"What Zhu Lang said is right, this island is now rented by the Zhao family, and the owner of the island has invested in my Zhao family with the island, and fortunately the papermaking secret recipe supervised by the craftsman has made the Zhao family's papermaking workshop to the scale it is today!"

Zhu Yan scoffed at Zhao Rui's words, what is the owner of the island to buy shares, what is the secret recipe for papermaking from the craftsman, I am afraid that the Zhao family is worried about being spied on, so he took the initiative to hug the thick leg of the island owner!

Usually papermaking has to go through more than a dozen processes such as soaking, ash masking, cooking, bleaching, pulping, scooping, gluing, pasting, etc., from the initial raw material collection, to the final paper baking, shaping, cutting, packaging, ......, the whole process takes about a year, some special paper time will be longer, it is not too much to say that it is ancient high-tech, that a papermaking workshop is not a hundred years of inheritance, ordinary people want to make a usable paper, there is no family inheritance is impossible, otherwise Zhu would have opened a papermaking workshop.

The carriage carried the two to the gate of a high-walled compound, and after getting out of the carriage, Zhu Yan followed Zhao Rui in, it was very quiet inside, obviously no one was working at night.

"This is Zhao's papermaking workshop, I'll take Zhu Lang to visit the papermaking process first!"

Zhao Rui is not worried about the leakage of papermaking technology, the real mystery of papermaking will not be shown to Zhu Yan, and Zhu Yan does not expect to master the process of papermaking, this time with Zhao Rui, just to see how big the scale of Zhao's paper is, is it not as Zhao Rui boasts, can meet the needs of Zhu's printing books.

Zhu Yan saw an old man at the door of a workshop, and when the old man saw Zhao Rui, he snorted coldly, a little dissatisfied, but he didn't speak.

Zhao Rui hurriedly walked a few steps, and said with a respectful expression on his face: "Uncle clan, haven't you slept so late?" ”

It turned out to be Zhao Rui's uncle, and it seemed that he should be the manager of the paper workshop, Zhu Yan arched his hand towards the old man and said, "Old man, excuse me!" ”

"Hmm!" The old man looked to be in his sixties, his snow-white eyebrows raised, he glanced at Zhu Yan, and said unceremoniously: "Since you came to the Zhu family of Wu County, you should know that papermaking is a secret that the family does not pass on, but Zhao Dalang promised you to visit, and the old man is naturally not easy to stop, but he also asked Zhu Lang not to leave after seeing something and spreading it everywhere, the old man thanked him in advance!" ”

"Don't dare! Please rest assured, the old man only came to talk about cooperation with Shopkeeper Zhao this time, and he didn't have the heart to peep! ”

Zhu Yan could hear the old man's strong vigilance, although he was unhappy, but the other party was an elder after all, and it was not easy to be presumptuous between words!

"That's the best!"

After the old man finished speaking, he made a way, Zhao Rui looked sorry, hurriedly made a gesture of please, and walked inside with Zhu Yan. Zhu Yan walked in the door, and when he looked back, the old man also walked in, which made Zhu Yan feel very unhappy, this is to prevent thieves!

But no matter what, the other party did the right thing, the paper workshop is the lifeblood of the Zhao family, and there is nothing wrong with doing so.

"At present, there are more than 200 craftsmen in the paper workshop, who work five hours a day, usually only during the day, but if necessary, they can be divided into three shifts to work, and the output can be doubled, but the owner of the island has promulgated the "Safe Labor Regulations", which must have one day off every seven days, and are allowed to work for up to five hours a day, and pay extra overtime when they are out, so usually, no one ...... work here at night."

Zhao Rui walked while introducing the situation in the workshop to Zhu Yan.

Zhu Yan's workshop here is very large, it seems to be several times larger than Gu's paper mill, and there are dozens of pulp pools alone. Usually a pulp pond can produce ten knives of paper a day, and the scale of a paper mill can be seen from the pulp pond.

"Shopkeeper Zhao, can it really produce 50,000 knives of paper a year here?"

"It seems that Zhu Lang still doesn't believe it! Please follow me ......", Zhao Rui held a glass lamp in his hand, took Zhu Yan to the door of a warehouse, stood at the door and looked inside, the warehouse was about five zhang wide, about two zhang high, and the length reached more than ten zhang.

Zhu Yan was completely shocked by the scene in front of him, there are too many papers here!

In later generations, a piece of paper was only a few centimeters, and a blank book was only about one yuan, which was really nothing. But in the Tang Dynasty, paper could be used as money, a piece of paper was a few to dozens of papers, and a hundred pieces of paper were sung, which was equivalent to the income of an ordinary craftsman in a month.

That's a lot of financial and material resources!

I'm afraid even the Gu family doesn't have such a scale! Thinking of this, Zhu Yan had already made up his mind in his heart, and after he went back, he must discuss with the head of the family and buy paper for printing books from the Wufeng Islands.

"Yes, Zhao's shopkeeper let him see the strength of Zhao's paper, I don't know what the Zhu family will buy bamboo paper from Zhao's hands in the future, what are the discounts!"

The paper business is not included in the commodity control of the Wufeng Islands plan, and Zhu Yan is thinking that even if the Wufeng Islands are not acquired this time, he can buy some paper in the Wufeng Islands and return to Datang.

"No hurry!" Zhao Rui smiled on his face, and was not in a hurry to finalize this business, and said: "Zhao's paper industry is not only a kind of bamboo paper, but also has opened many different types of paper since the cooperation with the craftsmen of the Wufeng Islands, doesn't Zhu Lang want to take a look at it first?" ”

"Any other paper?"

Zhu Yan was a little puzzled, and almost drowned the shameless Zhao Rui with a mouthful of foam, which papermaking workshop in Datang does not have only one type of paper, such as the rice paper in Cao's hands is only used for calligraphy and painting, such as the hemp paper made by Liu's in Cangzhou, if a papermaking workshop can produce several different types of paper, wouldn't it be able to monopolize the paper used in the entire Datang?

"Zhu Lang doesn't know, paper has a lot of uses, but it can only be used for writing, if Zhu Lang doesn't believe it, please follow a certain to the family exhibition hall to see?"

Zhu Yan is now despised, and he wants to refute it, but now he doesn't seem to know anything about papermaking, what if what Zhao Rui said is true? Wouldn't it seem that he was even more ignorant, so he stopped talking, and was led into a room.

The room is not big, but the inside is very bright, the surrounding walls are wrapped with a whole piece of pine, the clear wood grain makes the room very quiet, there are six large glass lamps hanging on the wall, and the ground is also covered with large blue and white tiles, so that the light in the room is brighter, on the four sides against the wall, there is a row of cabinets made of crystal sheets, which are neatly arranged with many different shapes of paper, some of the paper has even been cut into the shape of a book, some are stacked together, and some are rolled into a barrel, Don't know what they do?

(End of chapter)

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