"I cut down this small bamboo forest and dug it into a pond on the terrain below."

"Build a few bamboo huts over there."

"The land by the river is compacted, and I want to make water to pound the bamboo."

"Dig a pond there......"

The management personnel of Daming Village have not yet come, and Zhu Guoxiang has temporarily personally directed the construction.

Mature bamboo paper manufacturing technology, there are dozens of processes, hundreds of processes.

Zhu Guoxiang has two sets of bamboo paper technology in his hands, one from the papermaking method provided by Fujian officials in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and the other from the papermaking method of "Tiangong Kaiwu" written by his son.

The former is extremely immature, and the latter is only approximate.

Comparing the two, it can be seen that the bamboo paper of the Northern Song Dynasty was made of raw materials, and the technique was extremely rough and could not be bleached naturally. In the Ming Dynasty, clinker pulp was used, which was naturally bleached by the way, which increased the fiber toughness, improved the quality of bamboo paper, and made bamboo paper more beautiful.

But even the mature technology of the Ming Dynasty has different details depending on the origin. According to different papermaking processes and different bamboo materials, the bamboo paper can be divided into five categories: Lianshi paper, Gongchuan paper, raw edge paper, buckle paper, and core paper.

And "Heavenly Creation" only has a rough process, and does not talk about too many details, which requires Zhu Guoxiang to explore by himself.

Zhu Guoxiang's advantage is that he can figure out the role of each process through text descriptions. For example, adding lime water and plant ash is using what kind of chemical properties. The ancients knew what it was, but they didn't know why, so they could only keep observing and groping and summarizing.

Before the official papermaking began, Zhu Guoxiang already had a way to improve.

For example, "Tiangong Kaiwu" says that before making clinker pulp, it needs to soak bamboo for more than 100 days to finish. Zhu Guoxiang felt that he didn't have to wait so long, pad a layer of lime, build a layer of bamboo, repeatedly stack and then pour water into it, and you can use lime to quickly finish. (This method was not adopted until the Qing Dynasty.) ）

If the rapid finishing method is used, the soaking pond will have to be built in a good way, and it will be easy to irrigate and drain water at any time, and the amount of sewage discharge will be greatly increased.

If it is to make high-grade bamboo paper, Zhu Guoxiang also came up with a method.

That is, starch water is added to the slurry to improve the suspension of the fiber, so that the texture of the paper is more uniform, and the starch particles can also remain in the fiber gap to fill. This is not recorded in the "Heavenly Creations", and it does not even exist in the south of the Ming Dynasty, but appears in the Hanzhong region of the Qing Dynasty.

Starch water does not need to be specially made, you can get a vermicelli workshop, you can also make rice noodles, or you can make sweet potato powder. The residue used to make vermicelli is filtered and added to the pulp, which is equivalent to waste utilization.

Agronomy is also a science subject, Zhu Guoxiang belongs to a science student, he doesn't understand advanced chemical knowledge, but these basic things are not difficult.

On the contrary, it was Zhu Ming, who studied history, and it was difficult to think of it for a while.

In the open area of the upper valley, there is a small natural lake, which used to be used for gold panning, so it is called "Golden Pond". The whole river valley is called "Jintan Valley", and the mountain range next to the lake is called "Jintan Ridge".

Now, the village in the river valley is named Jintan Village by Zhu Guoxiang, and the population is only one-fifth of Daming Village for the time being.

Except for some who are busy with farming, the rest of the villagers have come to help build the paper factory. Young and strong people do heavy physical work, 30 yuan per day; The elderly, weak, women and children help with chores, 15 yuan a day. In the middle of the morning and half in the afternoon, two free meals are also provided.

The salary is not high, but the villagers are very happy, giving money and food, which has never happened to such a good thing before.

There were also several women and children, sent to look for plants.

There are several kinds of yellow hollyhocks, kiwi vines, etc., and you can find any one, which is a necessary "paper medicine" when making paper. There are substitutes in various places, which are kneaded and mashed into a viscous liquid, which allows the slurry to float evenly and avoid sticking when separating the paper.

