"Go to the Royal Paper Mill."

The weaving factory with the roaring loom was out, and the emperor went to the paper mill again. The paper mill was also in the south of the city, but this place was actually not a real paper mill.

According to the factory manager's introduction, this is equivalent to a packaging yard.

"Now, our Royal Paper Mill has more than 100 paper mills in more than 20 and 200 counties across the country, including jute paper, mulberry paper, teng paper, straw paper, and even newly developed papermaking materials such as bamboo paper, which can be said to be extremely rich."

"Your Majesty first drew us one million chunks from the inner warehouse to open factories and develop new papermaking processes. We hired excellent craftsmen from all over the country to study hard. Now it is very effective. We are not only using worn-out linen paper, but also starting to use wild hemp paper. The wild hemp produces a wide range of sources and has sufficient costs, and there is no need to occupy fields to plant and do not take manual care of it."

Paper mills purchase a large amount of wild hemp from the people. People can collect various wild hemp in the fields and sell it to purchase merchants, and make a profit. For paper mills, the cost of this wild hemp is undoubtedly greatly reduced.

"Your Majesty, now we have formed a large-scale production of hemp paper in Shu. There are a large number of hemp paper making workshops in Shu, producing all kinds of hemp paper with hemp as raw material. The process continues to improve, the cost continues to decrease, and the quality of hemp paper has also made rapid progress."

"In Guanzhong, we use teng skin and rind paper as the main raw materials to make rind paper."

"In the Jiangnan region, we mainly produce bamboo paper. After our research, the bamboo paper process is very mature and stable. There are bamboos everywhere in Jiangnan. The fibers are made of tender bamboo, and the paper is more tough. Moreover, the cost of bamboo paper is much cheaper than that of hemp and Teng."

The field manager told the emperor proudly.

In the past few years, their scale has expanded rapidly, and the output of papermaking is now quite amazing.

"After your Majesty's repeated requests, we have already reduced the price of paper ten times over the past few years."

This is quite amazing, the price of paper has dropped ten times, what does it mean?

In the past, books were made in scrolls or folded pages, and the price of books was extremely expensive. Any book was worth several thousand yuan. Most people could not afford books at all and could only copy them.

But copying book paper, ink and pen is very expensive.

Even the imperial courts, the cost of paper and ink has become a huge expense.

The emperor had previously pulled out millions to invest in the research and development of papermaking, improving processes, and expanding production. Now some basic paper products have dropped by ten times more than before. Although there are some high-quality papers, the prices are still very expensive, even more expensive than in the past, after all, for more scholars or government officials, such good paper does not need to be used.

"In the past, the government government offices used Teng paper. Several counties that produced Teng paper were cut all, resulting in the rising prices of Teng prices. The government's paper expenses also increased significantly. Some yamen officials even had no paper available. Since Your Majesty ordered us to study papermaking, the court offices have now switched to hemp paper to work, and the cost has dropped ten times."

"And printing of books with bamboo paper and woodblock printing has caused the price of books to drop dozens of times. In the past, a book cost at least a few dozen cents, but now a book only costs a few cents."

In the past, a set of 300 poems of the Book of Songs was divided into four volumes. The whole book was only more than 30,000 words, but it cost dozens of stakes, almost every word and a stake.

Now, the Royal Printing Office uses cheap bamboo paper and woodblock printing technology to print thousands of copies at a time, which greatly reduces the cost, and even carving boards can be reused.

Now a set of Book of Songs only costs two cents of money, which is equivalent to a volume of only five hundred cents.

"This is really a blessing to scholars all over the world."

When the owner mentioned this, he could not hide his excitement and pride. In the past, almost all the copywriters in Luoyang had a starting price of a volume of 1,000 yuan, while each volume was 10,000 words. If you copy 10,000 words, you would have to pay 1,000 yuan. You can know how high the cost is.

