"Don't touch them with water," Li Zhen stood on the shore and shouted loudly.

Under his command, the workers carried bundles of white or yellow bamboo paper onto the ship one after another. This was another advantage of choosing to be in Hangzhou, that is, water transportation was developed, and in this era, the cost of water transportation was the lowest. If properly organized, a bucket of grain was transported from Hangzhou to the capital by water, only a dozen cents would be enough. But what about it by land?

Then don’t have luck, just let the people move to the south.

Wang Wei also stood on the shore and said happily: "I finally waited for this day."

After almost two and a half years of hard work, I finally saw my income.

Li Zhen said, "Second uncle, I'll go to Hangzhou City. When I'm not here, you will take care of me."

"Good come."

Li Zhen got on the boat and went down the river. He soon came to Hangzhou City, inquired about it, found the largest bookstore in the city, and then said to the uncle in the store: "I want to meet your boss and talk about big deals."

"My husband is..."

"I am the manager of the paper workshop in Fuyang."

My uncle immediately changed into a smile. The paper workshop is almost well-known in Hangzhou and is more closely connected with their book workshops. If you want to make more money in books, you must save costs in all aspects, among which paper costs are the big ones.

He immediately went in and reported, and an old man came out of it.

"Li Langjun, what business?"

"Let's go in and talk."

"Okay, come with me." The old man took Li Zhen to the inner room, asked everyone to pour tea, and then said, "Li Langjun, we can talk now."

"I want to join hands with Weng Weng to print Diamond Sutra and Perfect Enlightenment Sutra. These common Buddhist scriptures may not necessarily be required, but they must have carved boards for your family."

This involves printing cost issues. It is not necessarily cheaper to print movable type than engraving printing. That needs to be read. Some common books, such as the Thirteen Confucian Schools, some Buddhist books, and large bookstores have ready-made engravings.

However, this carving board takes up space and must be prevented from insect damage. It will deform over time and will be unable to print it once it is deformed. Therefore, the carving boards are destroyed after one-time printing of unpopular and unselling books. However, common books are available in major bookstores and bookstores, so the profit is very light.

It is precisely because of this situation that Bi Sheng studied movable type printing so that the bookstore can reduce the cost of printing books. It is definitely not cost-effective to put movable type in one book, but the bookstore will print many books a year. One book is not cost-effective, ten books are not cost-effective, so what about twenty books or fifty books?

The cost of books naturally decreases.

However, the materials used by Bi Sheng may be affected by woodblock printing. First, they chose wood movable type, but failed. Then they chose clay movable type, which is easy to engrave. Although metal movable type is good, how difficult is it to cast a font in this era? Moreover, metal movable type requires more stringent adhesives.

He wanted to save labor cheaply, but he ignored metal movable type, so he printed movable type, but because of the various disadvantages of wooden movable type and clay movable type, it could not be popularized.

It has nothing to do with this, it is the cost.

With ready-made engraving boards, the printing cost will be smaller, and with this year's gold paper, the price of books may be less than half.

"Mr. Li Langjun, it's not that I'm trying to save you. Although your workshop has the cheaper ones, everyone is using it, and books will be cheaper. These Buddhist scriptures are not available in a bookstore, and there is actually not much profit."

"Weng Weng, you are wrong. These books are not intended to be sold in the Central Plains, nor will they be sold in the Song Dynasty, but transported to Xixia."

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"The cicada is sad and sad. When facing the long pavilion, the rain has just stopped. I have no mood to drink in the capital tent. The orchid boat is urging me to look at each other. I hold my hands and look at each other and cry, but I feel speechless..." The song sang Liu Yong's "Yu Lin Ling" softly.

One of the impatient middle-aged men asked, "Manager Zhu, tell me, you call us together, what's wrong?"

This is also forced.

Liyuanbao checked private goods and snatched three private goods in disguise, but everyone was helpless.

