Nothing to say all night!

Early the next morning, Yan Shujian's house slave Yan Cheng rushed to the paper mill, bringing still not good news. He wandered around the East Market for a few days, but still did not find a suitable craftsman or willing helper. The most hateful thing is that they can't even spend money to buy people, Tang Zhiyi and his gang have completely occupied the East Market, and they are not allowed to sell slaves to anyone in Sibaozhai.

Yan Shujian said anxiously: "Didn't you report Xu Langjun's name?" ”

"I reported it, I said that I didn't buy it for the master, but for Xu Langjun's sprinkled gold workshop, but no one dared to sell it to the small one privately."

"Damn! Damn it! The East Market is the East Market of the Imperial Court, and it is not the East Market of Tang Zhiyi, why is he so arrogant? No, sue the city order, treat him as a bully and dominate the market, and abuse the weak! ”

"I heard that Tang Zhiyi has a lot to do with the city order, even if he is informed, the city order says that the merchants in the East Market are unwilling to sell, or the merchants say that there are no remaining goods in their hands, resulting in the inability to trade, which is all true. Without evidence, it is useless for the county order to come. ”

"Hey, Qian Ketong, Qian Ketongshen......" Yan Shujian sighed, since Liu Yan returned to Qiantang, his bad luck has come one after another, not only when is it the end, turned his head to look at Xu You, who did not speak on the side, suddenly his eyes lit up, and said: "Lang Jun, why don't you go to the county order to agree, no matter how bold Tang Zhiyi is, he will not dare to disobey the meaning of the county order." ”

"Lu Xianling, this person is not very good at talking!"

This is the so-called one son of heaven and one courtier, if Gu Yun is still here, the Dongshi City Commander knows his relationship with Xu You, and he will not dare to stumble if he borrows ten dares. Now that the Lu Hui is in power, and people are greedy for money, Liu Yan may have sent the silver earlier, so the city order will act for the tiger.

Xu You is well versed in people's hearts, and people take ordinary things to cool tea, so he doesn't care, and said: "There is no shortage of manpower now, you can let go of the recruitment of people first, as for Liu Yan and Tang Zhiyi, you don't have to worry, they will only secretly engage in some small conspiracies, which can't hinder the overall situation, take your time, there will always be a day to settle accounts with them." ”

"That's all there is to it!" Yan Shujian didn't dare to question Xu You's decision, seeing that he was confident, his panicked heart gradually settled down, and asked Yan Chengdao: "By the way, has you found the cook you are looking for?" ”

There is an autumn equinox on the side of Jingyuan, plus the winter solstice and frost, there is no problem in handling the meals of more than ten people. However, there are more than 20 sturdy troops on the paper mill side, and they have to work hard, and it is not easy to eat and eat, at least two cooks and four servant women can support three meals a day.

"Brought two cooks, one is a person from our Yan Mansion, who has been following the lord for more than ten years, and is more reliable, I told the master mother, she ordered me to bring it, so that I can serve the lord carefully. There is also a husband who has just died, has no son, and is alone and not afraid of the nuisance of the rangers, and I promised a high price before she would come with her. ”

The one who comes to help the cook is either a woman whose children have grown up, or this kind of helpless widow, now because of Tang Zhiyi, it is not easy to find even the cook, Yan Chengneng can bring the two of them today, it is not easy.

Xu You took the time to meet two cooks, one was named Fan, in his thirties, fat and round, rough hands and feet, and spoke heartily, she was the wife of a servant of the Yan Mansion, and she looked like a very honest person. The other is named Yu, with a delicate appearance and a graceful posture, he speaks softly when he replies, his face is crimson, and his appearance of bowing his head and eyebrows is quite pitiful.

"Now that manpower is tight, the two of you will work harder, for example, the money will be given to four people. After a while, find a few more servants, and the work of the kitchen will be easier and not too tiring. ”

For four people, that is, one person received two shares, and the Fan family was overjoyed, kneeling down and kowtowing to Xu You. Yu Shi was a little uneasy, he received so much money before he did anything, would there be anything greasy? She is a widow, good-looking and good-looking, usually some prodigals who beat her ideas, they will use some small favors, but they have dirty thoughts, so they will always think about it when they encounter something, but seeing that Fan did not refuse, he did not dare to speak, and he also knelt down and thanked him.

After the two of them retreated, Xu You ordered Yan Cheng to go to the city to purchase rice, meat, eggs and vegetables, and hoard at least half a month to a month's consumption, and then let Cang take people to re-strengthen the courtyard wall of the gold fang, heightened and thickened the rammed earth layer, and stacked a layer of stones.

While Cangdi was busy with these, Xu You, Yan Shujian, and Fang Kang went headlong into a small closed courtyard that was isolated and began to study the improvement plan of papermaking. Xu You knows the history and general outline of the development of papermaking, or can provide an idea that is ahead of its time, but the details need to be picked up by experts like Yan Shujian and Fang Kang. In this way, I did it for more than ten days and failed many times, and finally made the movable curtain bed papermaker.

The emergence of movable curtain beds is difficult to say and easy to say. It is difficult to say that the design concept is not possible without hundreds of years of accumulation and development, and it is impossible to make a qualitative leap; To say easy, easy in the process is simple, do not need too complex technical content, as long as you understand the basic principles, an old craftsman like Fang Kang, can be almost perfectly copied.

But in any case, from fixed curtain bed to movable curtain bed, it is a major change in papermaking technology by leaps and bounds, which directly affects the development of the paper industry for more than 1,000 years in later generations, and plays a pivotal and important role.

