After the "rain" is over.

Near Jingzhe.

The cold weather in Jinling City is gradually getting warmer.

The river ice has long melted, but an underground ice cave in Yuyuan has long been completed.

Chu Tianxiu sent craftsmen early to dig river ice from the river, cut large pieces of ice, and one piece was half a meter in size, filling the large ice cellar under Yuyuan, and then blocking the ice cellar with a wooden door wrapped in thick brocade.

When the summer is hot, you can take it out and enjoy it.

A few new buds also emerged on the branches of Yuyuan, Pingwangfu.

Chu Tianxiu lay on a bamboo chair under the tree, crossing her legs and humming a small song while eating the grapes fed by Zuer, feeling indescribable comfort and freedom.

Seeing Chu Tianxiu's comfortable expression, Zuer curiously said, "Son-in-law, why are you so happy?!"

"My son-in-law is fishing in Yuyuan, waiting for the fish to take the bait!"

Chu Tianxiu smiled.

Things like following trends have been around since ancient times.

As soon as he created the Hunhou paper, Chen Mansion wanted to get a share of the pie.

Chen Wanbao begged grandpa to sue his grandma for a long time, but he did not agree.

It was not until a large sum of money was needed to build a large number of local blast furnaces in Danyang County that he agreed to sell the papermaking technology of Hunhou Paper to the third largest playboy in Jinling, Chen Wanbao.

He has now created the "Da Chu Mansion Newspaper". People with vision and courage in the Great Chu Dynasty will naturally want to follow this trend.

But, isn’t it so easy to publish a newspaper?

Is there any paper for the hunchback?

Do you master movable type printing?

There is nothing, and I still want to publish a newspaper?

This most critical movable type printing technique is his unique skill that is highly confidential and does not have any contact with outsiders. Even Xie, Chen, Prince, and the three of them have no contact at all.

Hey!

There will be a sucker soon, and I can't wait to send a large sum of money to my door!

"Son-in-law fishing?"

Zuer was full of doubts. Although there were rockery and lotus ponds in Yuyuan and several small fish were raised, his son-in-law was not fishing either!

"Zo'er, if someone comes to the door and asks for a meeting! Let them wait for half an hour before bringing them to see my son-in-law."

"Yes, son-in-law!"

...

The Prime Minister's Mansion has considerable power.

A decree was issued soon.

In order to respond to His Majesty's call to "open up the road of speech" and follow the pace of the Prince of the Eastern Palace establishing a residence report, the Prime Minister's Office allowed all yamen and the people to establish a residence report, and only needed to report it to the court.

The three major yamen of the Great Chu Dynasty.

The Prime Minister's Office took the lead in establishing the "Prime Minister's Mansion News", intending to publish various government affairs of the Prime Minister's Office, and publicly and secretly praising the "Sui Ju System" to maintain the ancestral system of the Great Chu.

Seeing this, the Taiwei Mansion and the Censorate refused to fall behind. They were all preparing to organize the "Taiwei Mansion Report" and the "Censorate Mansion Report" of our yamen.

The contents of the three diary newspapers are ready-made.

The "Taiwei Mansion News" specializes in publishing military news around the world, which is related to military information.

The Censor Taidi Daily is preparing to publish news that supervise all officials in the world and severely punish corruption and bribery to intimidate officials.

but.

If you don’t do it, you won’t know, you will be shocked when you do it.

Xie Xu, the chief secretary who was in charge of the Prime Minister's Mansion, personally handled the "Prime Minister's Mansion Report", had a numbness after contacting him.

There is only one kind of paper in the entire Great Chu Dynasty that can be used to publish newspapers, that is, the excellent "hunhou paper".

Old bamboo slips are completely unsuitable, nor are they hemp paper.

If you want to buy the Hunhou paper, you can only find the Princess's Mansion and the Shen Mansion.

The other small hemp paper workshops were not as good as they were, and they had already been poured out.

Dibao used thousands to tens of thousands of pieces a day, so it would be natural to purchase a large batch of tens of thousands of pieces of paper. Otherwise, it would not be embarrassing to have a sudden loss of paper.

This is only a month's dosage, and if it takes many years, it will cost a lot.

The lion in the Shenfu spoke loudly, and one piece costs twenty cents of copper coins. It would cost 2,000 pieces at a time to purchase 100,000 pieces at a time.

