The Little Officials of the Song Dynasty

Chapter 39: Kumamoto is kind

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The first people who went to look for this paper-making monk were the students who wanted to fight with him at the site of the Confucian scriptures. They have always been frequent visitors to the Washe. This time, I heard this story, and I really enjoyed it recently. The style of the Four Treasures of the study was very popular, so I went to the Daxiangguo Temple.

However, there are so many people in Daxiangguo Temple, and the monks alone do not know how many people are, and they do not have any characteristics.

At noon, as soon as they discussed, they simply went to eat first, and then went to see the abbot after eating, hoping to get some clues from him.

When they arrived at the abbot's meditation room, the students were surprised to find that the abbot was copying the scriptures, and the paper used had pieces of bodhi leaves, covered in thin pulp, just like life. Did you say blue paper

A few people stepped through the iron shoes and had nowhere to look, and they felt that it took no effort to get it. They immediately understood that they had heard that there was a beautiful blue paper here, and they came to look for the paper maker. The abbot used blue paper.

The abbot said: "This paper is indeed made by a monk in our temple. He is from the south of the Yangtze River. Before he became a monk, he knew the art of paper making, and he was very elegant. It's only circulated in a small area, I don't know how you found out about it."

The students of Taiyuan thought that someone must have been seen using paper, but it was only written in the book, otherwise the world would not know it. They hurriedly asked the abbot for the monk's name and residence, and wanted to visit.

The abbot called a little novice and told him to take all the students to the paper-making monk.

The students followed the novice to a courtyard, and saw a handsome young monk sorting papers, each of which was embedded with different plants, flowers and grasses.

Everyone was overjoyed and chatted with the monk named Zhihe. Hearing that he really had a southern accent, they couldn't wait to express their desire to buy paper.

Zhihe was shocked and said that he didn't know that the news of his own papermaking had spread out. But seeing that they are so sincere, they came to visit specially, so let's sell some to them.

The students happily selected their favorite flowers and papers, but felt that they had taken advantage of them.

After going back, through their re-distribution with other people who have successfully searched for it, many scholars soon realized that there was such a paper. So many people flocked to Daxiangguo Temple to buy blue paper.

Besides them, there are many other people who also want to buy. Paper is cheaper than silk cloth, soft and easy to wrap. At this time, many foods and herbs are packaged in paper. If such paper is used for packaging, it will be more elegant and novel.

Even if Yun Yanhui asked Zhihe and the others to stock up more than a dozen dans of paper in advance, they were all sold out within three days, which still controlled everyone's purchases, after all, there were many people in Bianliang. At this time, the words were released, everyone loved it so much, he could make more, but if he still wanted it, he had to wait for the next batch of paper to be ready.

Under the eyes of many expectations, Yun Yanhui also quickly calculated the account. Even if the up-front costs and marketing expenses were deducted, the first batch of paper was profitable, and now it is a net profit.

Although the bamboos in the mountains are cut at will, and the raw materials do not need money, but at this time when the construction period is rushing, a part of the labor cost is allocated, and a few brothers in the temple are invited to help the workers to chop the bamboos and transport them back, but the papermaking still remains. It's a few people in the family.

Zhisheng asked: "Yanfei, should we make the paper into other colors, so that it can be changed more, and we can also make poems."

Yun Yanhui almost hit the wall and came again. He asked Zhisheng to call him eldest brother, but Zhisheng felt that he was much older than him, so he didn't want to call him, only his name. However, this guy is a southerner with an accent, and there is no distinction between f and h. When he calls Yanhui, it sounds like he is calling "Yan Fat"...

Brother, my mother gave such a soulful and poetic name, and you called me a geese and became fat? No wonder Jinshu can't come back!

"Hey..." Yun Yan corrected it countless times, the local accent is hard to change, so he could only shyly say, "No need, originally we could only make money for a few months, if we increase the color, it will consume a part of it. Time, however, it does not increase the price by much, and the cost performance is not high, so don’t do it.”

Zhisheng tried his best to absorb what he said, with a stern look on his face, "Yanfei, you are really amazing."

Yunyan replied: "...you're welcome."

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Although Yun Yanhui and Zhi were close to them, outsiders didn't think Xiang Lanzhi had anything to do with him. After all, he had no family education and had never shown his skills in this area before.

When Zhihe came, Fang began to have blue paper. Naturally, everyone believed that this was indeed researched by Zhihe. Perhaps at most, Yun Yanhui has a good relationship with Zhihe, so let's borrow a place to build a paper shed for him.

Therefore, when someone wants to talk about the business of the blue paper, they first go to Zhihe.

Xianglan paper has become popular in the literati circle, but it is only shipped in small batches, and the supply is in short supply. This momentum naturally makes the capital paper business enthusiastic, hoping to cooperate with Zhihe to expand the production scale and make this money.

The best thing is, of course, wisdom and technology will be produced, paper merchants will produce artificial sites, and everyone will work together to make a fortune.

