Starting from crossing the Fengshen

Chapter 110 Papermaking
After Ma Benqi left, Yin Qi took out a blank roll of silk and wrote a letter to Princess Longji.

This letter is of course a love letter, with all kinds of disgusting words coming out of her mouth.

Only at the end of the love letter did he mention that he hoped to get the method of refining the messenger jade beads. It would be better if there were also various secret books for cultivating immortals.

After writing the love letter, Yin Qi patiently waited for the ink to dry.

"This silk is inconvenient to write on, and it is also expensive. It cannot be fully promoted. It seems that the papermaking technology will be developed next." Yin Qi whispered.

Papermaking is the basis for popular education, and it can also gain prestige and fame among the people.

Although he has never done it himself, he knows the process by heart.

When he was in the Republic of China, he visited the production processes of various factories, such as paper making, soap, sun salt, soy sauce, matches, glass, etc., and memorized the production methods.

Because these can be moved to the Fengshen World, they can greatly improve the living standards of the people.

Of course, it can also be like making paper, gaining prestige and fame among the people.

But there are too many things, so we need to do it step by step.

After the ink on the silk was dry, Yin Qi rolled up the silk and tied it with a silk rope.

Then he found Zhang Shaokang and said, "Shaokang, this letter is for Fairy Phoenix Mountain. The matter is urgent, please go and run for me personally."

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Zhang Shaokang looked solemn and took the silk with both hands.

……

With the identity card being refined, Tiance Mansion was completely on the right track.

According to Yin Qi's request, each palace began to recruit talents from outside.

However, the actions of each palace were very careful and there was no fanfare, because Yin Qi was not even a prince now.

If you act too ostentatiously, you can easily attract criticism.

In fact, according to Yin Qi's plan, before he became the Human Emperor, Tiance Mansion would develop steadily, focusing on absorbing high-level talents and not expanding its power wantonly.

Of course, except Tianluo Hall.

All the halls and halls were busy, and Yin Qi was not idle either.

He found a remote and vacant courtyard in the palace, transformed it into a papermaking workshop, and guided a group of craftsmen to make paper.

The traditional papermaking process is cumbersome and long. Just soaking the papermaking materials takes two to three months, and finally the pulp can be made through a series of steps. This is also the most time-consuming and energy-consuming part of the papermaking process.

Yin Qi wanted to use modern papermaking technology, that is, mechanical pulping.

The friction and tearing effect of the mechanical rotating friction working surface on the fiber raw material, and the heating, softening and plasticizing effect of the heat generated by the friction on the intercellular layer lignin of the raw material are used to grind, tear and separate the raw material into single fibers.

Mechanical pulping hardly dissolves the lignin in the raw material, so the pulping yield is very high, generally around 95%.

This technology not only greatly shortens the papermaking cycle, but also has extremely low cost.

With Qitang's weapon refining methods, it is not difficult to make such a machine. You must know that he has a person under his command who is good at mechanism puppets.

That Gongsun Shu could even make a puppet, let alone such a crude and simple machine.

But in order to speed up, he directly found someone who was good at wood magic.

In just a few moments, the wood was turned into pulp.

If it is mechanical pulping, the pulp still needs to stand because there will be a lot of impurities in it, such as wood fragments that have not been ground into pulp.

But this magic pulp is not needed, it must be very clean and thorough, and the pulp is very delicate.

Of course, bleaching is still needed.

Limited by the conditions, Yin Qi could only find a mixture of lime and plant ash water for bleaching, pour it into the pulp tank, and wait for a few days for the pulp to turn white before making paper.

Using these few days, Yin Qi guided the bamboo craftsmen to make the fine mesh used for papermaking.

Then, papermaking began.

Wet sheets of paper were stacked together, pressed dry and then opened again, and placed one by one on a shelf to dry.

Fortunately, the sun in February is not too strong, otherwise we would have to use something to cover it.

After a day of drying, the paper finally took shape.

Yin Qi stroked it carefully and found that the surface was very smooth and full of toughness.