The Chief Secretary Xie Xu had no choice but to go to the Pingwang Mansion. After waiting for a long time, he met Xiaohunhou in Yuyuan. He was a bargain, but he only needed nineteen coins for copper coins.

If you choose between the two companies, there is always one that is suitable.

Xie Xu was so angry that he was in pain.

A copy of "Da Chu Palace" only sold twenty coins.

The price of buying paper alone costs twenty cents. This is not counting other carvings, printings, and labor costs. The "Prime Minister's Mansion Newspaper" is much more expensive than the "Da Chu Mansion Newspaper"!

Chief Xie Xu could only report to the Lord Prime Minister.

When Lord Xie Hu Yong learned about it, he couldn't help but curse.

"The profitable businessman, two big profitable businessman! These husband papers are made of tree bark, so the cost must be extremely low, and I'm afraid there is no need to spend a few coins."

"Xiao Hunhou and Shen Wanbao must have colluded and joined forces to raise the market price, and sold it so expensive! This is a money to cheat the court!"

Xie Xu carefully proposed, saying, "Master, this papermaking technique is a powerful weapon of the country, but it was monopolized by the Shen Mansion and the Princess Mansion... Otherwise, please let the emperor make the papermaking technique public?!"

"Don't mention Xiao Hunhou. He is a playboy who has never robbed others of his benefits. When did he suffer any losses? Besides, the Pingwang Mansion is supported. The papermaking workshop is guarded by the Pingwang Mansion. With the relationship between the emperor and the Pingwang, can Pingwang force Pingwang to teach papermaking?!

As for the Shen family, would he be willing to spit out the meat from the Shen family? Shen Dafu must go to Queen Mother Chen to cry... Isn't this asking for trouble?"

Xie Huyong shook his head in annoyance.

Queen Mother Chen seems to have kind eyebrows and good-looking eyes, but she is the Queen Mother who has survived several storms and waves and has been borne by the common people.

Shen Dafu has mediocre business qualifications. How could Shen Mansion, the largest silk merchant in Jiangnan, fall from the sky?

The Shen family eats more meat than the top ten clans in Jinling.

The princes and grandchildren of the Xiang family and the princes and kings dared not rob the Shen family of silk business.

Xiaohunhou cheated the Shen family of a large sum of money and refused to pay it back... That was a unique exception. Empress Dowager Chen loved Princess Li Yu and turned a blind eye.

If it were someone else, he would have been skinned long ago.

It would be useless to ask the Shen family to hand over papermaking.

The only ones who could decide the major affairs of the country in the Great Chu Dynasty were Emperor Xiang Yanran and Empress Dowager Shen. However, one was the prince of King Ping and the other was the aunt of Chen's mansion.

There is no chance to find them.

What can I do?

There was no way, the Prime Minister's Office could only allocate a sum of silver every month to buy paper from the two families.

Not only did the Prime Minister’s Mansion need to buy paper at a high price, but the Censorate and Taiwei Mansion also had to buy from both families.

Any other family or nobleman who wants to get a mansion report by himself must buy paper from the two governments.

...

However, I want to make a newspaper.

But it's far more than just a need for a hunchback paper.

Xie Xu bought a large amount of Hunhou paper, and began to draw a group of skilled craftsmen to carve wooden printing plates according to the gourd.

The craftsman said that the fastest speed is to carve 500 words a day, even if a few craftsmen reincarnate, they will continue day and night... These tens of thousands of words of wooden board carvings will take at least ten days to carve.

If you engrave the wrong words in the middle...it will start over again.

Regarding this problem, the officials in charge of handling the official newspapers in various yamen in Jinling City were all in a headache.

It took so long that it was already half a month later when the news came out. There was no news, it was clearly old news.

How did Xiao Hunhou easily carve out the "Da Chu Di Daily" in one day?

...

Chu Tianxiu never expected that the first person to come to ask for help was his father-in-law Li Rong.

It is naturally impossible to give movable type printing to my father-in-law.

This is his weapon of killing.

However, it is OK to ask the Taiwei Mansion to hand over the "Taiwei Mansion News" to Chu Tianxiu's printing factory for printing and collect a printing fee.

Anyway, the one who paid the money was the Taiwei Mansion of the court, not the Pingwang Mansion. The one who took advantage of it was his daughter and son-in-law.
To be continued...