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Chapter 16 The era of expensive paper

"It's so hard for me!"

Xu Xu couldn't stand it. In a month, he hadn't even made pulp.

On the other hand, the cement production outside has been done.

It's really angering to compare people.

Xu Xu felt a little frustrated, but now he has a lot of money and there is no problem at all. Since he can't make paper, buy paper, and after it is wet, dry it, and then you can make simple toilet paper.

Because during this period, Xu Xu has discovered that the strength of the people in Jingyang is really good.

Cement can be made in one month, which means that the wisdom of these ancient working people was quite awesome, at least much better than him, a man who became a monk halfway through.

He studied for a month but did not make the pulp, and in the end he could only give up helplessly.

It was just that he gave up himself, but he thought of a new way.

That is to replace the characters on this with ancient characters, and then let these people make this toilet paper.

So Xu Xu directly found Ye Jun.

There is no way, only Ye Jun can arrive at Jingyang at any time.

As the county magistrate of Jingyang, Ye Jun’s daily task is to take care of Xu Xu and Li Tai. Now Li Tai is busy exercising and taking a bath every day, and there is nothing at all.

After Xu Xu found Ye Jun, he said to him directly: "Mr. Ye, I have an immature idea. Please help me with some advice."

When Ye Jun heard Xu Xu's words, he nodded immediately.

What immature idea? I took out cement at the last moment. This kind of thing is simply a powerful tool for building cities and houses. This thing is much more powerful than Sanhedi soil, with stronger stickiness and stronger hardness, and it's a fucking fire!

If a house is made of this thing, you will not be afraid of water in winter. Even if a house is watered, it will only burn a little bit, and there will be no large area of ​​houses burned.

Now I have an immature idea, I don’t know what it is.

"Come here with me, prepare your pen, ink, paper and ink, I said, remember, and go and study it then."

Xu Xu brought Ye Jun into the study room and let Ye Jun sit in the seat, and then he sat down below by himself.

In a month, he had already memorized the method of making toilet paper.

When Ye Jun sat in his seat and prepared his pen, ink, paper and inkstone, he began to read the script according to his script.

I quickly explained the method of making toilet paper.

Ye Jun looked at what Xu Xu had just said, and his eyes were waiting for the boss.

"This seems to be papermaking?"

As a county magistrate and a county magistrate in Jingyang, Ye Jun involved a wide range of knowledge and knew a lot of things.

It can be seen at a glance that Xu Xu is talking about the method of making paper.

You should know that these good methods of making paper are basically monopolized by the aristocratic families. The methods of making paper among the people are basically very complicated and extremely expensive.

Paper is expensive, and there is no movable type printing technology, and the woodblock printing technology is only used to print Buddhist scriptures at this time, and it is not popular.

At this time, the Four Books and Five Classics were basically copied manually.

So the price of books is even more expensive.

Now Xu Xu has actually developed a papermaking technique. This papermaking technique is not like the extremely complex papermaking technique in the folk. It is an extremely simple papermaking technique, but it only takes a little long.

Of course, the first step is to pulping, and the following are very simple.

As a comprehensive talent, Ye Jun can naturally analyze many things.

"Mr. Marquis, I admire you!"

Ye Jun bowed respectfully to Xu Xu, and then said, "If the Marquis' papermaking technique can really work, even if we don't farm in Jingyang, we can support everyone with this papermaking."

Ye Jun was very confident that Xu Xu's papermaking technique had a very high success rate.

The cement before has explained this.

"Go, send it to me after making the paper."

Xu Xu waved calmly and sent Ye Jun out.

If I hadn't been able to do it myself, I wouldn't have been too lazy to say this.

But what Ye Jun said just now makes some sense.

Selling paper can support the people in Jingyang.

What if I sell books?

Xu Xu couldn't help but think of what happened next.

Although I have earned a lot of money from the Qingfeng, this money is only enough for Jingyang’s transformation for one or two years.

Especially after the natural disasters continued and the food prices continued to rise, causing people to suffer misery. Li Er issued an edict to blame himself. If he didn't save more money, it wouldn't seem to be very good.

Xu Xu has completely given up farming, which means that in a year, he must buy food. If there is no food, wouldn’t Jingyang be over?

"Since I have passed on papermaking, what else do you care about? Just create movable type printing!"

Xu Xu thought for a while and then made a conclusion in his mind.

movable type printing, this thing is also included in the ultimate version of his four great inventions.

There are many versions of movable type printing, including wood movable type and clay movable type. The most advanced version that can be created in the Tang Dynasty is copper movable type.

However, in this era, this copper is a representative of banknotes.

Copper, it's all money.

It is still an era of using copper plates. It is not yet the era of silver standard. Copper plates are money. To make a set of copper movable type, it will cost at least a few thousand stakes.

There are thousands of commonly used characters, and there are several more commonly used characters.

There are also rare characters, a set of copper movable type, which costs at least 10,000 pieces. You have to make copper movable type. Now Xu Xu does not have a copper mine in his hands, so he can only raise copper coins to make copper movable type. In this case, the cost is very high.

"Is it worth it?"

Xu Xu was a little confused, but now Ye Jun has gone out, and he can't find anyone to ask.

But now Xu Xu has another person to ask, that is the fat man who is constantly exercising next to him. As the King of Wei, he should know something.

After thinking it through, Xu Xu decisively went to find Li Tai.

I haven't seen this little fat man for a month, so it's time to see how he looks like recently.

When Xu Xu walked into Li Tai's house, Xu Xu was shocked.

This is not the original fat man.

At this time, Li Tai was naked and was doing Bobby exercises. The sweat on his body continued to spill, the muscles in his body were bulging, and the six-pack abdominal muscles appeared. If he persisted for a while, he would probably be able to develop eight-pack abdominal muscles.

The threat of death is indeed very powerful.

Li Tai changed a lot.

When Xu Xu came to Li Tai's room, Li Tai stopped: "Marquis Jingyang, why are you here? See how I am now? Has my body recovered?"

"Well, the recovery is pretty good, but I still have to keep going."

Xu Xu nodded and expressed his affirmation of Li Tai's recent efforts.

"I came here today to ask His Highness the King of Wei. I am planning to build a college in Jingyang. How much does it cost if I want to buy a hundred sets of Four Books and Five Classics?"

"One hundred sets? Are you crazy?"

Li Tai widened his eyes and looked at Xu Xu with disbelief.

"What? A hundred sets cost a lot?"

Xu Xu was a little distracted. He didn't need to buy a hundred sets as simple as buying. In order to allow all the children in Jingyang to learn, it was not just one hundred sets, but more than one thousand sets.

"One set of the Four Books and Five Classics costs 100 guan! If you copy it yourself, it can be much cheaper, and one set is about ten guan. If you buy one hundred sets, the bookstore may give you a discount, but even if you give you a discount, it won't be much discount, and it will definitely not be less than nine thousand guan."

Li Tai still knows a lot about these things because he is a prince and still has some understanding of the price of these things.
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