"The promotion of cotton is a time-consuming process, and it is definitely not something that can be accomplished in ten or eight years! You only need to look at the curved plow and the rolling truck to know this. They are both excellent things that can increase grain production, but in
How difficult is it to promote it in this era? In ten years, it would be great if 50% to 60% of the farmers in the Tang Dynasty could use curved shaft plows. As for overturning... Haha, I don’t dare to think about it! I don’t dare to think about it!”
"The art of papermaking is already complete. The next step is to improve the technology a little bit. When the cost of bamboo paper drops significantly and the quality improves, I can retire here... Well, really
If it doesn't work, we can hold a papermaking technology exchange meeting and sell it at a lower price. From now on, Wang Pu and the others can just make paper for themselves."
"Moveable type printing... Damn it! For the time being, no idiot is willing to take over this thing, right? Even if there is, I guess the most I can do is learn the technology and then make some clay movable type, wooden movable type, etc.
No matter how you think about it, you can't do it with other people's engravings, right? I'm afraid I can only continue to throw money into it. When can I create a complete set of usable alloy movable type, I can leave a set of wealth to future generations!"
When he got up and washed up the next morning, Li Yuanjia was still thinking about several workshops and the money he had just thrown away. He really had a headache.
To be honest, he is currently riding a tiger.
I would definitely not be willing to give up. After all, in addition to making the future originator of movable type printing no longer controversial, having a complete set of metal movable type, coupled with the bamboo paper that will definitely be made in the future, means that those "popular" books will no longer be available.
Being so high above the world, if you include Arabic numerals and mathematics, God knows what a huge impact it would have on the Tang Dynasty in this era!
but……
All of this just stayed in Li Yuanjia's fantasy.
Apart from anything else, how difficult is it to promote just an Arabic numeral? Until now, in the eyes of Li Yuanjia, there are actually two people who really like and are willing to use it: his eldest nephew, King Li Tai of Wei, and the King of Han who just came.
Zhang Jianzhi, a student from the farm.
Even if other people had to use it, it was because Li Yuanjia forced it... Of course, some of them found it useful later, but the nature is different after all.
But the investment in alloy movable type is actually there.
Thousands of years later, the Qing businessman spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and decades to finally make a set of copper movable type. In this era, even if Li Yuanjia could greatly shorten the time, it would still cost a lot of money.
It is estimated that there are also a lot of them!
Anyone else would have given up long ago.
"Tsk, tsk, this is like spending money like water!"
Thinking of the money he had just granted to Li Zhong, Han Cheng and the others today, Li Yuanjia started to feel distressed again after having a headache.
There is no doubt that today’s movable type and glass workshops are big money hogs!
The papermaking workshop can still be self-sufficient, especially since Hanwang Paper is expected to be in short supply. In addition to supporting a large number of people, the money earned every month can also support them to continue to improve papermaking technology, especially the investment in research and development of bamboo paper.
Li Yuanjia doesn't need to worry about it at all - don't think this is very simple. In fact, except for Wang Pu and others, it is simply impossible for the papermaking workshops of the same era to do it!
Research in any era costs money.
It's just that for the ancients, all "research" was a personal behavior, and almost all of it ran through "production", so firstly, the cost was within the acceptable range, and secondly, the time would be very long...for example
Let’s talk about papermaking. How long did it take from the emergence of the Han Dynasty to the popularity of bamboo paper later?
It’s always been there for hundreds of years, right?
But what Li Yuanjia wants to do is Edison more than a thousand years later... No, it should be a little earlier, it is the era of teamwork research started by the Germans in the 19th century!
There is planning, division of labor, and management.
It is not an accidental discovery in production, nor is it a "flash of genius" driven by personal interests, but a down-to-earth and serious teamwork and research!
This investment can be doubled dozens of times!
Therefore, even if the supply of Korean paper continues to exceed demand, on the premise that Li Yuanjia is unwilling to continue to expand the scale, the profit will be able to support Wang Pu and his gang and support them to continue to improve. And such a result is actually very remarkable.
As for the glass workshop and the movable type printing workshop... Haha, the former has already seen hope. As long as the windows in the palace are renovated, it should be able to bring a large amount of income to the Han Palace. But what about the movable type printing?
To be honest, Li Yuanjia is ready to lose money for the rest of his life!
Then he will leave a will a hundred years later. The descendants who will inherit his throne must maintain this set of alloy movable type. If a few are damaged, they must make a few more, and use it to print a few books every year...
What will support the investment in the next few decades is undoubtedly glass and the mirrors that will appear later.
As long as Li Yuanjia can keep these things, he will have scientific research funds for the next few decades!
So thinking of this, if Li Yuanjia hadn't just been to the glass workshop yesterday, he would have called Han Lucheng immediately and went to see how Han Cheng and the others were doing! After all, he "inadvertently" told them a new method yesterday.
And it’s a very reliable new method. What if the results come out today...
"Tap tap tap..."
At this moment, there was a burst of rapid footsteps outside the door, and then Han Lucheng frowned, hurriedly bowed and walked out.
After a while, he came in with a letter: "Your Majesty, the letter from Jiucheng Palace is from Huang Yuan and the others!"
"Oh? Show it to me!"
Upon hearing Han Lucheng's words, Li Yuanjia's eyes suddenly lit up!
Cheng Zhijie has been accompanying him in Jiucheng Palace these days... To put it bluntly, most of the big shots in the DPRK and China are now accompanying him in Jiucheng Palace, and they will return to Chang'an with Li Shimin. And Huang Yuan and Ma sent by Li Yuanjia
Zhong, naturally stayed there to prepare for the upcoming expedition to the Western Regions.
This matter is extremely important to Li Yuanjia.
For this reason, he not only instructed the two of them to pass on what they learned to the army, he even trained several more "surgeons" in the mansion, waiting to be sent out to follow the army.
So when I heard news about the two of them, I was naturally very concerned.
But before Li Yuanjia opened the letter, he heard Han Lucheng continue to say: "Your Majesty, I have one more thing to report to you!"
"Well, tell me."
With all his thoughts on the letter in his hand, Li Yuanjia responded casually.
"The people from the East China Sea are coming back soon."
After taking a deep breath, Han Lucheng's voice trembled slightly: "They sent a person back to report the news first, and...according to him, this time each of them drove a big truck, which was full of salt.