The affairs of the printing room were handed over to Liu Bao.
Song Yang took Gongsun Qi to the waterwheel workshop.
He was not going to see the watermill, but the paper mill.
The lowest reaches of the creek, near the outlet of Poyang Lake.
Fang Zhe had people dig two large ponds here before, and also circled a circle of open space.
This is where the paper mill is located.
The two pools that have been filled with water are filled with things to soak in. One pool is filled with tree bark, and the other pool is filled with bamboo chips.
There is a work shed next to it, and several workers are busy making lime.
There are two newly dug ponds next to the work shed, and water is currently being filled into them through the creek.
The bamboo chair that was soaked before has been soaked in lime for more than a month, but it is not ready for use yet.
Usually the bamboo retting process takes three to four months.
Now Song Yang wants to print food stamps, and the amount of paper may be quite large in the future.
So today Fang Zhe asked workers to come over again to expand the material preparation pool, so the workers dug two more pools in the morning.
The pond has been dug and the workers are soaking the lime.
The limestone bridge is broken into small pieces, and then water is added to naturally hydrolyze it.
"Your Majesty is a thousand years old."
When the four workers saw Song Yang coming, they came over to greet him.
Song Yang smiled and waved his hands and said: "You guys are busy, I will see how to make paper."
Daqian's papermaking technology is relatively mature.
Bamboo or bark can be used as raw materials for paper making.
There are a lot of bamboos near Jiangzhou, so most of them are made of bamboo pulp paper.
An old craftsman directed the workers to work while explaining the papermaking process to Song Yang.
This skill is not a secret, and there are many people who know it.
Although this old craftsman is just a carpenter, he also knows how to make paper.
After the old craftsman's explanation, Song Yang found a pair of ancient papermaking recipes from the encyclopedia in his mind.
Almost exactly the same.
Originally, Song Yang wanted to come over to show off his skills and give guidance to the craftsmen on how to make paper.
After listening to the old craftsman's words, he knew that there was no need to do anything more.
Song Yang smiled and said: "Very good! Very good! I'll leave the papermaking workshop to you."
He has a modern method of making paper, but it requires the cooperation of machines.
At this stage, paper can only be made using ancient methods.
After looking around the paper mill, Song Yang left with satisfaction.
Although I didn't install it, I didn't worry about it.
In the future, when the city's paper reserves are used up, the paper mill will almost be able to produce paper.
This also ensures the supply of food stamp paper.
I went to the waterwheel workshop to have a look and found that the hydraulic machinery was running smoothly.
Water hammer pounding rice, plastering and mowing the grass have greatly improved the efficiency.
The newly built hydraulic boring machine is still being debugged. Due to the vibration of the water wheel, it is difficult for the boring machine to achieve stable output power.
Blacksmith Wang is currently studying improvements to this point.
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The next day, Song Yang asked Liu Bao to finish the engraved calligraphy.
"Old Fang, come and see the food stamps designed by this king."
Song Yang used characters to model food stamps.
The total size is two inches square.
In the middle it says: One pound of grain.
A plump ear of rice is printed on the side, which fully takes into account the user experience of illiterate people.
On the top is a row of small characters: "Issued and printed by Jiangzhou Prefecture."
Below is the year: "Third Year of Taihe"
There is a small seal in the lower left corner: "Jiangzhou Government Office"
In the lower right corner is the small seal of the Wangfu: "Produced by Jiangzhou Wangfu"
The entire two-inch space is fully decorated.
At first glance, it feels a bit disorganized.
"Your Majesty, isn't this too messy?" Fang Zhe looked at the food stamps and scratched his head.
"Is it confusing? Isn't this very good, clear and anti-counterfeiting..." Song Yang curled his lips and said.
"Okay then. Just do what the prince says!" Fang Zhe nodded.
You are the prince and you have the final say!
In fact, Song Yang only printed the first edition, and he only made a sample ticket.
All used black ink.
The overall layout is all in black, which makes it look very crowded.
So he planned to add some colors to the food stamps.
In this way, the second, more flashy food stamp was soon born.
"Look! It's so beautiful, so colorful!" Song Yang was very satisfied with his masterpiece.
Red seal, blue words, green wheat ears...
"Maybe this thing will have collectible value in the future!"
Song Yang took the food stamps and looked left and right.
Fang Zhe was speechless, forget it, just use it.
Just like that, follow the routine of food stamps.
Colorful meat tickets and colorful tool tickets were printed again...
"Your Majesty, if you print like this, maybe... the color pigments are not enough."
Liu Bao, the person in charge of the printing room, reminded in a low voice.
"Oh." Song Yang nodded, and then said, "Then make more colored pigments!"
The reason why it is made in such a colorful way is that he sees too many things in a single color.
Nowadays, there is a shortage of supplies, and the houses in the entire new city are khaki.
The occasional green ones are also vegetables from the yard.
As for official documents, they are all in black and white.
No, it's black and yellow. The white paper at this time is yellowish.
After watching it too much, I feel like I am almost color blind.
So being able to use colored food stamps, Song Yang immediately spared no effort to promote it.
Daqian's printing and dyeing technology is sufficiently advanced, and its dye configuration is also very mature.
Moreover, ore dyes are not flammable, and natural disasters do not cause much damage to dyes. A lot of stocks were found in the ruins.
This also gave Song Yang sufficient dyeing material conditions for colored food stamps.
Seven days later, the first batch of food stamps were distributed along with the ten-day settlement.
The common people have long known that a kind of bill should be issued in lieu of food.
I saw these colorful receipts today, and they are all very fresh.
They have never seen colorful prints.
From a creative perspective, Song Yang’s colorful food stamps are very popular.
Of course, many people who received food stamps immediately went to the supply and marketing cooperative with their food stamps.
For many people, it is more secure to get food.
After all, food stamps have just been introduced, and credit has not yet been implemented.
These days, the supply and marketing cooperative has been officially prepared.
At the same time that food stamps were distributed, the supply and marketing cooperatives also opened.
The main business is food, including some meat and tools.
Not only did they sell things, but the people also exchanged the extra supplies for various bills.
With food stamps, ordinary people could easily buy food at supply and marketing cooperatives.
In this way, the credit system for food stamps has been initially established.
"It's quite lively."
Song Yang looked at the people queuing up to buy food and said to Fang Zhe.
In fact, if the people exchange all the bills in their hands for grain, it will be no different from directly distributing grain.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, the ticket system is good in nature, but it has just been issued and the people's trust is not very high."
"Yes. I also understand that this matter cannot be rushed. In the future, our tickets will be gradually established."
Sure enough, there were obviously fewer people changing rice in the afternoon.
The common people all know that food stamps are useful, and some families who are not short of food are not in a hurry to exchange food stamps.
The effect is better than previously expected.
"Your Majesty, the grain exchanged today is 30,000 kilograms."
In the afternoon, Wei Nan came over to report the first day's sales.
Song Yang and Fang Zhe were finally relieved. More than 100,000 kilograms of food stamps were issued today!