Chapter 296： person who can carve

Chapter 296 The person who can carve

"However, the work of the paper-making workshop needs to be kept secret, so those who enter the paper-making workshop must sign a contract with me, and shall not tell anyone how paper is made."

"This workshop of mine also cooperates with His Highness Li Wang. If any leak is made, it will be a serious crime for everyone to steal. But correspondingly, the wages will rise to 60 Wen per day."

"I want to provide three meals a day for people from other villages, and their wages will be reduced to fifty-two yuan a day."

"If the villagers only provide lunch, the salary will be reduced to fifty-five yuan a day."

"People in this village go home to eat and live every day, and their wages are only sixty Wen a day."

"However, those who have already worked in my workshop don't have to envy the people in the paper workshop. You have worked hard in the workshop during this time, and I will give you sixty yuan a day, so you can go back first."

The people who worked in the cooking oil workshop and the sugar workshop breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and went back obediently.

Many people heard that the wages are 60 Wen a day, and everyone was very excited. This is 20 Wen a day more than those working in the field.

However, some people hesitated when they heard that they would die if they accidentally said it.

If you drink alcohol and accidentally say it out, wouldn't that hurt your family?

One person asked: "Xiao Dong, do you really have to be someone who has read the book?"

Nangong Anshan said: "It's not necessary. If a person is particularly smart and can answer my questions, his character is fine. I can also make an exception and let him work in a paper workshop."

Many people breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Nangong Anshan said: "Do you have any questions? If there are no questions, everyone can go to my door and wait for the registration. It is ready there."

Many qualified people ran over immediately.

Although all the people she was looking for this time were Nangong Anshan who had taken her pulse before, which saved a part of taking the pulse, but she needed to ask questions, so she didn't select many people on the first day, and there were only fifty people in total.

So the selection continued for a few more days, and on the fourth day, all the 200 people needed by the papermaking workshop were finally selected.

So for the next period of time, Nangong Anshan was preparing to make paper in the papermaking workshop, teaching others while doing it.

According to the general method, it takes more than a year from preparation to finished product.

But she has a system and can get the easiest method, which saves a lot of procedures, so on the tenth day, she finally made the paper.

Dugu Huanxu originally wanted to watch the paper making, but he didn’t expect it would take so much time, and he didn’t have time to come every day, but only came a few times in the middle.

When I came here on the last day, I happened to see Nangong Anshan teaching the villagers how to cut paper.

After a long while, Nangong Anshan held a large sheet of paper and said with a smile: "The weather is fine these days, and the paper has dried so quickly. This is rice paper, and you can write on it."

After speaking, she took out the pen and ink she had prepared and began to write on it.

Soon, the words "Auspicious Ruyi" appeared on the paper.

People in the workshop looked at Nangong Anshan with admiration.

At first they only knew that it was a paper-making workshop, but they didn’t know what paper was made of. They didn’t expect that it could be used for writing.

Most of them have read books. Without Nangong Anshan telling them, they know that compared with bamboo slips, paper has too many advantages.

With paper, scholars no longer need to carry bamboo slips of tens or even hundreds of catties when they go out in the future.

Dugu Huanxu took it over and took a look, and saw that it was basically the same as the paper Nangong Anshan gave him before, and said with surprise: "Ashan, you are really amazing, with this paper, you can really It brings great convenience to readers."

Nangong Anshan smiled and said: "Yes, with paper, it will be easier to make books in the future."

"Making a book?"

"Yes, Qinglong Kingdom still writes books by hand. If there is paper, there will be no need to write books by hand in the future, and every kind of book can be published very quickly."

She was talking about movable type.

Now that paper is out, printing is available.

She skipped block printing and went straight to movable type.

"Ashan, why can't I understand what you mean?"

"Haha, you will know after a while, I still have to do some preparations, but I have one thing to ask you."

"you say."

Nangong Anshan said seriously: "A Xu, I want to open a bookstore, I wonder if I can cooperate with you?"

She has movable type and paper in hand, and she can sell books later.

And she has already unlocked pens, inks, papers and inkstones in her space, so there is no need to worry about the supply and quality of the goods.

Bookstores in Qinglong Kingdom are not open to ordinary people, only those who are approved by the government can open bookstores.

After all, if the person who opened the bookstore had the intention of being disobedient and wrote all his thoughts in the book, it would be a disaster if they spread it.

"Bookstore?" Dugu Huanxu said: "You mean, you want to sell books, pens, inks, papers and inkstones in the future?"

"That's right, after paper comes out, books made of paper will definitely be very popular, but the business of merchants who traditionally use bamboo slips to make books will definitely be greatly affected, and some will definitely trouble me, so I can only cooperate with you Avoid trouble, after all, no one dares to trouble His Highness Li Wang and Li Wang's son."

"So that's the case, it's okay to cooperate, let's use the name of Li Wang's son, you give him 20%, and he will give you asylum."

Nangong Anshan was overjoyed immediately, "Alright, I have one more thing to ask you. Is there anyone in your staff who can sculpt?"

Whether it is woodblock printing or movable type printing, people who can engrave are needed, and the characters must be carved before they can be printed.

Dugu Huanxu thought for a while, and said: "I don't have anyone who can carve, but I know someone who can carve. At the beginning, that person owed His Royal Highness Li a favor, so he carved a batch of tokens for His Royal Highness. , but when we went to him again later, he said nothing and didn’t carve. Even though King Li threatened to kill him, the knife was already on his neck, so he still didn’t carve.”

Nangong Anshan asked: "Then what does he live on?"

"It's still carving. Although he doesn't do business with His Royal Highness Li Wang and us, he will choose customers according to his mood and carve things."

"It seems that he is indeed a capable person, A Xu, do you have time tomorrow? If you have time, please take me to see him. I am confident to persuade him to do things for me."

Dugu Huanxu said: "This... the war is tense recently, I have to go to the border, why don't I ask Feng Jing to go with you tomorrow, you also saw him last time."

Nangong Anshan nodded: "Yes, let him go with me."

(end of this chapter)