Da Wei Chun

Chapter 618 Papermaking
At night, it began to rain drippingly. Although it was not heavy, it rained all night.And it was sunny yet again.

The sky is as blue as a mirror, the air is extraordinarily fresh, and the surrounding fields are completely new.

More than a hundred armored riders guarded Li Chengzhi, and marched eastward like a horse reined in. Li Chengzhi sat on the horse, wearing only a uniform, very cool,

Li Song was still reminiscing about yesterday's establishment ceremony, he always felt that Li Chengzhi was a bit anticlimactic.

After planning for so long, even at the expense of exposing Mrs. Ren to everyone's eyes, Mr. Lang didn't kill anyone in the end?

Even to kill chickens and monkeys, you should cut off a few heads...

Li Chengzhi patiently explained: "Don't just know how to fight and kill. Power can certainly shock people's hearts, but it is only a temporary solution, not a long-term solution..."

From the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, these 24 dynasties have lost so many heads and blood in order to curb cronies and weaken the powerful class, but what can they do?

I dare not say that every dynasty will destroy the country because of this, but at least [-]% of them perish due to irreconcilable class conflicts.

To borrow a very classic sentence from later generations: as long as there are people, there must be classes.

This is an ancient problem, no matter how many years it takes, no matter what level of prodigy it is, it will never be solved. Li Chengzhi is naturally aware of it, and he will be no exception.

What he can do is to ease, reconcile, and try to formulate and leave a perfect system to curb and avoid greater conflicts.

And today's trip is for this purpose...

It took only two minutes to leave the Yamen, and the party arrived at the west bank of Ruoshui in the north of Heli Mountain.After Li Chengzhi arrived in Hexi, he asked Li Song to gather the peasants to dig a branch canal and build a paper yard here.

Whether Li Song or Li Shiliang, including the accompanying scholars, most of them didn't understand what a paper factory had to do with the class conflict that Li Chengzhi said.But Li Chengzhi is not easy to explain.

But after all, there is no allusion for what happened later, and there is no old example to follow.Just like how he cleared the family and deposed the family, even if he uttered the truth, no one could understand it.

Then simply don't explain it, just execute it...

The most fundamental reason why a powerful family became a powerful family, and why a family became a noble family, is because they possess knowledge, and regard it as their own life, treasure themselves, and never give it lightly to anyone except their own children.

This is the same as the saying in later generations, "teach the apprentice, starve the master to death".

And the ruling class is not ignorant of the harm of the powerful family, no matter how far away it is, just say that Xiao Wei of the Southern Dynasty and Yuan Ke of the Northern Dynasty, a pair of contemporaneous emperors, made countless efforts to restrict the powerful family, but why had little effect?

Li Chengzhi thought that either the two emperors missed the point, or they knew it well but pretended to be deaf and dumb.

It is nothing more than vigorously promoting and popularizing knowledge, but correspondingly, new problems have emerged.

People can learn from it, but not know it. This sentence is definitely not just talking.

If you still don't understand, you can look at the slavish education and obscurity policy of the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, Li Chengzhi suspects that whether it is Xiao Yan or Yuan Ke, they are all intentional: only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.

Although the later Yang Sui learned from the experience and lessons of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, his strides were too big, and he ended up falling into the Ye family and losing the Ye family.

As a teacher who never forgets the future, Li Tang did not dare to achieve it overnight, so he could only boil frogs in warm water. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty, whether it was politics or imperial examinations, still did not get rid of the control of the powerful, and fairness was only relative.

After that, Huang Chao made a big killing, but the problem was still not solved fundamentally.

Just because the framework is still there, no matter it is Sui or Tang, there are more restrictions on poor families than those of aristocratic families, let alone educate the people, so it is like weeds on the plain, burning endlessly.Even if you kill all the old clans, whenever a new dynasty is established, new clans will be born.

On the contrary, in the Song Dynasty, why did the clan suddenly disappear?

Li Chengzhi believes that, first, it depends on the sages, such as Yang Jian's creation of the imperial examination, such as Li Yuan and Li Shimin's restrictions on the prefect and aristocratic families, such as Wu Zetian's suppression of the powerful, Huang Chao's massacre of the aristocratic class, and so on.

But the reason is that the maturity of papermaking and printing techniques in the Song Dynasty allowed culture to spread to the bottom as much as possible, and then promoted the imperial examination system, which made the common people and landlord class grow and replace the powerful.

Although it is still impossible to fundamentally eliminate the generation of class conflicts, there is still oppression and exploitation, but at least it does not need to be like India, where the bottom lives are not as good as pigs and dogs...

