How did I become an old artist?

Chapter 152 This boss, every thing he does is better than the last one!

In the courtyard, the cat boss was lazily enjoying Zhao Chen's touch.

Seeing its comfortable appearance, Zhao Chen suddenly said:

"Boss cat, after eating so many cat strips from me, do you want to hand over something?"

"For example, your balls."

Although the orange cat couldn't understand Zhao Chen's words, it felt that the atmosphere was not right, so it turned around and looked at Zhao Chen with a face full of astonishment.

Male cats kept at home in cities are often eggless.

But the countryside is different. Anyway, the yard is big, so it’s okay to run out if you want to.

Zhao Chen was just joking with the cat boss.

"It depends on your performance. If you behave well, you can still keep your balls and continue to harm the little female cat."

"If you get frightened again, you will lose your balls, and you will be the father-in-law from now on."

Zhao Chen said while stroking the cat boss.

The orange cat was lying on its side, not bothering to move its body. Judging by its appearance, it didn't matter what happened.

September on the side was a little wary.

In the past few days, Zhao Chen was processing ore and grinding pigments in the yard.

When the grinder works, mineral pigments of different colors can be produced in no time.

There is nothing wrong with the paint, the remaining problem is Chengxintang paper.

Chengxintang paper, the best rice paper in China, in the Song Dynasty, the price of Chengxintang paper was more expensive than gold.

Especially the Chengxintang paper made by Li Yu, the technique has been lost, and it is even more expensive.The Chengxintang paper of the Song Dynasty is an imitation and is called Song Fang Chengxintang paper.

Even so, Song Fang's Chengxintang paper is quite popular among writers.

The paper industry was developed in the Song Dynasty, and there were special ancient books to record these, so Zhao Chen also knew some of the manufacturing techniques of Chengxintang paper.

Of course, papermaking still needs to go to a special paper mill, and it is not the kind of mechanized industrial paper mill.

In the northwest of Jing County, Anhui Province, there are many paper mills that still use the traditional papermaking technology, that is, the traditional craft of "blanching water, calendering, sizing, sprinkling gold, hammering paper".

It is not difficult for Zhao Chen to rent a paper mill to produce some Chengxintang paper.

This papermaking technique has two cores. The first is material selection, including paper materials, water used, and the ratio of materials.

Moreover, as far as Zhao Chen knows, one detail is that when Song Fang Chengxintang paper was made in water, he used ice water in winter. On the one hand, the ice water is purer, and on the other hand, the low temperature can make the paper more delicate. .

The second is the papermaking step, which is a few more steps to process materials than ordinary papermaking.

"The paint is almost finished, I have to find a paper factory."

"The raw material of Chengxintang paper is dragon's beard grass, but people in the world only know one, but not the other. Dragon's beard grass should be combined with green sandalwood bark, especially tender green sandalwood for the best effect."

"I haven't seen the Chengxintang paper for a long time. Now that the funds are sufficient, it's time to make some."

"Even opening a paper mill of Chengxintang Paper may not be impossible."

Zhao Chen thought to himself.

This kind of technique, only he can master it alone, can create huge benefits.

For example, the imperial concubine Hexiang needs to expand user channels and special incense making techniques, and the operation is very troublesome, so Zhao Chen doesn't want to worry about these, so he just sells the incense and earns a share.

But Chengxintang paper, as long as it is made, there will be no shortage of customers at all.

Just a large group of museums has to be bought from him at a high price.

Too many celebrities in the Song Dynasty were obsessed with this kind of paper, such as Su Dongpo and Mei Yaochen, whose works were almost all made on this kind of paper.There are also Li Gonglin's handed down work "Five Horses", Ouyang Xiu's "New History of the Five Dynasties" and so on.

If you want to restore these cultural relics, you must buy Chengxintang paper imitated by Song Dynasty for preparation.

"I remember that the Huaxia Xuan Paper Association restored Chengxintang paper from the Qing Dynasty two years ago, but encountered difficulties in restoring Song imitation Chengxintang paper."

"On the one hand, there is no museum to provide them with samples, and on the other hand, Song Fang's Chengxintang paper craft is too complicated."

"There are many doorways here."

Zhao Chen said with emotion.

However, this is not difficult for Zhao Chen.

In the yard, Xiao Heibei was squatting in front of Zhao Chen, with a naive look all over his face.It held a badly bitten baseball in its mouth, and its eyes were full of eagerness.

"Want to play, okay?"

"I guess I'm leaving again in a few days, so I'll have a good time with you first."

Zhao Chen put down the big orange cat, then took the ball from the mouth of the jar, and threw the ball forcefully.

The little guy immediately ran over and chased him.

The orange cat looked at the silly black back boredly, then jumped onto a soft cushion and lay down to rest.

Two foxes snuggled up to each other in the grass and had a good time.

The relationship between these two foxes is gradually getting closer. Now they are six or seven months old. When the foxes are one year old, they will have the ability to have children. It is estimated that these two guys will soon.

Life in the country is always easy.

In the quaint small courtyard, Zhao Chen and the little black dog were playing a game of throwing the ball, while the other small animals watched from the side.

A quiet life is always very attractive.

