Zhang Ji has high hopes for these cheap papers and printing technology, but this is not a process that can be completed from scratch in a day or two.
The first step of cooking alone, including the cooking of tree bark, broken fishing nets, and inferior silk, will take at least seven days.
And this was the result of the improvements made by these skilled craftsmen. When they heard that Zhang Ji planned to use alkaline water made from plant ash to cook food, they decisively suggested that lime water, a more alkaline alkaline water, could be used to speed up the cooking process. A process.
It just so happened that Jade Tiger had previously given the lime mine in Nanyang to Zhang Ji, thus obtaining a batch of lime with high purity and excellent craftsmanship.
After this step is completed, the cooked paper material needs to be soaked and fermented for five or six days to slowly produce plant fiber, and undergo lengthy rinsing again and again. Finally, it takes six or seven hours to beat the pulp. Squeeze, stretch, and tear the plant fibers inside, and finally use the beaten pulp to make paper, dry-bake it thoroughly, and obtain qualified cheap paper.
In other words, the papermaking process will take more than half a month if no mistakes are made and it is completed in one go.
On the contrary, woodblock printing can be completed quickly. After all, these skilled craftsmen are master craftsmen who are literate. They only need to carve out the content of the article like chiseling a seal.
The reason why Zhang Ji did not let craftsmen use wooden movable type printing was because of cost issues.
Zhang Ji is indeed not short of money, but if he wants to promote printing, he needs to keep the cost as low as possible.
Wooden movable type often needs to be glued together by heating glue, so it is easy to cause texture changes and deformation of the wooden blocks on which the characters are engraved. Therefore, it may often happen that some blocks of the wooden movable type cannot be used. .
Unless copper movable type is used, the cost is too high and is not conducive to the promotion of printing.
Moreover, Chinese culture is vast and profound, and there are too many characters. In addition, each country has its own characters. The Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period plus the Wei Kingdom, there are eight types of wooden movable type. This cost further increases.
Therefore, woodblock printing was the most suitable method for promoting printing.
After taking a cursory look at the progress of the craftsmen, Zhang Ji no longer stayed in the other courtyard to influence these craftsmen.
Unlike Zhang Ji's leisurely life, some people's lives are not so comfortable.
For example, the Baiyue F4 that attacked Zhang Ji without authorization received a warm visit from a mysterious person before they had fully recovered.
At night, the door of a mansion on the outskirts of Xinzheng North Gate was closed, but the lights inside the mansion were brightly lit. It looked like a wealthy family having fun in their mansion on the outskirts.
However, what is a little strange is that for a mansion of this size on the outskirts of Xinzheng, there is not even a single armed servant standing guard outside the mansion.
However, there were several servants patrolling the front yard inside the mansion. Black mist filled the air like a wave, covering the waists of these servants, making it look particularly strange.
And that's not all weird. The patrol routes and movements of these servants seem to be even weirder, as if they are walking aimlessly. But if you look closely, you can see that they are staggering back and forth in a small and unfixed area. Circle.
Suddenly, a burst of icy blue breath fell on the door of the mansion. In just one breath, the door of the mansion was covered with a layer of frost. In the blink of an eye, the frost turned into a thick layer of ice, freezing the door from the inside out.
boom!
The ice suddenly shattered, and together with the mansion door, it scattered into little ice crystals and dissipated in the air.
As the gate of the mansion disappeared, the moonlight, which was blocked by the century-old tree in the front yard of the mansion, shone into the front yard from the gate of the mansion and fell on the faces of the patrolling servants.
As if feeling the moonlight, these servants raised their heads, green light radiated from their eyes. They tilted their heads, bent their legs, and looked at the black figure that smashed the door of the mansion.
At that time, a man dressed in black, with his face covered by a black gauze and long white hair, walked alone into this strange mansion.
Noticing the intrusion of outsiders, these strange servants moved their joints, and all the joints in their bodies made clicking sounds.
They are not people, they are zombies!
But the man in black didn't care about all this. Although his face was covered by a layer of black gauze, it could still be seen that there was no trace of hesitation on his face. He crossed the threshold and continued walking at a steady pace. Walk inside the house.
And the moment he crossed the threshold, the zombies suddenly let out a creepy scream and immediately accelerated and attacked the man in black.
But the man in black didn't even bother to look at these terrifying monsters. He just lightly clenched his fists, and an extremely cold white air flow swirled around him, instantly freezing the zombies who tried to attack him. land.
Several zombies turned into ice sculptures and remained motionless. The man in black passed by these zombies, and the moment his body intertwined with these "ice sculptures", these ice sculptures shattered into pieces, and turned into ice shards all over the sky like the mansion door, floating in the air. , fell to the ground.
After passing through the front yard and the inner gate, the man in black came to the inner yard of the mansion. There was a thin figure dressed similarly to him, wrapped in a black cloak. The brim of his hat was deliberately lowered to cover his appearance, but The soul-calling bell in his hand revealed his identity.
Exorcist!
A cold and erratic voice came out of the mouth of the man in black, filled with white mist, as if the air the man breathed out when he spoke was extremely cold.
"It seems that Zhang Ji let you go."
The man in black glanced at the body of the exorcist. With his eyesight and perception, he could naturally see that the exorcist was not injured at all.
"Since he didn't kill you, just cherish your life for who knows how long it can last."
The man in black noticed the talisman held tightly in the exorcist's hand behind his back, and also noticed the faint green light glowing on the soul-calling bell. The white airflow that had appeared before suddenly emerged from the exorcist's feet and followed him. His body coiled and climbed upwards, freezing his limbs and body, leaving only his head to move.
If Yan Lingji were here, she would definitely recognize this exquisite internal power control method at a glance, because she had fought with the owner of this cold air for a while outside the gate of Xinzheng City.
The identity of the man in black is naturally self-evident.
The Blood-clad Marquis—Bai Yifei!
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