"Mr. Zhou, Miss is invited."

Gao Yuan was about to rest, but after hearing the words from outside the tent, he immediately opened the door and followed the servant to the tent of Ba Xueyuan.

It turned out that in the competition that day, Gao Yuan defeated the four swordsmen hired by Ba Qing in a row, but Gao Yuan also deliberately retained his strength, and won two games that were very thrilling, and the last one deliberately took a sword from the opponent, so although he won a complete victory, he did not attract much attention. And Ba Xueyuan also naturally let the plateau serve as his own guard, not only the status is higher than others, but also when sleeping and resting, you can enjoy an independent tent.

After starting from Xianyang, the road is very smooth, although this line has to pass through a lot of barren mountains and mountains, but because of the large number of people they protect in this line, and it is to transport grain and grass materials for the Qin army, many sections along the way are with the Qin army, so even if the general robbers find the whereabouts of the caravan, they do not dare to move lightly to the caravan, as a result, this line of caravan sent a letter to Guguan, crossed the Yellow River, crossed the Shangdang, and entered the territory of Zhaodi, and there was no danger.

Because the plateau is the guardian of Xueyuan, he doesn't have to be with other swordsmen, he follows Xueyuan every day to protect him, so he doesn't have much conversation with other people, so he doesn't show the mountains and water, and follows Xueyuan's team along the way to enter Zhao Land. Sometimes Gao Yuan also feels very funny, and he can't imagine that he has actually done his old job here - bodyguard.

In addition, the plateau was cold-eyed along the way, and saw that although Xue Yuan was young, he was very shrewd, and capable, the whole team of more than 3,000 people, more than 1,000 vehicles, and more than 2,000 heads of various livestock, all of which were arranged by her in an orderly manner, in an orderly manner, and the daily line of rest and stop were arranged very properly, and the handling of things was clear and concise, accurate and appropriate, and she was completely able to take charge of herself. It seems that Ba Qing handed over such an important task to Xue Yuan to complete, and it really has her reasons.

On this day, the convoy came to Shexian on the west bank of Zhangshui, which was less than 100 miles away from Handan, because it was late, Xueyuan ordered to camp and rest, and then cross Zhangshui after the sky was high tomorrow, and in the evening of the same day, Xueyuan sent someone to invite the plateau.

In fact, there were not many conversations between Xue Yuan and the plateau along the way, and Xue Yuan has always kept silent about the origin, identity, purpose and other things of the plateau, and ignored them, which also made the plateau less troublesome. Therefore, Takahara didn't expect that Xue Yuan would send someone to invite him.

Gao Yuan followed the servant to the tent of Xueyuan and said, "Miss, Mr. Zhou is here." ”

I only listened to the voice of Xue Yuan inside: "You go down to rest first, Mr. Zhou, please come in." ”

Gao Yuan pushed open the curtain of the tent, walked into the tent, only to see that there were four wax lamps lit around the tent, illuminated very brightly, the snow edge was facing the plateau, and he was kneeling on the bamboo couch behind a low table, and was looking at a bamboo slip, but the plateau saw very clearly, and there were two paper booklets on the low table.

After more than three years of development, the output of Daijun paper has stabilized at a monthly output of 100,000 pieces of large paper, about 200,000 pieces of small paper, and about half of the paper used to print paper books is not counted, of which about half is exported to Qi State, and the remaining part, about 60% is used by Daijun for its own use, and about 20,000 pieces of large paper and 40,000 pieces of small paper are sold to other regions. The sales channel is mainly through Guò Zhaodi, and then resold to Qin, Wei, Han and other places.

Although Daijun has always been at hostility with the Qin State, in fact, there has been no direct conflict between the two places for several years, and some commercial exchanges between the two sides have also begun, mainly by some merchants from Zhao to Daijun to do business and bring back paper.

Daijun welcomed the arrival of these merchants, and the Qin army guarding the border only turned a blind eye to this and acquiesced in this behavior, so between Daijun and Zhaodi, the trade exchanges in the past few years have also been very prosperous.

Although with the increase in the production of paper, the price has also dropped sharply, the price of large paper has dropped to 80 copper coins, and the price of small paper has dropped to 40 copper coins, plus printing and book making, it can still create a profit worth more than 1,000 gold for Daijun every month, it can be said that the two industries of papermaking and printing support about half of Daijun's financial revenue.

However, this is the exit price from Daijun, after the paper is resold to various places, the price still rises sharply, at least more than double the exit price of Daijun, and it is in Qin, Han and other places far away from Daijun, the price has risen to five or six times, and even nearly ten times. However, because paper is indeed much more convenient to use than bamboo slips and wooden slips, although the price is extremely high, the market is still in short supply, after all, there are still many people who can afford to spend this money.

There are about 20,000 pieces of paper flowing into the Qin State every month, and there are also some paper books, and the buyers are all ministers, officials and giant merchants of the Qin State, and the palace also buys at least two or three thousand pieces of paper every month. And Ba Qing, as the number one giant merchant of the Qin State, made it a matter of course for paper books.

