In the second year of the first peace, the 18th day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, May 29, 191 AD, summer, April, and the afternoon of the lunar calendar. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The wind is not harmonious, the sun is not beautiful, everything is not appropriate, and it is forbidden to take action to open the market for marriage.

Early in the morning, Liu Zhang, the new Chengdu Taishou, went out with Xu Shu and a few entourages.

Liu Zhang and his entourage arrived in Mianzhu a month ago, where Yizhou was then the seat of governorship. After arriving, he was surprised to find that Liu Yan was still alive and normal, and he was not sick at all, and Liu Zhang was depressed at that time. Originally, he thought that he could act as CEO directly when he came over, but he didn't think that there was no shadow.

I couldn't stay in Mianzhu for a few days, and I didn't say anything about it every morning and dusk, and I had to be told by the old man. Besides, he is not familiar with his current parents either.

As a new generation of promising young people who were born in New China and grew up under the red flag, where can they withstand all kinds of constraints 2,000 years ago. After discussing with Xu Shu Shitao, Liu Zhang went to beg Liu Yan, hoping to send himself outside to exercise, preferably to a remote small county, the harder the better.

When Liu Yan heard this, he was very happy, the four boys have grown up and have a future, and it is very good to go out to exercise. With a wave of his hand, he threw Liu Zhang to Chengdu. At Liu Zhang's request, Xu Shu and Shi Tao were appointed as the chief secretary and went to Chengdu to assist Liu Zhang.

As soon as he left Liu Yan, Liu Zhang returned to the sea tiger into the deep mountains, like a bird breaking out of the cage, and finally free.

After arriving in Chengdu, Liu Zhang threw all the government affairs to Xu Shu and Shi Tao, but he took a few entourages every day to hang around, not doing his job. Xu Shu persuaded him several times, but Liu Zhang was unmoved, he still went his own way, there was no way, Xu Shu had to stick to this unsuccessful lord every day, and always persuade him.

Today's Liu Zhang doesn't have much decadence. Xu Shu is still quite satisfied with this. Although the lord is a little mediocre, ambitious and unenterprising, he has greatly improved with his continuous efforts. Hey, although the lord is so unsuccessful, why don't I, Xu Shu, have any intention of leaving? Yes, my Xu Shu is a great loyal person, although the lord is worse, because of this, it seems that my Xu Shu is a good person, hahaha. Xu Shu Xu Yuan looked directly at Liu Zhang, who was in a hurry, and secretly praised himself in his heart.

"Lord, where are we going?" Xu Shu asked casually.

"Go to the paper mill." Liu Zhang didn't look back.

"What are you doing in a paper workshop? My lord, you are now burdened with a heavy responsibility, and you really should not neglect your duties. Xu Shu habitually persuaded.

"Yuan Zhi, tell me what our current priorities are," Liu Zhang asked.

"Urgent?" Xu Shu groaned for a while, and then said: "If there is a big chaos today, I live in a corner of Yizhou, when the people are the first, the people are rich, and then the army is ready to fight, sweep the world, and help the Han family." "Xu Shu said with a heroic spirit.

Liu Zhang shook his head, this answer obviously did not satisfy Liu Zhang.

Seeing this, Xu Shu said: "A rich country and a peaceful people naturally need the help of a large number of virtuous people, so talents should be the first priority, and recruiting talents is the first priority." ”

Liu Zhang still shook his head, and asked again: "Yuan Zhi, and you, what is the most important thing in a person's life?" ”

"Make meritorious contributions and leave your name in history."

"Get promoted and get rich."

"Marry a wife and have children."

……

A few people gossiped and talked a lot.

"What you said is not right," Liu Zhang deliberately paused, and after watching everyone's attention turn, he continued: "It's eating, drinking, and sleeping, the most important thing in a person's life is to eat, drink, and sleep." ”

Everyone thought about it, and it really made sense, and hurriedly came over: "Sure enough, it's eating, drinking, and sleeping, the young master is too smart, too powerful..."

Of course, Xu Shu couldn't be on the same level as others, and frowned and asked: "What the lord said is true, these are important, but what do they have to do with papermaking?" ”

Liu Zhang smiled and asked ill-intentionedly: "Yuan Zhi, how do you usually solve it after you poop?" ”

"What poop, oh, you mean to pull that, of course with your hands..."As he was saying, seeing Liu Zhang's face dodging to the side with a look of disgust, Xu Shu hurriedly changed his words: "Of course, I cooked with bamboo chips in my hands, what else could I have?" Xu Shu felt that he had been tricked.

"Paper, of course." Liu Zhang immediately replied.

"!! with paper" Everyone exclaimed in unison.

Listening to this answer, Liu Zhang, in Xu Shu's eyes, immediately jumped up a step from the original ambition and mediocrity, and jumped up to a higher level, it is simply a poor and extravagant and mediocre person who has no ancestors before and after, wiping his butt with paper, how luxurious this is, it is better to use brocade silk than to use paper, at least the brocade silk can continue to be used after washing, and the paper will be wasted after wiping. Xu Shu felt that the burden on his shoulders suddenly became a little heavier.

