After the general arrangement, the three of them left the small workshop.

On the carriage, Li Chengqian was still a little worried.

"Brother Xian, I have read all the steps you just wrote, although it seems that this is more productive and less costly, but the biggest problem is that we are short of paper now."

"If you start making it now, it will take nearly a year before you can use the paper ...... you make homemade."

"Won't the bookstore be open this year?"

Regardless of the type of paper, the raw material needs to be soaked with water or lime in order to obtain pulp later.

The cycle of bamboo is at least about 100 days, and far water cannot quench the thirst.

But Lu Heng raised his eyebrows, as if he didn't care about it.

"Open, why don't you open it?"

He patted Li Chengqian's shoulder and said earnestly:

"Gao Ming, you have to take a long-term view."

"I didn't choose to make bamboo paper because of the books that this bookstore wants to print."

"The most on the market is hemp paper, the kind of paper you use in the palace costs a hundred wen a piece, but don't the children of the poor families outside use paper?"

"Maybe you think it's not good to use hemp paper to print books, what is insulting."

"But people who really need books will never give up cheap books just because the paper is poor."

Li Chengqian and Cheng Chumo looked at him at the same time.

Both of them were full of doubts.

If you come to the paper workshop today, it's not for the printing of books......

What else could it be for?

"Brother Lu, what are you going to do with the papermaking technique you just taught them?"

Cheng Chumo got straight to the point:

"If I had known that you would buy paper from the market, I wouldn't have brought you to this workshop at all."

"Compared with that kind of big workshop, my family's annual output is too small."

"It's useless!"

Lu Heng didn't talk immediately, but thought for a moment.

He was thinking about how to convey the big things he was going to do with these two teenagers.

"If we want to open a bookstore now, the primary goal is not to make a profit, but to open the market and spread the name of the bookstore."

"So in terms of price, we can sell at cost price only, as long as we can guarantee that we don't lose money."

"If necessary, you can even trade at a loss for a period of time!"

"You understand that, right?"

Li Chengqian and Cheng nodded in unison.

What Lu Heng wanted to do, they already knew.

If you want to use the bookstore to make a profit, you don't have to try your best to reduce costs, and you can't afford to let Li Chengqian and Cheng Chumo get involved.

What he wants is to take this opportunity to support the children of the poor family, so as to draw a salary from the bottom of the family.

However, what does this have to do with the workshop just mentioned?

Seeing that the two were puzzled, Lu Heng continued to explain.

"The paper mill is a way back."

"If the Maison had found out what we were doing in advance, it would have done everything it could, trying its best to suppress the bookstore, using all kinds of means and methods."

"Even the most important raw material, that is, paper, is directly stuck."

"Moreover, in addition to selling the books used in the imperial examinations, such as the Four Books and the Five Classics, I also want to get something else out."

"If this thing is taken out, I'm afraid they will be in a hurry on the spot, and they won't have to wait for the poor people to come and buy books."

Li Chengqian frowned and thought carefully for a long time.

In the end he gave up.

"Don't sell it, tell me quickly, what is it?"

Facing Li Chengqian and Cheng Chumo's curious and a little anxious gaze, Lu Heng grinned.

"Newspapers, have you heard of them?"

"Let's take the right to speak in this world, and then, spread the good things done by the family to the world!"

………………

At night, the Tai Chi Temple.

Today, it is very strange that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who left the palace early, came back so late, and as soon as he came back, he went directly to His Majesty Li Er.

The palace people whispered, standing outside in the wind and waiting, and only eating melons could relieve their cold.

Inside the temple.

Not long after the New Year, Li Shimin began to be busy again.

While he was reviewing the recital, he heard a report from outside that the prince had arrived.

After Li Chengqian came in, His Majesty Li Er put down what he was doing and looked up at him.

"What's wrong Gao Ming, it's dark this day, come to me for something?"

Li Chengqian respectfully saluted him before speaking.

"Father, Erchen and Lu Heng are preparing a bookstore, I want to ask you if you want to participate in this matter."

Li Shimin was a little puzzled.

He stood up, moved his hands and feet, and walked up to his son.

"Bookstore...... It's finally a bit of a literati thing, and it's not bad. ”

"But if you want to run a bookstore, what does it have to do with me? The royal family has opened a lot of bookstores, and the business is like that, I haven't heard how profitable this kind of shop can be. ”

Hearing this, Li Chengqian stood up with the armrest of his wheelchair.

He said with some seriousness:

"Father, you misunderstood, the books sold by the bookstore itself are secondary, and this son doesn't plan to pull you."

"But there is another item that this bookstore wants to sell, and I have to talk to you first."

His Majesty Li Er finally became interested.

He said in a deep voice:

"What you want to sell, you say come and hear."

Li Chengqian carefully combed through it in his heart before he replied:

"This was proposed by Lu Heng, and he planned to make something called a newspaper."

"The newspaper is published once a month, and after it is published, a messenger will be sent to each state capital, which can write down the major decisions of the imperial court this month, and can also add other new things, Lu Heng said that this is called news."

"There are a lot of things that can be published in the newspaper, and if there is space in the space, you can also put up the remarks that you have written yourself, so that the people can read your articles."

"The main reason why I want to discuss with you is because the publication of the imperial court decision requires your consent."

Li Shimin didn't react at first.

But soon, he realized the importance of this newspaper.

Except for the Guanzhong area, the news of many state capitals is extremely lagging behind. Sometimes the imperial court issued a new law or resolution, and it took a year for Jiangnan and Shuzhong to know.

If such a thing can really be produced, then the efficiency of the imperial court will be greatly improved.

But the main problem is......

"Once a month, is there enough manpower?"

Li Shimin was deeply puzzled:

"How many pencilers did you have to find in that bookstore to finish writing?"

Even if this thing is only sold in Chang'an City, the readers in the city will probably snap it up, let alone sell it elsewhere.

If you break the pen, you can't write that much!

Li Chengqian shook his head with a smile and said:

"I can't tell you, but as long as you have enough paper, you can have as many newspapers as you want."

"Father, do you agree with this? Do you want to get involved? ”