Crossing the famine, I am a poor fish, and my descendants have to work hard

The outer circle, the side close to the street, is in a straight line with the wall of my house, and I plan to plant flowers, plants and trees together.

First, I built a one-meter-wide flower bed with bricks. The total length of my home and the workshop was more than 600 meters, and three layers of blue bricks were used.

After building the flower beds, start planting greenery.

For large trees, banyan trees and osmanthus trees were selected and planted in an alternating pattern. Over 600 trees were planted along the 80-meter-long path.

Plant flowers and plants in the middle.

Zhao Yuanzhen specially selected perennial rhizomes and cold-resistant flowers and plants.

Daylilies, lilies, geraniums, forsythias, sedums, dianthus, perennial phlox, coneflowers, peonies, hollyhocks, azaleas, etc.

What a beautiful picture of flowers in full bloom!

Although it hasn't bloomed yet, I can already imagine the scene.

There are many kinds of flowers, some are tall shrubs, and some are short plants. They are intertwined with each other, high and low, and scattered in an orderly manner, as if it is a visual feast carefully woven by nature.

It is conceivable that when the flowering season comes, this place will become a sea of ​​flowers, so beautiful that it will make people intoxicated and unable to extricate themselves.

From now on, you don’t need to take care of this green belt. It will sprout in the spring and hibernate in the winter.

Zhao Yuanzhen allocated half of the inner courtyard of the instant noodle workshop to build factories and warehouses.

For the remaining space, we can build a greenhouse first and plant medicinal herbs in the rest of the space.

Grow some relatively expensive precious medicinal herbs, such as ginseng, Polygonum multiflorum, Angelica dahurica, Poria cocos, Atractylodes macrocephala, etc.

The construction of the farm has not been completed yet, so Zhao Yuanzhen plans to ask people to come and build the instant noodle factory, which will include three workshop buildings, two large warehouses, and a row of rest areas.

The factory is about 200 square meters and the warehouse is about the same size, one for storing raw materials and the other for storing prepared food.

It is already April, and there are only three factory buildings completed in Zhuangzi. It will take at least another month to complete all of them.

Transfer some staff over tomorrow and build an instant noodle workshop first.

The front yard and the back yard are separated by a wall, with a door in the middle, but it is usually locked.

I have already instructed people to tidy up the backyard of the workshop and prepare the vegetable patch.

Start planting precious medicinal herbs needed for various beauty formulas.

The greenhouse cannot be used for the time being, so we can build it at the end.

Of the fifteen acres of land, about one acre is left as a greenhouse, and the rest is planted.

Zhao Yuanzhen taught the farmers who specialize in taking care of the herbs step by step about the temperature, habits, humidity, etc. of each medicinal herb.

These treasures are the basis for a beauty salon to make money, so they must not be taken lightly.

Zhao Yuanzhen specially hired 10 farmers to take care of it carefully.

In Zhuangzi, three factories have been built, one of which is used for engraving and printing.

These printing masters at home used to work in small rooms, but now they finally have a spacious factory.

A large compartment was built at one end of the factory to store various mold tools for engraving and movable type printing, and fermented yellow mud.

What remains are various prepared workbenches, which greatly improve the work efficiency of the masters.

There is another one for the paper mill, and the one in the easternmost corner is for the ceramics factory.

The most basic papermaking technology currently available is using tree bark as raw material.

Zhao Yuanzhen had instructed that the bark of the trees that had been cut down for charcoal making should be removed and kept aside for use in making paper in the spring.

Tear the bark into small pieces, soak them in a cement pool, add water, add lime and soak for half a month.

Take out the soaked bark, wash it clean, put it into a clean pool of water, and crush it with a large piece of wood.

The bark is pounded into pulp liquid, and the liquid is drained to produce what is commonly known as pulp.

Pour the water-controlled pulp into the papermaking equipment, turn the equipment, pour the pulp into the bamboo screen, shake the bamboo screen to spread the pulp evenly, and then separate the pulp from the bamboo screen.

At this time, the paper has begun to take shape. The separated pulp is piled up and arranged. When it reaches a certain amount, it is pressed down with heavy objects to completely squeeze out the moisture.

Finally, separate the papers one by one and the paper is ready.

To speed up efficiency and save labor.

Zhao Yuanzhen customized a relatively advanced set of wooden equipment. Although it still requires manpower, it can be much faster through mechanical principles.

The manufacturing process of toilet paper and writing paper is basically the same, with only a few differences.

Toilet paper is mostly made of wood pulp, the pulp is ground more finely, and in order to retain its adsorbency, no lime is added to the pulp of toilet paper.

The more fiber content there is in toilet paper, the softer the paper will be. Also, paper towels need to be dried when they are made, while writing paper can be dried in the sun.

Zhao Yuanzhen made a circle of cement fire dragon. When making toilet paper, the paper can be directly spread on the fire dragon to dry.

Because the pulp needed to be soaked for many days, Zhao Yuanzhen directly bought several tons of soaked raw materials, transported them in large wooden barrels, and placed them in the pulp pool.

The other materials will be soaked in other pools, and when this batch is used up, the others can also be soaked.

He selected the servants who had been trained before, picked out the best one, named him Zhang Zhi, and appointed him to be in charge of papermaking in the future.

Fed him strength pills and loyalty pills.

