Luzhou is located in the southeast of Shizhou.
From Lishi County, they have to first pass through the Luliang Mountains to reach Fenzhou, and then go all the way to the southeast, and then pass through the entire Fenzhou to reach Luzhou.
State boundaries.
Lewen This group of people came from Guyao Ridge in Luzhou, which is the northwest corner of Luzhou.
In terms of straight line distance, that place is not very far away from Shi County, but Guyao Ridge was originally located in a deep mountain.
To get to Lishi County from them, you must first pass through Taiyue Mountain and then Luliang Mountain.
Needless to say, the journey here is difficult.
It was a long and dusty journey, and we finally arrived at Lishi County.
We were stopped by officers and soldiers at the gate of the city.
Although we finally entered the city smoothly, some people still felt uneasy.
Earlier, the Fan brothers from their village came out to work as porters.
During the few days when the caravan stayed in Xipo Village, Lishi County, they happened to catch up with Luo Sanlang teaching people how to make papyrus.
They learned the craft and started making papyrus after they returned.
Pick up the paper.
What they made was not straw paper, but hemp stalks instead of straw.
They made a batch of hemp paper, smeared it with tung oil, and sold it to merchants in the city, making some money.
Everyone in the village was envious, but the two brothers were not satisfied.
They also said that there were many merchants in the Dinghu area of Lishi in Shizhou, and people from all over the world could find them.
If they knew that there was cheap and high-quality oil paper in Guyaoling, they would be better off in the future.
There will definitely be people going to them to buy goods.
They taught the villagers the art of making hemp paper, and asked the villagers to come with them to Lishi County to sell oiled paper.
Because the villagers wanted to learn this craft, they all agreed.
However, after they left home, they felt that everything was difficult along the way.
They were also afraid of encountering bad people, and they suffered hardships, fatigue, and fear every day.
"Dalang, we have arrived in Lishi County now.
How do you think we can sell these oil papers?"
After entering the city, someone immediately asked Fan Dalang for advice.
"Let's sell them here first."
Fan Dalang saw a few carnation sellers squatting under the wall next to the city gate, so he took the lead in driving his donkey cart over.
In fact, he had no idea how to sell this oil paper.
At first, out of his enthusiasm, he wanted to follow the example of Lishi County and attract merchants to their Guyao Ridge.
However, the constant questions from the villagers along the way made him become more and more uncertain.
He wondered if he had thought about things too simply.
With just this piece of oil paper, he could really make those merchants lose their confidence.
Have you traveled thousands of miles to Guyao Ridge to buy goods?
The hardships along the way will surely be in vain in the end.
The young man raised his sleeves and wiped the sweat from his neck.
The hot sweat was mixed with mud, leaving a black sweat stain on his sleeves, making his already unclean clothes look even dirtier.
Under the scorching sun, he suddenly felt a little regretful in his heart.
If he hadn't rectified these things, if he hadn't taught the other people in the village the papermaking technology, and just closed the door to make and sell paper every day, life would have been doomed.
You will live a stable and prosperous life.
"Brother, you're too hot," a young man with an honest face asked him.
"Nothing, I'm a little tired, just take a rest."
Fan Dalang smiled on his face, but couldn't help thinking in his heart, if the market can't be opened, how can people in their village produce so much hemp paper in the future?
Fetched a good price.
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"How do you sell this oil paper?"
Recently, there are often some foreign caravans in Lishi County, transporting various goods, so many people are staring at the city gate.
Now they see their group entering.
After arriving in the city, a few people came over in twos and threes from nearby wine shops.
"Two cents a piece."
When Fan Erlang saw a business coming to his door, he quickly took a piece of oil paper from his donkey cart and opened it to show the other party.
The oil paper they brought this time was a large piece of medium-thick paper, with tung oil on both sides.
After enough oil was applied to the paper, it became very translucent.
When stuck on the window, it looked strong and bright.
Window paper like this was relatively expensive in the past.
It often cost several pennies to paper a window.
Even if you were not a wealthy family, you couldn't bear to spend this money.
Each piece of oil paper they brought this time is enough to paste a window.
Each piece only costs two cents.
A slightly wealthy family should be able to afford this money.