Looking at the stunned appearance of several people, Liu Zhang did not give up, and continued: "It's a pity that the current paper wipes the butt are too hard, hard and brittle, think about how pitiful the people are, they don't even have a butt wiping paper, can life be happy?" Can you not rise up and rebel? ”

……

The friends collectively lost their voices.

"If you don't eat well, you can't sleep well, you don't have delicious food to swallow, you don't have clean pure water, you defecate everywhere, you don't even have a suitable paper for wiping your buttocks, can everyone's happiness index be high? So we have to start from the most basic place and solve the problem of butt wiping paper first. Obviously, Liu Zhang completely dried up with the butt wiping paper. I guess I have recently been injured by paper to a sensitive part.

Of course, Liu Zhang's reason is very sufficient, when he came to the Han Dynasty two thousand years ago, he must not be able to eat well, even if he is a nobleman of Tianhuang and the son of a prince, it is very simple, the food has no taste, no monosodium glutamate, no various seasonings, just put a little salt and cook it and serve it;

Not to mention sleeping, it may be that the air in the world is too good now, the oxygen concentration is too high, the brain is easily excited, and I always can't fall asleep at night, and occasionally I finally fall asleep, and I often dream of falling off my horse, or falling off the plank road, and then I am scared to wake up sweating;

Let's go relax, not to mention that the environment is not good, there is not even a butt paper, and it is easy for someone to send paper, but can this thing be used, I have used it a few times, I am so sorry for my delicate chrysanthemum.

After some calculations, Liu Zhang couldn't make MSG, the condiments were not very easy to get, the waterworks project was too huge, and the public toilet sanitation system would not be able to be built in a while. Is it difficult to make something worse than the paper you use for writing? Liu Taishou finally found a breakthrough to improve his political performance.

A few of the attendants opened their mouths, tempting to say that butt wiping paper really doesn't matter, because no one uses paper to wipe their butts, and few can afford to use it. After all, I didn't dare to say it.

Xu Shu was also speechless by Liu Zhang's divine logic.

The owner of the paper workshop is surnamed Cai, a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties, and his ancestral family business.

Boss Cai looked at the few people in front of him, especially when Xiao Zhengtai, Liu Zhang, and Liu Da were too guarded, he was worried. Because this person's face seems to be very unkind. Boss Cai originally wanted to invite Liu Zhang to the living room, and everyone discussed what the problems were, but Liu Taishou was very iron-faced and selfless, so he ignored this set at all, and went directly to the backyard workshop.

When he arrived in the backyard, looking at the chaotic busy workers, Liu Daguan was a little dumbfounded, he didn't understand papermaking as a computer. Frowning and thinking about it, there was no way, but he could only use violent means, and he asked Boss Cai: "Your paper is not good, the paper made like this is not good, the quality is not good, it obviously fools consumers, and it must be immediately closed for rectification." Mrs. Liu kept a straight face, very serious and very serious.

What kind of quality consumers and other Boss Cai didn't understand, but said that his paper was not good, and he wanted to close down for rectification, he understood, and hurriedly said: "Lord Taishou Mingjian, Mingjian, Caomin's papermaking workshop, not to mention the biggest and best in Chengdu, is the top in the entire Shuzhong, and the paper has been selling very well." If you want to think something is wrong, just say it, and we can improve it, and we can't close the door. ”

Hurriedly asked a subordinate to take a few pieces of the best new paper that had just left the factory, and continued to introduce it to Liu Dataishou: "My lord, please see, the paper produced by our Cai family has a smooth feel, bright color, and uniform thickness, and everyone who uses it says it is good." Moreover, our craft is in the palace..."Boss Cai may have been inattentive to his professional habits and started advertising.

"What a fart!" Liu Taishou directly interrupted his advertisement, "It's too hard, too brittle, too thick, and it can't be used at all!" "Liu Zhang is from a technical background, and he can't see the shameless sales face of running a train with his mouth full.

"Ahem... cough...," Boss Cai was seriously choked, and he dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak, this little bastard was here to smash the field, and asked patiently: "So, what kind of paper is suitable for Lord Taishou?" ”

"Of course it should be soft, soft, cool but not brittle, thin but not transparent, delicate but not rough, soft but not fragile, like... It's like... It's like the fabric on your body, but it's thinner, denser, it's not translucent, it's soft and comfortable, it's too coarse, it's more delicate than this, and it doesn't hurt your hands to the touch. Well, well, that's probably it. Liu Taishou talked for a long time without pulling or pulling according to his own requirements, and then compared the cotton and linen clothes on Boss Cai's body, and put forward his own rationalization requirements.

Boss Cai was completely angered by Liu Xiaozhengtai's unreasonable request, there has never been a customer who asked this paper to be soft and soft, and it should be as soft as cloth, and no one asked for the paper to be thin and transparent, this little bastard is definitely here to make trouble.

