In Cheng Chumo's embarrassing answer, the three of them still entered the small workshop together.

Lu Heng doesn't know much about feng shui.

But when he looked back and forth, he did find that there was an advantage to this place.

The courtyard is backed by a hill with a stream running in front of it.

It's good to have the mountains and rivers in your back.

Especially when this yard is used as a papermaking workshop, it has the advantage of natural raw materials!

"I take back what I just said, this place is not bad."

Lu Heng pushed Li Chengqian in, and Cheng Chumo had already gone inside to find the person in charge of the workshop.

Li Chengqian followed Lu Heng's gaze and found that the latter was staring at the trees in the back mountain.

So he shook his head and said:

"Do you think that there are mountains and trees behind here, so it is convenient to make paper?"

"Well, not really."

"If this is backed by the Qinling Mountains, then there is really no need to worry about the raw materials, but how much paper can be made from such a small mountain?"

"It's just because it's a small workshop."

"If the place had been bigger, I'm afraid this mountain would have been cut down a long time ago."

Lu Heng was dumbfounded for a while.

The ancients, this is completely ignorant of what sustainable development is!

Fortunately, it is an agrarian society, which has not yet entered industrialization and cannot produce large quantities.

If a lumberjack is made at this time, let alone a small hillside, it is estimated that Qinling can be finished by Huo Huo!

"Tsk...... So it's better to grow bamboo. ”

Lu Heng smashed his mouth and touched his chin thoughtfully:

"You see, if we make bamboo paper and find the kind of bamboo that grows fast, the whole bamboo forest will come out, and it will be much easier to cut down the trees? And this yield is also much higher. ”

Li Chengqian smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Who wouldn't want to use bamboo as a raw material to make paper if they could? It's cheap and easy to grow, and once it's cut down, new ones can grow within a year.

The problem is that there is no technology!

He looked at Lu Heng:

"Brother Xian, you proposed to make paper from bamboo earlier, do you know the process and have done it yourself?"

Although he knew that it was impossible, and he had never heard of anyone making bamboo paper before, Li Chengqian still wanted to ask.

After all, Lu Heng dared to mention it, then he should know something, even if he didn't know everything, it was better than groping from scratch!

"I know the process in general, but I haven't done it before."

Lu Heng thought for a while, and added:

"If there is a chance in the future, we can open a paper mill in Jiangnan to make bamboo paper."

"Although there is a lot of bamboo near the Qinling Mountains, the south is more suitable for it to grow after all, and it is much better to put it there for mass production."

When he watched the documentary, he noticed that most of the places where bamboo paper is made and of good quality are in the south, with Zhejiang and Fujian being the best.

If it weren't for the base camp in Guanzhong, Lu Heng would have gone to Jiangnan long ago.

In Datang, after seeing all the Chang'an flowers in one day, he also wanted to see the fireworks in Yangzhou in March.

Li Chengqian shook his head:

"It's too early to say that."

"Our bookstore hasn't been done well, so you want to go to Jiangnan to make paper......"

"It's better to take out the bamboo paper-making skills you know first, and it's better to start early."

………………

After entering the papermaking workshop, Lu Heng found that Cheng Chumo was extremely neat, and he had already explained everything after a while.

He pushed Li Chengqian to the front of the crowd and glanced around.

In the winter, no one is dressed very thickly, and they all look poor.

No matter what kind of paper is made, you need to put your hands in the water to fish, and these workers have a lot of chilblains on their hands, apparently still working.

After being silent for a long time, Lu Heng said:

"How much do you get paid each month?"

The workers looked at each other.

Cheng Chumo was also a little surprised, and said:

"The people in this workshop are all personal servants of my Cheng family, and they have been slaves for generations and for life."

"What do they need to do with their food, drink, and lodging?"

"Brother Lu, don't you think that such a small workshop will pay them!"

Lu Heng really didn't know what to say this time.

Although he traveled to a wealthy merchant family, he experienced the aroma of the evil feudal society......

But if you really want a five-good young man who was born under the red flag and grew up in the spring breeze to take slavery for granted, then Lu Heng really can't do it.

There are no human rights, and if the master kills him if he makes a mistake, he will not be held accountable, and he will not even have a salary.

This Nima ......

"I think it's better to give them what they mean and pay them some wages."

Lu Heng shook his head and said:

"They work here every day, and things will definitely be done, but it's not easy to say how efficient they are."

"Now I am anxious to use paper, and give them a monthly salary according to their work, so that they can be motivated!"

When Cheng Chumo and Li Chengqian heard this, their brows furrowed.

They were all accustomed to treating slaves as free labor, and when they heard that they were to be paid, they were a little unacceptable.

But Lu Heng turned his head and looked at the servants in the workshop.

"That's it."

"Each of you is paid ten cents a month, and the average paper output is calculated according to the previous one."

"If it's twice as much as before, you'll get twice as much as you're paid twice, which is twenty cents a month."

"How much you want to earn depends on your own ability. Bargain, right? ”

There were only a dozen people in the workshop.

Even if the output of the entire workshop doubles, there will only be a salary of three or four hundred yuan, which Lu Heng can fully bear.

Before coming, he had already asked the place where paper was sold, and a large piece of paper cost dozens of yuan, and it was too fragrant to make paper by himself!

When the workers heard Lu Heng's words, they couldn't believe it for a while, and they all looked at Cheng Chumo next to them.

They are the servants of the Cheng family, and they have to speak to this young master before they can make a decision.

Cheng Chumo, who was paid attention to, was a little embarrassed and looked at Li Chengqian in a wheelchair.

Since you choose to cooperate, you have to agree to all three of them.

If Li Chengqian does not agree, everything will have to be discussed again.

Half a day.

Li Chengqian sighed and said:

"Leave it at that."

Lu Heng ran to find paper and pen with a smile, and wrote down all the steps he remembered.

Next to him, Li Chengqian and Cheng Chumo looked at his dog-like words, and covered their faces together.

A man who wanted to open a bookstore wrote such strange words in a papermaking workshop......

It's really embarrassing to have such a brother.

Obviously, Lu Heng was also a little embarrassed after writing it.

But he was more shameless.

"Come according to this."

Lu Heng pointed to the steps he had written down and said to the workers:

"Try to get as much as possible in the bamboo soaking stage, after all, the cycle is relatively long, so that the yield can be maintained all the time."

"If there is not enough space, tell me that I can buy some of the surrounding land and use it as a bamboo pond."