Chapter 533: Raising Rice
The paper to be made of leaves and fruits is really diverse.
She wanted to make not only natural colored paper, but also all kinds of colored paper.
That is, the paper is processed to dye it color.
However, the first few batches of paper she planned to make were ordinary book paper, but it was better than the ordinary book paper here, and the price was lower.
Why is the price low?
That's because the cost of this paper is not high, and she will use 'paper medicine', which has a function of improving the paper yield.
And no one here knows about this paper medicine yet.
The papermaking technology here is simply too backward.
In other words, the same pulp can only be made by the people here fifty sheets of paper, but she may make a hundred after adding paper medicine to the pulp.
But in fact, this paper medicine is actually the water infusion of yellow hollyhock stem leaves, star fruit vines, hibiscus leaves, and wild grapes, the water infusion of these things is viscous, and it is added to the pulp when making paper, which can improve the suspension performance of the fiber, and can also make the paper fiber evenly distributed and other functions.
Improving the paper yield is only one of its functions.
As for such an important part of paper medicine, Ye Guoguo and Ji Jingbai didn't plan to tell everyone in the workshop, but only told a few stewards in the workshop.
The less people know, the better.
And although this is an essential part, it does not need to be known to everyone.
The same goes for the other details, which only a few stewards know.
As for the reason why Ye Guoguo let ordinary book paper be made first, first, this kind of paper will be very popular in the future because many bookstores print books; The second is that this kind of paper is also very easy to make, and the people in the workshop will not make paper, even if they know the general process, they are also hand-made, and they can't operate it proficiently, so they will make a few batches of this paper first, so that everyone can be familiar with it.
When everyone is proficient, they will make other paper later.
There are two or three hundred people in the workshop, everyone prepares together, so even if there are many things prepared, they can be prepared in a few days, and then, Ye Guoguo and Ji Jingbai don't care, and they are thrown to Jian Yushu, and let Jian Yushu, the chief manager, take care of it.
Those flow charts, as well as the details, were naturally told to Jian Yushu.
Jian Yushu took several other stewards to discuss and assign their respective jobs, and then, on the ninth day of October, the workshop began to officially make paper according to the flow chart.
The flowchart not only has a clear diagram, but also a text explanation, anyway, it is very clear, as long as you come to the flowchart, it is the first time you make paper, and you are not skilled in your hands.
But it's good to get used to it.
It's good to build a few more times.
As soon as Ye Guoguo let go, she didn't care about anything in the workshop, so she took her father-in-law to see the rice in her terraced fields, the rice was already yellow, and in ten days at most, the rice could be harvested.
This rice grows so well, even Ye Guoguo himself didn't expect it.
She originally thought that the harvest of the first time she had planted in this wasteland would not be very good.
In vain, she spends most of her energy on taking care of the terraces.
Looking at this terraced field that is about to be harvested, Ye Guoguo thought of the scene of harvesting, where harvesting rice cannot be mechanized, mainly because there is no such condition.
She has the strength, and she doesn't have to worry about beating rice.
It is to raise the rice, get rid of the grass clippings in the rice, and deflated the rice......
If there is a wind, the rice will be lifted to the sky, and the grass clippings and deflated rice will naturally be blown away, but if there is no wind, it will be miserable......
Thinking like this, Ye Guoguo hurriedly said to her husband: "Xianggong, we have to go to Carpenter Yao to make a windmill, so as not to be limited by the wind, so that we will not be able to raise rice at that time." ”