Looking at the irregular word "quasi" on the recital, Qingji couldn't help frowning.

The problem of ink is secondary, and Qing Ji expected that the brush in his hand was too stiff and inconvenient to write.

Moreover, the font is not beautiful!

It's time to improve the brush and bring the art of papermaking out.

Qingji thought to himself in his heart.

Improving the brush process is very simple, but this papermaking technique is really not ordinary, not a day's work!

"Glue slippery."

"The minister is here."

"Summoning the great workers and ordering the cadres to enter the palace for an audience. Also, find some small bamboo and sheep's hair. ”

"Yui."

The CRRC Fu, which was originally standing on one side, ordered the rubber to slip, and after getting the order of Qingji, he immediately went down to convey it.

In a short time, a pile of verdant fine bamboo, and the whole fur of a sheep, were placed in front of Qingji.

Making a brush seems simple, but in fact, it takes dozens or even hundreds of processes to make a high-quality brush!

Of course, the brushes of this era often used wood as a pole, and the hair was sleeved on the wooden pole with a bamboo tube, which was the original brush.

Legend has it that the sheep hair brush invented by the Qin Dynasty general Meng Tian was first trapped into a pen tip and stuffed into the hole of the pen shaft.

The improvement of Mengtian brush is of great significance to the formation of small seals, which are different from large seals, and the lines of small seals are tactful and tortuous, which cannot be done by hard objects, so they should be written with brushes.

Later generations of pen industry Feng Meng Tian as the ancestor!

At this time, the names of the countries for the brush are different, such as the name of Wu is "unlawful", and the name of Chu is "plug (bamboo)".

It is worth mentioning that the history of the brush has a long history, as early as the Shang Dynasty, people's daily writing was not "knife and pen writing", but the same as the writing on bamboo slips or wood chips after the Qin and Han dynasties.

"Ministers, see the king. Long live the king! ”

The cadres who had not been summoned for a long time, at the moment they entered the Zide Palace, hurriedly paid homage to the Qingji ceremony.

"No need to be polite, flat."

"King Xie!"

The cadre owed half of his body and stood respectfully to the side.

"Sit down."

Qingji stretched out his hand and pointed, and let the cadre sit opposite him.

The cadre didn't even dare to say that he didn't dare until Qingji spoke again, and he sat down flattered.

A cadre from a humble background, he really doesn't dare to be presumptuous in the face of Qingji!

"Cadre, do you know how to make a brush?"

"I understand a little."

The general hurriedly replied, "My lord, it is very simple to make the law of lawlessness. Use wood or bamboo as a pole, put on the hair of livestock such as sheep's hair, rabbit's hair or cow's hair, and stain it with ink, you can write. ”

"However, I am afraid that the writing of such an irregular writing is not very beautiful, and there is a lack of ink, and the speed of writing is too slow?"

"Exactly."

"Cadre, the widow has summoned you this time to improve the law."

Qingji picked up a bamboo that had been cut into the shape of a pen and said slowly: "The widow has a whim, there is a new way to make pens. ”

"The King's command."

"The new method of making pens, the process is complicated, the preparation of materials can be sheep, rabbits, cows, horses and other beasts of the hair, the fur is soaked in water, and then combed and collected with a comb, with its hair ......"

Qing Ji told the cadres one by one about the methods of improving the brush.

He was able to make this new brush alone, but the process was too complicated, time-consuming and laborious, and the final brush could be unsatisfactory.

After all, a brush is not the same as a toothbrush, and choosing a brush is a very crucial step!

The Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi wrote a poem "Zihao Pen": "There are old rabbits on the stones in the south of the Yangtze River, eating bamboo and drinking springs to produce Zihao." The people of Xuancheng took it as a pen, and they picked every millimeter out of tens of thousands of hairs. "Write out the difficulty of choosing!

The truly intact hairs are round and straight, with only three or five out of a hundred.

Others often have disadvantages, such as split ends, no sharp edges, hair stem damage, bending, etc.

When selecting, it is repeatedly combed in the basin, selected one by one, and the defective hairs are removed, and then classified according to the color, softness and hardness, length, thickness, etc., which is a very fine process.

Of course, Qingji doesn't need to make such a fine brush, but it also has to be perfected, isn't it?

After learning of Qingji's idea, the cadre was frightened.

After all, he was good at crafting sharp swords, not brushes......

"Cadre, the widow can give you a month. During this period, you must make a brush that satisfies the widow. ”

"Brush?"

"It's just lawlessness. From then on, the irregularity of my Wu country was a brush. ”

"Minister, obey the king's orders!"

Since the celebration is in good spirits, the cadres can only take on this drudgery with unspeakable suffering.

Fortunately, he is not good at making brushes, which does not mean that there are no such craftsmen in Wu Kingdom!

As the great work order of Wu State, the cadre naturally has the right to give orders and send subordinate craftsmen.

"Officer, do you know paper?"

Qingji asked again.

"Paper?"

The cadre was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Back to the king, the minister is lonely and unheard, but he doesn't know what paper is?" ”

"Paper, like bamboo slips and wooden slips, is for books. However, the paper is thin, the writing is neat, and it is easy to carry, so the widow wants to make paper for the benefit of the world, and it is announced in the world. ”

Hearing this, the cadre had to bite the bullet and ask: "Dare to ask the king, how should this paper be made?" ”

"The specific method of production, you and other craftsmen have found out by themselves, few people only know, the raw materials of the papermaking process should be hemp, rags, mulberry, etc., after water immersion, chopping, washing, cooking, rinsing, pounding, adding water to prepare a suspended slurry, fishing pulp, and drying to become paper."

“……”

The cadre hurriedly wrote down the method of making paper that Qingji said on the side.

Like the improvement of the brush, the invention of papermaking was just as complicated and time-consuming.

Therefore, Qingji can only teach the method to the cadres, and let the craftsmen themselves go through many experiments before finally handing over the results to Qingji!

When it was over, Qingji did not forget to draw a big cake for the cadre, and said: "Cadre, if this brush and paper can be made, the widow should be rewarded." ”

"Tell the craftsmen that the widow has prepared a hundred hectares of fertile land and five hundred pieces of cloth, and if they can do their best to make brushes and paper slips that satisfy the widow, it will be a reward for the craftsmen such as Er!"

"Minister, take the order!"

The go-to guy was instantly stimulated!

Qing Ji looked at a craftsman like them like this, how could a cadre not have honor?

After the cadres left, Qingji was about to go back to deal with government affairs, but he saw that Jiao Slip entered the Zide Hall step by step, and bowed his eyebrows in front of Qingji and said: "King, Da Sima asks to see." ”

"Biography!"

"No."

Sun Ping, as the great Sima, is the third duke, and is trusted and respected by Qingji, since he asks to see, he must have something important.

Guy didn't have anything important, and it was impossible for Sun Ping to meet Qingji in general.

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