On this day, Yuan Yao came to Wanling, which has been occupied, because it is the seat of Danyang County and the concentration of government treasury silver, so it should be able to grab a lot of money, but the result is only 100,000 yuan, which is far from the tens of millions of taxes in Danyang County.

Yuan Yao was puzzled and came to investigate.

According to the Wanling Order, the treasury silver of Danyang County was transferred away by Liu Xiangzheng before. Yuan Yao asked Zhang Ying but he didn't know what to do, because he was leading troops outside when he was under Liu Xuan's tent and didn't know anything about internal affairs.

Therefore, Yuan Yao was not in a good mood when he first arrived in Wanling, and unless Liu Yao was "invited" back to assist in the investigation, he would not know what was going on.

Yuan Yao guessed that there must be something greasy here, but there was no evidence to prove it.

This matter had to be put aside first, because Yuan Yao was just passing by Wanling to learn about this matter by the way, and the actual destination was Jing County, which was not far from here.

The previous article has explained that Wanling is the Xuancheng of later generations, the origin of Xuan paper, but if it is divided according to the administrative unit at the end of the Han Dynasty, the origin of Xuan paper should be Jing County, not far from Wanling, because at this time the two places are their own independent counties, unlike later generations to divide Jing County into Xuancheng.

Therefore, in order to meet the situation, Yuan Yao specially prepared to go there to build a papermaking workshop after getting the news that Jing County had been lowered, intending to touch the light of the location.

In ancient times, the quality of papermaking technology was largely dependent on the source of raw materials for local plants. Therefore, Yuan Yao believes that it should be beneficial to make paper in a place rich in rice paper.

As for the construction of a paper workshop, it was naturally prepared for the minting of paper money.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the implementation of paper money, if it is a separate value of itself, is easier to accept than when the paper money was first implemented in later generations, because the current paper is still a luxury, not a worthless "piece of paper", much rarer than gold and silver, so it will not make people feel the idea of cheating money at the first time.

But it also means that the cost of paper money is much higher than the cost of later generations, but Yuan Yao has a golden finger in this regard, and the cost of using cloned people is only 1.5 grains per person per month, and there is no need to pay for wages, and the rest is the cost of raw materials for papermaking, so you can still try it.

At this time, the paper mill could only produce one kind of paper, and that was Cai Hou paper, which was invented by Cai Lun in 105 AD.

In fact, in this era, there was a Donglai man named Saeki who was the same township as Tai Shici, and he would one day invent a kind of paper called Zuobo paper, which should be a new technology that is better than Caihou paper.

But unfortunately, Yuan Yao doesn't know when he will be able to invent Zuo Bo paper, at least not yet.

In order to quickly form a scale, Yuan Yao deliberately went back to Lujiang and dispatched 500 clones.

On the day of the previous invasion of Jiangdong, Yuan Yao was worried that he would not be able to manage the clones for a while, so he arranged a working position for 1,800 people in the dockyard at one time, so that as long as the food was prepared in advance and the assembly point was set, the newly produced clones could automatically join these tasks. That way, before the 1,800 people are done, they don't have to worry about the new clones having nothing to do.

Therefore, Yuan Yao can recuperate in Moling with peace of mind.

After more than ten days of conquering the city, Sun Ce, Zhang Ying, and Zhang Xun have connected 11 nearby counties with Moling as the center, and the daily output of clones has also increased from 14 people/day in Lujiang to 26 people/day now.

Now there are four places left in Danyang County, including Yuqi County, Lingyang County, Huang County, and She County, which have not been subdued, and these four places have been handed over to Zhang Ying and Zhang Xun, and Sun Ce has gone east out of Danyang and went straight to Qu'a and Dantu in Wu County.

In fact, it is an exaggeration to say that the siege of the city was strategic, because there was no battle at all, and most of the counties were surrendered to the wind, and Liu Miao is said to have fled to Yuzhang and completely abandoned Danyang.

The fundamental reason why the Yuan family was rejected by the Jiangdong family was that they were afraid, because they were afraid, they resisted, but when it was inevitable at the end of the day, it was easier for them to choose to accept their fate, although they may not be convinced, but at least they will not be dissatisfied, otherwise they will die.

This is also the first time that Yuan Yao has enjoyed the sweetness of his family's influence in Jiangdong, and it was all resistance before.

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After arriving in Jing County, Yuan Yao quickly chose a location and began to build a paper mill. This kind of production building is much easier to build than large-scale functional buildings such as academies, and the number of builders is determined by the capacity, and it is divided into a miniature workshop of 50 people; a small workshop for 100 people; medium-sized workshop with 300 people; A large workshop with 500 people.

Yuan Yao brought 500 clones and directly chose the largest workshop to build, because the larger the workshop, the higher the output. For example, the smallest paper mill produces 20 stone of Caihou paper per month, which is 0.4 stone per person per month. And 500 people are 300 stone per month, which is 0.6 stone per person per month, although it is not much, but the amount is also a lot.

In this way, the cost of Yuan Yao's paper mill is the food consumption of 500 clones, which is 750 Hu per month; 2.5 grains per stone paper, which seems to be a lot, and the clones don't need to be paid, otherwise they don't know how many times it will be doubled.

As for the value of papermaking raw materials, it is relatively low, and they are all plant fibers such as straw bark, most of which are waste materials and have low costs.

In fact, the reason why the price of papermaking remains high at this time is mainly because of the labor and time costs caused by the complex manufacturing process and long time-consuming, coupled with the low output and short supply, and the artificial price gouging, so it will not be popular for a while and a half.

In fact, the cost is still secondary, mainly because of the output, which has not been able to replace bamboo slips as the mainstream.

However, Yuan Yao is going to use it to make paper money, and it shouldn't take much paper, at most it will be done by printing the book.

There are two key factors that are required to make paper money with a system – a mint and block printing.

Yuan Yao needs to artificially prepare the paper and engraving in advance, activate the technology of "engraving printing" in the system, and then build a mint, so that he can directly print paper money with clones.

And this technology will progress according to the progress of the system technology tree, so there is no need for Yuan Yao to worry about it in the future.

When the engraving was in Moling, people had been hired to start hand-carving; The mint also plans to use the clones produced in the past few days to start construction in Jing County, and other places to build have to transport paper back and forth.

When it comes to banknotes alone, the preparations have already begun, and they are just waiting for the completion to be completed.

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"Lord Qi, Captain Sun Ce of Huaiyi asks to see you."

"Huh?" Yuan Yao was inexplicable when he heard that the guards were coming, because Sun Ce's task was to take down Qu A and Dantu in Wu County, why did he run to Jing County instead.

According to Yuan Yao's premeditated plan, Sun Ce had been suppressed for so long, and he finally went out to spread the wilderness before he became conscious, but now it was a bit unexpected to run back by himself so quickly.

Puzzled, Yuan Yao immediately met with Sun Ce.

After a salute, Yuan Yao asked directly: "Sun Ce is not in the army, what is the important matter of coming here?" ”

Sun Ce hugged his fists and said: "Has the general ever heard of the name of 'Jiangdong Erzhang'?" ”

"......" Yuan Yao was stunned.