After everyone left, Fan Zhen didn't leave immediately, he asked Li Zhongyi with a straight face: "You don't want to die?" ”

Li Zhongyi deliberately said with a bitter face: "Fan Gong, if the lower officials don't gamble on this, can they keep their heads?" ”

Fan Zhen was speechless for a while, what was Chai Rong's purpose, and he, the confidant prime minister, was naturally clear.

"If you do this, the grain merchants in the capital will not be able to sell grain, understand?" Fan Zhen looked at Li Zhongyi with great pity, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that this kid looked like a mortal person.

"Gong Fan, the lower officials are also out for the sake of our Great Zhou." Li Zhongyi sighed heavily, "Xia Guan has a few small requests, and he also asked Fan Gong to help fulfill them." ”

"Alas, let's say, as long as the old man can do it, he will do his best." Fan Zhen also felt that Chai Rong was too ruthless to Li Zhongyi, even if he wanted to squeeze his talents, there was no need to force Li Zhongyi to a dead end, right?

Li Zhongyi leaned into Fan Zhen's ear and whispered a few requests, Fan Zhen thought about it and felt that it was not a difficult matter, so he nodded and agreed, which was regarded as helping Li Zhongyi for the last time before he died.

After Fan Zhen left, Li Zhongyi went into the construction site again, commanded the invited workers, and hurried to work.

For the sake of insurance, Li Zhongyi had people set up temporary dormitories a long time ago, so that these workers could eat and live on the construction site, so as not to leak the news and make trouble for themselves.

Three hundred workers are wielding axes and hammers in their hands, smashing, smashing, and rubbing the bamboo, hemp skins, and barks that have been cut off. Then, the porter poured the rotten material into more than 30 large puddles made of stones.

Dozens of able-bodied idlers. He was using a long thick wooden stick to stir all kinds of rotten materials in the big puddle.

Li Zhongyi squatted down, scooped up a spoonful of turbid material water from the big puddle with a wooden spoon, and carefully observed it.

Li Zhongyi ordered someone to pour the quicklime (calcium oxide) weighed in advance into a large puddle. Then stir intensively with a wooden stick until the liquid is homogeneous.

Huang Jingsheng, who has been following the side to make records, he is now. In the more than 30 large material pits, the things that Li Zhongyi ordered people to add were very different.

Some are added with quicklime, some are plant ash, and a very small number of pits are actually added. After being pressed by a stone mill. leached out of the sand and pine rhizome sap.

In the last few material pits, Li Zhongyi ordered people to add the juice of Mu Jin leaves and elm bark.

Huang Jingsheng was a little puzzled, so he asked Li Zhongyi: "Childe, why are the things added to the pit different?" ”

Li Zhongyi patted off the dust on his hands, stood up, and said with a smile: "The use is different, and the added materials are naturally different, and." There is also the last process, which must be you, me. There are also brothers from Chengdu who are quietly doing it. ”

"Why?" Huang Jingsheng is very good at intrigue and trickery, and he plays technical work, but he is a typical layman.

Li Zhongyi glanced at Huang Jingsheng helplessly, sighed, and said: "Such an important magic weapon, I originally planned to stay and use it to make money, but now, I can only use it in advance to save my life or change officials." ”

"Oh, it's a unique stunt, and it's not a secret." Huang Jingsheng realized that the last potion added by Li Zhongyi was probably the most critical thing.

Li Zhongyi looked at the material pit that was slowly formed after cutting, frustration, grinding, pressing, stepping on the mill, cutting and turning, pounding, and panning the pulp, and after cooperating with the small process, his heart was full of a sense of achievement.

If it weren't for the time he spent in Beizhang Village, Shaanxi Province, he really couldn't have come up with such a fresh trick.

Hehe, Liang Guobin, you just wait and see, see if Lao Tzu can get 300,000 stone of grain?

That night, Li Zhongyi took Huang Jingsheng and many entourages, according to the proportion, to each pit in turn, adding a mixture of soda, baking soda and magnesium bicarbonate that Li Zhongyi had privately made.

At the end, Li Zhongyi scooped the thick juice from the kiwifruit (kiwifruit) vine into the pit one by one.

After finishing the work, Li Zhongyi solemnly told his entourage, "Not a single word of the materials we added later must not be leaked, do you understand?" ”

"Whoa!" Huang Jingsheng took the lead and led everyone to agree, in fact, except for Huang Jingsheng, even if it was Li Zhongyi's entourage, no one knew that what he added at the end was actually the vine juice of kiwifruit.

That's right, Li Zhongyi just wants to make paper, and there are many varieties, in addition to the straw paper specially used to wipe the buttocks, there are also ordinary hemp paper, white hemp paper, ramie paper, and Dabai Xuan hemp paper.

Papermaking actually started very early, but at the beginning, people didn't know the importance of paper medicine, so the cost of artificial papermaking was unusually high, and because of its high price, paper could only be circulated among a few elites.

There are two main functions of "paper medicine", one is to act as a suspension, and the paper medicine and pulp are mixed, which can suspend the fibers in the pulp and disperse them evenly and evenly, so that the paper copied is relatively uniform; Second, it is used as a "synovial fluid", which is particularly important, which can prevent the copied paper liquid from sticking to each other, leading to countless waste products, and increasing the cost by nearly 100 times.

It is precisely because Li Zhongyi used the advanced "paper medicine" in modern times that hundreds of newly copied wet paper can still be completely separated one by one after stacking together under pressure and dewatering, thus increasing the production efficiency of papermaking to more than 100 times.

