Chapter 173: Paper Mills
Jia Rong seriously registered Hu Wei's name on the roster, and wrote papermaking on the back, Zuihou asked Hu Wei's residence, and Jia Rong began to ask the next one.
There are very few families in Jincheng County, and there are relatively few talents, even if these people come to apply, they are some wise people who are usually recognized by everyone, and some of them have just heard others talk about books a few times, and they have become readers in the eyes of the people, which shows how poor the popularity of knowledge is.
At present, the recruited papermaking personnel are Hu Wei, and he can only consult him about the matter of opening a paper mill, and Jia Rong knows nothing about papermaking except for understanding some more advanced principles.
Hu Wei is completely aware of everything, and even with some of his years of experience in papermaking, he also told Jia Rong to listen, zuihou Hu Wei's papermaking is the need for the Han Emperor's decree Jia Rong didn't take it to heart, these things are handed over to Su Shuang to dot on the line, I heard that the relationship between Su Shuang and the Han Emperor has been maintained well recently, and Su Shuang represents himself.
Cai Lun invented papermaking, which greatly facilitated the learning of the Han Dynasty, but books are still a problem, mainly because the books of the Han Dynasty are transcribed word by word, which is extremely troublesome, and it is impossible for those families to pass on the books that they have worked so hard to write, which is also the reason why Weishenme Guan Yu got a treasure in the Spring and Autumn Period.
In the Han Dynasty, the status of cultural people was very high, and some Taishou county orders were to treat local celebrities with respect.
There are many kinds of paper in the Han Dynasty, for example, the paper made of fishing net cloth is net paper, and the paper made of rags is cloth paper, there are many types, but the paper made by these methods is yellowed, but the Zuo Bo of Donglai made a delicate and white paper, which is rumored to be a good story, no matter how these artificial paper, it is certainly not as good as the paper made by advanced methods, whether it is the quality of the paper or the color of the paper, the papermaking reached the heyday of the Song Dynasty, and the paper made is delicate and smooth, so that you can't put it down.
The paper mill was built in accordance with the specifications of the Han Dynasty, Hu Wei personally guided the construction of the paper mill, and the construction of the paper mill naturally needed the help of craftsmen, Jia Rong's salary was higher than in the past, thirty yuan a day, and the soap made money, which was naturally to benefit the people, and the people would consume when they had money, so as to form a very haode cycle, the people could live a good life, many of the things in the paper mill were not available in Jincheng, and they needed to go to the inner county to purchase, and there was Xian Lian Ge as the backing, and it was easily completed.
The craftsmen who built houses in Jincheng County became the most popular figures, and they could not be reflected when they built ordinary residents' places before, but the construction of craftsmen's workshops and paper mills gave these craftsmen a salary that made ordinary people extremely blushing, and many people learned to build jishu, building a house is said to be the same jishu work, in fact, it is very simple, the houses in Jincheng are not in Luoyang, they are all extremely simple one-story houses, and the highest is only a three-story restaurant, so The jishu that was built was greatly simplified.
Hu Weiren is old, and his eyesight and spirit can't keep up, but under a letter from Hu Wei, six disciples who used to follow Hu Wei to learn papermaking came to Jincheng, for these real Jishu personnel, Jia Rong attaches great importance to them, and their monthly wages in the paper mill in Dahan are consistent money, and when they come to Jia Rong, they are directly opened three times a month, and each person is assigned a house, Hu Wei's salary is directly opened to ten, if this news spreads, I am afraid it will cause the shock of ordinary people, It triggered an upsurge of people learning to make paper.
With substantial rewards, these young people have a higher end of their work, and they have expressed that they will do their best.
Jia Rong didn't want to let them enjoy it so much, let them train a new batch of apprentices after the paper mill was built, just like the craftsman's workshop, jishu can't keep it secret, and haode things have to be discussed together.
Hu Wei gladly accepted this, people are old, and they don't want to take this body of jishu away, Hu Wei also learned the jishu work of papermaking after many years of suffering, and understand how difficult it is for an ordinary person to learn the real jishu, which also made Hu Wei relax his mind and hand over the papermaking jishu to the people, if it is replaced by someone else, Hu Wei is not necessarily coming, mainly because Jia Rong's actions in Jincheng County let this old man see hope, he can feel Jia Rong's mind.
The matter of the paper mill was completely handed over to Hu Wei and a few people, and after it was completed, he would find a suitable opportunity to teach them the jishu who made good paper, so as to reduce costs and make more haode paper.
The order reached the fourteen counties ruled by Jia Rong, triggering a wave of land reclamation, especially the people from Beidi County who showed more enthusiasm, there was no land for them in Jincheng County, and they were the biggest beneficiaries of Jia Rong's order.
