Chapter 888 You just need to be strong, and leave the rest to the miracle
Chapter 888 Just use your strength and leave the rest to Miracle
The process of making ink is quite complicated, especially the selection of raw materials.
Even Yi Xiaotian couldn't fully explain it to everyone in a short period of time, so he simply relied on his own memory to summarize all the methods of preparing ink block raw materials summed up by ancient sages in a handbook.
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Due to local conditions, because Linli Mountain is mostly made up of thick masson pine trees, which are not used when they are not in use, Yi Xiaotian naturally wrote down the method of burning pine wood to obtain pine smoke in the handbook.
The most important raw materials for making ink are nothing more than pine smoke and oil smoke. Of course, with the development of ink-making technology in later generations, methods using raw materials such as charcoal smoke were also derived. But in the final analysis, the other two methods are not enough for the impoverished Shanyue.
It is impossible for humans to choose.
In order to produce pine tobacco, in addition to enough raw material pine wood and enough manpower, the steps of building a bamboo shed, a necessary place for producing pine tobacco, are also indispensable.
The specific steps are to build a bamboo shed covering an area of more than ten feet on the ground, and the roof of the shed needs to be sealed with suitable materials - this step is of course to ensure that when paper is burned and cigarettes are burned in the future, the precious bamboo shed will not be lost.
The pine smoke is lost in vain.
Secondly, clay must be used to build a suitable channel for the pine smoke that must pass through when firing the pine smoke.
After setting up these things, it becomes boring physical work - cut down enough pine wood, remove the heads and tails, and drill suitable holes at the bottom of the pine branches. This step has two functions: one is to bake the trunk,
Let the rosin in the pine stems flow out. After all, for making pine smoke, even if the rosin is precious, it is just a so-called impurity. The second is to make the pine smoke flow in the same direction as much as possible. After drilling,
Just burn the front part of the pine wood, and the pine smoke from the back part will spread all the way back along the path, whether it is the path of the tree trunk or the path of the bamboo shed.
By the way, in order to ensure that there will not be too much waste in the production of pine smoke, the pine wood with clean rosin must be cut into pieces suitable for storage in bamboo sheds. If they are too large or too small, they will affect the final production of rosin.
After doing this, all that is left is to wait for the process of burning pine smoke.
Every once in a while, this time is usually three to four days - after the firing is completed, workers need to be sent to the inside of the bamboo shed to scrape the pine smoke from the roof of the bamboo shed - the farther away from the pine entrance, the quality of the pine smoke
The better.
After being divided into three equal parts, the end of the bamboo shed, which is the highest quality pine smoke, is the key to making good ink, and it is also the raw material for the so-called luxury goods that Yi Xiaotian planned to let the rich pay for; the middle section is called
Mixing second-grade pine smoke with ordinary ink sticks - here, Yi Xiaotian actually has long-term thinking. If education and culture can be successfully promoted in the future, the government can balance this part of ordinary ink sticks with mixed smoke.
The price makes ink affordable to everyone, and makes it possible for poor families to produce rich children.
Of course I won’t mention it later, but...except for the better quality pine smoke at both ends, the remaining part of the pine smoke scraped away from the entrance of the bamboo shed is by no means useless - although the ink used for calligraphy and painting is still
There are shortcomings, but if it is used to do some low-cost, high-volume tasks, it is just enough, such as printing...
Based on such statistics, Yi Xiaotian is actually destined to come to Huidi - this place will have a profound impact on Yi Xiaotian's future plans, but if these plans really want to unleash their energy, they still need to wait for the opportunity - at least,
At least until the influence of Tongque Terrace begins to appear and the Northern Cultural Center moves to Yecheng - by then, Yi Xiaotian will be able to achieve the level of "rich enough to rival the country" with today's arrangements.
The production of pine smoke is such a complicated process, not to mention the subsequent processes such as mixing materials, making, drying ink, gold tracing, etc.
Therefore, making ink is a very long process. Yi Xiaotian will carefully guide the Shanyue people for a period of time with the handbook in his hand, but what really makes them taste the sweetness is the skill of making inkstones.
Naturally I won’t go into details about making inkstones——
By the time Yi Xiaotian placed the manuscript, which was more than ten pages thick, in front of Fei Zhan, two days had passed.
"Lu...Mr. Lu...this...are these what we have to do in the future?"
Fei Zhan was considered a talent, because Yi Xiaotian discovered that this seemingly rough man could not only lead troops to fight, but could even read and write, which was indeed very rare in this desolate mountain forest.
His eyes quickly scanned the two-part record named Ink Making Method and Inkstone Making Method that Yi Xiaotian gave him. The more he looked at it, the more he felt that the man standing in front of him had calculated them long ago.
Among them.
Yes, to be able to prepare such abundant materials in such a short period of time, it is likely that everything they did was always under the control of the other party.
Fei Zhan felt that he had always judged people very accurately, including the few people around him. He could usually see the other person's background after just a little observation - Sun Feng'er was really an inexperienced rich girl, and the man named Zhao Xiongyuan,
Maybe he was once a general... Lu Lingqi looks petite, but in fact she has a lot of skills. Even if she has never been in the army, she has definitely been immersed in the army for a long time, otherwise a woman will never develop such a fierce character.
Only this Lu Qinghou, from his initial contempt, to his doubts, to relief, and now to his faint fear - he has never seen through this person.
merchant?
How could a businessman behave so resolutely and decisively?
Prince?
But this person is often careless, and it can even be said that he has no regard for the so-called rules of order.
He had the cold-bloodedness of a soldier, the nobility of a prince, the cunningness of a businessman, and an erratic and unruly attitude - the combination of all this only made Fei Zhan feel scared.
But he saw one thing - if this person was not an enemy and could cooperate with him, no matter who he was, he would definitely not suffer.
This is why, even though Lu Qinghou was so on guard against him, Fei Zhan still did what he said.
"I...I'm a rough man and can't understand these skills. If I must do it, I would like to ask the young master to take care of us, the people of Shanyue - and... and even if the young master teaches us these skills - when the young master leaves, it will really
There is a problem, but I still can't deal with it calmly like the young master..."
In this sentence, Fei Zhan did not lie.
Being able to make ink does not mean that they can sell ink, and being able to sell ink does not mean that they will not be deceived. These are all issues that need to be taken into consideration, especially after knowing clearly the fact that Yi Xiaotian will never stay here for a long time.
After learning these techniques, the problems become urgent matters to be solved.
"Brother Fei, please rest assured. When I go to Wuhui, I will naturally find someone who can guide and help you in the future. Just do your best and leave the rest to me."
Fei Zhan understood the first half of Yi Xiaotian's sentence, but Fei Zhan was stunned for a while when he heard the second half of the sentence about "vigorously".
However, Fei Zhan felt that Yi Xiaotian was not lying, so he nodded heavily.
