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After nearly a month, I returned to Zhangjiagou and found that it was still very lively.

The expansion of Bailu Academy has been completed, occupying a large area on the east side of the village, and the original village wall has been broken, expanding a large area outward. Now the new classrooms, dormitories, canteens have been built, and the playground is larger. There are even several water towers in the academy, well trucks are installed in the wells, tube trucks are erected under the water tower, and tap water is also available in the academy.

As soon as you enter the village, you can hear the sound of reading aloud from the academy.

Zhang Chao and Ma Zhou, the two chief ministers and deputy chiefs, were not there, and the academy was still running very well. After the new primary school textbooks were compiled, Bailu Academy was the second batch of students who used the new textbooks after Chongmenguan Primary School.

The middle road in the village has been officially renovated and has become a market. On both sides of the village road, there are a protruding awning along the eaves. There are many simple stalls set up beside the walls of the house.

Villagers nearby can come here to market every day to buy and sell some local products.

At the end, there is also a formal shop opened by the Zhang family. It is a grocery store, including needles, thread, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, spatula, hoe, and zero-lora department store. It is very convenient for nearby people to go to the township and county. There is even a window in this shop that can handle letters and supplies from Zhangjiagou to Chang'an. Tickets are also sold here. There are several trains to and from Chang'an every day. As long as you spend some money, you can take a ride.

In addition, you can save money, pawn, and borrow money here. It is considered a window for Zhangji Money House and pawn shop here. The villagers in the hometown can also enjoy discounts.

"I didn't expect that it was only one month, and it was so lively here."

Mr. Zheng, who came to greet him, smiled and explained that with the operation of the liquor shop, pottery farm and bookstore, more and more people are in Zhangjiagou. Several workshops, schools, and construction sites in the bathing ditch have made the number of people working and living here exceeding 5,000.

Five thousand people are more than ordinary villages. Moreover, these five thousand people are concentrated in this area and are still working. The workmanship is different from ordinary living. Workmanship can earn a lot of money. They work harder, but the wages are also relatively high. Compared with popular farmers, these people are considered high-income people.

If you have money, you will have consumption, and if you have consumption, you will naturally have a market.

Zhangjiagou Village has also been developing rapidly towards Zhangjia Town.

Ordinary villagers also make a lot of profits, such as renting out their free houses, washing clothes for these workers.

Zhang Chao did not expect that there was a service industry in Zhangjiagou, and some people even set up a few tables at home and started to make some private dishes to serve those who want to come for a few drinks or add a meal.

‘A few days ago, a businessman came over and asked to rent a house here and then get some money, but Murmasa and the others refused.’

Even the girl is here, and it seems that the lively Zhangjiagou is indeed famous.

"The businessman can actually agree to the request, but he cannot come to our village. He can rent a piece of land for them somewhere far away from the village, let them build a house by themselves, or we can rent a house for them to run it."

Some things can’t be resisted by banning them alone. After all, there are so many workshops here and so many workers. This is just like the mining areas in later generations. The hair washing rooms in the mining areas have the most because they need to be higher.

"It's good to have fun, but you also need to pronounce something. For example, the village has to arrange patrols, and people have to patrol day and night, so fire and theft prevention must be strengthened."

At the beginning, Zhang Chao insisted on building wineries, wine bars and printing shops in Zhangjiagou, and it was precisely because he expected the current situation. There were many workshops, only workers, and more workers earning wages, which would drive consumption and the demand for the service industry would also be. This was also a demand.

There will even be brothels and gambling houses.

As long as you can control it well, it will increase a lot of money if you plan it well.

Not to mention anything else, with more people, the consumption power here can attract surrounding villagers to come here to trade, making it a new market center here.

After planning a plan for Zhangjiagou, you can build a commercial street and rent shops and stalls. The money alone is a lot. In the future, you can even charge some merchants some sanitation fees and security fees, which do not require much, but it can accumulate a lot, and it will be a lot.

Thousands of workers who make money have very high consumption power.

The Zhang family courtyard is still the same, and the servants left behind at home have taken care of the family well, just like when they first left.

As soon as Zhang Chao sat down, many people rushed over to visit him.

There are Li Zheng, Village Master, and the teachers of the academy and the managers of the workshop.

When everyone comes, congratulations to Zhang Chao on his promotion and promotion.

"Sanlang, our bookstore is about to be stopped. I am about to go to the capital to find you." The person in charge of the bookstore was a accompanying room brought by Cui Yingying, who was also surnamed Zheng, and Zheng Zhaozheng was in charge of the company.

"What's going on?"

When Zhang Chao heard that the printing shop was about to stop work, he immediately frowned.

