The Shen father and son were anxious.

Dusk Hou paper has just come out, this wave of wind has just come out of the Pingwang Mansion, has set off a wave of commotion among the Confucian students in Jinling City, many scholars are begging for paper.

Looking at the limelight of this situation, the potential of paper is huge, and it has the potential to replace bamboo slips.

It is necessary to build a new Shen's papermaking workshop before the paper fire and the complete replacement of bamboo slips.

A large amount of paper, one or twenty copper plates and a piece of paper, can not only make a lot of money, but also make the Shen family famous all over the world.

This kind of good thing is rare to encounter in a hundred years.

Shen Wanbao gritted his teeth, took out 10,000 taels of silver arrogantly, bought 100 acres of wasteland on the outskirts of Jinling City, and started to build a giant workshop, which was larger than the dozens of acres of workshops in Xiao Duhou.

Shen Dafu invited all the hundreds of carpenters and stonemasons who were invited to build the workshop of Xiaoduhou and built a workshop as it was.

These craftsmen are all veterans, and they can directly build a large number of jobs that have been done once in their hands.

The tools used in the Xiaoduhou workshop, such as the water grinding hammer, the large boiling pot, the water pool, and the paper wall, were also made exactly the same, and even more in number.

Of course, the most important thing is the process formula of the dusk paper, which has been completely different from the previous hemp paper and has been greatly improved.

This is the top-secret and unique technology of Duhou paper, and the tools in the workshop are only for large-scale paper production.

The Shen father and son didn't know how to make paper, so they invited more than a dozen hemp paper craftsmen in Jinling City to study the faint paper together, wanting to solve the mystery.

The hemp paper craftsmen were all amazed when they saw an incomparably fine faint paper found by the Shen family.

"I've heard that the paper is not made of hemp bark, but of tree bark."

"Is that really the case? The bark is extremely inexpensive, which can significantly reduce the cost of paper. ”

"Really. The Dull Workshop has been buying a large number of barks, hundreds of catties and thousands of catties. Some poor people in the city, hearing the wind, braved the wind and snow to go to the suburbs to cut trees and cut the bark to earn money. ”

"But the gum of the bark is very thick, how does he degum the bark?"

"That's the key!"

The hemp paper craftsmen were very surprised, puzzled, and studied hard.

The Shen Mansion gave them a purchase fee of five hundred taels of silver for each workshop, contributing their own unique skills. He also promised to hire them as papermakers in the Shen Mansion's workshop to make paper for the Shen family for generations.

To be able to take refuge in today's national uncle, of course, all the hemp paper craftsmen are happy, and they should all inherit it.

However, it is really difficult to retrofit the technology.

If it had been so easy to solve this difficult problem, they would have stopped making paper from expensive hemp skins.

One day...

Two days...

Three days...

This large-scale papermaking workshop of the Shen family, which covers an area of 100 acres, has risen from the ground and is almost completed, but there is still no major progress in the new paper formula.

Shen's father and son personally supervised the work in Shen's papermaking workshop, and studied the formula of Duhou paper with the hemp paper craftsmen.

Not to mention, although the Shen family is a relative of the emperor and a nouveau riche in the eyes of the world, the Empress Dowager Shen and Shen Dafu's generation all started from the bottom of the common people and can still endure this hardship.

It's just that suffering is suffering, and it is still like a headless fly, and I am confused about the formula of the faint paper.

Shen Dafu even sent some people to go around the vicinity of Xiao Duhou papermaking workshop to inquire about the information of the papermaking formula, but they found nothing.

The owner of the workshop, Mr. Sun, is strict and does not let others interfere with the most critical degumming and pulping technology, and he does it alone. The rest of the workers, even his son, did the clumsy heavy work.

There are even some guards sent by the county lord to guard the gate. Who dares to offend King Ping's Mansion and go inside to steal papermaking secrets?

The good news was not heard, but the Shen father and son heard a bad news - the second batch of faint paper from the Xiao Duhou Workshop had been made and was about to be released.

The amount of this batch of faint paper is very large.

I'm afraid that the thatched house in the Pingwang Mansion will not be used up... Since the huts are not used up, the surplus will definitely be sold for some.

As soon as the paper came out, the scholars of Da Chu will definitely have a wave of early purchases.

The father and son of the Shen family still stayed in the Shen Mansion Paper Workshop, constantly conducting paper experiments, all of them unkempt, like charcoal burners, their hearts were extremely anxious, and their eyes were red.

Dead or alive just can't be made.

What can I do?

The corners of Shen Dafu's mouth foamed.

The Shen family has already smashed 10,000 taels of silver, hundreds of acres of land have been built new workshops, more than a dozen craftsmen and hundreds of workers are screaming and waiting to start work, and even the bark raw materials have filled a wooden house warehouse.

But I didn't expect that the little Dusk Hou could easily study the Dusk Hou paper, but a group of them still didn't study a single shadow.

Shen Wanbao was also anxious, and his eyes were red....

This is a great battle between him and the third largest gentleman in Jinling, and the first gentleman in Jinling, the Marquis of Xiaodu, in the papermaking ring in Jinling City.

wants to defeat Xiao Duhou in one fell swoop, so that Xiao Duhou has no face.

He is scratching his head anxiously at the moment.... He found that he couldn't get into the battle ring. can't make paper, and he's still fighting with Xiao Duhou.

In the end, no way!

You can't let Shen's workshop stay idle and not start work.

Shen Wanbao thought of a crooked move.

Since hemp paper craftsmen can't make faint paper.

That is to improve the existing hemp paper, improve the quality of hemp paper, and greatly reduce the cost of hemp paper.

These hemp paper craftsmen have their own strengths, and they have one or two unique skills in their hands, putting together various methods to transform the hemp paper process.

Make every effort to improve the quality of hemp paper.

It's just that, no matter how it is improved, the new hemp paper is still hemp paper after all.

Yellowish in color.

The texture is still a little rough.

The process has been improved a lot, and the quality has been doubled. But at a glance, it is still a big grade worse than the beautiful faint paper.

"It's over... Our Shen's paper, high cost and low quality, will definitely not be able to fight the paper! The next time I meet Xiao Duhou, I will definitely be ridiculed by him. ”

Shen Wanbao mourned.

"Ten thousand taels of silver have already been spent, so we must return the capital. That's it, if the paper sells for ten wen, let's sell it for five.

We Shen's paper, sold at the reserve price. Many poor scholars can't afford to buy Duhou paper at a high price, so they will come to buy our low-cost Shen's paper... There's always a lot of money to be made! ”

Shen Dafu gritted his teeth with regret.

The cost of hemp paper is reduced as much as possible, saving labor costs, selling paper in their own stores, and saving the middleman price difference in bamboo slip stores.

He sells paper at the price of five copper coins, and he can still make a penny or two.

Originally, he expected that Shen's paper was of the same quality as Duhou paper, and he fought a price war with Xiao Duhou, defeated Xiao Duhou's workshop with strong financial resources, and monopolized the Dachu paper industry.

When the time comes, he will go to ask the Empress Dowager Shen to give the emperor an idea, "order the world to replace bamboo slips with paper". The scholars of hundreds of counties in Dachu begged for paper, and the Shen Mansion made a big hit overnight!

It's a pity that the quality of Shen's paper is not good.

Now he can only share the paper industry equally with Xiao Duhou, let Xiao Duhou occupy high-end paper, and he relies on low prices to occupy the middle and low grades.

The two families are evenly divided, and each eats a bite of fat.