Chen Tang noticed his movements and laughed dryly.

She said, "I'm rude. I don't know that Wenzhu will come back today. If I had known you would come, I wouldn't have come to the workshop."

Xu Jie: "...No, it's an explanation to disturb Mr. Shen..."

No matter how many times he heard, Xu Jie still felt that Shen Jun’s words were very strange. This was not something that his lord Wu Xian said? But when he thought of his lord Wu Xian and Shen Jun and Chen Tang’s “Tang Di’s deep love”, Xu Jie could only force himself to ignore and unable to control his complaints.

And quickly change the topic.

"What did Mr. Shen do just now?"

"Ah? Didn't you see the text note? I'm pounding bamboo... It's really not easy to make this thing soft. Fortunately, I use tender bamboo instead of bamboo, otherwise it would be even more difficult..." Chen Tang couldn't help complaining, three hundred and sixty, but it's not easy to do it.

I beat the bamboo that had been soaked in lime water over and over again, and I had to wash it carefully when the heat was almost done. This was just the first few steps, and even the pulp was not completed. After that, I had to soak it again and again, wash it again and again, soak it again and again... Oh, why is it so difficult to get a side job?

The difficulty is equivalent to making a bread starts with growing wheat, knitting sweaters starts with growing cotton and raising sheep...

Xu Jie: "..."

He naturally knew that Shen Jun was pounding bamboo.

But he was curious about what Shen Jun beat this.

Chen Tang did not hide it and said readily: "Of course it is for papermaking. Not only bamboo, I also prepared different woods, reeds and even wheat straw... I want to see which material makes paper more suitable for painting..."

There was papermaking in this era.

However, due to some more objective reasons, this technology has not received much attention, or the cost is too high and the quality is too low, so it is difficult to preserve. The mainstream still uses bamboo slips to record documents. Chen Tang wanted to make paper, but Xu Jie was not surprised.

In fact, there is also a papermaking workshop under the Xu family's name.

Specializes in high-end routes.

Low yield and barely profitable.

Hearing Chen Tang was soaking in the workshop, he was as hard as a laborer, just to create paper that could be used to make paintings, he smiled and said, "Why does Shen Jun have to do such a big deal if he wants paper? He has a papermaking workshop at home. If Shen Jun needs it, he can evenly produce some."

Chen Tang said: "I need too much weight, so I decided to be a self-reliant 'craftsman'."

Xu Jie was extremely dissatisfied with this.

As the lord of a place, how could Mr. Shen do these rough work?

Shen Jun came to be a fool, Qi Yuanliang and others also let others go to be a fool?

Xu Jie said proudly: "How much does Mr. Shen want?"

He is very confident in his financial resources.

Chen Tang calculated silently in his heart. According to 50 copies of a booklet, she could release at least 10,000 copies, which is 500,000 copies. Xu Jie was a little stunned when he heard this number. At first glance, he thought he had heard it wrong, so he asked again.

"How many?"

"Five hundred thousand! Still half a year!"

She wants to release two copies a year! A total of one million copies!

Chen Tang looked forward to looking at him: "Writing notes, is there any?"

Xu Jie was straightforward and neat: "No!"

If a papermaking workshop has such a high yield, would it be "badly effective"? However, it is very novel that Shen Jun wants to use bamboo, reeds and wheat straw as raw materials. The growth cycle of bamboo is very short, and reeds and wheat straw are valuable things.

If it works, even if the paper quality is very low and the paper confetti is messy, it is still paper, and it is a reliable business to make money.

But this requires building a foundation that can be created.

As for paper that can be painted...

Haha, Xu Jie did not respond to any hope.

Chen Tang dissipated the odor outside the workshop, took off the "work clothes" that he used to prevent his clothes from getting dirty, and changed into a decent and neat outer dress. He followed Xu Jie to the official office, and did not forget his serious business on the way, and completely treated him as his own family.

"Wenzhu, is there any news about the high-quality wheat seeds you were looking for before?" This is something that Chen Tang has been worried about these days. He was so worried that he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep well.

Although the corn harvest this year is considered a small bumper harvest, the common people will not go hungry next year, and the official granary finally has grain storage. However, once the common people encounter some headaches and fever, they will easily "recover poverty due to illness" and sell precious grains to cure the disease.

if--

It would have been great if there was more food.

Chen Tang did not forget to pinch his fingers when he was struggling for his side job. Thinking about when Xu Jie would come, Xu Jie did not disappoint her expectations. He smiled and said with a relaxed smile: "Fortunately, I have lived up to the entrustedness of Shen Jun, and I barely received a batch of wheat seedlings of good quality. However, Jie had one thing unknown, the wheat grains were not easy to shed, and the taste was not good when eaten, and it required a lot of water to soak seedlings in spring..."

