Chapter 281: Scale up

Fan Jun is a little farther away, so on the third day of the departure, Song Ye returned with money and food collected from Fan Junfu.
With the money from the two counties, there is no need to worry about food and military confinement for at least three months.
At the same time, the caravan formed by Song Yiming and Song Xiu had set off two days ago. The main sales items were various books bound into volumes printed by a movable type press, and paper that could be used for writing and drawing.
Ordinary paper is priced at $ 1 per piece, and good paper is priced at $ 100 per piece.
After an eight-day trek, the caravan came to Shangdang County, the country of Chu.
Among Qi Chuyan and Zhao Qin, the destroyed Qi Kingdom has the widest area, the Chu style is the most prosperous, the Yan Kingdom has the most powerful cavalry, and Zhao Guo is rich in all kinds of weapon armors. As for Qin Kingdom, he is best known for her transformation .
Caravan leader Jiang Yan is a very intelligent person.
After entering Shangdang County, he did not go to the market to sell books and buy paper. Instead, he planned to visit the dean of His Majesty's Palace first.
His Majesty's Palace is the most prosperous place in the Chu Kingdom and even the mainland of China.
His dean, Mr. Mo Fei, was hailed as the first poet on the mainland of China. Therefore, even King Chu had to treat him with courtesy.
It was not easy to see Mo Fei, and it took a full sum of money for Jiang Ye to see Mo Fei after he opened up the relationship.
"what is this?"
Looking at Jiang Jin's presents, he was very displeased. He was a person who loved his reputation very much and didn't like receiving gifts from others.
Jiang Yan quickly said: "Mr. Mo should not misunderstand. This brocade box contains a Book of Songs, which contains more than two hundred poems."
Hearing the words, could there be any doubts, how could a small box be able to hold more than two hundred poems.
With such a hint of curiosity, could he take the brocade box and open it.
Suddenly, it was a book with a pale yellow cover, and the word "Book of Songs" was written in Xiaoyan.
Picking up this thin Book of Songs and turning it over, the black letters in white characters and extremely neat fonts were printed into the eyes. He was so bland that his expression became extremely excited.
Turning the pages of the book continuously, they are all the same black and white, and the content is the Book of Songs.
"Here, what is this made of?" Murphy asked with a quivering voice.
Jiang Yan proudly said, "Mr. Hui, this paper was invented by the general of my family!" During the conversation, he presented something with both hands.
"What is this again?"
Holding this white snow, smooth paper, asked again.
"It's called 砚 砚, and it's specially used for big scholars like Mr. Mo to leave Mo Bao."
Jiang Yan explained.
"Okay! Good! Good!" Mo Fei looked a little, and couldn't help but claim that he liked it: "How is this made?"
"Mr. Hui, this thing was made by my general's generals, and the little ones didn't know what it was made of!"
Was a little disappointed, then asked: "How can this thing be?"
"Mr. Hui, this time I brought two million sheets of white paper, 100,000 sheets of paper, and thousands of bound books of various types."
"Geometry of value?" Mo Fei's eyes lighted, his voice asked urgently.
Jiang Xuan respectfully said: "Before leaving, my general commanded that if a gentleman and other big writers buy it, one piece of ordinary blank paper and one piece of paper are worth one hundred dollars. this."
"Good! Very good, I bought these batches of papers and scriptures!"
Two million pieces of white paper, one piece of money, totaling two million dollars, one 10,000 sheets of paper, one hundred pieces of money, totaling one million dollars.
In other words, the total income this time is 4 million yuan.
It is the son of the Crown Prince who can study in His Majesty's Academy. Therefore, His Majesty's Academy is quite rich, and millions of dollars are just drizzle.
After transporting the paper and books to His Majesty's Palace, Jiang Yan received 4 million yuan.
After reaching four million dollars, he ordered his men to take the money to buy food.
In today's wars, the price of grain is increasing year by year. It costs about 4 yuan per liter of corn, 4 million yuan, to reach 1 million liters of corn.
One million liters of corn is not a small amount, and it will not be available for a short while.
It took almost ten days for the million liters of corn to be bought, and during these ten days, the paper also caused a sensation in Shangdang County of the Chu Kingdom.
Before the advent of paper, the carrier of written text was cheap bamboo slips. A bamboo slip cost about five yuan, and the expensive one was white crickets, but those who could afford crickets were all nobles.
Therefore, after the emergence of paper as a cheap and convenient carrier, it has swept the entire Shangdang County in just ten days.
And Jiang Yan, a paper merchant, has also become famous, receiving countless people every day.
And signed orders for tens of millions of white paper and hundreds of thousands of paper.
Jiang Yan signed the order at the Shangda Party, and Linshui County is also stepping up the production of ordinary white paper and paper.
At the same time, a total of 50,000 troops led by Gu Min, along with auxiliary troops and civilian husbands, came to Yi'an County.
After reaching Yi'an County, the grain of tens of thousands of troops under Gu Min's army was only enough for three days. When he asked for food from the county guardian Hetai, the other party directly opened the treasury.
Looking at the empty treasury, Gu Min was dumbfounded.
No food, why no food.
Gu Min couldn't help getting furious, and ordered someone to take Hetai on the spot, and then while he was asking where Hetai had gone, he sent someone to Fan County to ask for grain.
That night, Hetai and Ye first escorted hundreds of cars and money out of the city and couldn't afford to investigate.
Therefore, in just one day, Gu Min investigated the whole thing and Hetai actually gave food to Qi Guo.
After learning this news, Gu Min could not help but be furious, and when he was about to give an order to kill Hetai and Yexian, Song Xuan appeared.
Then he used the magical powers to enslave Gu Min and the nine soldiers.
Later, like Zhao Yan, Gu Min had a cleansing of the army, killing all the die-hards who were loyal to Zhao Guo, and then led the army to Qi Guo.
The number of Qi soldiers also increased from 26,000 to 56,000.
The soldiers who failed to win the blood won another 30,000 troops. Song Xiu and Shen Du were even more awed by Song Yan, and Meng Bozhao was even more respectful.
Song Ye also took the opportunity to win the entire territory of Yi'an County and Fan County.
In this way, the three counties can form their own leaning angles and jointly defend the enemy.
For ordinary Qi Guo civilians, Qi ’s ownership of the three counties is worth encouraging, but for Song Yi, it is an annoying thing. The addition of three counties means that many people follow him .
Fortunately, shortly after winning the 30,000 army, Jiang Yan returned with a million liters of grain.
There were also some businessmen from Shangdang County.
The return of Jiang Yan made Song Yan very happy and rewarded the entire caravan team.
What makes him even more excited is that the businessmen who accompanied him all needed to buy paper.
To this end, Song Ye also personally interviewed these merchants and sold two million pieces of ordinary white paper, 100,000 pieces of paper, to a total of 22 million pieces of ordinary paper and 1.1 million pieces of paper.
The income reached 33 million dollars.
However, after meeting these merchants, Song Min proposed that if he wanted to trade next time, he would have to exchange food, and he could exchange five ordinary blank papers per liter of corn.
After the sale of paper opened in Chu State, Song Yi ordered Jiang Yi to take the caravan to Qin State, and arranged two other caravans to Yan State and Zhao State.
After the caravan set off, Song Zheng further expanded the paper mill because the current paper mill can only support the sales of Chu. If the sales of Yan and Zhao are opened, the output will not keep up.