Zhu Shun looked at Zhang Baiyong, who was excited, and thought to himself that as a scientist whose chemical system is second only to Jiao Miao, there is only one Cai Lun, and your achievements will definitely far surpass Cai Lun in the future.

Zhang Baiyong's age is the age when he is full of imagination about the future, and it is understandable that he wants to become Cai Lun, but there is nothing he can achieve now.

Although he assisted Jiao Miao in researching sulfuric acid, the mother of chemical industry, and realized the mass production of sulfuric acid and began to build a sulfuric acid plant, it was nothing more than a trick in the eyes of the bureaucrats and squires led by the Donglin Party.

So much so that the scientists who really made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty and the nation, such as Jiao Miao and Zhang Baiyong, were just a bunch of lowly craftsmen in the eyes of the Donglin Party and other henchmen, and their status in the Ming Dynasty was very humble.

In Zhu Shun's view, scientists like Jiao Miao and Zhang Baiyong should be personally received and rewarded by the great emperor, but unfortunately they don't pay much attention to scientists.

Zhang Baiyong excitedly said that he was Cai Lun, and felt that he was a little ashamed, scratched his head and walked to the stone mill, and several workers led mules and horses to grind pulp round and round.

The whitened pulp is milled and pounded into a paste here, so that the fibers in the pulp are filamentized and broomized until they are strongly interwoven into paper.

Zhang Baiyong pointed to the slow mules and horses and said: "Mountain chief, this step of materialing after whitening can be said to be the heaviest step in papermaking." ”

"The price of paper is high, and a good market print can be sold for at least one or two silver, because paper requires a lot of time to grind and pound, which greatly reduces the speed of paper completion, and the number of papers on the market cannot go up, and the price is relatively high."

"We can completely use the steam engine to replace animal power, with the speed of the steam mill, the speed of paper will increase tenfold and hundredfold, and the paper of one of our paper factories is estimated to be more than dozens of paper workshops."

The slow production of paper in papermaking workshops is indeed the reason for the high price of paper, but it is not the main reason.

The main reason is the monopoly of knowledge by the bureaucrats and gentry, and if paper is so cheap that everyone can use it, the number of people who have gained fame and escape from poverty will certainly increase greatly.

The bureaucratic system of the Ming Dynasty can accommodate a limited number of bureaucratic gentry, so that the common people will share the benefits that should belong to the bureaucratic gentry, which the bureaucratic gentry do not want to see.

If paper is cheap, it will also cause a large increase in the number of literate people, and it will be difficult for the people with knowledge to control it, and it will be even more difficult to enclose the people on the land for generations.

This is also the most sinister place for the bureaucratic gentry to the common people in the world, the foolish people.

Only a foolish man who does not know a few big characters will not think of making progress, and will not even think, and will only serve as tenants for the bureaucrats and gentry from generation to generation like a humanoid livestock.

The industrial faction opened industrial primary schools and industrial middle schools on a large scale in Shuntianfu to eradicate illiteracy among the common people of the Ming Dynasty and improve the overall literacy rate of the nation, which was also digging the foundation of the bureaucracy and gentry.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhu Shun did not intend to cooperate with the bureaucratic gentry from the beginning, and the industrial faction and the bureaucratic squire who carried out the industrial revolution were inherently two opposing classes.

The industrialists needed a large number of workers to build factories and liberate the common people from the strange circle of the land.

The bureaucratic squires used the land to draw the common people as a prison, tied them to the land, and served the bureaucrats and gentry as tenants for generations.

The industrialists tried every means to let the next generation of ordinary people read, improve the literacy rate of the nation, and let the common people of the Ming Dynasty become independent thinking individuals.

The bureaucratic gentry fooled the people by all means, turned the common people into 'livestock' who could not think, and treated them as cattle and horses for generations.

The advent of paper mills will inevitably reduce the price of paper, even if it is limited without the decline in caustic soda, it is also digging the foundation of the bureaucratic gentry.

Zhu Shun smiled when he thought of this, he had done a lot of things to dig up the foundation of the bureaucracy and squire, and this one was not bad: "After the matter here in the paper mill is dealt with, you go and set up a caustic soda laboratory independently." ”

Set up a laboratory independently!

Zhang Baiyong was stunned, followed by ecstasy, he was the first student to set up a laboratory alone among the many students in the Beijing Normal University Hall.

If this is spread out, they must not envy the students of Beijing Normal University Hall in other colleges, and it is also of great significance to their School of Chemical Engineering, doesn't it mean that the School of Chemical Engineering has the possibility of becoming the first college of Beijing Normal University.

In recent years, several colleges in the hall of Beijing Normal University have worked hard to compete for the title of the first college, and Song Yingxing, the acting director of the Education Department, also gave some guidelines.

There are two main aspects, the number of patents, and the number of cases written into books.

The Military Engineering Institute has always been far ahead in these two aspects, and the invention patents of various new firearms, as well as the cases of using these new firearms to break the Manchu Qing Dynasty, thieves, and even Westerners, have always been ahead of other colleges.

The school of chemical engineering with the least patents and cases is currently researching sulfuric acid, and with a second independent laboratory, it will definitely catch up with or even surpass other colleges faster.

Thinking of this, Zhang Baiyong was not in much mood to continue to introduce, and his mind was full of thoughts about telling the dean Jiao Miao the good news as soon as possible, and then bring some chemical engineering students to study the bleaching formula and dye formula as soon as possible to conduct caustic soda experiments.

No matter how unhappy Zhang Baiyong was, he didn't dare to mess around, but he still introduced the next steps in detail.

At the end of the beating, the paper is fished, and several papermakers put the beaten pulp into the paper trough filled with water, and the pulp is suspended in the paper trough.

Then pick up a bamboo curtain, and in order to spread the pulp evenly on the bamboo curtain, the papermaker's arms are slowly raised, forming a thin layer of wet paper.

Zhang Baiyong also put forward a suggestion for steaming for the step of paper fishing: "Shanchang, we can build a steam lifting salvage machine. ”

"If you rely on manpower alone, it's too slow, after all, manpower is not a machine, and you need to slow down to ensure stability."

"In addition, the size of the bamboo curtain that can be lifted by human hands is limited, and with the steam lifting salvage machine, it can be made into paper the size of a pool."

"This not only improves the speed of paper, but also Daming does not have such a large paper, which can be sold as a strange product."

Zhu Shun nodded: "It's up to you to decide." ”

Zhang Baiyong had already guessed that the mountain chief would give him full authority to do it, but hearing it from the mountain chief's mouth with his own ears still made him smile from ear to ear: "Don't worry, the students will definitely industrialize the paper mill as soon as possible." ”

"There is no problem with bleaching, but in terms of steam machinery, I also ask the chief to arrange for the students of the Mechanical College to cooperate."

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