Northern Dynasties

Chapter 56 Time to run
He Basheng was ill, and the establishment and commissioning of the paper and printing industry was imminent, so Li Tai had to return first with his entourage and craftsmen.

When they crossed the Weishui River and Luoshui River and returned to Huazhou, they clearly noticed that the atmosphere in the countryside was different.On the east bank of Luoshui River in the southwest of Huazhou, many tent camps appeared, and many garrisons were added.

Li Tai didn't think too much about it, as it was already the mid-autumn festival in August, it was just a gathering of township soldiers in the prefecture to prepare for the grand parade to be held in October.

After going out for a walk, more than half a month has passed.When Li Tai returned to Shangyuan, the autumn harvest had already begun in the farmland.

Seeing the people in the village busy harvesting millet in the fields, Li Tai couldn't help but feel as if he had passed away.It turned out that before he knew it, more than four months had passed since he came to this world.

In the past few months, various things have come one after another, some are active, some are passive, and Li Tai is too busy to keep up with it, and there is almost no time to stop.This busyness will continue for a long time.

"My lord, the oil workshop has already started working! My father has recruited more than [-] workers, and they can make several hu of oil every day!"

As soon as he got off his horse and stood still in the manor, a young man came forward to announce the good news. It was Zhao Jingzhi, who was given to him by his fellow villager Zhao Party Leader as his entourage.

Li Tai was also overjoyed when he heard the words. The oil workshop was originally one of the pillar industries of his planned manor, but it has not been put into operation because of the lack of craftsmen.

Originally, I thought it would have to wait until late autumn after the autumn harvest, but I didn't expect Party Leader Zhao to be so powerful, and he had already recruited craftsmen in place during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

When it comes to mastering the power of local customs, after all, these local snakes are more familiar.Although he and Party Chief Zhao were not happy when they first met, they got along fairly well afterwards, and this time they helped him a lot.

This is not the only good news, just as he patted Zhao Jingzhi on the shoulder to praise him, several people from the main room of the manor came striding forward.

"By the lord's order, I have been waiting here for your husband for two days. The property of Kaifu in the original northern Liang has been replaced properly, and I can go to work at any time!"

The person walking in the front is Shuo Hui's trusted guard, who followed his master's surname and name called Shuzhang, met him several times before and after, and was quite familiar with Li Tai, he said.

"That's great, let's go and have a look!"

Hearing this, Li Tai smiled even more. He was still worried that there might be some obstacles here in Jihui all the way back.

After all, it's the autumn harvest time now, no matter how undisputed Liang Chun is, he is afraid that he will not give up a season's harvest and exchange the garden property with others.If it doesn't work, then the work can only be carried out in Baishui Manor first, but more transportation work will be wasted.

Unexpectedly, Howe Hui was so efficient in doing things. He had already done things well while he was still on the road.With Liang Chun's manor connected up and down, the circulation of all links will naturally be smoother.

In particular, Liangchun Manor is located in the torrent part of the Luoshui River, and there are cofferdams that have been set up, so it is more convenient to use hydraulic power.Whether it is beating pulp or grain processing, you can get great convenience.

Li Tai couldn't wait to enter the house for a sip of water, and Dang Shi led a dozen of the strong men and the paper makers to drive fast all the way, and it took less than an hour to arrive at the newly acquired manor.

At this moment in the manor, Liang Chun’s men were still packing up and preparing to move. Seeing a few chapters galloping in, a steward hurriedly stepped forward and said, “The property of the Zhuang family is trivial, and it will take time to clean up. They can all be relocated.”

"The villa is not urgently needed. As long as the homework is not missed, your department can take care of it calmly."

A few chapters said to the steward with a smile, and then turned to Li Tai and whispered: "Liang Kaifu lives in Weizhou, Longyou, but his family members live far away here, so we can't help each other. My lord will replace it with Yuanzhou's old business park." , to please his disciples."

Li Tai nodded after hearing the words, and knew in his heart that Shuo Hui must have paid a lot for deciding this matter so quickly, otherwise Liang Chun's trilogy would not have been forced to relocate happily.

He didn't care much about the state of the manor's farmland, and what he cared most about was the nearby water conservancy.After a detour in the manor, he walked straight to the Luoshui River.

When he came to the river bank, he saw that the wooden ladder floating platform had started to be built here, in preparation for the erection of the water reel.

"My lord's foreword, rushing time is like putting out a fire. The most important work here is to use the pestle, so before Li Lang returned, a certain one made his own idea and arranged for his family to set up the pestle."

Several chapters said empathetically on the side, he stood on the embankment, pointed to a line along the river and said: "The terrain of the river canal here can be set up with eight gravels. Completed. Because the Haonu on the other side does not allow it, the equipment and materials can only be stored in the warehouse, and they can be used when they are taken out."

"Okay, very good!"

Li Tai was even more delighted when he heard the words, he just felt that his time had come, he had experienced the initial stress, and now he felt a smooth and refreshing feeling when doing things.

Standing on the river bank, he was planning to take a closer look at the specific structure of these ancient hydraulic facilities, but there was a boat coming along the river from the opposite bank.

There were a hundred strong soldiers standing on the boat, each brandishing their sticks, looking menacing. Just as they sailed into the middle of the river, someone on the boat shouted: "What kind of thieves are you doing on the other side? Come on strike, don't give your house away!" Liang Kaifu is in trouble!"

