Was the cost of papermaking high in ancient times?

In ancient times, pure natural raw materials were used in papermaking, and the whole process had to go through 10 and 120 procedures, such as tree building, peeling, skinning, pulping, cooking, rinsing, material selection, bag washing, paper making, paper pressing, paper drying and paper tearing. All the processes are done by hand. Wang Xingwu said that it takes 45 days at the earliest to make pulp from raw materials. Therefore, the cost of ancient papermaking is much higher than that of ordinary papermaking, but the price is also much higher than that of ordinary papermaking.