The Zhang family is a wealthy family in Linyi Kingdom.

As a relative of the royal family Fan family, the Zhang family not only had many of their own people in the court, but also monopolized many industries in Linyi Kingdom in business.

Since the early years of Zhenguan, Linyi State has won Li Shimin's favor by arranging envoys to pay tribute to some treasures and special parrots.

So in the past twenty years, the relationship between Linyi Kingdom and the Tang Dynasty has been pretty good overall.

In Chang'an City, in addition to the Tang envoys from Japan, there were a large number of Tang envoys from Silla and Linyi.

Although Zhang Hua is not the eldest son of the Zhang family, as the second son, he naturally has the opportunity to study in Chang'an City.

From the fifth year of Zhenguan to the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Zhang Hua stayed in Chang'an City for ten years in one breath.

Later, he headed south from Chang'an City, traveled through Jiangnan Road and Lingnan Road, and returned to Linyi Kingdom until the 18th year of Zhenguan.

Zhang Hua, who felt that he had achieved success in his studies, did not enter the Linyi State court like other envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty, but chose to accept the family's business matters.

In the more than ten years of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Hua witnessed the changes in the business development of the Tang Dynasty, and also the impact of the development of various workshops on the court, merchants, and the people.

So he also wanted to develop industry and commerce in Linyi so that the Linyi Kingdom could embark on the road of rise like the Tang Dynasty.

Although Linyi Kingdom was not even worthy of carrying shoes in front of the Tang Dynasty.

However, Linyi Kingdom is still a leading country in Southeast Asia.

The surrounding Zhenla and other kingdoms are no match for Lin Yi.

Even in the hearts of some Linyi people, I felt that although the Tang Dynasty was not comparable to that of him, I was not something that the Tang Dynasty could do.

After all, the geographical environment of Linyi Kingdom is very special, and there are all kinds of primeval forests everywhere in the country.

In these forests, various poisonous insects were everywhere. In addition to the locals, the Tang people entered such an environment and basically died.

In addition, if the environment is not suitable, unless the Tang Dynasty is willing to spend a huge price to deal with itself, they will feel that there is nothing to worry about.

That's what Zhang Hua thought in his heart.

Therefore, although the Tang Dynasty had very strict controls on various technologies, people from foreign countries were easily allowed to learn various craft knowledge.

But except for some very core and very strong monopoly things, such as peeling production, steam machine production, etc., it is very difficult for other workshops to keep them completely confidential.

For example, in a papermaking workshop, what is its principle and the rough production process, there is no way to keep it confidential.

The only thing you can do is various special equipment. I don’t sell it to the public. You can only do it based on the words you learned.

The final production efficiency is definitely huge.

So after Zhang Hua returned to Linyi, he chose to build paper workshops, printing workshops, cement workshops and iron smelting workshops.

But so far, the situation is not very optimistic.

However, perhaps it is the best place to come. After entering Zhenguan for 21 years, Zhang Hua's luck changed a lot.

First, the cement was successfully made. Although the quality was a little worse, it was barely usable.

After that, the printing technology also improved a lot, and he began to print some books brought back from the Tang Dynasty.

Although the progress of the iron smelting workshop is very slow, the paper smelting workshop also made some breakthroughs in the first two months.

This made Zhang Hua feel very good. He felt that he had finally succeeded and he was going to succeed.

"Langjun, this is the paper produced in our workshop. Although the quality is still a little different from what those sold by Datang merchants and the color is yellow, it can basically meet the general usage needs.

The most important thing is that I have calculated that the cost of this paper is nearly half lower than the price of paper sold by Datang merchants on the market.

Unless these Tangren merchants are willing to sell their paper at a fair price, their prices will not be competitive at all after our paper is launched."

In the Zhang family's papermaking workshop, the shopkeeper Zhang Dapeng came to announce the good news with a stack of paper.

Although the papermaking workshop made a breakthrough two months ago, Zhang Dapeng still made a lot of improvements in order to enable large-scale paper production.

Now it's finally time to harvest the fruits of victory.

"Our workshop has been preparing for two months, and we have stored a large amount of paper one after another. In the next three days, we started to produce at full capacity, and then opened book shops in various cities in Linyi at the same time, and the name is Linyi Bookstore.

I want to make Linyi Bookstore an existence like Sanwei Bookstore, and I even want to open Linyi Bookstore opposite Sanwei Bookstore in the future."

At this time, Zhang Hua was full of ambitions and full of confidence in his future.

"No problem, we are fully prepared! Whether in Chameng or other cities, there are shops now ready. Just arrange for people to send the paper and then arrange for people to print a batch of flyers to tell everyone that the paper price in Linyi Bookstore is lower than other shops.

At that time, we will definitely attract a large number of literati to come to our bookstore to buy paper in a short period of time."

Although with the decline in printing costs, fewer and fewer people have bought paper by themselves and copied books by themselves.

However, whether it is practicing calligraphy or recording things, you still need to use paper.

So whether in the Tang Dynasty or Linyi, the sales of paper are still good.

Especially after the emergence of books such as "The Tang Dynasty Dictionary" and "Introduction to Chinese Pinyin" were very friendly to beginners, the number of people who read and snipped characters in the entire Confucian circle increased dramatically.

There is no way, the threshold for literacy is lowered, the cost of literacy is reduced, and the number of people who are literate will naturally increase.

In a workshop, even if you do the same job, the salary of those who are literate is higher than that of those who are illiterate.

Under such a direct economic stimulus, few people will not be able to learn to recognize words well.

For most people, it is enough to know how to recognize words.

As for writing, it will be very basic, and it is basically enough.

"After a while, after our workshop was completely on track, I went to the palace to find His Royal Highness the King and asked the court to support us in promoting our own paper.

In the future, all paper used by the imperial court will be contracted by our workshop.

Those papers from the Tang Dynasty can be transported back as they come."

Zhang Hua imagined a wonderful day in the future with a smile on his face.

As a child of the Zhang family, he is now in his thirties, but he has no special achievements.

To be honest, Zhang Hua was also under a little pressure.

Although the Zhang family has a big family and a big business, the competition is actually very fierce.

"If this is possible, it would be better!"
Chapter completed!