Wang Wenxiu's eyes were extremely nervous, and he and Wang Jiuniang kept looking at Zhao Ping.
Alas, Zhao Ping thought that Wang Wenxiu's ambition was not to be a staff member.
I was under great pressure. Not only did I have to find a way out for my uncle, but my future concubine's father also had to find a way out.
They are just a bookkeeper who has just entered the officialdom, and they take their own energy too seriously.
Zhao Ping looked at his mother and Wang Wenxiu and his daughter, and thought for a while: "We can only do this slowly, let uncle perform better in official circles, and then think of another way."
Where is Wang Wenxiu's way out?
Now that Chengdu is rebuilding its government, let’s see if we can think of a way.
After all, Wang Wenxiu is a third-term candidate. Let’s see if he can write an article on this aspect.
The mother didn't care whether her son could do it or not, but continued to analyze: "The surplus system made your uncle the magistrate of Jintang County. In fact, he mainly chose Zhaojiazhuang's strength and chose Liu Ang as his deputy. It was a test." Your uncle, more importantly, wants you to focus on Chengdu, especially Jintang County."
Even my mother and the others saw this, and Yu Jie was indeed an old fox.
"So we decided to move some of the workshops in Zhaojiazhuang to Jintang County to help your uncle."
When my uncle heard this, he and his aunt came forward to express their gratitude to their mother and Wang Wenxiu.
My mother stepped aside and said, "We are all one family, so why be so polite."
Zhao Ping nodded and said: "My mother is right, but Chengdu's market, water conservancy, geographical location and transportation are not comparable to small places like Zhaojiazhuang and Changzhou."
Zhao Ping said his plan: "Since we are going to do it, we must do it well. Now we have to make full use of these, and we have to make paper and glass."
My mother was happy at first, then frowned, and couldn't help but ask: "Isn't there a market for papermaking? I heard that Liuli is difficult to make."
At this point, my mother couldn't help but sigh: "Ping'er, is this okay? Don't deny others a way to survive."
Mother, my son is under a lot of pressure. The commander-in-chief and the prefect will not stop until they squeeze everything out of his son.
Almost everyone involved in Zhaojiazhuang has made a lot of profits. It is not an exaggeration to say that one person has achieved enlightenment this time, and chickens and dogs have ascended to heaven.
However, what the commander-in-chief and the prefect are looking at you is not your ability to gain popularity and make money.
Where does popularity come from? Where can popularity come from without wealth?
The key point is that Jintang County is extremely poor, so where does my uncle's political achievements come from?
Mother's worry is indeed justified, and we cannot block the wealth of people in the world.
Zhao Ping nodded and said, "Mother is right, Ping'er will obey."
When her mother saw it, she agreed and asked Zhao Ping to come over.
Zhao Ping didn't know why, so his mother kissed Zhao Ping's forehead again: "Ping'er is obedient, and mother will reward you."
Zhao Ping did not dare to wipe the saliva from his forehead, but said: "Mother, of course we should give them a way to survive. The price of our paper is high, and it will not affect sales."
My mother was still worried and asked, "Ping'er, what kind of paper are you making? Can you let me see it?"
Zhao Ping took out his handmade paper and handed it to his mother.
Zhao Ping knew that he had to convince his mother, so he thought for a while and said: "The paper on the market is all thick and heavy kraft paper, but there are very few rice paper. We are making this kind of paper at home. We are making two special ones." With just the tools, you can make the paper thinner and thinner. However, this technology is only capable of this."
My mother took it, checked and stroked it repeatedly, thought for a moment, and nodded in agreement.
In fact, sales will definitely be affected, but Zhao Ping at least gives traditional paper mills a way to survive.
In fact, my mother also knew this truth. She was worried that Zhao Ping would become the target of public criticism.
After the newspaper came out, Zhao Ping found that the waste was high, the printing effect was poor, and the cost remained high.
The main reason is that the paper in this era is uneven in thickness, has poor elasticity, and is generally brown in color.
In order to sell newspapers, the price is naturally not high, but they have been losing money. In addition, the discoloration is serious and the storage time is short, forcing Zhao Ping to come up with the idea of improving paper.
The poor quality of paper in this era is mainly due to the lack of a filter, which imposes requirements on metal fatigue resistance and filter thickness.
Zhao Ping used charcoal to draw a vibrating screen and a filter, and asked Wang Qihu to make it. There was no time limit.
These two appliances put forward relatively strict requirements for mechanical properties, and they were not successfully produced until Zhao Ping left Zhaojiazhuang and went to Jiading.
There are quite a few productions, but they are all semi-finished products, which are too far away from Zhao Ping's requirements.
Having said this, Zhao Ping looked at Wang Qihu for a year and asked: "Wang Daizhao, I wonder if you have made the filter and vibrating screen?"
Wang Qihu wiped the sweat from his forehead, stepped forward and bowed his hands and said: "I'm telling you, the two utensils you want have just been made. I just brought them this time, and I don't know if they meet the requirements."
Zhao Ping couldn't help but be overjoyed. While returning the gift, he told Wang Qihu to install the two instruments and other papermaking equipment together for debugging.
