In the early morning, Jinling is still bustling, and the streets are full of people...... Shi Yuan sat in the Lin family's carriage, whistling and shaking his head, although he was dressed as a scholar, he looked like a gangster on the side of the road...... The middle-aged man beside him would give him a few words about the essentials of driving the carriage from time to time, and although he smiled and agreed, he actually asked some questions about horse mating...... Regarding the question of the son in front of him, Lao Yang, who was driving the car, laughed - along the way, he had already heard a lot of strange remarks from this son!

"Miss, it's time to get there." The carriage stopped in front of a shop, and Lao Yang turned to Lin Yingyue in the car and said.

When Shi Yuan heard this, he also jumped out of the carriage, and he glanced at the shops next to him...... But I saw that the shop was elegantly decorated, the door was open, and a vertical flag was hanging at the door of the shop, and a big "forest" word was written on the flag!

Just as Shi Yuan was looking at the Lin family's shop, Lin Yingyue in the car also came out. saw that the tears on her cheeks were gone, but her face was a little red......

"Miss Lin, is it hot in the car? Why is your face so red? Shi Yuan saw Lin Yingyue come out, so he stretched out his hand to pick her up and get out of the car.

"You have to take care of it!" When Lin Yingyue heard Shi Yuan's words, her face was even more ...... She flicked her sleeves and shook off Shi Yuan's hand and jumped out of the car by herself. Lin Yingyue had just fallen her delicate buttocks in the car, and this jump caused pain, she frowned slightly, but when she saw Shi Yuan with a hippie smile on the side, she snorted lightly and walked towards the shop.

Shi Yuan scratched his head a little embarrassed, thinking that Lin Yingyue was still angry, so he withdrew his hand that was hanging in the air, and hurriedly followed Lin Yingyue into the shop.

The layout of this shop is also simple, divided into four areas, namely: pen, ink, paper, inkstone, one area has a counter, and the shelves behind the counter are full of goods. As soon as Lin Yingyue walked into the store, she saw a white-bearded old man walking over.

"Young Miss, are you here?" The old man leaned back slightly and said to Lin Yingyue.

"Uncle Tian, you don't have to be polite, I came back from Bianzhou yesterday, and I came to the store today to calculate last month's accounts." Lin Yingyue has great respect for this old man.

"Oh, I see, that's just right...... The other shopkeepers handed over the account shop to me a few days ago, and I took it to Miss Shao, so that you don't have to run away again. The old man, who was called Tian Bo by Lin Yingyue, turned around and walked towards the house.

"Miss Lin, why don't there be any guests in this shop?" Shi Yuan saw that no one came in the shop for a long time, so he asked Lin Yingyue in confusion.

"You really don't know anything...... This ink, paper, inkstone, not everyone can afford to use it, so many people will buy it? Even in this Jinling City, our Lin family only has three shops. ”

When Shi Yuan heard Lin Yingyue's explanation, he understood the reason, but then he frowned and asked, "Since these pen, ink, paper and inkstones are sold so poorly, isn't it ......?"

"Although ordinary people don't use these things much, our Lin family has been able to gain a foothold in Jinling City for so many years, of course, there are some means!" Lin Yingyue said this, with a slightly proud look on her face, she glanced at Shi Yuan, and then continued: "This is in Nanqing...... It can be said that in the entire Daqing, there are three companies that do this ink business. In addition to our Lin family, there are also the Shi family and the Jin family, and these three families...... But they are all in this Jinling City! ”

"Why is that?" Shi Yuan asked Lin Yingyue puzzled.

"What do you think is the most important of this, ink, paper, and inkstone?" Lin Yingyue didn't rush to answer Shi Yuan, but threw out such a question to ask Shi Yuan.

Shi Yuan lowered his head and thought for a while, then said: "From the perspective of merchants, of course, "paper" is the most important, because paper consumes the most!" ”

"You still have some knowledge...... That's right, of the four items, paper is the most important! It's not just because paper consumes the most, but also because the technology used to make paper is important! Therefore, although there are many small paper-making workshops in Daqing, they are still headed by our Lin family, as well as the Shi family and the Jin family...... And the paper of the three of us is also specially supplied to the official family and those big families! ”

I see...... This Lin family turned out to be high-end consumption, no wonder there are no people in this shop. Shi Yuan heard Lin Yingyue's explanation and understood the reason. It's just that he still wonders: in this case, why didn't these three companies swallow up those small workshops in order to expand the market?