Besides, they have also heard that the people of Lishi County They are all quite wealthy.
"If you buy more, you can get a bargain."
When the people who gathered around heard the price, their eyes shone a little.
But after all, these people were not ordinary people, but businessmen.
They felt happy in their hearts, and their faces were bright.
All covered up.
"We are coming from Guyaoling in Luzhou.
The road is long and transportation is not easy.
Two cents per piece is the minimum.
If you can go to Guyaoling to buy goods in person, the price will naturally be much cheaper."
Fan Dalang He bowed his hands to those people.
"Where is Guyao Ridge?"
a foreign businessman who was not very familiar with Hedong Road asked several people around him.
Although he is a foreigner, he has met many people in restaurants and tea shops in the city in the past few days.
"That's Guyao Ridge.
To get there, you have to pass Luliang Mountain first, then Fenzhou, and then Taiyue Mountain."
A middle-aged businessman said with a smile.
"Don't talk about the useless ones.
Guyao Ridge is too far away.
If you give me a hundred pieces of oil paper, I'll charge you two cents each."
A strong man with a curly beard said loudly.
"You bought so much?"
someone asked from the side.
"Now that you've caught up, let's buy more and share it with relatives and friends.
It's not much."
The man said, taking off a bunch of copper coins from his waist.
"I want ten."
"I'll just buy two."
"I'll buy fifty." "" As soon as the business started here, some people in the city over there quickly got the news.
The people in the city were not that generous, and usually only bought one or two pieces, and then asked if they would accept food, cloth, etc.
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After learning that the other party only accepted copper coins, some people backed down.
After all, That window paper is not for food or clothing.
Even if you don't buy it, it won't affect your life very much.
Copper coins in this era were very valuable.
Each copper coin was a real piece of bronze weighing one penny.
People stored copper coins at home and were not worried about its depreciation.
It might even appreciate.
I heard that some people melted the copper coins privately.
Made of bronze.
This resulted in insufficient circulation of coins on the market, and it was common for cloth and grain to be used as currency.
The reason why these Luzhou people dare to say that they only accept copper coins is because they don't have to worry about selling their oil paper.
If it weren't for the insistence of the Fan brothers, they would have sold out all their oil paper along the way.
Can't get to Lishi County.
Two days later, all the oil paper brought by these Guyaoling people was sold out, and everyone earned a lot of copper coins.
The hardships of the previous journey were greatly diluted by the joy of making money.
The Fan brothers went to visit Luo Sanlang with a basket of oiled paper on their backs.
The two brothers set out before dawn and walked until three o'clock in the morning before arriving at the boundary of Xipo Village.
Before arriving at the entrance of the village, I met Luo Sanlang at the edge of the Luo family's sheepfold.
He was cutting bamboo strips with a few disciples at this time, and was sitting in the shade of the roadside doing something. , the shape and appearance of that thing were something they had never seen before.
"What are you doing?"
Fan Dalang and Fan Erlang asked curiously as they approached.
"I just want to use this oil paper to make a lighter bamboo hat."
Luo Yong looked up at the two brothers and said with a smile.
The bamboo hat is similar to a bamboo hat, except that the bamboo hat is worn on the head.
The bamboo hat has a handle, similar to the umbrellas of later generations.
Generally, farmers use few bamboo hats, and they mainly use bamboo hats and coir raincoats.
“Why are the bamboo strips so sparse?”
Both the bamboo hat and the bamboo hat are made by weaving the inner and outer layers with fine bamboo strips, and then filling the middle layer with bamboo leaves and other materials.
The bamboo strips are generally woven more densely and firmly, unlike Luo Yong.
In the way it looks in the hand, there are only a few bamboo strips standing sparsely, and it doesn't look strong.
"You will know when I finish it."
Luo Yong smiled, stopped what he was doing, and looked up at the two Fan brothers: "You two brought me hemp paper today."
"Exactly."
Fan Dalang said, putting down the basket on his back, taking out a large pile of tung oil paper, and opening the pile of tung oil paper.
There was also a small pile of hemp paper that had not been brushed with tung oil: " After the two of us learned the craft of making straw paper, we returned to our hometown and after several attempts, we finally made this kind of paper."
