A fierce wife enters the house: She helps up a house full of spineless people.

While everyone was exchanging pleasantries, the two brothers, Wang Yuxuan and Wang Yu'an, exchanged glances and quietly moved closer to Wang Jinzhu's side.

"Auntie..." Wang Yuxuan lowered his voice, his eyes gleaming with barely concealed excitement, "That 'toilet paper' you asked my brother and me to work on before, that 'sanitary paper' you mentioned, we think we've figured it out!"

"Oh?" Wang Jinzhu paused slightly in her teacup, her eyes lighting up instantly.

In that era, ordinary people mostly used bamboo sticks as toilet sticks, and even slightly more affluent families used rough toilet paper. The experience was indescribable for Wang Jinzhu, who was used to modern life. She had only casually mentioned it before, giving some ideas on pulp fiber processing, but she never expected that her two nephews would actually come up with something!

"Let's go take a look!" Wang Jinzhu was a decisive person, and upon hearing that there were results, she couldn't sit still any longer.

She turned to look at Wang Tianfang, who was talking to Li Zheng, and said softly, "Tianfang, you stay here and take good care of Uncle Li and the others. There's some new progress at the workshop. I'm going to go take a look with Yuxuan and Yu'an."

Wang Tianfang knew his wife's abilities in business and invention, so he nodded gently and said, "Go ahead, it's windy outside, put on your cloak. I'll take care of things here, don't worry."

Wang Jinzhu put on a fox fur cloak, took her two nephews, and quickly walked out of the Wang Mansion, heading straight for the paper mill in the Veterans Industrial Park.

The paper mill is now enormous, bustling with activity as workers busily work in an orderly fashion. Wang Yuxuan and Wang Yu'an led Wang Jinzhu through the area where writing paper is produced and arrived at a separate workshop in the backyard.

"Auntie, look!" Wang Yu'an presented several slightly yellowish papers from a wooden tray to Wang Jinzhu as if showing off a treasure.

Wang Jinzhu took it and gently rubbed it between her fingers. Although the paper wasn't as white as modern toilet paper and even had a slightly rough texture from the plant fibers, it was of moderate thickness. Most importantly, it was very soft and wouldn't easily crumble even when rubbed vigorously. Its absorbency also seemed excellent.

"Excellent! Quite excellent!" Wang Jinzhu nodded in satisfaction. Compared to modern industrial toilet paper, this might only be considered a semi-finished product, but in the Great Liang Dynasty, it was an absolute "luxury item" of overwhelming proportions. Once it was launched, it would definitely cause the high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital to fight tooth and nail for it!

"Have you both written down the formula and manufacturing process for this toilet paper?" Wang Jinzhu looked up at her two nephews and asked seriously.

"Don't worry, Auntie. From selecting the ingredients, soaking, pulping to the final drying, my brother and I personally oversaw every step of the process, including the heat and proportions. We've recorded everything down word for word, and only the two of us know the recipe," Wang Yuxuan assured him, patting his chest.

"Well done!" Wang Jinzhu praised without reservation, then quickly began to plan the packaging and mass production.

She walked to a large wooden table, picked up a pen, and drew a few simple sketches on a piece of paper. Pointing to the sketches, she said to the two brothers, "Now that the craftsmanship is perfected, we can't just sell them loosely like this. The packaging needs to be sophisticated, and we need to create a proper brand. Go find Master Zhou and have him arrange for a carpenter to cut some hollow bamboo tubes of the same size and thickness. Cut these finished toilet paper strips of the same width and tightly roll them around these bamboo tubes. The bamboo tubes will be hollow in the middle, making it easy to string them together with rope or hang them in the outhouse. These will be sold to ordinary wealthy families and inns."

Wang Jinzhu paused, then pointed to another sketch and continued, "It's not just bamboo tubes; you also need to have carpenters specially craft a batch of exquisite wooden boxes, carved and lacquered. Cut the toilet paper into uniform squares and neatly stack them inside the wooden boxes. This kind of toilet paper in wooden boxes is specifically targeted at the high-end market, sold to high-ranking officials and imperial relatives in the capital. They have plenty of money; what they want is a show of status and sophistication."

Wang Yuxuan and Wang Yu'an's eyes lit up. This packaging method was novel and practical, and it perfectly captured the needs of different customers. It was simply amazing!

"Yu Xuan, Yu An," Wang Jinzhu's expression turned serious, adopting the decisive air of a business owner, "the profit margin on this toilet paper business is no less than that of our paper mill. You two immediately set up a separate area within the paper mill to establish a dedicated toilet paper production line, and increase production capacity first!"

Seeing the two brothers nod earnestly, Wang Jinzhu added, "But that's far from enough. If we're going to do it, let's do it big. We'll build a dedicated toilet paper factory on the vacant land next to the paper mill, on a large scale. You two can figure out the layout. If we don't have enough manpower, we'll continue to recruit from the families in Xiahe Village and mass-produce! After the New Year, I want this toilet paper to cover every outhouse, big and small, in the capital!"

Wang Yuxuan and Wang Yu'an were thrilled and nodded repeatedly, immediately accepting the order to prepare.

Watching her nephews leave with great enthusiasm, Wang Jinzhu's gaze fell once again on the few sheets of pale yellow toilet paper, but her thoughts drifted away involuntarily.

Looking at the soft, absorbent paper, another thing that is commonplace in modern times but incredibly torturous for women in this era suddenly popped into her mind—sanitary napkins.

Actually, when she first transmigrated to this world, she had already thought about sanitary napkins.

When she first arrived, she suffered greatly from the crude and rudimentary "menstrual pads" and the use of wood ash in ancient times. Every period of menstruation was a nightmare, making it difficult to sit or stand still. She was afraid of leaking even with the slightest movement, and it would even cause her skin to chafe. From that time on, she secretly planned that when she had the means, she would definitely invent sanitary napkins to save herself and the women of the world.

However, Wang Jinzhu squeezed the paper in her hand and sighed helplessly in her heart. "Sigh! With the current level of industrial technology and material conditions, producing toilet paper with this level of softness is already the limit."

The idea of ​​creating a modern sanitary napkin with a leak-proof bottom membrane, super absorbent polymer material, and the ability to be thin and breathable is simply a pipe dream. Even using multiple layers of these newly manufactured toilet papers wouldn't solve the leak-proof problem.

"Well, one has to eat one bite at a time, and walk one step at a time." Wang Jinzhu shook her head, suppressing the slight regret in her heart. In any case, with this toilet paper, the experience of using the toilet is finally somewhat in line with modern times, which is a big improvement. As for sanitary napkins, she'll slowly look for suitable alternatives later.