The fact that the Fan family mastered the papermaking workshop, from the five Jin merchants in the Ming court to the emperor Taiji and the prince Baylor in Shengjing, there was a jubilant atmosphere, and a banquet was held to celebrate that they were about to master the public opinion of the Ming court.

On the first day of February, the second day of the Fan family's son to test the bottom line of the other four Jin merchants.

The Fan family and a few relatives went to Qipan Street, where department stores gathered, and the house of the newspaper merchant was on this lively and noisy long street.

On this lively long street, I met many children of Jin merchants, and the young masters of these Jin merchants had obviously learned some news in advance.

All the young masters of the Jin Merchants who met the son of the Fan family took the initiative to bow to this eldest son of the Eight Great Jin Merchants who had often ridiculed him in the past.

When did the Fan family enjoy such treatment that everyone admired, they couldn't help but sigh: "It turns out that being respected by everyone is this feeling." ”

The Fan family, who has never enjoyed this feeling of returning to his hometown, is indescribably happy in his heart, and he really doesn't change it for a prefect.

Walking through the crowd of people coming and going, the children of Jin Shang kept saluting the Fan family, and the Fan family nodded in response.

After walking for about one stick of incense, the time for half a stick of incense was enough, and the Fan family, who had never enjoyed this feeling for so many years, deliberately walked a little slower.

The journey of half a stick of incense took a full time to arrive at the house of the newspaper merchant Jia on Qipan Street.

Fan Yongdou stood at the door of the house and waited for a cup of tea, and then the porter came out to open the door and asked, "Who is this young master looking for?" ”

The Fan family didn't speak, and a relative stepped forward and said, "My young master is the eldest son of the Fan family of the Eight Great Jin Merchants, come to visit your master, don't hurry up and spread the word." ”

Eight Jin merchants?

The porter muttered in his heart, where are the eight Jin merchants left, and now there are only five Jin merchants left.

Not to mention the eight Jin merchants, even the ordinary Jin merchants are also powerful in the eyes of the concierge, where do they dare to slack off and quickly walk in and spread the word.

It took longer to pass through, and I waited for half a stick of incense.

The house of the Jia family is just an ordinary three-entry house, and it takes so long to spread the word, and it is not that there are all kinds of pavilions and pavilions in the Fuwang Mansion, and you can get lost when you walk.

Fan Zhuangzi felt a little strange in his heart, but he didn't show any strange emotions on his face, and followed a personal entourage of Di Bao Shangjia and walked in.

When he came to the lobby, Di Bao Shangjia did not get up to greet him, but just sat on the red sandalwood official hat chair and drank tea slowly: "The virtuous nephew is visiting, what are you doing." ”

The son of the Fan family knew that he was a generation lower than this Di newspaper businessman, and the other party was also a big businessman in the capital, so he took the initiative to salute and said: "My Fan family has mastered all the papermaking workshops in the capital, and I came to discuss the price of mulberry paper with Uncle Shi." ”

Di Bao Shang Jia just nodded slightly, and there was no more.

The Fan family just thought that he was holding the shelf, and when he said the new price of mulberry paper, the other party would not only stand up to greet him, but also say some flattering words: "The price of mulberry paper has always been three cents of silver." ”

"Our two families are also old friends, and we didn't control all the papermaking workshops in the capital in the past."

"Now that I have mastered all the papermaking workshops in the capital, as my own family, I have to give Uncle Shi some more benefits, two cents and eight dollars of silver, this is the lowest price of silver that the Fan family can give."

After saying this, the Fan family looked up, smiled and waited for the other party to stand up flattered and say the last sentence, please sit down.

Then let the daughter of the family make a pot of Monttop stone flower tea herself, come over to entertain him, a distinguished guest, and see if there is any hope for an in-law by the way.

When the Fan family arrives, they will push the boat to take over this in-law, after all, there are still many places that rely on Di Bao Shangjia in the future, if the two families can become in-laws, it will be more beneficial to grasp the public opinion of the Ming Dynasty.

Just when the Fan family was waiting for the Di Bao Shang Jia to stand up flatteringly, who knew that the Di Bao Shang Jia still nodded lightly: "Don't hide it from the virtuous nephew." ”

"The industrial marquis has also built some paper-making workshops, and just now he has sent someone to negotiate with me about the price of some mulberry paper."

"A new paper called snowflake paper has been discussed."

It's this industrial marquis again, how can there be this industrial marquis everywhere, Fan Zhuangzi frowned and continued: "Two cents and five cents of silver." ”

The Fan family understood that the other party was waiting for the price to sell, and he didn't say anything polite, and directly gave the lowest price of silver.

I thought that the price of two cents and a half of silver was low enough, and it was impossible for the industrial marquis to give a lower price, and the paper workshop was no better than others, and it could be mass-produced using new machines.

There are several processes in the papermaking workshop, especially the whitening process, which is very important to determine the color of the paper, which takes several months of water grinding work.

Even if the industrial hou had the ability to change some of the processes of the paper workshop into new machinery, this was also the biggest reason why the industrial hou was able to crush the Jin merchants and bureaucratic squires one after another.

But he couldn't shorten the time of whitening, since Cai Lun of the Han Dynasty improved the new papermaking method, this rule has never changed, and it is not something that can be changed by new machinery.

Even if the industrial Hou comes out to stir up the situation, the Fan family will not take it to heart at all, and if they want to produce mulberry paper in large quantities, they can only rely on mastering the large-scale papermaking workshop.

The Fan family admits that the speed at which the industrial hou built the Zhuangzi was very fast, so fast that he was a little willing to scatter beans into soldiers, but in such a short period of time, the industrial hou would not build more than ten papermaking workshops.

This also requires a large number of washers, pounders, and, most importantly, curtain lifters.

These are not ordinary people can do a living, the washing craftsman is not good to rinse, it is easy to cause the pulp to be unclean and full of impurities, so that the final paper is very poor.

It is also a truth that the craftsman is not done well, and it is easy to affect the final paper color.

These two are good to say, the craftsman who slowly scoops up the bamboo curtain to form a thin layer of wet paper cannot make a mistake.

It is not just a casual person can do it, and if the strength is not mastered, it is likely to cause uneven thickness of wet paper sheets, which will affect the next step of paper pressing.

There are so many papermakers in the capital, almost all of them are in the hands of his Fan family, and papermakers are also very sought-after for other state capitals, how can they be so easy to recruit.

Let's not talk about the problem of whitening, it is the problem of craftsmen, and it is difficult for industry to solve the craftsmen used in papermaking workshops.

The Fan family even prepared for the worst, even if Zhu Shun could find enough craftsmen, the problem of whitening would always restrict the production of the paper workshop.