Lin Jinyue's small pen-making workshop, to be precise, her two-person pen-making workshop is temporarily using the workshop that produces soap.
It's called a workshop, but it's really just a place enclosed by a bamboo fence.
There are patrols in the village regularly, and unauthorized people are not allowed to pass through.
Lin Jinyue doesn't have enough money to build a workshop right now, so she can only take it slowly.
However, Lin Jinyue's general store now has a few more items.
Lin Jinyue continued to exploit loopholes to sell toilet paper.
Selling directly will trigger a system warning, but if you bind the scrap paper into a book and make it look like a notebook, the system will not issue a warning, but will simply add a few restrictions silently.
However, selling toilet paper is a good thing that benefits countless students.
Lin Jinyue discussed with the system that they would not rely on this to make huge profits. After deducting labor costs, the cost would be negligible, so the system turned a blind eye.
The price of toilet paper has risen to five coins a stack, which contains about two hundred sheets, each about the size of an A4 printer sheet.
Lin Jinyue could make five notebooks from a stack of straw paper, each notebook containing forty sheets, and they weren't expensive, selling for two coins each.
It's worth noting that a single sheet of Xuan paper can now sell for 50-100 wen.
She only charges two coins for this, and it can be written on both sides, making it dozens of times cheaper.
Lin Jinyue recruited thirty people from the neighboring village to help her; half of them made notebooks and the other half made pens.
Originally, two pens cost one coin, but in order to increase sales, Lin Jinyue decided to raise the price.
These days, you can earn a penny for making a pen.
However, she also raised her requirements for the finished product and the level of precision required.
After inspecting a batch of pens, Lin Jinyue pondered that she might be able to come up with some new designs.
She was drawing design plans in the yard.
It is all kinds of stationery.
There are also pencil cases with a traditional Chinese style, including cute and adorable ones with exquisite and intricate craftsmanship.
However, she didn't plan to sell these; they were just extras.
Lin Jinyue's current focus remains on crafting exquisite pens.
In addition to the simplest bamboo pen, Lin Jinyue also added quill pens, which are not expensive.
She also designed a series of beautiful pens, made from carefully selected bamboo, with pretty pendants hanging from the ends, made of pearls, shells, wood and other materials.
They come in all sorts of styles.
Some also have accessories attached to the end of the bamboo pen, with unique shapes such as pandas, cats, and birds.
Lin Jinyue even wanted to make those glass pens.
She hadn't considered making glass before because she was worried that someone would make a telescope out of it.
But a glass pen is different from this simple glass pendant.
It's so fine and the shape is hard to polish. She also adds all sorts of fancy glitter and colors. Even if someone else takes it to study, they definitely won't be able to figure out how to make a telescope.
Right, she still needs to figure out how to make those delicate little objects out of glass.
The glass pen will have to wait a while longer.
Lin Jinyue often gave up making many things because the productivity of ancient times could not keep up.
We can only wait until the villa is unlocked to see if these methods are written in any of the miscellaneous books in her study.
Lin Jinyue downloaded a lot of documents and bought many books to read at the time.
Once the farm is upgraded to level 10, you can freely buy land; you should be able to buy the land near the villa.
The farm is almost at level nine now.
It will be soon.
Unable to create a highly profitable glass pen for the time being, Lin Jinyue began drawing other design drafts.
Various styles are available.
Lin Jinyue went through almost every pretty pen design in her mind.
It was at this moment that Ji Zixuan and his group arrived again.
Ji Zixuan and Boss Cen came together this time. As soon as they saw her, they touched their noses, looking rather embarrassed.
Especially Ji Zixuan.
Last time, he really liked the spicy braised pork intestines. At first, he disliked them, but after seeing others enjoying them and not being able to buy them himself, he went to confront Lin Jinyue.
He's completely lost face and substance.
This time it's a bamboo pen again.
Last time, he thought the price was too low, it looked unusable and ugly, so he didn't plan to buy it.
To everyone's surprise, the students in Shawan County went crazy for it.
It's not just students, but also ordinary families with modest means.
It's not easy to support a scholar; it requires a lot of money, and the books alone are quite expensive.
But Lin Jinyue sold cheap paper and pens, and there was no need to rush to buy them; there was a large supply every day, and if you weren't too unlucky, you could buy them after waiting a few days.
Many children from poor families could save a few coins by being frugal, enough to buy bamboo pens and notebooks.
He can copy a book in two or three days.
Many scholars regard Yunheji as their benefactor.
Tell me, with paper and pens this cheap, they could easily sell them for a higher price, but Lin Jinyue only sells them for two coins.
Even poor people in the countryside, if they wanted to study, could pick some fruit from the mountains and sell it in the city to earn money to buy paper and pens.
Ji Zixuan admired Lin Jinyue immensely.
I don't know how she's so smart.
Last time he refused the pens outright, but this time he shamelessly came back wanting to order a large batch to be shipped to other places for sale.
Fortunately, there was someone with me this time.
Looking at the two somewhat embarrassed people in front of her, Lin Jinyue guessed their purpose.
I just didn't know how to refuse for a moment.
Boss Cen said somewhat embarrassedly, "Young manager, we misjudged this last time. Could you supply some of these to us? We can pay extra, two and a half coins per stick."
Lin Jinyue was delighted. In later generations, the wholesale price of these things was shockingly low, but in ancient times, you could even pay extra to buy them wholesale.
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