The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

Chapter 193 What is Paper?
The usual holidays were saved up, and for the New Year, he took a half-month long vacation all at once, and Wang Zhen wanted to return to the forest farm.

Saying goodbye to his wife and children, at the grocery store, he saw a stack of straw paper, thought about it and bought some, joined the salute, and took the railway to Tianjin Pier.

At the pier in Tianjin, he found a boat bound for Lushunkou, Jinzhou. On the sea, Wang Zhen wondered whether he should take his wife and children to live in the forest farm.

After thinking for a while, Wang Zhen gave up this idea, and his son still had to study in Beiping.

Daxing's paper mill, combining many technologies, adopted a technology for making grass paper, which came from the Tang Dynasty.

The new year is over, and all the factories are in the palm of your hand. Zhu Di inspects the guards to prepare for the spring military training, and Zhu Gaochi inspects all factories.

"The straw paper is made of wheat straw, which is bundled into small bundles of about three kilograms. After cutting, add [-]% lime water, melt and stir to form a mortar."

In the slurry pool workshop, there was a smell, and the countless pools were full of slurry, which looked unbearable.

The director of the manufacturing plant introduced it to everyone without changing his face.

Zhou Shifeng organized a team to prepare for going to Shaanxi and Shanxi, so he didn't join it, and other shopkeepers accompanied him.

Soon, people left the slurry tank workshop and came to other workshops.

"This papyrus paper technology from the Tang Dynasty costs three times less than other technologies, and the ingredients are not limited, so you can make more. It is extremely convenient and the output is high." The factory manager said excitedly.

"It's very interesting to buy straws from the common people, and then make straw paper and buy them back to the common people."

The steward of the outer cabinet said with a smile.

The result was not funny, no one paid any attention to him, but because he was from the cabinet, the rest of the people did not despise him.

The production and distribution model is not a new vocabulary in the headquarters. Many people have their own cognition and do it.

But the director of the paper mill had a bad face.

In the China Heavy Industry system, paper mills do not pay enough attention to it because they cannot create external benefits.

Paper sales are mostly used by internal purchases. It can be said that any factory is the upstream of the paper factory, including the printing factory.

When he was in the factory director meeting, he couldn't even stand up.

The production goal of paper mills is not to focus on high-quality rice paper, but to focus on paper with the best cost performance.

After finally coming up with the idea of ​​straw paper, creating external profits through the hut, I didn't expect that it would be used as a joke in front of the little prince.

It would be hell if he had a good face, if not for the presence of the little prince, he would have yelled at him long ago.

Zhu Gaochi smiled, and took the initiative to say: "Don't underestimate this straw paper, once it breaks through the sales outlet, the benefits should not be underestimated."

The crowd kept saying yes.

"Papyrus was used in a huge amount during the Tang and Song Dynasties. The Arabs and Persians who came to the Tang Dynasty to do business have information about the use of straw paper by the people of the Tang Dynasty."

It was the first time people heard this statement, whether it was for flattery or genuine curiosity, they all pricked up their ears.

"In the fifth year of Tang Xuanzong's middle school, the Arabs recorded that the Chinese did not pay attention to cleanliness. They did not wash with water after defecating, but only wiped with paper."

Zhu Gaochi laughed and said: "It can be seen that people in the Tang Dynasty used toilet paper to wipe their buttocks, which is already known both at home and abroad."

People have complex expressions.

Whether it's scolding or scolding, it's fine if the little prince is not here.

"Okay, you don't have to worry about it, why bother to get angry at yourself for other people's ignorance. These ignorant natives also switched to toilet paper later, and slapped themselves in the face."

"Smart people will never be angry at the actions of fools, they will only take advantage of their ignorance. We should be generous and let others continue to be ignorant."

"What the little prince said is true." Someone praised.

Zhu Gaochi looked at the straw paper, hemp paper and other samples produced by the paper mill.

The thickness of the hemp paper produced by the technology of the Tang Dynasty is about 0.05 mm to 0.14 mm, which is more than twice the thickness of the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

Don't underestimate this difference. It should be noted that Europeans could not make the thinness like the Tang Dynasty in the [-]th century.

After leaving the paper mill, Zhu Gaochi posed a question in the technical newspaper.

What is called paper.

"What is paper?"

"What's the problem? Isn't paper just paper?"

"Paper is the four treasures of the study. For more than a thousand years, it was written by the ancestors and then used for printing. It made the Ming Dynasty move from the capital to the local area. Various public and private schools rose, the number of people who could read and write increased, and the progress of culture. Compared with the Qin and Han Dynasties, increasing at an increasing rate."

"What can be used for drawing and writing is called paper."

"Not just writing and painting, but also can be used to produce goods, paper fans, paper umbrellas, paper lanterns, paper people, paper cars, etc."

……

"Paper is a thin sheet of rags, wood pulp, or other material used for writing, printing, and making goods."

A craftsman at a paper mill wrote.

"Paper is basically a special process, mainly composed of plants, and it is called paper when it is formed through a special process."

Artisans from the Research and Development Division.

"It is formed on the curtain from the water suspension, and the flakes are made of plant silk intertwined into felt." Xiao Jiu said.

