Chapter 41: The Visit (Part II)
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This time it was Tang Gu's turn to be surprised.
"This is what Childe taught the villain to do." Tang Gu said cautiously.
"How I don't remember saying that." Fusu was a little puzzled. Seeing the assembly line, Fusu was not surprised, because he had lived in the Qin State for so many years and had been in contact with craftsmen for a long time, he had long known that the Qin State had a working method of the assembly line, and it was used on a large scale in the manufacture of complex weapons and materials such as armor. What surprised him was that Tang Gu actually graded and packaged the quills, which was basically impossible in the pre-Qin period, when materials were not abundant.
Tang Gu looked at Han Fei, then looked at Fusu and whispered: "Childe doesn't remember, that day, Lord Tingwei sent someone to fetch the paper, and you instructed the villain and Zhang Huo to distinguish the paper according to color, hardness and material, and let the person take one of them back, and the rest was intended to stay for his own use, but he was asked by the king." At that time, you also instructed the villain to record the papermaking process of different materials separately and store them separately in the future. The villain remembered it and used it in the manufacture of the quill, but did the villain do it poorly? ”
Tang Gu's voice became smaller and smaller, as he felt that Fusu's little face was becoming more and more unnatural.
After listening to Tang Gu's words, especially Han Fei, Fusu was really a little embarrassed, and his heart was sweating wildly. At that time, Li Si sent people to and fro the paper, because the paper had just been made, the quantity was not much, Fusu in order to live up to the original intention of papermaking - to protect the chrysanthemum, wanted to leave the softest paper for his own use, so he asked Tang Gu to classify the paper, but Tang Gu did not expect Tang Gu to care so much, and extended him to the quill.
Fu Su eased his emotions, and then asked, "Then what's the matter with the quills you said, aren't they all made of goose feathers?" Fusu didn't know what a quill pen was before, he only remembered that when he watched a foreign cartoon "Don Quixote" when he was a child in the old time and space, there would often be an author who wrote with a quill, so he changed it to a quill when making a pen was hopeless.
"It's not all goose feathers, many poultry feathers can be used as quills, and some of them are better than goose feathers." Tang Gu explained, "This is also what the little people found during the production process, among which the crow feather is the best, followed by the eagle feather and the owl feather, and the feathers of the uncommon swan are also better than the ordinary domestic goose feathers." The prince and the king used crow feathers. As he spoke, he took a few pens from each table and explained them to Fusu one by one.
Fusu sweated wildly again, and did not take the crow feather in Tang Gu's hand, in his heart, the crow was not a symbol of good luck. He had always thought he was using a quill pen, and although he had noticed that the color was black, he took it for granted that it was a black swan's feather.
In fact, the crow has been considered a sacred bird in China for a long time, until the Song Dynasty, and later due to the entry of the Meng Yuan into the Central Plains, many habits of the Chinese people have been broken and changed, including the crow from the sacred bird to the symbol of bad luck, and the attitude of the Chinese people towards the cherry blossoms, before the Yuan Dynasty, the cherry blossoms were deeply loved by the Chinese people, and spread abroad with the spread of Chinese culture. After the Yuan Dynasty, this love of the Chinese people was broken, and in Japan, which was saved by a storm, cherry blossoms were popular, and after the deterioration of Sino-Japanese relations, there was even a strange thing that cherry-sawakuras were regarded as traitors. These are recorded in many historical books, and there is also evidence in the poetry works of literati and ink writers, such as the lyricist Xin Qiji, "It can be looked back, under the Buddha Shrine, a crow shrine drum." Who asks, Lian Po is old, can he still eat? Such famous sentences, Bai Juyi, Li Shangyin and other poets also have "the small garden newly planted red cherry trees, idle around the flower branches bento tour"; "Where the mourning kite is in a hurry, the cherry blossoms are forever hanging on the shore"; "How long do the cherry blossoms last? willow green and pink two unknown" and other poems have been handed down.
"Where did you get so many feathers?" Fusu was touched by the self-drive of the craftsmen, but he didn't understand where they got so many feathers.
"Childe doesn't know?" Tang Gu never thought about Fusu, and he didn't know the ins and outs of the matter.
"Since the paper spread in Daqin, the king ordered the villain to train a group of papermaking craftsmen, and also built a papermaking workshop for them to use by officials, and at the same time sold to the world, and this quill pen was also passed out at this time. Shang Shu Linghe will make Shaofu for this purpose also specially provided goose feathers for the production of quills, and later the goose feathers were not enough, they tried to provide other poultry feathers, villains and so on made a lot of attempts, before this set of processes was formulated. However, many ministers felt that since the paper and feather pens were from the hands of the childe, the one used by the prince was the best, so they sent a lot of mulberry and feathers to the house, hoping that the villain would make them on their behalf. ”
Hearing this, Fusu's face became a little solemn, and he was worried that the appearance and popularity of the quill pen would not ruin the calligraphy and Chinese painting that China was proud of in the old time and space.
Tang Gu saw that Fusu's face had changed again, and hurriedly explained: "But what did the villain do wrong?" The villain remembered that Childe had said that he wanted to promote paper to the whole world, so he boldly agreed to the ministers' request. ”
Seeing Tang Gucheng's frightened look, Fusu smiled and said, "It's not that I did it wrong, but I did it too right." If there is a mistake, there is only one mistake, that is, it is too cheap for these officials, and whoever asks them to make pen and paper for them in the future will take their money, and collect money fiercely. I want to train you to be of great use, not for these ministers to be foundries. ”
Fusu decided not to think about calligraphy and Chinese painting, his appearance has changed too many things, not worse than these two, anyway, there is no brush calligraphy and hard pen calligraphy!
"What else have you found besides?" Fusu asked expectantly.
"Yu Gongzi, in addition to the different types of feathers, the same kind of feathers are also good and bad." As he spoke, he took a few pens from the table full of goose feather pens and compared them to Fusu.
"The more feathers that grow on the outside of the wings, the better the pen will be, not only beautiful, but also durable. The same is the outer feather, and there is a distinction between the left and right wings, although there is no difference in quality, but the feathers on the left wing make a pen that is easier to use. As he spoke, he picked up a piece of paper and asked Fusu to try it out.
Fusu randomly scratched on the paper, and found that as Tang Gu said, the left one was more convenient, guessing that this was probably because everyone used their right hand to do this.
"That's a good job, I regret letting you be an official, you're so powerful, you should let you manage the workshop with peace of mind." Fusu never thought that Tang Gu would have such delicate thoughts and skills, he had a lot of technical talents in the old time and space to take up administrative positions, but the story of delaying both technology and administration, couldn't help but be a little worried.
Tang Gu was about to express his modesty, but he heard Han Fei, who had never made a sound all the way, softly "um".