Chapter 347: New Look
By the time Li Su returned to Yizhou again, nearly three months had passed.
In three months, Yizhou has not changed much.
Of course, there are still some small changes.
For example, the living standards of the villagers in Xiaohe Village have skyrocketed.
From the existence of the bottom in the entire Yizhou, it has now jumped to at least the level of the midstream.
For example, Li Su gave Qiao Qi the task of making glass.
Now that three months have passed, Qiao Qi finally produced glass products according to Li Su's requirements.
Mirrors, glasses, glasses, and many other glassware are made and look quite beautiful.
For example, in three months, Yan Liben has already produced cement and steel bars.
In Yan Liben's continuous experiments, it was found that the reinforced concrete structure, as His Highness said, has reached an unprecedented height in terms of strength and hardness.
With the reinforced concrete structure, the construction of the new city can definitely be achieved steadily.
And now, the construction of the new city has begun.
It's just that if you want to build a new city, the investment is not half a little bigger.
These investments, if they are funded by the Shu Wangfu alone, will not be able to support them at all.
However, in three months, the Wang family has spread the salt business to the whole of Yizhou.
And, even the surrounding area, there is infiltration.
The profits from salt can also ensure that the new city can be built steadily.
Of course, the income from table salt alone is actually not enough.
At least not all of them will be rolled out for construction.
Fortunately, there will be new entries in the future.
Li Su really didn't pay much attention to the problem of funds.
In three months, the Wang family's paper mill also produced paper.
The new paper is of first-class quality at one-tenth of the price of paper on the market.
As soon as these papers were circulated, the paper that was originally circulating on the market suffered a devastating blow.
Well, this kind of paper, although outside Chang'an City, the paper mill in Wucheng Village has made it.
But the paper they produce is not sold to the outside world, but directly printed books.
And now, the paper sold by the Wang family is the first time that Li Su has sold a new type of paper after he revolutionized papermaking.
And as soon as the new thing came out, the old paper was completely vulnerable.
The sales speed of new paper is expanding at an extremely hot speed.
The paper produced by the Wangjia Paper Mill is far from keeping up with the speed of sales.
Although the price of new paper is only one-tenth of that of old paper.
But the profits in this are also very amazing.
Just because of this papermaking, it can bring amazing profits to the Wang family.
Moreover, although the new paper sold by the Wang family has had a huge impact on the existing paper market.
But because of the Wang family's industry, they are all concentrated in Yizhou.
Outside of Yizhou, there are no other industries at all.
Although the five surnames and seven wangs are strong, not every place is under their control.
At least in Yizhou, their hands can't reach for the time being.
Therefore, although the paper of Yizhou Wangjia has had a great impact on the market.
But for the time being, the five surnames and seven hopes did not attack the Wang family.
Of course, this does not mean that the five surnames and seven wangs will not make a move to the Yizhou Wang family.
I believe that as long as they are given the opportunity, they will definitely do something to the Yizhou Wang family.
Now, the Wang family is enjoying the benefits of the family's rapid development.
On the one hand, he was worried about the revenge of the five surnames and seven hopes.
Now they can only hope that Li Su, the king of Shu, is strong enough to be able to press all the five surnames and seven hopes to the ground and rub them.
At the same time, the books that the King of Shu had previously explained, the three-character classic, the hundred family names and the thousand-character text, with pinyin and annotated versions, had been printed and began to be sold on the market.
The price of these books is extremely low, and the price of each book is only 50 yuan.
However, even at this price, sales were not very good at first.
On the one hand, these people have already experienced a low price shock, and this time, they are already immune to such a low price.
Although, books can be heirlooms.
But if the price of books plummets, it will lose the meaning of family heirlooms.
The second is that the three-character classic, the hundred family names and the thousand-character text are actually enlightenment education, and when the imperial examination is held, this basic book will not be examined.
Because they are not exam books, the sales of these books, even if they are low, are not good.
However, this situation is gradually changing.
This is mainly reflected in the construction of new towns, the recruitment of glass factories, cement factories and steel mills.
Because these factories recruit workers, especially the construction of new cities, they need a lot of manpower.
And once there are too many people recruited, these people have to be managed.
And now, the Shu Wangfu is seriously understaffed.
Then they will have to choose managers from among these newly recruited people.
If you want to be a manager, you must be tall and able to convince the public, and you must also be flexible, articulate, capable and reliable.
And as long as you are literate, these aspects can be relaxed.
In fact, the managers they selected were basically literate.
If you are not literate, you will not be able to keep work and accounts at that time.
And these selected managers not only pay much higher wages than ordinary workers.
Even the work they do is very easy.
The value of culture is vividly reflected here.
If you have a culture, you can do a good job that is brisk and well-paid.
And people who have no culture can only earn wages by making great efforts.
Because of this, the sales of the three enlightenment books, the Three Character Classic, the Hundred Family Names and the Thousand Character Text, began to gradually improve.
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Of course, this is all good news, and there is also bad news.
The bad news is that they are a little late in attacking the Zhao family.
Just in time for the farmers to plough in the spring.
And after attacking the Zhao family and confiscating their cultivated land, they happened to miss the time for spring ploughing.
Therefore, the Zhao family's land was not leased.
If you miss this opportunity, you will have to wait until the next year to rent it out.
And the land of the Zhao family occupies almost one-tenth of the land of the entire Yizhou City.
If these lands are left to their panic this year, I am afraid that this year's harvest in Yizhou will be greatly reduced.
But because of the timing, this is also something that cannot be helped.
And just when Li Su had just returned to Yizhou, the people sent by the five surnamed Qiwang had already arrived in Yizhou.