Chapter 17 Piracy
"It's right here," Zhu Qing pointed to the front and said to Gao Shiqing.
This time, it is not research and development, but it is preparing to start production on a large scale, but it has bought several nearby Zhushan in advance.
Bamboo cannot be said to be worthless, bamboo shoots and various bamboo utensils made of bamboo, but things are rare, and when there are too many things, they become cheap. Starting from crossing the vast Yangtze River, from southern Anhui to Fujian, southwest to south Jiangxi Road, there are countless bamboo mountains.
So even though I bought a few bamboo mountains, I didn’t spend much money. If they weren’t on the edge of Zhejiang, I would have spent less money.
However, if you prepare for production on a large scale, you will spend more money like flowing water.
This is just the beginning. Although bamboo is cheap, bamboo paper is produced for a long time and has the constraints of the season. You must buy a large amount of bamboo in spring and then produce it. It may be after summer and autumn will come, and bamboo paper can be delivered to various cities.
This has another huge backlog of funds.
Gao Shiqing looked at it: "This will cost a lot of money."
"That's, it's much more expensive than that jade salt."
"Then why..." Gao Shiqing didn't understand. He originally wanted to get involved in the jade salt, but was pulled to Hangzhou by the merchants in Yanzhou.
Just pull it, but the conditions are too superior. You don’t have to pay a penny and get one-quarter of the net income for no reason. You should know that the Zhu family has the most shares, but nine percent, and the other ones are eight percent, and the rest are four or five percent.
"Don't tell lies in front of real people," Zhu Qing told the story that happened in spring.
Gao Shiqing understood.
This money will be made cleaner than salt, which may not be as profitable as it is, but it will be longer.
But if you really take this money, it will be a bit hot.
However, he looked at a few new pieces of paper and had to be moved.
In fact, Zhu Qing made it clear that his honest statement was huge, but he was either involved in business and production, but he was actually looking for a shelter. Even in the future they could even use the Gao family brand.
But his sincerity is too strong and there are too many shares of contract. It is not the Gao family who can protect this workshop in the world. After hesitating for several days, he finally agreed.
The group went to Hangzhou Prefecture, and was also a new magistrate. He had just been transferred to Wang Qi.
Among the officials of the Song Dynasty, this was a very low-key person and had little reputation.
After reading the contract, he felt very surprised.
However, he immediately thought of one thing, that is, if this workshop came out, it would really produce tens of thousands of guan, or even more than 100,000 or 20 guan, and Hangzhou would also receive a lot of commercial taxes, so he agreed without thinking too much.
The main reason is that officials' economic ideas are not yet mature in this era, which is not as simple as taxation. Once it is officially put into production, workers alone will have to hire hundreds of people and buy tens of thousands of chunks of tender bamboo a year. How many people will they have to support?
This is the real economy, but unfortunately few people understand it, Wang Anshi doesn’t understand it, and Su Dongpo doesn’t understand it now.
But Su Dongpo was anxious.
This year, bamboo paper is still mainly research and development, but it has accumulated a lot of experience last year. What Wang Ju saw were five representative types of bamboo paper. However, other processes that are not much different can be taken out.
This production and sales are not good, but it is basically enough to take it out as a sample and distribute it in various larger cities and prefectures, including Fengxiang Mansion.
When I arrived at Fengxiang Prefecture to study, the white paper was printed with ink bamboo on the edges, which looked particularly elegant.
It's okay, maybe Su Dongpo likes this.
However, there are also articles, poems and poems that are fatal.
Wen was written by Wen Yanbo himself. The Yanzhou merchants not only gave him 500 gold pension fees, but also promised to donate 10,000 yuan of new paper a year to benefit students in poor prefectures and counties.
Fu Bi was forced to stay at home for 27 months. Wen Yanbo was sentenced to Henan Prefecture, and his mother also happened to die. Han Qi and Fu Bi were good friends, and they could motivate Fu Bi for their sake. So what about himself?
I will also be filial.
But what about filial piety? This donation of 10,000 yuan made him excited, so he wrote an ancient essay, first talking about how bamboo paper is good, and then talking about several merchants in Yanzhou talking to him. With his own feelings and persuasion, he promised to donate 10,000 yuan of bamboo paper to students in poor prefectures and counties a year. This is a great achievement in education.
It doesn’t matter to Zhu, Li and Zhao’s family. Even if Wen Yanbo says he is the Buddha of Tathagata, so what? As long as he writes it, he will become famous and also an invisible protective umbrella. With the addition of Gao Shiqing, bamboo paper will be safe.
This article is well written.
But the following poems and essays gave Su Dongpo a headache.
One was his younger brother Su Che. His father Su Xun compiled the "Book of Li" in the capital and sent him to sign a verdict for Fengxiang Mansion. Although his younger brother was appointed as a famous prosecutor, he refused to be appointed as an official position and stayed in the capital to take care of his old father.
It is easy for Yanzhou merchants to find them.
One was his good friend Zhang Dun, who were on the same list as Jinshi. When he went to Fengxiang Prefecture to serve, Zhang Dun happened to be the magistrate of Shangzhou, so he warmly welcomed him.