In ancient times, those papermaking workshops could pass on any technology, but "paper medicine" was an exclusive secret recipe.

Zhu Guoxiang didn't know about this, he only learned the raw materials, and he had to explore the specifics slowly.

Anyway, there is time, and the normal manufacture of bamboo paper must wait until the turn of spring and summer to cut down the tender bamboo for finishing. Zhu Guoxiang was ready to cut the old bamboo in the autumn and winter, so that the workers could familiarize themselves with the process in advance and practice their skills with the old bamboo. If the quality of the paper is too low, it is a big deal to wipe the butt.

Anyway, no matter what, the quality is better than that of bamboo paper in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The bamboo paper of the Northern Song Dynasty, like straw paper, was mostly made of fire paper, which was used to burn paper money for the dead. It's enough to wipe your buttocks, and your fingers break when you poke them.

The paper mill was almost built, and Zhu Guoxiang went to visit Min Wenwei again.

"Zhu Xianggong wants to make paper?" Min Wenwei was surprised.

Zhu Guoxiang smiled and said: "I won't steal business with the Min family, I only make bamboo paper, not leather paper and rattan paper." ”

Min Wenwei was instantly relieved, and pretended to remind: "Bamboo paper is unusable, easy to soak in ink, and easy to break." ”

Zhu Guoxiang said: "I also know about this matter, maybe I can improve the process." It's just that there are a few paper workers missing, can Min's paper mill borrow a few? ”

Most of the whole papermaking process can be used by novices, but papermakers must be proficient.

Min Wenwei asked, "How much?" ”

"Five, only for one year." Zhu Guoxiang said.

"Papermaking can be beneficial to education, and five paper-fishing workers are nothing." Min Wenwei readily agreed.

Only five papermakers were borrowed for a year, of course, to let them take apprentices. Give more wages, so that they can teach each other, anyway, they will not be in the same workshop in the future, and they are not afraid of teaching apprentices to starve to death Master.

……

Wen Luan took his sister to visit the construction site and asked, "I know that bamboo paper can be used, but it can really be made in large quantities?" ”

"It should work." Zhu Guoxiang said.

Of course, the Northern Song Dynasty has bamboo paper for writing, such as Mi Fu's "coral sticker", which is written on bamboo paper. However, because the process is immature, the materials used are very harsh, and many bamboo tendons can be seen on the paper, the quality is too low and cannot be mass-produced.

Wen Xiaomei said: "If you can make bamboo paper like leather paper, Mr. will be respected by the world's scholars." ”

"It will take decades for it to spread." Zhu Guoxiang said with a smile.

Juming improved printing in Tokyo, and to this day, the new ink has spread, and it spreads very quickly.

But the lead type still stayed in Tokyo, and it didn't even reach Luoyang. The initial investment of this thing is too large, and only a few merchants are willing to try it, and it takes a long time to make a set of movable type.

However, the official is very good.

Led by Cai Jing, Wang Anshi's works were re-compiled, and sentences were broken with punctuation marks, and several copies have been printed in batches.

This is to occupy the commanding heights, and Cai Jing has consolidated his position as the leader of the new law by controlling the right to interpret Wang Anshi's works.

Next, Cai Jing also had to compile classics such as "Analects" and "Mencius". In full accordance with Wang Anshi's understanding, punctuation and sentence breakage of these Confucian classics are given, and then the interpretation of all Confucian classics is controlled.

Luoyang was closely watched, and Jiangnan scholars did not dare to make a mistake.

However, there are already great Confucians who have started from remote places. They secretly cooperated, broke sentences on Confucian classics, and then went to Sichuan and Fujian to make movable type, which is estimated to be printed next year. This kind of behavior is illegal because it conflicts with the new learning of sentence breaks, and can only be done quietly at the local level.

Once reported, it is likely to implicate many people. The bookseller in charge of printing, at least also a crime of exile!

