The key to making paper is fiber. Not only does hemp have fiber, but bamboo also has fiber.

However, if bamboo is used as raw material, the formula of paper medicine must also be changed.

High-quality bark and straw can actually be considered. After all, the raw materials of rice paper are mixed with sandalwood and sand field straw in a certain proportion. However, the first thing to do is not necessarily find sand field straw.

However, the papermaking cycle is very long. For example, if rice paper is made according to the ancient method, it will take one year to count the bleaching.

Zhu Xin's skills, regardless of the acceleration of papermaking time, he could only come up with ideas and try to study first.

In small batches, there is actually no need to take that long. It takes eight hours to stew large pieces of meat. Stew the meat slices and stew it for two hours in a pressure cooker. The main thing is to confirm the process and whether the paper medicine is suitable for the fit, so there is no need to make so many.

"This thing only has investment in the early stage, no income!" Qin Song calculated and said something. It was strange, okay, why did you need to run a papermaking workshop, and it was a government-run workshop. The problem was that she didn't make money in the early stage, so how difficult it would be for her to manage money?

"It's not just an official investment, but also a sponsorship from the society. Whoever wants to invest will invest, anyway, Sun and Zhu have 30% of the shares, and whoever is interested will invest. At that time, make money and then distribute the profits according to the share ratio!" Zhu Xin expressed his opinion.

"This early stage was just improving the papermaking process. If it was not improved, would you still have to invest money?" Qin Song asked back, but knowing that the Sun family and the Zhu family were going to invest, their expressions were slightly better, at least not just a loss.

It’s not her fault for being stingy, she just said that Sun Ce’s finances are really hard to be aware of.

Commercial activities themselves are underdeveloped, and the most developed Jiujiang and Lujiang will probably not be able to transfusion blood to the prefecture next year.

The problem is that Fujian County and Luling County are sucking blood.

Nearly 30,000 soldiers need to be maintained, but fortunately, the number of auxiliary soldiers has been reduced to 20,000, otherwise it will make the originally difficult days worse.

But as today's turmoil is turbulent, Sun Ce is adjacent to Liu Biao, Cao Cao and Lu Bu, and the war is about to break out at any time.

Even if Sun Ce and Lu Bu have a covenant, the covenant these days is ultimately a piece of waste paper.

The worst case scenario is that you need to fight one or three, and there is not enough material reserves. How to fight? In the end, aren’t it all burning money?

"The early attempt does not cost much. After all, the raw materials are cheap products such as grass, bark, hemp and bamboo. Yangzhou is full of mountains, and this kind of thing is not expensive." Zhu Xin replied, "The cycle is about three months. As long as the first batch of tests has finished products, you can naturally know the direction of subsequent research. Even the second batch can consider expanding production."

"There are not so many scholars in Yangzhou. Even if the paper is made, can it be compared with Yingchuan paper?" Qin Song was still a little hesitant. The best paper these days is Yingchuan paper, and Jingzhou paper has also begun to come up recently.

The main reason is that literati and poets are there to drive paper consumption. In other places, there are few scholars, so it is useless to make paper.

For example, Xuan paper did not appear until after Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, when Jiangnan began to develop.

At first, the emperor wanted good paper, so the local tribute was raised, but the tribute was not that high.

It was not until the Song Dynasty, Jiangnan, became a place where literati and poets gathered, that the rice paper began to be mass-produced.

Without scholars as support, what is this paper used for?

For example, Caihou paper is not easy to make, not to mention that the process is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the final output is not much.

The price of Yidao paper is much more expensive than bamboo slips.

Especially the quality is so good, which is not conducive to storage. In 105 AD, Caihou paper was already available, but this thing has not been fully popular yet. Other cloth and silk are not easy to write, and the price is still very expensive. In the end, the common ones are wooden mats and bamboo slips.

Qin Song looked down on papermaking, so he had this consideration. She thought that doing it casually could improve papermaking.

If it is really that easy, why has no one been able to improve it in the past hundred years since the Cai Hou’s paper came out?

"This thing is beneficial to the country and the people. If the government does not invest, then who can invest consciously? If the government is afraid of losing money, it can not invest money. Then it would be better for everyone to go back and live a life of eating raw meat and drinking blood, which is the most convenient!" Zhu Xin retorted.

Some things that benefit the country and the people are not allowed to be paid, and the country needs to invest. If the country does not invest, who else can invest?

For example, if the country does not invest in signal base stations, which operator is willing to build base stations in remote mountain villages, rural areas or places without much money? Examples include: This is the beautiful country where telecommunications privatization is next door.

He paused and continued, "Besides, who stipulates that paper must be used to dance and ink?"

Now let alone Qin Song, Zhang Zhao and Sun Ce around him were all a little confused. What else can you do if you don’t do this?

But Zhu Xin didn't say it at all, but just guaranteed that the second batch would be able to produce flagship products, and the sales were absolutely not bad.

"Then what other shares you want, just let's go through the official business!" Sun Ce made a statement immediately.

"It's okay now, at least we can watch it. If we don't pay attention in the future, the head of the workshop will show off his authority, arrange relatives in management positions, or even fake the account book, or even take kickbacks when purchasing raw materials?" Zhu Xin asked back, "The shareholding system is actually to avoid this situation. After all, there are so many shareholders who are following your every move."

There is another concept, that is, like the grain store, it will bring more noble families into the chariots.

In the end, the resistance to Sun Ce's rule and reform can decline.

"Okay..." Qin Song didn't plan to make things difficult for his boss, "There are not many things that can be given on the books!"

"Who said we want to pay?" Zhu Xin immediately retorted, "We are the government and occupy great power. Is this land considered money? Is this labor considered money? Is this government investing in land, equipment and labor, and it is not an exaggeration to occupy 40% of the shares?"

"Our two families took out the money, bought raw materials and paid salaries, and occupied 30% of the shares?" Sun Ce understood.

"No, we not only took the money, but also provided technology. Technology is the key to papermaking. Just for this technology, it is not an exaggeration to have 20% of the shares. Then we both took out the money and collected 10% of the shares. In the end, 30% of the shares will be recruited from the outside."

"How do you come from the equipment, how do you come from this laborer?" Zhang Zhao asked back.

"We have corvee labor, we arrange personnel to make equipment, level the land, and build workshops to offset corvee labor. In addition, in the war in the north, many refugees went south and could recruit people from it and work in workshops." Zhu Xin expressed his opinion.

"It's basically just a waste of money..." Zhang Zhao admired Zhu Xin a little, it's okay. Having said that, didn't you say that you just made a temporary decision and didn't plan to implement it? I'm afraid that this casual look has been planning for a long time, right?

"How to calculate, how much material can be used to make paper? In the past, fishing nets and hemp ropes are not used, forage, straw, tree bark, bamboo, etc., can it be so expensive?" Zhu Xin said with an innocent look on his face, "The cost is three times lower than that of Cai Hou paper!"

To make Caihou paper, you need bark, hemp, rags, and fishing nets. The bark is easy to say, but the others are semi-finished or finished products, and the price is of course more expensive than the raw materials.

Papermaking is ultimately about turning fibers into pulp, then adding paper medicine, solidifying them into paper, and then drying them.

If you want to be fair, you must add a few bleaching techniques.

But nowadays, what kind of bleaching is needed? It is true that scholars can have enough paper to read. Those high-quality paper should be kept for everyone to study in the future!

"Can this be made of paper that is better than Cai Hou's paper?" Qin Song asked carefully.
Chapter completed!