Anyway, Boss Cai finally had a sense of reason, and he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and almost asked with a stiff neck: "These requirements that Lord Taishou said are not excuses for the people, they are really difficult to do, dare to ask the adults, what is the use of such paper?" The dance text is inked, it is not suitable for such a soft and collapsed paper, right? ”

"What is it for? Of course, it's a handpiece of paper. Don't understand the paper paper? It's toilet paper, you still don't understand? That's it, it's wiping your ass, it's wiping paper! Liu Taishou explained impatiently.

Boss Cai was about to go crazy, his lips trembled and he couldn't speak for a long time.

If I could, I really wanted to scold this little bastard, and then beat him out.

But he couldn't. This little bastard in front of him is not an ordinary person, he is a dignified Taishou Lord, he is a dignified state pastor, in this world in Shuzhong, that is the emperor, is the sky. How dare he offend, how can he be offended?

Boss Cai kept convincing himself in his heart, and after half the weather, he calmed down the excitement of killing for a long time, and finally took out his due professionalism, showing a smile that was not much better than crying, and said very sincerely to Liu Taishou: "My lord, the paper produced by our small workshop is for reading people to write, it is not specially used to wipe that, what you just said is very right, if you use this paper to wipe that, it is indeed a little hard and rough, and it is easy to scratch that if you don't get it right, and, We just can't do it..."

"That's right," Liu Taishou immediately took over, "It's really not easy to use, so you have to improve it." Of course, you may have difficulties, but if you have difficulties, you need to improve, and you must understand the difficulties. ”

Xu Shu next to him couldn't stand it anymore, so he came over and said: "This lord, and Boss Cai, otherwise, the lord, do you want to lower your requirements appropriately, what about Boss Cai, don't bite to death and say that you can't do it, it's difficult to try it first, what do you think?" ”

Liu Dataishou pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "What Yuan Zhi said is very reasonable. It's really not realistic for you to make a satisfying paper all at once. In fact, it should be simpler to make paper paper, as long as it is soft enough, it is almost fine. The minimum requirement is that it can be rubbed softly or barely used. Look at your paper, it will break after two kneadings, and it can't be used at all. I look at your paper, the biggest problem is that the pulp can't be made, the fiber particles are large, and the size is uneven, the big is big, the small is small, such a large particle, you can't get it thin if you want to. Also, I don't think your material processing is good, this color is not right, it's not white enough, and besides..."

Boss Cai was originally quite angry, listening to it, his eyes began to brighten, oops, it turns out that this little Taishou is an expert, no wonder he was so arrogant just now, it turned out that there was goods in his stomach. Thinking of this, he hurriedly said to Liu Zhang: "Since Lord Taishou has a high opinion, it is better for the old man to take you to visit the entire papermaking process in detail, and the adults will help guide you, so as to make paper that can meet the needs of adults as soon as possible." ”

"Well, good, very good, your consciousness is rising very quickly, Yuan Zhi, let's also take a closer look."

"No."

The papermaking of the Han Dynasty, after the improvement of Cai Lun, has been relatively mature. It can be divided into four main links.

The first is the processing of the material, which is to disperse the material into a fibrous form by soaking or steaming. The second is pulping, which is to use the method of cutting and pounding to break the fibers into broom and turn them into pulp; The third is copying, that is, the pulp is soaked into a slurry, and then the pulp is scooped with a paper scraper (curtain bed paper maker), so that the pulp is interwoven into a thin sheet of wet paper on the paper scraper; The fourth is drying, that is, the wet paper is dried or dried, and when it is removed, it becomes paper.

The materials used in papermaking in the Han Dynasty were mainly bark, rags, hemp and other raw materials. Liu Zhang felt that these raw materials were not easy to obtain, not suitable for large-scale production, and if they were used to make paper, paper was not good, so he suggested using bamboo and straw. These materials are everywhere and are well suited for mass production.

In the Han Dynasty, the material treatment was mainly carried out by soaking with plant ash, and the material processing time was relatively long. Liu Zhang recommended using alkali instead of plant ash for material treatment.

There is also drying, Liu Zhang feels that the drying or drying speed is too slow, and the method of baking should be used to quickly dehumidify and improve efficiency. There are still many places, in order to be able to use a more satisfactory butt paper as soon as possible, Liu Taishou according to his own knowledge, the entire papermaking process, as much as possible, have been instructed.

The conversation changed from the previous unpleasant atmosphere, and the guests and hosts had a very happy conversation. Boss Cai repeatedly patted his chest and promised that he would definitely produce the paper that satisfied Lord Taishou as soon as possible; Liu Taishou also promised that Taishou Mansion would fully support Boss Cai's scientific research work, asking people to give people and money to money. The two sides completed this historic meeting in a friendly atmosphere. This meeting had a very far-reaching impact, and directly kicked off the subsequent large-scale technological innovation and technological revolution, which is known in history as the revolution triggered by a piece of paper.