After descending to Meng Tian and Zhao Gao, Ji Le felt that the Yongle Hall had too many people, so he temporarily sealed the spirit of the divine beast sacrificed by Xun'an, and no longer summoned people, but focused more on the embodiment of the utensils.

Five days later, Ji Le picked up a pen and wrote in the front hall.

Zhao Gao walked in: "Your Highness." Today's paper pattern is finished. ”

Ji Le paused, and then saw the bruises on Zhao Gao's face: "What, I was beaten by General Meng with a sack again?" His words were flat, and he couldn't hear joy and anger.

Zhao Gao smiled bitterly in his heart, he didn't dare to really blame Meng Tian for this matter, so he replied honestly: "No, it's not General Meng." It's a child of the neighborhood. ”

"Child?" Ji Le put down the pen, looked Zhao Gao up and down, and instructed Xi Shi, who was helping him to grind ink, next to him: "You bring the wound medicine over and apply it to him." ”

Five days ago, after Ji Le's words, Xi Shi's attitude towards him changed slightly. Although he still didn't have a complete heart-to-heart, he also began to walk in the Yongle Palace, serving tea to Ji Le in the posture of a maid.

Xi Shi looked at Zhao Gao, his eyes with a little sympathy.

In the past few days, under the guidance of Ji Le, she began to read history books and learn about Zhao Gao's deeds. understood that Zhao Gao was not a good person, but in order to envelop Meng Tian, Wang Ting directly released Zhao Gao's identity and made him the target of everyone's shouting. Every day when I go back and forth between the Agricultural Palace and the Spirit Palace, there are many children throwing stones.

Shi Yiguang went to the back to get the medicine, and Zhao Gao presented the bamboo paper he made today.

"This is the latest achievement, please take a look at it, Your Highness. ”

The bamboo paper presented by Zhao Gao was slightly yellowed, with some smell of bamboo leaves.

"It looks better than the paper I sent yesterday. Ji Le stretched out his hand and stroked it, the paper had not been polished in both cases, but it was qualified as writing paper.

"Everything is the work of His Highness's teachings. ”

"Why, you also say such words to Emperor Qin? No wonder you can always be favored. Ji Le sneered and wrote a few words on the paper.

The ink slowly penetrated, but it was not overly cloudy, and Ji Le nodded slowly: "It's okay." ”

"If Cai Hou is here, he has divine power, just point his finger at the bamboo forest, maybe those bamboo leaves will turn into paper by themselves. You still have to do processing, although there is magic to help, but the steps are much more troublesome. ”

Jile's so-called papermaking is improved by using the "bamboo paper technology" of later generations. After all, there was the most bamboo near Jiugong City, so he took out the bamboo paper from the Ming and Qing dynasties and asked Zhao Gao and Meng Tian to study it.

In the earth, the bamboo paper process can be divided into the process of breaking green, cutting green, knocking white, bleaching, putting into the wok, boiling, turning the beach, fermentation, scooping, stirring, papermaking and so on.

Ji Le and Shi Huang made deletions and modifications in order to make the process simple and fast, and only a few basic processes were retained.

Finishing: select young bamboo stems to break green, cut green, knock white.

Bleaching: The white blank is cut off, immersed in clean water and soaked, and covered with lime water.

Fermentation: Sun-dried blanks are steamed in a wok. After the processes of wok, boiling, turning, drenching, fermentation, etc., the raw materials are made.

Pulp: The raw materials are broken and licked, and put into water to stir into pulp (the raw materials cannot be allowed to sink to the bottom and stirred repeatedly).

Papermaking: Papermaking is carried out with bamboo curtains, curtain beds and other tools. The water is then pressed with a lever and finally dried.

But there is a lot of room for operation in these steps, and the results depend on Zhao Gao and Meng Tian's own understanding.

Ji Le put down his pen and looked up and asked Zhao Gao, "Do you know the situation over there in Meng Tian?"

"I don't know. ”

Of course, Zhao Gao wanted to pay close attention to the situation on Meng Tian's side. But he knew in his heart that he was doing more and more wrong. If you run to spy on Meng Tian's work process, in case the process goes wrong there, you will be unlucky.

"Your Highness. Xi Shi took the wound medicine and prepared to apply it to Zhao Gao.

Zhao Gao hurriedly said: "Don't bother Miss Shi, I'll just apply the medicine myself." ”

He took the medicine and got up to take his leave.

Waiting for Zhao Gao to leave, Ji Le took out another pile of paper from the side and asked Xi Shi, "What do you think of the paper sent by the two of them?"

