Qin Shi Mingyue's infinite punch card

Chapter 238: The Beginning of Papermaking!
Ye Chen sat in the room, looked at the bamboo slips in his hand, frowned slightly, and said, "Why is there only 1 taels of gold left? Is the cost of the villa so high?"

He remembered that he had a lot of money, but now he only had less than one-third of it left.

Hearing this, Xue Nu said, "There are more than 1000 people in the villa now, so the cost is naturally not small. Moreover, those disciples practice hard every day, so naturally they must eat meat, otherwise they will lose their strength.

Especially those who practice hard work, not only eat a lot, but also need to take regular medicinal baths in order to avoid hidden injuries after polishing the body, which is a huge expenditure.

In the past two years, most of your money has been spent. If I plan carefully, I am afraid that there is not even 1 taels of gold left. "

"Thank you Xue'er, I didn't expect these teenagers to spend so much."

Ye Chen said something.

Xue Nu stepped forward and said, "Why don't we lower the salaries of the disciples, so that 1 taels of gold should last for two or three years."

Ye Chen shook his head: "No, if this is the case, it will definitely slow down their cultivation speed greatly, and we must not cut corners on this."

Hearing this, Xue Nu frowned, and after thinking for a while, she said: "I still have something to go on, or else..."

Ye Chen interrupted before he could finish his sentence: "I'll handle this matter. You should keep your little property as a dowry when you marry me."

Xue Nu's pretty face blushed a little when she heard this, and then she said: "The expenses in the villa are not a small amount, if you have to bear these by yourself, I'm afraid it will be very difficult."

Ye Chen smiled lightly: "You don't have to worry about this, I will take care of it."

When Xue Nu heard this, she couldn't help but her eyes lit up: "You have a solution?"

"Not ready yet."

Ye Chen replied.

Xuenv's expression was suddenly lost. She also knew that it was not easy to get so much money. Although Ye Chen was very powerful, it did not mean that he was equally good at making money.

Seeing this, Ye Chen smiled and said, "I mean, there are too many ways, and I haven't figured out which one to use right now. As long as I'm willing to use my brain, money is just a number."

Xue Nu rolled his eyes at him and said, "Stop joking, let's be serious."

Ye Chen walked to his side and said, "I'm serious, it's really easy to make money in this era."

"Then tell me, how do you get such a large amount of money?"

Xue Nu looked at the former and asked.

With a smile on his face, Ye Chen didn't reply directly, but raised the Del Bamboo Slip in his hand, and asked, "Don't you think it's too troublesome to write on the Bamboo Slip?

Not only is it cumbersome, but the characters that can be written are also very limited. Even an "Analects of Confucius" requires thousands of bamboo slips, which is quite inconvenient. "

Xue Nu said: "It's really inconvenient, but hasn't it been like this since ancient times?"

There are mainly two types of writing tools today, the most commonly used are bamboo slips, which are relatively cheap to make, but not easy to carry and store.

As for the other one, brocade silk, although this material is much lighter, it is not very convenient to write, and the most important thing is that the price is too expensive.Even big families only use it occasionally.

It's just been like this for thousands of years, so people didn't pay much attention to it.

However, Xue Nu is also a smart person. After hearing this, she quickly reacted and said, "Do you have a way to change this situation?"

Ye Chen smiled slightly: "I have a way to make a brand new writing thing, which is definitely more useful than bamboo slips and brocade."

Hearing your words, Xue Nu's eyes lit up, and she asked, "What is that?"

Ye Chen raised his eyebrows, and put it off: "I can't say this now, I will know it after I make it."

Yes, he planned to make paper. As a traveler, it is actually very easy to make money in this era. If you can have a certain foundation, it is not difficult to become rich even if you are an enemy.

As long as you get out a few things from later generations, money is just a trivial matter.

He also considered things like glass and soap before, but after thinking about it for a while, he decided to make paper. After all, under the current general trend, other than gunpowder, nothing else is more useful than paper.

In addition, it is not very difficult to make paper. It should be possible to make it after a few experiments, and once paper is in the world, it will definitely become an epoch-making thing.

Even if the price is sky-high, there will definitely be people rushing to buy it.

Moreover, although paper is precious, the cost is actually extremely low, and the raw materials that can be used are also very wide.

Whether it is bamboo, fishing net, hemp rope, or hay, it can be used for crafting.

After the raw materials are collected, they must first be soaked, crushed, and sanded.Then soak and cook with plant ash liquid to remove the gum, grease, etc. in it.

They are then pounded further to make them into a paste.Then, take out this paste-like pulp, spread it thinly on the bamboo curtain to dry, and after drying, it will become paper next.

There will be a huge price difference between the low cost and the high value, and it must be a lucrative business.

The only troublesome place is that if you want to make a lot of paper, you need a lot of manpower, otherwise it will affect the production efficiency.

However, this matter is not a problem for Ye Chen. There are thousands of people in Hidden Sword Villa, and it is time to order them after they have been raised for so long.

He calculated that if the assembly line production method is adopted, 1000 people can produce [-] sheets of paper a day!
A roll of bamboo slips that can only write a few characters can be sold at a price of about [-] baht in the market, and a piece of paper that is three feet long and wide can at least write hundreds of characters. A hundred baht is not expensive, right?

In this way, ten pieces of paper are worth one gold, and if one hundred thousand pieces of paper are sold in one day, then one can earn ten thousand gold!
In this era, is there any more profitable industry than papermaking?

After all, anyone with a certain status basically cannot do without writing tools, and paper is far superior to bamboo slips in terms of writing experience and mobile storage.

After having this thing, anyone with some family background will not use other writing materials.And those who can't afford paper are basically the poorest people at the bottom, and people in this class basically don't use things like bamboo slips.

It is conceivable that in the near future paper will complete its monopoly on words.

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as you master the paper, you can control the spread of words, and the wealth of the world will continue to gather towards you...

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