Along the way, Xue Yuan was very respectful of the plateau, and when he saw the plateau entering the account, he immediately turned to the plateau, knelt down, and said, "Mr. Zhou, please take a seat." ”

Gao Yuan sat down across the short table on the opposite side of the snow edge, and returned the salute, saying, "Miss invited me to come, is there anything wrong?" ”

Xue Yuan said: "After crossing Zhangshui, there are still one or two days away at most, we can reach Handan, and we can complete the important task given to us by the Immortal Master of Chisong and Princess Langyu, may I ask where Mr. plans to go after arriving in Handan?" ”

Gao Yuan nodded and said: "After going down to Handan, I have my own place to go, but please forgive Miss, I can't tell Miss the truth, but I arrived in Handan safely all the way, thank you Miss, and thank you Mrs. Qing." ”

Xue Yan smiled slightly and said: "Where Mr. goes, Xue Yuan doesn't dare to stop it, and he doesn't dare to ask more about Mr.'s origins, but there is one thing, I hope Mr. can do Xue Yuan a favor." ”

Gao Yuan was stunned for a moment and said, "What's the matter?" ”

Xue Yuan picked up the paper book from the desk and said: "Three years ago, Daijun produced this kind of paper, which is easy to write and easy to carry, far better than wooden and bamboo slips, Mr. knows." ”

Gao Yuan nodded, already knowing the purpose of Xue Yuan, so he said, "Of course I know." ”

Xue Yuan said: "Now the palace and ministers of the Qin State like to use this kind of Daijun paper, so the sales are excellent. This time, my aunt sent me to Handan, and there was an important task, that is, to be able to find a channel in Handan to operate Daijun paper, but most of the Daijun paper was sold to Qi State, and the Daijun paper of our Qin State was transferred from Zhaodi, and the quantity was very small, and even this small amount of paper transferred to Qin State was also operated by merchants who already had Zhao Land. Although my aunt has some fame in the Qin State, she does not have much power in Zhao Land, so she wants to ask her husband for help. ”

Gao Yuan smiled and said, "I'm just a martial artist, and I don't understand business affairs, why did Miss find me?"

Xue Yuan also smiled slightly, and said, "It's not up to me to decide, but to make Princess Yu tell me that if you want to get the business of Daijun Paper, Mr. can help us." After a pause, he said: "But we are not willing to help Mr. because Mr. can help us obtain the business of Daijun paper, so if Mr. can't help us, it's not just if Mr. can really help us, please ask Mr. to help us without hesitation, if Mr. needs our help in the future, we will definitely try our best to help Mr. do it." ”

Gao Yuan couldn't help but smile bitterly, Hehua will really find trouble for himself, but Ba Qing and Xue Yuan are both businessmen, and they are naturally aiming for profits, so it is a matter of course to want to obtain the operation of Daijun paper, although Xue Yuan said it beautifully, no matter whether Gao Yuan can help or not, he will send Gao Yuan to Handan safely, but Gao Yuan knows that obtaining the business qualification of paper must be an important factor.

Gao Yuan pondered for a while, then nodded, and said: "I can indeed help you a little in this regard, but Miss Xue Yuan should also know that Daijun paper is produced from Daijun, and it can be sold to Zhaodi, only a small part, only thirty or forty thousand pieces per month, even if the profit is huge, but the profit is limited, with Mrs. Qing's financial assets, it should not be able to look down on this small profit." ”

Xue Yuan was relieved to hear that Gao Yuan said that he could help, and after listening to Gao Yuan's question, Xue Yuan also smiled and said: "Sir doesn't know, although the profit of operating paper is limited, but it is convenient to sell, and there are many official families who are willing to use paper, so as long as we can also operate paper, we can establish contact with these official families and provide convenience for our other businesses, and these values are far above the profit of paper." ”

After a pause, Xue Yuan said: "According to our investigation, Daijun paper appeared, it has been nearly three years, the initial monthly output is only tens of thousands, and only after more than two years, now the monthly output can reach 300,000 sheets, this is not counting the paper for printing books, it can be seen that the output of Daijun paper has been steadily increasing, although the number of Daijun paper sold to Zhao Di is limited, but in time, the output will be more and more, so at that time, the profitability of Daijun paper is not a small profit." ”

Gao Yuan then somewhat understood, is he thinking too simply, Ba Qing of course will not look at the small profit of the paper, but the potential value of the paper, because now can afford to use the county paper, either officials or the family, are identity, power of the people, if Ba Qing can obtain the right to operate the county paper, you can take the opportunity to operate the county paper, and these officials, the family to strengthen contact, friendship, Ba Qing other business operations is of course very helpful; On the other hand, it is to take a fancy to the development potential of Daijun paper, first obtain the right to operate Daijun paper, and after the production of Daijun paper expands, the profit will naturally be able to expand.

Therefore, Gao Yuan also has to admit that although he is a person from the last generation, he has thousands of years of experience and experience than the people of this era, but compared with real businessmen, he is indeed a little worse.