Papermaking, from front to back, is a total of four steps:

The first step is to take the material.

That is, cutting down mountains and cutting trees, and digging up some flowers and plants.

The second step is to break down the material.

The fibers in the material are broken down, and in the process, the raw materials are transformed from flowers and trees into water slurry.

The third step is to treat the water slurry.

The decomposed raw material slurry is subjected to some necessary treatments to make it a qualified "liquid paper".

The fourth step is to make paper.

Separate the "liquid paper", flatten it, seep through it, squeeze it, and then dry it again, and you're done.

That's it for four steps. It can be said that even if you are a kindergarten friend, after reading this four-step album, you can also have a clear understanding of the papermaking project. ――

It is not difficult for those who know, but it is not difficult for those who are difficult, standing at the height of a latecomer, looking at some of the inventions and creations of predecessors, it is really outrageously simple.

This is where future generations are superior to their predecessors.

In the eyes of later generations, such a simple thing, you know, has been kept secret for a long time. The four steps of papermaking, any one of them, any small joint in any step, are the supreme secret.

In fact, not to mention the back, it is the first step, and it is a huge level.

For those who know how to do this, it's simply full of paper-making materials. But for those who don't understand......

It's an absolute secret.

You may have guessed it for a lifetime, but you can't guess it.

Let's put it more directly, for example, now, Fang Tian asked the people in Hongshi Town, and asked the people in "Yanhuang New Town", what is paper made of?

Among these tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people, Fang Tian believed. The person who can answer this question can count one slap, even if it is exceeded, those two slaps are also up to the sky. More ......

That doesn't make sense!

Otherwise, it is impossible to explain why writing paper is so scarce in this world, and basically, there should be no sales in Redstone Town.

It's hard to say if there are even any sales in cities such as Giant Rock City, let alone this thing, until now. It may just be circulating in the world of the mage, or taking a step back and circulating in the world of the powerful.

Otherwise, why hasn't Fang Tian seen a book until now?

If paper really circulates among the general public. Well, even if it's a story of a bard passed down by word of mouth or something. Someone will edit it into a book. Then sell it in the streets and alleys of big cities and towns.

However, until now, Fang Tian, who has been living in this novice village, is in the stage of "peeping at the leopard in the tube" for many aspects of this world, and his various speculations may be in line with the facts. It could also be far from the truth.

After all, suppose a traveler crossed the earth, landed in the center of the Sahara Desert, and lived for ten years. It is likely that he thinks that there is very little water on the earth, less than gold, and then he returns to his hometown, wraps water in a small book, and then wears it to the earth, sells it on the earth, and becomes a time-space dumper who sells water.

Based on the same reasoning, generally speaking, Fang Tian rarely made any guesses about all aspects of this world.

On the one hand, it is the recognition that such speculation may not be reliable.

On the other hand, as his cultivation progresses, as he becomes more and more a true practitioner, these things, little by little, are already "things outside the body".

What is "the things of the body"?

Body, mind, consciousness, and spiritual power are just these four things.

Those related to these four are the body, the key, the practice, and the foundation of the body. And those who have nothing to do with these four, no matter what they are, are all outside the body, and they are all floating clouds.

When the clouds come, you can enjoy them, and when the clouds go, let them go.

But that's it.

The establishment of the cross practice system, a simple "ten", is not only divided into four directions, but also "inside and outside".

Cross stands, inside and outside divide.

The inside is from me, the outside follows the world, the inside is cut off from the crowd, and the outside follows the waves, between the inside and the outside, it is also yin and yang.

In other words, as he walked step by step, Fang Tian felt more and more that there was yin and yang everywhere.

The second step of the current paper making is complete.

Fang Tian skipped the third step and went directly to the fourth step.

I saw the mass of slurry hanging in the air, like a flower ball that was originally closed, and now, the flower ball bloomed, and pieces of petals stretched out of it. And while the petals stretched, the water vapor also dissipated little by little.

In about five minutes, the flowers finished blooming, and then they fell into Fang Tian's hands.

But it is the shape of a peony flower, but this peony flower is gray and ugly. However, touching it with his hand and feeling the pure texture of the petals, Fang Tian was pleased.

However, this flower seems to be made of bamboo shoots, and it has also been boiled and burned, so can you eat it now?

After looking at it for a long time, Fang Tian dispelled this idea.

Not far away, the bamboo tips brought up by the swing swayed, like a slight wave sound, and the wind came.

And then soon, little Loli, in the shape of the wind, appeared here.

As soon as she appeared, Xiao Loli looked curiously at the things in Fang Tian's hand, "Brother, what is this? Is this flower? It's so ugly!" After looking at it a few times, Xiao Loli made such a comment.

A smile tugged at the corner of Fang Tian's mouth, "Girl, if I use flowers and trees to build a study for you, do you like it?"

"Study?"

Obviously, this is an extremely unfamiliar word for little Loli.

Despite these two words, she understands both.

Fang Tian shook his head slightly, and then said, "Let's not talk about this first, girl, I'll take you to the wild." The sun is shining, the plants are in full bloom, and it is good to smell the aroma of flowers. By the way, you see which flowers smell good, write them down, and tell me, and I'll make them into the hand-washing thing for you. ”

The "thing" that Fang Tian said here refers to soap.

There is no such thing in this world, and of course there is no corresponding "soap" word in zài. And this thing, so far, is only circulating in the Maple Forest and some small number of compounds in Redstone Town, and its naming right, of course, is also in Fang Tian's hands.

Taking Xiao Loli on a wild trip, Fang Tian's main purpose was to find something.

Some of the things used in papermaking.

Fang Tian knew how paper was made before, but he hadn't done it in the end, and after this little fiddling, he had a bottom in his heart. Next, of course, is how to make the paper.

Among them, there are several key points.

And this key is focused on the third step of papermaking, that is, the processing of raw pulp. Here, it is the "secret of the secret" that the papermaking practitioners in ancient times kept secret.

I don't know the secret here, the paper that is made is scum.

If you use cooking as an example, then this "secret of secrets" is the configuration of seasonings.

It's the same Chinese cabbage, you learn from the chef to wash, you learn from the chef to cut, you learn from the chef to cook, you learn from the chef to stir-fry, you learn from the chef to get the dish out of the pot in the same time.

But the chef's dishes are fragrant and crispy, and the taste is particularly long.

But the food you cook tastes like chewing wax.

Just because you don't have that chef's exclusive "seasoning packet".

Fang Tian's task today is to find the raw materials, and then match the "seasoning package" in the papermaking project.

This "seasoning packet" is very simple, only salt and oil.

As for the "thirteen incense" or something, that's a later thing, this kind of thing, whether you want it or not, some people like it, and some people think it's redundant. This thing is just the icing on the cake, but it is just an embellishment.

What Fang Tian has to do now is just "brocade". (To be continued......)