Chapter 57 The Profitability of Papermaking
"Rong'er, how is Mo'er's shoulder. Wei Zhuang looked at the bandage on Mo'er's shoulder and asked, "It will take a hundred days to break your muscles and bones, even if you have your elixir in Mo'er, it will be difficult to heal so quickly." Duanmu Rong looked at Mo'er's shoulder and shook her head and said, "It's going to be so long, Sister Rong can hurry up, my brother won't let me go out to play, it's very boring" Mo'er took Duanmu Rong's jade hand and said coquettishly, "You can read books, doesn't your sister have a lot of books there?" Mo'er pouted and complained, and suddenly Mo'er squinted at Wei Zhuang with small eyes, and Wei Zhuang looked at Mo'er with such a look, and his eyes glared, "Don't think about it, don't think about the factory, don't think about it." "Why, my sister can go, why can't I go?" Mo'er pouted and asked Wei Zhuang, "Your sister is not injured, you have to obediently recuperate at home" "But I will get sick if I stay at home for a long time, good brother, just let me go and play, my injuries have been half a month, and there will be no problems." Mo'er took Wei Zhuang's hand again and said coquettishly, "Ask your sister Rong and she can do it." "Yes. Without waiting for Mo'er to ask, Duanmu Rong answered directly, "yes," Wei Zhuang glanced at Duanmu Rong angrily, "If something went wrong, look at what you do." After speaking, Wei Zhuang was pulled out of the house by the elated Mo'er.
"Wow, brother, are these the paper we use all day long?, why are these papers so coarse?" Mo'er asked, looking at the yellow paper pasted on the drying wall, "You little fool can't even see this, this is the worst paper." Wei Zhuang patted Mo'er on the head and turned around and walked towards a side room, "Sister Yun Ling, how is the progress now?" Wei Zhuang looked at Yun Ling sitting at the table and asked, "In seven days, more than 400 stones of inferior paper and 50 stones of high-quality paper were made. (One stone is one hundred and twenty catties)" Yun Ling excitedly reported back to Wei Zhuang, "So fast, how much profit can you make if so much paper is invested?" Wei Zhuang looked at Yun Ling with some surprise and asked, "The process of papermaking is very simple, cutting, boiling, beating, suspension, copying, shaping, Drying those farmers can almost learn by looking at it once, and the raw materials we need have almost no cost, just a month's wages for more than 100 workers, and I have planned to start selling paper in three days, I am afraid that the profit will not be too much, but we can receive a lot of copper coins???" Yun Ling said with a look of longing, Wei Zhuang looked at Yun Ling, who was also trapped in the eyes of money, and sighed, indeed the profit of papermaking must be more amazing than imagined, there is no cost of raw materials, the cost is to go out and turn left into a small forest to find a lot of bark, if you can't do it, just collect some broken cotton wool, that can make high-quality rice paper. "Has the price been set?" Wei Zhuang interrupted Yun Ling's fantasy and said, "Well, the limited price is two cents a piece of inferior paper, and twenty yuan a piece of high-quality paper, of course, I also made some of the kind of big white paper we usually use, but the production method is too difficult, and only six stones are made." "Well, it's best to make a small profit on an item that is in high demand. Wei Zhuang nodded in agreement with Yun Ling's approach, "But once papermaking appears, there will definitely be many people who will start to imitate papermaking, what method do you have at that time?" "No way, the production process of papermaking is too simple, it will definitely be spread, anyway, we just rely on papermaking to start our brand" Yun Ling spread her hands helplessly and said, "How is the development of coins going?" Hearing Wei Zhuang ask about coins, he couldn't help frowning and worried. It's not easy to do, firstly, our technology has not yet passed, and secondly, it takes a large number of craftsmen to make coins, and even if there are craftsmen, we will have to wait until the paper is sold to exchange for a large amount of metal before we can make it, but Zhuang'er, are you sure that we will not be opposed by the Qin State when we make coins that belong to us?" It's too late for Yingzheng to be happy, now he only has the right to Meng Fu in his hands, Lü Buwei dominates the entire government, and Lü Buwei has the final say on the price of coins, goods, taxes, etc., Yingzheng still wants us to confront Lü Buwei, but when it comes to this, you have to pay attention to it, Yingzheng, who has continued for a long time when we are fighting against Lü Buwei, will definitely quietly reach out to support his own forces. "Hmm," Yun Ling saw Wei Zhuang solemnly and nodded at her, "But don't worry too much, as long as we can lead them with technology, then the final victory will definitely belong to us." Wei Zhuang said with a smile towards Yunling.
???“ This is paper?" Lu Buwei looked at the two different pieces of rice paper in front of him and asked, "Yes, my lord, this is bought from Zhuang Xing, this is inferior paper, two cents a piece, and this kind of high-quality paper costs twenty wen a piece, it is said that Zhuang Xing has a better paper, but I didn't see it, but it is a little strange that Zhuang Xing said that those who buy less than five stones will only accept copper coins," a family member introduced to Lu Buwei, "How many volumes of our bamboo slips are a volume?" Lu Buwei closed his eyes a little frustratedly and asked with a sigh, "Hui Master, a thousand texts and one volume" "If it is reduced to 500 Wen, it will be reduced now, and there are people who have notified the Ministry of Engineering to tell them to start developing this kind of paper. "Yes, sir," replied the housekeeper, turning and running out of the house. "Zhuang Xing, it's really amazing, this is what you call a small business?" Lu Buwei sighed helplessly, rubbed his head with a headache, looked at the two pieces of paper in front of him, picked up his brush and dipped it in the freshly sharpened ink, and wrote, "Well, it works really fast, there must be a lot of people buying it at such a cheap price, but I really don't know what you want to do." Lu Buwei looked at the few big characters he had just written, and became worried again.
???“ How is it, how much did Yun Ling earn today?" Wei Zhuang looked at Yun Ling with an excited face and asked, " I calculated, today sold a total of fifty stone of inferior paper and ten stone of high-quality paper, a total of more than 200,000 copper coins, a whole ten carriages of copper coins, most of the others are bought with gold, after all, some rich families will not save so much copper money at home, so most of them are bought with silver, but even though most of them are gold and silver, but we earn 200,000 copper coins a day, if this amount rises every day in the future, then the plan to leave the money bank is not far away. "Don't dream, tomorrow will only sell half of what it is today." Wei Zhuang hit Yun Ling directly, "I also know, but this paper is a consumable, so it is not easy to sell." Yun Ling shrugged her shoulders and said. "Well, so we also have to hurry up and start the matter of the money bank, you pay attention to this aspect of things recently, remember that throttling is not as good as open source, Zhou Papi will never become a capitalist, maybe it won't be long before I leave the Qin State." Wei Zhuang looked at the moon outside the sky and said lightly, "So fast, are you no longer in Qin Country with me and Yue'er for a while" Yun Ling's eyes suddenly moistened when she heard that Wei Zhuang was leaving, "I can't delay any longer, I have to improve my strength as soon as possible, and the demonic nature in my body is also increasing little by little, I want to quickly find the coldest thing or find a way to break the demon, if it really doesn't work, I can only find the demon Dao technique." Wei Zhuang glanced at Yun Ling and sighed and said, "But if you cultivate the Demon Dao Exercises, I'm afraid that when the time comes, others will know about it??? Yun Ling asked worriedly, "So we have to develop our forces as soon as possible, as long as we have strong forces, we can shock people's hearts." Wei Zhuang looked at Yun Ling and said solemnly, "Hmm." Yun Ling nodded when she heard this. "As long as Wushuang's health is better, it's time for me to leave," Wei Zhuang said to himself as he looked at the moon outside the sky.