The enthusiasm of the Qiang tribe is not inferior to anyone else, they came to live in the territory of the Han people in the first year, except for the house that Jia Rong helped to build, they still understand the way of life of the Han people, understand the importance of land to the people, after the order was issued, Jia Rong sent Li Wenhou to assist the Qiang tribe in clearing the wasteland.
Jincheng County is a relatively large county in comparison, but after counting all the population of the fourteen counties, it is found that there are only more than 100,000 people, which also includes 10,000 ordinary people from Beidi County and the Qiang tribe who migrated over, such a large county, the population is so sparse, and there is still a lot of land per capita, but Jincheng County has always been barren and barren, and the quality of the land is not very good, and it is impossible to rely on the people to grow crops to survive.
This time, the army was naturally used as a coolie, but I heard that after the wasteland, these soldiers did not complain, especially the Qiang soldiers, the fighting spirit was high, and the enthusiasm for the wasteland was very high.
Jia Rong pointed to a large haode field in the distance and asked, "Whose field is this?" ”
A citizen came up and whispered, "That's the city where Yu is home." ”
Jia Rong nodded, pointed to another field and continued to ask, "What about over there?" ”
"My lord, all the fields around here are the Yu family's fields."
Jia Rong hissed lightly, this Yu family is just a local tyrant in Jincheng County, but it has so much fertile land, there are three major local tyrants and two families in Jincheng County, this is only the most powerful family, there are many small local tyrants, compared to other counties, the situation is still very haode, but a small local tyrant has so many fields, it has to make people think deeply, especially the Han family in Jincheng County and the Han family in the family are inextricably linked with Han Sui, these situations cannot be ignored.
"Go back and let Lord Zhang check how much land each local tyrant family has in Jincheng County, and count their details." Jia Rong said to a lone wolf soldier beside him.
The lone wolf clenched his fists and quickly left.
Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians worked together, and after a month, more than 150,000 acres of fertile land were opened, and all of these fields belonged to the Taishou Prefecture.
The most wasteland is the county town, the people's army is much more than other counties, more than 50,000 acres of fertile land, other counties together have opened a total of more than 80,000 acres, the Qiang tribe has opened nearly 30,000 acres of land, per capita can be divided into more than one acre of land, such results will be very good.
The first to get the land were the people from Beidi County, each of whom was given two acres of land, and a family of three could get six acres of land at a time, and the next year's spring ploughing could be put into use; The original people of Jincheng County each got an acre of land, so that there were more than 10,000 acres of land left, and everyone was very happy with this result, except for the local tyrants and families in the city, the land of the Qiang tribe was handed over to them to deal with.
The local tyrant family has been very honest recently, probably heard of some of Jia Rong's methods, but Jia Rong doesn't want to let them go like this, after Zhang Li's statistics, only the Yu family has 10,000 acres of fertile land, this is only on the surface, these local tyrants occupy a total of nearly 40,000 acres of fertile land, good land is not equal to the field, it is those fields with better terrain and high yield, and one acre of general fertile land can produce more than half of the grain in ordinary fields, for example, the yield of an ordinary field is two stones of grain per mu, then the fertile land is three stones.
The paper mill has been built, is recruiting some workers, the current paper mill is not as particular as the later generations, what pollution and the like, does not exist, the main reason is that no one is aware of the two words of the environment, after Su Shuang's maneuvering in Luoyang, the Han Emperor also agreed to the Jincheng County Paper Mill, but a certain amount of money must be handed over every year.
The monthly wage of each worker is five hundred yuan, five hundred yuan is enough for an ordinary family to save money for a month, the recruitment order has just been issued, and the front of the paper mill is crowded with people, most of the workers ordered by Jia Rong are fifteen or sixteen-year-old workers, there is no labor law in this era, otherwise Jia Rong has a new crime, the selection of such people is mainly young people who learn faster, Jia Rong doesn't want to be in the paper mill just a few jishu personnel, The high salary to invite them is naturally so that more and more people can learn the jishu of papermaking.
Just like the craftsman's workshop is now absorbing some young people, the jishu of ironwork needs to be constantly innovated and created, but the old style will not achieve a very haode ironing effect, because these old blacksmiths already have their own fixed mode of ironmaking, while the newcomers are different, with the original foundation, there will be more novel ideas.
These workers will sign a contract when they enter the paper mill and craftsman's workshop, and the papermaking and craftsman workshop will increase their money according to the quality of their work, but they will definitely not reduce their wages, and they will work in the paper mill and craftsman's workshop for 20 years, and all actions will obey the command of the Taishou Mansion, otherwise they will be sanctioned by the Taishou Mansion.
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