Looking at the four big characters written by Li Yuanjia on a large piece of paper, Fang Fengzhu's big eyes blinked, and a trace of doubt flashed across his face: "Your Majesty, does the word Xinhua have any special meaning?
?”
She knew the new characters, and the Chinese characters were familiar to her, but together they were a bit confusing to her.
With his face unchanged and his heart not beating, Li Yuanjia shrugged and said with a smile: "It doesn't have any special meaning, it's just that I felt good writing these two words in the past few days, so I just wrote them down casually."
"..."
His eyelids twitched twice, but Fang Fengzhu said nothing.
Is this okay?
"hehe."
After laughing twice, Li Yuanjia felt a little guilty, and quickly changed the topic and said: "The shop in Dongshi is ready and will officially open the day after tomorrow. I have asked people to prepare 10,000 pieces of blank paper... Fengzhu, what do you think?
How much is the appropriate price to sell for white paper?”
"Twenty dollars, at least twenty dollars!"
"Uh, are you so sure?"
After hearing what his princess said, Li Yuanjia was stunned.
He opened his mouth to ask Fang Fengzhu about the price of the blank paper, just to change the topic, and did not expect a teenage girl to give any opinions. After all, in Li Yuanjia's eyes, his princess had been there for more than ten years.
You just enjoy the blessings in the Duke's mansion under the protection of your parents and haven't even left the house a few times. What do you know?
But he didn't expect that he just asked casually, and the other party gave a decisive answer directly.
And twenty dollars?
This number is exactly the price they set before.
"yes, I'm sure."
Although Li Yuanjia's surprised look made her face turn red, Fang Fengzhu bit her lips and nodded firmly: "Although we don't know the cost of our white paper yet, we can see the Lijia paper on the market.
For the price of white paper in the shop, we have to sell it for at least 20 yuan a piece... Our paper is much better than their best one! And if the price is low, it will easily offend other people who rely on paper making.
, a merchant who sells paper life.”
"Well……"
Looking at Fang Fengzhu with a serious look on his face, Li Yuanjia raised his eyebrows and was quite surprised.
Paper is never a cheap item.
In other words, ever since Cai Lun improved papermaking hundreds of years ago and made paper the main writing material, it has never been a bargain. The process of collecting raw materials, beating, soaking, crushing, shaping, and drying of a piece of paper lasted several months.
, and purely handmade production consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, and the cost is extremely high.
Therefore, things like paper have never been used by ordinary people.
However, Li Yuanjia couldn't help but sigh when he thought of the price of twenty cents for a piece of paper. During the twelfth year of Zhenguan, how many cents did a bushel of rice cost? It was only three cents. The price of this piece of white paper could be bought for six cents.
Seven buckets, more than eighty kilograms, is almost enough to feed a family for a month.
However……
Twenty dollars for a blank piece of paper is really not expensive.
You must know that the sheet Li Yuanjia is talking about is not the size of an ordinary book, nor is it the size of the Lijia Paper Shop that can be used to write calligraphy or even draw pictures, but a truly large sheet!
The size of this paper was determined by Li Yuanjia from the beginning.
It is four feet long and two feet eight inches wide.
No one knows why Li Yuanjia set such dimensions. Wang Pu and the others only know that everyone must strictly follow this, and you will be punished if you make a mistake!
Moreover, Xinhua Bookstore also provides cutting services. This large piece of white paper can be cut into up to thirty-two pieces, each of which is the same size. Of course, the price after cutting will be slightly higher...
Overall, the price is quite reasonable.
In fact, according to the quality of the white paper and the previous price of Lijia Paper Factory’s high-quality products, the price can be higher. At least thirty yuan a piece is no problem. If Li Yuanjia had not insisted on low prices, let alone thirty yuan a piece, Wang
They even dared to settle for forty or fifty!
After all, it is the best white paper in the Tang Dynasty, so it makes sense why it is so expensive.
Moreover, the white paper produced by Hanwangfu is not only very tough and good at absorbing ink, but the color of the paper is also unmatched by the current ephedra paper. Ordinary people and even some petty officials may not be willing to buy it, but for the extravagant trend, the
For the dignitaries in Chang'an and Luoyang who are gradually getting better, what does it mean to spend dozens or even hundreds of guan a year to buy paper?
With just twenty dollars for a piece of paper, Li Yuanjia had already made a lot of money.
A piece of paper costs 20 yuan. If Wang Pu and his friends make 10,000 pieces of white paper in a month, it will be 2,000 yuan, and in a year, it will be 24,000 yuan!
How much money did you invest in the entire papermaking workshop?
Anyway, Li Yuanjia can be sure that it will never exceed 5,000 guan!
Even at his request, the papermaking workshop built by Wang Pu's supervisor encircled a large area of land, leaving enough wealth, and returned it to the craftsmen and handymen. They built houses to live in, purchased a large number of daily necessities, and spent a lot of money on it.
The money is not much. In the future, the annual labor expenses, the expenses for purchasing paper-making materials, fuel, etc., and even the cost of Li Yuanjia’s gifts to the emperor, the prince, Fang Xuanling and others, as well as store expenses and taxes, will definitely not be enough.
It will exceed 10,000 yuan!
If the paper could be sold, the Han Palace would earn at least more than 10,000 yuan every year.
It's not a lot of money, but it's enough to satisfy people.
If it weren't for Wang Pu and the others who have been constantly improving the process and reducing costs over the years, I am afraid that twenty dollars would have just recovered the cost. But now the quality of the paper is much higher than that of Lijia Paper Factory, but the price is not much different, Li Yuanjia
You can already imagine how popular these papers will be once they are put on the market...
That's too far.
Seeing Li Yuanjia's surprised look at his words, Fang Fengzhu pursed his lips and smiled slightly proudly.
Didn't you expect that?
From the day when His Majesty and his father made the decision to betroth her to Li Yuanjia, Fang Fengzhu embarked on the road of raising a princess. Under the full training of Fang Xuanling and Lu, Fang Fengzhu not only had to learn
In addition to how to serve her husband well, how to be kind and powerful to her servants, and even how to get along with Li Yuanjia's other concubines, she has also been learning how to manage a big family's property, which includes these things.
Just because Liang Guogong's government does not engage in business, it does not mean that Fang Xuanling and the Lu family do not understand.
Especially when Li Yuanjia was still in Luzhou and after making a lot of money using Thirteen Incenses, Fang Xuanling specially taught his daughter some knowledge in this area, just because he was afraid that the King of Han who he could not understand would do it in the future.
I will do the same thing again...
Looking at it now, Fang Fengzhu particularly admires his parents' foresight.
"good!"
After looking at Fang Fengzhu for a moment, Li Yuanjia smiled and nodded: "Fengzhu is really smart as ice and snow, and he even understands these things... Haha, you can learn more about other workshops in the palace in the future. I will tell all those in charge when I have time.
I called you to talk to you."
"Thank you, Your Majesty. Fengzhu will definitely work hard."
Suppressing the turmoil in her heart, Fang Fengzhu immediately nodded.
After saying these words, her excited eyes couldn't help but drift towards the four fonts on the table. Is this the kind of font that the king created? It is just like what her father said, it is so ugly and full of craftsmanship...