Last winter, Duan Lun entered the capital to worship, and the court then abolished the Sixingtai, Yizhou Xingtai was also withdrawn. Duan Lun was temporarily left in the capital and had not returned to Shu.

Zhang Chao heard early that Duan Lun had great power in Bashu and had the power to do his own things and could have appointed officials. Bashu was at the quarrels of Sui and Tang Dynasties and did not suffer much war, so it can be said that he was extremely wealthy.

Yizhou's papermaking industry is a very famous money-making industry. I heard that Duan Lun had a long stretch of hands and had been involved in these industries. Not only did he build several large papermaking workshops in Yizhou, but he even controlled the sale of Yizhou's hemp paper to Chang'an and Luoyang and other places.

Even around Chang'an, the Duan family has several papermaking workshops of considerable size, making hemp paper.

To put it simply, the paper used by the imperial court in Chang'an was through the Duan family. Half of the paper in Chang'an city was also supplied by the Duan family.

This is the way for the powerful to make money, power and then money.

Although Duan Lun was in Shu for a few years, he was already like a local emperor. Although many of those papermaking workshops were from the hands of local big families, the local snakes could not withstand Duan Lun's powerful dragon.

This time Duan Lun did not return to Shuzhong immediately, because the court received several secret reports of his rebellion, but the court sent people to investigate but found nothing.

This time the court slashed the throne, so he asked him to stay in the capital first.

Zhang Chao estimated that the person who secretly sued Duan Lun for rebellion must be the local tribes in Shu that he had made. Unfortunately, Duan Lun was a hostess and did not make any big news in Shu himself, so he naturally couldn't sue him by just catching things.

"Do you want to buy paper with your fourth brother-in-law?" Princess Changguang smiled. This seemed to her just a trivial matter.

Princess Changguang called a carriage and took Zhang Chao to Princess Gaomi's mansion to pay homage to the princess and Duan Lun.

Princess Gaomi's mansion is very large, with rich doors and white walls, and high buildings in the courtyard. It is very grand. There are many cars and horses parked in front of the door.

"That seems to be the carriage of the third sister." Princess Changguang recognized one of the carriages. She asked the door who came out, "Is Sanniang here?"

"Reply to the fifth princess' talk, the third princess and Prince Chai are here today. The eldest princess and his wife, the second princess and Prince Dou are also here."

"It seems like a coincidence." Princess Changguang said to Zhang Chao with a smile, "It just happened to introduce the following princesses and horses to you."

When entering the mansion, Princess Gaomi has received a notice and comes out to greet her sister.

"Why did the fifth sister think of bringing your adopted son Zhang Sanlang from Chang'an to our mansion today?" Princess Gaomi looked at Zhang Chao.

In addition to the young princes and princesses who had given birth to these years, Li Yuan gave birth to five sons and five daughters in his early years, four of whom were legitimate sons and one of whom was legitimate daughters. The third son Li Xuanba and the fifth son of the clan Li Zhiyun were dead, the other three sons and five daughters were already married.

Today, Zhang Chao unexpectedly met Li Yuan’s five older daughters.

The eldest princess Changsha Princess, the son-in-law Feng Shaoshi, the second princess Xiangyang Princess, the son-in-law Dou Dan, the third princess Pingyang Princess, the son-in-law Chai Shao, the fourth princess Gaomi Princess, the son-in-law Duan Lun, the fifth princess Changguang Princess, and the son-in-law Qin Qiong are not here.

Because Zhang Chao is the adopted son of Princess Changguang, everyone is very polite to him, especially Zhang Chao is now quite famous in Beijing. The last time the emperor visited Zhang's mansion at night, Chai Shao also followed him, but that time Zhang Chao and Chai Shao didn't say a few words.

Unlike the son-in-laws of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, the son-in-laws of the early Tang dynasties were highly valued. It would not be like the son-in-laws who became son-in-laws in the late Tang and Song dynasties, they could no longer receive real positions. They were not as good as the son-in-laws of the Ming and Qing dynasties. They could not even live in the same house as the princess. Even if they wanted to be intimate, they had to propose marriage to the princess' nanny and had to spend money.

Most of the princes in the early Tang Dynasty came from a famous family and were highly valued.

For example, Li Yuan’s five son-in-laws are now working in the Qin Palace, and they are the worst ones. The second accomplice, Mu Dao Dan, is also the nephew of the late queen. He is now the Duke of Anfeng County and the Minister of Justice.

The third affiliation Ma Chai Shao, the governor of Qizhou, the general of Pingdao Army, the general of the Right Guard, and the Duke of Huo.

The fourth son-in-law Duan Lun, Duke Ji, general manager of Yizhou. The fifth son-in-law Qin Qiong, Duke Yi, governor of Tongzhou, and general of the Yulin Army.

Each of them is either a duke or a county duke, a minister or a general, a governor, or a military general.

They are all real and important positions and are deeply trusted.

"Do you want to buy paper? This is a trivial matter. How much do you want? I just need it and I will just talk to the manager." Duan Lun didn't care much about Zhang Chao's desire to buy paper. The Duan family now has mastered most of the sales of Yizhou hemp paper, especially Yizhou hemp paper in Chang'an and Luoyang, and it has to pass through his hands.

“I want more.”

"More? How many can it be?" Duan Lun smiled. There are hundreds of large papermaking workshops in Yizhou, not including those small family workshops and large papermaking workshops. The paper produced by a considerable amount of paper every year is even supplied to Guanzhong, Henan, Shannan, Hedong, etc.

Even the paper used by the imperial court was monopolized by the Duan family and exclusively supplied.

Zhang Chao really needs a lot of paper. Basically, the printing technology is the only one in the Zhang family. With Zhang Chao's reputation and connections, he has received a lot of printing lists, including from the court, private, as well as from the temple and the Zhang family's bookstore. Recently, there are Taoist temples who took the initiative to find Zhang Chao to print the Taoist scriptures.

Anyway, the exclusive business is really easy to do.

Especially, printing books are several times cheaper than hand-copying, which is even more attractive, not to mention the accuracy of printing books, the exquisite new style engraved characters, and the rapid printing.

Now there are more than 2,000 people in the Zhangjia Printing Bookstore, and they are working hard to start construction, and the orders have been queued for half a year.

Any set of books can be printed, and a thousand copies can be printed, at least several volumes or even dozens of volumes. Even if there are only ten volumes, one volume has hundreds of boards, ten volumes and one thousand editions, it means that a set of books can be at least one thousand pages or one thousand copies, which is one million pages.

The paper made in the paper mill is relatively large. I bought one and cut it into multiple pieces, but one million is also an amazing number. It can be said that printing is really changing the traditional way of reading and writing.

Printing workshops began to make books ordinary and popular.

The printing workshop broke the various restrictions on copying books, but now it is still facing the problem of supply of paper. Hemp paper is good for writing and carved paper is also good, but it is still too expensive.

"No matter how much you want, I can satisfy you." Duan Lun waved proudly.

Zhang Chao originally wanted to talk about long-term supply cooperation to see if he could reduce the price. However, when he saw Duan Lun like this, he finally smiled and said nothing more.

Forget it, buy a batch of paper from the Duan family for emergency treatment, and then start making it yourself.

In fact, there is no need to use hemp paper for printing, bamboo paper is more suitable!
Chapter completed!