Su Xing's paper shop became an instant hit. Its five-colored paper with various designs was loved by scholars and ladies as soon as it appeared, and soon became popular from the county town to the provincial capital.

Su Xing was not in a hurry to make more patterns of paper. He only focused on making five-color paper. When he made enough money, he would open a branch and move towards the capital city little by little.

During this process, Su Xing was also cultivating Lin Dalong and Liu Ya's business abilities. These two people could not be stupid to give birth to such smart and intelligent children as Lin Sishu and the original owner.

The reason why he appears to be honest and simple is that he was born in a farming family, facing the loess and back to the sky every day, and his horizons are narrow and he has not been enlightened by reading.

Su Xing taught the two of them to read and write, learn mental arithmetic every day, and took them to travel around to broaden their horizons. Gradually, the two of them became more and more savvy.

Now that Su Xing has opened a paper mill, Liu Ya is fully capable of managing the paper mill independently, while Lin Dalong follows Su Xing to do business.

Seeing that everyone in his family was busy, Lin Sishu wanted to stop studying and go into business with Su Xing. Su Xing did not let him go. He said that Lin Sishu was a good student and it would be no problem for him to pass the imperial examination and become an official if he continued his studies.

In ancient society, although being an official did not necessarily guarantee a worry-free life, if you were not an official, anyone could definitely step on you, especially businessmen. Without a background, anyone could take advantage of you.

In order to ensure the smooth operation of his business, Su Xing gave shares to the wife of the county magistrate when he was in the county town. In fact, it was a disguised way of giving shares to the county magistrate. That's why after his paper shop business became popular, it was not swallowed up by others.

From then on, every time a branch was opened, the local county magistrate would be given shares. The prefect of the provincial capital was the most greedy, and Su Xing gave him 40% of the shares to satisfy him.

If Lin Sishu became an official, even if he was just a county magistrate, she would have to feed one less county magistrate. If he became a high-ranking official, her business would be smoother.

But now, Su Xing is concentrating on planning for the qualifications of an imperial merchant. For this, Su Xing specially made the Twelve Flower God Paper and presented it to the wife of Pingnan Marquis in the capital.

The wife of Marquis Pingnan also had another identity, the empress's biological mother. The empress was well-known for her talent among her peers. She and the emperor were childhood sweethearts, and the two had a very good relationship.

The queen likes to write, and Su Xing is confident that anyone who loves writing will be unable to resist the charm of the Twelve Flower Gods Paper.

There are twelve colors of Twelve Flower God Paper, and each color corresponds to a flower god. The images of the flower gods are designed by Su Xing himself, and they are luxurious, smart, lively, and fairy-like, with various styles.

The reason why Su Xing was able to deliver the Twelve Flower God Paper to the wife of Marquis Pingnan was because her Five-Color Paper was popular. In order to sell it better, Su Xing used hunger marketing. Even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it.

As a result of this hunger marketing, the five-color paper sold better, and the newly launched Twelve Flower Gods paper also attracted much attention.

It was just that Su Xing spread the word, and after displaying the samples, he said that the Twelve Flower God Paper was difficult to produce and would not be available in a short time.

I have seen how beautiful the Twelve Flower God Paper is, but I cannot buy it. Isn't this making people itchy? Countless people have come to Su Xing, asking her indirectly to leave the first batch of Twelve Flower God Paper for them.

But Su Xing did not agree until the wife of Marquis Pingnan came to inquire about the Twelve Flower Gods Letter. Only then did Su Xing bring the Twelve Flower Gods to present gifts to the wife of Marquis Pingnan.

The Twelve Flower Gods Paper was a popular item in the capital, and it was in short supply and nowhere to be bought. If the wife of Marquis Pingnan got it, she would definitely give it to the Queen.

If the empress saw it, it meant the emperor could see it too. The emperor, like the empress, also loved writing. The empress would like it, and the emperor would also like it. What Su Xing wanted was for the emperor to see the Twelve Flower God Paper.

Sure enough, only three days after the things were delivered, Su Xing got what he wanted. The emperor issued an edict to include five-colored paper in the list of tributes, and Su Xing was also designated as the imperial merchant.

The status of imperial merchants in this dynasty is higher than that of all previous dynasties. As long as they are imperial merchants, they will be separated from the four classes of scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, and merchants are the lowest status.

Once one enters the rank above farmers and below scholars, he can wear gold and silver jewelry and silk and satin, and even his residence and regulations can be adjusted to the standards for a fourth-rank official.

Of course, the status of imperial merchants cannot be compared with that of officials, but it is better than being stepped on by everyone. This makes many businessmen rush to become imperial merchants, but it may not be easy to achieve this.

The royal family had officials who were specifically responsible for purchasing goods from the public, and even had long-term cooperative merchants, but the emperor would not easily appoint royal merchants or set tributes.

You have to know that once something becomes a tribute, it cannot be sold to anyone except the royal family, not even officials, let alone ordinary people.

The emperor of the previous dynasty was very overbearing. If he ate delicious fruit, he would make it a tribute. If he ate delicious rice, or saw interesting things, they would all become tributes.

In this way, many people who could eat and use things were forced to stop eating and using them.

The emperor of this dynasty felt pity for the difficult life of the people. Many things that were tributes in the previous dynasties were abolished by the emperor of this dynasty. He himself would not easily appoint imperial merchants or set tributes. If he wanted to eat something, he would ask people to purchase it.

But the five-color paper is different. First of all, it is an elegant thing that only rich people can afford. Even if it becomes a tribute, it will not affect the lives of ordinary people.

Therefore, the emperor designated Suxing's five-color paper as a tribute without any burden. From then on, only the royal family could purchase the five-color paper. If others wanted it, they could only wait for the emperor's reward.

And Su Xing initially specialized in five-color paper and opened branches everywhere, all for the purpose of making the five-color paper famous enough to attract the emperor's attention and become the imperial merchant.

Having become an imperial merchant as he wished, Su Xing was no longer bound by his will and made all kinds of paper he could think of, including water-rippled paper and Chengxin paper.

Suxing's paper shop was upgraded again and became a national chain store. Men of letters and scholars were proud to use paper produced by Suxing Paper Shop, and Suxing's business was booming.

When the business is too big, it is inevitable that someone will covet it. Su Xing felt that someone from the royal family was eyeing her paper shop.

Su Xing decided to go all out and called together paper merchants from all over the world to publicly auction the paper-making recipes other than the five-color paper, making a fortune from it.

As a result, paper recipes became commonplace, and those who coveted them had no choice but to give up. Su Xing had made enough money, so he began to study ink sticks and brushes, and expand his business of the four treasures of the study.

Ten years later, Lin Sishu, who studied hard and never slacked off, finally passed the imperial examination and was sent to work as a small county magistrate.

Su Xing simply handed over the management of the capital to the increasingly shrewd Lin Dalong, and followed Lin Sishu to where he was an official to help Lin Sishu achieve political achievements.

Lin Sishu went to a remote small county in a poor and remote area. When Su Xing arrived there, the first thing he did was to help Lin Sishu develop the economy and encourage the people to make money.

Su Xing walked around the county town for a full half month, looking for a way to make all the people in the county rich. On the last day, Su Xing finally figured out the idea.

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