Chapter 59 Visiting the Papermaking Workshop
take an exam?
Fusu and others heard a new word again.
Young Master Gao asked: "Sir, what is an exam?"
Don’t even know about the exam? Alas, I still have a long way to go on this teaching journey. I'm afraid three years is not enough.
"Exams are assessments. A summary of your studies over the past few days will allow you to know your shortcomings, and then review them until you have mastered them." Qin An explained.
"I see." The four Fusu people said in perfect agreement.
"Okay, get out of class is over."
After saying the last two words, Qin An turned around and left, no longer paying attention to the stunned Fusu four, and went straight back to his room.
He still has a lot of things to do. It is not an easy task to get four test papers out today.
When Qin An returned to the room, he began to miss his gift box. In the box, there were test papers that he had prepared long ago, which he bought with his own money.
Not only that, there are also many teaching materials and books, which will make it easier to teach Zhao Su and the four of them.
And there are a lot of seeds. I knew that this place would be very backward, so I bought a lot of vegetable seeds and fruit seeds online.
After searching online for a long time, I finally found the cheapest seed set, which showed dozens of fruit seeds and vegetable seeds.
It’s just that the price of this vegetable set is cheap because the number of seeds is very small, just a small packet. Just a dozen or twenty seeds.
Qin An didn't plan to plant much, just a little of each was enough. Besides, there would be seeds after the vegetables and fruits bear fruit, and there would be too many seeds to use up.
For this reason, Qin An also bought a lot of books on growing vegetables and fruits.
The reason why Qin An bought so many seeds was not only to satisfy his own appetite, but also to know whether some popular fruits or vegetables could be grown in the village.
It is best to use fruits, so that the government can build roads here. Once the roads are built, the popular fruits in the village can be sold.
But now the dream is about to be shattered, not because the suitcase cannot be found, but because the village is too backward, with no water, electricity, mobile phone signal, or even modern necessities.
In such a backward village, no businessman is willing to invest. No matter how good the fruits in the village are, it is not cost-effective.
Unless the government is willing to spend huge sums of money to build water plants, power plants, signal towers, etc. here.
Then real poverty alleviation can be achieved.
well.
Qin An sighed and said: "Now that the matter is over, whatever is lacking here, I will make it myself. If there is a shortage of electricity, I will invent it myself. If there is a shortage of water, I will build a water plant myself. If there is no water plant, why not build a water tower?" No problem, at least it can be used by the whole village."
Immediately, Qin An regained his composure and began to write the test paper.
Because it’s still early, it’s not time to finish cooking yet.
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"Your Majesty, there is a brick kiln in front of us. The kilns are still burning now and it is quite hot." Li Si said.
Ying Zheng nodded and said: "Indeed, I have already felt a wave of heat coming towards me."
Others are feeling the heat, too.
Li Si said: "Your Majesty, this brick kiln still needs to be fired for a while, and we haven't seen much progress in the past. Why don't we go to the papermaking workshop to have a look."
"The papermaking workshop was built so quickly?" Ying Zheng asked.
He had heard Qin An say that this paper was so useful, but he never thought it could be made so easily.
Meng Tian on the side responded first: "Reporting to your Majesty, the papermaking process is actually very simple. If there are enough materials, the workshop in the village can produce thousands of sheets of paper in a day."
"Really?" Ying Zheng was slightly suspicious, "Then let's go quickly. I want to see with my own eyes how the paper Qin An talks about is made."
"promise."
Immediately, Li Si and Meng Tian took Ying Zheng to the papermaking workshop, and Zhang Han followed silently. Among the four, Zhang Han had the lowest official position, so he could only follow behind.
Soon, the four people arrived at the papermaking workshop.
The villagers in the papermaking workshop were busy performing their duties. When they saw Ying Zheng coming, they all knelt down and saluted.
"See Your Majesty."
Ying Zheng nodded and said: "Everyone, get up and do your own work. Don't pay attention to me."
"promise."
Everyone stood up and continued busy making paper.
Ying Zheng saw a group of people constantly throwing bamboo, sandalwood bark, wheat straw, rice straw and other objects into a huge container.
Someone was stirring constantly above the container, and there was still steam rising from the container, because someone below the container was constantly adding firewood, boiling the water in the container, and beating the papermaking raw materials that had just been placed into a paste.
"What are they doing?" Ying Zheng asked.
Li Si replied: "Reporting to your majesty, this is pulping in papermaking. All the raw materials just thrown in are beaten into pulp."
"Can paper be made in this way?" Ying Zheng asked suspiciously, "I remember that the teaching materials Qin An gave to Fusu and the four of them were snow-white and rectangular paper, which was very thin."
In fact, Ying Zheng had noticed the paper used by the four Fusu people in class early on, but he just didn't ask about it out of face.
What if Qin An said that he didn't know anything again, wouldn't he be very shameless? He was the First Emperor, how could he know nothing, and how could he have no face?
"Your Majesty." Li Si explained again: "There are four steps in papermaking. This pulping is the second step, which is to use the cooked raw materials to continuously stir and pound them, so that the raw materials slowly become pulp.
Then the third step is to make paper. Your Majesty, please continue going in. "
Ying Zheng nodded and continued walking forward. He saw pools of water in front of him, but the water was milky white. He thought it was diluted milk.
There were two people standing next to the pool, one on the left and one on the right, fishing for something in the pool with an unknown object.
"Is this papermaking?" Ying Zheng asked.
"Your Majesty is wise, since this is papermaking, the water in the pool is actually the slurry made by the seepage of the paper pulp, and then the pulp is scooped out with a bamboo mat, so that the paper pulp slowly forms a piece of wet paper on the bamboo mat.
The final step is to dry or dry the wet paper, which then becomes a piece of paper.
In order to make the wet paper dry quickly, Weichen took them all to the drying room near the brick kiln factory to dry. "
Ying Zheng nodded slightly: "Let's go to the drying room."
"promise."
Immediately, Ying Zheng and the others arrived at the drying room.
Ying Zheng saw densely packed papers being dried, some of which had just been put on, and some of which were already dry.
Some villagers collected the dried paper and then used the paper cutters made in the blacksmithing workshop to cut the new paper so that all the new papers were exactly the same in size and shape.
