Xia Jun opened the industrial column and selected the papermaking classification.

A large number of paper factories appeared in front of Xia Jun.

It is roughly divided into two categories, one is special paper and the other is ordinary paper. The factories of specialty paper and ordinary paper are divided into five technical levels: 'backward, general, leading, super era, and ultimate'.

Except for the fact that factories at the 'backward' level are cheap to build, they are not cheap from the ordinary to the ultimate level.

For example, the ultimate paper mill, 10 employees can build a paper mill that produces 100,000 tons of ordinary paper per year, and it costs 2 million points to build such a paper mill.

At the same time, paper mills are also divided according to production capacity, the higher the production capacity, the more cost-effective, for example, the annual paper mill of 100,000 tons of paper is more cost-effective than the construction of 10 10,000 tons of paper mills.

In addition, the raw material processing of paper mills is also divided according to the type of raw materials, and the raw materials processed are different, such as wood, grass plants, and bast fibers, most of which are treated similarly, but there are still differences.

100,000 tons of paper, about 1.7 million trees, northwest Fujian is the area with the most woodlands in Fujian, the economy here is dominated by economic forests, trees are not worried, cut can be replanted! The ecology of northwest Fujian is very strong, and there is nothing to cut down trees.

Even if the tree can't be cut down, it can't be transported.

A paper mill of 100,000 tons is too much, and a paper mill of 10,000 tons should be so-so.

A small ordinary paper mill with an annual output of 10,000 tons uses 'leading' equipment, one requires 30,000 points, and the raw materials are conifer wood and broad-leaved wood, bamboo, as well as straw and reeds in grass plants, these processing equipment add up, this paper mill needs 10,000 points.

In addition, the paper mill has its own sewage treatment plant, this paper mill needs to invest 15,000 points, and the paper mill produces a lot of sewage, which is discharged into the river, it is estimated that a large number of fish and shrimp will die.

Trees can be cut down and replanted, but water sources are polluted.

This paper mill uses papermaking technology from the 40s, and the cost is 30% lower than the best paper mills in Europe and the United States, which is enough to lead for a while, and after Xia Jun considered it, he spent 15,000 points and chose to build this paper mill.

The site of the factory was selected on a flat rice field near Longcun, and the paper mill is expected to cover an area of 30 acres, and Xia Jun paid for the rice field.

The next day, a huge convoy drove into Saigo one after another.

The fleet had all sorts of construction machinery and a lot of stuff that looked like paper mill equipment. It costs 15,000 points to redeem these devices, and 5,000 points to hire people to build a factory.

20,000 points flew away.

Construction machinery was rolled directly into the rice fields, and factories began to be opened.

These construction machines are very advanced, and the construction speed can be described as miraculous, only three days to build a third, Xia Jun also began to arrange the operation of the paper mill after completion.

After the paper mill is completed, there must be raw materials, and Xia Jun plans to use reeds, straw, and bamboo. There are more reeds, the vitality of these reeds can be described as extremely strong, except for cattle and the largest breeding sheep, other livestock basically do not eat such rough food, and they grow everywhere, if you want to destroy it, you have to spend a lot of effort to dig out the roots of the reeds, this plant is very annoying to farmers.

10,000 tons of paper sounds like a lot, but in fact it is pitiful, such a paper mill can only process about 30,000 acres of straw, and there are 15,000 acres of paddy fields in Xixiang alone, and reeds are everywhere.

Straw and reeds alone are enough for a paper mill, and there is no need to make paper from wood at all.

However, raw materials need to be collected, which requires small equipment such as lawn mowers, as well as tractors for transportation, and tractors must also have roads.

To this end, Xia Jun exchanged 20 small excavators in the system, each with 500 points, and spent 10,000 points. Tractors belong to agricultural machinery, the exchange price is very cheap, each tractor only needs 20 points, Xia Jun exchanged 100 in one go, and only spent 2000 points.

Lawn mowers are very cheap, only 5 points each, Xia Jun exchanged for 200 lawn mowers.

Immediately Xia Jun set up an 'excavator driving training course' and a 'tractor driving training class' in Longcun, excavator drivers need some culture, those literati with lower education were sent by Xia Jun to learn excavator driving, tractors do not need any technical surname, Xia Jun recruited two young people from each natural village, let them learn tractor driving.

The paper mill was completed in only ten days, and the steel structure of the workshop, which was equipped with brand-new equipment, Xia Jun immediately put the prepared workers into the paper mill for production.

This paper mill is semi-automatic, and the production technology is not very complicated, but the workers in some positions need a certain amount of culture, so Xia Jun transferred fifteen literate literati to work in the factory.

Xia Jun has no talents suitable for running a factory, so he can only harden it, and Xia Jun is appointed at will in the selection of important positions such as factory director and cashier.

His requirements for the two important positions of factory director and cashier were not to be corrupt, and Xia Jun also did his best, and in February, Xia Jun announced the establishment of an inspection department at the Autonomous Council.

