In the end, the papermaking workshop hired more than fifty people, which was the first step for their newly started "small workshop".
Shen Yu'an has also lived in Longxian Village for a few months, so the people he chose were naturally those who had no major problems with their character.
Building such a large workshop would naturally not alert other people.
Those who mastered the papermaking technology did not take Shen Yu'an's workshop seriously at all.
After all, they felt that the method of making paper was in their hands, and others would not be able to figure it out easily even if they racked their brains.
The papermaking process in ancient times was very complicated. Even though the methods written by Shen Yu'an had improved a lot, it still took more than three months to make the first batch of paper.
"I'll count to three, and everyone work together!"
Song and Zhao stood on one side and spoke to the workers.
Shen Yu'an was standing in an open space where he could not get in the way, also witnessing the scene.
"Three, two, one, up!"
Several workers were standing around a large square wooden trough. When they were called, they worked together to lift up the wooden frame with mesh installed in the trough.
In addition to Song, Zhao and the workers who were lifting the wooden frame, there were other workers who had no work to do standing around. When they saw that they had succeeded, everyone cheered.
“It’s done!!!”
There was a lively atmosphere in the paper mill, and everyone was busy hanging the freshly fished-out paper on the racks that had been prepared long ago.
Everyone looked at Shen Yu'an with a smile and said happily, "Little boss, what do you think of this?"
Without his reminder, Shen Yu'an had already walked to the drying area to take a look.
She is very satisfied with the results so far.
When she was happy, the workers in the paper mill were also happy.
Why?
Because if Shen Yu'an is happy, he will give them bonuses!
Sure enough, Shen Yuan waved his hand and said, "You've done a great job. This month, everyone will get a 100-cent bonus."
The villagers working in the workshop were all smiling and saying thank you to the young boss.
The paper fished out from the pulp water needs several days to be dried in the sun. During these days, a lot of new paper is continuously fished out and dried in the sun.
Shen Yu'an was still not satisfied, as she had not forgotten her original intention of building the paper workshop.
It is to make toilet paper that can be used in daily life!
However, due to the immature technology of that era, it was not easy to produce toilet paper like that of later generations.
After the papermaking workshop started operation, Chen Yu'an asked the people in the General's Mansion to help search for several craftsmen who were knowledgeable in this field and send them to Longxian Village.
Shen Yu'an gave them some instructions based on what he remembered, and also took out a few sections of toilet paper from later times for them to look at.
However, more than three months have passed and no concrete clues have been found.
The products that came out of several trials were all rough and of poor quality, and some couldn't even take shape.
Shen Yu'an simply bought a piece of land near the papermaking workshop and built a few houses, allowing them to conduct their own research.
After a few days, all the papers that were hung out to dry were successful.
Workers in the workshop cut large sheets of paper and stacked them together.
Shen Yu'an took the rice paper bought from the bookstore in the town for comparison. The quality was almost the same, but their cost was lower. If it was sold in a bookstore, it would definitely sell better than the rice paper of the same quality.
Shen Yu'an also discussed with the brothers Qi Wenzhen and Qi Wenqin that Wuyang Bookstore and a small bookstore under the name of the General's Mansion would be the only two merchants selling the paper they made.
The bookstore in the general's mansion was Xin Rui's dowry, but the business was not very good, so it was never run much.
The reason why Shen Yu'an chose Wuyang Bookstore was naturally because he knew that the owner behind this bookstore was Fei Yanche.
If you want to make money, you naturally want to make it with your family.
Yes, Shen Yu'an has already classified Fei Yanche as one of his family members.
Over the past four months, Fei Yanche has been constantly on the move.
According to the memories in his dream, he had recruited many trustworthy and capable subordinates, and quickly gathered a group of nearly a thousand men.
Those people were hidden by Fei Yanche deep in the mountains behind Longxian Village.
It takes a lot of money to support so many people, so Fei Yanche is very short of money.
No matter how busy he was, he would come to the Shen family once in a while, stay for two days and then leave.
That day was the day when the town school was closed. In the evening, Shen Rong and a few boys came back with heavy faces.
Looking at the people who looked a little unhappy, Old Lady Shen asked, "Why are you all so sad?"
Shen Rong continued, “When I came back from town today, I saw a notice from the government that they were looking for someone again.”
Old Mrs. Shen said indifferently: "Just find someone. It's not long since the famine ended. It's normal to find a relative or friend."
Shen Rong shook his head and said, "It's another notice to look for the prince of Wuding."
"That has nothing to do with us..."
Old Madam Shen stopped talking abruptly. Isn’t this Prince Wuding Xiao Che? ! ! !
After so long, they knew why Fei Yanche was unwilling to follow the officials who were looking for him back to the capital, and they also knew that his family was under house arrest in the capital.
Fei Yanche is so busy every day now, so the Shen family automatically imagined that he was trying to find a way to save his family.
If he were found, he would be put under house arrest.
The Shen family treats Fei Yanche as a family member, so naturally they don’t want to see such an outcome happen.
Mr. Shen suddenly asked, "Didn't everyone outside think that Xiao Che was dead? Why are you looking for someone again?"
Shen Rong had no way to answer this question.
Sanlang frowned and asked worriedly, "Brother Che promised me that he would let me work with him after I passed the exam. If he is arrested and taken to the capital, will I be unable to follow him?"
Fei Yanche said a few days ago that he would take Sanlang with him to train after he passed the examination.
Sanlang couldn't continue his studies and thought it would be a good idea to work for Fei Yanche like Fei Xi and Fei Dong.
He had seen their skills, and they were both top-notch.
So Sanlang asked Fei Yanche if he could follow him.
Fei Yanche didn't dare to agree. If Sanlang became illiterate because of his agreement, Shen Yu'an would not know how to be angry with him.
So Fei Yanche said that he would be qualified to follow him only after he passed the examination to become a scholar.
Recently, Sanlang has been studying very hard in order to get a recommendation from the teacher in the school before the college entrance examination begins so that he can have a chance to take the exam.
How could he have imagined that such an accident would happen.
Shen Yu'an was also unaware of this, because Fei Yanche had not been to Longxian Village for a long time, and did not ask Fei Dong or Fei Xi to give her any news.
Just when everyone was silent, there was a knock on the Shen family's door.
Shen Yu'an seemed to sense something and quickly stood up to open the door.
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