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Volume 1: Who Rides the Star to Break through the Void Chapter 69: Building a Study Room in the Wolong Valley

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    Ye Chang covered his cheek and raised his head with some gloominess. The clouds were rolling in the sky and the flowers were blooming and falling in front of the hall. This kind of hermit life certainly made people feel comfortable, but after the turmoil in Chang'an City, Ye Chang felt that he might not be able to  Be content with the status quo.  Wu Zepi is too young.  But he also knew that now was not the best time to leave. He could not support himself forever by selling words and copying poems.  "Lang Jun, what are you thinking about?" A soft voice rang in my ears. It was Xiang'er who came over with a plate filled with pears, apples, and dates.  "Well, are you ready for today's homework?" When Xiang'er heard this, she immediately pouted.  After disposing of the Liu family, Ye Chang moved to the valley. The locals compared him with the original Zhuge Liang, so they called it Wolong Valley.  After moving here, there are more people in the valley, and Xiang'er and Chunming are freed from some chores, but this does not mean that they are relaxed - there is a lot of learning and practice waiting for them.  Ye Chang was also helpless. In this era, the vast majority of people were still illiterate. Xiang'er and Chunming were semi-literate and completely illiterate. Ye Chang had spent so much effort on them, but he only managed to get them to learn to read, and they missed the opportunity to learn and develop.  The best time to get used to it is somewhat clumsy to learn.  It has been two months. Together, the two of them can only recognize more than 300 Chinese characters, plus they can add and subtract within two digits. As for such advanced things as multiplication and division, there is no need to mention them.  Their progress is not as fast as that of Xiao Ci Nu.  "Uncle, uncle!" Just as he was thinking about giving the slave, he heard him shouting loudly, and then, the girl's shouting "Pig, pig, pig" also rang out.  Ye Chang sat upright. Since the mother-in-law is here, the sister-in-law must also be here.  Sure enough, Mrs. Fang held her mother in her arms and followed behind Ci Nu, Pingting walked over.  After Ye Shu¡¯s funeral was completed, Fang started to avoid Ye Chang, and Ye Chang was too embarrassed to see her.  However, Cinu was innocent and cute, and Ye Chang liked children, so Chunming still asked Chunming to pick up Cinu every morning and come here to learn how to read and do math.  "Eleventh Lang." Fang had a smile on his brows and pursed his lips slightly. Although he was still wearing mourning clothes, he rarely showed happiness.  "Sister-in-law, why do you have time to come here today?" Ye Chang stood up and asked.  "But there is a happy event." Mrs. Fang smiled lightly again.  Ye Chang felt that something was not good. At this time, the weather was getting colder. Where would the joy come from?  "Eleventh Master, these days, I have been asking people to inquire, and I learned that there is a daughter of the Zhang family in the county town. She is charming, in the prime of life, and is waiting for a boudoir. She has not yet been married." Mrs. Fang looked at Ye Chang with a smile: "I  I think the eleventh man is now seventeen, and he will be eighteen after the Chinese New Year, so he wants to ask someone to match him. Eleventh man, what do you think?" Ye Chang was stunned.  ¡°This¡­ in the eyes of ordinary people, is really a beautiful and happy event, but in Ye Chang¡¯s heart, there is no such idea at all!  Marry a wife?  "It's not that Ye Chang has never had erotic dreams in this life, nor has he ever had the desire to marry, but the thought of actually marrying a wife has never occurred to him.  In a certain consciousness, he regarded Ci Nu, Xiao Niang and Xiang'er as his children, and his life was quite fulfilling, so marrying a wife was not on his agenda at all.  "Sister-in-law, are you joking?" "No, it's a joke. There are three types of unfilial piety, and having no heirs is the worst. Now that your brother is gone, I have to worry about it for you." Ye Chang suddenly thought of the embarrassment of that day when he kept vigil for his brother.  , his mind was clear, and he immediately understood why Fang wanted to find a marriage for him.  "I don't have this intention at the moment." "It's up to you. If you don't get married at the age of eighteen, even the government won't tolerate it. There's no chance that the official media will force you to get a match." Mrs. Fang pursed her lips and smiled, saying this.  It was Ye Chang with a tender face: "Don't worry, I have seen that Zhang family lady with my own eyes. Although I dare not say that she is the most beautiful woman in the country, she is also a beauty. She is also knowledgeable and courteous, and has a gentle temper. She is a match made in heaven with Shi Yilang.  "This sister-in-law has some talent for being a matchmaker, and her talk is very exciting. From the looks of it, she has made up her mind to become a matchmaker.  "This I'm afraid my sister-in-law can't make the decision on this matter, because I am now living in a third-bedroom apartment with a father." Ye Chang didn't know how to refuse for a while, so he could only shirk it.  