There were also some stories in between. The two of them traveled to the fairy and the pool together, and they were thousands of miles away from the cliffs. There was only one wooden bridge. Zhang Dun asked Su Dongpo to pass through the pool and write a book on the cliff. Su Dongpo dared not pass by. Zhang Dun tied his waist with a rope, stepped up and down, his expression remained motionless, and wrote on the stone wall with lacquer and ink. Zhang Dun and Su Shi came to visit.
Su Dongpo said that Zihou would definitely be able to kill people. Zhang Dun asked why. Su Dongpo, those who can fight for their own life can kill people. If you don’t care about your own life, can you cherish other people’s lives?
Which principle is this?
In Fujian, because of the difficulty of raising children, once they had two, three, and four children, their parents had to drown their children in the water. Zhang Dun almost drowned their parents and were rescued by others. Later, Su Dongpo wrote a poem to give to him, and the abbot was vague and loved Shuiyun Township. Zhang Dun had a misunderstanding. As a result, the two had a feud.
I'm afraid not, it's mainly political propositions and party struggles!
But now the two have a good relationship and occasionally there are letters to live in.
Therefore, Su Dongpo was stunned when he saw the poems and essays. Third brother, Zihou, is this the poems and essays you wrote?
I will write to the two of you immediately, can you do it? I will write for you if it doesn’t work.
Zhang Dun had not received the news yet, but Su Che was depressed in the capital, but others were serving Lao Su in the capital, and they couldn't go to Yanzhou.
So after thinking about it, I thought of the disciples from Yanzhou. After finally finding out that the students of Yanzhou lived in Dasheng Inn, I came to Dasheng Inn with a scroll of bamboo paper and found Wang Ju and the others.
Wang Ju was very polite and poured him water.
"Wang Xiaolang, no need, I asked you, was this bamboo paper produced by your Yanzhou merchant?"
Wang Ju was a little excited at first.
Perhaps not many people know who Zhang Dun is. In fact, Zhang Mengren's influence in the Northern Song Dynasty was no less than Han Qi. But when asked who San Su was, how many people could not know?
Xiao Su, he stood in front of him alive.
However, Su Che's question made Wang Ju feel a little angry.
Even if you are doing an errand, you have to ask about the situation. The money you paid for by your own families is fifty gold, and if it is exchanged for coins, it is one thousand guan!
If Da Su was not greedy or obscene in Fengxiang Mansion and had no grayish-collapse, his various salary and benefits would probably not be a thousand cents a year, so let alone Xiao Su.
But Xiao Su should not be underestimated, he will be the chief censor of the future Song Dynasty and the minister of the subordinate!
So Wang Ju tried his best to maintain a respectful tone and said, "Su Tui, I know part of this bamboo paper, and it has more or less something to do with me... But its constituent stocks are two parts, part of which is a child of the Mengcheng Gao family. He alone occupies one-quarter of the constituent stocks, and the most other ones are only nine percent, which is the ten merchants in Yanzhou. I wonder which one are you looking for?"
Wang Ju had some relationship with me. Xiao Su didn't pay attention to it, but he paid attention to the Gao family in Mengcheng.
So his tone softened and said, "Retrieve the bamboo paper immediately."
This is the anti-pirated version of the Song Dynasty.
The printing industry in the Song Dynasty became more developed and piracy became serious. Therefore, before the rule of justice, the state still prohibited the engraving of the Imperial College and had to apply for the Imperial College. If you want to engrave books in private, you must submit them to the Imperial College for permission, otherwise it would be illegal. This is not for ** or to prevent piracy. "Original" was prepared in the Imperial College, so you dare not carve the pirated version.
However, it doesn't work, especially when it comes to books, it spreads culture, so it's not about stealing books, so don't mention printing. At least Zhang Zai and Wang Ju did not pay the Imperial College to "Hengqu Piaolu" co-written by Zhang Zai and Wang Ju.
Let’s steal together. The more I steal, the more books I sell, and more people I read, so that I can spread Confucianism. I don’t care if you lose money, and I don’t want to be greedy if you make money...
Even Mr. Zhang has this idea, how can he manage it well?
Therefore, a bookstore printed an explanation at the back. If you dare to reprint it, you will be prosecuted.
Who will go?
Zhu Mu, a scholar of the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote "Fang Yu Shenglan" and then wrote the preface. In order to compile this book, I also stereotyped and printed it, but I spent a lot of time and money, and I was afraid that those who were greedy for money would pirate the copies and make me lose all my money. Now, I have registered in the government, who dares to pirate the copies and "chasing people and destroy the copies."
But it didn't work at all. In the end, Mr. Zhu was almost angry at home.
However, according to the rules, without Xiao Su's consent, several companies privately carved Xiao Su's fu on bamboo paper and spread it to the world, which was also an "illegal act".
ps: Today is the fifth update. In addition, based on recommendation votes, collections, rewards, evaluations and sign-in, the more you add, the more you add (refer to last week's explosion updates), not only will the updates be added, if there are too many, the remaining days of this week will remain three updates every day. I won't say much about the others, this is the second update.
Chapter completed!