Duke Lu's Mansion.

Chen Chu walked out of the house and stretched in the middle of the yard.

After yawning, he said with some disappointment: "Today, you don't have to go to Hongwenguan to study. Life is no longer full of fun!"

Chen Chu can no longer stop pretending.

Going further and further on the road of pretending to compete!

I stopped suddenly, and was still a little uncomfortable.

At this time, Cheng Chubi walked in and said, "Uncle, won't you go to Hongwenguan today?"

Chen Chu asked: "Do you want to go to Hongwenguan?"

Cheng Chubi scratched his head: "Uncle, I'm going to tell you that I used to hate going to Hongwenguan because I often got beaten up by my husband, but I want to go there recently, especially when you were there, I wanted to stay in Hongwenguan..."

Chen Chu: "…"

He immediately understood.

Pretending is contagious.

This kid Cheng Chubi also enjoys the atmosphere of pretending to be compared.

Chen Chu waved his hand: "Go tomorrow..."

"Oh," Cheng Chubi walked out with some disappointment, "Then I'll go and ask the Zhang sister to go to the big restaurant in Chang'an to eat chicken!"

Chen Chu said in surprise: "Chubi, how could you actually make an appointment with a woman? After all, you look so...ahem..."

Chen Chu is not Mrs. Cheng, so he cannot say that Cheng Chubi is ugly in person.

Cheng Chubi explained: "Uncle, are you strange? In the past, I asked those women, and they ignored me and didn't have to look at me directly. But since they learned that you are my uncle, they actually took the initiative to get close to me and even asked me for dinner..."

Chen Chu: "…"

He looked at Cheng Chubi, and had nothing to say.

I didn't expect that I had this function.

If it could help Cheng Chubi to form a marriage, it would have done a good thing.

As soon as Cheng Chubi left, messy footsteps sounded at the door.

When Chen Chu looked up, he saw Zhu Neng and a few craftsmen running in in a hurry, with each of them showing joy on his face.

Chen Chu asked, "Old Zhu, did your wife give birth? So happy?"

Zhu Neng shook his head and said, "Boss, you're joking. I'm almost fifty this year, and my wife is forty, so why can I still be born?"

"Ha ha……"

The people around him burst into laughter.

Chen Chu asked, "Why are you so happy?"

Zhu Neng said happily: "Boss, I'll give you a heart."

What?

Chen Chu even suspected that he had heard the wrong ear.

He looked up and down at Zhu Neng and said, "Old Zhu, you are also a bandit after all. You used to chop people with a kitchen knife. Can you not be so calcium-free?"

A heart-to-heart?

Except for women, only sissies do this.

Chen Chu felt chills.

Zhu Neng was confused and took out a thin black thing from his sleeve and said, "Boss, this is the refill you made for me..."

Chen Chu took a closer look.

Almost vomited blood.

It turned out to be a pencil refill.

Zhu Neng said excitedly: "Boss, we found the clay you want. It was bought from a merchant from Hedong. This person brought a few pieces of clay with him. After I bought it with him, I took it back to the laboratory for a test. It fully meets the boss's requirements. Boss, look..."

Chen Chu's eyes lit up, he hurriedly took them over, turned around and drew on the paper on the table.

A black line is done.

He tried to write a few more words.

The handwriting is clearly visible.

Chen Chu rubbed his hands excitedly.

Recently, he was busy with costume competition and forgot about making pencils. He left it to Zhu Neng and others to tinker with. Unexpectedly, it was tinkering.

The core components of a pencil are actually very simple: the refill core and the pen shell.

Needless to say, you can make a pen shell with a few craftsmen. Cut a stick into two pieces, hollow out the middle, and then stick it with fish glue.

The hardest thing is the manufacturing of the refill.

Graphite is easy to find!

But Chen Chu tried a large amount of clay in the early stage, but none of them worked.

Either too soft or too hard.

It's too soft to even insert the pen case!

Not to mention writing and drawing on paper.

Soft pedaling!

It's too hard, you can poke the paper through in one go.

Chen Chu made a pencil and was stuck at this step.

Originally, he thought the technology was not good, but unexpectedly, there was a problem with the raw materials.

Nowadays, if the raw material problem is solved, pencils can be produced.

Thinking of this, Chen Chu hurriedly asked, "Old Zhu, how much clay do you buy?"

Zhu Neng said: "Boss, it's less than five kilograms. Originally, the guy from Hedong brought this clay on his body to prevent him from drinking water when he was not suitable for the environment. He didn't come to Chang'an City to sell soil."

Chen Chu knew that this custom exists in many places.

If you go far away from home and worry about not being able to adapt to the environment, you will often bring some soil from your hometown. Just eat some soil when you are uncomfortable.

I don’t know if there is any scientific reason, but this is how many people do it.

From this point of view, this guy's hometown must have a large amount of such clay.

If it can be transported continuously to Chang'an City, the production of pencils can be ensured.

Chen Chu asked: "Come to bring that person to me quickly. I want to discuss with him and open a clay mine in Hedong..."

Although clay that meets the requirements does not have to be available in Hedong, and perhaps there are around Chang'an City, Chen Chu couldn't wait.

You can't send Lao Zhu and other old men to inquire everywhere.

A few old men might die halfway!

Moreover, in this era when there is no soil detection technology, it is too low to try it in the original way little by little.

Anyway, the cost of transporting clay from Hedong is not high.

Only then did Chen Chu have the idea of ​​opening a clay mine in Hedong, which could be used directly after the clay was processed in Hedong and then transported to Chang'an.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Neng shook his head and said, "Boss, the man has already gone back to Hedong. He looks poor and he couldn't find a friend in Chang'an City, so he planned to go back. When we bought his clay and told him how much he wanted, he hurried back to Hedong, saying that he would go back to pull a truck of clay..."

Chen Chu was a little disappointed and immediately ordered: "Old Zhu, when that person comes back, you will bring him to see me as soon as possible... Also, you should bring people now, use these kilograms of clay to make a batch of pencils..."

"Yes, boss!"

Several old men simply agreed.

Since following Chen Chu, they have discovered that the world is so wonderful.

It's much more interesting than being a bandit and playing with women.

Some people can even stay in the laboratory for three days and three nights without eating or drinking.

Now, everyone is excited to see that something new is about to be created again.

...

After sending Zhu Neng and others away, Chen Chu sat in the yard and started to think about it.

Pencils are made to make money.

He had asked Li Lizhi to calculate that he now owns nearly five million taxes of assets.

But who would think that the money was low?

Just as he was drawing a blueprint for the pencil-making business, a figure came into the door.

Seeing Chen Chu fall into deep thought, the man stepped forward, thought for a long time, and then gently patted Chen Chu on the shoulder.
Chapter completed!