"Haha, haven't Lord Shenwu seen it yet?" said Masayoro.

"Is this raw silk? Is it the best raw silk?" Shaoce of the Kanya exclaimed. There were many merchants from Hakata who smuggled goods with some wealthy families on the coast of Ming Dynasty, so he was very familiar with the special silk of Ming Dynasty. But suddenly he saw it in the hands of a powerful man who seemed not powerful and could not believe it for a moment. You must know that a big name like the Danei family had to go through the quest and cooperation trade with the Ming Dynasty to have a large number of raw silk of such quality.

"Yes, I have 600 kilograms of raw silk here," said Masarara. Obviously, the other party had not yet known that there was a Ming fleet docking at Hirado, and Masarara didn't intend to tell him, because even if he told him, he would not be able to get close to the territory of the Hirado Matsuura family. The Hirado Matsuura clan would never allow others to come and divide their interests at this time. Of course, when the transaction with Wang Zhi was completely controlled in the future, he would support these merchants to Hirado. The problem was a long time later.

"Your Highness, this..." Shenwu Shaoce pointed to the raw silk in his hand and looked at Zhengliang with anticipation.

"I only have these raw silks at present, and no matter how many of them, they cannot be obtained for the time being. These raw silks are provided by a Ming fleet. Now this fleet has returned to Ming country." Zhengliang tactfully rejected the other party's request to ask for the exact source of the raw silks. What a joke, of course, it is an intermediary. It would be better to make a small profit. "If you plan to buy this batch of raw silk, you can sell them to you at the price of six jin per catty." Selling these raw silks can earn 3,600 jin. In addition to the 3,000 jin extorted from the Huzi family and the remaining 200 jin of copper coins in the warehouse, the Luo family now has more than 6,800 jin of coins.

After hearing this, Shaoce of Shenwu did not answer immediately. After pondering for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, at this price, all the raw silk owners will want."

After hearing the other party's final agreement, Masako smiled slightly in his heart. According to the current market price of Higashimaura, a pound of raw silk is indeed about 5 jin. However, if these raw silks are sold to the area in Kyoto, it will probably increase to about 10 jin per jin. With the ability of the Kanwu family, there is definitely a way to complete such transportation, so it is already very cheap to sell them to the Kanwu family at a price of 6 jin per jin.

After the negotiation of the raw silk business, the two confirmed the details of the transaction again. In the end, Zhengliang used 4,500 guan to purchase 150 adult plowing oxen, and the remaining 2,300 guan will be used to purchase grain. Based on the price of 2.5 guan, it is estimated that 6,500 guan can be purchased. In addition, the monthly snow salt income is also used to purchase autumn grain. Zhengliang is confident that he will reserve more than 20,000 guan of grain when winter comes.

As soon as he sent Shaoce of the Shenwu, Heiji Donggou followed him into the military tent.

"How? Have the materials been counted?" After confirming the details of the transaction with Wang Hai, Masara asked Heiji Togo to prepare the transaction materials and also counted the materials in the Luo Family's warehouse. Since Yukisuke was temporarily responsible for guarding the Tano Oi Castle to prepare for the Gunkura family, he had to let Heiji Togo to do it on his behalf.

"Your Highness, the territory's construction and military support are expected to consume 2,000 stones of grain in the next two months. After removing these 2,000 stones, plus the 500 stones of grain obtained from the Huzi family and the 500 stones of grain just sent to the Shenwu family, there are still about 6,000 stones of grain in the warehouse of our territory and about 2,300 stones of grain in the warehouse." Dongxiang Heiji opened the account book and reported that "the trading materials with the merchants of the Ming Kingdom are ready. After removing these trading materials, there are still 515 undistributed swords and 810 undistributed spears left in our warehouse. The 50 newly sent units are sufficient, and there are about 3,200 coins in terms of coins."

"Well, the new ones are delivered as soon as possible," Zhengliang ordered. With this batch of them, all the footsteps of the Luo family are equipped with: "Take away the first batch of 100 kilograms of raw silk left by the Ming Dynasty merchants to the Shenwu family."

"Yes, Your Highness" Hiraji Togo took the order, "The law of the newly occupied territory is being implemented, but the paper for registration is almost completed. Your Highness, do you think you are asking the Kanwu family to help raise some?"

What? After solving the problem of plowing oxen, now I have to deal with the paper problem? Zhengliang suddenly felt powerless, "Don't there be a lot of reserves in the warehouse?" Zhengliang suddenly remembered that there were hundreds of bundles of paper in the warehouse.

"Your Highness, according to the territory laws, children who have newly occupied the territory must participate in the territory's institution, and these require paper," Heiji Togo reminded.

Well! I did forget about this. In order to vigorously promote simplified Chinese and Mandarin, Zhengliang selected some 13-14-year-old children as "teachers" from the children who had studied Chinese for a period of time, and specifically went to the newly occupied territory to teach. Moreover, in order to increase the learning effect, Zhengliang specifically approved the use of paper for teaching, which inevitably led to a large amount of paper consumption. It seems that education in that era was very expensive, but the education in the territory could not be stopped, so he could only grit his teeth and persevere.

Why not make paper by yourself? Zhengliang suddenly thought. Paper is not cheap now, and a bunch costs hundreds of documents. If you buy it in the future, it will inevitably be a huge expense. Anyway, as long as it can be used, you can make paper by yourself. The ancient papermaking technique is made of bamboo. The step is to cut bamboo and fly bamboo into the pond, cut it into the pond, cut it for more than 100 days, and use natural microorganisms to decompose and wash the green skin of the bamboo. Boil the above-mentioned bamboo into the "Wang" bucket and steam it with lime for eight days and eight nights. Take out the above-mentioned bamboo, put it in the stone mortar, and knock it straight with the stone mortar.

Until the bamboo is broken, it looks like a mud surface. The material is swayed into the curtain and poured the broken bamboo material into the sink, and the bamboo curtain is used to sway the material in the water. The bamboo material becomes a thin layer attached to the bamboo curtain, and the remaining water flows down the trough from the four sides of the bamboo curtain. The curtain is covered and the curtain is repeatedly passed, so that the wet paper falls on the board, which is a piece of paper. In this way, repeat the steps of swaying and covering the curtain, so that thousands of sheets of wet paper are stacked, and then the wooden board is added to the top to squeeze out most of the water. Dry the wet paper and raise the wet paper one by one and bake it. The equipment for baking paper is made of earthen bricks to form a clamping lane, and a fire is generated in the lane. After the temperature of the earthen bricks rises, the wet paper is placed on and dried. After drying, it is peeled off and turned into paper.

Thinking of doing it, Masara immediately wrote the papermaking method on a piece of paper, and then asked Hieji Togo to take it with him and handed it to Masuke who had returned to Notakacho, so that Masuke would be responsible for the specific experiment. Of course, Masara would not do the experiment personally. The papermaking process would take some time, but he definitely did not have so much time to study these. Now he is preparing to launch another unexpected strategy.

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Chapter completed!