It is easy to draw on white paper.

Now that Hexi is in the midst of a waste of time, and the population is only in the early [-]s, if he can't make up his mind at this time, Li Chengzhi will be like Yang Jian in the future, begging for perfection, and being led by the nose by the powerful.Or just like Yang Er, with chicken feathers all over the place.

So when Li Chengzhi first arrived in Xihai, he had no clue about military affairs, and government affairs were a mess, but he still tried his best to suppress the only gentry in Xihai, and sneaked in to build universities, paper mills, and printing factories.

Since reliving the whole life, we can't just be selfish and selfish, so we have to do something else, right?

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The paper mill was supposed to belong to the Ministry of Industry, under the jurisdiction of Li Liang.But now Li Liang has to manage not only the construction of artillery, but also the construction of landmines, and more importantly, the preparation of a large amount of gunpowder.But when he has spare time, he still helps Li Chengzhi organize and organize the army.

Not to mention whether he is busy or not, but everything is like Li's lifeblood, and Li Chengzhi dare not leave it to others.

So Li Chengzhi simply put the paper mill and printing factory under the Ministry of Civil Affairs and handed them over to Li Song.

After all, Li Song is also a veteran for many years. He has served as the party leader for nearly ten years and managed the Lijiabao in an orderly manner.Coupled with Li Chengzhi's precepts and deeds, Li Song is even more effective today.

Since Li Chengzhi selected the site and started the construction, he handed it over to Li Song. It has only been a little over two months now, and the paper factory has been built on a very large scale.

The wide area is 150 mu in size, and one shed is next to the other, in a well-arranged pattern.

Under the guidance of Li Chengzhi, each shed is operated on an assembly line in order to save labor as much as possible and improve efficiency.

The advantage of assembly line operation is that it is simple, unlike small workshops, all folks who operate need to know the principle of papermaking, and need to be familiar with the entire process.Those who transport the materials only need to bring the materials, the chaff only needs to be crushed, the steamed ones only need to be steamed thoroughly, the hammered ones only need to be smashed into pulp, and then the extruded ones are extruded and formed, and finally dried into paper.

Every process is very simple, you can understand it at a glance, and you can do it by yourself.So under the work shed, there are many old people and women.

The wages of the elderly and women are lower, about one gold per month, that is, one hundred yuan.The night workers are all men, and the wages are slightly higher, about one and a half gold.

According to the official price, one gold can buy grain for two stones, but in the West Sea folks, at least five stones can be bought.In this way, just an old man or woman can earn enough money to support himself for two years if he works for one month. Can you see the number of callees?
Fortunately, Li Chengzhi had the foresight to understand that when Li Song posted the recruitment notice, he must indicate that only military households or military households similar to reserve service were recruited, and the recruitment was done in batches.

Even so, on the day the paper mill started, there was still a huge crowd of people around the gate, almost breaking their heads.

Seeing that the effect was so good, Li Chengzhi suddenly had a big brain hole, and added another one: When shifting shifts in the morning and evening, leave half an hour each to eliminate illiteracy.

And it's not compulsory: you don't have to study, and you can come half an hour later, as you like.But as long as they come, the three meals a day will be provided by the government, and they will be meaty.

Of course, there will be an assessment every ten days, and if it's just to make up for it, the meal payment will be deducted from the wages.

When formulating this article, Li Chengzhi also expected that there were not many voluntary ones, only [-] to [-]%, and only [-]% if they lasted.

Because for some people, even if he is allowed to go to the battlefield with a knife in his hand, it is fine, just don't let him study.

For example, Li Shi, Li Chengzhi wanted to promote him, but he couldn't find a name.

But unexpectedly, as many as [-]% of them persisted, which really made him overjoyed.

Let’s not talk about how many words these people can play, but every family has children. Once a good atmosphere and atmosphere are formed, at least they can teach by example...

Because of the early departure, when Li Chengzhi entered the arena, it was the time for the roll call between the two shifts.

Outside every work shed, both men and women stand neatly.The foreman holds the roster, and ticks the roster every time a person is counted. At the same time, there are documents in the team record to collect the homework of the previous shift.

Not many, only two or three characters are taught every day, just to make them write well and remember them firmly.And they are all adults, at least their brains are fully developed, so it is not difficult.

Even if there is someone like Li Shi who is not enlightened, even for the three meals of the day, he must engrave it in his mind.

But the writing is a bit ugly, on the light yellow linen, it looks like earthworms have crawled over it.

Li Song had already confessed that everyone in the venue performed their duties, so Li Chengzhi's arrival did not cause much commotion.