Lin Yingyue seemed to see what Shi Yuan was thinking, and said: "This papermaking is not as simple as you think, the raw materials used in those small workshops are simple, the techniques are clumsy, and the paper produced is not much, if they are swallowed, there is no big profit to be made!" ”

As soon as Lin Yingyue said this, Shi Yuan understood the reason: the papermaking technology in this world is limited and the output is not much. Even if those small workshops are swallowed up, if they are ignored, although the sales volume will go up, but those small workshops will damage the reputation of the Lin family under the banner of the Lin family; If those small workshops were to be improved, the cost would have increased, and the output would have increased, but the market had not expanded, and there would have been a lot of stockpiling in time...... In general, the current high-end market is saturated, and if you want to expand the low-end market, you must save costs, but the current technology can't keep up!

In the gap between Shi Yuan and Lin Yingyue's conversation, Tian Bo had already taken out the account shop. Lin Yingyue, who got the account shop, asked Tian Bo a few more business questions, so she didn't stop and left the store.

"Young Miss, do you want to go to the other two shops?" Lao Yang asked Lin Yingyue, who was already in the car.

"The account shop has been obtained, so there is no need to go......"

"Great! So we can go home? When Shi Yuan heard Lin Yingyue's answer, he put his head into the car and asked urgently.

"You think beautifully! It's only been a long time, and there's still a lot to do, but you want to go back...... Also, why did you stick your head in the car again? Get out of here! ”

Shi Yuan was unmoved, he sat in the position of driving the horse, but there was just a place protruding from this cart board, and he was very uncomfortable to sit on...... Moreover, for the driver who is a chick boss, Shi Yuan has some prevarication in his heart - he doesn't want to be a little white face who eats soft rice!

"The owner...... Yes...... No...... That Miss Lin, I'm a little uncomfortable sitting here, besides, I'm so handsome and chic, so that those little girls on the side of the road can't walk when they see it, which will cause traffic jams! If you want to keep walking, you can let me sit in the car...... Anyway, if the fertilizer water doesn't flow into the fields of outsiders, I'll suffer a little loss, so you can take a few more looks! Before Shi Yuan finished speaking, she saw Lin Yingyue's face was coquettish, but this time she learned smartly, and instead of stretching out her foot to kick Shi Yuan, she threw an embroidered pillow in the car.

Shi Yuan casually caught the flying embroidered pillow, he looked at the pillow in his hand, and then said to Lin Yingyue with a smile: "Thank you, Miss Lin, for your concern!" Then he pulled his head out of the car and put the pillow under his buttocks......

Uncle Yang beside Shi Yuan was already stunned - although he had seen Shi Yuan's methods before, but now that he looked at it, this Shi Gongzi's face was probably thicker than the corner of the Jinling City Wall! And he was not small, so he put the young lady's embroidered pillow under her ass as a cushion...... Speaking of being bold and bold, I am afraid that there will be no one in this world who can compare to Shi Gongzi in front of him......

"Uncle Yang, go to the workshop." After a long time, Lin Yingyue in the car calmed down and commanded Lao Yang.

The Lin family's workshop is outside Jinling City, and after leaving Jinling, they will arrive at the workshop after a while. Shi Yuan looked at it, there were many bamboo houses in the open space in front of him, and the shouts of "paper craftsmen" beating pulp were heard from time to time outside the house, and there was still white gas in the tall wooden barrels not far away...... This scene has the appearance of a small factory. Shi Yuan sighed a little in his heart, and saw a middle-aged man in green clothes walking towards the carriage.

"Why did Miss Young come to the paper mill today?" The middle-aged man walked to the front of the carriage and said to Lin Yingyue in the carriage.

