What Chu Tianxiu wants to buy most is firecrackers and fireworks.

This thing is an artifact for the New Year, which is more festive and lively than sticking Spring Festival couplets and door gods.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, so "crackling" is released, everywhere is gunsmoke, fireworks and flames flying, illuminating the ancient night sky, not to mention how lively and enjoyable.

He couldn't help but wonder.

Make your own firecrackers to celebrate the New Year?

The premise of making firecrackers is to make gunpowder. Saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal are all easy to get, and there is no technical difficulty.

But gunpowder is not just a firecracker.

With a little use of their brains, someone can transform it into a bundle of "explosives", which is much more terrifying than a sword.

He had previously invented the faint paper, which could be used to make paper books.

The Confucian students of Jinling City are full of joy, and the great Confucian Confucian Hanyou calls it auspicious, and the "prosperous era of cultural fortune" is coming.

The emperor was also very pleased.

After all, no matter how much paper is made, it will not threaten anyone's life, the imperial power is stable, and the emperor still sleeps very steadily.

But if you make gunpowder yourself, then no one will necessarily take it as auspicious.

What would Emperor Xiang Yanran think?

Squinted his eyes and began to ponder, what do you want to do if you are blessed or not, but you go to drum up a gunpowder with such a great power?

Those assassins or something, find this big powder bag to find a place on the road and bury it, and when the emperor passes by, ignite it, "boom", and extinguish it within ten zhang.

No amount of guards will be able to withstand this kind of surprise attack.

As long as the emperor thinks so, will he be able to sleep in the future?!

The emperor asked sadly, "Little Dusk Marquis, what do you want to do when you make gunpowder?" The equipment for the rebellion is all .... I heard that you dug a big ice cellar in the Pingwang Mansion? ”

Could it be that he said, "Your Majesty, the minister just wants to hear it 'bang' so loudly, happy and happy!" ”

Can Xiang Yanran believe it?

The imperial historians who were idle in the court did not hesitate to participate in a book, "The little dusk marquis stayed awake all night, worked hard, and finally researched a powerful weapon!" "The little dusk marquis makes gunpowder, and he has great ambitions!"

Not to mention a faint marquis's mansion, I'm afraid that the Pingwang Mansion will have to wait for the day of raiding.

When Chu Tianxiu thought of this, he felt a chill on his neck. I am cold, Yu'er, who has not yet bowed to the church, and Zu'er and Di'er, who are married, what can they do!

He grinned, and instantly gave up the terrible idea of making gunpowder.

This terrible gunpowder should be kept for others to invent, just don't implicate yourself, and play with paper by yourself.

How safe the paper is, the book can be written and wiped, and the silver can be sold, how good!

Firecrackers and fireworks or something, with it or not, the same New Year.

The head is gone, but it won't be able to celebrate the New Year.

...

Chu Tianxiu took Zu'er and visited the shops on Changle Street, and he was quite happy.

Putting aside the potential danger of firecrackers, this Great Chu Dynasty is simply full of ways to get rich!

Not to mention anything else, as long as it involves paper, there are almost none.

Spring Festival couplets, picture flowers, books, none.

There was no paper before, and there was no habit at all.

But now there is a faint paper, dye the paper red, ask an old Confucian to write a festive couplet, and sell the couplet directly to earn a fortune.

There are also door gods, New Year's paintings, etc., all of which require paper materials, and they can be made.

It's a unique business.... At most, the Shen family followed the trend of business opportunities and took a little bit, and no one grabbed business with them at all.

The more Chu Tianxiu thought about it, the happier she became.

Although I don't make much money selling Spring Festival couplets, mosquito meat is also meat!

An hour later.

Chu Tianxiu took Zu'er on the street and met Li Yu and Di'er, who were making a big purchase with great interest.

They have purchased a large number of New Year's goods, and almost half of the carriages are piled up.

Chu Tianxiu was stunned, how could he do it in such a short time?!

"Husband, our Yuyuan's New Year's goods, silk, fat powder, and jewelry, are almost all bought, let's go! I'll ask the maid in the house to make you a few new sets of clothes. ”

Li Yu said happily.

Chu Tianxiu suddenly found depressed that he was still empty-handed, and he hadn't bought anything yet, and this big purchase of New Year's goods was over.

Zuer pouted... Didn't my uncle find out that she didn't have a copper plate on her, and she still wanted to buy New Year's goods?!

...

In a flash, more than ten days have passed.

After the big cold, it is very close to the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Chu Tianxiu was busy in the Pingwang Mansion.

The new conservatory of the Pingwang Mansion has been built, and some new fruits and vegetables have been planted, which can be eaten after a while.

The ice cellar in Yuyuan is much more complicated, with wooden beams and stone slabs to be erected, and craftsmen are hurrying to build it before the Spring Festival.

As soon as the Chinese New Year arrives, the craftsmen will go home for the big festival and will not start work again before the Lantern Festival.

There is also Li Rong, the king of Ping, who is enthusiastically arranging the construction of a five-story library pavilion in the palace, the carpenters are in a hurry, and the five-story carved fence jade building costs at least 50,000 taels or more, which is a real big project.

Chu Tianxiu went to a papermaking workshop and spent a few days arranging to expand production.

Now the workshop produces about 10,000 pieces of paper a day.

It seems like a lot, but a hundred pages of paper is made into a book, and it is only a hundred paper books per day, which is pitiful.

Because the price of dusk paper has always been very expensive, it is currently only in Jinling City, among the gate valves, magnates, children of wealthy families, noble ladies, and young ladies, it has completely opened up the market.

There are also some profiteering merchants, who are transported to other distant cities and sold to wealthy families in local counties.

In about a day, you can sell about 100 paper books, get 200 taels of silver, and earn 6,000 taels a month.

But this is already the limit of the faint paper, and it is difficult to increase sales.

If the price of the paper is not reduced, the Confucian students in Jinling City will definitely not be able to afford it, and the sales volume will naturally not go up.

However, Chu Tianxiu planned to quickly expand the size of the workshop to more than five times.

Once my father-in-law's library was built, it would have to be filled with a large number of paper books.

My father-in-law said arrogantly that he wanted to collect 100,000 books and collect all the books in the world.

Chu Tianxiu smiled secretly, in modern times, it is just a tiny library. Any elementary school has more than this number of books.

Of course, there are few books in the Great Chu Dynasty, which is enough to shock Jinling City and become the first library of Great Chu.

Even if it is calculated in five cents and a piece of paper, this is a huge income of fifty thousand taels of silver.

He has to prepare this paper production capacity in advance.

When Old Craftsman Sun heard this, he was shocked.

He didn't know that he could produce 50,000 pieces of paper a day, so much paper, and the price was so expensive, what should he do with this sales? Who would buy so much paper?!

Chu Tianxiu also handed over the tasks of making red paper, writing Spring Festival couplets, painting door gods, etc., to Sun Lao Craftsman, and asked him to arrange some people to hire Confucian scholars to write couplets and specialize in the production of these things.

Old Craftsman Sun was a little confused, not knowing what they were for, but he still did as he was told.