"Mr. Ronglu beat several Yelang merchants to death."

"A friend of mine is from the government. I heard that Ronglu Hou killed all the Yelang envoys."

"Have you heard that all the envoys from Baiyue have been killed by Ronglu Hou."

In recent days, with the spread of those who are interested, such news that is unfavorable to Li Chen has become increasingly fierce, and the relationship between envoys from various countries and the Qin Dynasty has become increasingly stiff.

Xianyang City, Afang Palace

"Your Majesty, this is the letter from the Yelang envoy." Zhao Gao handed the bamboo slip in his hand to the First Emperor and said softly.

"Bang."

"Pulibola."

"A small country, what is the result of two people? Tell them that you can get out of your mind when you feel uncomfortable. Tell me what I said, and you don't need to hide it." The First Emperor didn't even look at it, and threw the bamboo slips into the brazier.

"Your Majesty, it's not good to say this. What if these barbarians start to make trouble?" Zhao Gao asked tentatively.

"A group of savages, I don't obey, any partial master of Daqin can destroy the clan." The First Emperor said disdainfully.

This barbarian, he is like a spring. If you are weak, he will be strong. If you become tough, he will not dare to say anything.

Since the words of the First Emperor came out of the palace, all the tribes of the hundred countries were more honest than the other, as if they were afraid that one would accidentally anger the First Emperor and would be slaughtered.

Whether the city is wind and rain or calm has nothing to do with Li Chen. At this time, he is studying papermaking in a workshop in Lijiazhuang.

In fact, it should not be difficult to create the most primitive paper. After all, even Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty could invent papermaking, let alone Li Chen had a huge amount of knowledge in his previous life. In theory, papermaking that is not complicated should not be very difficult, but he just couldn't.

Li Chen now uses Cai Lun's papermaking technique that should have only appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He used tree bark, hemp head and worn cloth. The fish nets were used as paper. He first made it into pulp, took the film and removed the water, and then dried it to make it into paper.

"No, it's wrong." Li Chen muttered in his heart as he looked at the pots of paste in front of him.

This paste has been debugged many times and has tried various proportions. However, the paste cannot be made into paper after being dried. It is extremely fragile after being dried, and it will rot when it is touched.

"Brother, do you still remember how to make wine?" Liuzi asked with his head stretched out.

"You mean, use gauze filter?" Li Chen asked.

"Cook first and then filter so that the paste will be finer and the paper you make will not be too rough."

"But the pulp is too sticky and it will definitely not be filtered out with gauze. Please wait here and don't move. I'll weave a bamboo net." Liuzi said as he looked at the paste in the basin.

People know that success means one percent talent plus ninety-nine percent effort, but they don’t know that one percent talent is equally better than ninety-nine percent effort.

Not long after, Liuzi walked over with a mat. The mat was framed with bamboo strips and made into a fishing net with dense reed grass. The mesh was neither dense nor sparse, and it looked very comfortable.

After several days of viewing, Liuzi had already remembered the steps of Li Chen's papermaking in his heart. Compared to Li Chen's rough experiment with his eyes, Liuzi seemed to have practiced countless times in his heart.

Perhaps, this is the talent of craftsmen.

Under the command of Liuzi, the two strong farmers first poured out all the paste in the wooden basin. These pots of wooden oars were already in a mess under the trouble of Li Chen and Fusu.

Liuzi carefully selected materials such as bark, hemp rope, rotten fishing nets, etc., and carefully found the impurities inside. These raw materials are easy to find and cheap. The paper produced is high in yield, low in cost, and easy to popularize. If such paper can be invented hundreds of years in advance, it would be a great achievement.

Liuzi first separated the raw materials and put them in a wooden basin and hammered them hard with a wooden pestle.

The wooden pestle hit the wooden basin hard, accompanied by the sound of "bang" and "bang", and occasionally there was a fishing net, and the hemp rope was pounded into paper pulp, making a "puff" sound. Soon, the wooden basin and the wooden pestle were covered with yellow wood pulp. Perhaps because of the addition of the broken fishing net, the yellow paste had a fishy smell.

When the raw materials in the entire wooden basin turned into pulp, Liuzi's hand holding the wooden pestle was already a little sore. He grabbed a handful of wood ash and scattered it into the wooden basin and hammered it gently.

The purpose of adding wood ash is to look at degumming, which is also the joint steps that Li Chen forgot.

The paste that lacks the degumming step will have a lot of fibers and is very large. Even if it can occasionally condense into paper, its surface will be extremely unsmooth and is not conducive to writing.

After the first step of pounding and degumming is completed, the next step is steaming and filtering.

"Populate the pulp into the pot and add clean water to boil." Liuzi directed the village house beside him.

Add these pulps to clean water, and then cook the water completely dry. This can kill the insect eggs in the bark and remove the fishy smell in the fishing nets. Second, the steamed pulp will turn from yellow to white, and it can also boil the plant fibers to make the paper smoother.

After steaming, filter the pulp with a mat and filter out the uncooked plant fibers. When Li Chen and Fusu saw the white pulp, they knew in their hearts that the paper might be done.

The pulp was spread flat on the bamboo mat. The bamboo mat with special paper was not big, probably the size of a4 paper in later generations. The pulp fell on the bamboo mat, and the excess water fell down in a sensation, and a layer of white pulp was left on the bamboo mat.

There is a wooden rack next to it, and Liuzi puts the bamboo mat containing pulp on the compartment of the wooden rack to dry.

"It should be no problem." Liuzi rubbed his hands and said after using up a basin of pulp. A whole basin of wooden oars only made 120 pieces of white paper.

The three of them were staring at their own children, just like they watched the pulp solidify little by little.

Sure enough, professional things still need to be done by professionals. Nothing is indispensable for the mind and skill. Without the talent to become a craftsman, even the method of making paper is right in front of you.

Three days later, Xianyang City, Lijiazhuang

"Paper, the paper is dry." Liuzi, as a great hero in this papermaking, personally uncovered the first chapter of the Qin Dynasty.

The birth of this first piece of paper means that from today on bamboo slips and silk will be eliminated.

The First Emperor did not have to review a whole cart of memorials every day, nor did he have to pick up the mountain-like bamboo slips every day, the First Emperor would bid farewell to periarthritis of the shoulder from now on.

Under Li Chen's guidance, Liuzi carefully stitched the 120 pages of white paper into a book. Before nailing it, he carefully washed his hands five or six times, for fear of dirtying the white paper.
Chapter completed!