No Regrets In Flourishing Tang

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Because the quantity of advanced paper sold by Great Tang to overseas is not sufficient, so at the moment, papyrus in Egypt is still very popular. Of course, this is used by the average poor and less wealthy people. The paper used by the high-level is already Great Tang paper, even the noble Wife and Young Lady can use the Great Tang Sanitary Pad, but the price is much higher than Great Tang, after all, Yang Zhao has not opened the factory overseas, these products It was a merchant not far from ten thousand li who was transported from the Great Tang capital. After taking into account transportation fees and profits, the price would naturally be much higher.

Li An’s southward trip, the fleet that belonged to it brought a lot of paper, but these all are used by Li An and his subordinates, and they will not be sold as commodities. After all, many technical talents and Li An are drawing You need to use it. Writing a report to the Imperial Court also requires paper. Naturally, you ca n’t sell paper. After all, Li An ’s purpose of this trip is to open the Maritime Silk Road and seek benefits for the Great Tang, but not to sell goods. The fleet of Li An is a pioneer team of Great Tang Imperial Court, not a caravan used to make money.

Papyrus is very limited, so in many cases, Egyptian high-level people prefer to use parchment and kraft paper to replace the use of papyrus.

Compared to papyrus, parchment and kraft paper are more durable and are not easily destroyed in wet environments. They are much more advanced than papyrus.

However, the interesting thing is that the parchment is made of sheepskin and cowhide, and the relationship between kraft paper and cowhide not at all is very interesting.

The so-called parchment is made of sheepskin, and sometimes calf leather. The method of making is not difficult. It is to soak the sheepskin in lime water, remove the wool, and then shave the two sides, dry it in the stretch, and polish it. It became a thin writing material like paper.

The parchment has a compact structure, strong oil resistance, water release, high wet strength, air permeability, and good elasticity. It has high strength and fold resistance. It can be used as a book cover or as a book cover night, which can make the book not so easy. Bad.

Of course, the parchment of the later generations no longer uses sheepskin and calf leather. After all, the technology has improved a little, and the use of plant materials can maximize the cost reduction. If you use sheepskin, the cost is too high.

As for kraft paper, it is entirely made of wood fibers from conifers, just because this paper is very strong, as strong as kraft, so this name is given to this paper.

In the application field, kraft paper is very extensive, such as envelope bags, asphalt paper, cable protection paper, insulation paper, cement bag paper, etc., are made of kraft paper.

However, there is also a legend that kraft paper was originally made of kraft, otherwise, why is it called kraft paper?

Of course, these are no longer important. Anyway, the future generations, whether it is kraft paper or parchment, are made of plant fibers. Impossible uses cow and sheepskin to make paper because the cost is too high to simply consume.

Historically, whether it is papyrus, kraft paper, or parchment, it is far inferior to Chinese paper, which is also the material guarantee for the brilliant development of Chinese civilization!

After all, if there is no paper, the development of culture will be greatly restricted, and it cannot meet the needs of most people to learn culture, because learning culture must have paper to spread, and only a large amount of paper can print a sufficient number of literary works. To promote the further prosperity of culture.

Before the advent of paper, the writing materials used by the Chinese civilization were mainly bamboo slips, and a small amount of cloth materials. Bamboo slips were very heavy and extremely cumbersome to use. The cost of cloth was very high and was not suitable for large-scale popularization. Greatly limits the development of Chinese civilization.

After the appearance of paper, this situation has been greatly alleviated. The most important thing is that paper is not only more convenient and easy to use than bamboo slips, but also the price is cheaper. This is the premise of the large-scale popularization of paper. Otherwise, if paper If the price is very expensive or difficult to use, then it will definitely not be popularized.

Paper carries civilization and is an important tool for the development of human civilization. Even if there are more advanced e-books in later generations, the value of paper cannot be replaced.

Li An is still very familiar with papermaking. There are many papermaking workshops in the Great Tang Chang’an City. These Li An have visited them in person. Of course they are very familiar. However, for Egyptian papyrus, Li An does I do n’t know much about it, and I do n’t quite clear how these papers are made. I just know a general process that ’s all.

“Xiaolu, would you like to see how these papyrus became papyrus.”

Li An asked.

Li Xiaolu quickly nodded with a smile and said: “Of course I think, I am afraid that others may not show us!”

Obviously, any kind of technology is confidential and cannot be known to outsiders. Otherwise, if this confidential technology is known to the world, a large number of people will soon imitate it. People will lose huge benefits.

However, Li An is not worried about this, because he has a way to persuade people with this technology. After all, Li An ’s identity and ability are extremely strong. No one dares to doubt that Li An wants to steal the papyrus secret. , Li An has mastered too many secret technologies, and these technologies, just take out some of them are far more valuable than papyrus.

“Not necessarily show us, haha! As long as I come forward, who dares to say nothing, I heard that Ottoman controlled a workshop for making papyrus, not far from here, let’s go and see now Who dares not agree. “

Li An said very aggressively.

Li Xiaolu smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, cast envy and admiration at Li An, and nodded expressed his willingness to accompany him.

Soon, Li An took Li Xiaolu and drove to a papyrus-made workshop under Ottoman control. Because Li An was active in Egypt, in addition to the Great Tang soldiers and horses guarding along the way In addition, there are many Ottoman troops and guide officials who speak the Great Tang language.

When Li An made this request, the officials under Ottoman’s command made a natural reflexive objection, because the manufacture of papyrus is a very important industry under Ottoman’s command. If it is leaked, it will cause huge losses to Ottoman, which is His subordinates cannot bear the responsibility.

