Chapter 344: If you are poor, you will strike with precision, if you are rich, you will be covered with firepower!
The more he talked, the more excited Ying Chengxi became: "Silk, hemp, bamboo and wood are cheap and easy to get!"
"Bamboo can come back after being cut down, and there are also a lot of useless bamboo slips that can be used. Use it directly."
"Just peel the wood and it will grow again next year."
"Silk is more expensive, but you can use rags to make it."
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"Hemp is available everywhere. I have a large number of hemp clothes and hemp shoes in my treasury, all of which can be dismantled and used!"
In the first sixteen years of his life, everything Ying Chengyu did was just for the sake of A purpose.
Alive!
In the next three years, although Ying Chengyu also took out catapults and other objects, his impact on the world was only partial and may be repaired by historical inertia.
However, today, Ying Chengyu finally opened the golden rope, broke the jade lock, and broke the cage of cowardice and conservatism.
He began to try to have a profound impact on this era!
But Cao Mao and Qi Ai were completely unaware of the influence of Ying Chengyu's words.
The two looked at each other, and then looked at Ying Chengyu's hair and eyebrows.
Qi Ai asked tentatively: "Chang'an Jun intends to dig out writing materials from medicinal materials?"
The more he listened, the more Qi Ai felt that the method Ying Chengyu said was like "Rishu" "A prescription recorded in ".
If your hair and eyebrows start to curl for no reason, you can put the hemp shoes in water and boil them into floc, dry them briefly and then apply them to the affected area for treatment.
The only difference between Ying Chengyu's strategy is that he tried more materials.
But Ying Chengyu is a noble lord after all. It is reasonable that he does not want to use smelly hemp shoes to cook medicine, but wants to explore new prescriptions!
Cao Mao even said directly: "Chang'anjun's hair is indeed slightly curly."
"As the saying goes: If a person has hair that holds nymphs and men's eyebrows for no reason, it is a sign of aphrodisiac. . Just boil the ginseng (hemp shoes) with paper and that’s it.”
"Mr. Chang'an doesn't need to work hard. I can prepare good medicine for Mr. Chang'an today because of my humble position!"
Ying Chengyu's face suddenly turned black: "My hair and eyebrows are very good!"
"I don't want to boil medicinal materials."
Ying Chengxuan asked: "Since you all know the method of boiling rice cakes with paper, why have you never thought of using this technique to make medicine? Something for writing? "
Qi Aipai said with a smile: "I once served as the official of Conglu (Content Ma) in Yongcheng."
"Although I have never cooked hemp shoes in my humble job, I have cooked a lot of hemp shoes."
"During this period, some craftsmen accidentally caused the hemp paper to dry."
" However, what he got in the end was just a messy and shredded hemp thread. He really didn't know how to use it for writing. "
Ying Chengjian asked happily instead of angry: "Have you ever done retting? ”
The art of retting has been around for hundreds of years.
And Ying Chengyu clearly remembered that his history teacher in his previous life once said that the art of retting paper pulp was born out of the art of retting hemp!
In the early days of papermaking, the two were exactly the same!
Ying Chengyu only has a rough understanding of the art of retting, but if Qi Ai has personally handled retting, then does he still need to worry about retting pulp?
Qi Ai hurriedly handed over his hand: "Reporting to the Lord of Chang'an, I have been running the official workshop of retting hemp for about five years." I know the art clearly, and I will not dare to deceive you even half of it.”
Ying Chengyu laughed heartily: "In this way, I will feel more at ease."
"Come on, come on, sit down and chat!"
As he spoke, the servants had already tied up the temporary There was a roaring fire in the camp tent.
Ying Chengyu invited Qi Ai and Cao Mao into the tent and sat close to them.
Seeing Ying Chengyu take out two persimmons from the food box, Qi Ai and Cao Mao subconsciously reached out to take them.
Then they saw Ying Chengyu holding a persimmon in each hand and taking a big bite!
Qi Ai: [_?]
Cao Mao: (︶︿︶)
Ying Chengyu seemed to have not seen it and asked in a deep voice: "Dare you ask me? "Hey, if I put these two persimmons together, will they be connected?"