Zhang Xinnian and Zhang Xinbai also came along to learn and practice. The head of the family must be clear about the family business so as to avoid being deceived by others.

Zhao Yuanzhen watched them as they produced the first batch of writing paper and the first batch of toilet paper. After careful inspection, she found no problems and believed that the craftsmanship and process would continue to be the same in the future.

Due to equipment problems, the toilet paper was cut into the size of tissue paper and made to look like tissue paper.

Zhao Yuanzhen took the tissue paper and compared it with the ones her family had bought before.

Except that it feels a little harder and has no embossing, there is basically no difference.

Can be sold.

Zhao Yuanzhen customized 200 bamboo tissue boxes for tissue paper, with 2 sheets in a pack. The rest were packed into packs with wide cloth strips and waited for sale.

The raw materials of paper are not expensive, but the production process is time-consuming and labor-intensive, so as for the pricing issue, Zhao Yuanzhen decided to set a higher price. After all, only rich people will buy toilet paper.

The cheapest writing paper is 2.4 wen per piece. A piece of writing paper is about the size of two pieces of tissue paper. So a piece of tissue paper is 2 wen per piece.

One pack contains 200 draws, and at 1.2 per draw, one pack costs 240 wen.

When the pulp is soaked, one machine produces a batch of paper a day. A batch of paper has about tissue paper, which is 250 packs. One pack is 240 wen, a total of wen, or 60 taels.

It’s a bit cheap!

I have to mention the price.

Let’s change it to 300 wen per package. One machine can earn 75 taels a day. There are four machines at home, so we can earn 300 taels a day.

One machine requires 3 people, 4 machines require 12 people, plus 4 people to cut and dry the paper, plus the sheets of paper, it is 17 people.

Low labor cost, high profit, and booming business.

Paper is a consumable product with great demand. Once you buy and use it, you probably won’t be willing to use the bamboo or straw paper you used before.

The papermaking technology is stable now, so Zhao Yuanzhen is going to the capital.

One was to transport the clay back, and the other was to find Butler Xiao to settle the dividends.

After deducting expenses, the family's income in February was 2 taels. The share given to the third prince's wife was 24 taels, leaving more than 3.4 taels.

Qian Xiaohui was really worried about holding so much money, so she gave 20 yuan to Zhao Yuanzhen.

Qian Xiaohui reported the accounts this month, and it is almost the same as last month. The shop is now relatively stable, and the daily income is about the same.

Go find housekeeper Xiao first and give her the Queen's 3.4.

Butler Xiao also began to settle the share of the glass for her.

As spring comes and flowers bloom, the number of glass customizations has increased again. This month the total amount is 124W, compared to just over 98 last month, and a dividend of 40 was distributed.

This month's 124 million was distributed as dividends of 49.

The glass shop had only been in business for less than four months, but it had already received 4 million taels.

It is indeed a big money-making industry.

He happily took the money and left.

I walked around the shops.

The maid that the Queen Mother had sent to the beauty shop to study had long been sent back.

The maids that Zhao Yuanzhen had recently sent for training had also mastered the skills proficiently.

Zhao Yuanzhen watched the manicurist's skilled techniques and kept a few boxes of gemstone beads, shell decorations, and some in various colors, sizes, and shapes so that she could stick the gemstones on them later.

Manicure styles are more diverse.

The value of gems is determined by their size, with the smallest being one or two taels of silver, and so on.

So do butterfly shells.

I also found some dance albums and handed them to the music manager, asking her to select people to learn the dance.

Gradually, more and more ladies began to order songs and dances, probably because they realized the joy of men listening to music.

After taking Li Zhijuan's pulse, we found that there was nothing wrong with her. Both the child and the mother were healthy.

Li Zhijuan suddenly remembered that a few days ago a lady came to thank Zhao Yuanzhen and gave her a gift.

It is said that thanks to Zhao Yuanzhen's prescription, the lady finally became pregnant.

Zhao Yuanzhen opened the gift box and took a look. It was a pair of gold bracelets, beautifully crafted with fine workmanship.

After putting the bracelet away and thinking for a while, she wrote a prescription for maintaining pregnancy and handed it to Li Zhijuan. If the lady came again, she could give the prescription to her.

It can be considered as returning the favor of the gift.

Li Zhijuan's belly is now slowly getting bigger. It has been more than 5 months. Fortunately, a successor has been selected and is being trained.

When the weather gets hotter, we can't let her stay here every day.

As soon as she entered the dessert shop, the owner pointed upstairs to Zhao Yuanzhen with a gossipy look on his face.

"what happened?"

"Madam, Miss Song has been coming here every day recently. Every time she comes, she asks when General Zhao will come over, wanting to thank him for saving her life."

"How long have you been here?"

"It's been more than a month, but General Zhao hasn't come over recently."

"So long? Don't worry about her, just treat her as a normal customer."

Just giving a helping hand can be considered a life-saving grace?

The few times he came before, he never mentioned the life-saving grace. Maybe he came here again because he saw that his brother got a promotion.

Isn't this intention of repaying a favor too obvious?

Regardless of what the eldest brother thinks, Miss Song will not be able to pass the test with Zhao Yuanzhen.

He has bad character and a bad personality. He loves to stir up trouble and gossip.

Zhao Yuanzhen felt that this was a typical trait of a troublemaker!