After the glass workshop moved, the scale of production increased by at least 50%.

There are places, and the equipment for producing glass is not very troublesome now, and I want to be able to do more at any time, but there are not enough craftsmen who can make glass.

It can't be helped, it takes time to cultivate.

Especially to make glass, you need to control the temperature, you need to stir carefully, add various ingredients, and carefully calculate their ratio, which takes time to learn and master slowly......

To be honest, it's really miserable.

This is also something that can't be helped, even if Li Yuanjiagui is the king of Han, it is impossible to have a group of slaves who can read and write, and know some simple calculations. Even the craftsmen in the current glass workshop were taught by Han Cheng for three years!

That kid himself is a half-ass, so you can imagine how difficult it is.

So even if he knew that the production of glass was very slow due to the shortage of manpower, Li Yuanjia had nothing to do. He could only set a high price for the glass for one hundred yuan first, and even the eldest grandson Wuji only dared to put a few yuan on his study, bedroom and living room, and artificially suppress the sales first.

Now that the workshop has moved into a valley with strong secrecy, Li Yuanjia can't be in a hurry.

Outside the palace school, he had already asked Ma Liang to hold a "short-term training course", and recruited ten fourteen or fifteen-year-old teenagers from various industries in his family, and the semester was only about a year. The general requirement is to be able to know at least 500 words, learn simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, etc., and then send them to the valley to become a glass apprentice.

When these boys come out, it shouldn't be a problem to make him five or six hundred yuan a month.

It's just that this time is probably going to be relatively long, and Li Yuanjia estimates that he will have to wait until at least about fifteen years of Zhenguan, unless he is willing to send the little guys from the Wangfu Academy over - of course this is impossible!

Those teenagers are Li Yuanjia's treasures!

Especially after they have completed two years of study, Li Yuanjia already plans to take time out of his own time every month to take them with him. And this time, he will not teach Li Zhong and others back then, two or three days a month, but is ready to take two days out every ten years!

This pile of seedlings, Li Yuanjia will never allow them to be raised!

And it was precisely because of this that he did not go back to Chang'an directly the next day, but asked people to bring another news to Fang Fengzhu, and he lived in Zhuangzi in a down-to-earth manner.

There is no need to go to the glass workshop, but Li Yuanjia still goes to see the paper workshop and movable type workshop.

Early the next morning, he went to Li Zhong's place.

In fact, there is nothing to see, the movable type alloy continues to improve, but the investment is decreasing, and only one blacksmith and two apprentices are doing it. It's just that the previous requirement was to record the results of each test, but now there is one more, which is to test the performance of each product.

So in the afternoon, Li Yuanjia went to see his cotton field.

This year's cotton has been planted, and the growth is not bad, Li Yuanjia casually rewarded Sun Zhan with ten yuan of money, which can be regarded as a small incentive - after harvesting another crop this year, they will accumulate a sufficient number of seeds to be eligible for planting and promotion in a larger area.

It's just that under the premise that agriculture gives all concessions to grain, Tang Yun does not allow him to expand the planting area, and Li Yuanjia has no score in his heart now.

Although he has land, it is really not up to him to decide what to plant.

The focus of the farm outside the city is still Wang Pu.

Compared with last year, the size of the paper workshop has at least doubled, and there are now 16 craftsmen under Niu Da Wagyu Second-hand alone, and at least 40 people plus the daily handymen. And this is only the number of people under normal circumstances, if it was last month when we were collecting raw materials, plus the number of people who came to help temporarily, it would exceed 100 people!

Even so, Wang Pu is still too little, and he still continues to let the craftsmen take apprentices.

There is no way, the demand for Hanwang paper is too great.

Now all Chang'an City knows that the original "overlord" of the paper industry, the Li family paper mill, is no longer good, not only the hardness, toughness and whiteness of the paper are not as good as the white paper of Xinhua Bookstore, but even the output of top paper has gradually fallen into the upper hand - being so beaten by a paper mill that has only been established for a few years, I don't know how many people's eyeballs have been shocked.

At the beginning, it was not that no one had the idea of Xinhua Bookstore, but when Li Yuanjia sent 1,000 blank sheets of paper to the emperor every month, and by the way, Liang Guogong Mansion and his uncle Yu Wenshi also sent 200 sheets there, no one dared to have this idea anymore.

Are you kidding?

At this time, who still doesn't know, which master's property is the new book bookstore?

Even if it is an idle king, it is also the prince of Datang!

After going to Chang'an City, in addition to the emperor and the crown prince, even the King of Wei had to pay a big salute when he saw him, and Li Yuanjia didn't have to return the salute - this was something that the emperor personally decreed back then.

So since then, no one has even used his identity as the master to press the shopkeeper of Xinhua Bookstore, mentioning topics such as what to book in advance, and can only go to the store on a fixed day every month to queue up to buy white paper, and buy some pen and ink by the way.

Even if Xinhua Bookstore stipulates that each store can only buy 50 copies at a time, no one dares to have an opinion.

As for the real bigwigs, such as Li Tai, the king of Wei, Sun Wuji, the prince of Zhao Guo, and others, they all found King Han directly, and Li Yuanjia also saved enough paper for face, and let people send them to the house every month......

If nothing else, Wang Pu and they will be able to make at least 100,000 blank sheets of paper this year!

It sounds like a lot of money, but even if the price of Hanwang paper has risen twice, it will only be a few million dollars in a year, that is, a few thousand, and it is simply unbearable compared to glass!

So after seeing the busy scene of forty or fifty people in the paper mill, Li Yuanjia couldn't help but touch his nose with a headache, frowned, and said, "Wang Pu, if I buy you a place the size of a valley, how much white paper can you make for me in a year?" How much can the cost be reduced? ”

"This ......"

After a pause, Wang Pu suddenly smiled bitterly: "King, I have already calculated what you said, even if we have such a big place, there are not enough manpower!" And paper is not as good as glass, requiring a lot of bark and a kind of vine sap...... It's not as much as you want. Now this scale is actually the limit of what can be supplied with materials, unless we are willing to reduce the quality of the paper and make more inferior white paper......"

"Huh? No way! ”

Without waiting for Wang Pu to finish speaking, Li Yuanjia directly shook his head and vetoed this statement.

The quality of the inferior paper that Wang Pu said is actually okay, and because the requirements for raw materials are not high, the output can be greatly increased, but that is to grab business with ordinary paper workshops.

To be honest, Li Yuanjia still disdains to do such a thing.

If he robs business with those ordinary paper mills, he will definitely directly block all the other party's roads and leave no way to live. So after pondering for a while, Li Yuanjia asked, "Wang Pu, how did I ask you to try to make paper from bamboo?" ”