The two brothers Wang Qihu happily went to adjust the papermaking equipment.
While debugging, they lamented that if it weren't for the young man, he might still be living in a damp and dark thatched house.
But after half a year of production in Zhaojiazhuang, these problems are no longer a problem.
Life has undergone earth-shaking changes. I live in a small courtyard on the first floor and one bottom, which is dry, transparent and bright.
His children are all disciples of Zhao Ping, and the old man is enjoying his old age happily.
Money, food, clothing, housing and transportation are no longer problems for them.
Their pursuits have long since changed direction, and now they want the sense of accomplishment of constantly making new things.
After receiving the arrangement of making vibrating screens and filters, they experienced many setbacks and failures, and also experienced frustration and distress.
Within a courtyard, dozens of craftsmen are busy.
Under the guidance of Zhao Ping, the two brothers led the craftsmen to combine all processes including crushing, soaking, decolorization, filtering, pressing, shaping, and drying.
This is a small family workshop, and now Zhao Ping wants to try out the performance of each appliance.
At Wang Qihu's order, dozens of people started crushing and soaking the bamboo.
Three days later, paper was finally made.
Although the paper improved on the first day, it was still not smooth, so the filter was replaced.
Finally solved the problem of paper flatness.
The mother also came over to take a look. She took a look at the paper and thought she was satisfied, but Zhao Ping shook his head.
The color of the paper has changed, but Zhao Ping is still not satisfied.
Keep improving.
Basically achieve the effect of rice paper.
In order to keep it secret, Zhao Ping divided the craft into three groups of people.
Crush is for the locals, this is giving jobs to the locals.
The filters are from Wangjiazhuang. They have long lived and died with Zhaojiazhuang in their hearts. Loyalty is not a problem at all now.
The key is bleaching. This person is from Lijiazhuang, but he only knows how to add ingredients to decolorize, but he doesn't know the formula of the ingredients.
The reason why rice paper is whiter and thinner than ordinary paper is because of the slaked lime process, which is the secret of rice paper production.
What Zhao Ping did not explain was that he planned to use calcium hydroxide hydrated lime to bleach the paper, making the paper not only thin but also relatively white.
The formula is completely in the hands of brothers Zhao Ping and Wang Qihu.
After solving the process, Zhao Ping finally breathed a sigh of relief. The remaining issue was to expand production capacity.
But the matter is not over yet, because there is still the production of colored glaze.
If the Song Dynasty had porcelain, tea and silk, then distant Venice and Egypt had colored glaze (glass).
Therefore, Zhao Ping did not feel any guilt at all in making glass, which did not compete with the Song Dynasty at all.
Zhao Ping glanced at Yao Qingjie's son Yao Yi and asked, "Deputy Boss Yao, have you finished making the crucible?"
The production of crucibles is more difficult than that of filters and vibrating screens.
Because Anfu Pottery previously made clay pottery, it had no experience with crucibles.
First, the shape is a wide-mouth barrel shape. It used to be in the shape of a jar, and its volume is several times larger than before.
Secondly, you need to be able to endure high temperatures and the Samadhi True Fire, which has a blue flame. This is the key container for making glass (glazed glass).
Yao Yi followed Zhao Ping's method and process and spent more than three months searching for raw materials for testing. After dozens of failures, he finally found one that could endure the blue flame that Zhao Ping said. Recipe, then craft it into a crucible.
Zhao Ping found Yao Qingjie when he was still in Changyuan County. He looked at and thought about it for a long time, and finally shook his head.
This was basically a separate line for him, and Zhao Ping couldn't help but be disappointed.
His eldest son Yao Yi took Zhao Ping's production process flow chart, pondered for a long time, and said, "I want to try it."
Yao Qingjie was furious at that time, thinking that even though I have decades of experience, I can’t do it. How can you do it?
Zhao Ping looked at the father and son and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if you fail!"
Yao Qingjie was afraid that failure would cause huge losses to Zhao Ping. After all, this was basically starting over.
In the first month, Yao Yi was a complete failure. He tried all the clay in the Taofang, but the result was that the shape was either deformed or could not be controlled for a long time.
Zhao Ping pondered for a long time and asked Yao Yi to try changing the formula.
The next month, Yao Yi wrote and said that he could make a crucible shape, but he couldn't stand the blue Samadhi True Fire.
Zhao Ping thought for a long time and asked him to buy nearby land and find new formulas to try.
Yao Yi had no choice but to purchase a piece of land within a radius of one mile for testing.
In the third month, Yao Yi wrote a letter saying that the crucible could be made, but it still did not meet the conditions for being able to endure the true fire of Samadhi.
Zhao Ping asked him to buy new land, but Yao Yi said that he had no money, and also put his savings in Zhaojiazhuang into it.
Zhao Ping was shocked when he realized that this crucible was so expensive. He immediately approved tens of thousands of funds. It didn't matter if it failed.
Even Zhao Jie's family had never used so much money, let alone Yao Yi and his family. The housekeeper Zhao Jie was worried that he would abscond with the money and reminded Zhao Ping in a roundabout way.