While speaking, Ying Chengyu touched the unbitten sides of the two persimmons.
Cao Mao looked at Ying Chengyu speechlessly: "How could they be connected!"
Ying Chengyu turned the persimmon, touching the bitten sides two by two, and asked with a smile: "What about now?"
Under the action of pectin and sugar, the two persimmons obviously appeared to stick together.
Although there is no adhesive force to hold the two persimmons together, the flesh of the two persimmons is visibly close to each other.
Qi Ai immediately handed over his hand: "It's connected!"
Cao Mao stared blankly at the juice that was still entangled even though it had been separated a little.
After a few breaths, Cao Mao asked urgently: "Your Majesty, do you think Ma is so persimmon?"
Ying Cheng smiled and nodded: "Not bad!"
Get Ying After Cheng Xi's affirmation, Cao Mao's breathing became a little faster: "There is no adhesion between the hemp and the hemp, because they seem to have been broken, but in fact they are still as intact as this persimmon."
“But if the hemp can be broken open, the juice in the hemp may help form adhesion between the hemp and hemp.”
"And with this adhesion, hemp and hemp can be connected to each other, and even fit together seamlessly, forming more fine latitude and longitude lines than silk!"
Ying Chengyu's smile became even brighter: "Although it's not a hit, it's not far off!"
"However, persimmons are persimmons, hemp is hemp, and wood is wood. They cannot be confused."
"The contents of the persimmons are juice. , maybe the thing inside the hemp and wood is not juice, but another thing that cannot be detected by the naked eye!"
"And what we have to do is to beat the hemp or wood hard to remove this kind of thing inside them! Hammer it out!”
The reason why the fibers can be held together is because the cellulose molecules contain hydrophilic hydroxyl groups.
It was difficult for Ying Chengyu to explain such in-depth principles to Cao Mao and Qi Ai.
He can only give the simplest instructions.
Hammer!
Hammer the cellulose shell wrapping the hydroxyl groups to release the hydroxyl groups!
With his eyes fixed on the persimmon in Ying Chengyu's hand, Cao Mao's voice changed from laziness to enthusiasm: "You can give it a try!"
"Since persimmons can stick together, why can't hemp stick together? !”
Qi Ai looked at Cao Mao and Ying Chengyu with speechless eyes.
Why can you associate hemp with dried persimmons?
Qi Ai rebutted as tactfully as possible: "When retting the hemp, we will also beat the hemp material with wooden paddles."
"But after beating, the linen material is still not sticky at all."
"I thought..."
However, before Qi Ai finished speaking, Ying Chengyu and Cao Mao They all said, "Not enough!"
Ying Chengyu looked at Cao Mao with admiration.
Cao Mao was not polite and continued: "The strength is not enough!"
"The purpose of tapping the linen material is just to make the linen material spread out, but not to break it, so you can't use too much force."
"Even if the force is not heavy, there will be Part of it is patted on the water."
"How can we completely break up the hemp material?"
"If there is really something in the hemp, you can't put the hemp in the water, and you have to use more. It takes heavy beating to hammer it out!"
Ying Chengyu immediately corrected: "If there is no water at all, it may be difficult to rely on the contents of the hemp." "I think it can be divided into three groups for verification."< br>
“One group put the hemp completely into the water and beat it.”
“One group soaked the hemp, took it out, put it into the pound and beat it.”
“Finally One group was directly put into the pound and beaten. "
"Finally, the three groups were compared to observe the results!"
A flash of lightning seemed to flash across Cao Mao's mind.
Group comparison?
It is not about pondering over it, but directly trying all possible paths.
How much time will this save?
How many phenomena can be discovered that cannot be imagined by just using the brain?
Cao Mao slapped his thigh and laughed heartily: "Color!"
"Since we are not sure, let's compare them in three groups!"
"Big color!"
< br>"Mr. Chang'an deserves to be a great craftsman, but he knows craftsmanship better than those mediocre people in the court!"
"Cao is really lucky to be able to follow Mr. Chang'an to study craftsmanship!"
Ying Chengyu smiled: "I want to divide into more than three groups."
"As I said, silk, hemp, bamboo, wood and other easily obtained and cheap things should be tried."