However, all the paper merchants were rejected by Zhihe, telling everyone that he had no intention of cooperating with others.

Or should I say, Yun Yanhui told him that anyone who cooperates with him will end up in the shadows. It is definitely the technology that has been tricked and the cooperation has broken down. How can you really rely on your technology to eat dividends? Businessmen these days are not. Fool.

Some of these paper merchants are from the south of the Yangtze River, and they also have the foundation of papermaking. It is impossible to buy this intarsia technology, but when I see that others have not bought it, I am relieved and go back to continue to break through the technical problems. profit.

There are also local paper merchants, whether they only make other hemp paper and mulberry paper, or rely solely on imports, they are more eager to cooperate with wisdom and cooperation. Because they also know that intarsia is not uncommon, and the advantages of local people in making bamboo paper are important! They can't go to Jiangnan to study art, but isn't there a person who can make bamboo paper in Tokyo

Zhihe's refusal caused these people to make other ideas. Now he's a big fat piece of meat, and he wants to take a bite.

The paper merchants tried every means to put people here, to be apprentices or helpers, but they were all rejected. This monk would rather be a little tired and earn less than he would like to recruit people, so he should not be too cautious!

They are serious monks in Daxiangguo Temple, and they don't usually do business, so you can't threaten to persecute them!

As a result, there are always a few yin and yin people who start to think of crooked ideas. That is to buy Bianliang's high-ranking Jianghu strongmen and local gangsters to peek at the papermaking process.

For example, Lai San has already received several "orders", because he is famous for being light-handed.

Lai San saw that the price was good, and originally wanted to agree. Fortunately, he discovered in time that the place was not only the Daxiangguo Temple, but also Yunyan returning to that kid's house. If it was just the Daxiangguo Temple, it would be fine, but this monk built a paper shed next to Yunyan's home. Lai thought about it for a while, but he didn't dare to take the business.

Whoever wants to pick them up, don't be afraid of ten thousand, just in case, if Yun Yanhui and the monk who sells paper are really their own people, those who dare to go will chant Buddha to themselves...

Because of the rush, even at night, Chi and the others were working.

The paper-making shed is just a straw shed. The so-called walls are more like curtains. The shed is right in front of the house. If it is quieter, you can still hear Bei Bei gnawing on bamboo shoots.

Yun Yanhui also helped out together, but he was young and had little strength, so he could only share flowers and plants.

"Well, it's getting late, Shuangyi, it's time for you to go to bed." Yun Yanhui said to Shuangyi.

However, Shuang Yi shook his head, "Didn't you say that someone might have an idea here recently? I'll be watching here, and if there's anything unusual, I'll be able to spot it."

"We rush to work very late, do you want to stay up all night every day? When you are growing, be good, go back to sleep." Yun Yan looked back at Shuang Yi, still stubborn, so she went over to bite her ear and said a few words.

Shuang Yi pricked her ears and nodded, "Okay, then I'll go to sleep first."

Shuang Yi took a lamp out of the shed, turned around Beibei's site, and entered the house.

Not far behind a tree, a man in black blinked, and after waiting for the lights in the house to go out, he crept over to the paper-making shed.

Although he was crawling, he was extremely fast and made no sound. When he reached the outside of the hut, through the gap, he greedily observed the every move of Zhihe and the others.

Every action has to be memorized, every step is a sum of money...

The man in black widened his eyes, trying to remember.

After a while, the man in black heard a sound behind him, and fell down in fright. He had done his homework before he came, and knew that the little lady in this family was young and very good at martial arts, so he just waited until the little lady went home to rest before he dared to come out.

The man in black waited for a while, only to feel that the movement was dull and clumsy, not like a little girl could make out, so he looked back carefully, but it was a naive black and white bear crawling here on all fours.

"..." The man in black breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out to be Fat Bei!

This bear is well-known throughout the Daxiangguo Temple and its surrounding areas. One is a black eye, and the other is Yunyan. After returning to the management office, there are often traders who visit here, and they will be entangled by this shameless bear. Want something to eat.

This bear is very lazy, delicious, and clumsy, and I don't know what breed it is. The man in black has seen this guy fall flat with his own eyes! No wonder it is so rare, it is estimated that most of them are too lazy to become extinct.

The man in black is relieved, if it is it, it is fine...

But soon, the man in black felt that something was wrong. Seeing him, the fat shell seemed to be a little hostile, as if he regarded him as an opponent to snatch his own food, and his breathing was not right.

The man in black hurriedly turned over and flashed to the side.

Who knew that the fat bei behind him let out a low growl, and actually accelerated, the man in black reassured himself that the lazy guy would never be able to outrun him, but when he looked back, the fat bei who was still a few feet away was actually already It's so close! !

He saw Fat Bei's small eyes surrounded by dark circles glowing with cruel light, and the thick bear's paws were raised...