Not to mention what there was to talk about between the two, at the same moment, Li Zhi was very reluctant to send the county lord of Qingqi back to the county king's mansion, and her eyes when she looked back at him were more complicated, and there was more of an indescribable affection.

Li Zhi was worried about the rice paper materials in his heart, and left with a ruthless smile, until he returned to the door of his compound, he could still feel that she was standing in place for a long time and staring.

When he returned to the compound, he first found Steward Zhang, and Li Zhi did not hide his whereabouts from him: "Hurry up and arrange for me to have people go up the mountain with me, how many young and middle-aged people can be used immediately?" ”

The so-called upper mountain is the hunting ground, it is a small hill of less than 70 meters, called Yongyun Mountain, before it was only an unknown barren mountain, which was given to the Linhuai County Mansion 30 years ago, of course, it was still called the Heir Palace.

The Li family in Fengwu County can be known as sharing it with others, but only because there are more than a dozen acres of land connected to the hunting grounds, and the Linhuai County Royal Mansion is very affectionate, and after turning the dozen acres of land into hunting grounds, half of them were divided to the Li family.

Although there was a clear division, due to the close relationship between the two families, and because the Li family has always been sparsely populated, few people enter the hunt, in fact, the entire area is used by the two families in and out casually.

There are still some sandalwood trees there, and they are all old trees that are more than 20 meters tall and have a diameter at breast height of more than 1 meter, interspersed with countless young saplings.

The bark is dark gray, smooth when young, and peeled off in long flakes when old, revealing a grayish inner bark after peeling, and the trunk is often uneven and unrounded; Irregular long flake peeling, leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, three veins at the base, single leaves alternate apex acuminate to caudate acuminate, similar to elm leaves.

Xuan paper is one of the four treasures of the study, because of its origin and main production area in Anhui Xuancheng and called Xuan paper, later, as long as it is made of calligraphy and painting paper with Anhui Xuan paper technology and technology, no matter where it is produced, it is called Xuan paper, which is a very famous example of the product name because of the name of the place of origin.

The earliest paper made by the four major inventions of papermaking is just the prototype of rice paper, the ancestor of papermaking, Cai Lun's apprentice Kong Dan discovered sandalwood bark, which was used as the main raw material for papermaking, and was made into today's rice paper, but the manufacturing process is relatively simple, and the white paper made is different, a high-quality category, which is the most extreme hard yellow paper in the Tang Dynasty today.

Last night, I had an exchange with Master Liu, there is a small village called Liujian Village near the Li family's compound, and there is an ancient papermaking workshop, which belongs to the ancestral property of the Li family in Fengwu County, and the owner of the workshop is also the original tenant of the Li family, Chang Yubo.

Speaking of this Chang Yubo, he is also an eccentric, in fact, he is neither surnamed Chang, nor a native of Liujian Village, originally just a descendant of a rather poor lonely family among the tenants of the Li family.

The tenant farmers and slaves of the Tang Dynasty were slaves, which were far more miserable than the tenant farmers and slaves of the later Song Dynasty who were regarded as human beings.

However, the ancestor of the Li family in Fengwu County was kind by nature, and although he treated his tenant farmers and slaves and maids not more civilized than the later Song Dynasty, he could be regarded as deeply popular.

This Chang Yubo did not like to work since he was young, and he had a strong interest in some small folk crafts or the transformation of existing farm tools.

So one day he was beaten and scolded by his family for his cheating and slippery while farming, and it happened that the ancestor of the Li family saw it, and after learning the details, he was also kind-hearted, so he randomly assigned Chang Yubo a dilapidated papermaking workshop and explained it to him to play his interest.

Unexpectedly, this man was extremely smart, and soon figured out his own set of improvements in the traditional process of ancient papermaking, and the paper produced was whiter than ordinary things, so he established today's regular small workshop in Liujian Village because of him.

After decades of experience and continuous improvement of production technology, the current papermaking workshop has a pure manual operation process that has been continued, and the entire production process must have a complete 72 processes before and after.

During this period, this small workshop became more and more famous and never worried about sales, but also monopolized the common resistance to paper in dozens of nearby towns and towns, but because the scale has been small, most of the main users have been local and surrounding farmers, small businesses, so the paper workshop has a strong local flavor and local characteristics.

However, a very small part of the delicate paper was purchased by the Li family, and the workshop because the apprentices do not need to be educated, as long as they study diligently, although the current business scale is not necessarily huge, but it is enough for dozens of young and middle-aged farmers in Liujian Village to have additional income.