Li Tai saw that those sieves hadn't been erected yet, so he sent his slaves from the other side to scold and obstruct them, and he didn't even pay attention to Liang Chun in his words, and he felt more and more the arrogance of Zhao Gui's slaves.

He is still thinking about how to deal with it here, and several chapters on one side have turned back to the side of the car, picked up a bow and returned to the river bank, turned the reed into an arrow, and controlled the string to shoot at the approaching boat, and shouted loudly: "The garden here It is supported by some envoys of my lord, and the family lives here to manage their business. If the slaves dare to disturb again, the arrow will surely have a target!"

Zhao Gui's slave on the boat heard this, and suddenly became silent, and the boat stopped moving forward, and stopped in the middle of the river. After a while, someone shouted again: "Liang Kai's mansion has been in business here for a long time, and there is nothing to prove. ..."

A few chapters were too lazy to talk nonsense with them. Seeing that these people were still entangled, they waved their arms and said angrily: "Put down the bamboo raft and sink this boat! If the dog slave survives by luck, I will show you the proof!"

Following the order of several chapters, several long bamboo rafts with sharpened fronts were thrown into the river, and dozens of several family dances also jumped onto the bamboo rafts with sticks in their hands.

Li Tai saw that the bamboo raft still had blue residue, obviously it was newly made, and several chapters of his relationship had already anticipated that Zhao Gui's trilogy would come back to provoke and obstruct him, and he had prepared the means to meet the enemy in advance, so he immediately geared up cheerfully, wanting to see it Looking at this ancient water battle scene, it will be useful in the Pingnan Dynasty in the future.

The slaves of Zhao Gui's family on the Hexin boat saw that the other party was well prepared, and they panicked for a while, shouting misunderstandings again and again, while paddling desperately backwards.Fortunately, the surface of the Luoshui River was not too wide, and finally fled back to the shore before several Hui tribes attacked.

"A slave looks like a master, so stern and soft-hearted! Thinking that my robe was abandoned by the dog thief Zhao Gui and trapped in Mang Mountain, I really want to kill him to vent my hatred!"

Seeing Zhao Gui's servants fleeing back in embarrassment, several chapters stood on the shore and said bitterly, it can be seen that they were not acting just now, but were really murderous.

Li Tai was also very excited when he saw this scene, and felt that it was right to recruit some Hui into the group, otherwise, even if he started any business along the Luoshui River, with Zhao Gui, the river tyrant who blocked the river and set up weirs, it would be difficult to make it big Be stronger.

After this episode, there was no movement on the other side, and the construction of erecting the bridge here continued.Looking at the progress of the project, it will take at least two or three days to complete the erection and put it into use.

Just in these two days, you can also prepare the raw materials. The raw materials for papermaking are extremely wide, such as bamboo, hemp, trees, crop straw, broken wire ends, etc., as long as the materials rich in plant fibers can be used for processing, they are pounded with a water pestle. Pulp, kaolin is transported from Whitewater Manor, processed and ground, and the filler is sieved.

Li Tai only knew a simple process, but his cousin Cui Xi lent him ten skilled paper craftsmen, and as long as the raw materials and tools were in place, production could begin immediately.

Relatively troublesome is the preparation of printing ink.Although the relatively mature formula technology has been developed in our own manor, the materials still need to be prepared.

The ink used nowadays is mainly divided into two types: smoke ink and graphite. Graphite is a general term for various mineral pigments including coal. It is relatively easy to obtain. There are open field coal mines in the upper reaches of Baishui, but the particle size is relatively large and the ink retention is not good. Strong, barely passable for writing, not enough for printing.

Smoke ink is divided into wood smoke ink and oil smoke ink. Pine smoke ink in wood smoke ink is one of the best inks, but if it is used for printing, oil smoke ink is better.The oiliness itself is not low, and then blended with linseed oil and turpentine, the paper-locking property is stronger, and the color is more uniform and longer-lasting.

But no matter what kind of ink is used, the production capacity of Li Tai's own manor is limited, and if he wants to meet the production capacity, he must purchase it from outside.

In daily life, ink is really a small commodity, after all, it is only limited to writing.In the cultural desert of the Western Wei Dynasty, it would be hell if the folks were rich.

At present, apart from the government, only temples may maintain a certain scale of production, because copying scriptures in temples consumes a lot of paper and ink.

Li Tai didn't really want to ask the government for help. After all, this business was done with the government. If the government controlled the supply of materials, the right to speak would inevitably be infiltrated and usurped.

He was not very willing to deal with the temple, but he thought of a suitable candidate, that is Liu Gong, a local tyrant and merchant.

Li Tai stayed here until the evening, and returned to Shang Yuan's house after confirming his purchasing ideas.Just walking to the gate of the manor, he looked up and saw a person, and he suddenly felt that his luck had really started to improve, so he could do whatever he wanted.

"Your Majesty's calculations, Your Majesty's calculations! Liu San is really convinced, and he never dares to show off his clumsy schemes in front of Your Majesty!"

Seeing Li Taice coming on horseback, Liu Gong stepped forward to meet him, clasped his fists above his head from a distance, and shouted exaggeratedly.

(End of this chapter)