Of course, they were also trying to find a way, but Sun Mian was greedy, violent and tough, and these powerful people did not dare to commit crimes. But sooner or later, they would have solutions. After all, they were local tyrants, and there was a wide range of private goods, so Sun Mian could not do it.

Therefore, Zhu Qing came into everyone's sight and said that this person brought a large number of pigs and sheep to the officers and soldiers of various battalions in Huachi County.

The Zhu family is a local snake in Yanzhou, and the influence cannot be extended to Qingzhou.

However, they also wanted to find a way to connect Huachi Road, so Zhu Qing invited him, so they came together.

Zhu Qing clapped his hands, made the song go on and said, "Everyone, I'm here to discuss something with you. We will join hands to operate private goods and walk from Huachi Road."

"Oh." Everyone was surprised, but after thinking about it, it was very likely that according to some news they heard, inspector Yao was deeply influenced by the small magistrate of Huachi County, and the small magistrate had a close relationship with the Zhu family.

"Manager Zhu, tell me how to jointly manage the law." One person asked.

Another man said sarcastically: "Manager Zhu, Huachi County is the territory of Qingzhou, not the territory of you Yanzhou people."

"Everyone, listen to me after I'm going to say that, first, there may be several households in Yanzhou, and we only have one-tenth of the income. You can share the rest, but I promise that there will be no more private goods being investigated."

This requirement was not high, so everyone kept silent, only one person asked, "What about two and three?"

"The second is not to manage private salt. Don't ask about the remaining private goods, but one thing is that a large number of war horses must be exchanged for from the Xixia people."

"Horse? I understand. It turned out to be for the New Army," one of them suddenly realized: "But Manager Zhu is not the same as before. During the Renzong period, the court established a horse buying club. Although it was closed later, the government occasionally bought horses from us. But at that time, the price of horses was relatively fair, and a good horse could often give nearly 60 guan. However, this year the court issued an edict, and a horse would be given 30 guan. It could not be bought in the other side of the mountain, and it was in the Song Dynasty."

"This guy is right. Not only can you not buy private horses in Qingzhou, but you can't buy horses anywhere in the security army. The court..." Zhu Qing shook his head.

Of course, it turned out that some bad phenomena did occur in the court buying horses from merchants, such as collusion between officials and using bad horses to pretend to be good horses to deceive the country's money. The difference between a bad horse that cannot be regarded as a war horse and a good war horse can reach forty or fifty cents.

That situation is not good, but you can buy a horse at that price.

That's it. The two cavalrymen of the imperial court in Shaanxi, Guangrui Army and Fanluo Army were still seriously short of horses. It was better for the Fanluo Army to be able to carry horses themselves, and the number of horses could exceed half, but less than 600% or 70%. The Guangrui Army could only have two or three people to configure one war horse.

Cavalry has the style of fighting for cavalry, and infantry has the style of fighting for infantry.

Without horses, how can cavalry go to the battlefield? It is equivalent to nullifying their martial arts.

However, the court is even more confused now. I heard that Mr. Han had been in Shaanxi for a long time. Did he not even understand this?

Zhu Qing couldn't figure it out. Han Qi was pretty good, and Xiao Song directly threw out the old sow method to raise horses.

"Don't worry about this. As long as you get a horse, we will collect it at the real market price."

"Xinfanluo?" Everyone understood this time.

It turns out that the so-called private goods check were all tricks of the little magistrate.

Only by strictly investigating private goods can Huachi Road be blocked, merchants in Yanzhou have the opportunity to coerce and enter, and those Xinfanluo have the opportunity to buy horses. As for the instructor Liu, not only because of the small magistrate's revenge, but also because of this, and with revenge, he was shot.

"We can agree, but the salt cannot stop." Another person said.

Others agreed that salt was only part of the private goods, but the profit ratio was very large. In addition, Gyeongju is very close to Yanzhou, so everyone was unwilling to let go.

Zhu Qing was not angry and said calmly: "The establishment of the Fan Luo Army is the one who defends Qingzhou, not our Yanzhou."

