In the next half month, Luo Tong's schedule was very tight, learning martial arts, training soldiers, teaching Taijiquan, and in the evening, Zheng Mo taught him the Mowu Heart Sutra, and his life was very fulfilling.

Half a month later, Luo Tong came to the papermaking workshop early.

Artisans are stirring rotten bamboo, rotting bagasse, and stinky pulp water, and the pungent air in the operation room is unbearable. One by one, they were naked, wrapped their faces in towels, and only their eyes were exposed, stirring beside the boiling stinky juice, which made people feel sad to watch.

Shi Zhiguo commanded the craftsmen to do this and that, step by step from dehydration, and then through complicated steps such as compression, paper, copying, and drying.

Luo Tong waited a little anxiously, according to the principle, there should be no problems, but as long as it is not done, everything is possible.

Finally in the afternoon, the paper was completed!

At the moment when the paper was made, "Oh! "Ahh A few strange screams came from the workshop, terrible and terrifying, as if they had seen a ghost.

"It's done!" Shi Zhiguo howled, tears poured down, half a lifetime of paper-making efforts, and now he finally paid off, sending the white paper to Luo Tong, and shouted: "Childe, your method is much better than mine." This paper is almost made out of nothing! ”

The new paper is made of moso bamboo, marlian grass and bagasse. These three things, in addition to the bamboo is a little troublesome, marlotus grass, bagasse can be seen everywhere, there is no cost at all, to make hundreds of pieces of paper, the cost is just the manual cost of the craftsman, there is no cheaper paper-making method than this.

New paper has almost all the characteristics of rice paper, tough and moist, light but not slippery, white and dense, pure texture, non-destructive rubbing, strong ink wetting, although each is a little worse than rice paper, but the cost is hundreds of times lower than rice paper.

Xuan paper has to go through countless complicated processes and is made in a year, and this kind of paper can be made in just one day as long as there are materials, and the two sides are not comparable at all. If this kind of paper is sold on the market, it will be popular throughout Datang, and it can replace hard yellow paper in a short period of time, so as to make a lot of money.

"Mr. Shi, thank you, thank you for your dedication! The listing of this kind of paper will definitely make my Datang more brilliant, and I believe that your name will inevitably be like Cai Lun, and it will be famous all over the world. Luo Tong looked at the paper in his hand. Thinking of the people of the Tang Dynasty because of themselves, everyone can read and write, and their hearts are full of pride.

Shi Zhiguo was stunned, and hurriedly said: "Childe's words can kill me, this improved papermaking technology is of course my start, but the process of papermaking and the most critical and important step is created by Childe himself, not to mention that without Childe's unreserved support, I am alone, and I will definitely not succeed, and I dare not live alone for this credit." ”

He said with a serious and cautious face, not that he did not know the impact of this new and improved papermaking technology on the Tang Dynasty in later generations. It's just that he is a real person, and everything he says is what he thinks in his heart.

Luo Tong respectfully said: "Mr. is broad-minded and admirable!" From today onwards, we will make every effort to produce paper and print books, accumulating hundreds of thousands of pieces of paper and hundreds of thousands of books, and we will be on the market again. ”

Shi Zhiguo nodded heavily, inexplicably excited.

Li Chen said: "Childe, all the raw materials have been in place, the personnel have also been in place, and the subordinates have signed a five-year contract with them according to the childe's method, and when the new workshop is completed, they can produce paper at full capacity." ”

Luo Tong is very satisfied! At this time, people are very simple, there are few cheaters and slippery people, they feel that they take the salary for granted to do their best, only half a month, the eight-kilometer-long road has been fully built, and the workshop integrating work, food and accommodation can also be put into use in half a month.

In this part of printing, Li Shimin supported a large number of printing tools and ten skilled craftsmen, who lived in Wannian County for a long time, and waited for the new paper to be produced, so that they could make books.

"I'm tired of Mr. Li these days, just hand over these matters to Uncle Mo Yu!" Li Chen has his own mission, which can only be borrowed for a while, Luo Tong is also looking for reliable talents, and in the end, Zheng Mo, who is the son of the Mo family, did a great favor and got him a talent like Mo Yu.

The burly Mo Yu is in his early forties, he is a child of the Mo family, and more than 2,000 descendants of the Mo family live in a remote village in Wannian County.

Zheng Mo heard that Luo Tong needed people, so he recommended Mocun to him.

Luo Tong urgently needs this kind of person with a strong sense of suzerain, as soon as he heard that there is such a village, he did not hesitate to go with Zheng Mo, and discussed with several responsible persons, the whole village will be all covered in the future, young and strong men will temporarily enter the paper workshop to make paper, women will do fine work such as printing and binding books, and the old man will be a cook and sanitation worker in the "industrial area". As for the arrangements for those children, Luo Tong also thought about it, and in the future, he would set up a school for children, invite teachers to teach here, and boys and girls could go to school for free.

After the news spread, the impact in Mocun was extremely amazing, Luo Tong's status in Mocun jumped to the top of the people, and he became a figure admired by everyone, almost as a reborn parent, they were poor and lowly, and they had the heart to learn, trying to let the children read to change their fate, but they were unable to learn! Luo Tong's resettlement plan not only gave them a bright future, but also gave their children the opportunity to change the fate of the family.

What surprised Luo Tong even more was that in Mo Village, there were 371 Luo Shixin's personal guards who made their home here! Most of them are between thirty-five or sixteen, all of them are burly and majestic, and at a glance, you can tell that all of them are more brave than Zuo Wuwei! They are Luo Shixin's private army, after Luo Shixin died in the battle of Zhushui City, Mrs. Luo and Zheng Mo consulted, and then placed them in Mo Village! Until Luo Tong revealed his ambition to join the army, Zheng Mo thought that Luo Tong would also need loyal and brave guards in the future, and after discussing with Mrs. Luo, he let these iron-blooded soldiers train in Mo Village to wait for Luo Tong's growth.