The core purpose of Li Zhongyi's "paper medicine" is to count it in one fell swoop and pave the way for the popularity of "Jiaozi" in the future.

Especially the paper that is most likely to be used as Jiaozi, its paper medicine is Li Zhongyi's unique trick, and it is absolutely not allowed to be passed on.

This is the same as the dollar in later generations, the paper used to make the dollar is specially made, so that people cannot completely imitate it.

A trick in technology can be eaten all over the world!

In another ten years, after Li Yu became the lord of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he would also supervise the creation of high-quality "Chengxin Paper". However, compared with the grade white paper made by Li Zhongyi using advanced paper medicine, not only the output is very different, but also the quality of the paper. None of them are the same.

One evening, after a month of busy work on the construction site, more than a dozen large ships with thousands of materials came from upstream and quietly docked at the ferry port in Xiaoyaojin.

Li Zhongyi, who was wearing civilian clothes, led his entourage Li Xiaoqi and Li Xiaoba. Slowly boarded the first large passenger ship.

Behind Li Zhongyi, followed a strong man who was also dressed in civilian clothes, but seemed to be a black iron tower.

Li Zhongyi glanced at the strong man who was passing through the springboard, hehe, who would have thought that in the Chenqiao Mutiny, the only Hou Zhou general who was wiped out. Han Tong, the commander of the guards and the infantry army, was actually sent by Chai Rong to spy on him?

"Proprietor, will you sail?" Han Tong, who pretended to be Li Zhongyi's personal old butler. Pretended to be respectful and asked Li Zhongyi.

Li Zhongyi nodded with a smile and said, "Let's go, time is running out." "His whole family in Kaifeng Mansion should have been closely monitored, right?

More than a dozen merchant ships. Follow the Gubianshui all the way to the east. After passing through Songzhou and Xuzhou, it arrived at the eastern capital of the Southern Tang Dynasty - Jiangdu Mansion (Yangzhou).

When passing through the checkpoint, the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty carefully inspected the cabin and found no suspicious places, so Li Zhongyi and others, who disguised themselves as merchants, paid the tax and went ashore to enter the city.

Because, Nantang knew Li Zhongyi. Only Han Hee-jae and Li Yu, so. Li Zhongyi walked boldly on the street with confidence, and he was not afraid of being seen through his identity.

Li Zhongyi's henchmen around him only brought Li Xiaoqi and Li Xiaoba, and the rest were more than a hundred disguised servants of the forbidden army led by Han Tong.

Due to the large number of people in his entourage, Li Zhongyi had to charter an inn as a temporary place to stay.

After eating, Han Tong, who had always been very cold to Li Zhongyi on the road, actually took the initiative to come to him.

As soon as they met, Han Tong urged: "Owner, should we go to the street to see the price of rice first?" ”

Li Zhongyi smiled and said, "Don't worry, there is still a period of time before the grain store closes, let's rest first, and then it's not too late to investigate." ”

Han Tong looked up at the sky outside the window, and said with a cold face: "Owner, the big boss didn't let us come here to enjoy happiness. "The tone is very impulsive.

Li Zhongyi understood Han Tong's loyalty to Chai Rong, and he must have wanted to buy food back as soon as he came here to supplement the military rations of the Great Zhou.

"The big boss has ordered, and I will be in charge of this trip." Li Zhongyi has the bottom in his heart, as long as he doesn't want to run away in private, Han Tong, who has taken on a special mission, actually has no way to deal with him.

If you have the ability, you Han Tong went to get 300,000 stone grain? If you don't have this ability, you have to listen to Lao Tzu!

Han Tong touched the first hard nail and felt very unhappy, but he had to endure it. Chai Rong told him that buying food really needs to be arranged by Li Zhongyi, and he is just responsible for secretly protecting Li Zhongyi's safety.

After lunch that day, Li Zhongyi led Han Tong to the dental store and entrusted the dental staff of the dental store to buy a big mansion.

The tooth man happened to have two good houses on hand, so he smiled and said: "Don't hide it from the big officials, the villain knows that there are two houses to sell, one is the house of a local Sima who is about to become a master, covering an area of about three acres. The main family said very clearly, even the family bought together, not two prices, 50,000 yuan. ”

"The other is the house of a local Hu businessman, covering an area of about five acres. Because Hu Shang is old, he wants to go back to Dashi for the elderly. Therefore, I also wanted to sell it with my belongings, and the price was 100,000 yuan. "The tooth man is quite professional, and he introduced the situation of the two houses very clearly.

Li Zhongyi thought about it for a while, and decided to go and see the Hu Shang's mansion first, and then go to see the mansion of the Southern Tang Sima.

The man sat on the wheel, and Li Zhongyi and Han Tong sat in the car and went to see the house together.

When the carriage passed by a grain store, Han Tong reminded Li Zhongyi in a low voice: "Owner, do you go down to see the market?" ”

This Hantong is indeed very dedicated, but Li Zhongyi didn't want to do what he wanted, so he shook his head and said: "It's nothing good-looking, and it's in vain to see it." ”

Han Tong stared at his copper-bell-like eyes, and asked Li Zhongyi angrily: "Why?" ”

"You don't understand it, but when the time comes, you'll know." Li Zhongyi knew that Han Tong was in a hurry, but he deliberately left him aside and let him do it alone.

Han Tong's already dark face was even darker, if it wasn't for Chai Rong's orders, he would have been eager to smash Li Zhongyi's hateful face with one punch. (To be continued!)

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