Shang Weiyang has never had any troubles in terms of money, as the son of King Wei has not worried about food and clothing since he was a child, Shang Wuji gave him 200,000 silver tickets to ensure his expenses for two years before he came to the imperial capital, but it has only been two months, and the gold coins in his hand are only a few thousand gold coins. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Whether it is cultivation or daily expenses, it is a very large expense in the imperial capital, so now Shang Weiyang's top priority is to make money, as long as he has money, he can implement his next plan.

Thinking of making money, although Shang Weiyang already has a mini machine tool, he hasn't thought about what to do now, when Shang Weiyang had a headache in the room, Zhang Long pushed the door in, and still held a copy of the "Spirit Stone Treasure" he had just bought.

This is the task that Shang Weiyang gave him today, to go to the Imperial Capital Mingyue Pavilion to buy books about spirit stones. Although the Celestial Crystal can lay down most of the magic circles, some special magic circles require special spirit stones.

Zhang Long frowned after putting down the "Spirit Stone Treasure Book" and said, "Young master, there are only five hundred gold coins left, we have to find a way quickly." ”

After hearing this, Shang Weiyang exclaimed: "Isn't there still more than 2,000 gold coins? Why is there so much left now?"

After hearing this, Zhang Long smiled bitterly and said: "Young master, what you said was yesterday, and today this book of "Spirit Stone Treasure Book" alone is 1,500 gold coins!"

"How can it be so expensive? This kind of book is also the lowest kind in the cultivation world, right?" Shang Weiyang's face was full of doubts.

"The content is the lowest, yes, it's only worth five hundred gold coins, but this is a paper book, if you use a bamboo slip book for only six hundred gold coins, but you need to pull a cart back, the more convenient you explain, the better, I can only buy paper books." Zhang Long reluctantly told the truth.

Shang Weiyang was a little embarrassed after hearing this, and said, "Hehe, I was careless, I didn't expect paper books to be so expensive, it's not your fault, don't ...... it" Suddenly Shang Weiyang looked stunned and then laughed: "Haha, I know what to do to make money, notify Zhao Hu, hire someone to build a waterwheel workshop." ”

Zhang Long was taken aback by this suddenness, and hurriedly said: "Young Master only has five hundred gold coins left, and the workshop will be completed at least three hundred gold coins, and we will run out of money soon!"

Who knew that Shang Weiyang said with great certainty: "I know, but we are about to make a lot of money, why do we care about this? Now, immediately call in the workers and lose a moment of money if they delay for a moment." ”

Seeing that Shang Weiyang was so confident, Zhang Long hurriedly retired to deal with the matter.

For a long time, the paper of the Tianjing Continent has been the privilege of cultivators and royal nobles, and ordinary people and even most of the people in Mingyue Academy use bamboo slips as a record carrier, and there is no other reason because it is expensive.

Because of technical reasons, papermaking requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and grinding pulp alone is a big problem, even if wheat straw is used as raw materials, it will be crushed into paper by manpower, and high-quality paper needs to be repeatedly mashed and ground to make almost usable paper, often a ton of material can make a few pieces of paper.

This kind of paper is now also a high-end product, which can be used to write records, and it is very efficient to transmit military information, but this kind of paper is too rough to wipe his butt in Shang Weiyang's eyes.

Shang Weiyang thought of the money-making project and obviously papermaking, with a machine tool to make a grinding machine, you can use better bamboo papermaking, and although the papermaking process he knows is not as good as the industrial paper in the previous life, it is a little different from the current grass yellow paper.

With paper, we can better spread culture, and in the later stage, we will cooperate with printing, and what we should worry about when the time is how to spend the money! Thinking of this, Shang Weiyang hurriedly found a pen and paper and began to draw drawings, and even the newly bought "Lingshi Baojian" was ignored and didn't even look at it.

A month later, Zhai Qingquan of Mingyue Academy was looking for the classics to be talked about today in his study, the huge bookshelf was full of bamboo slips, Zhai Qingquan skillfully took out five bundles of bamboo slips on the bookshelf, wrapped them in cloth and prepared to go to class.

When I came to the Tianzi class, I saw that all the students' desks were empty, and I couldn't help but be annoyed: "You don't bring bamboo slips? Do you want to learn from that Shang Weiyang to make a fool of yourself?"

When the students saw that the teacher was angry, they took out the paper from their bosoms, and the articles they had copied from the bamboo slips were written on them.

The contents of five bundles of bamboo slips can be completely recorded on two pieces of paper. Of course, Zhai Qingquan also wants to teach on paper, who wants to carry such a heavy bamboo slip. However, paper books are too expensive, some important documents are okay with paper, if teaching books are also used with paper books, not to mention that he can't afford it, and the emperor can't afford it, but I don't know why all students today are all using paper.

Seeing that the teacher looked a little embarrassed, Lu Se, the head of the Tianzi class, hurriedly took out two more pieces of paper, handed them to Zhai Qingquan and said, "Teacher, you have worked hard, you can also use this to teach today." ”

Zhai Qingquan is a high-minded person, how can he accept students' things, and hurriedly said: "Se'er, how can I accept such a valuable thing? ”

Who knew that Lu Se smiled and said: "The teacher doesn't know, this paper is from Shang Weiyang I don't know where it came from, it is of high quality, white as snow, and it is extremely smooth with his hands, but Shang Weiyang doesn't know what stupid he is, ten gold coins are sold at the gate of the college, I think it is that he spent all his savings, and sold the best paper given by the family, a whole five hundred pieces of paper, you don't have to care, teacher." ”

Zhai Qingquan heard that this was Shang Weiyang's matter, and he was not a guest, so he took Lu Se's paper, and found that this paper was actually better than the royal tribute paper.

Zhai Qingquan didn't know that these papers were just defective products of Shang Weiyang's papermaking workshop, and Shang Weiyang was guiding Li Ergou and others to train in the papermaking process in the workshop.

Li Ergou and his fifteen people finished building the second waterwheel workshop, and Shang Weiyang accepted them as workers in the paper workshop with a monthly remuneration of thirty gold coins, fortunately, the mansion they bought was big enough, and it was not a problem to live in fifteen more people, Li Ergou and the craftsmen worked eight hours a day, and then Zhang Long and Zhao Hu trained everyone for four hours a day under the teaching materials compiled by Shang Weiyang.

And now Shang Weiyang instructed Li Ergou and said: "Li Gong, before pressing the paper, the wooden board must be brushed with oil, don't be reluctant but not too much, so that it can be uncovered after drying." ”

"I know, my lord listens to you for everything, and I will do whatever you say. Li Ergou said sincerely.

"Well, that's no problem, I'll go first. With that, Shang Weiyang left the paper workshop and went straight to the machine room, this place is the important place of the entire mansion, Shang Weiyang used the remaining spar stone to lay down many magic circles to ensure that this place is foolproof.

At this time, Zhao Hu was operating the machine tool according to the method taught by Shang Weiyang in the machine tool room, cutting a piece of wood into pieces of wood the size of a finger, while Zhang Long was carving reverse words on the wooden strips with a knife on the side.

With papermaking, how can there be no movable type printing? Weiyang, a papermaking technology company, does not plan to keep it for too long, and will definitely disclose its technology in the future, after all, his limited ability cannot meet the needs of the Tianjing Continent in how to make it, but it also restricts the spread of technology.

Printing is another gold-absorbing project after the relay papermaking process, and it is always right to prepare early.

From the thought of making paper to hiring Li Ergou and others to set up a paper workshop, Shang Weiyang knew that even if he had a small ability now, he could do something on the Tianjing Continent, and this was only the first step in the huge plan in his heart.

For a week, Shang Weiyang was still absent from class as usual, and after the paper selling incident, Mingyue Academy returned to calm, and everyone habitually forgot about this auditor of the first class of Tianzi.

But is Shang Weiyang so easily forgotten? Obviously not, at this time, he and Zhang Long and Zhao Hu were rushing to the gate of Mingyue Academy with a flatbed carriage, and the car was covered with oilcloth and I don't know what it contained.

After arriving at the gate of the college, Shang Weiyang held up a flag with the words "Starting Point Booksstand" written on it!

Zhang Long and Zhao Hu tore off the tarpaulin, only to see that all the books on the car were slowly cut and bound, and the black cover was very eye-catching, with "The Analects of the Sages", "Getaway", "The Book of Songs" and other sage works, and most of the books were wordless, and only one-tenth of the books with words.

It's hard to be so maverick and not attract people, and after a while, the students of the congregation surrounded the booksstand, most of these people are Tsing Yi students, there are also students in yellow clothes, and there is even an elder disciple, everyone is curious about what the hell this Shang Weiyang is doing.

After waiting for a while, someone finally couldn't help but ask: "What do you mean by this starting point bookstall, are you showing off your wealth by pulling so many paper books?"

Shang Weiyang smiled when he heard this: "Senior Lu is wrong, of course I brought books over to set up a stall to sell books, how can I show off my wealth?"

"Isn't it to show off your wealth? Paper books are extremely expensive, not to mention that there are words and no words, and how many people can buy them, aren't they here to show off their wealth?" Lu Se sneered after hearing Shang Weiyang's defense.

"Hahahaha, it's extremely expensive? My book has two hundred gold coins with words, one hundred gold coins without words, and I study at Mingyue Academy, doesn't Senior Brother Lu even have this money?" Shang Weiyang said to Lu Se with a disdainful expression.

Lu Se was also aroused by Shang Weiyang's words and was about to speak, but was pushed away by a red-clothed true messenger and said, "Get out of the way, don't get in the way." Lu Se was annoyed for a while when he heard this, and after seeing the appearance of the person who came, the words that came to his lips came back with a fresh smoke.

The person who came was Ma Tao, a disciple of the Great Elder of Mingyue Academy, who was already an eighteen-grade cultivator at the age of eighteen this year, and was a well-known cultivation wizard of Mingyue Academy.

At this time, Ma Tao had already taken a silver ticket of 1,000 gold coins and handed it to Shang Weiyang and said, "Fetch me ten white books." ”

After taking the silver ticket, Zhang Long had already wrapped ten white books and handed them to Ma Tao at this time. Ma Tao took the book, flipped through it, looked at the quality, didn't say much, and left directly.

Only then did everyone realize that this book was really so cheap, and they rushed to buy it.

Zhang Long and Zhao Hu were suddenly busy, just when everyone was rushing to buy, the crowd was suddenly forcibly separated by two strong men, and a gorgeously dressed young man walked out from behind the two, only to see him pick up a copy of "The Analects of the Sages" and look through it and said: "I want all these books, make a price." ”

Everyone was shocked when they heard this, this person is so angry, now there are five hundred books left in the car, which is at least 50,000 gold coins, and such a cheap paper book, if he buys it, I don't know when there will be such an opportunity next time.

Shang Weiyang said with a smile on his face at this time: "I'm sorry, in order to greet more people, the book stall is limited to ten copies per person." ”

The gorgeously dressed young man obviously didn't expect Shang Weiyang to refuse, and after being stunned for a while, he seemed to have figured out something and said: "Okay, the three of me will get me thirty books with words," the young man took out six thousand gold coins and silver tickets and handed them to Shang Weiyang, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu hurriedly picked out three of each book, just thirty copies and bundled them, and the young man and the two strong men who opened the way left with a bundle! After the young man left, everyone resumed the state of rushing to buy.

In the evening, Shang Weiyang happily counted the silver tickets and complained: "If this silver ticket is not pasted with a layer of brocade cloth on the front and back, the paper in the middle of the light is not as good as the paper we made." ”

Zhang Long and Zhao Hu also kept nodding, and suddenly Zhang Long seemed to remember something and hurriedly said: "Young master, I don't think the brocade-clothed young man is simple today, the two people around him are all in the realm of bone refining!" Shang Weiyang laughed: "Of course it's not simple, it's the prince." I don't know which one it is. ”

And coincidentally, in a palace somewhere in the imperial capital, the brocade-clothed young man had just finished reading a book, and the strong man next to him stepped forward and reported: "Your Highness, the young man who sold books today is not simple, and the two entourages around him are all masters of the Bone Refining Realm. ”

After hearing this, His Royal Highness also smiled and said: "Of course it's not simple, the son of King Wei, can the people of the merchant be simple?"