What Chu Tianxiu wanted to buy the most was firecrackers and fireworks.

This thing is a magical tool to cheer up the New Year, and it is more festive and lively than pasting Spring Festival couplets and door gods.

On New Year's Eve, when it was so "crackling", there were smoke rising everywhere, fireworks and flames flying, illuminating the ancient and quiet night sky. It was so lively and so enjoyable.

He couldn't help but wonder.

Make your own firecrackers to celebrate the New Year?

The prerequisite for making firecrackers is to create gunpowder. Saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal are easy to make, and technically not difficult.

But gunpowder is not just firecrackers.

Anyone with a slightest touch can transform it into a bundle of "explosive packs", which is much more terrifying than swords.

He previously invented that Hunhou paper could be used to make paper books.

The Confucian scholars in Jinling City were filled with joy, and the great scholar Kong Hanyou called it auspiciousness, and the "prosperous era of literary fortune" was about to come.

The emperor was also very happy.

After all, no matter how much paper is made, it will not threaten anyone's life. The imperial power is stable, and the emperor still sleeps very steadily.

But if you make gunpowder yourself, it may not be considered auspicious.

What would Emperor Xiang Yanran think?

Squinted his eyes and began to think, "You little husband is not blessed, but you went to tear out a gunpowder with such great power. What do you want to do?"

Those assassins and others found a must-pass place on the way to bury the big gunpowder bag, and ignite it when the emperor passed by, and "boom" it, and the group was destroyed within ten feet of the twelve.

No matter how many guards there are, they may not be able to defend against such raids.

The emperor only thought about it, can he still sleep in the future?!

The emperor asked sinisterly, "Little Hunhou, what do you want to do to make gunpowder? You have all the equipment for rebellion... I heard that you dug a large ice cellar in the Pingwang Mansion?"

Did you say, "Your Majesty, I just want to hear it's 'bang' sound, and be happy!"

Can Xiang Yanran believe it?

The idle censors in the court studied the book without any pain. "The little Hun Hou stayed asleep all night and was extremely hard, and finally developed a powerful weapon!" "The little Hun Hou made gunpowder and had great ambitions for the country!"

Not to mention the Hunhou Mansion, I am afraid that Prince Ping’s Mansion will have to wait for the house to be searched for one day.

When Chu Tianxiu thought of this, she felt a chill on her neck. She was cold. Yu'er, who had not yet given a gift from the church, Zuer and Di'er, who were married, what should they do?

He grinned and instantly gave up the terrible idea of ​​making gunpowder.

Keep this terrifying gunpowder for others to invent. Just don’t involve yourself, just play with paper by yourself.

How safe is the paper? It can be written, written, wiped, and sold for money. How great!

Firecrackers and fireworks, whether it is with it or not, celebrate the New Year.

My head is gone, but the New Year will not be over.

...

Chu Tianxiu took Zuer to visit the shops on Changle Street, and she was quite happy.

Putting aside the potential dangerous goods such as firecrackers, the Great Chu Dynasty was full of roads to wealth!

Not to mention anything else, as long as it involves paper products, there are almost no products.

There are no Spring Festival couplets, pictures, flowers, and books.

I had no paper before, and I had no such habit at all.

But now there is a dumb paper. If you dye the paper red, you can ask an old scholar to write festive couplets. You can make a fortune by selling the couplets directly.

There are also door gods, New Year pictures, etc., which require paper materials and can be made.

This is a unique business... At most, the Shen family follows the trend of business opportunities, and they share a little bit, and no one competes for business with them at all.

Chu Tianxiu became happier the more she thought about it.

Although I don’t earn much money by selling Spring Festival couplets, mosquito meat is also meat!

After one hour.

Chu Tianxiu took Zuer on the street and met Li Yu and Dier who were in high spirits.

They have purchased a large amount of New Year's goods, almost filling up most of the carriages.

Chu Tianxiu was shocked. How did it do it in such a short time?!

"Husband, we have almost bought all the New Year's goods, silk, powder and jewelry from our Yuyuan. Let's go! Let's go back and let the maids in the mansion make you a few new sets of clothes."

Li Yu said happily.

Chu Tianxiu suddenly felt depressed and found that he was still empty-handed and hadn't bought anything yet, so the big purchase of New Year's goods was over.

Zuer curled her lips... Didn't my son-in-law notice that she didn't bring any copper coins on her body and wanted to buy New Year's goods?!

...

In a flash, more than ten days passed.

After the Great Cold, it is very close to New Year's Eve.

Chu Tianxiu is busy in Prince Ping’s Mansion.

The new heating room in Pingwang Mansion has been built, and some new fruits and vegetables have been planted, which will be eaten after a while.

The ice cellar in Yuyuan is much more complicated. Wooden beams and stone slabs are required to be built. Craftsmen are speeding up to build them before the Spring Festival.

As soon as the Chinese New Year comes, the craftsmen will go home to celebrate the festival, and construction will not start before the Lantern Festival.

There is also King Ping Li Rong, who is enthusiastically arranging to build a five-story library in the royal palace. Carpenters are working hard. The five-story carving jade building costs at least 50,000 taels, which is a real big project.

Chu Tianxiu went to the papermaking workshop and spent a few days to arrange to expand production.

Now the workshop produces about ten thousand pieces of paper every day.

It seems that there are a lot of people, but one hundred pages of paper are made into a book, which is only one hundred paper books every day, which is pitifully few.

Because the price of Hunhou Paper has always been very expensive, it has been completely sold among the families, powerful families, wealthy families, ladies and ladies in Jinling City.

Some vendors who seek profits were also transported to other distant cities and sold to wealthy families in local counties.

I can sell about a hundred paper books in about a day, and I can earn 200 taels of silver and 6,000 taels of monthly income.

But this is already the limit of the paper, and sales are difficult to increase.

If the price of the Hunhou paper is not reduced, the Confucian scholars in Jinling City will definitely not be able to afford it, and the sales will naturally not be able to increase.

However, Chu Tianxiu plans to quickly expand the scale of the workshop to more than five times.

Once the father-in-law’s library is built, a large number of paper books will definitely be needed to fill it.

My father-in-law said proudly that he would collect 100,000 books and collect all the books in the world.

Chu Tianxiu laughed secretly. In modern times, it is just a small library. Any elementary school’s collection of books must exceed this number.

Of course, the few books in the Great Chu Dynasty were already famous enough to become the No. 1 library in Jinling City.

Even if it is calculated by five cents per piece of paper, it is a huge income of 50,000 taels of silver.

He wants to prepare this paper production capacity in advance.

When Mr. Sun heard this, he was shocked.

He didn't know that he produced 50,000 pieces of paper a day, and so much paper, and the price was so expensive. What should he do if this sales route is? Who would buy so much paper?!

Chu Tianxiu also handed over the tasks of making big red paper, writing Spring Festival couplets, painting door gods, etc. to Mr. Sun, asking him to arrange some people and hire Confucian scholars to write couplets, specializing in producing these things.
Chapter completed!