The ancients valued righteousness, affection, and commitment, and they were warriors selected by Luo Shixin from millions of troops. Luo Shixin was kind to them and treated them like brothers, but later Luo Shixin died on the battlefield, how could they be embarrassed as a personal guard? After the disbandment, these iron-blooded men lost themselves for a time and indulged in self-blame. It wasn't until Zheng Mo brought Mrs. Luo's message the year before last and asked them to retrain that these men knew that they were still valuable, and that Mrs. Luo had never blamed them, that she had handed over her husband to them to guard, and that in the future, she would want them to continue to protect her son, and she had always believed that they recognized them.

At that moment, the three hundred and seventy-one iron-blooded men who had never known what tears were, cried like children, crying painfully. Crying out the guilt and self-blame of the past, under the leadership of the commander Luo Yuan, he picked up his weapons again, and practiced day and night, in the past few years, one by one is far better than at the beginning, and all of them have the ability to be a general, even compared with the Xuanjia Army, which is not inferior to the one out of 100,000 Xuanjia Army. At the beginning, they could serve Luo Shixin to death, and now they are replaced by the young master Luo Tong.

Mo Yu is a child of the Mo family and the deputy commander of Luo Shixin's personal guard, but he has been seriously injured and his body is seriously unable to keep up with his brothers. It wasn't until Luo Tong came to Mocun that he knew his business talent from a group of warriors, so he arranged him here to do things for Luo Tong and the Luo family in the field he was good at. He has a dual identity, he is both a child of the Mo family and a member of the Luo family, and he is more reliable than Li Chen in terms of loyalty!

As for the other seventy-one soldiers who were not suitable to fight and be eliminated, Luo Tong was also arranged here, and they formed a team of 100 people with the twenty-nine strong men selected from the young men of Mocun, shouldering the escort technology and guarding the workshop...... security forces.

Li Chen had other important matters, and after the handover with Mo Yu was completed, he left and left.

"Young master, his subordinates have completed the purchase of land with 10,000 taels of silver cakes and the county order, with the workshop area as the center, the barren mountains and land within a radius of fifteen miles are all owned by the young master, but I don't know how the young master will deal with these barren mountains!"

After Li Chen left, Mo Yu pointed to a large area of low land and asked, he was also amazed by Luo Tong's ability to spend money, and even revealed to himself the bottom limit of 20,000 silver cakes for these ownerless wastelands. What made him even more grateful was that he threw 30,000 taels of silver cakes to him without blinking his eyes, which made him feel like a soldier was dying for his confidant.

Luo Tong thought about it: "Choose a place to build a new village, resettle the people of Mo Village, and take into account the future development when building, this is starting from scratch, naturally it must be designed beautifully, drinking water and drainage must be comprehensive, don't make it dry in the dry season, flooded in the rainy season." ”

Mo Yu smiled: "Young master, have you forgotten what our Mo family eats?" That's what we're good at! "Luo Tong is the identity of the contemporary giant of the Mo family, and at present, there are five people in the entire Mo Village who know about it, and he is one of them.

"But I forgot about it!" Luo Tong suddenly realized, the Mo family is famous for its ink work and ink skills, and a big city like Chang'an can be designed to perfection, and a small village is nothing. After thinking for a while, he said: "Build a village first, and then slowly open up the barren mountains to grow bamboo, sugar cane, fruit trees, tea, vegetables, fish ponds, rice fields, and raise poultry!" ”

"The people of Mocun have moved to this place and there is no land, thousands of people in the village are living from the papermaking workshop, bamboo, bagasse is the raw material for papermaking, even if someone maliciously cuts off the source one day, once the papermaking workshop has no raw materials, can not afford to work, and the villagers will also suffer. Self-sufficiency is the way to stay. After it is carved out, it is distributed to the villagers according to the number of people, so that the villagers can take care of their own land! Only by working more can the villagers be motivated to do things, and all the first three years are tax-free! ”

Coming from later generations, he knows that the passion of the big pot of rice does not last long, and the continuous income is the driving force for people's struggle.

Mo Yu thought about it, this is indeed a good way.

"The young master is wise!" Mo Yu was convinced, originally he thought that Luo Tong was a whim, but now it seems that Mo Village will be able to succeed under the leadership of Luo Tong.

"Uncle, pay attention, see if there are outstanding talents in Mocun, especially business talents, focus on training, in the future, our business will expand to the entire Tang Dynasty, we need a large number of talents to operate, of course, we must be loyal to the main, ability is secondary. As for the other uncles, let's do it myself! In the future, my focus will be on military politics, and I will leave this matter to my uncle, and I am very relieved. ”

Mo Yu said solemnly: "I will live up to the trust of the young master!" ”

After the confession was over, Luo Tong didn't talk nonsense, and returned to Chang'an with the priceless wealth left by Luo Shixin - Luo Yuan and other three hundred guards!

Luo Tong was extremely grateful for the gifts from his mother and Zheng Mo, and he never dreamed that in the years when he was growing up, they had prepared so much for themselves!

These three hundred sharps caused him to have an extra pair of wings out of thin air.

The three hundred guards are indeed very strong, and they are familiar with the battle formation!

But, it's not enough!

They also need to strengthen themselves through standing jumps, push-ups, pull-ups, and other exercises!

They are loyal to the Luo family, Luo Tong! Luo Tong also has to repay the favor and take responsibility for their lives. Knowing the existence of such a strong army, he would have returned to Chang'an to strengthen training.

A month, he is ready to intensify his training for a month!

A month later, go north to experience!