The first gathering of the West Lake Bazi Society lasted for five days, the five days of eight people get along day and night, inseparable, eat the same case, dress the same fur, chant poems and sing in the picturesque mountains and rivers of Qiantang County during the day, go out to enjoy the flowers, so comfortable, at night around the warm stove warm wine and night talk, long talk, throughout the moral articles of the past and present, from time to time mixed with some famous anecdotes, the atmosphere is warm and warm. In each other's poems, everyone became more familiar with each other's personalities, personalities, joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and through singing and speculation, they deepened their understanding and promoted their feelings, and began to change from strangers who came together for common ideals to friends who slowly approached their hearts.

Although there is still a long way to go from friends to best friends to mutual life and death, everyone can be sure of one thing: if you want to choose a few people to travel with your ideals on your back, then the people who appear here will be his best choice!

Five days like a blink of an eye, and it is time to separate, Zhang Mo and Shen Meng's family have old mothers to take care of, and they can't stay outside for too long, Wang Rong, Bao Zhao and Wu Shixing went to study in Wu County together, and Zhou Yong's family was in Wu County, just together. Du Sheng first went to Haiyan to find his brother Du An, and then he also went to Wuxian to fight Wang Rong and them.

After making an appointment to reunite on the third day of the next month, Xu You waved goodbye, looked at the three light boats and went in three different directions, and then turned around and went home. Just freshened up, Dong Solstice opened the curtain from the outside and came in, "Xiaolang, ...... over there in Xiaoqu Mountain"

"Huh?" Xu You turned his head, the water droplets on his face had not dried, although the young man's face was flawed, but it had not been carved into a deep vertical and horizontal line by time, it was always easier for people to be intoxicated than the spring breeze in the south of the Yangtze River, and said: "There is a Yin soldier crossing the border again?" ”

"Nope!" Dong Solstice's heart beat slightly, and he hurriedly lowered his head and said, "The trickery about the Yin Soldiers has stopped, and I haven't heard any news of reappearance recently. However, Xiaoqu Mountain has been quietly transporting rice and grain for four or five days in a row, and according to my preliminary estimate, the rice and grain hoarded now is enough for two hundred people for four or five months. ”

Xu You frowned and said, "How many people are there in Xiaoqu Mountain?" ”

"There are dozens of people in Liu Yan's inner house, and more than 100 people in the outer house, and the total number will not exceed 200."

"Five months...... Xu You suddenly remembered the conversation with the old farmer that day, could it be that Liu Yan saw that something was wrong, so in order to prevent trouble, he hoarded rice and grain in advance?

"How many days has it not rained in Qiantang?"

"From the seventh day of the first month, it has been sixty days!"

Xu You pondered for a while and said, "Is there any change in the price of grain in Qiantang?" ”

"Nope! This spring's wheat growth is not good, everyone may be a little worried, but according to the situation in previous years, there will be several big peach blossom rains in March, once there is rain, grain will not be a problem. ”

As the saying goes, spring rain is as expensive as oil, the key is March, if there is no rain in March, this season will definitely fail or even fail.

"What if it doesn't rain?" Xu You asked rhetorically.

"This ......" Dong Zhi was stunned, and finally understood what Xu You meant, his head turned a few corners quickly, and said categorically: "It doesn't matter if there is no rain, even if Qiantang suffers a disaster, the government will transfer grain from elsewhere for relief, Sanwu has always been rich, and there is no shortage of this food." If Liu Yan wants to take advantage of the drought to make a fortune, I bet that he will definitely lose all his money! ”

Liu Yan is not a fool, Du Mingyu behind him is not a fool, and the Heavenly Master Dao behind Du Mingyu is even more unfathomable. Even if the price of grain is flat now and there is no change, but he secretly hoards so much rice and grain, and the money spent is by no means a small amount. Could it be that the Heavenly Master has a secret technique for observing celestial phenomena, and has concluded that it will not rain this spring, so he took a gamble?

"You continue to monitor, it's best to find out where Liu Yan bought the rice and grain, what is the average price of the purchase, the specific amount and use, and report to me in time if there is any progress!"

"No!"

At night, the more Xu You thought about it, the more suspicious he felt, tossing and turning, and he didn't sleep all night. When the day dawned, I was restless, and I was about to ask Shanzong to pick up He Wei to come back to discuss, when I heard the sound of He Wei and Qiu Equinox talking outside the house.

"Its wings, you're back just in time ......"

Seeing Xu You standing against the door, He Wei came over with a smile and said, "I'll give Qilang good news!" ”

"What's the joy of?"

"The bamboo paper you have in mind, Fang Lao Jiang has made it!"

"Huh? It's true? Xu You was overjoyed and said, "Lao Jiang has made a great contribution this time!" ”

The manufacturing process of bamboo paper is extremely complex, according to the record of "Tiangong Kaiwu", from the selection of materials to the paper, there are about 15 links, 72 processes, every detail of the problem, will affect the quality and effect of the paper. However, as long as the existing procedures are strictly followed, coupled with highly skilled papermakers, the paper is white and soft, soaked and ink retaining, the fiber is delicate, tough and smooth, it is an excellent paper for calligraphy and painting, and it is better than all kinds of hemp paper rattan paper and leather paper today.