He only heard the sound of Langlang everywhere, so he ordered Li Cong to bring his personal guards to guard the venue, and only brought a few cronies to wander around the venue.

At dawn, the cooks had already started cooking, and at this time they were being rolled out by trolleys and transported to the sheds.After the workers have ordered, the meal can be served after the morning class.

Li Chengzhi glanced at it. The food was very ordinary, just vegetable soup and millet cake.There are a few oil stars floating in the soup.

And in the two meals in the afternoon and near night, there is only meat in the soup, and not much.A little plain, but at least full.And this alone made the military households grateful to Li Chengzhi.

He stirred it with a spoon, and took a sip. Seeing that the saltiness was right, and there were a lot of leaves in the soup, Li Chengzhi nodded in satisfaction: "Food is the most important thing for people, and life is nothing more than having a mouthful of food." Eat. So either don’t do it, if you want to do it, you must do it well, and there must be no phenomenon of shoddy, embezzlement and embezzlement!”

Li Song hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I will save you!"

This is a lesson learned from others.

Because to make cannons, the ordnance industry must be expanded, and there are nearly [-] people from top to bottom.With more people, there will be more loopholes, and naturally some people will use their brains.

Someone was stealing workers' meals, Li Chengzhi found out, and beheaded more than 30 people in one go.

The vice-principal of the armory is Li Liang, the old blacksmith of the Li family.

Li Chengzhi beheaded Ma Su with tears, and directly ordered Li Liang to become an official.

And Li Liang is nearly sixty years old, and even if he insists on it, he won't be able to work for a few years.But Li Song was only in his thirties, if he was demoted or dismissed for such a trivial matter, wouldn't he die unjustly?

So he doesn't take it seriously...

After turning around, I looked around again. The workers have finished their morning classes and breakfast, and they have officially started work.

Li Chengzhi turned back to the work shed.

It is hot in summer, so most of the work sheds are half open.As soon as you enter the door, you can see a huge crushing platform.It was piled high with bark, branches, reeds, hay.

Originally, it is better to use wood and wheat straw, and the paper produced is the strongest and extremely thin.But today's West Sea is full of waste, and the wood is used to build houses, the wheat grass is used to feed livestock, and even as food for marching, so it can only be the next best thing.

The process is orderly: the folks use a horse-drawn cart to bring the raw materials into the shed, and then work in groups of two, one feeds and the other cuts the raw materials into small pieces.

The carts carrying the forage will clear out the broken materials, put them into the steaming bucket on one side, mix them with lime, and then set up the steamer.

This process takes a little time and requires repeated operations.One is to remove impurities and analyze fibers, and the other is to bleach it into white, or even light yellow if it is not good.

After the raw materials are cooked, they are poured into stone ponds and smashed into paste.All that's left is to filter, squeeze, and dry.

Compared with the current stage of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, this set of technological processes can be described as ground-breaking: first, the raw materials have been replaced by only using flax paper instead of local materials, and the toughness of the paper has been increased so that it will not fall when touched. , It rots when it touches ink.

The second is to increase cooking and bleaching.In the past, there was no such process in papermaking. The hemp was just smashed into a paste and then pasted on the wall to dry. Not to mention time-consuming, it also took up a lot of space.

Just imagine how many walls can there be in a big workshop?So just adding this one more than doubled the efficiency.

And this set of procedures did not gradually take shape until the Song Dynasty, and it is also the fundamental reason why ordinary people can use paper and read books...

The latest workers entered the site for nearly two months, so they are very familiar with it, and the whole process is orderly and not chaotic at all.Seeing that it was not far from the expected performance, Li Chengzhi was also very happy, and specially praised Li Song.

Before Li Song could open his eyes and smile, he explained again emphatically: "Whether it is forage or the paper made from it, they are all flammable, so we must pay attention to fire prevention on weekdays, and remember to keep the steamer far away. Seeing fire under the shed..."

After a short pause, Li Chengzhi smiled coldly again, "If there is a fire, there must be only a handful of ashes left in this huge paper factory. At that time, don't blame my husband for not being sympathetic!"

Before the smile on his face broke, Li Song only felt his tailbone tighten: "Don't worry, sir, when the day comes, I will come to see you!"

It's impossible to raise your head to see, but Li Song's main job, I'm afraid it will go down several levels.

Thinking about it in his mind, Li Chengzhi said again: "It's getting late, let's go to the printing factory and the copper factory."

He plans to take two to three days to take a quick look at the factories related to people's livelihood...

(End of this chapter)