Fang nodded: "That's true. I'll write to my third uncle now. I'm sure he will agree to this." Hearing that Fang wrote to his nominal father, Ye Chang nodded, but he didn't think so.  .  His nominal father went to Bianzhou, and it was said that he was under the supervision of someone.Before entering Chang'an, Ye Shu wrote to him, telling him about the situation at home and asking him to come back and take charge of the housework, but there was no news at all.  Fang¡¯s letter will definitely have no results.  "Sister-in-law, don't worry about this now. There is another matter that needs to be taken care of by sister-in-law." Ye Chang wanted to find something for Fang, so that she would not have to think about arranging a marriage for him all the time. Moreover, he was currently short of manpower, and Fang was young.  A person who is both capable and trustworthy.  "What's the matter?" "Sister-in-law, you should know that I hired craftsmen to think about making paper in the first half of the year, and now the paper has become - Chunming, Chunming, bring some pieces of paper, and take everything!" Originally, I brought Cinu with me.  Chunming, who was touching shrimps in the stream outside the pavilion, let out a sigh, then ran away quickly. After a while, he ran back again carrying a basket with a few pieces of paper in it.  Fang was originally from a noble family, her mother was even a princess, so she was no stranger to good paper.  Therefore, when Chunming presented the paper in front of her, she was stunned.  "Thisis this bamboo paper?" Previously, bamboo was used to make paper, but the paper was rotten and unusable. Ye Chang used the papermaking method recorded in "Tiangong Kaiwu". The paper was not only beautiful and strong, but also outstanding.  The paper quality is high. Although it is not as good as the fine Xuanma paper, it is still the first-class paper nowadays.  "Yes, the cost of bamboo paper per hundred sheets is about fifteen cents. If it can be mass-produced, it can be reduced to ten cents. It is much cheaper than the paper on the market today!"  Paper, depending on the distance from the place of production, costs between forty and fifty cents per hundred pieces, and the quality is not as good as the paper in Fang's hands.  This made Ms. Fang very excited. She caressed the paper and pondered for a while: "How much paper can your workshop have now?"  It's about a million pieces. I have signed a contract with the Qin family to sell their young bamboo next year. Next year's production can be increased to five times." "His!" Fang took a breath and his eyes suddenly lit up.  A blush appeared on her cheeks, showing a hint of coquettishness unconsciously!  She couldn't help but be like this. She had the blood of the Li family flowing in her body. She was actually Wu Zetian's great-granddaughter. Although she no longer had power after the brutal internal fighting in the palace, her interest in power turned to  Money comes up.  She doesn't know it yet, but based on this calculation, every hundred pieces of paper can earn 20 coins. This year, one million pieces of paper can earn 200,000 coins, which is 200 coins - next year, she can earn 1,000 coins.  Guan, if you set up your workshop in the south where moso bamboo is abundant, you can even earn tens of thousands of dollars a year!  Although Ye Chang can gain a lot of profit by running the football league in Chang'an City, everyone knows that this profit is not exclusive to any one household.  But this is not the case with papermaking. As long as the Ye family can control the secret recipe for making bamboo paper, they will have a stable and huge income in the coming years and decades. In one generation, they will even be as rich as the enemy.  "But I'm not going to put so much paper into the market right away. Sister-in-law, does she know why?" Fang's breathing was a little short. She was calculating the annual income of papermaking over and over in her mind. When Ye Chang asked,  Only then did he come back to his senses: "This is I know that things are cheap at high prices. The number of people studying in the Tang Dynasty today is only a few hundred thousand at most, and the number of papers used in a year is only tens of millions. If  If there is a large influx, the paper price will be lost, and the profits earned will not be as good as before." Ye Chang suddenly looked at his sister-in-law with admiration!  ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????out  So, it is most appropriate to choose her to preside over papermaking and derivative industries.  "Sister-in-law is right, but the profit from selling paper is limited after all. I have another idea, which is to print books." "Printing books? You mean engraving?" "Not engraving, just printing movable type!" Ye Chang said what  It was movable type explanation and Fang's listening. Wooden movable type was naturally not within the scope of his consideration. Therefore, he initially decided to use pottery movable type. His brother-in-law Liu Kun was now working in a pottery kiln. Ye Chang had already made it before going to Chang'an.  Let him study Tao movable type.  However, pottery movable type is prone to expansion and deformation during casting, and Liu Kun could only do this in secret. Therefore, it took him more than four months to produce usable movable type, and the number was only one thousand.  