Zhou Man listened to it, so he took the time to ask Keke, "How to make paper? What books do I need to buy?"
Keke: "...don't be so troublesome, the encyclopedia has entries, and the host can search directly. Of course, if you want to know more about the development process of paper and more specific manufacturing methods, you can also buy books."
It found two books for Zhou Man, neither of which looked very thick, and said: "Paper is not expensive, even if books are mostly electronic now, and human beings are also accustomed to electronic books, they still like to collect them." Lots of paper books."
Therefore, the manufacture of paper has never regressed, and some people even pursue the retro, and restore all the previous paper according to the ancient method.
Based on the analysis of Keke's data, it can't understand this kind of behavior of human beings, because the writing quality of those papers does not seem to be as good as the craftsmanship they make now.
And it costs a lot.
But humans like it.
The specific production method can be found just by searching the entries. There are also many types of paper. Enter the name. The production process of each type is somewhat different, but the general steps are the same.
Zhou Man didn't expect it to be so simple. Isn't this thing... only bookstores and aristocratic families have it
She was stunned, and then sighed again, "That's great, all the technology is shared."
Keke is also more "smart" now. After analyzing the words of the host, he said: "There are many technologies in the encyclopedia, covering all aspects of society. Basically, all basic and slightly advanced things can be found in the encyclopedia. internal learning, but not for the more confidential stuff."
Without the main system staring at it, it talked more, and gave an example, "For example, Teacher Mo's recovery potion, although he listed it as a teaching material during the teaching process for you, but the entire encyclopedia, except you , no one can learn this knowledge in the encyclopedia."
Although it is useless for her to learn, because she has no tools to make it.
"This is a kind of advanced confidential knowledge. It is usually taught privately in reality. You can only find the papers written by Mr. Mo for the manufacture of medicines in the encyclopedia. But if you want to know more, at least the encyclopedia explains There is nothing on the surface.”
Zhou Man was thoughtful, "Nowadays, the production of paper is an advanced and confidential knowledge, but in your world, it is the same as the current pickles. Not to mention that every household can do it, at least you can ask people who can do it casually, and everyone can do it." Said."
Keke responded, that's the reason.
Although the manufacturing method can be directly searched, Zhou Man still spent points to buy these two books.
The book is not very expensive, after she bought it, she paid a sum of credits to print it out, and after getting it in her hand, she excitedly went to find Bai Shan.
In the evening, the two of them huddled on the bed and read the papermaking technology in the book.
Bai Shan sighed while flipping through the pages, "I only saw sporadic records in some books in the past, saying that books can be made from bamboo, fishing nets and wood chips, but I didn't know that even straw can be made into paper."
Zhou Man said: "From the description, it seems that the quality is not very good, and it has a great impact on water quality."
Bai Shan: "So the place to make paper has to be chosen carefully."
Zhou Man asked him, "We make it ourselves?"
Bai Shan thought for a while and said, "Call Shang Bai Er and Yin Yu."
But so many paper recipes...
Bai Shan thought about it, "Let's make some money first, and then we will choose a few good recipes to give to His Majesty and the Crown Prince."
"What kind of prescription is good?" There are so many prescriptions on it.
"For His Majesty and the Crown Prince, a recipe with low cost and few steps is a good recipe."
Such prescriptions also have one thing in common, that is, the quality is very average.
But this kind of paper is suitable for promotion. The emperor and the prince are facing the whole world. Unlike them, they can choose beautiful paper recipes.
But right now it's really cheap.
Bai Shan was picking and choosing, and finally picked out two prescriptions, "Try these two first."
So the next day, Bai Shan and Zhou Man went to Yinju's house to grab a meal, and by the way they called Bai Erlang and Mingda from the house next door.
Yin or was writing under the window, when he saw them, he stopped writing, "There are no wild vegetables today."
Zhou Man said: "It's okay, just eat whatever you want."
Yin You put his pen on the pen mountain, "It's also strange, but the two of you are married but always come to my house to have dinner."
"Isn't this afraid that you will be alone?" Bai Shan said, "Eating together is also lively."
Yin Fu was helpless, and handed him the things he had just written, "What you want is the estimated daily food consumption of the laborers, as well as the estimated money."
Bai Shan took it and glanced at it, then put it aside, "We'll talk about that tomorrow, we're talking about paper today."
Bai Erlang: "Xingyang paper is expensive?"
"Huh," this surprised Bai Shan, he turned to look at Bai Erlang, "You know about Zheng Fei."
Bai Erlang looked at Mingda, "Well, this story has been widely spread."
Ming Da said: "Xingyang is not far from Lu, Zheng Erlang is very famous in this area."
The capital is also full of talented people. Before that, the most famous ones were Yang Heshu and Tang He, and later Bai Shan and others. Now the princes of the Wang family and Lu family are well-known in the capital. In contrast, Zheng Erlang’s reputation in the capital is not so great. .
But he is very famous in this area.
Yin or looked at them, and brought the topic back, "What happened to the paper?"
"Oh, I'm going to build a paper workshop, do you want to join me?"
Yin He: "...do you make paper because paper is expensive?"
Bai Shan sighed and said, "Of course not. Prices in this world fluctuate, so I can't just do whatever happens if there is a slight fluctuation, right? In the final analysis, it's because paper is very involved."
He said: "The documents of the yamen and the recording of the population in each village and district all require paper, especially when checking the population, it requires a lot of paper."
"If there is not enough paper, many things cannot be done. This year Beihai County is my home, and I have not lost money to my subordinates on paper, so I can't see it. But I looked at the previous expenses yesterday. In order to save paper, the yamen spent many Nothing is recorded," Bai Shan said, "If Beihai County hadn't had a salt field, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to wave my hand so proudly and say that if I buy a hundred dollars, I'll buy a hundred dollars, so for the sake of the world, the paper has to be cheap. Otherwise, in the long run, official duties will be abandoned, the population will be hidden and not reported, and many government orders will be difficult to go to the countryside.”
Yin Ru said: "The imperial bookstore has the method of making paper, but as far as I know, the cost is not low. Besides, those who can make paper are some wealthy families."
He paused and said, "My family also has a bookstore, but I can only carve and print books, and the paper is purchased from outside."
Bai Shan said: "I have a prescription."
Yin or raised eyebrows.
"And the cost is very low. Of course, there are high ones, but I don't plan to make better paper now. There is a salt field in Beihai County, so we shouldn't make it too public."
So you know
Yin became thoughtful, "Then do you want to put the paper mill in Beihai County? Or somewhere else?"
"It's in Beihai County," Bai Shan said, "Although it shouldn't be conspicuous, Beihai County is a place I can control."