Now Zhang Jishufang is the key industry of the Zhang family. Not only is the printing shop very profitable, but the printing shop is also a good tool to maintain Zhang Chao’s reputation.

Many famous scholars and scholars were a little dissatisfied with Zhang Chao now, and wanted to find Zhang Chao to debate the meaning of the scriptures and study history. As a result, Zhang Chao said, "Do you want to print books?" He tempted them.

He had just obtained a large list of 30,000 sets of Chongwenguan version primary school textbooks from the emperor. One set has 12 volumes in six grades and several courses. Although each volume is not printed in many books, it is equivalent to tens of millions of pages of books to print.

It is a profit of thousands of chunks of money, and when the book is printed, Zhang Chao will be truly known to everyone in the world.

He also planned to expand his bookstore and recruit more people, and then follow up the printing lists of the Five Classics Justice that the court was preparing to compile and the historical books of various dynasties that he had compiled.

"Sanlang, paper and ink are no longer available!"

Zheng Zhao looked helpless. The printing shop was indeed very popular. Now he has recruited five batches of letter-engraved apprentices. Other apprentices such as board making, printing, and binding have also recruited many, and the number of people in the book shop has exceeded 2,000.

Although most of them are apprentices, their productivity is still very high.

Zhang Chao kept placing orders, and the bookstore was also very tight.

But now the problem is not that the engravings cannot be engraved, but that the materials are insufficient. The two most important materials for printing books, paper and ink, have both supply problems.

It turned out that there were few prints, but there was no problem with this, but now the printing orders are really big. Just printing all primary school textbooks will take tens of millions of pages. Just listening to this number is scary enough.

It turned out that Chang'an Paper Floors, which supplied paper to the Zhang family, had no choice but to say that they could not supply so much. The manager contacted other paper Floors in Jingji, but many paper Floors had only so much output every year, and most of them had buyers long ago, and they had to increase a lot of output at once, so they could not increase it for the time being.

"Now the price of paper in Chang'an has risen by 20%. We buy paper everywhere in the printing press shop to increase the price. But now we can't buy more paper if we increase the price. The output of those paper shops has reached the upper limit, and we can only wait until next year to have paper."

"Is the same ink the same?" Zhang Chao asked. The printing ink was processed by the Zhang family itself, mainly to buy coarse cigarettes from the Mofang, then buy glue, and refuel to make them together.

“The pine smoke and glue are not available.”

This is a problem. Without paper or ink, it is useless to grab more print lists. This is not like a carved board. You can train more workers yourself, and you can carve them anyway. But without paper or ink, what kind of printing books should you use?

You can’t watch so many orders pressing there, it’s all money and reputation.

Zhang Chao is also planning to hold a half-month talk in Chang'an, and it's all under planning. You tell me now that there is no paper or ink and can't be printed. Isn't this a scam?

Must be resolved.

"Minister Xiao Zheng, see if there is any way for us to directly acquire several papermaking and ink making workshops. After the acquisition, we will recruit more people to expand the production scale."

"When Sanlang, those who can open paper and ink making shops are not ordinary merchants, but mostly industries of large families. They will not sell these industries easily. This is not a question of how much money is."

If things that can be explained with money are not a problem for Zhang San. But if money cannot be solved, it will be a little trouble. He is still a little used to thinking with the thinking of later generations, but he ignores that this is the Tang Dynasty.

You are willing to buy it at a high price, but others are unwilling to sell it. What's the solution?

"Then should we ask craftsmen to build paper and ink making workshops?"

Zhang Chao knew that during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, papermaking had a fundamental development. With a large number of papermaking workshops, it also made the quality and cheaper paper, making paper a real carrier of words, replacing simplified silk and silk. The same is true for ink making, and by this time it became a relatively mature industry.

"Sanlang, it is more difficult to dig out paper and ink craftsmen from those workshops than to buy their workshops directly. Especially those who understand key technologies, many of them are often slaves in the family, and they can't dig them even if they want to."

Although papermaking and ink making have become relatively mature industries nowadays, every family that holds this industry keeps secrets strictly. It is more difficult to start a new business by poaching people than to directly acquire other people's workshops.

Damn feudal ideas are too conservative. No wonder society is difficult to make progress. It is these people who hinder it.

With money in his hand, he couldn't buy a workshop or a technical talent. This made Zhang Chao very popular, and it was better to pay patent fees in later generations.

"If it really doesn't work, then we build our own workshops and train our own craftsmen."

"But we don't have that technology!"

Zhang Chao sneered a few times, "Isn't it just papermaking and ink making. It's not considered a masterful skill, I can do it!"

Manager Xiao Zheng looked at Zhang Chao with disbelief.
Chapter completed!