The husband is the future chief [infrastructure]

Han Haolun is actually about the same age as Jiang Ziyan, but after all, he came out to work early and is small in stature, so he looks a little older than Jiang Ziyan.

Jiang Ziyan discussed with Han Hao and asked him to find someone to chisel more limestone and send it directly to his small courtyard at a favorable price.

Han Hao readily agreed. For him, today is simply a windfall.

Jiang Ziyan looked at the box of stones and felt a little heavy.The original owner, Jiang Yu, was spoiled and raised, and his body was a little thinner. The weight of the basket of stones bent his back quite a bit.

If I knew it earlier, I would have brought someone along, and I could help him carry things.Jiang Ziyan wondered if it was necessary for him to buy a quick-handed domestic servant to use first.

As soon as Jiang Ziyan took two steps on his back, he felt like there was a thousand catties on his back, so he quickly put it down to take a breath.

Coincidentally, just when he was worried, Zhang Qiu came.

"Brother Zhang, why are you here?"

Zhang Qiu's arms are full of muscles, and he took the frame of stones from Jiang Ziyan with one hand, carried it on his back, and said: "They are all busy building a lime kiln in the yard, I heard they said you came to the market If you buy stones, I will come to help you, anyway, they have enough people there, and there is no shortage of me."

Jiang Ziyan specifically asked someone who can build a lime kiln to guide him. It happened that there was nothing to do these few days, and all the veterans were very enthusiastic to help.

A few days later, the lime kiln was completed, and the collected limestone was almost ready, so the calcination began.

Lay a layer of wood, put a layer of stones, layer by layer, the wood is heated in the kiln, the temperature can reach almost [-] degrees, the calcined limestone is decomposed under the action of high temperature to produce quicklime, with the burning wood chips Let them fall from the furnace grate together, and after cooling for two days, separate the lumps of quicklime.

After several calcinations, quicklime was successfully obtained.

After successfully obtaining the first furnace of lime, Jiang Ziyan asked them to start the second furnace and the third furnace. There was a lot of lime for papermaking, but a lot of it was calcined. He planned to sell the excess lime. A big gain.

The process of calcining quicklime is not difficult, and people who have seen it once can remember it.Jiang Ziyan didn't intend to hide it at all. The process of calcination is troublesome, and the cost is not low. Just building a lime kiln is expensive, so most people don't do it.

With lime, the only thing left is hemp.

A few days ago, Qingshan went back to buy hemp materials, and now it is almost done.

This time, Jiang Ziyan handed over the whole process of purchasing hemp materials to Qingshan, and it was impossible for him to watch everything in person.

In addition to the hemp material, Jiang Ziyan also asked him to buy some bark. The hemp material and the bark are used together to make paper, and the quality will be much better.

Qingshan is still very prudent in his work. Now when he goes back to the village and asks about buying something, he gets a lot of responses.But part of it was because of Jiang Ziyan. People in the village had a very good impression of Jiang Ziyan. When they heard that he wanted to buy things, they lined up all night to go.So Qingshan's trip went very smoothly.

Jiang Ziyan has already prepared other tools needed in the papermaking process.

After everything was ready, Jiang Ziyan began to divide the work of papermaking among the veterans in the yard.

First, chop the hemp material and bark with a knife and soak them in a large water tank for a few days, and then take them out after the soaking is almost soft.

Then mix the softened hemp material and bark into lime water, soak them in wooden barrels and cook them, and take them out after seven or eight days.In this way, impurities such as lignin, gums, and resins in the raw materials are almost removed.

At this time, put the taken out raw materials into clean water for rinsing, then put them into a pot and pour lime water into them for steaming.

This process will last for about half a month, and there are so many veterans that they can just rotate shifts.

And those veterans with handicapped legs and feet came in handy at this time. The boiled raw materials needed to be pounded into a muddy surface in a stone mortar, and they just had to sit there and pound the mud.

The mashed raw materials need to be mixed with an appropriate amount of water in the next step, and Jiang Ziyan is required for this step.This right amount of water can't be put in too much, and it can't be put in less. It's recorded in the encyclopedia, and he knows it best.

After the water and the mashed raw materials are stirred and left for a while, the fibers in the hemp material and bark will float on the water surface, and this layer of floating fibers will be poured into the paper tank.

Finally, the paper is filtered through the pulp with a thin bamboo curtain, and the wood fiber remains on the bamboo curtain to form a paper film.

This layer of paper film fell on the board and was slowly stacked layer by layer.Jiang Ziyan asked Han Hao to find him a large rock with a flat lower part, which was used to squeeze the moisture of the stacked layers of paper, and the paper film was slowly forming at this time, becoming a square Paper, after drying, the paper is basically formed.

The whole process lasted for a long time, and more than a month had passed by the time Jiang Ziyan led the veterans to make the first batch of paper in the small courtyard.

Everyone was unfamiliar with the paper making in the first pass, and worried that the hands would be light or heavy, so they were very cautious, and the speed was naturally much slower. After the second pass, everyone moved a lot faster when making paper, and the time consumption was also slower than The first pass is much less.

Jiang Ziyan looked at the first batch of dried paper. It was not smooth to the touch, and the color was yellowish. Because it was made of hemp and bark, the paper was not waterproof, but the overall appearance was better than that of the study in the town. The paper sold is much better.

The small paper-making workshop has been busy almost every day since it started. Jiang Ziyan told the veterans that they were not very happy to let them rest for two days, saying that they wanted to move now after being idle for several years.

In fact, Jiang Ziyan knew that they were all trying to make more money.Because among the rules he set, one of the rules is that in addition to paying them regular wages on a monthly basis, the income will be calculated at the end of each month.

Yes, after Jiang Ziyan produced the first batch of paper, he sold it in his supermarket.The price of the paper he sells is the same as those in those study rooms, but the quality is much better than theirs, and the phenomenon of ink bleeding is much reduced when writing, and it is smoother.

Although the family is not rich these days, as long as they can afford to study, they will send their children to study, so many people come to buy paper.

Jiang Ziyan named this kind of paper hemp paper, and the supply of hemp paper was short of demand for a while.

Every month, 5.00% of the income from the sale of these papers is extracted from it, which is a reward for those veterans. That's why they are so active. They don't want to rest even on rest days, they just hope to make more paper.

Jiang Ziyan's paper was selling well, but the paper business in the bookstore two streets away had plummeted.

Now everyone has gone to Jingdong Supermarket to buy paper, but the sales of paper here have not moved at all.Thanks to him, this is a bookshop, in addition to selling paper, he also makes money by selling books, otherwise the store will close down in a while.

The business of hemp paper is booming, and some businessmen from other counties even want to discuss cooperation with him, regularly feed paper from him, and bring it to other counties for sale.

After Jiang Ziyan asked, he found out that this person came from Yonghe City.

Coincidentally, the Nanman merchants who sold star anise that he had inquired about from the shopkeeper in the county town often appeared in Yonghe City.

So when discussing cooperation, Jiang Ziyan added a point, asking the other party to buy a large amount of star anise for him, and he could give [-]% of the profit.

The matter of purchasing the star anise was settled in this way, and the paper-making business was gradually on the right track. With Zhang Qiu watching over there, Jiang Ziyan finally had time to rest.

It was already the beginning of February, and Lin Zhao was going to take the county examination in a few days.

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This chapter contains a lot of papermaking details, and the information comes from Baidu Encyclopedia.