The only drawback may be that it is not white enough and is slightly gray.

But a few flaws are innocuous.

After cutting the paper, Yin Qi left with a dozen pieces of paper.Before leaving, he ordered the craftsmen to continue making paper, and at the same time rewarded each of them ten taels of silver.

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Zichen Palace.

"My son-in-law pays respects to his father."

"Be flat!"

"Thank you, Father!"

"My son is here, what can I do?"

Yin Qi nodded, raised a knife of paper in his hand, and said: "Father, this is something that I have made recently, and it is called 'paper'. This paper is made of wood and is low-cost. It can replace silk and bamboo slips." As writing material. This is the first batch of paper, so it is specially presented to my father."

"Paper?"

Emperor Yi was surprised. Not only was he surprised about the paper, but he was also surprised that it was made by Yin Qi.

He was quite curious and said, "Bring it over and show it to me."

The old chamberlain Bing Zhui hurriedly stepped forward, took a knife of paper from Yin Qi's hand, and placed it in front of Emperor Yi.

"So smooth!"

Di Yi lightly brushed his fingers on the paper and expressed his approval.

Then he picked up the brush and quickly wrote a few words on the paper. He found that the writing was extremely smooth, the experience was better than silk, and the ink did not smear.

Emperor Yi was surprised and happy and continued writing.

However, he made the words smaller, but they were still clearly visible.

This is by no means comparable to silk.

Di Yi put down his brush and said with a stern look: "Qi'er, you said it was called paper, right? Good stuff, really good stuff. It can completely replace silk. Not only is it easier to write, but it's also lighter. By the way, you said Paper is cheaper than silk, so how much cheaper is it and can it be fully promoted?"

Having been a human emperor for almost 30 years, he immediately thought of the value of paper.

Silk was too expensive. Even if he was the emperor, except for important matters, all other documents were carved on bamboo slips with a knife.

He was getting older and was a little unable to carve words on bamboo slips.

There are also books. Books passed down by ancient sages are often loaded in cars. He wants to read a book, and there are often hundreds of bamboo slips piled on the ground. Therefore, reading has become a luxury.

But if there is paper, everything will be different.

The merit alone is immeasurable.

Yin Qi smiled slightly and said: "Of course it can be fully promoted. The price of this piece of paper is very low. If it is mass-produced, the price can be reduced to ten cents per knife. By the way, one knife is equivalent to a hundred pieces of paper."

"Ten pennies and a hundred pieces, how can it be so cheap?"

Emperor Yi was shocked and said excitedly: "You must know that even the worst piece of silk, which is the size of a paper, costs a hundred cents!"

In other words, this paper is a thousand times cheaper than silk.

Yin Qi explained: "Father, the raw materials of this paper are cheap. Not only wood, but also bamboo, bark, and even straw and rags can be made into paper. Moreover, the production process is also mechanical, which can greatly reduce its cost."

Emperor Yi didn't understand Yin Qi's words very well.

But that's not important. What's important is that Yin Qi didn't lie to him.

"well."

Emperor Yi said excitedly: "Qi'er, this paper is made by Qi, so the next paper-making task will be handed over to you. I only have one request, which is to pay tribute to the palace of one million pieces every month. As for the rest, you can look at it yourself. Just do it.”

"Yes, Father!"

Yin Qi nodded, a million pieces of paper cost only a hundred taels of silver.

Di Yi touched the paper again and couldn't help but write some more words. Then he put down the brush and said: "Qi'er, just leave the papermaking to the people below. Don't spend too much energy. This spring I plan to hunt on the third day of next month, and you can also use this time to practice riding and shooting."

Spring hunting in March has always been a tradition of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, which focuses on cultivating the martial spirit of nobles.

And every spring hunt, Emperor Yi will hold a competition to reward the winners.

If it were previous years, Yin Qi wouldn't have cared.

But at the moment of fighting for the crown prince, if Yin Qi performs too poorly, he will definitely lose face.

Yin Qi nodded and said, "I know."

(End of this chapter)