Chapter 26: The Source of Paper
At Fusu's request, Fusu's second son Ying Qian began to study with Fusu, but as Li Si's government affairs became more and more, Meng Yi was responsible for teaching most of the time, and martial arts training became the main learning content of the two sons. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
As in history, when Wei Yi was about to leave the Qin State, he was stopped by Ying Zheng, and the same Ying Zheng worshiped Wei Yi as a national lieutenant, so the Wei Yi in history finally appeared.
Considering that Wei Yi still has plans to leave the Qin State, Ying Zheng did not let Wei Yu be Fusu's teacher in the end, although it is more than a mistake to teach Fu Su with Wei Yi's talent, but Ying Zheng also wants to see if he can tame Wei Yi and let him serve the Qin State with peace of mind, and only then will he rest assured that he will hand over Fu Su to him, and now let Fu Su have a good body, Fu Su's current personality is too jumpy, and it is good to sharpen his temperament under Meng Yi first.
It can be said that Meng Yi's kung fu is really good, and he is a talent with both civil and military skills, so the second generation of this official who has nothing to do and the son of King Qin can get along well, in addition to teaching Fusu and Ying Qian to practice martial arts, you can occasionally show off your talent and learning that is different from ordinary generals, looking at the two villains who worship themselves very much, I feel that this kind of life is not bad, and I see that Fusu will have more sons who will learn from him in the future, the only dissatisfaction is that Fusu occasionally pops up strange questions, and I don't know how to answer.
The ten years of Qin Wangzheng passed in a hurry, and the time came to the eleventh year of Qin Wangzheng, the prince of Qin, Fusu, was already more than five years old, Yingzheng had already put his energy into formulating a strategy to unify the world, and Fusu's plan to transform his thinking had to be temporarily suspended, except for Ying Qian, there was really no one to study with him, Ying Qian did not even accept Li Si's education, he could only accept Meng Yi's teachings and Fusu's poison.
In such a situation, Fusu had to put the main spirit on the research and development of papermaking, since the last reward Tang Gu, the work of these craftsmen has been greatly improved, followed by the research has significant results, according to Zhang Huo, the bleaching technology of the paper has been bad, but there is no way to make the paper bigger, that is, the toughness of the paper is not enough.
"Not bad." Fusu looked at the piece of white paper in his hand, noticed the eager gaze of these craftsmen, did not disappoint these craftsmen, praise it, benefit without expense, why not. "Who's work this time, the bleaching effect of the paper exceeded my expectations, and it should be a big prize."
"It's still Tang Gu's credit!" Foreman Zhang Huo whispered beside him.
"Oh, yes, Tang Gu, tell me how to do it." Fusu was full of curiosity about Tang Gu's two improvements in papermaking.
"Back to His Royal Highness, the villain's family has been a craftsman for generations, and someone has been responsible for the manufacture of silk, among which there is a by-product called square flocculent, which has the same function as the paper that His Highness said, so the villain specifically asked the elders of the clan about the method of production, and it is used in papermaking to have such an effect, which is really not the credit of the villain."
"Fang Fu, what is it, it has the same effect as paper, doesn't it mean that paper was invented by Cai Lun? Did there already be paper before? Fusu was puzzled, he really didn't know what was going on with the appearance of paper, he only remembered that it was Cai Lun's reputation in papermaking in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
After all, Qin Fu is just an ordinary college student, professional knowledge is not helpful for employment, and other knowledge is slightly dabbled, so he can be said to be a "naturalist" who knows a little about everything and doesn't understand anything.
According to a large number of useless college theorists, a high school student can still memorize the periodic table when he just graduates, and he can solve conic equations, and there is no problem at all if he passes the fourth level of English, and he forgets all the knowledge after four years of college, and the professional knowledge of the university is useless for the future life.
"What is Fang Su, tell me." Fusu is very easy-going, and he talks no different from ordinary children, and he is very curious about what he doesn't know.
"Fang flocculent is also called Heyi (di), is the remaining product of reeling silk, reeling silk above the best silkworm cocoon silk weaving, the remaining evil cocoon, disease cocoon, etc. are used to make silk by floating flocculent, after the flocculation is completed, there will be some residues left on the mat, when the number of drifting is more, the residue on the mat will accumulate into a layer of thin sheets, peeled off after drying, can be used for writing, and the paper function is the same as that His Royal Highness said, but the number of by-products of this bleaching is not much, can not be large-scale production, and the practicability is not strong."
Fusu understood, this should be the earliest form of paper, China as the world's earliest silkworm weaving country, in this period to find some by-products is normal, after hundreds of years of experience accumulation, by Cai Lun to complete the upgrade of papermaking, there is a legend of Cai Lun papermaking.
"Okay, Xiling, write it down, reward Tang Gubu ten horses as a reward, and since you have such ability, you will be responsible for the papermaking workshop in the future, and the treatment is the same as Zhang Huo, Zhang Huo is only responsible for the invention of gunpowder." Fusu is not from a chemistry background, let him do papermaking by himself, it is estimated that it will be difficult to make any progress in his life, since there are professionals, it is more appropriate to hand them over to professionals, he is only responsible for rewards.
"Has there been any progress on gunpowder?" Speaking of gunpowder, Fusu is also very concerned, not to mention the upcoming unification war, in the future, Yingzheng will have to "but the Huns more than 700 miles", although they do not understand war, but it does not prevent Fusu from knowing that gunpowder is the only way to restrain cavalry.
Zhang Huo's old face next to him turned red, as the head of this craftsman, not only did he have no achievements in these two projects, but he was also cut off, so he really didn't know where to put his old face, and he didn't know how to answer.
Fusu didn't understand when he saw it, although he was a little disappointed, but he couldn't help it, this kind of thing he didn't understand, he wanted to invent it thousands of years in advance, it was really difficult for the ancients.
"It's okay, take your time, invention and creation are not achieved overnight, papermaking is originally related to Fang Fu, and now it is only such an achievement, it is normal for gunpowder to be slower, no matter how long it takes, as long as there are results, I will not hesitate to reward you."
"I still have two things, I'm sure it's okay to hand them over to you, I'll tell you about them." On a whim, Fu Su felt that he was really bored at present, except for practicing martial arts, he didn't even have any entertainment life, and he couldn't run in the artisan shed every day, so he thought of two simple games, and it was perfect to hand them over to Zhang Huo, who was born as a carpenter.