98: Chapter 98 is such a huge surprise!

Wei Changcheng tried his best to mimic Zhao Fusu's tone as he said, "Next, we tear open the seal of the Magic Box!"

"We pull out a tissue..."

"A-Se, take the paper."

"Understood."

Wei Se respectfully took the tissue handed over by Wei Changcheng.

"My Lady."

Wei Changcheng handed a tissue to the beautiful woman.

"What is this?"

After taking the tissue, the beautiful woman looked at Wei Changcheng with a puzzled expression.

"This is the Magic Box Napkins invented by His Majesty the Head of State."

"After finishing a meal, when you need to wipe your mouth, you don't need to use a silk scarf; you can just pull out a tissue to wipe your mouth."

"After wiping your mouth, you can throw it directly into the trash bin."

"It is elegant, civilized, and hygienic!"

The Wei Manor used baskets woven from bamboo strips as trash bins. Wei Changcheng crumpled the used tissue into a ball and accurately tossed it into the trash bin.

After the beautiful woman and Wei Se wiped their mouths clean with the tissues, they also crumpled them into balls and threw them into the trash bin.

"My Lady, how is this surprise from your husband?"

Wei Changcheng raised his eyebrows and asked the beautiful woman with a look of anticipation.

"What a huge surprise..."

The beautiful woman replied in a cutesy voice, "It really is a huge, huge surprise!"

The beautiful woman stared at the Magic Box Napkins with a face full of surprise.

She couldn't put it down, pulling out one tissue after another.

Every time she pulled one out, another tissue would pop up and float there, waiting for her to pull the next one.

Such a magical sight made the beautiful woman click her tongue in wonder.

This time, the beautiful woman was genuinely surprised and was not just acting along with Wei Changcheng.

In the two days following the end of the banquet, the Magic Box Napkinss brought back by over three hundred nobles were used by their families, and all of them gave the Magic Box Napkinss extremely high praise.

The noble young ladies gave the Magic Box Napkinss the highest praise.

A silk scarf would get dirty after one use, but the Magic Box Napkinss could be pulled out and used repeatedly. After use, they could be discarded directly.

Silk scarves were too expensive; they couldn't possibly throw them away after one use. But after using a silk scarf, it would be dirty, and carrying it on one's person was simply too unhygienic.

They were all inquiring about where they could buy Magic Box Napkinss.

Seeing that the promotion of the Magic Box Napkinss was going well, Zhao Fusu officially began selling them.

Zhao Fusu had Zhang Han help him buy up the surrounding shops of the Great Qin Empire Bank at a high price.

He opened the paper shop right next to the Great Qin Empire Bank. In addition to selling Magic Box Napkinss, it also sold A4 paper for office use and rolls of Toilet Paper.

On the opening day, Zhao Fusu specifically invited the nobles to participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The nobles did not decline.

With so many nobles gathered together, the people of Xianyang naturally came to know that the Great Qin Empire Paper Shop had opened.

A large number of people flocked over to watch.

Zhao Fusu specifically deployed a group of the Qin Army to maintain order in Xianyang.

Zhao Fusu called over the prospective bank personnel from next door to tally the sales of Magic Box Napkinss, A4 paper, and Toilet Paper.

Zhao Fusu's primary push was the Magic Box Napkins; as for the Heart-to-Heart Napkins, he planned to introduce them after the Magic Box Napkinss had occupied the noble market.

The popularity of the Magic Box Napkinss was far more explosive than Zhao Fusu had imagined.

He had prepared ten thousand packs of Magic Box Napkinss, and they were snapped up by the nobles in less than a day.

Seeing that there were still many nobles wanting to buy Magic Box Napkinss, Zhao Fusu's Great Qin Empire Paper Shop had to hang up a "Sold Out" sign.

Zhao Fusu watched as the daily sales reached thirty thousand coins, and the corners of his mouth curled up wildly.

He had sold six hundred thousand in a day.

This was simply too profitable.

One must know that his net profit reached five hundred and fifty thousand!

He was truly making a fortune!

Zhao Fusu suppressed his inner excitement and began making plans.

The scale of the paper factory in the Industrial Zone needed to be expanded.

Since selling paper was so profitable, Zhao Fusu did not want to leak the papermaking process so soon.

Therefore, he intended to leave the work of processing wood and turning it into small wood chips to the corvée labor.

The preparation of the alkaline solution and the ratio of long and short fibers for Toilet Paper and napkins were key secrets that had to be kept firmly in his own hands, handled by soldiers he had marked with the Thought Steel Seal.

The processes after the pulp was made would then be handled by the corvée labor.

In short, the core technology must be kept in his own hands.

When nobles wanted to exchange their markets for his technology, he would then propose having a forty-nine percent share of the profits.

With powerful military strength in his hands, Zhao Fusu was not afraid of others not following his rules.

Zhao Fusu's attention returned to the Industrial Zone.

Initially, ten thousand soldiers were developing the Industrial Zone, constructing the camp and the paper factory buildings.

The second group to arrive at the Industrial Zone was three to four hundred corvée laborers producing Hexagonal Boron Nitride Release Agent; they also built simple residences and a workshop for production.

The third group to arrive at the Industrial Zone was Cui Wenzi's team, who were highly accomplished in architecture, having designed and constructed the Lishan Mausoleum.

They were there to build a Steel Mill. Besides bringing dozens of his own clansmen, Cui Wenzi also brought a thousand corvée laborers to help with transporting materials, setting up housing, handling food and drink, and conducting construction.

Every day, a large number of people transported grain and various building materials to the Industrial Zone.

The people from the paper factory also transported large quantities of paper to Xianyang.

The originally desolate Industrial Zone area gradually became bustling.

Zhao Fusu knew well that to get rich, one must first build roads.

Therefore, he decided to build a Straight Road from the Industrial Zone to Xianyang.

The scale would be similar to the Qin Straight Road, and the paving method would be much the same.

This involved first tamping the soil of the road surface; in some places, the "Steamed Earth" method was even used, which involved stir-frying the soil until cooked or charring it with fire to destroy the soil structure so that weeds would not easily grow, enhancing the road's stability and durability.

The designed width of the road surface was 30 to 60 meters, allowing dozens of horse-drawn carriages to travel side by side.

This would greatly increase the capacity for transporting goods.

To build such a thirty to forty-kilometer Straight Road, Zhao Fusu would have to invest a large amount of capital again.

The joy Zhao Fusu had just felt from making a huge profit selling Magic Box Napkinss vanished instantly.

Don't ask why he was still making a dirt road instead of a concrete road.

A six or seven-meter wide concrete road cost as much as six or seven hundred RMB per meter.

For a thirty to sixty-meter wide road surface, the cost per meter would be at least five thousand RMB.

He would cry out in pain just building ten meters of it, let alone thirty or forty kilometers.

Even if he could buy cement, he didn't have that much money to build a concrete road.

Every cent he had now had to be spent where it mattered most.

A hard-packed dirt road like the Qin Straight Road was actually quite easy to travel on as long as it didn't rain.

After Zhao Fusu finished arranging the road construction matters, he went to the Forging Workshop for an inspection.