Datang: Let you supervise the country and become an emperor through the ages

Chapter 90 The Shocked Li Junxian
"How about it, Shen Wansan, do you still have confidence?" Li Fu smiled and patted Shen Wansan.

"I'm so confident!" Shen Wansan clapped his palms and laughed, "His Royal Highness, Wansan has been here every day in your workshop in recent days, and he has been working in this workshop for a month!"

"Your Highness, don't worry, everything here is left to me. If you have any requirements, you can tell me now!"

Li Fu raised his eyebrows, and instantly understood that this was a systematic arrangement, otherwise, how could Shen Wansan, a businessman from the Ming Dynasty, know how to manage and use such a modern factory building!
That's good, it saves Li Fu a lot of talking, and he also believes that Shen Wansan can run the paper mill and printing factory well. After all, he was the richest man in the world in the early Ming Dynasty. If he can't, then who else can?
"Gu has prepared 1 taels of silver for you. I don't care how you use it. What I need are these two factories. I can start printing a book in three days!" Li Fu gave the order directly.

"No problem!" Shen Wansan was full of confidence. He had manipulated and operated the paper mill and printing factory in front of him countless times in his dreams. He had absolute confidence to complete the prince's request within three days.

On the other hand, Li Shimin was also very nervous about Li Fu's paper mill and printing factory.

For this reason, he specially dispatched Li Junxian with Baiqisi to guard Li Fu day and night, demanding to know Li Fu's next whereabouts and where he had been.

"You said that the prince went to Tiance Mansion early in the morning and never came out again?" Li Shimin received Li Junxian's report that night and paced thoughtfully.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the crown prince has just returned to the East Palace, and he has stayed in Tiance Mansion for the whole day!"

Hearing this, Li Shimin raised his eyebrows slightly. Ever since Li Fu was named Tiance Admiral, he had never been to the Tiance Mansion. During this period, Cen Wenwen was only taking care of it. Why was he suddenly so interested today? where?
"What did the prince do in Tiance Mansion, can you find out?" Li Shimin followed up and asked.

Hearing this, Li Junxian seemed to have thought of something, and his expression became a little weird, "Reporting to Your Majesty, this subordinate personally sneaked into the Tiance Mansion to investigate, and found that the prince was in the backyard of the Tiance Mansion. Great workshop."

"After checking by my subordinates, one of the two workshops is specially used for paper making, and the other is used for printing, but the tools and equipment used in them are not clear to my subordinates."

Li Junxian now recalled that he was shocked when he saw the machines in the printing factory and paper mill.

Li Shimin's eyes lit up when he heard this, and then he became excited. He already understood that the two workshops Li Junxian just mentioned must be the printing factory and paper mill that Li Fu had mentioned in his mind.

Li Shimin has always been curious about this printing factory and paper mill, but he didn't expect that Li Junxian had already seen it.

"Who is taking care of these two workshops now? Does the prince have arrangements? Or is he taking care of them himself?" Li Shimin asked the key point directly.

Li Junxian shook his head and said: "I haven't seen His Royal Highness taking care of those two workshops, so I think His Highness probably doesn't have the time."

Li Shimin thought about it and felt the same way. With Li Fu's virtue, how could he have thought that he might personally manage the printing and paper mills? He would definitely be a hands-off shopkeeper!
"Could it be Cen Wenwen or Ma Zhou?" Li Shimin raised his eyebrows slightly and asked Li Junxian.

"Neither of them, but a new merchant named Shen Wansan, His Royal Highness, because of him, His Highness had conflicts with Dongying's Tang envoy before!"

As Li Junxian said, he took out a scroll of bamboo slips from his body, which stated the past between Shen Wansan and the prince, as well as Shen Wansan's family background.

"A merchant in Chang'an?" Li Shimin flipped through it quickly, and his first impression of Shen Wansan was not very good.

"He is just the manager of the family business, and he is actually assigned to be responsible for paper making and printing. It is nonsense!"

How could the things that Li Shimin cared about be entrusted to a businessman to manage, Li Shimin looked down on Shen Wansan a little bit.

"Your Majesty, according to your subordinates, His Majesty may consider it more prudently!" Li Junxian unexpectedly raised a different opinion, "The matter of papermaking and printing will affect the interests of the aristocratic family. cause trouble!"

"Shen Wansan's family also operates papermaking and printing. It can be regarded as giving full play to their talents, and they are also loyal to the crown prince. Why don't your majesty wait a little longer and think about it?"

When Li Shimin heard Li Junxian mentioning the aristocratic family, his face suddenly became gloomy, "It's all the prince's property, so what if the aristocratic family knows about it? Could it be that they dare to rebel for some benefit?"

As soon as Li Shimin thought of going to the aristocratic family, he filed a lawsuit. Li Junxian didn't dare to persuade him, so he quickly knelt down and pleaded guilty.

"All right, all right, get up." Li Shimin waved his hand at Li Junxian, "You're right about what you just said. It's really not appropriate to publicize the prince's affairs. The prince has indeed done a good job in this regard."

"You've been near the Tiance Mansion recently. Arrange more people to ensure the safety of the Tiance Mansion. Except for the prince himself, whoever dares to spy on the situation inside the Tiance Mansion will be arrested and killed!" Li Shimin's eyes flashed sharply. .

"Your subordinate obeys the order!" Li Junxian heard this, and immediately went down to make arrangements.

Three days later, Shen Wansan had put the paper mill and printing plant into operation.

In fact, on the day when Shen Wansan met Li Fu, he gathered enough workers. According to Li Fu's request, these workers were Kunlun slaves bought by Shen Wansan.

Kunlun slaves are strong and of low status. The bought Kunlun slaves can serve their masters loyally as long as they are given food. However, if something goes wrong, these Kunlun slaves can be easily caught due to their special appearance.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about the safety issues of printing plants and paper mills being leaked out.

So in just three days, under the personal supervision of Shen Wansan, 30 tons of high-quality printing paper were produced.

After Shen Wansan saw these printing papers, his eyes lit up. This kind of paper made from paper mills is definitely the best paper in Datang today.

It feels as smooth as silk, even the imperial palace does not have such fine paper.

After Shen Wansan was amazed, he immediately ordered the Kunlun slaves to start moving the paper and start printing "Dream of Red Mansions".

Soon the first edition of A Dream of Red Mansions was printed. Seeing the words on the printed paper, Shen Wansan burst into ecstasy, and immediately took the newly printed paper and went straight to the East Palace.

He wanted to tell Li Fu the good news quickly.

(End of this chapter)