Warring States Eagle

"Hehe, hasn't Lord Kamiya noticed it yet?" Zheng Liang said.

"Is this raw silk? Is it high-quality raw silk?" Shenwu Shaoce exclaimed.There are also many merchants in Bodo who smuggle goods with some wealthy households along the coast of the Ming Dynasty, so he is very familiar with the special silk produced in the Ming Dynasty, but he suddenly saw it in the hands of a powerful man who did not seem to be strong, and he couldn't believe it for a while. .One must know that such a powerful daimyo as the Ouchi family was able to acquire a large amount of raw silk of such quality only after the cooperation and trade with the Ming country.

"Yes, I have 600 catties of raw silk here," Zheng Liang said.Apparently, the other party didn't know that there was a Ming fleet docked in Hirado, and Zheng Liang didn't intend to tell him, because even if he told him, he would not be able to get close to the territory of Hirado's Matsuura family.The Hirado Matsuura Clan would never allow others to come to share their interests at this time.Of course, when the transaction with Wang Zhi is fully controlled in the future, they will instead support these merchants to go to Hirado. The problem is that this will be a long time later.

"Your Highness, this..." Shenya Shaoce pointed to the raw silk in his hand, looking at Zhengliang expectantly.

"Our family only has these raw silks at present, and we will not be able to obtain any more for the time being. These raw silks were provided by a fleet from the Ming Dynasty. Now this fleet has returned to the Ming Dynasty." Zheng Liang tactfully refused the other party's inquiry about the exact source of the raw silk. What are you kidding, of course, it’s better to be a middleman and make a small profit for you. With the income of 3600 guan, plus the 3000 guan extorted from the Huzi family and the remaining 200 guan coins in the warehouse, the Luo family now has more than 6800 guan coins.

Kamiya Shaoce did not answer immediately after hearing this, but nodded after thinking for a while and said, "Okay, at this price, all the raw silk family members will want it."

After hearing that the other party finally agreed, Zheng Liang smiled slightly in his heart.According to the current market price in East Songpu, a catty of raw silk is indeed about 5 guan.But if these raw silks are sold to the area beyond Kyoto, it is estimated that it will rise to about 10 guan per catty.With the ability of the Shenwu family, there is definitely a way to complete such a delivery, so it is already very cheap to sell it to the Shenwu family at a price of 6 guan per catty.

After the raw silk business was negotiated, the two confirmed the details of the transaction again. In the end, Zhengliang used 4500 guan to buy 150 adult cattle, and the remaining 2300 guan would be used to buy grain. Based on the usual price of 2.5 shi for autumn grain, it is expected to be able to Buy 6500 stone grain.Coupled with the fact that the monthly income from snow salt is also used to purchase autumn grain, Zhengliang is confident that he will store more than [-] shi of grain when winter comes.

As soon as Kamiya Shaoce was sent away on the front foot, Togo Heiji followed into the army tent on the back foot.

"How? Have you checked all the materials?" After confirming the details of the transaction with Wang Hai, Zheng Liang asked Dongxiang Heiji to prepare the materials for the transaction, and at the same time, check the materials in the Luo's warehouse.Since Kosuke was temporarily in charge of guarding Tiano Castle to guard against the Uemakura family, he had to ask Togo Heiji to do it for him.

"Your Highness, in the next two months, it is estimated that the various constructions of the territory and military support will consume 515 shi of food. After removing the 810 shi, add the 50 shi of miscellaneous grains received from Huzi's family and the just-delivered food from the Shenya family. Five hundred shi of miscellaneous grains, there are still about 3200 shi of territory construction grain reserves and about [-] shi of military grain reserves in the warehouse of the family." Dongxiang Heiji opened the account book and reported, "The trading materials with Ming merchants have been prepared. Well, after removing these trading materials, there are still [-] unallocated swords and [-] unallocated long spears left in our warehouse, [-] newly delivered sets are sufficient, and there are still about [-] coins in the warehouse."

"Well, the newly delivered ones should be distributed as soon as possible," Zheng Liang ordered.In addition to this batch, all the ashigaru of the Luo family are fully equipped: "Take away the 100 catties of raw silk left by the merchants of the Ming Dynasty to the Shenya family."

"Yes, Your Highness," Togo Heiji commanded, "The law of the newly occupied territory is being implemented, but the paper used for registration is almost used up. Your Highness, would you like to ask the Kamiya family to help raise some money?"

What?Just finished solving the problem of cattle, and now you have to deal with the problem of paper?Zheng Liang suddenly felt powerless, "Isn't there still a lot of reserves in the warehouse?" Zheng Liang suddenly remembered that there were hundreds of bundles of paper in the warehouse.

"Your Highness, according to the laws of the territory, all children who meet the requirements of the newly occupied territory must attend the territorial school, and all of these need to use paper," Dongxiang Heiji reminded.

Forehead!This matter was indeed forgotten.In order to vigorously promote Simplified Chinese and Putonghua, Zheng Liang selected some 13- and 14-year-old children as "teachers" from among the children who had learned Chinese with him for a period of time, and specially went to the newly occupied territory to teach.Moreover, in order to increase the effect of learning, Zheng Liang specially approved the use of paper for teaching, which will inevitably lead to a large consumption of paper.It seems that education is very expensive regardless of that era, but education in the territory cannot be stopped, so I can only grit my teeth and persist.

Why not make your own paper?Zheng Liang thought suddenly.The current paper is not cheap, and a bundle costs hundreds of cash. If you buy it to meet your needs in the future, it will inevitably be a big expense. Anyway, as long as you can use it, you can fully meet your needs by making paper yourself. ah.The ancient papermaking technique is to make paper from bamboo. The steps are like chopping bamboo, floating pond, chopping young bamboo, putting it in the pond, cutting and soaking for more than [-] days, using natural microorganisms to decompose and wash away the green skin of bamboo.Put the bamboo obtained above into the "Wang" bucket and steam it with lime for eight days and eight nights.Mortar Take out the above treated bamboo, put it into a stone mortar, and beat it with a stone pestle until the bamboo is smashed and looks like a mud surface.Pour the smashed bamboo material into the water tank, and use the bamboo curtain to swing the material in the water. The bamboo material becomes a thin layer and attaches to the bamboo curtain, and the rest of the water flows down from the four sides of the bamboo curtain into the tank.Cover the curtain and press the paper, then pass the curtain repeatedly, so that the wet paper falls on the board, and it becomes a sheet of paper.In this way, repeat the steps of slopping the material and covering the curtain, so that a sheet of wet paper is piled up to thousands of sheets, and then add a wooden board on top to squeeze out most of the water.Drying through fire Raise the wet paper one by one and dry it.The equipment for baking paper is to build a narrow alley with earth bricks, and a fire is lit in the alley. After the temperature of the earth bricks rises, wet paper is pasted one by one to dry.After drying, uncover it to get paper.

Thinking of doing it, Masara immediately wrote the method of papermaking on a piece of paper, and then asked Togo Heiji to take it and hand it over to Shinsuke who had returned to Nodaka Town, and let Shinsuke be in charge of the specific experiment.Of course, Zheng Liang would not do the experiment himself. The process of making paper will take a while, but he certainly doesn't have so much time to study it, and now he is preparing to launch another surprise strategy.

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