If it is historical, the paper invented by Cai Lun - or earlier, appeared in the Western Han Dynasty.

The papermaking process is very simple.

However, its writing performance is very poor and poor, and even wiping your butt is too hard!

Otherwise, after the invention of paper, for nearly two hundred years, the scholars and literati of Zhuxia would not still use bamboo slips as the main carrier of books.

It was not until after the Wuhu Rebellion that the papermaking technology developed by leaps and bounds - the craftsmen of the Eastern Jin Dynasty took talents from the bamboo mountains in the south, and through continuous research and repeated verification, on the basis of Cailun papermaking technology, they invented a new process, and finally created white paper with high writing performance.

As a result, paper began to completely eliminate bamboo slips.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, Zhuxia papermaking technology went further, and a variety of high-quality papers appeared.

Large-scale paper-making workshops were also developed.

It's just that Zhang Yue's current conditions are not yet mature, and he is just trying to make paper for the first time, in line with the psychology of pursuing success, so he chooses a relatively rudimentary primitive papermaking technology.

It is roughly equivalent to the papermaking technology of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The degree of pulp refining of bamboo pulp is also not enough.

This is also a time when there is no way, and the tech tree is never built overnight.

Even the current papermaking technology is actually a seedling pulling.

Fortunately, in this pre-AD world, no one would take these things seriously.

And the workers in this manor were either Zhang Yue's own retainers or hired workers who had signed contracts with his retainers.

They are all honest, diligent, and obedient.

For the orders of the master's family, there will be no questioning, and there will be no doubts.

It will only be carried out in earnest.

After inspecting the bamboo pulp balls that had been mashed into a pulp, Zhang Yue ordered: "Zhujun continue to pound the pulp hard!" ”

He called Tian He to the front and instructed: "Go to your sister-in-law to get some money, go to the neighborhood to buy a head and come back and kill it, and treat the middle and bottom of the village tonight!" ”

As soon as this decision was made, there was immediately a burst of cheers, and the enthusiasm of the workers to work suddenly increased several times.

Many of them may not have tasted meat a few times in their lives......

Zhang Yue took his hands and returned to the courtyard of the manor.

Today, the layout of the interior of the house has changed dramatically.

My sister-in-law is wholeheartedly and wants to open the sericulture technology tree of the Zhang family.

Therefore, the backyard and wing rooms of this house were all transformed into silkworm rooms that could be used for silkworm raising.

One by one, the bamboo curtains for silkworm raising were stacked in the yard and waited to be installed in the silkworm room.

And inside and outside the courtyard, there are also maids and servants.

All are older women.

It was the sister-in-law who entrusted Mrs. Xinwu Junluan to buy from the Shaofu Qing Yousi in Chang'an - the biggest human trafficker and slave trader today is the Yamen of the Han Shaofu.

In that year, Li Guangli, the general of the Second Division, returned from Dawan and brought back tens of thousands of captured Dawan women.

Then Shaofuqing sold 20,000 of them to scholars, nobles, landlords, and commoners......

The rest were all sent to the east and west weaving rooms, as court maids, weaving cloth for the old Liu family.

Not only that, but Yang Ke was sued and confiscated hundreds of thousands of slaves.

These confiscated slaves and maids were finally accepted by Shaofuqing and incorporated into their own system.

Therefore, when Han people buy and sell slaves and maids, they generally go to Shaofu.

Because you can find any kind of slave or maid you need there.

It's just that ordinary people go to Shaofuqing to buy slaves and maids, and the price is relatively high.

But the scholars and nobles went to buy it, but they could get a discount.

For example, the batch of slaves and maids bought by Mrs. Tuoluan, the sister-in-law, the total number was about twenty, but the total cost was less than 100,000 yuan.

The average is less than 5,000 per person.

Although it was because they were all older female slaves, because they were the eldest sister-in-law of Zhang Zizhong in the service, the officials in charge of the Shaofu took great pains to choose those skilled women in the east and west weaving rooms.

This is a good slave girl that money can't buy!

Generally, only the top elites are qualified to get involved.

Suffice it to say, each of these people is a humanoid self-propelled money printing machine.

Therefore, although they are old and named slaves, in fact, their status in any noble family is not low, and their treatment is even better.

Historically, Huo Guang later had a similar female slave, named Chen, because she was good at weaving, and invented new looms and jacquard machines, which made Huo's day by day.

Therefore, he won the respect of the Huo Guang family, not only regarded as a family member, but also won an official position for his husband Chen Baoguang.

After the fall of the Huo family, this Chen family was taken over by Zhang Anshi, brought home, the same respect, relying on this person's guidance and teaching technology, Zhang Anshi became the first workshop owner before the Western Era, it is said that the family hired hundreds of workers, there are thousands of looms......

Zhang Anshi was so rich that even Emperor Xuan was envious......

The maids of the "Lord...... saw Zhang Yue, the male master, coming back, and they all hurriedly saluted, quite trembling.

"You don't have to be polite...... Zhang Yue said with a smile: "I am often not at home, but I am fortunate that you take care of the eldest sister-in-law, and I am about ......to be grateful."

He waved his hand, and Li Miao immediately took people out of dozens of cloth and silks and distributed them as rewards.

For skilled people, regardless of gender, status, Han people are very respectful.

Not to mention that Zhang Yue is still a traverser.

Everyone hurriedly knelt down and thanked Zhang Yue for their kindness.

Looking at the cloth in his hand, he was even more happy and couldn't help himself.

Zhang Yue looked at them, thought about it slightly, and said: "I have a loom, I would like to ask a skilled craftsman to build it, I don't know if you can recommend it?" ”

The technology tree of cotton textile technology, Zhang Yue must be opened.

If you can click on it, even if you just copy those simple pedal looms in the countryside in later generations, you can make a lot of money.

Maybe wealth can be lifted in minutes, and Yuan Guanghan will be beaten.

In this pre-century world, there was no more lucrative trade than cloth.

Because today, cloth is money, a hard currency comparable to gold.

In some areas, cloth is even better than gold!

The Han dynasty listed gold, cloth, and five-baht coins as currencies.

Since the Yuan Dynasty, more than half of the Han army's military expenditures have been cashed in cloth.

It's just that Zhang Yue has never had the opportunity to contact the skilled craftsmen of the people, and now that he meets these women from Shaofu, he naturally wants to ask them about the craftsmen who are now famous among the people.

Listening to Zhang Yue's question, one of the maids came out to worship and said: "If the lord is willing to ask for a skilled craftsman, the slave and maid heard that Chang'an people are slow and skilled, and they are the first skilled craftsmen in the world, and they are 'seven wheel fans', and the ministers of Chang'an are all asking for it to cool off the ......heat."

"Seven wheeled fans?" When Zhang Yue heard this, he immediately got up and asked, "Where is Gong Ding today?" ”

In the Xijing miscellaneous records that he traced, this kind of artifact was recorded.

You may not believe it when you say it – it may have been the first fan in history, not electric, but also mechanically powered.

But Zhang Yue didn't expect that he would live with such a craftsman!