On the way back to Jinling City, Li Yu asked curiously, "Husband, how can we find silver when we go back?" I'm afraid it's difficult! ”

"That is, none of the squires and wealthy families in Danyang County are willing to pay money."

"Although there are many rich families in Jinling City, they are all lords who don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles, and they haven't seen any benefits, so I'm afraid they won't invest so much silver."

Di'er and Zu'er also said.

Chu Tianxiu smiled: "Who is the richest in Jinling City?" ”

"In addition to the royal family, even if the Shen Mansion is over, I'm afraid the copper coins in the treasury are about to rot!"

Zu'er said immediately.

"Get a sum of silver from the Shen family first, and when the Shen family tastes the sweetness, I'm not afraid that they won't rush to eat meat."

Chu Tianxiu said.

In the mansions of the wealthy in Jinling City, in fact, the backstage of the Shen family is the hardest and the most difficult to handle. But as long as the Shen family takes the bait, it will be easy for other wealthy families to follow suit.

The carriage team of the Pingwang Mansion, escorted by the guards, "rumbled" and arrived at Jinling City.

The guards under the Jinling City Gate naturally recognized that it was the carriage of the Danyang County Lord of the Ping Palace, and they were extremely surprised.

Didn't Xiao Duhou go to Danyang County to take office?

It's only been a few days, and it's back!

As soon as Xiao Duhou comes back, Jinling City is going to jump again!

The soldiers hurriedly got out of the way, and they didn't dare to check the car of the Danyang County Lord, so they entered Jinling City directly.

"Jinling City, I, Chu Tianxiu, are back again."

Chu Tianxiu looked at the familiar and prosperous Jinling City, and was in a good mood.

This Jinling Imperial City is where he shows his strength!

...

A group of carriages passed through Changle Street and passed by Shen Mansion.

Chu Tianxiu stopped the carriage.

Shen Wanbao, the eldest son of Shen, drank tea with a few fox friends at the Hongmen Inn.

Just as he was about to wander around Jinling City, he happened to see Xiao Duhou sitting in the carriage and waving to him.

Shen Wanbao couldn't help but be surprised, "Hey, Xiao Duhou, why are you back again?!" ”

"There's no way, after a few days of hard work, this little marquis has already spent 10,000 taels of silver in Danyang County. If you don't come back, you won't have any money. ”

Chu Tianxiu said with a smile.

Shen Wanbao listened, his eyes widened, and his scalp was numb: "The kind of place where birds don't poop in Danyang County, there is nothing to buy except food, and you can also spend 10,000 taels of silver?" You, the Danyang County Commander, are you a boy who scatters wealth?! ”

Even if you go to buy a large amount of grain, you can't spend 10,000 taels of silver in just a few days!

"I invented a new type of small blast furnace that can make steel, and it cost me ten thousand taels of silver!"

Chu Tianxiu said: "Wanbao, do you want to follow the county's order to invest?" For 10,000 taels of silver, I'll build you five small blast furnaces!" You may not be able to earn ten times a year, but there is always a double or three times. It's much better than your family going to a loan shark! ”

The price he gave Li Kangnian was 1,000 taels of a new blast furnace, which was almost the cost price. After all, Li Kangnian is a county man, and he has worked hard in the county, so he always has to give some delicious food.

The relationship between the Shen family is farther away, asking for two thousand taels.

For every 2,000 taels of investment, he can build an additional blast furnace.

"Don't do it! As far as your little dusk is concerned, you will eat alone when you have benefits, and you will definitely not take care of your brother. It's definitely not a good thing that you're trying to pull me up. ”

Shen Wanbao's eyes were full of vigilance.

Little Dull Hou Bacheng wants to pit his silver again!

Hmph, there are no doors.

He had never seen what the iron-making blast furnace looked like, so how could he believe it. He is not his father Shen Dafu, so easy to be fooled.

"Forget it, if you don't invest in a small blast furnace, I won't force it. Once you've figured it out, it's not too late to come back to me. ”

Chu Tianxiu shook his head and said, "Didn't you say a few days ago that you want to partner with me to make faint paper and sell it for money." Now I will give you a benefit, I will sell the full set of techniques of Duhou paper to your Shen family for the price of 10,000 taels of silver! You can make as much paper as you like. ”

He went to Danyang County.

There is no paper available even in the county office, and it is obvious that Da Chu is still too backward.

There is no need for exclusive secrecy of Duhou paper, and the price should be greatly reduced, to a penny and a piece of paper as soon as possible, so that Da Chu can enter the era of paper books from the era of bamboo slips as soon as possible.

The whole country of Dachu must pay close attention to popularizing the paper of faint marquis.

Otherwise, with the current high price of 20 wen a piece, except for the imperial court and the gate valve of Jinling City, no one in Danyang County can use faint paper at all.