"It's Uncle Li...... Yingyue just came back from Yangzhou yesterday, and came to the paper shop today to have a look. Lin Yingyue said, and jumped out of the carriage by herself, the pain in her hips made her frown slightly, she glared at Shi Yuan fiercely, and then walked towards the middle-aged man she called Uncle Li.

"Uncle Li, are you doing well in the paper mill these days?" Lin Yingyue asked the man beside her as she walked.

"Tell Miss Shao, everything is okay in the paper mill...... It's just that it rained a few days ago, and there was a lot of rain in a few buckets of rough pulp......"

"Oh? How so? Aren't the barrels guarded? How do you let the rain in? ”

"This ...... That one...... The rain was so rapid a few days ago that I didn't have time to cover the pulp bucket...... That's why ......"

When Lin Yingyue saw Uncle Li in front of her talking hesitantly, she frowned slightly, and said, "I'm tired of Uncle Li taking me to have a look." ”

The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, then turned around and walked towards the paper mill. As Lin Yingyue went all the way, Shi Yuan also had a general understanding of the papermaking process. The paper made by the Lin family is of high quality, the materials used are mainly bamboo and wood, and the papermaking process is cumbersome, and it has to go through the tedious steps of soaking water and peeling, and then cooking, pulping, filtration, water removal, drying, etc., in order to be formed, although there is no processing efficiency like an assembly line, but Shi Yuan also has great admiration for the wisdom of the ancients!

Just when Shi Yuan was secretly surprised by the papermaking technology at this time, Lin Yingyue in front of her stopped, there were several huge wooden barrels in front of her, and the wooden barrels were filled with bamboo and lime water that had been peeled, and the few wooden barrels in front of Lin Yingyue looked like there was a lot more water than other wooden barrels.

"Li San, who is taking care of these barrels?" Lin Yingyue looked at the wooden barrel in front of her, her face was gloomy, and she no longer called the middle-aged man in front of her "Uncle Li", but called him by his name "Li San".

Li San heard Lin Yingyue's questioning, and he was speechless for a while.

"Sister Yingyue, it's just some rain, why blame Fang Master Li?" Looking at the voice, I saw two gorgeously dressed and handsome young men walking not far away, and the man who was talking at this time, Shi Yuan happened to know - this man was the son of the Lin family who said in front of Old Man Lin yesterday that he was not, because when he was scolded by Old Man Lin, this person just glared at Shi Yuan, and Shi Yuan had some impressions.

As the man spoke, he had already walked to Lin Yingyue's side. Seeing Shi Yuan, he snorted heavily and stared at Shi Yuan with some ill will.

"Lin Yan? And also...... Jin Gongzi, what are you doing in our Lin family's workshop? Seeing the two people coming over, Lin Yingyue had some doubts in her heart, she looked at the young master of the Jin family beside Lin Yan, and asked.

"Sister Yingyue is very majestic, since you are in charge of the family's business, even my eldest brother doesn't recognize it...... This is the Lin family's workshop, I want to come from the family workshop, do I still have to inform you? When Lin Yan heard Lin Yingyue's words, he turned to Lin Yingyue and said sarcastically.

Lin Yingyue heard Lin Yan's mocking words, but she didn't feel the slightest displeasure, but smiled slightly and said, "Big brother is serious...... My sister is just curious, doesn't my eldest brother have to go to the academy to study today? ”

"This ...... I...... I ......" Lin Yingyue's question made Lin Yan at a loss for a while, and he didn't know how to justify...... And at this moment, the young master of the Jin family, who had not spoken beside Lin Yan, stood up.

"Lin Shimei, don't get me wrong, because of the relationship between the Jiangnan Poetry Society, my brother and I took a leave of absence for my husband today, came out to enjoy the spring, and found some inspiration...... It's just that he just passed by this paper mill, and Brother Ling was concerned about the Lin family's business for a while, so he came in to take a look. ”

When Shi Yuan heard this, he sighed secretly in his heart: This young master of the Jin family has some ways, and when he said this, he was not in a hurry or impatient, and he solved Lin Yingyue's problem at will, which was much stronger than Lin Yan who was struggling on the side...... It's just that this young master of the Jin family looks very angry by himself, but listening to what he said, he seems to be a student of Wenhua Academy!