Chapter 40: The Visit (Part I)
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Fusu smiled, he used to build a workshop in the palace, although he was not forbidden by Ying Zheng, and he researched all kinds of useful and useless toys, but in fact, Ying Zheng didn't pay much attention to this matter, including Li Si and Wei Yi, and didn't pay much attention to it, until he sacrificed one of the four great inventions, papermaking, so that Ying Zheng and others took the workshop to heart. In addition, this is the first time that a historical celebrity has expressed interest in his workshop, so he is very happy.
"I can't ask for it, but the workshop has just been completed today, and many workshops are still in preparation, and they haven't started, I'm afraid it will disappoint Uncle Shi."
"It doesn't matter." Han Fei quickly wrote down two words, and it seemed that he was really interested in the workshop.
"Okay, Uncle Shi come with me." As he spoke, he was about to go to the workshop, in Han Fei's eyes, he was like a child showing off his toys, but he didn't know that this child was a 30-year-old soul.
Under the leadership of Fusu, Han Fei turned around the main hall and bedroom, passed through the useless open space sandwiched between the woods on all sides behind the house, and came to a corner door, Fusu said to Han Fei: "Uncle Shi, there is a workshop in front, this place is not as clean as other places, you should pay attention when walking." ”
Han Fei was surprised again, as the eldest son of the Qin State, there was no garden in his mansion, except for the main house, the wing room, and a vacant land, the rest of the place was all the place where the workshop was.
Han Fei and Fusu passed through the corner gate guarded by the guards, and they saw a low bamboo house, and a row of water tanks full of water was placed outside each bamboo house; Near the courtyard wall is a small pavilion with axes, shovels, wooden basins, barrels, and other items.
Before Han Fei could ask about the purpose of these things, an official in an official uniform ran over from the workshop to ask Fu Su for peace, Fu Su waved his hand slightly, stopped the craftsman from saluting, and said with a smile: "Old Tang, I really do my duty, and I still stay in this workshop as a young concubine." ”
This official was naturally Tang Gu, and I saw him smile bitterly: "Childe made fun of it, the workshop has just been completed, and many workshops are about to start, so the villain has to come and watch." Today's son has just mentioned the villain, and the villain does not dare not be unsatisfied. ”
"Okay, you go get busy, I'll take a look at random."
Tang Gu didn't leave, his eyes couldn't stop glancing at Han Fei.
Seeing this, Fusu had no choice but to say to Tang Gu: "This is my uncle, Mr. Han Fei, the Korean envoy. ”
Tang Gu's eyes flashed after hearing this, and he said to Fusu: "Childe, there is nothing big in the workshop now, it is better for the villain to lead the way for Childe and Mr. Han." ”
"Okay."
Tang Gu led Fusu and Han Fei into the first row of bamboo houses, Han Fei was a little disappointed that he didn't explain the use of the water tank and the kiosk, but he didn't know that Tang Gu was used to seeing these things that were turned into firefighting appliances by Gongzi Fusu, so he didn't take it to heart.
Han Fei observed carefully and found that this row of bamboo houses was composed of several independent bamboo houses, the adjacent bamboo houses were connected by corridors that could block the wind and rain, and some of the bamboo houses had bamboo curtains separated into different spaces, and there were craftsmen busy in each space, and the craftsmen did not stop their work to salute when they saw Fusu coming, and Fusu did not mean to blame for this.
"This is where quills are made, and there are five separate houses, each responsible for a different step."
Under Tang Gu's guidance, they came to the first house, and as soon as they entered, a heat wave hit. Inside is a stove, on which is placed a steamer, several layers of bamboo cage drawers are stacked on top of each other, several craftsmen are busy bare-chested, some are responsible for taking care of the fire, some are responsible for pulling up the lid, and some are responsible for taking the steamed things out of the cage drawer to dry.
"This is the first step in making a quill pen, degreasing." Tang Gu's voice came at the right time, "Remove the fat from the feathers by steaming for the next step." Tang Gu had no intention of explaining the reason, and walked from the hallway to the next room.
The second room also has a stove, but there are several more, and on top of each one is an iron pot, in which the river sand is stir-fried, and the river sand is stir-fried and then removed from the fire. In the iron pot where the fire had stopped, there were many feathers stuck in the river sand.
"The roots of the feathers are very soft, and here the feathers are thermoset so that the nib can be sharpened later, and the nib will last longer."
The third room is much cooler and quieter than the first two houses, and the craftsman in the previous room sends the heat-set and cooled feathers to this room, which is divided into three parts by a bamboo curtain, each with a table on which scissors and bamboo baskets are placed. There are only two craftsmen in the room, one of whom is sorting the feathers, dividing them into different parts according to different standards, and the other is using scissors to cut the tip of the feather at the base of the feather.
"There used to be two people here, but now there aren't so many feathers, and one person can do it, so the other two are transferred." Tang Gu did not explain the process in this room that could be understood at first sight, but explained why there were two empty tables.
The fourth room, far from the first two rooms, was quiet and quiet, but there were five or six people sitting at different tables, each holding a very thin knife in his hand, and holding his breath to cut between the nibs of the pen that had been cut.
"It's a nib, and the quill is ready to use when this step is done." Tang Gu explained.
"Then what is the next house for, how can someone send the prepared pen there?" Fusu was just as puzzled as Han Fei, and at the same time blushed a little.
In fact, after the paper was successfully made, Fusu thought of making a fountain pen, but after Zhang Huo tried it a few times, he found that with the industrial level of the pre-Qin period, this seemed to be an incompleteable job, and the nib of the pen could not be made, and the ink sac could not be made.
In desperation, Fusu hit the idea on the quill pen, he just caught a goose in the lake in the palace, thought he was very careful to cut out the pen and use it, the result can be imagined, it didn't take long for the pen to be wasted. So he gave Tang Gu the task of developing a durable quill.
Sure enough, there is a specialization in the art industry, and it didn't take long for Tang Gu to present him with a few very durable quills, but Fusu didn't expect it, but in a few months, Tang Gu has developed the process of making quills to this extent, I remember that Tang Gu said that he wanted to build a branch workshop for making quills, and he also asked if it was necessary.
"Childe come with me." Tang Gu was a little complacent, and did not explain, but led them into the last room.
Unexpectedly, there were more people in this last room, there were more than ten people, each of whom had a table, and there were several bamboo baskets on the table, and it could be seen that the feathers on each table were a little different. They were sharpening with quill pens.
"Here is the work of polishing, finishing and grading, after the simple classification and cutting of the nib in the previous room, although it can already be used, but some quill pens are very unsightly, and even some quill nibs have flaws, here is to polish off the flaws, remove the debris in the pen tube, and the miscellaneous hair outside, so that the quill pen is more comfortable to use, and then according to the quill pen, well, in fact, it should be a quill, and then according to the type and grade of the quill, it is packed in different boxes."
Fu Su looked at Tang Gu with a really awesome expression, not knowing how this craftsman leader who was pulled by himself had these thoughts, and finally asked, "How did you come up with it?" ”