppress you, so that you can't breathe.

And such suppression, the first is to suppress the price of your book and compete with you.

The second is to raise the price of your paper and make your cost rise, so that you can resist several major families with a Ye Ping?

It's only the first day, and everything is unknown, and if it is the future, when they come to their senses, they will definitely fight back.

When the time comes, how will Ye Ping respond?

Therefore, he wants to maximize his own interests by reducing the cost of each link.

He is also planning for a rainy day, preparing everything for a rainy day.

"Mrs. Xue, since you want to do it, then make it big, otherwise you won't do it, now that there is such a good opportunity for us, why don't we take it?"

Ye Ping can at least make another 100% profit by doing this.

This is a terrible thing.

There are still 2,000 people who may have to leave when they are due, and then the cost will be higher, so papermaking has become very necessary.

"However, papermaking is not fast, it has a lot of steps! The cycle is not short. And now there is not much bamboo, we don't plant it at all! ”

Ancient papermaking was divided into six steps,

1. Chop the bamboo and float the pond, soak the bamboo in the pond for 100 days, take it out and wash it vigorously to soften the bamboo.

2. Boiling over the fire, the bamboo material is mixed with lime water and boiled for 8 days and nights, and the bamboo fibers are gradually decomposed after repeated cooking and rinsing.

3. Mortar: Take out the bamboo treated above, put it into the stone mortar, and knock it with a stone mill until the bamboo is broken.

4. Swing the material into the curtain, take out the boiled raw materials and scoop them into a muddy shape, mix them with an appropriate amount of water after mashing, and pour them into the paper tray to form a layer of paper film.

5. Cover the curtain and press the paper, and lay the bamboo curtain that has been scooped up on the press board upside down to discharge the moisture in the paper page and become a boxy piece of paper.

6. Dry through fire, make a fire in the alley to make the paper hot air permeate, and after slowly drying, it is a usable paper.

Every step here requires people, and every piece of paper comes out that takes a long time.

Ye Ping wanted to make paper, but it felt very impossible.

It's much better just in terms of time, not to mention labor.

So paper was very expensive at that time.

But since Ye Ping dared to say that, there must be a reason for him.

He took out a piece of paper from his bosom.

This is the paper he found when he looked up the information.

He handed it to Mrs. Xue.

"Mrs. Xue, please take a look."

She took it and looked at it.

Then I was shocked.

"What! It turns out that these things can make paper! ”

She suddenly realized, as if the door of the new world office had been opened.

It turned out that the paper that Ye Ping gave him could stop at bamboo and wood to make paper, and there were many other categories.

For example, reeds, miscanthus stalks, wheat straw, straw, dragon's beard grass, sorghum stalks, bagasse, flax, jute, kenaf, sandalwood bark, mulberry bark, cotton stalk skin, etc. can be used to make paper, so that raw materials are all over the ground.

Ye Ping smiled: "You go on!" ”

"Yes!"

The more Mrs. Xue looked, the more surprised she became.