Li An hearing this, looked at this Ottoman man very unhappy, and said, “Isn’t it papyrus? It’s a very important industry in your eyes, but in our Great Tang’s eyes, it’s a bunch of Rubbish, a pile of useless rubbish, and it wo n’t take long for anyone to buy papyrus, because we at Great Tang have better and cheaper paper. “

With that said, Li An took a piece of paper from his body and placed it in front of Ottoman ’s eyes. He said sharply: “This is the paper invented by our Great Tang. A thick coin like this in Chang’an City is only a dozen dozen. The papyrus paper is much cheaper, and it is also easier to use than your papyrus. Do you think I will covet your papyrus technology? I just want to see that’s all. In addition, how is this papyrus made? , I also know that it ’s not just the tubers of sand, and then … “

After Li An finished speaking, Ottoman ’s men looked at Li An in surprise. He absolutely did not expect that Li An was so familiar with the production process of papyrus. Although what was said was approximate, it was basically correct. Yes, this surprised him too much.

In addition to surprise, he also had to promise to avoid causing Li An to be unhappy. Moreover, he also knew that the performance of papyrus was far inferior to that of Great Tang paper, and it was a matter of time before and after it was eliminated, and Li An was such a noble person, Great Tang also has countless advanced technologies. There is really no need to learn the technology of papyrus. This is simply a matter of being thankless and fools.

Li An’s rebuke allowed Ottoman’s men to lead the way obediently. This made Li An very happy. Li Xiaolu next to him was also very happy. It was really interesting to be with Li An.

The workshop for making papyrus was chosen to be located near the seaside, because the transportation here is more convenient. After the paper is made, it can be transported by boat to various small countries along the Mediterranean coast, so as to earn a sum of money to provide Ottoman Sufficient financial resources.

A group of 100 people, Li An, quickly arrived at the papyrus manufacturing workshop. Under the leadership of the Ottomans, Li An went in very smoothly. Because it is a production workshop, it is relatively dirty, messy, and rundown. In order not to interfere with the work of the craftsmen inside, Li An only brought ten guards into the workshop, and the remaining guards all stayed outside the workshop, and the workshop was surrounded by a water, even a fly. Don’t want to fly in.

Ottoman’s men led the way ahead, and constantly blamed the craftsmen for being careful not to get dirty things on Lien’s body, otherwise, they would look good.

Li An took Li Xiaolu’s hand and wandered inside. From time to time, he looked at the working artisans and the semifinished products of papyrus.

“Minister Li, it’s so dirty! There’s a strange smell.”

After Li Xiaolu entered the workshop, he suddenly found that he had come to the wrong place. He didn’t seem to like it. Yes, he didn’t like it at all. This is also very normal. No woman in the world is willing to go to the workshop. Even in later generations, the girl is very disgusted with the workshop, so she is unwilling to enter the workshop because of the sale, because the environment of the workshop is always the worst, and the treatment is also the worst. There is no better than the workshop in the world. Bad work.

She came to the workshop just to accompany Li An. Fortunately, it was just a look. If she was allowed to do this for 4 seasons a year, she would definitely not be able to stand it.

“It seems that the manufacture of papyrus is really troublesome, it is really too much trouble, Xiaolu, we start from the beginning, step by step, I will tell you, OK.”

Li An said.

Li Xiaolu nodded and said: “Well, it’s up to Minister Li.”

According to the steps of making papyrus, Li An first came to the peeling process. This is the first process of making papyrus, and it is also the simplest process. The ordinary person can learn it with just a glance. You can peel off the hard layer of the skin. It can be said that it is very simple, but it is more tiring.

The peeled inner stems of papyrus will be transported by workers to the adjacent courtyard, where there will be special workers responsible for slicing this round papyrus inner stem, of course, not cut into small circles horizontally Slices, but vertical slices cut into rectangles, look like flat noodles in later generations. Of course, they are much thinner and wider than flat noodles.

Li An explained these 2 steps carefully, and did n’t stop until Li Xiaolu fully understood it. Although it was just strangers coming together by chance, Li An sometimes had the urge to be a teacher. This feeling was quite good. .

Most of the workers in the Papyrus workshop are men, and a few are women. However, both rough and tiring jobs are done by men. Women are mainly responsible for supporting work. For example, if you need to be careful, you need women to complete.

Li An looked at the first two procedures, most of them are men working, and because Li Xiaolu is beautiful and has a fragrance, so when Li Xiaolu appeared, the working craftsmen were all distracted By now, not only the male distraction, but also the female distraction.

Ottoman’s men felt that these craftsmen were too rude, and from time to time they scolded and let these craftsmen work hard, but Beauty’s temptation was too great. These working craftsmen always couldn’t control themselves and always secretly Li Xiaolu’s plagiarism hasn’t changed in the slightest even if he met with scolding.

Because he was distracted while working, several craftsmen cut their hands, hu hu bleeds, but he himself felt no pain at all, still peeking at Li Xiaolu from time to time.

“These country bumpkins, I’m afraid I haven’t seen Xiaolu’s beautiful Beauty in my life. It looks stupid, haha!”

Li An laughed and teased, and did not mean to be angry at all. Although the eyes of these craftsmen were somewhat impolite, Li Xiaolu was not Li An ’s wife and concubine. It was just a plaything that ’s all. But I can’t eat it. Isn’t this feeling very good? Very happy.

After slicing the inner stem of papyrus, the craftsman puts these small slices into the sink. These little slices need to be soaked in the sink for a week before they can continue to the next step.

Of course, the manufacturing process in the workshop is continuous, and now the processing is just soaked, but the thin slices soaked a week ago have been picked up and the next step is started.

“Know why these small flakes are kept in water for so many days?”

Li An looked towards Li Xiaolu, asked.

“Why!”

Li Xiaolu asked.

“It’s to remove the sugar inside.”

Li An answered.

“Why, there is sugar in this grass, is it sweet?”

Li Xiaolu curiously asked.