Chen Xu took the wooden board and compared it with the cut paper, the size was about the same, so he took a thin charcoal strip and drew a border that looked like a window around the wooden board, and outlined the shape of a few bamboos in the middle, and finally wrote the four simplified imitation Lishu words of Qinghe Paper Mill at the bottom, and slowly wrote the four words backwards after reading it for a long time and erasing it off.

Lishu Qin Dynasty has it at this time, but it is born from a small seal, it is still very complicated, later generations are called Qin Li, the legend is that it was invented by a prisoner, and the Han Dynasty after the improvement of the Han Dynasty is very different, now the popular is still Li Si after the improvement of the small seal, Chen Xu reluctantly recognizes it, ten can know five or six is terrible, writing nature will not be even more not, twisting and turning will look dizzy, if it is the kind of bird seal on the jade seal of the country, Chen Xu feels that he is still more happy to die.

But in fact, as a Chinese, you should still be proud and proud of Chinese writing, even if you are like Chen Xu, who is not specialized in writing, look at the characters of the Qin and Han dynasties, many can still be recognized, of course, it is still necessary to exclude the perverted bird seal, because it is basically not counted, it is already rune plus art, and many contemporary celebrities and Confucians may not be able to recognize.

Although the small seal is difficult to recognize, it can be roughly understood even if it is guessed with a lot, at least the partial structure of the Chinese characters in later generations has been almost finalized, what the Han Dynasty has to do is to simplify, and even go to see more ancient words such as hieroglyphs can also recognize some, thousands of years of inheritance, and even understand the things written by the ancestors, which is very difficult for the civilization on the earth, it can be said that there is no other semicolon in the exclusive one.

More than two thousand years later, other Chinese contemporaries who wrote hieroglyphs are almost all extinct and can't find the bone slag, and the most fucked up is the European and American pinyin symbol combination of words, two or three hundred years ago people wrote books descendants are almost completely incomprehensible, so as a Chinese, Chen Xu feels very lucky, at least he has traveled through more than two thousand years, and he can still know words and communicate happily with ancient people, which cannot but be said to be a miracle.

After Chen Xu finished painting, he slowly revised it, and when he felt that it was almost done, he took out the brush and ink, and began to slowly outline clear lines on it one by one.

Niu Dashi, the two apprentices stood next to him and didn't dare to come out.

Every time Chen Xu is in this state, it is best not to make a noise or ask any questions, otherwise the consequences will be more serious, for example, Chen Xu will be punished for doing a hundred push-ups when he is angry.

But the carpenter Liu Erwa watched it with relish, and seemed to understand a little bit that Chen Xu wanted to do something to the plank.

After more than ten minutes passed, Chen Xu threw the brush to Niu Dashi, took the wooden board and looked left and right for a long time, and then handed it to Liu Erwa and said: "Help me carve out the blackened places I painted, be careful, some places are very thin, don't break down, those words must also be engraved clearly, how long will it take to finish?" ”

"If it's fine, it's about half an hour!" Liu Erwa took the wooden board and looked at it a few times and said.

"Okay, you just take your time here, don't talk about it when you're done, you know?"

"I know, I know, rest assured, the second baby will never say it!" The carpenter nodded repeatedly.

"You guys continue to cut the paper, and you can't say anything here, you know?" After Chen Xu said another word of advice to Niu Dashi and the two teenagers, Shi Shiran left the papermaking workshop.

Originally, the engraving printing cover should be made into a letterpress, but it was too late, and he was also a little suspicious of the carpenter's craftsmanship in the town, and it was okay to do some rough work, and this kind of thing must not be good for fine carving, so Chen Xu Gancheng designed it into a gravure engraving, but it took a little more ink when printing, and Chen Xu was also very suspicious of the effect of the engraving of this printed cover, and it was estimated that it would be very good to be able to distinguish between bamboo and bamboo leaves when printed.

However, his requirements this time were not too high, mainly to see the effect of paper printing, and the simple aesthetic effect.

As a time-traveler, you can't make things too shabby, otherwise you will lose face to the time-traveling army, and you will also be lowered in the filing of the time-traveling administration.

As for printing books in the future, it will definitely need to find craftsmen who are skilled in engraving, and new inks will have to be developed.

Chen Xu will not release these technologies for the time being, at least when he does not have a certain strength, such simple and practical technologies, all need to be slowly experimented as a technical reserve, and papermaking and printing are not of great significance to this era, because the whole of China may have a population of more than 20 million at the moment, but the literacy rate is surprisingly low, and the big city may be better, at present, the entire Qinghe Town is close to 3,000 people, and the literate plus him will not exceed ten people in total, As for the number of people who can write, there will be no more than five, and it is estimated that there is no one who can write well, and Yu Wuya is not counted, he is an outsider.

Therefore, the scope of use of paper is very small, even if there is no paper, bamboo and wood slips can complete the task very well, plus there are high-grade materials such as cloth, and the paper made now is still very rough, it is easy to break and not easy to preserve, even if it is made in large quantities, many people will not necessarily accept it.

Therefore, Chen Xu made these papers mainly to satisfy himself and his future wife, and use the water gently.

Chen Xu rode around the town again, and went to the primary school to audit almost a class before returning to the paper mill.

The engraving has been done, and the carpenter Liu Erwa is still there, mainly to wait until Chen Xu comes back to inspect the work.

After touching and looking at the carved wooden board a few times, Chen Xu placed the engraving plate on the table and ordered the ink to be brought, because he did not prepare the brush in advance, he could only use a brush to slowly paint the ink on the entire wooden board and then quickly put a piece of paper on it, and then carefully pressed it with his hand, and then carefully lifted the paper.

"Wow~"

With a burst of exclamations, several people in the room were dumbfounded, only to see that a picture had been printed on the hemp gray paper, and a window that was pushed open, revealing a few hollowed-out bamboos, and there were four words Qinghe Paper Mill underneath.

Carpenter Liu Erwa opened his mouth and stammered, his face flushed with excitement, and his mouth continued to tremble slightly, he never thought that through his own hands, since he could turn into a painting and print it on paper in the blink of an eye.

It's ugly!

Chen Xu only glanced over and couldn't help but close his eyes.

Because it is a ingrave intaglio, only the shape of the window and the shape of the bamboo, and a few words are hollowed, and the rest of the place is all black, and even the window is still crooked, the bamboo is broken in some places, and the bamboo leaves are scattered, and the four words are also implicated and can only see a general outline.

Therefore, this exquisite painting in the eyes of Niu Dashi and others fell into his eyes, and it was completely miserable garbage.

Alas~, this is the only way to do it now!

Chen Xu sighed and told Liu Erwa a few words again before letting him leave, and then chose a few sheets of paper with a little thicker and tougher toughness, and printed some covers, so that Niu Dashi went to bring copper cones and thick twine and began to bind.

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