As soon as the craftsmen sent by Zhu Zhen arrived here, they occupied the papermaking workshop and drove away all the craftsmen of the Hu family, as if they were "occupied with the magpie's nest".

Although the Hu family is tolerant on the surface, it is impossible to say that there is no complaint in their hearts.

However, the reason why the Hu family has never said anything or done anything is because they are confident that this group of unfamiliar people with no relationship with the land will not be able to make paper without their cooperation.

You know, making paper is never an easy thing.

But unexpectedly, this group of people had already started to produce just a few days after they arrived and were still working on improving their technology.

But if that's all, Hu Lai would not be satisfied. He would feel like he was crying in vain this time. If he couldn't strive for excellence in quality, why should he cooperate with Zhu Zhen?

Has it become a way to attract a wolf into the house?

Before Zhu Zhen could speak, the servant introduced: "The words of the head of Hu's family were naturally created!"

"The paper is comparable to the paper we produced before?"

Hu Lai continued to ask.

The servant responded: "Go back to the head of the Hu family, although our Zhu family's papermaking workshop also pursues quality, we devote more of our efforts to improve production efficiency.

Because every craftsman will make it their responsibility to have every family in China with their own study.”

He spoke respectfully, but his expression was proud.

Hu Lai was stunned.

A little servant dares to speak shamelessly in front of me?

Not long after, Hu Lai came to his senses, laughed furiously, pointed at the servant and said, "It's a joke! You are a servant in the workshop, not even a craftsman, so you dare to say something shamelessly "improving productivity"?

How dare you say that every family in China has its own study?

Do you know how much the cost of each piece of paper is?

How much does it cost to ship to elsewhere?

What is the annual income of the people in the world?

A piece of paper can be worth a year's income of a small family. If he buys a book, he will stop eating?"

The servant looked at Zhu Zhen and saw that the head of the family smiled and walked towards the workshop without stopping his rudeness. He knew it in his mind, so he followed Zhu Zhen and said to Hu Lai: "That is why we pay more attention to production efficiency and save costs."

Hu Lai was extremely dissatisfied with this servant, and snorted in his nose, saying disdain: "Are he really a Count's servant, you don't have to worry about scoundrel! Even if it's a poor paper, the cost is not something that ordinary farmers can afford. Otherwise, why can only a very small number of people in the world afford books and read books?"

This time, without having to speak for the servant, Zhu Zhen said slowly as he walked: "So, making the people of the world afford paper is only the initial result. Ben Bo's ambition is to make the people of the world afford books! Only when everyone can read books can more people understand the truth and give everyone the opportunity to change their destiny! Do you think there is a golden house in the book?

I want to make this golden house full of land.”

Hu Lai was speechless... This is a crazy person who could say such a mad person that he was so majestic that he was almost like a dream?

Books are luxury goods, and people who are not thin and have assets cannot bear it. Therefore, knowledge can only be mastered in the hands of a few people, thus forming a family family.

Although this phenomenon changed after the imperial examinations were selected in the Song Dynasty, it was not just a matter of saying that farming and reading were passed down from generation to generation.

Often, the family is a scholar, and his descendants are still scholars.

This has formed a new type in Jiangnan, called the academic valence.

If everyone in the world can afford to read, poor families will surely rise. Where can there be any aristocratic families?

Books are the carrier of human knowledge... Knowledge people record what they see, hear, think, and think, and become books, and are the crystallization of wisdom.

The spiritual civilization of a nation is reflected in the spiritual life of this nation and is also stored in the classics and books that have been circulated by this nation for a long time.

Strictly speaking, the books at this time were the achievements accumulated by the life of the entire ethnic group for millions of years, and the struggle was not the great achievement of a certain sage and philosopher... Ancient books were originally written by hand, and the Shang Dynasty had oracle bone inscriptions engraved on tortoise shells and animal bones, although they could not be considered books at that time.

Oracle bone inscriptions, inscriptions, and seal scripts were often written using simplified scripts and silk to record texts from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Han Dynasty.

The carved and written on bamboo sheets and then penetrated into a book is called Jian Ce, and written on silk fabrics. The scroll can be used to call the silk book.

Therefore, in ancient times, books were called a book or a book.

Papermaking was invented in the Western Han Dynasty, and Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty improved papermaking. At this point, the materials used for writing books were gradually replaced by paper.

In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, woodblock printing appeared. Due to the rise of printing technology, books gradually changed from bamboo carving hand-copy to stereotype printing, and from scrolls to booklets.

Before the papermaking technology became more popular and simple, whether it was oracle bones, bronze ware, bamboo slips, wooden slips, or paper improved by Cai Lun, they were extremely rare and valuable things and were of great value.

Therefore, whenever a book collector gets his beloved book, he always takes it in his hands, rubs and watches it, and carefully writes about famous scholars, secret books, and postscripts of the Mao copying of Huang.

Therefore, the heart is warm when you see it, and the color dance when you read it, you will regard it as a treasure and cannot let go of it.

In addition to being happy, a seal seal, heavy covering, was the collection of books of a certain family... Since then, books that should be used as carriers of civilization have become private property of the collector, either cherishing them or putting them on the shelf. Outsiders never have a glimpse of the truth outside their own children.

Knowledge becomes a luxury and has no chance of being with the vast majority of people... Why can scientific knowledge make explosive development and progress after time enters the 21st century?

The main reason is that various carriers for disseminating knowledge are becoming more and more popular, and various knowledge can be more easily known by the vast majority of people, thereby causing quantitative change to qualitative change and achieving explosive breakthroughs.

However, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the scarcity and expensiveness of paper became the biggest obstacle to restricting the circulation of books and the dissemination of knowledge... In such a situation, Zhu Zhen dared to say arrogantly that "all the people in the world can afford to read books" was simply a dream.