The most important thing is that the cost of bamboo paper can be controlled to a very low degree because of the relationship between raw materials, that is, it is good quality and cheap!

In addition to luxury goods, all consumer goods that occupy the main market have one thing in common: they are of high quality and low price. As long as these four words are achieved, through effective marketing methods, success can be expected, or it can be said to be inevitable!

He and Fang Kang studied a variety of recipes, and used seventeen different varieties of bamboo from nine places for experimentation, but most of them were unsatisfactory, brittle and brittle.

"Fuchun's bamboo!" He Wei answered Xu You's question, waved his hand behind him, and handed a new stack of paper to a tribal, he took it and handed it to Xu You, saying, "Look, the texture is excellent!" ”

The hand is warm and delicate, reflecting the first day, and the light jumps back and forth on the paper, as if rippling with a dazzling halo of colorful light, which makes people love it.

"Let's go, try the paper!"

Xu You returned to the room excitedly, helped spread out the bamboo paper on the autumn equinox, and wrote a line of words: It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo. The ink was full, gathering but not dispersing, Xu You threw away the pen, instructed the autumn equinox and the trilogy to take one side, unfold the paper towards the sun, and stand in front of the paper with his hands in his hands, carefully observing the thickness and symmetry of the paper, the texture and the overall performance of other aspects.

I don't know how long it took, Xu You retracted his gaze and said with a smile: "Yes, there are seventy percent of the fire!" ”

"Seven?" He Wei's voice was full of surprise, in his opinion, this piece of paper was almost perfect, and said, "Still can't it?" ”

"Almost, almost...... What's the difference? ”

Xu You paced back and forth, vaguely remembering in his mind that Fuchun bamboo paper had an extremely strange secret recipe, which was an exclusive technique to create the two treasures of the country that were as famous as rice paper, but he couldn't think of it for a while. Suddenly a little urgent, when I went out to go to the toilet, I suddenly realized, hurriedly returned to the room, and said: "Its wings, back to the gold fang!" ”

On the east side of Sajinfang, there is a special room responsible for the research and development and configuration of paper medicine, and there are two people standing at the door day and night, except for Fang Kang, Xu You and He Wei, no one else, including Yan Shujian, can enter.

Fang Kang reported to Xu You with great interest the successful research and development of bamboo paper, Xu You interrupted him with a smile and said, "Old Jiang, this bamboo paper has made great progress compared to the previous one, but it is still not good enough......

Fang Kang, like He Wei's previous expression, opened his mouth wide, swallowed the unfinished words back into his stomach with difficulty, and said, "Still, it's not enough?" ”

"Yes!"

Xu You picked up a piece of paper casually, tore it with both hands, and the stabbing sound was a little harsh in the small room, breaking into two paragraphs, and said: "You see, although it is smooth, it is not flexible enough, and it will break if you pull it lightly." In particular, if you rub your hands or other objects quickly, it will cause a lot of hair. Most importantly, ink dries less easily and is in danger of fading and decay. ”

Fang Kang cried with a sad face, his confidence was extremely hit, he thought that he would definitely be able to get Xu You's praise this time, but he didn't expect that there would be so many problems. If these problems are real, not to mention surpassing all the paper products in the world, even the Youhe paper and Yanxi paper around you can't compare, how can you compete with the famous paper of other states and counties for the first product in that paper?

"But I have a way, you come with your ears!"

Fang Kang was sad first and then happy, for Xu You's various miracles, not only him, but everyone in Jingyuan was willing to bow down, hurriedly approached, heard Xu You say a few words, his head banged, his jaw was about to dislocate, his eyes were full of unbelievable surprise, and he said hesitantly: "Lang Jun, this, this...... Is this possible? ”

He Wei was curious, what method could scare Fang Kang, an old connoisseur who had been immersed in papermaking for decades, into this ghostly appearance, and said, "Old Jiang, what did Qilang say?" ”

Fang Kang hesitated and spit out two words: "Jing Pu!" ”

He Wei was also dumbfounded, Jing Wei is human urine, and he has never heard of making paper and urine as paper medicine, and this is not growing crops. The paper is an elegant vessel, contaminated with such filth, is there any literati and ink writers willing to spend it?

For the first time, he doubted whether Xu You's approach was correct, and said, "Qilang, where did you hear this recipe?" Don't rush to the doctor, but the paper didn't come out, and it smelled like a whole body! ”

"If you can't succeed, won't you know if you try it?" Xu You's smile was full of urgency and impropriety, which made He Wei and Fang Kang even more unconfident.

"By the way, remember, let Cang go and collect it privately, don't alarm too many people!" Xu You slapped his forehead and said, "I almost forgot, it must be an untrained boy man, a flower monk like Qiyi, that's absolutely not good!" ”

The human urine fermentation method is one of the secrets of Fuchun bamboo paper, and the main principle is to use urine to remove the hard limestone on the surface of the bamboo material and soften the bamboo fibers. As for why it has to be child's urine, in ancient times, child's urine was often used as reincarnation wine and reincarnation soup, which is either a bad taste or some unknown reason, which cannot be generalized and explained completely from a scientific point of view.

Anyway, it is recorded in the ancient books that Xu You does not plan to change the process, and there are mostly useless boys in Qiantang City, so he will collect it first for an experiment. If it really works, it's never too late to use it on a large scale!