Yang Muluan drove in person, and naturally followed the personnel on the third floor and the outer three floors, and Chen You, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, stood beside him, carefully accompanying the attendants and introducing them one by one.

His inspection did not play a big practical role, but it showed an attitude that made the entire imperial court give the green light all the way to this industrial park.

When the time comes, as soon as the "Dacang Times" is published, the people will also focus on this park and compete to become workers inside.

This is also the reason why more than 50 women will be admitted to this literacy conference, and this group of people will become grassroots cadres in the park in the future.

Along the way, the whole park looked bare, and there were officials from the Ministry of Industry working everywhere.

The two factories under construction cover a large area, each with the capacity to accommodate thousands of people at the same time, and a textile factory is also being planned next to it.

The paper mill is nothing more than the production of paper, and this only needs to recruit civilians and teach certain skills.

The printing house can operate much more space, such as "Journey to the West", "Fable", "Golden Vase Plum", "Three Words and Two Beats" can be deleted, printed, and distributed at home and abroad.

Yang Mu, who has studied some economics, is not worried that the common people will not be able to afford these books, because at present, the pockets of the common people in Cangguo have begun to get rich, and the silver savings at home are just cold metals, and currency can only be called money when it is circulated.

The purchase of books will not make people's families poor, but will lead to the economic rise of the whole country, make the industry more intensive, and the ordinary people will get more job opportunities, and the price of labor will also rise, and all the people will benefit.

If these books can sell well abroad, it will be equivalent to earning foreign exchange, and it will be a real big profit.

Sure enough, after the publicity of the third issue of the newspaper, the news of Yang Mu's inspection quickly caused heated discussions among the people, and after the Ministry of Industry released the recruitment news, the applicants rushed to be the first.

On the one hand, the support of His Majesty the Emperor accounted for a large part.

On the other hand, the temptation of wages is hard to resist.

Because, in the fourth issue of the newspaper, the wages were marked, and the minimum for ordinary posts was one tael of silver a month, and a few posts reached two taels of silver a month!

You must know that the families of ordinary people, the total income of a year is generally less than ten taels of silver, in the past, those peasant families who did not have land, it is good to earn five or six taels of silver a year, after paying the per capita tax, there is basically no leftover, and it is rare to eat a full meal a year!

One or two pieces of silver a month is equivalent to one person earning more than a large family!

Therefore, it is reasonable that the applicants are enthusiastic.

Of course, the Ministry of Industry also followed Yang Mu's will, and in some relaxed and meticulous positions, women with poor families were tended to be given priority to those with heavy family burdens.

At one time, a total of more than 5,000 people were summoned, of which more than 3,000 were women.

There is a lot of discussion among the people, and the introduction of this policy is equivalent to another big move after the reform of the slave tax system, the former is to free slaves, and the latter is to improve the status of women.

In fact, Yang Mu didn't think about it so much, his original intention was to liberate the productive forces, after all, women occupy half of the proportion of the whole country, if you abide by the tradition of teaching your husband and children at home, do some basic farm work, it will be a waste of resources, light industry is their best stage, which has been well verified in modern Chinese history.

Training and plant construction went hand in hand, and in mid-December, the two factories were officially put into production.

The first book that was engraved was "Fable Story", which was placed in later generations, in fact, it was an enlightenment book, but in this world where stories are scarce and there has never been a precedent for fables, it is like a drop of water falling into a hot oil pot, which is different.

The style of fables is easy to understand, suitable for all ages, and does not require too high a level of knowledge to read.

Therefore, when Yang Mu handed the manuscript to Kong Shangxian, the latter was so excited that he was fascinated by it.

This made Yang Mu pout, isn't it just a little story like the wolf is coming, the farmer and the snake, painting the snake and adding feet, and the crow drinking water, which has such a great charm?

Yang Mu didn't believe in evil, and gave it to harem women such as Ji Linger and the queen to read, and it was also unanimously praised.

Immediately, Yang Mu decided to use it to test the water, and let the printing house produce 30,000 copies, and through the newspaper sales channel, twenty yuan a copy, wholesale.

As a result, the sales were also in line with expectations, the book was sought after by the aristocracy, and nearly 10,000 copies were sold on the first day, almost every child of the aristocracy had a copy, and the common people with slightly better economic ability also paid for it, and half of the imperial city was digested.

When the first batch of books arrived in Shen Guo and Zheng Guo, it also set off a wave among the upper nobles, and after three or four days, another 20,000 copies were also sold out.

As a result, Yang Mu completely relieved himself and ordered the printing house to print another 100,000 copies, so that the caravan could be transported to the Dasheng Kingdom in the north for sale.

The wholesale price, tentatively set at one tael per book.

Scarcity is expensive, Yang Mu believes that those rich people in Dasheng Country will not be stingy with a little silver.

Moreover, he is not afraid of being pirated by Dashengguo, because it is obvious that in printing books, Cangguo has an absolute technical advantage, the improvement of papermaking technology makes the book paper better, movable type printing makes the handwriting of a book neat, the cost plummets, plus it is an assembly line production, even if it is equivalent to manpower and material resources, the cost of the whole book is only 20 yuan.

A hand-copied pirated book, the cost is more than ten times higher, not a book, if you write with a brush, it will take at least a few days of effort, not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also very different in quality.

When the time comes, once there is piracy, they will print more than 100,000 copies and dump them at a low price, so that those pirate dealers will lose money to death and have no room for survival.

This is cultural export, if this method can go well, just these 100,000 books can bring nearly 100,000 taels of silver to Cangguo!

A few days later, news came back from the major caravans, and 100,000 books were sold out.

When he heard the news, Yang Mu almost didn't squirt out a mouthful of tea in his mouth.

That's 100,000 copies, how fast?

Summoned a few people to inquire, and he learned the reason.

It turned out that the caravans of the major families, especially Zheng Guo's caravans, had fixed partners in Dasheng because of their perennial trade, and after these caravans wholesaled books from the printing house, they directly contacted Dashengguo's partners and distributed the books.

In this way, the major caravans that were sent out became speculative merchants, and they easily earned the difference.

Those merchants and families of Dasheng country, after reading the books, are not worried about not being able to sell, the entire Dasheng country has a population of more than 10 million, and the literate population is more than 100,000, and there are bookstores in several prosperous big cities.

Bookstores are ancient bookstores, as long as those books are sold in bookstores, there is no worry that they will not be able to sell.

Moreover, the prosperity of Dasheng is far from being comparable to Cangguo and Zhengguo, and the big city is full of merchants from various countries, after seeing business opportunities, they have purchased and prepared to take them back to the country for sale, anyway, for those nobles, as long as it is something they like, there is not much difference between one tael of silver and ten taels of silver.

So, when the caravan of Cangguo returned, a group of foreign merchants also came to Cangcheng, and expressed their desire to meet the emperor of Cangguo through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ()