Peshawar City, the capital of the Kushan Empire.

On the street outside the palace gate with dense crowds, there has been a strange shop recently, which does not sell food and clothing, **Buddhist scriptures and paper and pencils.

The Kushan Empire originated from the Great Moon Clan and has a long history. Has its own writing and idiomatic writing instruments, mainly parchment. This kind of paper is expensive, and the average person cannot afford it.

However, in this strange shop, paper is much cheaper. It's just that the color of this paper is burnt yellow, and although it is quite thick, it is not too beautiful.

So are there any buyers?

The décor of this shop is attractive and very special, in the style of the distant Han dynasty in Middle-earth. In addition to the local characters, there are also several large Chinese characters on the store's signboard, "Yuyu Hakusho".

In this era, there is no second person who can give a store this kind of name except Zhang Bai. He pretended that no one had watched the anime and made a name for himself, but in fact, he was secretly frantically venting his feelings for the second middle school.

Mu Jing didn't know the inside story, and felt that the name was quite good, not only elegant, but also Zhang Bai's name embedded in the middle, which was very pertinent.

Another reason for the large number of customers in the store is that the store sells Buddhist scriptures copied in the local script, because they are bound on cheap yellow paper, only six or seven gold coins a copy, and the price is quite fair. At least compared to the parchment scriptures, the price of dozens of gold coins is much lower, and many ordinary people can afford it.

The Kushan Empire believed in Buddhism, but the Buddhist scriptures were too expensive, and most people relied on listening to the monasteries to learn. Therefore, as soon as this kind of cheap scripture came out, it was immediately overflowing with customers.

As for how Zhang Bai can write the local language, there is a big discovery. When he was in Yongqing Village, there was one thing that Zhang Bai felt particularly strange, how could he understand the locals?

He found that he could understand what Qingchi was saying, but Lingling couldn't.

Qingchi is too, he can understand other people's words, but he doesn't understand Lingling's words. Zhang Bai felt strange and couldn't explain it. Didn't I and Lingling both speak Chinese?

The doubts were quickly solved by Mu Jing and Brother Ma, who had been practicing for a long time and knew the middle joint.

It turns out that people who cultivate the Tao and cultivate immortals, when they have cultivated to a certain extent, are not limited by language, as long as they come into contact with various languages, they will soon be naturally mastered, and others can understand their words.

As for the extent to which you can cultivate to obtain this ability, everyone is different, Zhang Bai is a foundation builder, and it seems that he already has this ability.

And Lingling, according to Mu Jing, although he is a genius in cultivation, has an excellent foundation, and is already very powerful in physical skills, but he has never really practiced, so he can't understand Qingchi's words.

Zhang Bai suddenly realized, thinking that it was no wonder that once he arrived in Peshawar, he could communicate with others smoothly, and he didn't feel that he spoke a foreign language.

......

When he first arrived in Peshawar, Zhang Bai parked the spaceship on a barren mountain cliff two miles away from the city. It's hard to climb and off the beaten track, and it is a good place to conceal the ship.

He didn't want to cause a commotion, and he didn't want to leave a clear trail in order to prevent the Blood Immortal Sect from tracking him.

Then the group left the cliff.

At the bottom of the cliff was the confluence of several rivers, and they were not in a hurry to enter the city, because they had no money, and it was difficult to stay in a hotel. Zhang Bai proposed to camp for a few days first and find a way to do business and make money. Everyone agrees, but how?

Zhang Bai actually thought about it on the road a long time ago, and the most profitable thing to do business is nothing more than four things:

The first money makes money, in other words, it is to engage in finance. He didn't have the capital, so he had to think about it.

The second brand is to be like Coca-Cola, with a bluffing label on the sugar water bottle, and the income is huge. But it takes time to build a brand, and they don't.

Third, if you want a policy from the Kushan Empire, as long as you work together, there is nothing you can't do. But they were unfamiliar with life, and they didn't know a single ghost, so they had to pull them down.

Finally, the fourth way is to engage in core technology. This method is actually thankless, and the research technology is expensive and time-consuming, and it is difficult to say whether it can be developed. And even if the research results are produced, if they are overtaken by others or simply plagiarized, they will be yellow again, so the risk is too great.

Fortunately, Zhang Bai was not prepared to stay in the Kushan Empire for a long time. Well, there are a few technologies that don't need to be studied.

Learn about the four great inventions of ancient China.

Among them, ** must not be messed up, messing with the technology tree, it will cause terrible consequences; the compass seems to have no market, I have never heard of the Kushan Empire's need for maritime supremacy; printing?

There is only papermaking, which is actually not difficult, Zhang Bai happened to shoot advertisements for ancient papermaking manufacturers in his previous life. The bamboo paper made by others is a good thing, it is white and thick, but this kind of paper can't do it yourself.

But what about the straw paper.

This thing doesn't need quality at all, just collect more grass with relatively large leaves, wash it and mash it into a paste, press it and dry it. This kind of paper, no one wanted to wipe their butts in the previous life.

A few days later, stacks of yellow and clear straw paper came out. Ma Ge and Qing Chi, who were in charge of the manufacturing, were stupid, and couldn't figure out how they could make the paper.

Mu Jing and Lingling were quite unimpressed, these two had seen the world, and they had never seen any good paper. The color of this straw paper is as if it has been roasted on the fire, and the ink absorption is not good, and the water absorption is super strong, and the pen and ink are smudged into a mess, and it is simply impossible to see.

The two cast a contemptuous look at Zhang Bai together, like liars.

Zhang Bai was embarrassed, he couldn't say that this was for wiping his buttocks! He simply ignored these two guys, and instigated the happy Ma Ge and the honest Qingchi, and continued to focus on production and promote development.

After a few more days, seeing that a lot of straw paper had accumulated, Zhang Bai began to pour something else again.

He was ready to make pencils.

Regular pencils like those in the previous life could not be made by hand, because there were no materials for making refills, and the wooden poles on the outside were not easy to make.

But his profession is drawing, and anyone who has studied this knows that charcoal pens can be DIY by hand, and it is super easy.

He found some poplar trees in a nearby hill, chopped some wood, and broke some branches about the thickness of a pencil. Then he sent an order to Pig Pig to steal two clay pots from a nearby house.

He cut the branches into new pencils about the length of a pencil, and put them in clay pots, and sealed them with river mud. He dug a pit in the ground, put the clay pot in, poured charcoal on it, and smoldered it for more than an hour.

After the clay pot cooled naturally, I opened it and saw that the wooden strips had really become hard charcoal strips. I haven't forgotten my professionalism, I'm as stable as an old dog, ahh

Zhang Bai is very proud of regaining his professionalism, so that "Youyou Baishu Stationery Factory" can supply to the market on time. You can consider renting a shop in the capital city to do business.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt an inexplicable chill on the back of his neck. When I turned my head, it turned out to be Ling Ling and Mu Jing, and the two of them had four eyes, and there were four cold gazes.

"You!, you let the cute piggy steal!?"