Chapter 185: Improvement, Raw Materials!
If you want to improve your papermaking process, you need to understand the existing process.
It is necessary to understand what level the current papermaking technology is, and understand its advantages and disadvantages, so as to make targeted improvements to it.
So early in the morning, when Xiang Yuyue was still eating breakfast, she saw Xiang Yan finish washing and tidying up, and she was about to go out.
Xiang Yan, who was rich in nutritious breakfast on the table, didn't even look at it, picked up a steamed bun and prepared to leave.
Xiang Yuyue greeted:
"Xiang Yan, are you going to see your paper workshop again?"
"I'm bored to death, and I don't know what to see."
Xiang Yan, who had already stepped out of the door with one foot, was stunned when she heard this.
Turning back and asking:
"By the way, second aunt, do you know what the process of papermaking is? Have you ever seen the process of making paper in a workshop? ”
Xiang Yuyue shook her head:
"If you ask me how porcelain is fired, I know a little bit."
"What is there to know about the production process of a broken paper."
Xiang Yan shook his head:
"You're just making unrealistic judgments about other things based on your own imagination."
"Actually, the papermaking process is quite interesting."
"Today, a batch of new materials is about to come out of the pond, and the manufacturing of a batch of new paper is about to be put on the process, so you can go to observe and observe."
"How about it, do you want to go and see it together?"
Xiang Yuyue was curious:
"Aren't you usually annoyed that I always follow you?"
"Why is it so abnormal today?"
"What's your plot?"
Xiang Yan said:
"What kind of conspiracy can I have, I just see that you stay at home every day and get moldy, and I want to pull you out for a walk."
"I said second aunt, didn't you still work normally before, how can you work more after acting as an agent for the secret door, but the whole person is completely idle."
"You can't do this, you'll become a waste."
Xiang Yuyue smiled and said:
"It's a waste to not use such a good tool as a secret door, since you can be a shopkeeper and work seriously, isn't it sick."
Xiang Yan persuaded again:
"But today's paper-making process is really interesting, anyway, you're idle at home, and it's boring to have no games to play, so it's better to go and see it together, and you should go play."
Under Xiang Yan's repeated invitations, Xiang Yuyue was finally moved.
But after the boring experience last time, she decided that she had to do some preparation before going this time.
Prepare yourself a small maza to sit on, and then bring a big bag of snacks.
Xiang Yuyue and Xiang Yan got into the carriage last time.
It was still driven by Liu Yan.
Xiang Yuyue asked:
"Lao Liu, don't you still have a huge fishing boat to take care of, why are you so idle, come to do the work of a coachman every day."
"You can just find someone to do this errand, and you really don't know the trouble."
Liu Yan replied respectfully:
"It's too late for me to be happy to drive for my son, how can it be troublesome."
"The juniors in the family don't know how to be polite, and they can't take care of their sons, so I can rest assured that I will come in person."
"Besides, the son often commands things, and there are many things that the juniors can't do, so I have to come in person."
Xiang Yuyue, who was used to shaking her hands as a shopkeeper, naturally didn't understand Liu Yan's thoughts, and only ended this conversation noncommittally.
Follow the familiar road last time to the front of Xiang's paper workshop.
Yes, after the original Ma's Paper Industry was acquired by Xiang Yan, it is now also renamed Xiang's Paper Industry.
Liu Yan went to find a place to place the carriage, and Xiang Yuyue followed Xiang Yan into the workshop.
After Xiang Yan entered the door, he walked straight in the direction of the backyard.
Xiang Yuyue followed to the backyard, which was a large pond that she had seen the last time she came.
At this moment, many workers gathered around the pond.
They all had tools in their hands, as if they were going to fish for something in the pond.
Xiang Yuyue thought at first that she was going to catch fish, but those tools didn't look like them.
Xiang Yan explained to her:
"It's about catching bamboo."
"Fishing for bamboo?" Xiang Yuyue said curiously.
I've only heard of cutting bamboo, but I haven't heard of fishing bamboo, can this bamboo still grow to the bottom of the water?
Xiang Yan laughed when she heard Xiang Yuyue's doubts, and then explained:
"It's the raw material used in papermaking."
"In the early spring, the workers go up the mountain to cut down a lot of fresh bamboo and dip it into the pond."
"This bubble will take 100 days."
"The microorganisms in the water are used to decompose the bamboo first, and the green skin of the bamboo is washed away."
"This is the first step of papermaking, cutting bamboo and drifting ponds."
Xiang Yuyue suddenly exclaimed:
"Soak for a hundred days?"
"That's too long, isn't it?"
"Wouldn't the production cycle of that batch of paper take half a year?"
"That's right." Xiang Yan looked at the big pond soaked in bamboo in front of her, as if she was talking to Xiang Yuyue, and as if she was saying to herself, "This is the most inconvenient thing about making paper from the raw material of bamboo." ”
"Therefore, bamboo, a raw material for papermaking, is the first step in the future reform."
"The first step is to move away from bamboo as a raw material."
This was heard by an old worker passing by.
suddenly couldn't help laughing:
"Heh, the young master of a rich family is good."
"Rich and capricious, everything can be done by one's own temperament, without considering the reality at all."
"I look at this workshop, I'm afraid it's going to be finished."
As soon as Xiang Yuyue heard this, how could she tolerate the yin and yang weirdness of others with her temperament, even if it was not her who was yin and yang, but Xiang Yan.
So he immediately shouted:
"Old horseman stop me, what do you say!"
"Do you know who your current master is? Dare to talk to my family Xiang Yan like this! ”
At this time, Liu Yan, who went to settle the carriage, also happened to come over, and just happened to encounter this scene.
Liu Yan suddenly felt a great headache, but he had no choice but to bite the bullet.
pleaded with Xiang Yan and said:
"Childe, don't care, this is the most senior craftsman in the workshop, Zhu Laosan, who is engaged in technology, you also know, straightforward and fast-talking, there is no malice, you take care of it."
Xiang Yan didn't care, but dissuaded Xiang Yuyue:
"It's okay, second aunt, what is your identity, what are you doing with the general knowledge of people, isn't it yourself who is angry and loses your body."
Xiang Yuyue was still indignant:
"If you dare to say that the master is not the identity of the next person, this is trespassing, and it is the following offense! According to the law of the Great Zhou, even if you kill him! ”
"Xiang Yan, you are too unruly, so some sluts dare to violate your authority!"
"This workshop has just come over, and many people don't know you yet, I see, you have to open a knife and make an example of the chickens and monkeys, so as not to lose your awe in the future!"
Xiang Yan didn't think so.
To be honest, Xiang Yan can quite understand Zhu Laosan.
If he is the chief technician of a large factory, a rich kid who is not well-known comes to his factory to talk nonsense.
Then I will be angry.