From Chief to Ball

"I'll show you something fun."

He scooped half of the soaked tannic acid solution out of the bowl, and added it into the bowl of green water with a shake of his hand. In an instant, black fish appeared in the original green solution, and finally the whole bowl of water turned black. .

Although people were surprised by this, they were extremely utilitarian because of Chen Jian's influence. They were not surprised until they couldn't see the benefits of this thing. They saw a lot of surprising things in Xiacheng, and they would be surprised if they saw something. I am afraid that my jaw will be hard to protect.

He deliberately tugged at his somewhat yellowed linen shirt, and while pretending to wipe his hands, he asked enlighteningly, "Guess what this thing can do?"

A few people stared at the black-blue water, and a person who was forced to loosen the ink by Chen Jian all day shouted excitedly: "I know! This thing can be used as ink, no... no, it's not ink, it's ink. Ink that doesn't grind."

A group of people suddenly realized, but they were wondering how much Ji Xia was going to write?The eight Kaimeng texts are only a few dozen characters, how much can this pool write?

However, Chen Jian almost stuck his head into the bowl, and praised weakly and reluctantly: "What you said... seems to be correct, this thing can indeed be used as ink."

It's not that it seems right, but it's really right. The blue and black ink is this thing.

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After embarrassingly praising, the words of the clansman made Chen Jian feel a lot in his heart: he thought that the clansmen would think of dyeing naturally, but this is not the case.That person thought of ink because his daily work was to study ink, and what he took for granted was not the case before experiencing labor and aesthetic needs. This can also be regarded as a warning: how to guide the tribe instead of having no labor foundation and demand foundation instill?

This blue-black dye is a water-soluble dye that is easy to fade, but it is cheap and versatile. It can be said that in Chen Jian's previous life, it was one of the two most commonly used dyes by low-level people. It is not a big deal to artificially manufacture divalent iron catalysts. Such an astonishing move.

It can be said that without this kind of dye, there would be no title of Guizhou head. The head of Guizhou is black;

However, the popular black dyeing that requires catalyst technology is definitely simpler than the indigo dyeing that is not blue. Why is it not indigo but Guishou?Is it people's spontaneous aesthetic pursuit?Or is it the aesthetic demand shaped by the public opinion propaganda of Shang Xuan, the ruling class of the Qin Dynasty?How can public opinion and propaganda departments function effectively in the context of low literacy?When public opinion spreads, do I do what the tribe wants; or do I just want the tribe to accept it?

In addition, many characteristics of this dye have been described sideways in Chen Jian's previous classical novels, and people are already well aware of the descriptive chemical interest of tannic acid and vitriol.

Jiang Xingge, who was the first in the opening chapter of Three Words and Two Films, met again in the pearl shirt. When Sanqiaoer was talking to the mother-in-law at night, he once asked the mother-in-law how many times she had been with others before she got married. How can she pretend to be a virgin and marry?The woman said that she washed it with pomegranate peel and green vitriol decoction, and the bottom was tightened. On the wedding night, she pretended to be painful and got some rouge to fool the fool.Pomegranate peels have always been an important source of underlying tannins for darkening and coloring.

This story shows that it is not impossible to explain the world practically and descriptively. In the natural development of unaffected civilization, although this kind of alternative science lacks theorems and definitions, it has been widely spread for the purpose of practicality. When this kind of practical description has accumulated to a certain extent, it only needs someone to come up with a scientific method of summarization and induction, and then the descriptive science can make a leap from descriptive science to theoretical science—but theoretical science is not everyone in the early stage. What can be understood and mastered is not convenient for the dissemination of technology. Accumulating first and then theory is a road that is easy to popularize in the early stage.

The definition of astringent in the previous life theory refers to the compound feeling of wrinkling and contraction produced by epithelial cells soaked in solutions such as tannin and alum.In the story, it is obvious that the woman has already known that the astringent feeling caused by the complex feeling of wrinkling and shrinking will make the original greasy feeling become astringent, and the road that people have traveled too much will become thorny. .

Furthermore, the woman obviously knew that this mixture of tannin and alum was a water-soluble substance, otherwise it would be dark and the color would not be washed off after washing, and it would be difficult to pretend to be pink.

The mother-in-law does not need to know the definition of astringent, nor does she need to know that ferrous tannin is soluble in water. She only needs to know that it is useful and it will spread. So don’t rush to talk about theories when promoting technology. Is it easier to spread and communicate? been accepted?

Faced with this bowl of dark water, or because Chen Jian was immersed in the idea of ​​writing textbooks, he thought a lot. Since this technology will be promoted in a few years, and thousands of Chinese who have completed the enlightenment education will take root in the wilderness. How to promote it is something that must be considered, because this will form a rule and affect the subsequent direction.