The Royal Weaving Bureau, the Royal Papermaking Bureau, the Royal Printing Bureau, the Royal Pharmaceutical Bureau... Each workshop with the royal name has expanded rapidly and made rapid progress in recent years.

Although the emperor initially invested a lot, his output is even more amazing now.

The Royal Shipbuilding Bureau, the Royal Mint Bureau, and the Royal Maritime Trade Bureau are also bringing wealth to the emperor continuously.

"The papermaking process must continue to invest time, energy and cost research, and develop more paper to minimize the cost of paper. The court is now going to conduct a large-scale imperial examination and to promote the government. Now it is collecting various books across the country, and offering rewards for the people to present books. After these books are collected, the court will send special personnel to organize, proofread or even repair and rescue. Books are treasures of our human beings and cannot be destroyed and lost."

"After these books are sorted out, they will be collected in the Royal Library. For some important books, they will be engraved and printed, stored in the Six Kindergarten and the School of Branched County. Even some ordinary books will be copied several copies and stored in the library and left for future generations."

Not only that, the emperor has even asked the Secretariat to begin to be responsible for sorting out all the books that exist in the world, classifying them according to the four major categories of classics, history, and collections, and then compiling a catalog and revising the Siku Complete Book.

As for some of the Nine Confucian classics and official history of various dynasties among these books, Luo Cheng is also preparing to publish them separately, not only becoming a must-read book for all officials and imperial examination scholars, but also allowing more ordinary people to come into contact with and understand.

To make these books a textbook or a book for the people, it will be cheaper to walk out of the ivory tower and into the secular world.

When a book costs only a few hundred or even dozens of dollars, it was only when it was said that it was the real prosperity of culture and education. Although this seemed unrealistic, Luo Cheng did not hope to promote it.

The owner took a account book for Luo Cheng to show. Luo Cheng found that he had invested one million yuan in the past few years. In the past few years, the Papermaking Bureau now has more than 100 paper mills, more than 20,000 paper workers, and temporarily hires a large number of temporary workers every year, but now it has enough money.

That one million yuan investment has now come out, and there is still more than one hundred thousand yuan left.

This was the result of the emperor repeatedly asking to pay the price of paper. Seeing this, Luo Cheng couldn't help but be amazed. Did papermaking develop rapidly in the past during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but paper was still so expensive? No wonder the gentry held the papermaking technology tightly and refused to promote it, because the business was too profitable.

When Luo Cheng recalled the memorials of ministers who often reported to the emperor's eunuchs, provincial bureaus, and other memorials, competing for profit with the people, etc., Luo Cheng couldn't help but smile.

It seems that the emperor, the emperor, was very unhappy when they touched these people's cheese.

I guess if he hadn't been the emperor, but just a nouveau riche, he would have been beaten to death by these gentry long ago, right?

Compete with the people for profit?

Nonsense, he developed royal bureaus within the rules set by the court, neither evading taxes nor evading taxes, nor bullying others with power. He was even the largest profit-taxer in the Qin Dynasty, which led to a lot of tax growth and people's income increase.

Not to mention the large amount of investment, it brings technological innovation and industrial upgrading, but these people pretend not to see it, just blindly saying that the emperor's royal bureau competes with the people for profit.

Which family has no property in this court? Who relies solely on salary and land? Basically no one is like this. Every family has more or less other industries, either doing loans and mortgages, trades, or doing workshops. Who gave up this?

Luo Cheng wondered whether he wanted to issue a law prohibiting officials from doing business with his family?

Didn’t it mean to compete for profit with the people? Then they are officials and should not compete for profit with the people.

However, the emperor only shook his head. It is estimated that even if the law is issued, it will be invalid. After all, officials are not allowed to do business. However, some of them have ways to bypass them, such as letting people from the side tribes or relatives, or even just invest in a stock or even just find an agent, not even leaving a name.

Compete with the people for profit.

The most popular ones are the civil servants of the gentry, and the upstarts of military meritorious service will not shout because everyone is busy making money and making money.
Chapter completed!