Two days later, Zhao Chen went to Anhui. He first spent a lot of money to buy a batch of raw materials. Then, he rented a paper-making workshop and hired a helper. The rest of the time he was busy by himself.

The incident quickly spread locally.

On the one hand, the papermaking industry here is very developed, and there are also some special tourist papermaking workshops that allow tourists to experience the papermaking process.

On the other hand, Zhao Chen's popularity is very high.

Now he wants to restore Song Fang Chengxintang paper, this gimmick is very exaggerated.

Even the local rice paper association was surprised by Zhao Chen.

"Imitating Chengxintang paper from Song Dynasty? It's not like making porcelain. The process of making paper is very complicated and requires more equipment."

"He thinks too much, Song Fang's Chengxintang paper has been lost for many years!"

"Didn't the Xuan Paper Association restore Chengxintang paper from the Qing Dynasty a while ago?"

"Can the Qing Dynasty be compared with the Song Dynasty? There are still a large number of Chengxintang papers from the Qing Dynasty in the folks. It is easy to imitate, study and restore them. Go to the market and find a Song imitation Chengxintang paper and let me see!"

Many paper craftsmen are chatting.

Zhao Chen continued to concentrate on doing his own thing.

He turns on the live broadcast every day and will film the steps of papermaking.

These steps are the ones that can be seen on the Internet, some details and recipes will naturally not be announced by Zhao Chen.

Zhao Chen studied papermaking technology for a few days at first, but this technology is not very complicated, but there are more details.

He knows some special details, so the process of making it is not difficult.

The assistant he hired was a young apprentice named Sun Yi from a paper mill.

Two people hold the sieve, copy the pulp from the clean water, and then place it on a flat wooden board to shape it and dry it.

During this time, Sun Yi followed Zhao Chen to make paper, and the more he did it, the more surprised he became.

Because the rice paper made by Zhao Chen is far better than the original paper made by this rice paper workshop.

That smooth feeling, that texture, the contrast is very obvious.

That's what good things are all about.

Otherwise, the literati in the Song Dynasty would not have collected the Chengxintang papers as soon as they got them, or would have written poems to celebrate.

"Master, is this Song Fang Chengxintang paper?"

In the past few days, Sun Yi heard a lot of talk from outside, so he knew about Zhao Chen.

"Yes, but it's still raw announcements. I need to take these raw announcements to Fujian and use alum to make mature announcements, which is the real paper of Chengxintang." Zhao Chen replied.

Sun Yi looked at the delicate and smooth rice paper in front of him, full of amazement.

The reason why Zhao Chen chose Sun Yi as his assistant was also because this child seemed relatively simple.

During this period of time, many people asked Sun Yi about the details of Zhao Chen's Chengxintang paper, but Sun Yi just said that he didn't know.

Of course, Zhao Chen did not let Sun Yi know about many key steps.

A drone filmed the final scene.

Delicate pulp fibers float in the paper tank. Zhao Chen and Sun Yi hold the mold frame, dip the mold frame into the paper tank, and then lift it up together so that the pulp fibers remain evenly on the paper mold frame.

Then, put the paper mold frame outside to dry again.

In the whole process, there is no mechanical roar, no chemical traces.

There are only two dedicated craftsmen doing traditional crafts.

There are some primitive tools in the workshop, which seem to be full of unique charm.

This feeling is very good.

Quiet and leisurely.

Netizens liked it more and more, and their mood seemed to be calmer.

At the same time, Wu Delin, the owner of this rice paper workshop, was also watching Zhao Chen's live broadcast.

Zhao Chenhua rented this workshop for half a month at a high price. The business of the workshop was not good, so Wu Delin was naturally happy.

Seeing Zhao Chen making such delicate paper now, Wu Delin's eyes were a little surprised.

"It was actually made, but I still can't see what the finished product looks like."

"But the quality of the paper he makes is really high, at least thinner than machine-made rice paper."

"This kind of paper can be sold for a lot of money. It would be great if I could learn his formula."

Wu Delin thought to himself.

He only thought it was a kind of good paper, but he didn't realize that it was one of the most precious and rare rice paper in China, and it was the top Chengxintang paper in all dynasties.

At present, the best Chengxintang paper recognized by China is naturally made by Li Yu, the empress of the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Then, there is Song Fang Chengxintang paper.

The quality of Song imitation is very close to Li Yu's Chengxintang paper. It was enthusiastically sought after in the Song Dynasty, but the stock was very small.

Because the raw materials needed are expensive.

This kind of paper, if you cut it with a knife, is worth ten thousand taels of gold, which is more expensive than cutting cakes.

As a small business owner, Wu Delin couldn't imagine that such a masterpiece would be born in his small workshop.

And all of this is because of Zhao Chen.

"After drying, the raw rice paper is almost ready. Although the whole process is long, I am glad that there are no mistakes."

"As firm and clean as jade, thin and smooth, this paper is the best paper in the history of Huaxia Papermaking."

"It is still impossible to confirm that this kind of paper is exactly the same as Song Fang Chengxintang paper. After the paper is made, we can judge the quality of the paper."

"I hope it can be restored perfectly."

Zhao Chen looked at the paper being dried and sighed with emotion.

Netizens who watched the live broadcast secretly praised it.

This boss, what he does is more powerful than the last one!

(End of this chapter)