mtlumby2d Chapter 399 Successful Papermaking
Chapter 399 Successful Papermaking
But if ordinary people want to change their status, the only way is to study. However, even if the whole family devotes all their resources, they cannot afford to support a scholar. No matter how unwilling they are, they have to give up.
As a result, the lower class people can only rely on the land at home to survive.
But we rely on the weather for our livelihood. Only in years with good weather and good harvests can we have a good harvest. Once a natural disaster occurs, we will have to starve.
When it is difficult to fill their stomachs, how can ordinary people want to study? Even if they want to, there is nothing they can do to change the current situation.
But now there is an opportunity. As long as she improves the production efficiency of paper and reduces costs, the price of paper sold on the market will not be very high.
As long as the price of paper drops, the price of books will also drop accordingly, but this is an ideal situation.
"Master, we have successfully made paper according to the steps you gave us, and the quality of the paper is really good."
Li Mengyue was deeply touched when she saw Gongsun Cheng was so excited that he shed tears.
Because she knew that once these papers were on the market, they would have a huge impact on the current paper business and would also change the current situation of scholars to a certain extent.
But she still had concerns, and before Li Mengyue could raise the issue, Gongsun Cheng spoke it out.
"Master, we can't sell the paper we made easily, otherwise if it attracts the attention of someone with ulterior motives, we may lose it."
Li Mengyue knew that what Gongsun Cheng said was true. The aristocratic families monopolized paper and books. If she intervened directly, whether it was to make money, to get a piece of the pie, or to allow children from ordinary people to have books to read, she could not rashly enter the paper market.
Hesitation is not her style. Besides, the word "fear" does not exist in Li Mengyue's dictionary in her past and present life.
Even though she is now just a village girl and cannot compete with a noble family that has existed for hundreds of years, she will not give up.
From the moment she thought of making paper, it would not be used by only a few people, but would enter the market and compete with the aristocratic families.
It's because the profit of paper is so high and she happened to be short of money.
"Don't worry, I have my own arrangements. All you have to do is make more paper."
Li Mengyue didn't say what she would do, she just asked the Gongsun family to make more paper.
However, she also knew that as long as the paper was on the market, the cheap and high-quality paper in her hands would soon become mainstream and replace the current paper on the market.
By then, a lot of paper will be needed, and the Gongsun family alone will not be able to meet the demand.
It seems that from now on, we need to make plans, produce more paper, and wait for the paper to become popular.
But staying in the town is not enough. The house looks big and cannot satisfy her idea of opening a paper-making workshop. She still has to move to the village.
After all, the village is quite large, so she can ask the village chief to mark out an area specifically for building a papermaking workshop.
Then we can recruit villagers to work in the workshop.
In this way, even after the reservoir is built, some villagers can still have a job in the village and earn extra income to supplement their family expenses.
"Gongsun Cheng, get ready and move to the village as soon as possible."
"Yes, master."
After explaining the papermaking matter to the Gongsun family, Li Mengyue left without staying for dinner.
After leaving, he did not return to the village, but went to the house that Xie Ruiyuan had given him.
She had previously placed one million kilograms of grain here, and believed that it had all been moved away.
Li Mengyue entered the place where the grain was stored and saw that the house was empty. She realized that her guess was right.
Standing at the door of the house, he waved his hand, and then the whole room was filled with food, a full 200,000 kilograms of food.
Apart from the 110,000 kilograms of grain promised to be sold to seven villages, the remaining 90,000 kilograms of grain will be used to build reservoirs and provide cooking for the villagers.
However, if the reservoir and river were to be built according to her idea, it would not be completed in one month, but would take at least three months.
However, as the construction of the reservoir is extended, all expenses will increase, whether it is labor or food, which is not a small amount. Obviously, 90,000 kilograms of grain is far from enough.
But what she wanted was to complete the construction of the reservoir and river within two months.
If we just want to shorten the construction period, we need more people to join in. Fortunately, there is no shortage of people nowadays.
After all, hundreds of thousands of disaster victims are not just talk, and no matter how much work there is, there will be no shortage of people to do it.
But refugees are different from villagers. You have to know that refugees leave their homes, take all their belongings and go to a strange place to start a new life.
But no one knows whether they can reach their destination in the end, and no one knows what they will encounter on the way. However, the refugees who are lucky enough to reach Wuning County will not only have no money, but also not much food.
If she wanted to find refugees to dig the river, she would have to prepare a large amount of food first. Ninety thousand kilograms was far from enough.
But she didn't know exactly how much food would be needed.
Even if there is enough food in the space, we cannot take out millions of kilograms at once, which will definitely arouse suspicion.
As for the one million kilograms she had given away before, she didn't believe that Xie Ruiyuan had no thoughts.
So what if she just has an idea? She has her reasons for doing so.
If she wanted to save tens of millions of disaster victims, even if she had a large amount of food, she couldn't just do it casually. She needed to find a safe way.
Her current identity is that of an ordinary peasant girl with no power or influence. If she rashly takes out a large amount of food to help the victims, she will probably get into trouble if the victims are not saved.
This was not what she wanted. Her purpose of rescuing the victims was to collect 100 million gratitude points and complete the task assigned by the Lord God of the World, so that she could completely possess the original owner's body and survive in this world. Tuanzi would also have the opportunity to seek revenge on Xiaojiantong.
But no matter how much food there is, there must be a legitimate reason to help the victims, and Xie Ruiyuan is the most suitable person.
As for the current king, there is no problem in taking out any amount of grain for disaster relief.
Even if there were doubts in the court, how could the Prince of Chen have so much grain? That had nothing to do with a peasant girl like her, and the spearhead would be directed at Xie Ruiyuan.
She believed that Xie Ruiyuan could easily resolve the difficulties posed by these people.
After all, no matter what, Xie Ruiyuan is the man she likes. Not only does he care about the world, but he also has strong enough abilities.
And judging from the few times she and Xie Ruiyuan had spent time together, Xie Ruiyuan had good character and was not the kind of person who would stab someone in the back. Even if she gave out a large amount of food and Xie Ruiyuan had doubts in his heart, he would not have any intention of doing anything bad to her.
Besides, there is a child between the two of them, and their relationship is already complicated and hard to cut off, so it wouldn't matter if there were a few more.