Even the county government and wealthy families are reluctant to use it, let alone private school children. Children carry dozens of pounds of bamboo slips on their backs to study, and there is no way to carry out universal education.

He sold papermaking and got this 10,000 taels of silver, and he could also build a small blast furnace, killing multiple birds with one stone.

"Sell me the papermaking technique of Duhou Paper?"

Shen Wanbao was almost stunned.

What kind of iron-making blast furnace, he didn't believe that he could make money.

But this dim paper, the cost is extremely low, but the selling price is as high as 20 copper coins, very, very profitable, he believes.

Shen Wanbao reacted, and screamed in surprise, eager to hug Chu Tianxiu.

"My grandfather, you've finally figured it out! It's long overdue to sell me papermaking. Okay, 10,000 taels, I'll go back and get the money, and I'll send it to your Pingwang Mansion immediately! ”

...

Shen Wanbao turned his head and rushed back to the Shen Mansion to find his father Shen Dafu, "Dad! Great joy, great joy. ”

"What?"

Shen Dafu's face was full of haggardness, and he was still thinking about how his own Shen's hemp paper could be improved to the quality of the faint paper.

Now Shen's hemp paper workshop is losing money every day, although the loss of money is not too much, but it still makes his heart and liver hurt.

This is a retreat for the Shen family.

If he doesn't figure out the faint paper for a day, his heart will not be steady, and he can't sleep.

Shen Dafu looked at his son blankly, not knowing where the joy came from.

"Dad, I spent a lot of painstaking work, crying grandpa begging grandma, and finally moved the little faint marquis. Xiao Duhou has already agreed to sell a full set of Duhou paper techniques to our family. 10,000 taels, only 10,000 taels, cheap?! We'll be able to make faint paper! ”

Shen Wanbao said excitedly, "It's all thanks to my friendship with Xiao Duhou for so many years, otherwise it would be no fun to change someone else." ”

"It's cheap, I bought it! It will only pay back in two months. ”

Shen Dafu couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, and said fiercely, "Well done, it's finally a big thing!" ”

10,000 taels is just the money to build a large paper workshop.

Buy back the papermaking technology of dusk paper, and make paper hard, it won't take long to earn back the capital.

In this great Chu Dynasty, now there are only two families in Shen and Chu who can make paper, and the merchants who compete are far less than those who deal in silk.

...

"Silly!"

Chu Tianxiu couldn't help but shake his head when he saw Shen Wanbao rushing back to the Shen Mansion.

The Shen Mansion has money.

He originally wanted to take the Shen Mansion to Danyang County to make steel, but with the huge investment of the Shen family, the richest man in Jinling, it only takes one year to make Danyang County a steel-heavy county, and it is so rich.

Shen Wanbao still refused to go, thinking about papermaking.

When Shen Wanbao came to him again, it was not the price of "125 new blast furnaces".

Anyway, though.

In a blink of an eye, he received 10,000 taels of silver, plus the 10,000 taels that Yu'er took, it was a starting capital of 20,000 silver.

Chu Tianxiu couldn't help but sigh.

In the poor and sour place in Danyang County, even if you scrape the ground three feet and want to get 10,000 taels of silver, it is too difficult and too difficult, and the squires must be forced to rebel.

It's still the huge wealth of Jinling City, and he's willing to pay for it!

The Shen family alone easily took out 10,000 taels of silver.

"Now we have 20,000 taels of silver, and we can build 20 new small blast furnaces in one breath within a month, one 100 catties, which is estimated to produce 2,000 catties of high-quality fried steel per day, and hundreds of agricultural tools and weapons per day.

Although the number is still a little less, it should be no problem to get started. In the first month, we first experimented and made the first batch of 'fried steel' and '100 steel'.

Fried steel is used to make agricultural tools, and 100 steels are used to make weapons. ”

Chu Tianxiu pondered, and said to Li Yu: "The rest is to open up sales." Build a batch of sophisticated farm tools and armaments, and sell them to all parts of Dachu. We can't build armaments, it's better to sell steel directly to the imperial court. ”

He checked some classic materials and found that Da Chu's private blacksmith shop could smelt iron, make farm tools, and even build weapons by himself.

The princes and kings of the Xiang clan built a large number of armaments for their own army, and the armament was no less than that of the imperial court.

But he is a little dusk marquis, not the princes and kings of the Xiang family, if he builds his own weapons, he will always be a taboo.

Li Yu nodded, "Let's try first how sharp and strong this hundred steels are, if they are better than the iron refined by the imperial court." When I went back, I told my father that the Taiwei Mansion came forward to buy some hundred steels for the imperial court to build weapons for the army. ”

If you want to say that the way in the imperial army, it is none other than the Taiwei Mansion.