The main processes of ink making include tobacco refining, tobacco washing, mixing, production, and drying.

Tobacco refining: Extracting soot, oil, and ash from grease by incomplete combustion.

While refining the tobacco, wash the cowhide, cut it, and put it in a large pot over low heat and boil slowly.

Then add insect-proof, antiseptic herbs and spices in proportion and boil it into glue.

Slowly add the smoke, knead evenly, and then hammer 100 times, the longer the hammering, the more the smoke and glue can be more integrated and smooth.

Then put it into the plum, orchid, bamboo, and chrysanthemum molds carved by Zhang Laoda a long time ago, press and mold, make a blank, and then air dry for later use.

The uncle and nephew worked hard for a few days, and after several failed matching, they finally succeeded in making the first batch of ink strips.

After the ink strip is dried, it feels firm, delicate and shiny in the hand.

Looking at the light, there is a purple light in the black, there are no cracks, and there is a faint smell of sandalwood.

Zhang Shuli couldn't wait to go to the study to test the ink.

Use the inkstone to drop water into the inkstone, press and push gently, and slowly grind the ink.

Ink, light pen when writing, flexible pen movement, no stickiness, no astringency, no stagnation, ink is easy to dry and black and bright, no discoloration.

"Haha...... Good ink, good ink! I didn't expect that I would use such good ink in my lifetime.

And I made it myself, haha......" Zhang Shuli's joy was overflowing.

"Father, mother, I have succeeded, I have succeeded, I have succeeded in making the best ink. Haha......"

Zhang Shuli was a little crazy with excitement, thinking that he had never seen him like this when he was admitted to Xiucai.

In fact, it's no wonder that he is so excited, it turns out that he just wants to study and pursue a career.

After reading books for more than 20 years, I have achieved nothing, and I have only failed a few times to make such good ink, and no one can grasp the emotion.

Running into the main house with the written words, the old man saw that Er'er didn't look like a scholar, what a person in his thirties was not stable at all.

angrily reprimanded: "Why are you yelling?

How old is it? is still so unstable, how can he be worthy of a great responsibility in the future? He reached out and took the words that his son had just written.

I touched it, and I twisted it again, but there was no floating ash, no particles, and no black ash that fell to blacken my hands.

"Ink is indeed good ink, it's a pity that such a good thing is used at home!

It should be mass-produced and marketed in large quantities so that it can be used by all who need it. ”

When the old man saw that he had made such a good ink, he also moved his mind to do a good job and become bigger.

After all, such a good thing is only used at home, which is a bit wasteful, and it feels like killing chickens with a knife. He consulted with his two sons.

"After you set up, don't take the official career to make ink at home, are you willing to be a merchant?"

"Dad, I'm willing to make ink, be a merchant, and never go to the exam room again." Zhang Shuli answered his father's question affirmatively.

"Well, good.

If our family wants to do ink trading, we have to have our own name, and we have to take a loud name.

Think about what the name sounds good and loud. ”

Zhang Shuli said: "Ink is a recipe from Han Yun, so it's called Yunmo, right?" ”

"The rhyme is not loud, and it is feminine when you hear it.

Our ink is made of tung oil, so it might as well be called 'Zhangjiatong ink', which is good to listen to and remember. Zhang Shujun proposed.

"Zhang Jiatong's ink is good, so people will know whose family it is when they hear it, so it might as well be called 'Zhang Jiamo'.

In this way, as long as no one in our family leaks the recipe, outsiders will not know what our ink is made of. If you want to copy it, it will take some time to research. Old man Zhang made a decision and set a name.

"Grandpa, we have to number each batch of ink, and I don't know what the number of our next batch of goods will be if others want to do it, and it's not easy to do it.

Second, people who buy ink can check whether it is genuine by number. Let the buyer feel at ease and not be afraid of buying a fake. Han Yun came over to join in the fun, and when he heard that his grandfather wanted to do ink's business, he came up with an idea.