Hu Lai complained in his heart, but closed his mouth and did not argue with him.

When he was a business student, he knew that most people like Zhu Zhen who were in power were not very good at using it.

So it's better not to reorganize with him.

A dispute over words will not help.

To the end, we must also speak the truth.

Hu Lai pursed his lips and followed Zhu Zhen, thinking in his heart that he wanted to see what amazing skills your Fang family has to turn precious paper into a vulgar thing that everyone can afford... The servant of the Zhu family led the two of them all the way and happened to pass by two tall but without doors and windows outside the workshop.

A turbulent stream poured down from the mountain, flowing all the way into the wide and gentle stream at the foot of the mountain.

A row of huge water wheels were built next to the house by the stream. The stream was rushing, the water wheel rolled, and the rumbling sound was clearly heard.

There are several open-air stoves not far away. The fire is on the underside, and the hot water in the pot is rolling and the water steam is steaming.

Hu Lai stopped, stopped to watch, and said in surprise: "When did these water trucks stand here?"

He was not surprised by the stove that was emitting water vapor. The raw materials for making paper must be steamed and pounded before they can be used. After steaming, the raw materials are easier to pounded.

But what is this water truck used for?

The servant said, "It's just a water mill."

Hu Lai suddenly realized, shook his head and said, "The water pellet saves time and effort, but it is okay to pound rice. If it is used to pound bamboo pulp, it is inappropriate.

Once the water mill operates continuously for too long, its axis will be easily worn and must be replaced frequently.

It only takes a while to pound rice, but it takes many years to pound bamboo pulp day after day. If it stops, it will not keep up with the speed of papermaking, and it will be in vain."

Zhu Zhen on one side laughed but said nothing.

Hu Lai frowned and said, "Why is the chief executive so disdainful?

There are many rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, so water mills are everywhere.

This thing can be seen everywhere in the countryside of Jiangnan, and it is not a rare thing."

Not only in the south of the Yangtze River, but also in the north of the Yellow River and other places, water mills can be seen everywhere.

To put it bluntly, this thing is just to further process grain using the principles of hydraulic power, lever and cam. This machine that uses hydraulic power to remove the grain shell has a low technical content and is widely circulated among the people.

Since the invention of the water mill in the Han Dynasty, it has been used until the 20th century in the Jiangnan countryside... What Hu Lai said was a serious constraint on the ancient water mill - no bearings with excellent materials.

In ancient times, bearings were only cast in cast iron and then applied to animal grease and lubricated, that's all.

Just imagine, how can such a simple bearing bear the rotation of a huge water truck over the years?

It is strange that it is not scrapped... Zhu Zhen smiled: "Water pestle is different from water pestle, and water wheels are also different, just like people are different, you are different from me..." This is what Hu Lai was so angry that he just wanted to grit his teeth! You, a dignified imperial count, do you need to show your presence in front of me, a down-and-out person with a saying, "Pingzhang" is necessary to show your presence in front of me, a down-and-out person?"

This is simply a naked irony! Hu Lai was so angry that he was helpless.

Because Zhu Zhen was not wrong… “Haha, don’t accept it?

If you don’t agree, let you have a long experience and see how the water mill produced by my Fang family is different from your water mill that is ‘scattered all over the south of the Yangtze River’.”

Zhu Zhen hit Hu Lai and was in a good mood, so he led him into the water mill room.

Although Zhu Zhen has been here, the Fang family's bearings have made breakthrough progress under his "guidance". Using them on the water mill is also his suggestion. Naturally, he is familiar with the situation and found the bearings in the center of each huge gear in the water mill and pointed them out to Hu Lai.

In fact, Zhu Zhen’s hydraulic forging hammer evolved from a water mill.

But now it has been equipped with bearings, which makes the power loss smaller and the effect larger... The servant has been following the side and acts as an instructor: "These gears and the water trucks outside are equipped with bearings. This thing is made by the owner of the family. It uses the best steel with the steel mouth and adopts a series of precision technical operations. It can operate continuously for a large load for more than two months without replacement. It will easily and will never cause damage or breakage and other faults, and can ensure the continuous operation of the water mill."

In the water mill room, it is not the common "wheel pounding" that Hu Lai used to be, but the water mill carried several wooden hammers and repeatedly rammed it. The sound of the pellet is like an orange steak, and even the land under his feet fluctuates.

Instead, a group of huge gears drive four rock mills, and the gears bit the gears and are driven by the water wheel outside through the connecting rod, turning rapidly.

As for the "bearings" mentioned by the servant, they are actually invisible.

However, the gears rotate so quickly without hearing the previous "cruffing" friction sound, so you know that this "bearing" is indeed extraordinary.

There are constant handicaps coming in, transporting the raw materials of steamed bamboo from the stove outside, slowly pouring them into the two grinding holes on the stone mill, and then grinding them by the neatly arranged grinding teeth on the contact surface between the stone mill, and the pulp flows out from under the stone mill... The whole process is relaxed and pleasant.

However, pulp cannot be used to directly produce paper.

The ground pulp flows into a pool next to it, and a servant scoops it out, pours it into a stone trough, and adds another kind of slurry to it. A small forging hammer keeps hitting it repeatedly.

This is because the fibers in the pulp ground from bamboo lack the necessary flexibility, and the bonding force between the fibers is not ideal enough. If you use it to make paper, the paper will be loose and porous, with a rough surface and low strength, which will not meet the requirements for use.

The slurry water added can produce natural hemicellulose adhesive on the surface of the fiber to strengthen the fiber binding force and physical strength.

Hu Lai naturally didn't know what this slurry water was, so he asked, "What is the slurry water made of?"

Zhu Zhen looked at him and smiled, revealing her white teeth: "Haha..."
Chapter completed!