Since Jingwen plans to make paper, he naturally has to prepare the materials for papermaking. If you use wood to make zuò, it will take a long time. It takes months just to soak and ferment, so Jingwen plans to make paper from something else. And Jingwen was a southerner in later life, so he knew what to use to make paper.

"Miss Xue Xue, where do we usually go to buy brown sugar in restaurants?" Jingwen asked.

Xue Xue said: "We went to the sugar mills outside the city to buy it, and they use sugar cane to extract sugar. ”

In the Tang Dynasty, sucrose was not unusual, it was introduced to China as early as the pre-Qin and Zhou dynasties, and has since become a common seasoning on the table of the common people. The sugar industry in the Tang Dynasty was also very large, and dignitaries and nobles liked to eat sugar. Therefore, there was no shortage of sucrose in China during this period, but it was very abundant.

"Miss Xue Xue, you sent someone to those workshops that produced cane sugar, but asked them for some bagasse back." Jingwen said.

"Bagasse? What's the use of asking for bagasse? Xue Xue asked.

"I'm going to make paper from bagasse." Jingwen said.

"Bagasse to make paper? Is this okay? Xue Xue asked.

For a long time, papermaking has been made from wood or bamboo, but Jingwen actually said that he would use bagasse to make paper, which is a bit surprising.

But Jingwen knew that bagasse could make paper. Although bagasse paper is not as good as wood and bamboo, it is very good for ancient people. Bagasse is not expensive and can be easily fermented without cutting down a large number of trees. And this bagasse can also be widely sourced, and there will be no shortage of raw materials. Even, if sugarcane bagasse is used to make paper, it can also drive the development of the sugar industry, which is a good way to kill multiple birds with one stone.

Soon, Xue Xue got a lot of bagasse from a long-term cooperative sugar extraction workshop. And it is also specially selected those that have been around for a while and have been fully fermented. Those bagasse sugar mills didn't know what to do with it, so since someone was willing to ask for it, they gave it, and they didn't even collect the money, as long as Jingwen was willing to take it away, they would take it away.

"Okay, you mash all this bagasse and make it into pulp as you normally would." Jingwen said.

And the employees of the paper mill saw this, and some did not believe that this bagasse could make paper. But now that Jingwen has contracted them all, then they naturally have to make paper according to Jingwen's orders, so they still obeyed Jingwen's orders. They started to get the bagasse into the steamer basket and cook it, and it was done very quickly.

Because bagasse is softer than wood bamboo, and these bagasses have been fermenting for a long time, don't worry about anything bad. Therefore, the steaming time is much shorter, less than two days is enough. At this time, Jingwen saw that the employees of the paper mill had taken out bagasse and mashed it into pulp.

"Wait a minute, you will remove the cane pith from it, and then you will make the pulp." Jingwen said.

Jingwen knew that sugarcane paper had another problem, that is, there was cane pith. The cane pith does not have the stickiness of fibers, so it cannot be used to make paper at all, and it should be removed at this time.

The employees of the papermaking workshop made it according to Jia Jingwen's arrangement, and then used the bamboo curtain to filter out the water according to the old method, and then laid the pulp on the bamboo curtain upside down on a flat surface.

"Can this sugarcane paper really work?" Xue Xue still asked suspiciously.

Jingwen replied in the affirmative; "Yes, absolutely. If you don't believe it, just look at it, and the papers will come out later. At that time, a new type of paper will come out, which not only has a short manufacturing time, but also can make paper at a low cost. We can get paper almost every day, so that we can make books affordable for everyone in the world. ”

"If everyone in the world can afford to read, then I am afraid your merit will be great." Xue Xue said.

If the whole world could use cheap paper, wouldn't that be a great merit? When the time comes, who would dare to say that Jingwen is just a copper-smelling businessman? Even, many people will support this business.

The paper dried quickly, and Xue Xue picked up the brush, began to experiment a few strokes on this paper, and then said: "This paper is really good, although it is not as good as rice paper, but it is not bad." ”

Then Jingwen also picked up the piece of paper, pulled it with his hand, and found that the toughness of the paper was still good, and nodded. Because if the paper is not tough enough, it may be easy to chip, and it is useless. Only if there is enough resilience can we do it well.

"Okay, it's time to make movable type printing." Jingwen thought secretly.

Movable type printing is actually very simple, that is, a small font can be printed on a seal, and then when it needs to be printed, it will be spliced together according to the required text, so that it can be printed into a book.

This invention seems very simple, but it saves countless engraving costs, and it does not require those carvers to make an engraving for each page of the book. In this way, the cost savings are much lower, and the book printing industry can be fully developed. Therefore, this is also listed as one of the four great inventions in China.

Jingwen improved papermaking in one day, and was able to invent movable type printing, which can be said to be a super cheat. And Xue Xue was also surprised when she heard Jingwen's statement, obviously she didn't expect that printing would have this purpose, and she could use movable type to print.

"Miss Xue Xue, you hurry up and find a carver to get these commonly used movable types right. So we can make a set of books, and then we can start a book printing workshop. If we can print cheap books, we will not only gain fame, but also make a lot of copper coins! Not to mention anything else, as long as we do our best to develop, don't let the technology be revealed so quickly, so that we can take advantage of this time to develop and become the overlord of book printing and papermaking, and become the leading boss. Jingwen immediately pointed out the country and said.

Xue Xue looked at Jingwen, a "child" who was younger than herself, and was a little surprised and admired. How did this Jingwen grow up since he was a child, and he actually pointed out the country so with one mouth, and was so ambitious?

Xue Xue knew that Jing Wen was a habit brought about by writing online novels in later generations, and his tone was very big. The novels he wrote are all emperors and generals, can he not have a big tone? Now he himself has become a pig's foot, so he has brought with him all the tone of the pig's foot.