Before material accumulation is enough to popularize compulsory education for all, technology dissemination takes technique as the main body and Taoism as the auxiliary, first imparting technique, then explaining Taoism, and it will be a matter of course.Chen Jian stared at the bowl of black water, and warned himself to write this idea on the wooden slips as a memo: Before the technology promotion after the ten-year plan, we must teach those people in the school a lesson about Yangchun Baixue and Xialiba people. In a village and city that has just been civilized, when talking about technology, you must not just talk about why, but talk about the technical results first, otherwise you will swear that the tribe will not understand.

Chen Jian secretly warned himself that when compiling textbooks, he must bring in the way of thinking of this era. After writing, he must first let people of this era listen to them, and then settle down after making sure they understand.It must not be Yangchun Baixue, but must go down to Libaren.You must not use your own way of thinking as the basis, but must conform to the way of thinking of the times.

Xu Shi stood facing the black and blue water for too long, looking a little stupid and sluggish, and the person who said the ink was even more worried when he said something wrong that made Ji Xia stunned for so long. Yu coughed lightly before Chen Jian woke up, looked at the crowd blankly, and smiled a little embarrassedly.

Glancing at Ji Bai and the other 20 or so selected personal guards, he said, "You clear away everyone who is not from our tribe and surround them outside."

After taking orders to leave, there were only people from Xiacheng left here. Chen Jian patted the bowl of black water with his hands and said: "The tribes of the great river worship the light and regard flowers as their beauty. The flowers are colorful, blue, red, blue and green. If the flowers are single I’ll always get tired of seeing it. It’s the same as dressing, everyone is wearing hemp yellow clothes, don’t you want to change the color of your clothes?”

Everyone nodded and said: "Then who wouldn't want to? As early as in Xiacheng, some people thought of dyeing with flower petal juice for beauty. time."

Speaking of this, everyone came to their senses, pointed to the bowl of black water and said, "This can be used to dye cloth and clothes!"

"Yeah, that's right. And it's blue-black, it's dirt-resistant, and you can't see it even if it's stained with dust. It saves women a lot of effort in beating the club by the river."

After finishing speaking, Chen Jian called Ji Bo over, and said, "Today, I have three things to say. One is that we can dye clothes in the future, not only black, but also blue and yellow next year. Except ourselves To wear it, and to exchange it with people in other cities, this can earn a lot of corn every year, and it can also turn the money shells of our Xia City into money shells recognized by other cities."

"The second thing is that this matter is related to the whole city. The income from the goods department is large, and the amount distributed to everyone every year is also large. This method of dyeing has been learned by people in other cities, so let's change it." Not so much. This is not the same as gunpowder, the gunpowder workshop is in Xiacheng, and many people from various cities will come here in the future."

"The third thing is that more workshops will be built in the future. In order to prevent others from finding out, I have selected [-] people, including Ji Bai, named Black Clothes Guards to take charge of these matters. The wooden gates and high walls can guard against the rest of the city. People, but we can't guard against our own clansmen. So many people know about this matter today, I did it on purpose, so starting today, within five years, if this thing spreads to outsiders, Ji Bo will find out who it is It was exposed. After finding out, they were sent back to Xia City. Although there are no such rules and regulations, I think the clansmen were smashed when they heard that they could share a lot of good things, and they would be exiled even if they were not hanged. "

Everyone felt a chill, but they knew that this matter was not nonsense, and it also involved the income sharing of the goods raised by everyone after six years.

Chen Jian took advantage of the situation and said, "Take this as an example. I'll make a jade token. If Ji Bo takes my jade token to search the house and arrest people in the future, he can't be stopped. I mean, you don't object?"

Everyone nodded, Chen Jian grabbed Ji Bai's shoulder and pulled him over, saying, "You have to learn from this incident. I said to keep it a secret, you need to tell everyone who heard it at that time." Write it down with a pen and wooden slips, and store them well. For example, if this matter is revealed five years later, then when checking, you only need to look through the wooden slips to find the volume of dyeing and ask questions one by one. The old grandmother has such a good memory. How about knotting a rope and remembering things, let alone us?"

The norms appeared little by little, Ji Bo naturally would not object, nodded and said yes, and asked everyone to sign their names on the wooden slips according to Chen Jian's instructions, leaving a mark on the outside, and Chen Jian handed it over to Red Fish for him to use linen silk as before. Put all kinds of records down together.

In the afternoon of the same day, Chen Jian took people to dye the clothes and turbans of the people who went to find the stone, thinking that it would be a kind of aesthetic guidance for public opinion to prepare for the Sucheng League in a few days.

Dyeing is a set of techniques, including the previous potassium alkali rinsing to remove the colloid on the fiber, etc., and how to restore the original color bleaching, etc.

Because this is indeed the blue-black fountain pen water that Chen Jian was familiar with in his previous life, so the problem is not difficult: the "magic pen" that was commonly used in middle school to wipe the traces of fountain pen water is mainly based on oxidants such as sodium hypochlorite and sodium hypochlorite. The valence iron or the formation of iron carbonate is hydrolyzed from blue-black to lavender pink, so as to smear and correct typos.It is inferred that it is also feasible to rinse the blue-black dyed clothes with potash alkali.