They didn't know Wang Ju's plan, nor did they know how many merchants in Yanzhou participated. It might be to curry favor with the small magistrate, so it would be possible to spend some money to buy pigs and sheep, improve the food of soldiers, and fund war horses.

This account is easy to settle, and that meal is 8,000 yuan a year.

This horse is simpler. It seems that a battalion of four or five hundred horses costs a lot of money, but don’t forget that one horse bought from the other side of the mountain is enough for about 40 guan. The court took out another 30 guan. One horse is only a loss of about 10 guan.

But there are also some companies that can make profits when participating in private goods. Maybe not only will they not lose money, but they can make back all the food expenses and gain a great reputation.

But the man sarcastically said, "Can you defend Qingzhou by a battalion fall?"

"Who are you?"

"In the next Wu Cha."

"One battalion of the sacred camp will not work, but there are so many battalions of soldiers in Qingzhou. At the critical moment, the nature of one more battalion of the sacred camp and one less battalion of the sacred camp will be different."

"Manager Zhu, I'm not laughing at you. How many officers and soldiers are there in Ge Huaimin's hands?"

Zhu Qing was a little displeased: "Minister Wang first arrived in Huachi, and a private goods arrived in Huachi that day. I don't know if it was a coincidence or wanted to demonstrate. This is a magister Wang who doesn't want to cause a bigger storm. If you don't cooperate, it's not a big problem. At worst, we can act on our own."

"Manager Zhu, open the skylight and speak out. This is Qingzhou, including the clerks and officials in Huachi County, all of us are our people. Can Magistrate Wang support Huachi County alone?"

"Yes, he can't support Huachi County alone, but what about that foreign army? From now on, they will be stationed in Huachi Town for training. Maybe everyone has a wide range of ways, but we are private goods, so we don't touch private salt. Let's go to the capital to complain, or go to Sun Gong to complain."

This is the deadly back.

As long as one can make a point, the court will allow it.

But as long as the court allows this camp to fall to Huachi Town Yika, they also clearly sponsored the merchants in Yanzhou. In fact, Wang Ju is behind him. No matter what everyone does in Liyuan Fort, the private trade route in Huachi County will be cut off.

One of the elderly immediately persuaded: "Everyone say less, Manager Zhu, why don't you buy horses from the security guard?"

"Buying horses from the security guards must be bartered and paying field taxes."

Everyone understood that as long as a few merchants in Yanzhou bought horses from the security army, the government would be very welcome, but that was hard and easy, and could not create a huge price difference to make up for the loss. But they didn't know that Wang Ju was not planning to buy four or five hundred horses, but more than one thousand horses. Not only the scattered cavalry who was picking up soldiers, but Wang Ju even made up for the scattered horses of the scattered army in Liyuan Fort.

And this horse is only a small part of its cost.

The entire plan cost is amazing and cannot be entirely relied on subsidies. Therefore, the power in hand is used to make up for the expenses through private goods channels. Otherwise, the Zhu and Li families could have 20,000 guan, but can they have 100,000 guan?

Zhu Qing continued: "This is one of them. Secondly, there is a shortage of horses in Yanzhou. Once we buy horses in a big way, the officers and soldiers will definitely come to detain them. How many more Malays can they bring? As for the matter of private salt, I also opened the skylight and said in a clear way. Magistrate Wang is a mojian in Huachi County, and according to the system, it will be transferred after three years. If he makes contributions, it will be transferred in less than three years. He will be transferred in front and we will also withdraw later. What should you do at that time? Regardless of our affairs or the affairs of Magistrate Wang. Please remember that every increase of strength can better protect your home. Magistrate Wang does this to protect your home, not Yanzhou's home."

"Okay, let's make a contract." Wu Cha said again.

Regardless of whether it can be justified, it is a gray area, can a contract be established?

This person is really troublesome, Zhu Qing said in his heart.
Chapter completed!