Qin Feng was not surprised when he heard this, even if the arrival of these 200,000 homeless people was not deliberately done by Cao Cao and Liu Biao, would they or their advisers not think of sending people to infiltrate them to find out the news in Nanyang?

How could they let go of such an opportunity?

The enemy will not die!

He thought for a while and said to Juniper: "Don't startle the snake for the time being, see who they have contacted, find out their contact information among the homeless, the entire fine work network, and then act to solve it together!" ”

"Yes!"

For the young and able-bodied laborers among the displaced people, the Taishou government has decided to let them clean up the river, lift soil to strengthen the embankment, and take care of two meals a day, so that they can survive in this way of cash-for-work.

However, there are still many women among the homeless, the old and weak and children can not work, but these women can not be idle, at first Taishoufu decided to let these women spin and weave, but now there are not enough spinning wheels and looms, Xi Jizheng and his carpenters are working overtime to make it.

In order to make the best use of things, Qin Feng sent people to find Yang Hong, and asked him to select all the craftsmen among the homeless people, since they were professional craftsmen, let them do professional things, let the carpenters go to Xi Ji to participate in the production of spinning wheels and looms, and let the blacksmiths build weapons, repair weapons and build farm tools.

Among the craftsmen were masons and masons, and Qin Feng asked the government to send people to organize these masons to build several bridges over several rivers to facilitate the passage of the common people and merchants.

Under the organization of the government, these homeless masons built more than a dozen stone bridges in various parts of Nanyang, which were used for thousands of years without collapsing.

Qin Feng saw that Xiao Qiao was idle in the backyard, her stomach was still flat, and it would be a long time before the child was born, so he asked her, "Do you want to do some work?" ”

Little Joe asked, "What do you do?" ”

Qin Feng said: "The Taishou Mansion has decided to select some of the women among the homeless people to spin and weave, a large number of carpenters are making spinning wheels and looms these days, if you let the officials take care of them, I am afraid it will be inconvenient, why don't you choose a few people from the wives and concubines of the officials in the city to follow you to take care of these women, bring your maids with you, if you have something, you can let them take care of it!" ”

"Of course, you can't manage it alone, you have to choose some obedient and communicative people from among those women to help you manage other women!"

Xiao Qiao was obviously interested after hearing this, she had already been suffocated in the Taishou Mansion, and immediately said: "This is a good errand, I will take it!" But to spin and weave cloth, in addition to spinning wheels and looms, you must also have hemp and silk! ”

Qin Feng said: "This year, a batch of hemp and silk has been collected in the tax, you can also send someone to buy more hemp and silk from the people, the money will come out of the treasury, and the rest of the income will go to the treasury in addition to paying normal expenses!" ”

Qin Feng's expenses are too big now, he is too poor, and he needs money for everything, especially the 30,000 army needs a huge amount of military expenses every month, and other princes give the sergeants a mouthful of food to eat, Qin Feng's army is a recruitment, not only to give food, but also to pay military salaries, although each person is not much every month, but there are many people, and the monthly expenses are naturally not small.

So he is now dreaming of making money, in order to make money, he decided to make paper, now there is Caihou paper for sale on the market, but the price is extremely expensive, but too rough, writing brush words ink can not condense, writing on the spread of the word, the words are small and easy to blur.

As for winemaking, he has never made wine, but once upon a time his neighbor's house was a winemaker, and there was a small workshop that made pure grain wine from rice and wheat, and he still remembered the structure of the winemaking equipment very well.

Winemaking is not good, now that there is a shortage of food, people can't eat enough, how can there be extra grain to make wine? Why did many ancient dynasties prohibit alcohol for a certain period of time? And not because of food shortages? When the aristocratic officials took the grain to make wine, there was less grain on the market, and the price would inevitably soar, and the consequences would still have to be borne by the common people.

First get out the good quality paper, this thing is not a necessity for the people's life, but it is very attractive to the literati and writers, for those rich scholars, wealthy families, princes and nobles, they are willing to spend money.

What's more, the raw materials for papermaking are easily sourced, bamboo, tree bark, and plant fibers can all be used to make paper, and the cost is low.

Just do it, Qin Feng ordered people to find some craftsmen, and built a large stove and two filter pools and a pulping pool in the backyard of Taishou Mansion.

He also ordered the blacksmith to make a large guillotine and a cauldron, the guillotine was used to chop the raw materials, and the large iron pot was used to steam the raw materials.

Qin Feng has never done this thing himself, so naturally it is not good for others to do it, only if he experiments and makes it first, can he guide others to do it.

He ordered people to collect some bark, bamboo, and hemp, and hired a few soldiers as helpers, first asked the sergeant to chop the raw materials with a guillotine, and then put them in a cauldron according to a certain proportion, fill it with water, and record the mixing ratio, and then steam it over a fire.

I kept adding water halfway, and I kept steaming for a day and a night, until the raw materials were steamed to a thin scale, and then I scooped up the rough slurry, and then used a donkey to pull the stone mill to grind the fibers into a worse and finer, poured into the first pool and filtered, and scooped up the rough fibers, this thing can be left to make straw paper, which is better than using bamboo and wood chips to wipe the buttocks, right?

After filtration, the pulp goes through the second filtration process, and continues to filter out some of the coarse fibers, and the rest is the relatively thick pulp, which is too thick, and the appropriate amount of water is added to dilute it before pouring it into the pulp pool.

Then it is to use a special handmade bamboo curtain to make wet paper pages, which have a certain degree of adhesion and strength, and fall off from the bamboo curtain with a slight flick and stick it on a special wooden board to dry outside.

Because Qin Feng didn't know much about the manufacturing process and process, he failed many times, either the wet paper page that was fished out had no strength and could not fall off, or the paper produced was not strong enough, or it was not uniform enough, or the ink was scattered when it was written.

It wasn't until thirteen experiments and nearly twenty days passed that he succeeded in making a paper that could be written.

"What is this?" That night, Xiao Qiao couldn't help but ask curiously when he saw a stack of white paper on Qin Feng's desk.

Qin Feng happened to walk in from the outside and said, "This is paper, I've been busy with this these days, and I've turned a living Taishou into a manufacturing master!" ”

"This ······ This is paper, which is much better looking than Caihou paper, and it is whiter! Xiao Qiao said in surprise, she picked up a sheet and pulled it hard, and the paper was torn by the car with a loud noise.

She couldn't help but say in surprise: "Good, good! ”

Qin Feng said: "Why don't you pick up a pen and write, try it?" ”

Xiao Qiao's eyes lit up, and she immediately became interested, Qin Feng immediately polished the ink for her, and she picked up the pen and put the ink on the next fu.