Anyway, it's very nonsense, even Zhu Ming didn't expect that his improved movable type printing technology was actually accelerated through party struggle.

And in the coming decades, academic disputes will intensify.

In the past, there was no punctuation and sentence breaking, and the Confucian classics all looked the same. With punctuation and sentence breaking, different schools of thought have to play out the dog's brain, and they will all say that there is something wrong with the book that the other party reads.

"Xianggong, we're here!"

Several villagers from Daming Village came to Jintan Village with their families.

Zhu Guoxiang nodded and said, "It's coming very quickly." I have designated Jintan Village as a Baojia and elected four Baochang from among the local villagers. Tian San came over to be the village head, and usually resolved the disputes of the villagers, but don't be too strict, after all, you are from a foreign household, listen to the opinions of several security chiefs. ”

"Yes, I wrote it down." Tian San said busily.

Zhu Guoxiang continued to arrange: "Yu Kan served as a scrivener, managed the money and grain account books, and by the way, set up a village school to teach the children in the village to read. ”

"Yes!"

Yu Kan was recruited into Daming Village by Meng Zhao, and he has always belonged to Meng Zhao's deputy, and now he can finally take charge on his own.

Zhu Guoxiang also said: "Liu Shidao manages the paper factory. ”

Liu Shidao is Liu Shiren's brother, and Liu Shiren is now working as a secretary by Zhu Ming's side. The Liu family is the most literate family in Daming Village, of course, it must be used well, and the Zhu family and father and son can become bigger in the future, and the Liu family will inevitably prosper.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Deng Xia, you are responsible for training the village warriors of Jintan Village. The population here is not large, so it is enough to train two mandarin duck teams, and they are relatively busy, so the training time should not be compared with Daming Village. Wait for Zhang Guangdao to get some more people to come over, and slowly increase the number of village warriors. ”

"I'll listen to the fair!" Deng Xia was excited.

After the disaster ended, Hanzhong gradually recovered, and a small number of victims fled into the mountains to become bandits.

The land east of the Hedong River in Shaanxi is full of thieves.

It was too miserable there, and after fighting with the Western Xia for several years, the common people were already in difficulty. This year, there was a drought, then a flood, and then a series of major earthquakes, which made it impossible for many people to survive.

Even if the imperial court frantically recruited young men as an army to supplement the loss of troops in the Western Xia war. But there are always some young people who are not recruited, and there are also young people who are in the van army, but they can't stand the oppression and run away. They plundered the places in groups, and many fled into the mountains.

Zhang Guangdao's smuggling trip can bring back at least hundreds of Shaanxi refugees.

It's not that you can't bring back more, but the food can't hold up, and you have to slowly resettle in a long stream!

Hebei is really chaotic, the Yellow River burst, millions of people are affected. A large number of people died, and those who did not die also lost their livelihoods, and the government could not manage it at all, so it could only watch the thieves wreak havoc everywhere.

Tell me a cold knowledge, the heroes of Liangshan are growing in Hebei......

Most of the leaders of the Song Jiang gang, no matter where their hometown is, are the first to be thieves in Hebei. Song Jiang has begun to make small fights, and its initial entrepreneurial environment is Hebei after the flooding of the Yellow River, and he has met entrepreneurial partners through wandering crimes.

There is a giant in Anhui named Liu Wu, who began to loot places last year, and has not been pacified so far, and the imperial court is mobilizing troops to suppress it.

In addition, a large number of Hebei refugees gathered in the area of Taihang Mountain.

There is a Liu Huasan in Gannan, and he is still making a small fuss. In two years, it will become a big trouble, and its activity area will be at the junction of Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian in later generations, which belongs to the old revolutionary base area.

Historically, the imperial court mobilized several van armies, encircled and suppressed for two or three years before it was finally pacified, and the time of destruction was later than Fang La. The imperial court offered a reward of 13,000 yuan, plus the status of a seven-rank military attaché, just to catch this Liu Huasan.

The Sichuan barbarians are also about to rebel again.

(End of chapter)