"I actually brought some hemp paper that hasn't been brushed with tung oil.
It's just right."
Luo Yong happened to have made an umbrella frame at this time, and he had ready-made paper, so he asked one of his disciples to ride on Yan'erfei, I ran to the Xu family guest house to get some tung oil that was left over when building a house.
I dipped a brush in some tung oil and pieced together several pieces of hemp paper to form an umbrella.
Even though it was just a simple umbrella, Luo Yong and his disciples spent almost two days after hearing that the Fan brothers came to their Lishi County to sell oil paper, and several of them were scrapped.
Until this morning, Finally got an idea.
This was still the case when Luo Yong had a few ready-made umbrellas in his space.
If he had to make one from scratch, he didn’t know how many years of exploration would have gone through.
In Luo Yong's memory, it seems that the entire Tang Dynasty did not use umbrellas very much.
Umbrellas only became common in the Song Dynasty.
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Of course, this may also be related to the popularization of papermaking technology.
What Luo Yong is holding in his hand at this time should be the first umbrella that can be opened and closed in this era.
For those seemingly simple small parts, a group of big men have spent a lot of effort.
Fortunately, these people are very capable.
They are all very strong.
I have made a lot of things like chains, paring knives, etc., so I have a relatively solid foundation.
In order to shape the umbrella, they also carefully wrapped some thin twine between the bamboo branches.
This is also a technical job.
The Fan brothers didn't expect that they just came to give Luo Yong a basket of oil paper, but they could actually observe the making process of the first oil paper umbrella of this era.
Later, Luo Yong asked them about the process of making hemp paper, and the two brothers had no reservations and told them all.
They were so excited.
There were bamboo, tung oil, and hemp paper in their hometown.
They could make oil-paper umbrellas at home.
This thing should be more attractive than hemp paper.
Even if it is not easy to sell in Guyaoling, it can be transported to Fenzhou and other places for sale.
There is no need to go to Yangcheng, Zhoujun, just go to Pingyao.
Pingyao County in Fenzhou is not very far from Guyaoling.
Those merchants and travelers traveling between Taiyuan Prefecture and Chang'an City should be familiar with this thing.
Just be interested.
The Fan brothers learned the art of making umbrellas and went home happily.
On Luo Yong's side, he was thinking about the promotion of this oil-paper umbrella.
No matter in which era, publicity is very important.
I didn't see the toothbrushes and other things Luo Yong had made before, because there was no publicity.
Until now, few people are interested, but the specially promoted peony cushions have already become popular in Chang'an City.
After waiting and waiting, he finally arrived on a rainy day.
On this day, Luo Yong had the rare patience to run to teach Du Gou how to draw sketches for a long time.
In fact, they were just some things he learned and sold now.
When the oily buns from the Xu family guest house came out, Luo Yong said that he was hungry.
Ask him to buy some steamed buns to eat.
Du Gou has been living in Xipo Village recently, and he has eaten a lot of oily buns from Xujia Guesthouse.
Now that Luo Yong said this, he thought of buying a few more and bringing them back for dinner.
Before going out, , Luo Yong asked him to use his oil-paper umbrella.
Du Gou didn't think much and went out holding the umbrella.
Not to mention, this oil-paper umbrella is really easy to use.
It is very light in your hand.
When not in use, you can close it lightly and it does not take up any space.
The hemp paper on the umbrella surface has a light amber color after being brushed with tung oil.
Although there is no decoration, it looks unique.
On a summer afternoon, amid the mountain breeze and rain, a man in Tsing Yi held an oil-paper umbrella and walked slowly along the green country road.
He walked all the way to the Xu family guest house, closed the umbrella, and shook it gently. of rain.
The people in the hall looked at him one after another.
Du Gou smiled at them and went to buy buns from the Xu brothers.
Then "Luo Sanlang, do you still have the kind of oil-paper umbrella you have?
It's the same as the one of Mr.
Du's."
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"In fact, you can also draw some flower and bird patterns on it."
"No, no, no, no need to draw any pattern, I just want the same one as his, exactly the same."
"Okay then, an oil-paper umbrella costs twenty cents." gd1806102: