Datang male nanny

Chapter 102 Set fire to the workshop
The two laughed and continued to look at the things used for papermaking.

At this time, the two came to stand in front of a large container.

The large container in front of you consists of two parts.The bottom is like a huge earthen jar turned upside down and opened.Above is a large wooden barrel about one foot high.

"This is the cooking fire. Put the soaked bamboo into the barrel, add lime, and cook for eight days and nights. With this magical tool, the paper will be as white as jade."

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"This is fire-dried. Paste the wet paper on the wall one by one. Two rows of earth bricks are erected with an empty space in the middle to form a lane. As long as firewood is piled up in the lane and the temperature of the bricks rises, the wet paper will It is baked. After drying, it is peeled off and it becomes paper."

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Only then did Li Shisan suddenly realize, "Before I didn't understand what it was used for, I was at a loss, and I didn't understand the truth until I knew it. It's really blind to see Mount Tai."

Ni Tu nodded. At this time, people are not unintelligent, but their vision and thinking are blocked. This is like a layer of window paper, as long as you poke it open, you can figure it out.

The two designed it again and added some processes to ensure that each process is isolated and no secrets are leaked.

In order to make himself more beautiful and outstanding, Ni Tu came up with many cosmetic cosmetic techniques. Similarly, in order to make the paper more suitable for people, he constantly sought new paper-processing cosmetic techniques.

Usually the method used to deal with the rough and uneven paper surface is calendering. After the calendering procedure, the paper surface not only becomes smooth and glossy, but also increases the compactness between the fibers in the paper, so that the toughness of the paper also increases. Follow up with enhancements.

There are single-sided and double-sided calendered papers, and most of the double-sided calendered papers are thicker papers.

The interwoven fibers in the paper create many gaps. If it is directly used for writing or printing, the ink will penetrate through the gaps and stain the reverse side of the paper.The calendering method is nice, but it doesn't completely solve the problem.If you can put a foundation on the paper surface—smear a layer of white powder, not only can all the gaps be filled up, but also the smoothness and whiteness of the paper surface can be further improved.

For the method of applying powder to the paper surface, what Ni Tu thought of was to mix the white powder with the viscose liquid, and then paint it evenly on the paper surface with a pad pen.White powder may be a genus of chalky limes whose chemical composition is calcium carbonate or calcium oxide.Colored powder can also be added to the white powder, so that it becomes a colored powder note.

It is not easy and troublesome to paint the brush pen evenly, so Ni Tu added the white powder directly into the paper pulp after repeated experiments. It is somewhat similar to the industrial paper of the previous life.

Ni Tu knew that there was no distinctive and systematic variety of paper, and he could not make a name for himself as a brand, so he simply developed different papers that were commonly used in his previous life.

Ni Tu also took the opportunity to produce translucent paper that can imitate calligraphy and painting, paper with various floral fragrances or dark background patterns, hard paper that can be made of oil-paper umbrellas after heating and melting wax, and gilded paper that can be used to make fans.

In order to ensure the smoothness of the paper, Ni Tu even thought of a slang saying "Grandpa Cai's slider will not stick to our curtains", and the slider is carambola juice.When the pulp is uniform, add carambola juice, which magically makes the paper smooth and smooth.

Only after asking the craftsman all over did he realize that this sentence may have been forcibly married to Cai Lun by later generations.

The paper that has been processed and beautified in this way has its own beauty, either smooth and smooth, or colorful, which is refreshing.

After several days of hard work day and night, typesetting and printing, proofreading and binding.

Printed on newly-made paper with movable type, the paper version of the complete "Book of Songs" finally appeared before our eyes.

Smelling the long-lost book aroma, feeling the soft and thick texture, and flipping through the manuscript gently, Ni Tu's heart was surging.The paper version of the manuscript was so common in the previous life, the importance of it can be almost ignored by ordinary people.But when I personally experienced the birth of paper and movable type printing from scratch, I realized how heavy the meaning of books is.

The emergence of papermaking and printing will greatly promote the popularization of education and knowledge. Not only will more people have the qualifications to study, but it will also change the power structure of the Tang Dynasty and cause the huge ship of the princely family to capsize.

More importantly, this change not only affected Datang, China, but also the entire world.During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, block printing began to appear. The Diamond Sutra became the world's earliest printed work with a definite date.It was not until the Song Dynasty that movable type printing was invented, which made printing popular.

Block printing was introduced to Japan in the eighth century AD, to Egypt in the twelfth century, European travelers came into contact with Chinese printing in the thirteenth century, and printing became popular in Europe in the fourteenth and fifth centuries.Four hundred years after Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, the Germans, influenced by Chinese movable type printing, created movable type for European alphabetic writing, which was used to print books.

After papermaking and printing were introduced to the world one after another, it changed the situation that only nobles or monks could study and receive higher education. material conditions.

Before the invention of papermaking and printing, Korea and Japan also used bamboo and silk to write, India used white bark and palm leaves to write, Egypt used the inner skin of papyrus to press into "papyrus" to write, and Europe used parchment as paper to write. .

Whether bamboo slips, silk, or other materials are used, some are bulky, some are brittle, and some are expensive.Just like a piece of "The Analects of Confucius" can only be written with a carriage of bamboo slips.And to write a "Bible", it takes three hundred sheepskins.Materials unsuitable for mass use limit the dissemination of knowledge.

After the spread of papermaking and printing, the above-mentioned difficulties were solved, the popularization of culture and education was greatly promoted, and the dissemination and exchange of world science and culture were promoted.

After the improved papermaking and movable type printing appeared ahead of schedule, Ni Tu really didn't know how much change it would bring to the world.

The Butterfly Effect?

"I never thought that I would change the world just for convenience!"

Not only Ni Tu was full of excitement, but also the faces of several old craftsmen in the study.

Carpenter Cheng stroked the book almost tremblingly, his lips trembled, but he couldn't speak.

Carpenter Luo stretched out his hand several times, and every time he was about to touch the book, he stopped suddenly.He dared not touch the book with his fingers, for he was afraid of insulting the book.

Even if Li San'er, Li Shisan's little steward, looked at it with his eyes, he stepped back one meter away, for fear that his sweat would stain the book.

"This... this is worth one hundred taels of gold, I...don't dare to touch it! If it gets dirty or broken..." Li San'er swallowed and said.

Ni Tu put down the book, and laughed a few times when he saw the cautious and happy performance of the other three. "Okay, no matter how expensive these things are, they will become ordinary things in a short time, just like the daily necessities we use."

Master Cheng became anxious when he heard this, "In that case, wouldn't the papermaking and printing techniques we worked so hard to improve be worthless!"

"That's right, we've wasted so much effort, how could it become worthless?" Carpenter Luo was also very distressed.

Ni Tu knew that the prelude was almost emotionally brewing, so he said slowly: "If you want to keep selling at a high price, you have to make rare goods that you can live in."

Upon hearing this, Li San'er gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "I'm going to burn the paper-making workshop right away, and smash the stereotype of the printing workshop!"

"Don't!" Carpenter Luo and Carpenter Cheng grabbed Li San'er in time.

(End of this chapter)