Chapter 18: Chrysanthemums and Paper
Unconsciously, Ying Zheng has been in power for more than a year, and now it is September of the tenth year of the reign of King Qin (237 BC), Ying Zheng is strongly moving towards the road of pro-government, bringing him unexpected benefits, all the obstacles have almost been solved, and Ying Zheng has almost mastered the court of the entire Qin State. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
What can't be fully mastered is only Lü Buwei and his hardcore forces, but with Yingzheng's appointment of Li Si and other talented people who came out of Lü Buwei's mansion, Lü Buwei's hardcore is becoming less and less.
Under Li Si's strong intervention, Fusu studied Qin Law for a year, although he could not say that he knew Qin Law well and memorized it like a stream, but he was already very clear about the basic spirit of Qin Law.
Ying Zheng has already begun to consider arranging a new master for him, so that Fusu shouts no, don't you know that the pursuit of the 21st century is to reduce the burden on children?
Fusu, who has a twenty-year-old soul, is very satisfied with his learning effect, and he even began to be obscenated about how to reform the Qin law after becoming an emperor in the future, but he should still be obscene for a long time, because the four major inventions that he has been obsessed with for a year have not been completed, and he wants to take advantage of the fact that the court of Qin is not very peaceful these days, and Li Si has less time to discipline him, and has a good exchange with a few craftsmen who helped him build the "prince car", for the sake of his chrysanthemums, he is ready to concentrate and focus on the study of paper, it is too painful to scrape chrysanthemums with bamboo chips.
"Master Zhang, I haven't been here for a few days, is there any new progress." Fusu saw Zhang Huo, the person in charge of this group of craftsmen, and hurriedly asked. After completing the third chariot, Fusu left the craftsmen with the goal of studying paper and gunpowder, and set up a reward for making a complete piece of paper or finding a third material for gunpowder, but unfortunately neither of these two were successful.
Zhang Huo listened to Fusu's words, and quickly knelt down and said that he didn't dare, every time Fusu called him Master Zhang, although he was excited, he was frightened: "Son, forgive me, you don't often come to guide, there is really no progress, but we made a Trojan horse you said, do you want to see if it is qualified." ”
Zhang Huo was honest, and it was only because of his good carpentry skills that he was sent by Shaofu to participate in the construction of the stroller, and since then he has been intercepted by Fusu.
But it seems that it is not a spiritual papermaker and gunpowder master who intercepted it, but a carpenter master who loves carpentry work.
When building the stroller, Fusu told these craftsmen about the appearance of a lot of toys, these craftsmen studied these things more than paper and gunpowder, and whenever there were new toys, there would always be a reward from the nobles of the harem, which was much more reliable than the reward of paper. So these craftsmen made a lot of toys for Fusu's sister, that is, Ying Yuanman, the first daughter of Ying Zheng.
"Trojan horse, I won't look at it, I believe in your craftsmanship, the old rule, send it to Ying Qian first, let him try to see if there is a problem, no problem and then make a new one, keep it for my sister." Take me to see the progress of the paper. After finishing speaking, he didn't pay attention to Zhang Huo's disappointed expression, and walked towards the paper workshop.
Fusu didn't care about the Trojan horse, this has become a routine, Ying Qian is the second son of Ying Zheng, this year is also three years old, it is an honor to become the first person to test the performance of Fusu toys, Ying Gao is only more than a year old, it is really not suitable for this kind of dangerous work, Ying Qian is very happy, his brother has any new toys are the first to play with him, how much it hurts him, in the eyes of most people in the palace, it is really a bit of a brother and brother.
Fusu came to the small workshop he had set out for the craftsmen, in fact, it was not that they did not make paper, but the paper they made was really unsightly, there was no lump, the largest was only the size of a palm, and it was black and yellow, and there were even scraps of fishing nets.
Fusu himself also had the experience of making paper in his previous life, and he remembered that he was a homework assignment in the nature class assigned by the Chinese teacher in elementary school (according to Qin Fu's age, I believe that most of the nature teachers at that time were cameos by Chinese or mathematics teachers), so that everyone could mash and remake a piece of paper with waste paper, which he completed seriously at that time, and did make a thick piece of yellow paper, but unfortunately there is no ready-made paper for him to squander.
Judging from his primary school experience, the current bottleneck of papermaking is that the rot degree of papermaking raw materials is not enough and not fine enough.
"Master Zhang, how did you make the biggest piece? And how was the whitest piece made? "Fusu really has no choice, so he can only rely on these craftsmen to explore little by little, and if there is any progress, he will improve it by combining the knowledge he knows.
"Wait a minute, do as you ask, and record any changes you make." Zhang Huo took out the bamboo slip next to the paper, and recorded the differences between the two pieces of paper.
Zhang Huo looked at Zhang Liang's bamboo slips, then found a craftsman, asked for a while, pulled him to Fusu and said, "Childe, this is Tang Gu, these two pieces of paper appeared through his hands, let him tell you." ”
Fusu looked at Tang Gu, who was a little nervous, and said, "Don't be nervous, speak slowly." ”
"Yes," Tang Gu rubbed his hands, swallowed his saliva and said, "Childe, I didn't mean to, when I cleaned up the fire, I accidentally sprinkled the ashes into the pulp, and the paper made later was a little big, but then I deliberately put some ashes into it, and the paper made did not become bigger but turned white, so I didn't make a noise, and I didn't dare to continue trying." ”
When Fusu heard this, his eyes lit up, as if some memories came to mind, he remembered that the teacher explained to them why the paper made of old paper was yellow, because it was not bleached, as if the teacher said that it could be bleached with lime, could it be that the plant ash also had the same effect? But how does paper get bigger?
Regardless, he was ready to reward this fortuitous change, because he remembered that many later scientific inventions appeared by accident, such as penicillin or something.
"Don't be afraid, I said, as long as you can make a complete piece of paper, there will be a reward, although you have not met the requirements of these two pieces of paper, but in my opinion they are useful experiences, come to people, reward Tang Gubu five horses." Fusu has not moved out of the palace yet, although he is a prince, but at present, he does not have his own fixed income, and the things he uses to reward are coaxed from the Qi family, Yingzheng and even the Empress Dowager Zhao Ji.
Fusu looked at Tang Gu's excited look and the envious eyes of the craftsmen around him, and was very satisfied with the effect of this reward.
"My reward is ten horses for a complete piece of paper, and you didn't do it, but the paper became bigger and whiter, so I rewarded you with five horses, and it's okay! I believe that it will be useful to add plant ash to the furnace when making paper, but the time used is not quite right, and if you continue to work hard, if you can really make a complete piece of paper, I will reward you with ten more pieces of cloth. Fusu looked at the craftsmen around him and continued, "You are the same, whoever finds the right way first will be rewarded!" ”
"At present, the processing of papermaking raw materials is not fine enough, and before the material is cut in the future, we must try to rot and break the fishing nets, maybe the paper will be larger."
Fusu is very good at inspecting the situation of industrial construction, whether it is a few words of guidance from a high position, but most of them are his experience accumulated in more than 20 years of knowledge.