The Ministry of Prosecutors will register the property of all persons working in the Autonomous Assembly and the Security Corps, not only individually but also on the property of relatives, as well as the work and income of relatives. Once they work for the security corps, their employment is restricted, and they can't do business in the first place, and if their family members want to do business, they must resign.

In this way, those people have a bottom of how much income they have, and when fighting corruption, as long as they check whether their family property is in line with the registration, and if it does not meet the requirements, it is corruption and bribery, then they will be pulled out and shot.

As long as there is no corruption in the factory, everything is easy to do, and in terms of production technology, Xia Jun took out a copy of the "Production Process Manual" and threw it to the factory director to study.

On the other side, Xia Jun organized people to harvest reeds with lawn mowers, and then transported them back to the paper mill with tractors.

The paper mill began to try to produce, due to the lack of technical proficiency, so the quality of the paper produced in the first few times was very poor, but the director quickly found the reason from the "production link manual", solved the problem one by one, and the paper produced was getting higher and higher.

Soon the paper mill produced paper cut into various specifications, these papers are extremely white, delicate and smooth to the touch, with the current paper mill environment, it is impossible to export tons of roll paper, that is naturally to make a finished product to sell, selling cut into different sizes of paper is obviously more appropriate.

Xia Jun calculated the cost price and found that the cost of the paper mill is not only 30% lower than the cost of the best paper mills in Western countries, because China's labor force has a demographic dividend, and in terms of raw materials, because the reeds are collected, there are lawn mowers and tractors, and the efficiency is also very high.

The purpose of establishing a paper mill is mainly to lay the foundation for the packaging factory, Xia Jun wants to develop industry, and the first thing to develop is the basic industry.

Basic industries such as energy, building materials, steel, etc., are all poor and white. Xia Jun plans to set up a cigarette factory this year, which naturally requires paper, and there is no shortage of papermaking raw materials in northern Fujian, so the paper mill is launched first.

The capacity of the paper mill is actually calculated on the basis of eight hours of production per day, and if the production is carried out in three shifts, the production capacity can be expanded to three times the original - 30,000 tons.

The paper mill is not worried about the market, because the paper produced is of good quality, the cost is advantageous, and compared with the foreign artificial paper, it also saves freight, so it is naturally sure to be marketable, but at the beginning I still have to go to those businessmen to promote it.

The paper mill soon set up a sales department, and then went to the county seat to promote the paper mill's products.

The merchants were obviously very surprised by the paper mill, and within a few days, a Hui merchant came to Longcun to place an order, and the paper mill offered a price about 10% lower than the wholesale price of paper on the market.

At this price, the paper mill can earn 20 silver dollars per ton of paper produced, which is very profitable.

If the paper mill is at full capacity, producing 30,000 tons a year, it will be able to make a profit of 600,000 silver dollars, which is enough to pay 60 companies (6 silver dollars per month), that is, almost a division.

It's a good investment.

Of course, the energy of the paper mill and the sewage treatment plant is a problem, and the small hydropower station built by himself is not a problem, after a businessman rushed to Longcun to place an order. Xia Jun built two hydropower stations, namely the Liming Hydropower Station with an installed capacity of 640 kilowatts and the Longteng Hydropower Station with an installed capacity of 800 kilowatts.

With the completion of these two hydropower stations, there will be no shortage of energy in the short term.

Xixiang is located in a mountainous area, the water flow difference is very large, a total of 14 hydropower stations can be built, the total installed capacity can reach 4,500 kilowatts, there is no need to worry about energy problems for a while.

The merchant who went to Longcun to place an order came to the paper mill to take a look, and then talked to the factory manager, and this guy actually wanted to reach a long-term agreement with the paper mill, that is, he would sell the paper sold by the paper mill alone.

The factory director couldn't decide, so he informed Xia Jun.

The merchant's name was Liu Jinshan, a small Hui merchant who had been trading between Fujian and Jiangsu for a long time, and it can be seen from these materials that his capital was not abundant.

"Do you have enough money to eat our security corps?" Xia Jun asked him suspiciously.

"Don't worry, head of the regiment, I can't eat alone, I can find someone to do it together." Liu Jinshan replied that as a Hui businessman who traveled from south to north, he was very in awe of the young head of the security regiment in front of him, because the strength of this security regiment could be seen from the outside, and it would definitely not be low.

Moreover, this security regiment was not developed by burning, killing and looting, I heard that it was developed by fighting bandits, and it is indeed not to be underestimated that such a paper mill can be set up.

"It's okay, if you can eat it, you will be the exclusive seller of our Xixiang paper mill, but our paper mill does not pay on credit, and we must have both money and goods." Xia Jun said to him, after all, the price was very satisfactory to him.

"This nature, this nature." Liu Jinshan nodded again and again.

"If you can eat it, our security regiment will also send a platoon to escort you, so as not to be robbed by bandits." Xia Jun attaches great importance to this Hui businessman, after all, this is an inter-provincial businessman, and the security group is currently relatively detached from the outside world. —————— thanks ★, the reward of the silver moon under the void, the state of the side dishes has not been very good in recent days, and there are many trivial things. Fortunately, there is a manuscript in storage! Adjusting the status!