No one can disturb my retirement life in the Red Mansion

Chapter 1016: Yin Fu
"Anytime!" Ou Mengmeng smiled. After reading the letters from those people, it turned out that these noble families, although they were not good at eating, were both responsible and upright. They would not say, "We don't allow you to make paper anymore." Instead, they would use the fish to pass on the letter paper to express that the letter paper you made had no beauty at all. There was no inheritance, so you'd better not do it.

Ou Mengmeng likes them to keep their words to themselves. Because this way, there will be a huge loophole to exploit. Since you use the "fish-sent letter" method to stop Dongwu from making letter paper, then we will directly print books and other things, and send them to the Han Emperor and the Imperial College, so that all the scholars in the world will know that we can not only make letter paper, but also other things. I have made it, and you can still say I am wrong?
First of all, paper was not invented by me, it existed in the Western Han Dynasty; nor was it improved by me, it was invented by Marquis Cai a hundred years ago! We are just improving it based on Marquis Cai. Can you say that I don't follow the family rules of my ancestors?

And the books, every word in them was not written by me, I just printed them, am I wrong? By the way, let Sun Quan also return the imperial edict written by Emperor He of Han when Cai Lun made the paper. This way, when I send the books to the Emperor Han and the Imperial Academy, I can quote them. I guarantee that no one will dare to refute. Even the aristocratic families can't do that!

Having been a teacher for several lifetimes, she is really good at nitpicking about words.

Sun Quan's eyes widened. This kind of pretending to be ignorant is Zhuge Liang's strong point! Now it turns out that Zhuge Liang is the younger brother, and I am the one who is far-sighted!
"That will take a lot of time, right?" Sun Quan was still a little worried. Even if you are ready, it may be too late to finish it.

"I have also studied a method of quick printing!" Ou Mengmeng of course knew what Sun Quan meant, so she pulled him up and went to the backyard.

In addition to the papermaking workshop, there are several rooms in the backyard for technicians to rest temporarily. Of course, there is also Ou Mengmeng's studio.

When they figured out how to make paper, they also successfully trial-made wax paper. When Ou Mengmeng was a child, she helped her teacher carve wax boards, which was not difficult. She wrote on it, "Are kings, princes, generals, and ministers of different species?"

The wax paper was mounted on the gauze frame, and ink was applied with a roller. The ink penetrated the paper below, and the old lady's clear handwriting was visible on the bamboo paper below. This paper was obviously not as good as the letter paper, it was a bit rough and black. But the handwriting was very clear.

Although the paper was not good, it was indeed printed, and more copies could be printed at a time. So, copying a book and printing dozens of copies in this way was not a dream. This made Sun Quan excited: "Mother, have you figured out a way to print?"

"Of course not. As I just said, this is a simple printing method. This kind of wax paper is not very good. It's good enough to print 20 or 30 sheets at a time. And it's not easy to engrave the words. If you write a little bit, all your efforts will be wasted. In the end, you still have to use the printing method that Lao Wu and his wife do." Ou Mengmeng shook her head.

Just as she said, in the end, this wax paper was used to print 32 copies. The 33rd copy was not torn, but it was visibly broken. Ou Mengmeng was of course not satisfied, because she could print at least 50 copies for the teacher. At that time, there were so many people in their class. So, the quality of the wax paper was still not good enough.

"Mother, this is really amazing." But this has given Sun Quan a great surprise. Being able to print 32 sheets at a time is really amazing. "So, can you print something first?"

"Of course, if you decide, you can send someone to learn from me. I'll make some tools." Ou Mengmeng smiled and waved her hand, "Of course, if you want to do better, you have to wait half a year. Because you have to carve the plates. They are very experienced in printing letter paper. The masters I found before have already made the characters according to Er Ya. It's just like a seal, the characters are carved in reverse, and they are arranged one by one, so you can print the characters on paper just like printing letter paper."

Sun Quan knew how to print letter paper, he had watched it before. So he knew what a woodblock was. So when the old lady said that words were engraved on a woodblock, he immediately understood.

"Then mother, do you want to print something first?" Sun Quan thought about it and decided to discuss it with the old lady. Since it has been made and the old lady showed it to him, she must have an idea. "The New Year is coming soon. I want to dye some red paper, print some blessing characters, and give them to the people of Jiangdong. What could be better than sending blessings to their homes?" Ou Mengmeng knew that at that time, there was no custom of pasting blessing characters. However, there was also a custom of hanging things on the door.

At this time, peach charms were used to celebrate the New Year. According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty, the peach charms were six inches long and three inches wide, with the names of the two gods "Shen Tu" and "Yu Lei" written on the wooden board. "On the first day of the first lunar month, peach charms were made and hung on the doors. They were called immortal trees and feared by all ghosts."

In the Five Dynasties, people in the court of Western Shu wrote couplets on peach charms. The Qing Dynasty's "Yanjing Shisui Ji" said: "Spring Festival couplets are peach charms."

Peach charms are actually quite expensive, and not every family can afford to put them up. Ou Mengmeng had already done some research before, what could be as popular as flyers? At this time, in a war-torn era with an illiteracy rate of over 90% and low urbanization, how could people know the role of paper and support Sun Quan?

She is a teacher, and also an ordinary person. For ordinary people, what can be better than the peaceful and harmonious New Year period? The Chinese New Year is a festival with special significance for the Chinese nation. It seems that the whole year exists just for the festival. Everything seems to be able to take a back seat for the festival.

At this time, Sun Quan sent blessings, so that the poor people received a pair of red "Fu" characters and pasted them on the door. Didn't it add a little bright color to their gray life?
Sun Quan nodded, "Then I'll leave it to mother."

Ou Mengmeng patted him gently with a calm smile on her face.

Printing books is for the upper class, while printing blessings is for the lower class. Ou Mengmeng wants to do both. For the upper class, even if the Han Dynasty is declining, it is still the common ruler of the world, and the people must be convinced. And for the lower class, it is the common people. Those aristocratic families, no matter how tyrannical they are, must have a name of charity. They are also under the banner of protecting their families and the people. Now she feels that she can do both!
There is no need to talk about mimeographing. She has just demonstrated it to Sun Quan. As for the red paper, the paper dyeing technology is still immature. A lot of the colored paper is the same as what Ou Mengmeng did before. Dye is put into the pulp pool, but there are problems with the acidity and alkalinity of the dye, temperature control, and drying temperature, all of which affect the color of the paper.

The red paper in modern times is not dyed, but painted. She has seen this before, which is considered one of the intangible cultural heritages in the north. Use the best white paper to paint red pigment. There are also some particulars for this pigment, but she doesn't understand it.

Now she believed that since she couldn't make it, you guys just had to make do with it. She believed that the common people wouldn't be too picky about using lightly dyed red paper. Moreover, she absolutely believed that as long as she started, there would be smart craftsmen who could make things beautiful. She really appreciated this process that had lasted for thousands of years.

As for how to print it, she didn't worry about it. There were many people in Sun Quan's family. She only needed to teach one person and she didn't have to worry about the rest. She only needed to "design" a variety of blessing characters.

Moreover, when she was carving the wax paper, she suddenly slapped her forehead. What a fool! To print the word "Fu", you can just carve the plate directly. How fast is that? You can print as many as you want.

I went shopping yesterday and walked nearly 6,000 steps. I went home and slept for more than three hours. I watched Korean variety shows about eating. They were really poor people's variety shows. They had soup, rice, some kimchi, and then they ate with big mouthfuls. I even wondered if Chinese variety shows were not good because no one really dared to eat.