North of Nanjing, Swallow Rock.

"Recruitment is going well, isn't it?" Zhu Cihong looked at the little fat man with a smile in front of him, and walked in the vast factory with his hands behind his back.

The little fat man is Wang Yi, a businessman who used to be in Linqing, Shandong, but the former big businessman has obviously changed careers at this moment.

Looking at the workshop covering an area of dozens of acres, Wang Yi sighed with emotion: "Smooth, smooth!" There are already homeless people screaming and hungry not to mention, just saying that this land is also cheap, and the most important thing is that there is no official harassment, and there is not so much trouble, which is really convenient. There is also a flat land and a road leading to the Yangtze River port, which helps the villain a lot. ”

"Land leveling is the credit of Hengxin, not mine." Zhu Cihong narrowed his eyes with a smile.

When Wang Yi heard this, he suddenly didn't know what his expression was, and he laughed, but he was embarrassed for a while.

This place is located on the north side of the river, and is a saline-alkali land near the original official road and river. When Zhu Cihong left Nanjing, Zhao Shiyao had already come to Nanjing and opened the spectrum of Hengxin Commercial Bank.

It is said that although Hengxin has abundant capital, it does not have much advantage in Jiangnan, a place where the business atmosphere is extremely strong and there are many local dragons.

But Zhao Shiyao is worthy of being a smart woman, she actually bought a large piece of land in the north of the city, and then leveled the land and built roads to Nantong Jinling Beitong Port.

The infrastructure construction team trained in Henan and Shandong is naturally not a dry meal, the land has been leveled in three or five times, and even a number of temporary workshop standard houses have been built, and the road leading to the port and the Longjiang Shipyard in the north of Nanjing is even more of a high standard. It is enough to let the four **** carriages spread their hooves and run.

It's just that in this way, Wang Yi, who has always boasted of being a wizard of business, suffered a dumb loss.

Wang Yi has just arrived. When I saw that there was such a road here and the land was smooth. The factory building is wide, and there is no place where the government officials control it, so I was suddenly pleasantly surprised, and I rushed to buy the factory building immediately.

It's just that Wang Yi acted quickly, but unexpectedly, Zhao Shiyao had already laid an ambush, and the price was set quite high, which made Wang Yi sway for a while. In the end, after some bargaining, Wang Yi rented the workshop with a full 1,300 acres at the price of 2,000 taels of silver in the first year, and built the Wang printing workshop. It's a pity. After a few paper mills and a large number of workshops were stationed, the rising land price became a heart disease that Wang Yi regretted. If you buy it early, you can save enough rent to buy half of the workshop house.

Fortunately, Wang's printing workshop was successfully established, which made Wang Yi, who had always been worried about lack of funds, very relieved. The rent saved is not used for eating, drinking, and having fun, at least, but for industry.

Speaking of which, although Wang Yi boasts of being quite talented in business, he has no choice but to establish a workshop that meets Zhu Cihong's standards and has invested a lot.

Zhu Cihong's Jinling Newspaper has a daily circulation of tens of thousands, which means that tens of thousands of newspapers with at least four openings will be published. That's 40,000 pages of paper.

In particular, Zhu Cihong became an instant hit with the Xuanwu Lake Chamber of Commerce, which made the newspapers of Jinling Newspaper in short supply, which in turn made Wang Yi so busy that his feet did not touch the ground, and the production of the workshop became even more intense.

Come to think of it. Wang Yi was both frightened and surprised: "Your Highness's ability in the craftsman compound is too high, too high!" I never thought that movable type printing could improve printing technology so efficiently. It simply made the cost drop sharply, and the big profit ushered in. ”

said. Wang Yi praised the benefits of movable type printing.

This time, it was Zhu Cihong who instructed the craftsman to develop the technology in the compound. The so-called craftsman compound is the place where skilled craftsmen under Zhu Cihong gather. Almost all of them have the level of eighth-level workers, and they are the people with the highest level of education under the temptation of Zhu Cihong's fame and fortune. It was also in their hands that Zhu Cihong began to make the workers more ingenious and the craftsmen more masterful.

In other words, workers are no longer just hard workers, but have more skills. And the craftsmen who have learned the technology are no longer just technicians without aura, but have more ability to think, and develop more technologies on the basis of induction.

Only in this way did Zhu Cihong propose to develop movable type printing, and the craftsman courtyard could appear in this set of technology and license it to Wang's printing workshop.

This technique is known as movable metal type printing.

Although movable type printing has long existed, Bi Sheng of the Northern Song Dynasty used cement movable type printing, which was not popularized, and can only be said to have a huge pioneering role, but it did not have a revolutionary role.

This time, Zhu Cihong promoted alloy movable type printing.

Movable metal type is cast from alloy, mainly lead, with the addition of tin and antimony, so that the alloy movable type can be die cast in a manual stamper.

This manual stamping machine is also due to the increasing level of smelting in Zhu Cihong's increasing military workshops, so that there are enough qualified steel for machine tools.

In addition, a considerable part of the construction funds of Wang Yi Workshop are the purchase of machinery. In addition to movable type production, there were also printing presses. The original form of the printing press was a juicer used to press juice, and with a slight modification, the wooden screw could be turned by a long handle to press down on the paper on the movable type plate laid flat on the wooden table.

also officially had alloy movable type and printing presses, and Wang Yi dared to take Zhu Cihong's crazy order.

The task of printing at least 50,000 sheets of paper a day is probably the life-long business of some small family printing workshop.

But at the moment, it's just a day's worth of work in this large printing workshop. Not to mention the huge amount of teaching materials in the normal school.

"And also, thanks to the ink of the old ghost Xu next door. And this ingot-style typesetting......" Wang Yi gushed endlessly.

These Zhu Cihong can also understand, because most of the workshop owners in the entire Yanziji Workshop District are old guys who have come all the way from Henan, Shandong, and they have half of the credit for the construction of Qiming City. It's just that at present, with the increase of workshops in Qiming City, there are more and more military workshops, Hengxin workshops, and large workshops, so that small workshops quickly feel the rising costs. With the rise in land prices and the rise in the wages of skilled workers, they also missed the huge profits of the past and began to rush to Nandu, a promising place.

As soon as these people arrived in Nanjing, they learned that Zhu Cihong wanted to expand the army, open schools, build roads, and even establish a Jinling newspaper.

Most people struggle to understand the huge amount of profit that comes with the news of the first step.

But the owners understood, and they saw the orders that came with the sound of countless gold and silver clashing.

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