Chapter 175: Sukhumi Printing Factory
"The market for books and paper is on fire!"
Huang Tianlong had deposited his money in the bank since he returned to Chijing. The interest rate of the central bank is still relatively high. Moreover, this bank is guaranteed by the state's credit, so Huang Tianlong does not have to worry about credit bankruptcy. It is said that there are more than 300,000 founding gold coins in the king's treasury, and Huang Tianlong is more believable.
Since he came back, Huang Tianlong has been looking for projects that are easy and profitable, and he is really afraid of the hard work of plowing the fields on the grassland. Holding a porcelain pot, he **** walked around Chuantou Street like those rich people.
On the bulletin board on Buntou Street, the prices and rising and falling trends of various commodities are updated every day. And paper and books were hyped up to sky-high prices for a while. Huang Tianlong is ready to do paper development business, but where to do it?
Several trees rich in resources, such as Kafa and Jintao, have begun to produce paper. Although Huang Tianlong was excited, he knew that he couldn't compete with the domestic bigwigs, and he couldn't compete with this little capital.
What to do?
After Huang Tianlong inquired in many ways, he found that the tooth man was very proficient in this aspect, and he was well-informed, and rarely lost money. So he paid for a tooth man.
"I want to start a paper business, where do you think I should start? But the domestic market seems to be occupied very quickly, and I can't afford to invest this little money in it? Huang Tianlong asked this tooth man.
Yaren originally didn't want to take Huang Tianlong's business, but now the people who invest in the market are becoming more and more cautious, and he gradually can't receive the order after doing two businesses that don't lose money or make money.
"There it is! There's a place! The toothman took out the map of the country's business that passed through Chuantou Street, and after searching for a while, he found a place.
"Here!"
Huang Tianlong saw that the tooth man was referring to Abkhazia, Georgia.
This ghost place is the area where the Georgian kings have been having a headache. Because the Abkhazians have always been at odds with the Georgian subject, and even the language is different. Of course, there are a whole lot of problems within Georgia. The Alans in the north, the ****** believers in the south, the Shiite ****** in the east, and all sorts of hill people, and the Pontic Greeks in the southwest, the Georgian pie is like it is spread out, and it is full of holes.
Thirty thousand Kheperun, a sum of money continued by the Georgian king, allowed the Han kingdom to take Sukhumi and its vicinity in Abkhazia. Of course, in fact, if the Han people continue to push around, it is not impossible. After all, Sukhumi is in fact the core region of Abkhazia, and further north it is all mountainous.
"Why here?" Huang Tianlong was puzzled.
"You're stupid!" The tooth man is speechless, if you want to do a paper business, don't you know the market of the paper business?
"You see, there are a lot of trees in this place, the price is low, the grass is abundant and the water is abundant, so we don't have to worry about the raw materials, do we? There are still a lot of poor mountain people here, wouldn't it be cheap to call them to work? The tooth man's words made Huang Tianlong suddenly brighten.
"And then?"
"Then you can build a printing shop in the area! You can apply to the printing office in Chijing, saying that you can educate the mountain people of Sukhumi, so that you can still pick up the goods at a low price? The tooth man continued to agitate his lips and tongue, and took out his best level to fool Huang Tianlong.
"Can this be?" Huang Tianlong was shocked! It turns out that there is still this kind of operation?
"That's right! Didn't the king always emphasize the need to educate all the people? Do you say that they can still give you a discount? ”
After Huang Tianlong and Yaren finished discussing, Huang Tianlong took out 1,000 founding gold coins as the principal, and paid Yaren a monthly salary of 30 founding gold coins, and Yaren was responsible for writing an application to the Printing Bureau, while Huang Tianlong found acquaintances on Chuantou Street to start the relationship.
The Printing Bureau quickly replied that Huang Tianlong could hire three papermakers, one printer, at three times the price, and buy a printing press and a set of lead movable type at double the price. These alone cost more than 600 founding gold coins, and the printing office made a net profit of 400 percent. And that's already cheap.
This kind of violence is obviously very insane, so the printing office has recently become a new yamen visited by officials of the Ministry of Taxation every day. All kinds of taxes also make the people in the printing office complain.
Huang Tianlong got on the boat with the tooth man and went to Suhumi with four workers and a set of printing tools.
Suhumi's current head of the merchant house is called Ma Ben, and he is one of Qiao Fuan's subordinates in Kaffa. Later, he did very well as a sub-district manager in Binh Nam Province, so he was assigned to Sukhumi to take up his new position.
It's a pity that the horses on Sukhumi's side did not run smoothly. It is true that Sukhumi is the center of Abkhazia, but in such a place, there are two blacksmith workshops, a few carpenter workers and a grain merchant is good, how to develop? The monthly trade volume is less than one-third of that of Binh Nam Province.
Huang Tianlong's arrival gave Sukhumi a chance. Ma Ben very enthusiastically arranged the people to their own accommodation, and then personally selected a large bright room for them.
The next thing is that the tooth man and the horse are busy themselves. Huang Tianlong was very relieved to wait for the first batch of products to be produced in Suhumi.
No lime is produced in the region, and quicklime is the only imported product. For Ma Ben, it is not a big problem to get a batch of quicklime from the contact person in Pingnan Province, and the workers are easier to find.
When Ma Ben mentioned that it was a printing house and that he wanted to make precious books, a large number of Abkhazians, including nobles, rushed to enter the factory.
After the successful recruitment of 30 workers, the factory was officially put into operation.
The first printed book Huang Tianlong chose was the Book of Songs. The workers select the words in the template book, then arrange them into the template one by one, and then print them with ink and print.
This process was very fast, and hundreds of poetry books were shipped out of the factory every day. It's a pity that it was snapped up by local nobles before it arrived at the dock. Although they can't understand it, it will save face when they take it out.
Moreover, these nobles soon invited a teacher from Linhai Mansion to teach them to read and write.
A month later, Suhumi's poems, books, and Analects actually opened up a market in China! It is available in Connecting Port and Aka Kyoto!
And finally, the Sukhumi model has attracted the attention of the political affairs hall.
"It's okay. Send human tools to Constantinople and the Peloponnese immediately! Especially in Constantinople, our goal is to have a number of Han classics on our hands! Chinese is spoken throughout the city! Qin Changan shouted the slogan of the Han family classics.
And this slogan finally led to a revolution in the Aegean that was not very large, but had a wide but far-reaching impact......