Watering is very difficult.

No matter what angle it is, it is not suitable for planting.

Indeed, the yield of wheat is much higher than that of millet - Xu Jie also guessed that Chen Tang was aiming for the yield - but weighing the advantages and disadvantages of wheat and millet, Xu Jie believed that millet was better, easy to remove shells, and soft and glutinous. He advised seriously: "If Mr. Shen cannot solve these problems, he ordered the people under his jurisdiction to not plant millet and change to plant wheat. I am afraid that the harvest will be worrying next year's harvest..."

He also saw Chen Tang's efforts over the past year.

I don't want to lose all my efforts because of this.

There is not much rain in spring in this place.

Chen Tang said: "Which is the issue mentioned by Wenzhu, I have also discussed it carefully with Wuhui and others, and are planning to select a location to build a small reservoir, then divert water from Miao River, clear the river channel, and install irrigation and drainage facilities to prevent droughts and floods...."

Starting from Chen Tang's words "build a small reservoir", Xu Jie's expression was numb and dull, and he couldn't understand how Shen Jun did it - he spoke up and said that he was going to do such a big project? Where is the people? Where is the money?

This kind of project cannot be completed in one or two years.

How many people are there in Heyin County?

So many people have been dragged to the construction of reservoirs, digging rivers, and diverting water from Miao River... It will take more than ten years. Who will farm in the past ten years? Do common people don’t have to eat, drink, defecate and urinate???

Xu Jie reluctantly controlled his expression and asked, "Jun Shen, this matter is of great importance, not a day's effort, and it consumes a lot... Have you ever discussed with several subordinates?"

Haha, I probably haven’t told Kang Shi a few.

If they say that, they will object if they have no brains.

In this world, we are the foundation of our career. We will not only find such a big project that tens of thousands of people participate in, but it will also weaken our own strength.

Who knows-

"I said that, everyone will sit together to discuss it." Chen Tang said that she is not the kind of arbitrary person. She fully understands and respects the dissenting opinions of her colleagues.

If you have any opinions, please spread them out and listen to whoever has the right to listen to them.

Obviously, Chen Tang makes more sense.

So Gu Chi and others listened to her.

Xu Jie: "..."

He was completely unable to understand and was shocked.

A rough estimate of the manpower and material resources required for this project is not something that He Yinjun, who had just eaten a full meal, could withstand. He swallowed: "But this expense..."

Chen Tang: "You said this, I was actually trying to write a letter to Brother Zhaode. You and I are so close to each other. The repair of the small reservoir can not only benefit the common people in Heyin, but also benefit the common people in the Tianhai. Why not do this together!"

Xu Jie: "..."

No, this proposal will not be accepted by Tianhai.

The lord and Qin Li are not stupid. If you have the money, you don’t want to recruit soldiers and do what water conservancy projects?

It’s not that these people-friendly projects are not good, but they are really expensive. No one can guarantee that their power can last for a long time. Perhaps the power has destroyed the water conservancy project and has not been completed yet. This is completely thankless.

Xu Jie doesn't have to ask his lord anymore.

He knows the final result.

"This, this...is very difficult..."

Chen Tang blinked: "It's hard?"

Xu Jie turned the railway decisively: "Yes, it's very difficult!"

Now that the pressure has been given to Shen Jun, Chen Tang was silent for a long time. Just when Xu Jie thought that he would retreat, he was confused when he heard the following concerns.

Shen Jun sighed heavily: "Oh-it seems that Brother Zhaode has hidden it from me about the epidemic. He said that Tianhai has little influence and has not damaged its foundation, but he can't even get this little money and food at the moment. It can be seen that he has really encountered difficulties... Or is it that Tianhai's harvest this year is very bad, and you and I are close friends. I will definitely help if there are any difficulties!"

Xu Jie: "???"

Xu Jie asked: "How much is this money and food?"

Chen Tang said a number—

Xu Jie never dreamed that the number of projects that did not match the two projects of repairing reservoirs and digging rivers was completely different.

"About ten thousand stones of corn."

This is a budget that is more affordable.

Xu Jiejian said, "Ten thousand stones? Not hundreds of thousands of stones?"

Chen Tang: "Why do you need so much?"

The two looked at each other for a moment, and then they realized that they were talking to each other and had misunderstood something.

Xu Jie seemed to have thought of something.

Question: "How much labor service is needed to build these by Mr. Shen?"
To be continued...