The construction of the paper mill had started ten days ago.

Thanks to the craftsmen sent by these aristocratic families, they were eager to express themselves and gain Qin Yu's appreciation.

They really contributed a lot of useful things to Qin Yu.

Some of them have experience in papermaking workshops controlled by wealthy families.

Naturally, they know very well how to make the construction layout of a papermaking workshop more reasonable.

There are actually many ways to do this kind of industrial thing.

Many things are accumulated through experience gained bit by bit.

At this point, they saved Qin Yu a lot of time and effort.

Qin Yu recruited some young laborers from Jiyang County to work for him.

The construction schedule will be greatly advanced.

This is precisely because it is not the busy farming season.

Moreover, the wages paid to these young and strong laborers recruited by Qin Yu were quite high.

On average, each person's daily salary is about 20 yuan.

For farmers like them, who can only earn two to three hundred yuan a month, this is already a huge sum.

Coupled with the county magistrate's recruitment, they did not dare to be lazy at all.

It didn't take long.

The prototype of a papermaking workshop has been established five miles south of Jiyang City and less than ten miles away from Xiaofang Village.

Putting it in this position is also the suggestion given by the craftsmen.

It's not too far from Jiyang City and Xiaofang Village.

There happens to be a small river nearby that flows to Feishui.

It is suitable to discharge all the sewage produced in papermaking.

At the same time as this papermaking workshop was established.

Qin Yu had already begun to take his core craftsmen to study papermaking technology.

The preliminary research on papermaking was smooth sailing.

Qin Yu doesn't need to worry about the various materials needed.

Lou Gui has already arranged this matter well.

The Ma family in Jingxiang is a truly wealthy businessman.

Together with the Zhen family in Hebei, the Mi family in Xuzhou, the Lu family in Jiangdong, and the Qin family in Xichuan, they were the five most wealthy business families in the Three Kingdoms era at the end of the Han Dynasty.

It was through the Ma family that Lou Gui arranged all the things Qin Yu needed.

Money is not a problem for Qin Yu now.

Qin Yu not only sold some well water through Lou Gui Fengji before.

Later, when Liu Hong granted Qin Yu the title of Marquis of Guannei, he also rewarded him with a large amount of money.

It can be said that the previous interception and killing of Qin Yu arranged by Yuan Shao and other a group of aristocratic families really angered Liu Hong.

This wave of large amounts of monetary rewards can also be said to be Liu Hong's retaliatory rewards out of desperation.

Qin Yu was able to do it all at once and he didn't have to worry about running out of money for a long time.

The money awarded as a reward alone is estimated to be in the tens of millions.

Qin Yu doesn't have to worry about other things, but naturally Qin Yu won't let go of anything that concerns him.

Just like the elementary papermaking skill now added to his skill list.

That's right.

He also understood papermaking as a skill.

It's just that this skill is really useless in Qin Yu's opinion.

According to Qin Yu's understanding of his own skills.

If he could upgrade his basic papermaking skills to intermediate papermaking skills.

Naturally, many details about papermaking come to mind.

Naturally, it can be used to optimize the process of their papermaking workshop.

But the problem is.

If he wants to upgrade his papermaking skills, he must follow the craftsmen step by step to produce paper bit by bit.

Every time a piece of paper is produced, it is a piece of paper produced with his own hands.

Only in this way can we provide him with a one-time experience bonus.

Qin Yu only made two pieces of paper with his own hands and then gave up.

It takes too much time and effort.

The efficiency of acquiring this experience simply does not match my own.

And even if this skill is upgraded, what is its use?

Is it possible that he really wants to make paper in a place like this after his skill level is high?

That is obviously impossible.

That is to say.

In fact, there are countless things in this world that can be used to improve Qin Yu's skills.

But there are many skills that are ineffective and useless.

Even if there is, there is no need to improve it.

Just like this papermaking technology.

After passing on his upgraded papermaking skills to these core craftsmen.

Qin Yu decisively stopped managing these craftsmen.

These craftsmen are currently living on the outskirts of Xiaofang Village.

Enjoying the daily golden corn and upgraded well water, plus the papermaking skills Qin Yu gave them.

This makes them now seem to regard Qin Yu, like everyone else in Xiaofang Village, as a god.

Qin Yu didn't explain either.

The problem he is thinking about now is that the upgraded papermaking technology must not be leaked out in a short period of time.

But wait until he turns around and achieves what he wants to achieve.

He will no longer care about the outflow of papermaking technology.

This kind of technology will definitely be a tool that can be used to make money for aristocratic families in a short period of time.

But in the long run.

This is digging up the foundations of those aristocratic families.

Why not?

At that time, Qin Yu will only have to master high-quality technologies such as high-end rice paper.

Except for papermaking, which is almost on the right track of research and development.

Qin Yu has spent almost all his time burning glass recently.

This burning glass was much more complicated than he imagined.

The key lies in the raw materials.

When Qin Yu first talked to the craftsmen, he was talking about burning sand.

But why he burned the sand and to what extent it would produce glass, he himself couldn't tell.

Later, I just left it alone and burned it, but nothing came out of it.

After thinking hard for a long time, Qin Yu felt that this could not continue.

Then let each of the craftsmen come up with their own creative ideas.

No matter what kind of idea you have, as long as you have an idea, let someone write it down.

After summarizing, they were all placed in front of Qin Yu.

The system does the rest of the work.

Qin Yu didn't know how to burn glass. Anyway, he only needed to see which one of the written recipes required the least amount of fragments.

This method is really possible.
To be continued...