The reason why the Li family did not care about the redevelopment of the workshop was that Chang Yubo stubbornly refused to expand and re-operate, and the pollution of papermaking was extremely harmful, and the water pollution caused by the discharge of wastewater was still quite terrible, and he insisted on destroying a pond in Liujian Village.

If Li Zhi wanted to expand the scale of the workshop on this basis, he would need to dig a separate Xiaoqing River, a few hundred meters away from the pond, which was not a small stream like its name, but eventually flowed into the Wei River, which ran through the entire city of Chang'an.

The Wei River, known as Weishui in ancient times, is the largest tributary of the Yellow River, and flows into the Yellow River in Tongguan County, Weinan.

In this way, the expansion of the scale of the papermaking workshop will not cause environmental pollution and harm in the area of Liujian Village, and even change some of the original pollution status.

Not long after he led more than 30 strong men of the Li family to start peeling and extracting green sandalwood skins, Chang Yubo, who was recruited separately, also hurriedly led a few people to come.

After seeing the ceremony, Chang Yubo obviously knew about Li Zhi, the future master: "Little Hou Ye, it's not that I deceived you into being young, but I made a decision as early as when the old Hou Ye was alive, and I definitely won't do anything that damages Liujian Village because of interests!" ”

Compared with his identity, it can be said that he is very disrespectful to the little marquis, the head of the Li family, and the unceremonious tone in his tone is also extremely blunt.

Li Zhi didn't care about his attitude, but felt worthy of trust because this person dared to show his heart: "Chang Yubo, I know that everyone who knows you calls you like this, even my father, so there is no additional honorific title!" Don't worry, old man, I have other plans for environmental pollution and harm, so you can listen to me slowly? ”

So, when everyone was busy, the little marquis led him to sit on the ground and told his plans in detail one by one, during which the process could clearly see the change in this person's attitude towards him.

After hearing the introduction of the more advanced technology of rice paper in the future, Chang Yubo could no longer calm down.

His deep-knit eyebrows, and his face cut by the blade-like cold wind, were no longer without a trace of indifference, but were replaced by huge fluctuations that were mixed with excitement and doubt.

"Where did the little marquis come from, all of them are strange methods that I have never heard of in my life, I can almost foresee the birth of a higher quality delicate paper than hard yellow paper, if the trial production is successful, it will be an earth-shattering thing!"

His hands were shaking violently at this time, and his slightly old face was like a piece of yellow paper, full of blood from excitement, and even his voice trembled.

"Old man, you're right, this is going to be a shocking and significant paper development! And our future papermaking workshop will cooperate with the Linhuai County Palace, with their joining, do you say that another ditch to the Xiaoqing River and even Weishui is still nonsense? ”

"Linhuai County Palace? My God, even if that family buys our entire Fengwu County, there will be nothing impossible! ”

"So I invited you here, just to ask for your opinion in advance, and by the way, to find out if you have the ability to bear this burden, after all, in the future, Li Ji Zhengqing Wenqitang Xuan Paper Industry will be a very high-end rice paper mill that only produces high-quality products, and it will no longer be the original handmade small workshop."

"Little Hou Ye, although I have a low culture, identity and interpersonal poorness, but fortunately, I have decades of experience in papermaking workshops, as well as strong interest habits, and have formed an inseparable strong relationship with papermaking! I don't need more salary and production dominance, I just hope that the owner can allow people to participate in the development of Zhengqing Wenqitang rice paper! ”

At this time, Chang Yubo's expression was extremely nervous, his hands were so cramped that he didn't know where to put them, and his palms were in a cold sweat, which made him rub his thighs full of alkali stains from time to time.

"Chang Yubo, do you know that once rice paper is manufactured, it will have cross-era significance? As a result, the severe state of existence will also be generated, and the covetousness of all parties will follow, and the personnel involved in the core process will naturally face a variety of interest temptations. ”

Although the work of people not far away caused endless noise, Li Zhi could still feel that in Chang Yubo's psychological world, time seemed to stop at that second, as if the surrounding air seemed to freeze, and he could almost clearly hear the old man's heartbeat.

The muscles on Chang Yubo's face were tense, as if he was frozen, and his expression was like a controlled robot, and he didn't dare to shake it. The brows were tightly locked, the corners of his mouth were down, and the expression of horror was as if he was about to cry, causing his facial muscles to squirm irregularly.