The Shen family and his son were anxious.

The Hunhou Paper has just been released. This wave of turmoil has just emerged from the Pingwang Mansion. It has caused a wave of commotion among the Confucian scholars in Jinling City. Many scholars are asking for paper.

Judging from the situation, paper has great potential and is very likely to replace bamboo slips.

It is necessary to build a new paper factory before the paper fires completely replaces bamboo slips.

Making a large amount of paper, one or twenty copper sheets per piece of paper, can not only make a fortune, but also make the Shen family famous all over the world.

Such a good thing is rare in a century.

Chen Wanbao gritted his teeth and took out 10,000 taels of silver with a bold gift, bought 100 acres of wasteland outside the outskirts of Jinling City, and started construction of giant workshops, which was even larger than the dozens of acres of workshops of Xiao Hunhou.

Shen Dafu invited all the hundreds of carpenters and stonemasons who were invited to build the Xiaohunhou workshop and copied them as they were.

These craftsmen are all veterans. They can create a lot of work they have done once.

They also made the tools such as water grinding hammers, large cooking pots, water storing pools, and drying walls used in Xiaohunhou's workshop, even in larger quantities.

Of course, the most important thing is the craft formula of Hunhou Paper, which is completely different from the previous hemp paper and has been greatly improved.

This is the top secret technology of Hunhou Paper. The tools in the workshop are just for large-scale paper production.

The Shen family and his son didn't know how to make paper, so they invited more than a dozen paper craftsmen from Jinling City to study the Hunhou paper together, hoping to crack the mystery.

When the papermakers saw a piece of extremely exquisite husband paper found by the Shen family, they were all amazed.

"I heard that the paper of Hunhou is not made of erect skin, but tree bark."

"Is this really a problem? The bark is extremely cheap and can greatly reduce the cost of paper."

"Really, Hunhou Workshop has been purchasing a large amount of bark, hundreds of kilograms and thousands of kilograms. Some poor people in the city, as they heard the news, braved the wind and snow to go to the suburbs to cut wood and peel bark to earn money."

"But the bark is very thick, how did he remove the bark?"

"That's the key!"

The papermakers were all very surprised, unable to understand and studied hard.

The Chenfu gave them a 500 taels of silver shop purchase fee for each shop, and contributed their own unique technology. He also promised to hire them to make papermakers in the Chenfu workshop to make paper for the Shen family for generations.

Of course, all the papermakers who were able to defect to the current national uncle were happy and would accept it.

However, it is really difficult to transform technology.

If this extremely difficult problem was so easy, they would no longer use expensive hemp skin as raw materials to make paper.

One day...

Two days...

Three days...

This large-scale papermaking workshop of Shen’s covering an area of ​​100 acres has risen and is almost completed, but the new paper formula has not made any major progress.

The Shen family and his son personally supervised the worker in the Shen family's papermaking workshop, and worked with the papermakers to study the formula of Hunhou paper.

Not to mention that although the Shen family is a royal relative and a nouveau riche in the eyes of the world, Empress Dowager Chen and Shen Dafu's generation all started from the bottom of the civilian class and could still endure this hardship.

However, even though I endure hardship, I still feel like a headless fly, and I am confused by the recipe of the Hunhou Paper.

Shen Dafu even sent some people to wander around Xiaohunhou's papermaking workshop to inquire about the papermaking formula, but found nothing.

The owner of the shop, Mr. Sun, was strict and did not allow others to interfere with the most critical degumming and beating technique. He did it himself. Other workers, even his son, only did those rough heavy work.

There are even some guards sent by the princess in the workshop of Xiaohunhou, guarding the gate. Who dares to refuse his life, offend Prince Ping's Mansion, and go inside to steal papermaking secrets?

Without finding out the good news, the Shen family and his son heard bad news - the second batch of Hunhou papers in the Xiaohunhou workshop have been made and will be released soon.

The number of this batch of hunchou paper is very large.

I am afraid that there will be no cottages that are as big as Pingwang Mansion... Since there will be no cottages, Fuyu will definitely sell some of them.

Once the Hunhou Paper is released, the scholars of Dachu will definitely have a wave of buying things that will be tried out.

However, the Shen family and his son were still staying in the Shenfu papermaking workshop, constantly conducting paper tests. They were all unkempt and dirty, like charcoal burners, and were extremely anxious and red in their eyes.

It's just that you can't make it.

What should I do?

Shen Dafu's mouth was so anxious that the corners of his mouth were blistered.

The Shen family has already spent 10,000 taels of silver, and a new workshop of hundreds of acres of land has been built. More than a dozen craftsmen and hundreds of workers are screaming and waiting for work to start. Even the raw materials of the bark are filled with a wooden house warehouse.

But unexpectedly, the group of people still did not find any shadow on the paper that Xiao Hunhou easily developed.

Shen Wanbao was also anxious and his eyes were red...

This is a great battle between him, the third largest playboy in Jinling, and Xiao Hunhou, the largest playboy in Jinling City, in the paper-making arena.

He wanted to defeat Xiaohunhou in one fell swoop, so that Xiaohunhou would lose face.

He scratched his head anxiously at this moment... He found that he could not even get on the battle arena. He could not make any papers, and he was fighting with Xiaohunhou.

In the end, there is no way!

You can't let Shen's workshop just stay idle and stop working.

Shen Wanbao thought of a wrong move.

Since the paper craftsmen cannot make the paper.

That is to improve the existing hemp paper, improve the quality of hemp paper better, and greatly compress the various costs of hemp paper.

These hemp paper craftsmen each have their own strengths and have one or two unique skills in their hands. They put together various methods and transformed the hemp paper craftsmanship.

Do your best to improve the quality of hemp paper.

However, no matter how you improve it, the new hemp paper is still hemp paper after all.

The color is yellow.

The texture is still a bit rough.

I worked hard to improve a lot of craftsmanship and doubled the quality. But at first glance, it was still a big grade worse than the beautiful Huohou Paper.

"It's over... Our Shen paper has high cost and low quality, so we will definitely not be able to beat Hunhou paper! Next time we meet Xiao Hunhou, we will definitely be ridiculed by him."

Shen Wanbao feels sad.

"A thousand taels of silver have been spent, so you have to pay back the money. Forget it, if you sell ten cents for the paper in Hunhou, we will sell five cents for it.

Our Shen paper is sold at the lowest price. Many poor scholars who cannot afford to buy Hunhou paper at high prices will come to buy our low-priced Shen paper... They can always make some money!"

Shen Dafu gritted his teeth in regret.

The cost of hemp paper is as low as possible to save workers' expenses, sell paper in your own store, and save the price difference between middlemen in bamboo slip shops.

He can still make one or two cents to sell paper at the price of five copper coins.

Originally, he expected that Shen's paper was of the same quality as Hunhou's paper. He fought a price war with Xiao Hunhou, and with his strong financial resources, he defeated Xiao Hunhou's workshop and took over the papermaking industry in Dachu alone.

Then he would invite Empress Dowager Chen to give the emperor advice, "to make the world use paper instead of bamboo slips." Scholars from hundreds of counties and states in the Great Chu were asking for paper, and Chen's mansion made a big profit overnight!

Unfortunately, the quality of Shen’s paper is not good.

Now he can only share the papermaking industry with Xiaohunhou, so that Xiaohunhou can occupy high-end paper. He can occupy medium and low-end paper at a low price.
Chapter completed!