More than five hundred words are obviously not enough.  "Now these fifteen hundred pieces of pottery type are in my warehouse. Uncle Zhi has been busy making wooden molds for me to fix the type in the past few days. As for my brother-in-law, I am going to let him open one by himself.  The kiln is specially used to bake utensils for me. " "Huh?" Fang quickly calculated in his mind that engraving and printing books are becoming more and more popular on the market. In the past, the value of the hand-written version of a book was always the same.The original version is about 110 Chinese characters (note: the actual price at that time), printed in small regular script, and only ten sheets of large paper are needed for one volume. The cost of Tao movable type is a one-time investment. Calculated in this way, the cost  At about ten cents, it can be sold for one hundred and ten cents, which means you can make a profit of one hundred cents per item!  If all the millions of sheets of paper produced this year were printed into books, it would be 100,000 volumes, and the profit would be as high as 10,000 yuan When she thought of this, Mrs. Fang felt so excited that she could not help but grab Ye Chang's hand and ask if it was really possible.  in this way.  But immediately, she asked worriedly: "Shiyilang, how do books printed with movable type compare with engraving?" "Today, using pottery movable type is better than wood engraving, but it is not as good as hand-copied small regular script. In the future, we will use lead movable type  "It's definitely not inferior to hand-written regular script." Ye Chang said with certainty, "I'm already adjusting the ink used for printing, and my sister-in-law will be able to see it by then."  Hesitation, she is very smart, Ye Chang must have a purpose when he mentioned this to her.  "I have a lot of affairs, and someone must take charge of this matter. I must take care of the paper shop and printing shop internally, and keep track of the accounts externally. No one but my sister-in-law can do this." Ye Chang said: "Moreover, I am entrusted by my brother.  , I have to take care of Cinu and my wife. I intend to give the sealing workshop to Cinu. What do Zifang and my sister-in-law think?" Fang was shocked: "How can this happen? This is the brainchild of the eleventh man.  How" "Sister-in-law, what's the difference between Qi Nu and Xiao Niang and my children?" Ye Chang interrupted her: "Besides, I don't mean to stay with them now and wait for them to be eighteen.  For the rest of the years, I will have to trouble my sister-in-law to run it for me. " "Absolutely not absolutely not If you give it to them, you will eventually get married and have children!" Ms. Fang still refused, but her tone was somewhat astringent.  weak.  Ye Chang knew that she was already moved, so he took the opportunity and said: "Sister-in-law, just don't worry, if I can run a paper workshop and a printing workshop, I can afford to run other workshops. With my abilities, are you still afraid that I won't make money?"  " Thinking of what Ye Chang said about organizing a football league in the capital, Ms. Fang couldn't help but fell silent. After a long time, she sighed: "It's a pity that Prime Minister Eleventh Lang is so talented, it's a pity" If she were still the daughter of a princess and a prince.  The concubine's sister, she could recommend talents to the court, but her courage has been broken by the internal fighting in the palace, and she only hopes to live in peace.  She turned over the paper in her hand, and then she noticed that there was still paper underneath, but the paper was rolled into a roll, only about a palm wide.  When Fang touched it, she felt that it was wrinkled and very soft. She couldn't help but be curious: "What is this paper for?" This kind of paper was obviously not suitable for writing. Fang had a vague feeling in her heart. After asking,  , then I felt something was wrong.  "Just like the toilet." Ye Chang replied seriously: "You can forget about the toilet seat." Ordinary people in the Tang Dynasty used toilet seats made of bamboo and wood chips, and some also used paper. Eminent monks in the early Tang Dynasty  In his article, Daoxuan prohibited monks from using "old writing paper" to wipe away dirt.  Therefore, as soon as Ye Chang said it, Fang's face turned red and gave him a fierce look.  Ye Chang pretended not to have seen this.  The two of them knew that in addition to being used in the toilet, this paper could also be used for menstruation. However, it was embarrassing to mention it when using the toilet. If the other thing was mentioned, Mrs. Fang would probably run away on the spot.  "You are the weird elf with so many tricks!" Fang rolled her eyes at Ye Chang again. Just as she was about to say a few more words to him, she suddenly heard someone shouting in the distance: "Where is Ye Shiyilang? Where is Ye Shiyilang?" "  Are there visitors?" Fang had never heard this voice before, she asked in a low voice.  "I don't know who it is, wait until I go out to meet him." Ye Chang vaguely felt that the voice was familiar, but he couldn't think of it for a while, so he stood up and said.  Living in seclusion in Wolong Valley, who would disturb his tranquility?
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