"This gentleman sent two rounds of bamboo paper yesterday and today. General Meng only sent it back once today. In terms of efficiency alone, Mr. Zhao is slightly better. In terms of paper quality, Mr. Zhao may be stronger. Of course, I'm afraid that these three times are not in line with His Highness's wishes. ”

Otherwise, why would Ji Le continue to use bamboo slips?

Looking at the paper sent by Meng Tian not long ago, and then looking at the paper sent by Zhao Gao in the second round, Ji Le was silent.

There are many steps in papermaking, but in the first step, Meng Tian and Zhao Gao do a similar approach. Cut down the young bamboo and cut it off, then peel off the green skin, and smash the white bamboo blank to break the fibers.

"It is said that Qin Shi has assembly line operations. There is not much difference between the two of them. All of them are to divide workers into batches and carry out the corresponding steps. ”

But then, the whitened blank is soaked in water. The two have very different approaches.

Meng Tian followed the steps recorded by Emperor Shi, bleaching, steaming, and shortening the time with the Spirit Palace technique. Otherwise, it will take several days for the first step of bleaching, seven days for cooking white blanks, and one month for the subsequent fermentation. All this is accelerated by the magic power of the witches.

However, Zhao Gao's approach was more direct and rude.

Steaming, soaking?

Zhao Gao saw that Meng Tian was looking for help from the witches, and he went to the witches for help. The raw materials are omitted in the first few steps, and after the initial soaking, they are broken into powder by magic, made into pulp and put in some plant juice for acid and base neutralization.

Of course, Zhao Gao and the witches didn't understand any acid-base principles. They are experimenting with the sap of a variety of plants. In the first three days, when he sent people to the Agricultural Palace to make bamboo curtains and other papermaking tools, Zhao Gao stayed in the factory and studied the mixing of pulp with the workers.

"Take advantage of the special convenience of the gods to bypass many cumbersome projects. The blank is broken into pulp, which is made and dried. In terms of concept change, Zhao Gao is indeed faster than Meng Tian. ”

Meng Tian is too pragmatic, and his thinking is still on the production of workers. Just like the young man didn't expect to combine magic with the art of war, although Meng Tian used magic to speed up, he didn't expect to directly change the papermaking process from the essence.

Of course, this method can only be used in the god generation, and there must be a special process in the future to eliminate the influence of all divine powers. ”

He is currently in the god generation, and he can squander mana unscrupulously. But in case one day, there is no aura in the world. After the power of the gods declined, everything had to start with industry.

Kneading the base paper sent by the two, Ji Le said to Xi Shi: "You are right, ten days is still too short. Neither of them had bamboo paper to my liking. However, Zhao Gaoneng thought of improving the process and directly making raw pulp and paper, and the concept was indeed more advanced. If I go back and master the whitening, polishing and dyeing techniques, I may be able to create a bamboo paper that I am happy with. Of course, it would be nice if there were sandalwood trees, and what I want most is rice paper. ”

"By the way, how are you learning Lishu? and the Heavenly Seal, I see that you are very interested in magic, and during my time in the Spirit Palace, you can learn hard-"

Suddenly, Ji Le's wrist cracked, and blood slowly dripped onto the paper.

His face sank, and anger flashed across his face.

When Xi Shi saw it, he hurriedly bandaged Ji Le, and immediately thought of the instructions of Yu Yuan and others, and hurriedly said: "Your Highness, is this something wrong with the people?"

The death of the people will cause His Highness to be injured.

"I'll go and inform Your Excellency Yu Yuan. ”

"No, the other party is already here!"

Ji Le turned his head to look behind him, and a huge black bird rushed to the front hall from the atrium and attacked Ji Le and Xi Shi.

The three-headed monster bird exuded divine might, accompanied by bursts of thunder, and its claws reached for Ji Le's door.

Seeing that Ji Le was injured, Xi Shi pushed the national spirit away without thinking: "Your Highness, retreat!"

Her face was pale, red light rose under her feet, and the original Liuxian skirt suddenly changed into a women's power suit. Grabbing the Qinglu sword hanging on the wooden frame, this beautiful woman of the Yue Kingdom swung her sword to meet the fierce birds coming from the atrium.

Ji Le's right hand was injured, but it didn't stop him from casting spells. He originally planned to suppress this fierce bird by himself, but he didn't expect Xi Shi to be so capable of fighting?

"Moreover, there is something wrong with the breath on her body, can she feel the traces of the martial spirit?

Xi Shi acted secretly during this time, learning immortal arts to enhance his hole cards, Ji Le didn't know, but he didn't bother to ask. Shi Yiguang's strength has increased, which is only good for him.

I remember that Su Zhi said that Xi Shi often looked in the mirror in the palace alone and talked to himself in the mirror. Could it be that it is one and two souls? Ah, I understand, Xi Shi Zheng Dan, I see, I used this canon. ”