After sorting out this set of techniques, it is also recorded that the first batch of dyed clothes will be ready in three to five days.

The clothes and headscarves of the rest were pure blue and black, while Ji Bai and the others added some gum and pine ink to the dye, melted it with beeswax, and painted Xiacheng's wheat ear logo on their bodies.

The wheat ear logo drawn by wax can prevent the dye from being applied to the place where the wax melts when dyeing, and the left wheat ears have natural stripes left after the wax is rubbed, which is very layered and flavorful, and it is extremely magical. This is It is sold to the relatives and nobles in various cities.

Everyone wore dyed new clothes, and they were very excited. After a few days, people who went out to look for stones came back one after another. The harvest was gratifying, but it didn't have the result Chen Jian wanted. Fortunately, there were still more than a dozen people who did not come back. , there is still hope.

While waiting for everyone to return to the team, Chen Jian selected 4000 printing and dyeing workers, and took out the records of what these people did when they were slaves before, and selected 800 strong and strong people as workshop workers. Qian Ze was taken to the jungle on the other side of the lake, divided into eight villages and farms with a team of [-] people, and asked them to set fire to the mountain and prepare for autumn planting.

Let Red Fish choose sixteen people from the clansmen in Yucheng, and let them first station in those villages and farms that have nothing, as a guide for farming.

When the agreed date came, there were more than ten soldiers who had not come back. Chen Jian also knew that the date might be delayed due to some accidental factors in this era, so he didn't wait any longer, and just told them to go after they came back. Sucheng is.

However, before setting off, Hongyu, who had just finished allocating things in the village farm, ran to the pier panting, and pulled Chen Jian aside with an anxious expression on his face.

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"what happened?"

It was rare for Chen Jian to see Hongyu like this. Hongyu sighed and said, "The people who were sent to the village farm are talking about you. They are not happy. They say that they are sages elected by everyone or that they are educated in the school. After all, they can read and count, so why were they thrown into such a barren place? They didn’t want to go, they wanted to stay in Yucheng. Why go?"

"And...and they are very dissatisfied with the fact that you let them teach those people how to read in their spare time. Jian, you are too anxious. I know what you want to do, but this is too urgent. The entire Xiacheng can read two hundred There are not too few but not many, and there are not many who can count to tens of thousands. Now Xiacheng is short of manpower, you should wait, after ten years, there will be more children Recognize the words and count them, and divide them up when the time comes. Even if you can’t wait ten years, you can wait five years, right? Someone will object to you.”

"be opposed to?"

"Yes. Everyone wants to be in the city, they all want to be in Xiacheng. Everyone learns to be an official, not to go to a wild village. It's not just these people. After Yuqianer lets those people from Xiacheng come, The debate will be louder."

"If you force them to teach for three years, they will hate you and oppose you. And these people are very powerful people in our Xia City. If they all oppose you, it will be difficult for you. Ten years later It’s different, if you learn well to be an official, if you don’t learn well to teach people how to read, there will be fewer people who oppose you.”

"Now suppose there are [-] literate people, and if you catch [-], half of them will oppose you, and these [-] people are all famous in the city. Ten years later, there will be [-] literate people, You catch two hundred, but only one of twenty is against you. That's different."

Chen Jian smiled bitterly and said, "How can I not know? But I also want a group of literate people, at least those who can count and cut the sound, what can I do? Just like Xiacheng Academy, the teachers in the school are all off-duty Yes, the public property is responsible for the various needs of those children, I can't afford it, even if Xia Cheng doesn't support a single soldier, I can't afford it either."

"Let the children here pay corn every month to learn. Have you ever thought that the adults here and in the village will accept it? The 12-year-old children can already cut wheat and mud and go to the workshop to work. Will the adults let them learn those things? ?”

"I can't wait ten years. After ten years, Xiacheng will be like other cities. The poor get poorer and the rich get richer. Xiacheng has already accumulated enough wealth. Who would want to let their children come to a city?" Wild land? Ten years later, people who can read and write have become officials of Xiacheng, enjoying power and wealth, so why would they want to go to the village to take root? Except for people like Ji Song who are regarded as crazy and stupid by the Chinese people , how many will there be?"

"If you want to build a house, you have to either smash down the old ones, or build them in a wild place where there is no house. Xiacheng has only been out of the wilderness for a few years. Those people don't have the idea of ​​being superior to others, but they already have the fact that they are superior."

"It's like this now, what about ten years later? This kind of thinking will be the same as in other cities. They want to pass on what they have to their children instead of everyone. The first thing to kill is to make more people literate. It’s me. Su Yue once told me not to let me teach these things to ordinary people, because these things are the reason why they and their descendants are superior to others.”

"Those who can read first don't like those who can't read."