This is the era of the smallholder economy, closed and self-sufficient. Although there was commerce in this era, it was far less prosperous than in the Song and Ming dynasties.

It's hard to make money in this day and age, especially to make quick money and make a lot of money!

Zhang Miao has thought of many ways to make money, such as making soap, sugar, glass, and even honeycomb coal.

It's either that you can't get it, or it's very expensive to get it, and there's no market. For example, honeycomb coal, many things that the protagonist in the novel relies on to make a lot of money, how simple it is. But there are no coal mines in Huyang or even the entire Nanyang Basin, and there are no raw materials to make a fart.

Soap is easy to make, and the grease and caustic soda are boiled together, and then processed into soap. But in this era, the price of oil is expensive, and the cost of making it is very high, and many people are reluctant to eat oil on weekdays, where are they willing to use luxury jewelry such as soap! And only the real rich can afford it.

The market is so small, how much money can you make even if you sell it at a higher price? However, mosquito meat is also meat, but you can do it, and the little adds up.

But if you want to make a lot of money from it, you definitely can't. I now have to feed an army, and I need too much money.

Papermaking is possible, there are a lot of scholars in Xiangyang, they use bamboo slips to read and write, the price of bamboo slips is expensive, it is very inconvenient to write, and a piece of bamboo slips can only write a dozen words, a book needs a lot of bamboo slips. Xuefu Wuche is often used as a metaphor for learning, but even if the five chariots are full of bamboo slips, how many words can there be on them? I'm afraid that I don't even have the number of words in the book "A Good Son-in-law in the Late Ming Dynasty".

There is paper in this era, and China's four major inventions of papermaking appeared in this era. However, the paper-making process of this era was extremely rudimentary, and the paper made was too rough to be used for packaging or wiping the buttocks, and few people used it for writing. Bamboo slips are still used for reading and writing, and more advanced ones are silk silk or sheepskin.

So, papermaking definitely has a future!

Zhang Miao is a liberal arts student, and the reason why he knows how to make paper is not that he studied in a cram school before he crossed over, but that his parents are both paper mill workers. Of course, paper mills in another time and space are all automated papermaking, but the main process is still those steps.

Moreover, when Zhang Miao was in elementary school and junior high school, he often wandered around the paper factory library and read some books about ancient papermaking. At the time, it was read as a story, but the details are still clear. Don't ask why your memory is so good, it's the welfare of the traverser.

The best material for papermaking is bamboo, and there are a lot of bamboos in Huyang County and even in Nanyang, and there are patches of bamboo forests in Nanshan Mountain Pass.

However, the time required for papermaking is very long, and it often takes half a year and half a year, so you can only make long-term investment, and you can't solve the money and food that you urgently need in front of you.

After thinking about it carefully for a long time, Zhang Miao slowly made up her mind.

Honey candles, soap, and papermaking are several industries that they want to make money from. These kinds of things should be done at the same time.

Soap is simple to make, as long as there is grease caustic soda, you can quickly make soap, and you can exchange money when you get it to Xiangyang.

The honey candle is a bit troublesome, and the ash trees in Nanshan are almost scraped off, and there is a serious shortage of raw materials. But it's not impossible, Zhang Miao already has an idea in his heart.

Papermaking can be started now, taking advantage of the winter when the bamboo is cut down and thrown into a pool and soaked with quicklime for three months, and then the next step can be carried out.

As soon as she thought of it, Zhang Miao immediately gathered the women in the village.

"Ah Miao, if there's anything you want us to do, just say it." Zhang Jin's wife, Du Shi, shouted.

Now, because of the enlightenment of Su Hui, who was given by the Marquis, and because he brought so much food to the village, Zhang Miao has a very high status in the village, and he is not under his father Zhang Yu, and is regarded as a young patriarch by the clansmen.

"Auntie, when you're fine, chop as much bamboo as you can, and pile it in the pool......" Zhang Miao said his thoughts.

"Ah Miao, why do you want so much bamboo?" A woman asked in surprise.

"I want to make paper, make paper that can be used for writing, and sell it to Xiangyang for a lot of money." Zhang Miao explained simply.

"But we don't know how to make paper?" And the woman said.

"What did Ah Miao say, let's do something, why are there so many problems?" Before Zhang Miao could speak, Du Shi reprimanded, "Don't you know that Ah Miao has Su Hui?" ”

"Huh." And the women said no more.

"Now we have to farm, aunts and sisters-in-law, you also have your own tasks, and you are not busy cutting bamboo. After this time, we will proceed. Auntie, you will be in charge of this. Zhang Miao said.

"Ah Miao, don't worry, this matter is left to me." Du Shi patted his chest and said.

The adults were busy, even the teenage children were working in the fields, and only the children who were seven or eight years old, five or six years old, were running around bare-bottomed. Zhang Miao said in her heart, these children should study at this age, and when they are busy during this time, they will open a school in the village to teach all the children to read and write. Only when all the children are educated and educated, can the future of Sanshui Village be promising.

Now, let's let these children have fun.

called out to a little kid and ordered him to find Zhang Pingzhang and Zhang Chuang's two dog legs, and the little kid jumped and ran.

Soon, Zhang Ping and Zhang Chuang came to Zhang Miao and looked very happy.

"The military advisor is too perverted, and he has to be with a group of people when he ploughs the fields and rests." Zhang Chuang complained as soon as he arrived.

"The military advisor is for your good, only in this way can you form a whole as soon as possible, and you will be skilled in cooperation in future wars." Zhang Miao said.

"When are you going to kill the Yellow Turban Thief?" Zhang Chuang asked with interest.

Zhang Miao said: "When you train well, it will be time to fight." Therefore, from now on, all of you in the army, even if you and pee, you all have to be together. ”

"Ahh Zhang Chuang's mouth grew all of a sudden, and he hurriedly asked, "What about sleeping?" ”

Zhang Miao smiled coldly, "Even if you sleep, you have to sleep on a kang." ”

"Hahaha," Zhang Ping laughed, "Ah Chuang, we're okay, we don't have a daughter-in-law." The fifth child will be miserable, and they won't even be able to touch their daughter-in-law's kang in the future. ”

Zhang Miao also laughed, "But this is only temporary, after the training, you can return to normal, you can't let the husband and wife not allow it." ”

After the three of them laughed for a while, Zhang Ping asked, "Ah Miao, you asked people to call us, do you have something to do?" ”

Zhang Miao nodded: "You two go with me to Dengyi." ”

Although Sanshui Village is only ten miles from Dengyi, it is no longer the peaceful time of the past, and it may be dangerous to go out alone, so Zhang Miao brought these two guys as bodyguards.

"Great." Zhang Ping and Zhang Chuang glanced at each other, and they were both happy, they didn't have to work in the fields, and they didn't have to participate in the afternoon training, it was too beautiful for them.