Bamboo is mostly used for movable curtain bed papermakers, and fine bamboo for more than three years is the best. There are many bamboo forests in Jiangdong, there are also a lot of Qiantang, and there are patches of bamboos on the Xiaoqu Mountain behind the sprinkled gold fang. Moso bamboo is also called the green dragon, and the green skin is shaved off, which is often said to be the dragon skin. Then it is split into a width of about six or seven minutes, discarding the yellow, and picking the most delicate scorned green to make thin slices with a thickness of less than an inch. After repeated brushing, the flakes are turned into thin bamboo threads. Wrap the bamboo silk with a cloth, place it on the stone slab, and then step on it with your feet to roll it to remove the fine hairs and protrusions on the bamboo silk.

A few feet long bamboo curtains, need to be connected into more than 1,000 bamboo wires, ordinary four or five days can be completed, Xu You and they worked straight for half a month, only to barely get the first bed of bamboo curtains. This kind of movable papermaker is generally composed of three parts: bamboo curtain, wooden frame and curtain ruler, and then two side posts are used to make them close together, which can be closed and detached, and it is very convenient to repair and clean.

Fang Kang was very excited, the hand holding the shelf trembled slightly, if it was really as Xu You described, Youhe paper would definitely be able to increase production, and sooner or later it would surpass Yanxi paper and become the best grade in rattan paper.

A lifetime's hard work, all depends on today!

He walked over to the prepared sink, took a deep breath, and slowly put the curtain bed into the pulp, preoccupied, arms stretched, and back and forth.

Swinging into the curtain is a procedure that is the most important test of school technology, and this is what distinguishes all papermakers from other helpers.

The whole curtain bed with pulp is about 20 pounds, and the hand strength is so small that I can't even hold it. But it's not that the harder the better, the hardest the paper, the paper is too thick, the force is weak, the paper is too thin, only no more than one point, no less than one point, in order to copy out a good paper with uniform thickness.

After a while, Fang Kang fished out the papermaker, turned the bamboo curtain back after filtering the water, and the wet paper on it fell on the wooden board, and then put the papermaker into the sink and fished the paper again.

In less than an hour, dozens of pieces of paper have been copied out, and this kind of quantity, in the past, would take at least ten days. The progress of technology, in the final analysis, is to reduce manpower, shorten time, and reduce processes, so as to achieve the purpose of improving quality and reducing costs.

That's where the movable curtain bed paper maker comes in!

I was busy until dark, and after carefully counting, I copied out 710 pieces of paper, which is estimated to reach 1,000 if it weren't for the lack of pulp preparation. Yan Shujian was completely on the spot, he has been engaged in the paper industry for decades, and he also runs a paper mill at home, but he never thought that one person could make thousands of papers a day.

What is it?

Taoist spells?

Fang Kang was in tears, kneeling on the ground, touching the thick Youhe paper, as if caressing the most precious treasure in the world.

Shanzong had been standing behind Xu You and had witnessed this magical scene with his own eyes, and the shock in his heart was no less than that of Yan Shujian and Fang Kang. He was born in the Hanoi Shan clan, and his sense and cognition of paper are far greater than those of ordinary people. It was also at this moment that he finally understood why Xu You wanted to let go of everything in Jingyuan and commit himself to staying in this windy, cold, and dilapidated paper mill.

With such an efficiency of papermaking, even if Shanzong does not understand business, he also knows that a new era is coming!

However, to Xu You's surprise, it was Wuxi Mancang who first realized that it was necessary to prevent this kind of papermaker from leaking.

He approached Xu You and said in a low voice: "Lang Jun, this thing is wonderful, for the sake of prudence, do you want to let everyone keep their mouths shut?" ”

A strange light flashed in the depths of Xu You's eyes, but he lowered his head and didn't notice it, he smiled slightly, and said, "I can't say that the creation is just a gadget, there is no need to be too careful!" ”

Cang said respectfully: "No! He had already understood what Xu You meant, don't be too careful, but the precautions that should be taken are still necessary.

Shan Zong was close, heard the conversation between the two, and was very curious about the cang. A barbarian, even if he has been doing a trilogy under the scholar clan for many years, can he not read and write, and he does not read, is this exquisiteness natural, or is it developed later?

No wonder Xu You values him so much, he is indeed a rare talent, at least he didn't expect that the mobile paper maker would be stolen by others, especially when there is a Liu Yan outside eyeing him - that guy is not only an enemy, but also a peer!

After the paper is made, the next step is to squeeze the water dry, and place a mat sheet of the same size on top of the stacked wet paper, and place a wooden board on the mat sheet, and a thick horizontal wood on the wooden board. In addition, one end of the ladder pole several meters long is inserted into the jack pile, and then the crossbar is pressed. At the other end of the ladder pole, pile up seven or eight hundred pounds of slate stones, and press them overnight.

After getting these things done, the Fan family and the Yu family also prepared a sumptuous dinner, which Xu You specially asked them to prepare for today's celebration. The weather was cold and freezing, and he used wine to cheer up, Xu You drank three glasses first, and then the bowl was buckled, no longer drinking, and let everyone drink freely, and it was noisy until midnight before they broke up.

Since Shanzong was interested in Cangzhi, he began to observe him secretly, and found that although this person was addicted to alcohol, he was extremely restrained, and he only drank three glasses like Xu You, and then took the team on duty to patrol outside, without the slightest carelessness.

Interesting!

It's so much fun!

What about Shichiro, don't you think this person is funny too?

Shan Zong was lying on the outer bed in Xu You's bedroom, the bright moon was quietly covered by dark clouds, hiding the last bit of light, and slowly closed his eyes.