The Rise of Primitive Tribes Farming

Chapter 512 Papermaking

After successfully manufacturing Sinan and using it effectively, Chenbei ordered people to manufacture more Sinan and Mang tribe fleets. Each ship had at least two Sinans, one for use and one for use.

Later, Chen Bei asked Ya to trade some magnets in the Chuanshan tribe.

Then let the craftsmen make some small Sinans that are easy to carry on this basis, and give a few to each team of the Mang tribe fighters, let them take it with them, in case they get lost in the dense forest or desert, they can also be used superior.

Of course, the premise is not to enter some special areas.

In some special areas, the magnetic field is chaotic, and the magnet will fail, even the most powerful compass is useless.

After making the compass, the Mang tribe began large-scale spring plowing and sowing, and anyone who was free would participate.

Chen Bei also participated, but he did not work for a long time, mainly to let everyone know that the leader attaches great importance to spring plowing and sowing, and does not necessarily have to do a lot of work.

After returning from the field, Chen Bei also fixed the land in his own yard and planted some vegetables and other things.

Later, he carried a hoe and went to the green bamboo yard to help plant herbs.

Qingzhu was holding a hoe, chatting while working.

"Too many things have happened in the past few days, and they are all important. The recorded animal skin volumes are all piled up in half the room."

"It's not easy to make animal skin scrolls, and they are consumed very quickly. I can only write a small paragraph and try to keep things as simple as possible."

"Even so, there are more and more animal skin rolls. It is very troublesome to prevent moisture and insects."

If it was another tribe, a major event would not happen in a few years, and the animal skin rolls used for recording would not be used much at all. Several generations, or even dozens of generations, would not fill a room.

But the Mang Tribe is different, because of the existence of Chenbei, there are too many new things in the Mang Tribe, and they will happen from time to time. As a witch, it is impossible not to record them.

As a result, more and more animal skin rolls piled up, and it was not easy to keep them.

Qing Zhu just complained to Chen Bei, but she didn't know that the speaker had no intention of listening to it.

Chen Bei suddenly thought that it was time to use something to replace the expensive, heavy and difficult-to-preserve animal skin rolls.

This kind of thing is paper.

In his previous life, Chen Bei had only seen demonstrations of papermaking out of curiosity when he was traveling, and he was not clear about the details.

After all, he is not an all-knowing and omnipotent person. Many things in the Mang tribe are based on some memories in Chen Bei's mind, and then he keeps trying, and finally creates them.

The same is true for papermaking, because he can't remember the details, so he can only find a craftsman to try to make it. He will always make it out after constant trial and error and a little more time.

The core of papermaking is to degumming raw materials and dispersing them into fibers by soaking, steaming and other methods.

Chen Bei remembers this very clearly, because in order to make paper successfully, the raw materials must be broken down into very thin and short fibers, and then fished out through bamboo curtains to reconstitute a piece of paper.

As for how to degumming the raw materials and breaking them into fibers, this is a rather troublesome thing. You need to try various methods such as cutting, beating, soaking, steaming, rinsing, etc.

Fortunately, after becoming a god, Chen Bei's body and mind have improved a lot, and his memory has also improved.

Things that I didn't remember clearly in the past, after I became a god, in retrospect, they became clearer.

"Maybe, I can make something to replace the animal skin roll."

Chen Bei put down his hoe and said to Qing Zhu.

"Really? What kind of thing?" Qingzhu asked curiously.

"This thing, called paper, can be cut into squares, bound into a book, and written and drawn with a fine animal brush on it."

"Although paper is not as strong as animal skin, it is thin enough to write many things without taking up space."

"Let's put it this way, if the words recorded on all the animal skin scrolls in your house are written on paper, probably, you only need a small box to store them."

"The most important thing is that the raw materials for paper are much easier than animal skins. Bark, broken fishing nets, old linen, grass, and even bamboo can all be made."

Qingzhu's eyes lit up, and said: "If there is such a good thing, it would be great."

Qingzhu didn't ask Chenbei how he knew this thing, she took it for granted that the totem god taught Chenbei a lot of things.

She selectively ignored that the Mang tribe in the past was also the same totem god, but they didn't toss out these weird but practical things, and there wasn't even a trace of them in the inheritance of witches.

Because she completely trusts Chen Bei, she will not inquire about Chen Bei's secrets, this is Qingzhu's cleverness.

And the rest of the tribe couldn't, or didn't dare to inquire about it, because Chen Bei had given all the credit to the Totem God before.

Besides Wu and Chen Bei, who can ask the totem god?
Therefore, no one questioned the source of these things that Chenbei took out, and no one dared to question them.

Chen Bei said: "It will take some time to manufacture it, I'm not sure how long it will take."

Qingzhu said: "Anyway, the animal skin rolls have been used for so many years, and it's not too short of time. As long as it can be manufactured, you can wait as long as you want."

Chen Bei nodded and said, "Then I'll find someone to try."

Chen Bei and Qingzhu dug up the land together, planted various herbs and exotic plants, and then returned to their yard with a hoe on their shoulders.

He carefully recalled the papermaking methods he had seen in his previous life, thought for a while, and found some masters of the garment workshop to weave.

Most of the craftsmen in the garment workshop are women, but they are generally big and round, and they are not weak women.

"I want to make something called paper, which can be used for writing. If it can be made successfully, then our Mang tribe won't need to make so many animal skin rolls."

Making animal skin rolls is also the task of the clothing workshop, which is more cumbersome than making animal skin clothes, because it requires steps such as depilation and softening.

Hearing that there is no need to make animal skin rolls, Zhi Zhi immediately became interested in the "paper" that Chen Bei said.

"Boss, how did you do it?"

Chen Bei thought for a while, and replied: "Find me some people, and I'll let them try first."

"it is good!"

Zhi immediately found a few strong women and asked them to cooperate with Chen Bei to try to make paper.

"First, we need to find some tattered old linen, old hemp rope and other things."

Old sackcloth and old hemp rope have been soaked and tanned, which is easier than making paper directly from bark.

There are a lot of these things in the garment workshop, and those women quickly found a lot for Chen Bei.

"Now chop them up, the finer the better."

Chen Bei personally found a big bronze guillotine, and chopped up these old hemp ropes and linen cloth bit by bit.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Bei asked them to bring several large tanks, throw down the chopped torn linen and old hemp ropes, sprinkle lime on them, and add clean water.

Lime and water react violently to become lime water. Lime water is highly alkaline and can degumming these chopped old linen and hemp rope.

This process is relatively long and requires soaking for a long time.

After soaking, pick up the soaked torn linen, beat it repeatedly, and then put it in a large cauldron for steaming.

After steaming, beat, rinse, and then put it in for steaming, this process needs to be repeated several times.

This is a very time-consuming and labor-intensive activity.

(End of this chapter)