Chapter Forty-Seven: Simple Papermaking, One-Step Movable Type Copperplate Printing
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Zhao Gao's eyes were bigger than the copper bell, staring at the black-armored guard in front of him.
"You, say it again?"
Don't believe it.
I can't believe it.
He Zhao Gao has been in the palace for so many years, from a small court servant to the current position.
And there was much to see.
I have never met anyone who dared to refuse the edict of the First Emperor.
But now!
"Whoever dares to approach ten steps, kill."
The black armor guard stared at Zhao Gao indifferently.
In addition to His Majesty the First Emperor, the only one who can directly order them is the captain of the guard, which is now General Guo Huaiyi Guo.
Zhao Gao reprimanded angrily: "Do you know that this official came on the orders of His Majesty? ”
But the black armor guard stared at Zhao Gao indifferently, no matter what Zhao Gao said, he just didn't let Zhao Gao in.
"This official wants to see if you dare to stop it." Zhao Gao's face was full of anger, and he was red in the firelight, so he was about to raise his feet and rush inside.
However, halfway up, Zhao Gao stopped in mid-air.
Because, no one in black armor stepped forward to stop him.
That's not normal.
Normally.
The order to kill those who are close to him is relative.
It depends on who you meet to do what, and a close minister of the emperor like him, if he can't enter, he will usually be blocked and persuaded to return.
But now.
None of the black-armored guards came up to persuade him to return.
This is the real terrifying part, the iron-blooded execution methods of the Black Armor Guard, he has not seen it.
This was one of the most elite armies of Great Qin, with only 10,000 men.
However, the execution of these people has reached an outrageous level.
"General Guo, General Guo, Your Majesty's edict orders General Guo to see the driver."
Zhao Gao didn't dare to get closer and shouted, this time he was really full of awe of Yingcheng rising like a rising star today.
Refusing His Majesty's edict, he didn't dare to think about it.
After shouting a few times, no one came out, Zhao Gao could only sigh helplessly and turned to leave.
Papermaking!
Paper!
In fact, it is a process in which fibers are bonded together through a certain chemical reaction.
Raw materials include bark, hemp, rags, bamboo, wood, bark, reeds and other herbaceous plants with longer fibers.
Step 1: Stir up the raw materials.
Step 2: Grey water steaming plus whitening
Boil with strong alkali or other chemicals, lime is one of them.
Step 3: Pulp or dehydrate.
Pulping: Stir and beat sufficiently to make the pulp fibers float evenly in the paper.
Dehydration: After stirring well, filter out the water after steaming the pulp to leave a thick pulp.
Step 4: Make paper or compress.
Papermaking: Use the papermaking mold frame to put it into the paper groove and copy it evenly, so that the pulp fibers stay on the papermaking mold frame.
Compression: The thick pulp is placed on the machine to be flattened and dried.
Step 5: Dry the paper or dry it
The principle is the same, the wet paper is dried or dried.
Step 6: Paper
Peel off the paper of the papermaking mold frame, which is a piece of paper, and then cut it, which is a piece of paper.
If the technology of the future generations of papermaking, this is a complete set of assembly line production.
But now.
It needs to be distributed manually.
After the formation of stable technical production, we will carry out step-by-step improvement and innovation.
That's all for later.
Right now.
He needs to follow the traditional papermaking technique, one after another, to create the objects needed for the papermaking process.
Then cooperate with manpower to carry out segmented manufacturing.
Among them.
A huge bronze boiling tank for steaming.
Stirring and hammering with giant sticks and hammers.
The most important papermaking mold frame, a fine gauze.
Huge sun-drying and drying space.
Large square table with cut paper.
It's a responsibility to look at this process.
But in practice, it's not that hard.
He is not short of manpower, material resources, financial resources, and strength now, but only time.
"The bronze boiling pool doesn't need to be very precise, it needs to be big, like a pot at home, and you need to cook things."
"Sticks and hammers, be light and tough."
"The papermaking mold frame should be fine and hard."
Yingcheng instructed all the papermaking components to each group to be assigned to each group.
It can't be helped.
In fact, papermaking is an extremely simple thing, as long as you know the principle, it is easy to study.
It's only a matter of time before papermaking leaks out of the world.
He wasn't optimistic about it.
So, there's a time lag involved.
Within this time difference.
He used papermaking to achieve his own ends, and when the time came, it would not matter if it was made public.
Finally.
All the building blocks create things, and they are all assigned.
Finally breathed a sigh of relief.
It can be regarded as a temporary completion of the first major event.
But that's not the end of it.
There is also bronze movable type printing.
This requires a large number of copper smelters.
After the First Emperor ruled the world, he asked Li Si to do a very important thing.
The book is the same text.
This is not just about unifying the current Qin script.
Rather, it is a small seal of Qin characters born by combining the six languages to supplement the Qin script.
A total of 3,642 characters, which are recorded on the 'bronze tablet', is the most orthodox Qin State small seal writing method.
Compared with the sea of words that could not be written in 10,000 words in later generations, the 3,600-word Qin text is slightly thin.
But in this era, all added up, there are only so many words.
So.
He needed to use bronze as a raw material to create 3,642 molds of Yang-engraved Qin characters.
And with this mold, we continue to produce movable type printing plate molds for printing.
It is impossible to print a book with 3,642 copper movable type plate molds.
Repeated.
Typography is different.
Mass-printed.
At that time, a word may need a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand movable type engraving plate molds.
All the words add up, that's millions, tens of millions of individual blocks.
This is an immeasurable project that requires a large number of iron and coppersmiths.
As long as it begins, it is estimated that there is no time to end.
That's all there is to it.
In order to have enough movable type engraving plate mold, large-scale ink splash printing can be carried out at any time.
He had already made a paper version of the inscription.
Right now.
It is necessary to turn the characters on these pieces of paper into a mold of yang engraving Qin characters.
Professional things are left to professional people.
Daqin's smelting technology is top-notch.
Maybe Da Qin's other things, even Qin's half and two coins have been deducted.
But only military equipment is a very standardized and strict production model.
For whether it is possible to make a mold of yang engraving Qinzi.
Yingcheng never doubted.
For whether it is possible to make movable type male engraving plate molds in batches.
Daqin's annual mass production of millions of arrows can tell him an accurate answer.
Yingcheng forgot that time was arranged one by one, without pretending to be someone else's hand.
And the craftsman he took into custody.
Reduced at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Fourteen craftsmen's houses, he only knocked down the walls, but did not destroy the contents inside.
Next.
It is the process of more than 3,000 craftsmen working day and night to build all the components.
And Yingcheng seems to have completely forgotten that Zhao Gao had come to him.
It's in Yingcheng's forgetful arrangement.
On the Soahe River Plain to the east of the Saohe River, the First Emperor fried the pot.
It was as if he had heard something that even he didn't believe.
"What, what are you talking about, that rebel Sun dares to let you go, Guo Huaiyi, you haven't seen it, and said that those who are close to ten steps, kill?"
It's looking for death!