For the question of what is called paper, from the absurdity at the beginning, to the hot discussion of some people, and even to the point of arguing, even to the point of quarreling.

Some people even said that writing on sand with wooden sticks can also be called paper, which was opposed by most people.

The fourth technical report is ten times thicker than before, and records dozens of opinions and opinions against the content of the third issue.

The reputation of the technical newspaper is getting bigger and bigger, and some officials are interested in it, asking China Heavy Industries, hoping to read the technical newspaper.

After agreeing, a separate date was selected at the headquarters, and the newspaper room was opened as scheduled to allow officials to watch it, but it was proposed to keep it confidential and the technology should not be passed on to the outside world.

The supervision of secrecy is not strong, it mainly depends on people's self-consciousness, and the factory only plays an advocacy role.

Su Guan returned to Dongbeitai Village, seeing that there was no shadow of the old yamen in the past, and the new scene made him feel emotional.

In the distance, I saw a tall water tower and a bell tower.

There are big clocks hanging on all sides of the bell tower, with hour and minute hands, you can clearly see the time, and every hour, the bell tower will make a sound.

The factories are connected one by one, and straight and hard roads have been built. Outside the factory area is the market area.

There are also vendors doing business during the day, and it is the busiest time in the evening. There is a street in the market, and lampposts are built on the street, and kerosene lamps stand on the lampposts.

The rich and powerful Zhonghua Heavy Industries actually used a glass cover, which made the first person who saw it speechless in shock.

Dongbeitai Village has also changed a lot.

The bridge with iron slag was gone, and the ditch was filled directly, and a new ditch was dug aside to introduce water.

The original houses had long been requisitioned by China Heavy Industries, and they were all used to build dormitory areas or new factories.

Iron pipe factory, rail factory, foundry, chemical fertilizer factory, coke refinery No. [-], coke refinery No. [-]... glass factory, farm tool general factory, coal preparation plant, coal washing plant, cement factory, lime factory, miscellaneous ore refinery , miscellaneous ore sorting plant...

Su Guan couldn't tell the direction, he couldn't even find the steam engine factory.

"It's incredible."

"It's really eye-opening. It turns out that this is called a factory. I thought it was just a connection of workshops."

Some officials lamented.

"It's no wonder that the influence of China Heavy Industry has grown unknowingly. I wonder why the guard is so polite to China Heavy Industry."

A new official said in shock.

The headquarters of Zhonghua Heavy Industry is located on the east side of the clock tower. It is a five-story back-shaped building made of cement, reinforced bricks and stones.

The windows on each floor are made of glass, which is dazzling in the sun.

In the open space in front of the building, there is a construction site with a model skeleton tied up with iron materials, which is very weird.

"What is this doing?"

"The logo of the headquarters, the swallow designed by the Engineering Department." The clerk in the clerk's office had already greeted these officials at Daxing Station and introduced them to everyone along the way.

"It's not like a swallow." The official asked curiously.

"It hasn't been built yet. It's a semi-finished product. When it's built, you'll be able to recognize it at a glance." The document has seen the design pattern.

"After you say that, it really looks a bit like it."

The treasurer Zhou Shifeng led a team to set off, accompanied by officials from the Changshi Mansion, and Jin Zhong was the envoy, and the group went to Shanxi.

Because it was the first reception, Gao Changfang was responsible for the reception. He accompanied everyone to visit first, and then went to the newspaper room.

There are newspapers from the first issue to the fifth issue in the newspaper room. There are already hundreds of pages in total, and it is not easy to read them all.

The officials who came here were interested in miscellaneous studies, and the purpose of coming was also to read newspapers, so they didn't care about reception matters.

When they arrived at the newspaper room, there were tables and chairs, tea, and a toilet next door. Everyone first glanced at the contents of the newspaper.

There are all kinds of newspapers, and they have everything, which quickly attracted the interest of these officials, and they read them with gusto.

"What is paper?" An official read out curiously.

Starting from the third issue, the content around what is called paper has increased in length, which can be said to occupy one-third of the content.

Regarding the length of what is called paper, there are more than 100 pages in total.

"I really didn't expect that this kind of question would cause so much ink and ink, making it difficult to make a judgment."

The more he looked at it, the more fascinated he became. The official thought about it carefully, but couldn't give an answer for a while.

Obviously it is something that can be seen every day, and everyone knows what it is, but it is impossible to describe it accurately.

"Let me take a look." Seeing this, some officials surrounded him curiously. After a while, the man asked in surprise, "What is it all about?"

"You have to start from here, otherwise you don't know what they are discussing around." The official pointed to the initial question.

"What is paper?"

The man suddenly realized.

"From the point of view of qi, in terms of the theory of the five elements, paper belongs to..."

"This one makes sense."

"What's the point? I haven't seen anyone refute it, so I have to describe it in detail, don't make false accusations."

"The false finger also makes sense, do you deny the theory of the Five Elements?"

In the newspaper room, the officials themselves started arguing.

soon.

The sixth issue of Technical News raises new questions, whether the truth becomes clearer or not.

(End of this chapter)