This place was a wasteland. Xu Zhi planned the area according to the various processes of papermaking, and then asked Zhou Erzhu to level the site according to her requirements. Houses were built where they should be built, and ponds were built where they should be built. Most importantly, following the ideas provided by Xu Di, Xu Zhi also wanted to build a wastewater filtration facility. Otherwise, if the wastewater was discharged directly, it wouldn't be noticeable at first, but after a few years, the environment here would be very different from the surrounding area. This was the last thing Xu Zhi wanted to see. She wanted this place to be transformed from the bamboo covering the mountains into a treasure trove to improve her life, rather than turning this place into a place where no one could live, just for the sake of making money.
After meeting Xu Zhi, Zhou Erzhu went home and told his wife about the important person he had met. Zhou Ersao heard that this important person was a very young lady, and it was this lady who made the delicate and smooth white paper from bamboo that had grown for who knows how many years on the mountain. She really wanted to meet this lady. She had a premonition that after meeting this lady, her future, and even the future of this family, would be completely different from the present.
It was rare for Xu Zhi to be home. When Zheng Boyuan returned and saw her, he remembered that she had been busy with the bamboo paper workshop from early morning to late at night recently, so he asked her how it was going.
Xu Zhi was exhausted these days. Leaning against the couch, she said, "The Zhou Erzhu that the village head helped me find is a very honest and intelligent man. He is very methodical in his work. I am quite at ease entrusting the matter of Huitou Ridge to him. Now, I feel that it is a bit difficult to divert water from the boundary river to Huitou Ridge."
Zheng Boyuan thought carefully about the terrain from the boundary river to Huitou Ridge and said, "My brother will be here in a few days. Why don't you ask him? He wrote that he needs a lot of rocks from Miaohe. He wants to continue blasting rocks. I remember that the two mountains from Huitou Ridge to the boundary river are both rock. Why don't you ask him to blast a tunnel through the mountains for you?"
Upon hearing this, Xu Zhi's eyes lit up, and she said, "That's a really good idea. By the way, how come the explosives you used are so powerful? I heard that the cannonballs fired by the artillery battalion don't have such power."
Zheng Boyuan explained, "This explosive was specially made by my elder brother and his men to blast rocks. I heard from my elder brother that he did not intend to hand over these explosives to the imperial court for use in the firearms battalion. I don't know what my elder brother was thinking."
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