"Maybe Ma can't achieve the results I want, but what about Mu Zhu?"
Cao Mao nodded crazily: "What you said is true!"
“Even if it is wood, it also has its own characteristics.”
"Perhaps this wood is usable, but other trees are not."
"These all need to be verified one by one!"
Qi Ai's heart trembled when he heard this.
How many types of wood and bamboo are there in Daqin?
How much would it cost if all were tested?
Qi Ai thought that Ying Chengyu would dispel Cao Mao's crazy idea, but what Qi Ai didn't expect was that Ying Chengyu was far crazier than Cao Mao!
Ying Chengqiao actually agreed and said: "This is a very good statement!"
"Just like medicinal materials."
"Two similar medicinal materials may be the same. One is the poison, the other is the antidote.”
“But we must also consider that there may be compatibility between the materials.”
"So we not only need to verify each material, but also combine various materials in a compatible way for verification!"
Cao Mao continued to add more and more excitedly.
However, Qi Ai could no longer bear it.
If we keep talking like this, even the whole country will not be able to satisfy your fantasies!
Qi Ai immediately bumped Cao Mao with his arm and quickly apologized: "Your Majesty, if you do this, it will cost a lot!"
"It's a humble opinion, but it's better to verify it slowly!"
One sentence made Cao Mao calm down.
The exhaustive method is indeed the best way to trial and error and accumulate experience.
But, it costs money!
Cao Mao said helplessly: "Your Majesty, I will try my best to study hard, try less, and try my best to save your Majesty some money and food."
However, Ying Chengyu smiled and asked: "Who am I?"
Qi Ai was slightly startled, tentatively cupped his hands and said: "Of course you are the Lord of Great Qin Chang'an."
Ying Chengyu He said quietly: "I am the Lord of Chang'an of the Great Qin Dynasty, and I am the man with the most extensive settlements in the world today!"
"Looking at the world, from the five kings down, I am the richest!"
“Now you are trying to persuade me to change my mind over something as trivial as money?”
If you are poor, you will strike with precision, if you are rich, you will have firepower!
I am so rich, but you let me exchange time for money?
You are not helping me save money, you are wasting my life!
Ying Chengyu chuckled and asked, "Is Master Qi trying to humiliate me?"
Qi Ai's pupils were shaking.
I've thought about all the reasons you used to refute me.
But I never expected that you would take money to humiliate me!
Qi Ai no longer refuted, and suddenly handed over his hand: "What your Majesty said is true!"
"Only by acting as your Majesty and Master Cao said, can we achieve what your Majesty said as soon as possible. What you need!”
Ying Chengyu nodded slightly: “Not bad”
"Quickness is more important than frugality!"
Looking at Zhang Xun who was coming, Ying Chengyu said in a deep voice: "This is the address of the workshop I chose for papermaking."
< br>"Build a workshop as soon as possible, dig the retting pond as soon as possible, search for materials as soon as possible, and start manufacturing as soon as possible!"
Qi Ai hurriedly said: "But this weather..."
Waiting for Qi Ai After saying that, Ying Chengyu said directly: "It's very cold, so let's light a fire to keep warm."
"If you need materials, please take them from my treasury."
"As soon as you need it, speak directly to the steward of my house!"
"I have only one need, hurry! "
"This is a major event related to the future of Great Qin"
Ying Chengyu looked at Cao Mao and Qi Ai with burning eyes, and said in a deep voice:
"If this thing can be completed quickly, I will not hesitate to go to the king and ask for a title for you two!"
Cao Mao felt as if an electric current had penetrated his soles.
After doing this well, can I change my title?
Can humble craftsmen like us also have a title?
And Qi Ai realized through these words how much Ying Chengxuan valued this matter.
He also realized that it was probably not just Ying Chengyu who was paying attention to this matter, but also Ying Zheng!
Abundant funds, valued by superiors, related to the country, and generous rewards.
What else is there to say?
Qi Ai and Cao Mao both handed over their hands with a bang: "Wei!"
Ying Chengyu smiled: "During the period of building the workshop, the two master craftsmen should not be idle. ”
"Please two of you make a few more small objects for me."
(End of this chapter)