The papermaking has not been successful for many consecutive days, and Jiang Xingchen believes that it may be a problem with the raw materials.
However, when the bamboo came, Jiang Xingchen and Wanrou jointly developed it and found that it still did not work, and the fiber could not become an effective paper at all.
Only then did Jiang Xingchen realize that his previous method was a bit too natural. Not only did he fail to succeed, it may also affect Xianning's thinking.
"It seems that the method is not as simple as I imagined!" Jiang Xingchen sighed after another failure.
Xianning shook his head and said, "The general direction should be correct. I guess there is something wrong with the specific steps and links! The pulp we cooked is dark yellow, and the fibers in it seem to be unable to spread evenly, so the paper that comes out cannot be used!"
Xianning also explained her analysis, which was a summary of her research over the years.
Jiang Xingchen was stunned when he heard this, frowned and thought, and said softly: "The color is dark yellow, because there are impurities. In addition, the true color of the pulp should not be white, and it needs to be bleached... The fibers cannot spread evenly, it should be that there is any substance connected between the original fibers of the plant... and so on!"
Thinking of this, Jiang Xingchen vaguely remembered that he seemed to have seen it in his previous life. During the process of making paper in ancient times, he mentioned lime water.
"Do you need this kind of thing?" Jiang Xingchen's eyes lit up immediately.
"It's easy to remove miscellaneous materials. Soak first and then rinse the pulp. The easiest way to bleach is to expose it to the sun... The fibers spread evenly. Does it require lime water to boil pulp?"
Thinking of this, Jiang Xingchen couldn't help but feel a little worried! If you want to obtain lime water, you must have limestone. That thing can be seen everywhere on the earth, but here. Who knows if there is one, at least he has never found something like saltpet, let alone lime. The Duan family is a construction company and has never used lime.
Moreover, he is not a geology person, so he doesn't know how to tell whether it is limestone. Besides, calcined limestone requires a high temperature of at least about one thousand degrees. To reach this temperature, a kiln or blast furnace must be built.
Of course, it can also be calcined with a hydraulic blower, but it is not as convenient as building a blast furnace. Now the most important thing is to find limestone first. If you have this thing, you will have a door to the new building materials of the Duan family.
"Oh~" Jiang Xingchen sighed. He really didn't expect that it would be so troublesome to make a paper.
"Xingchen, what's wrong? Is there a place where I'm going to pass?" Xianning thought that Jiang Xingchen had stuck, so he persuaded him: "When I was studying things in the past, there was always a place where the owner was stuck. Don't be anxious..."
Jiang Xingchen smiled bitterly. I was not stuck. I clearly recalled the key things, but I didn’t know if there was this world. And even if there was, I didn’t recognize it. It would take a little bit of a try.
When Xianning looked at Jiang Xingchen's expression, he thought he was depressed and continued to persuade: "I studied your flour explosion. Do you know how many times it has been stuck? The density of the flour, the humidity of the air, and the degree of air confinement of the surrounding environment..."
Jiang Xingchen wailed in his heart: "Sister, this is completely different, okay? What I lack now is the raw materials. There may not be any in this world.
Suddenly, Jiang Xingchen thought again: "Isn't this world dominated by vitality? What if I can use Yuanshi?"
When Jiang Xingchen thought about this possibility, he was a little excited. He felt that the possibility was very high, so he asked Xian Ning to try it immediately.
First chop the bamboo, soak it, and then steam it in a pot... Next, try to boil the slurry.
When Xianning saw Jiang Xingchen thinking of a way again, she smiled happily and followed him closely.
However, this attempt was doomed to fail again. Jiang Xingchen put the Yuanshi into the water and heated it, but until the water was already turbid and thick, the Yuanshi had no movement at all.
"Hey!" Jiang Xingchen sighed again. If he had known it, he would have put the novel in the monthly magazine so early.
"You have to find limestone. Even if you try it one by one, you have to get a lime!" Jiang Xingchen said intimately, asking Xian Ning not to worry first, so he hurriedly left, making Xian Ning confused: "What is Jiang Xingchen doing?"
When he returned to the lord's mansion, Jiang Xingchen immediately found Han Xiaowu and asked him to arrange people to find various rocks in the surrounding hilly areas first.
Han Xiaowu was confused and curious, and couldn't help asking, "What is the purpose of a rock?"
"Sell money!" Jiang Xingchen answered casually and drove Han Xiaowu out.
After leaving the Lord's Mansion, Han Xiaowu was stunned for a long time: "Can rocks be sold for money?... It was promoted to sell money, but now it can even sell rocks. I went there. Is there anything else that the Lord can't sell..."
With a look of surprise, Han Xiaowu went to find someone as Jiang Xingchen told him.
Half a day later, Han Xiaowu brought back a dozen large rocks. After seeing them, Jiang Xingchen nodded. Judging from the appearance of these dozen rocks, they were really of different types.
"Let's see if there is limestone!" Jiang Xingchen said intimately, carrying the rocks to the smelting workshop upstream of the river. He had to use a smelting furnace to calcinate it before he could find out.
Han Xiaowu really couldn't suppress his curiosity. He followed Jiang Xingchen to the workshop and it was incredible that even the rocks could be sold for money.
Under Jiang Xingchen's instructions, the craftsmen cleared the furnace, added wood, and then put the rocks in separately, and began to calcinate different stones.
The craftsmen were also very surprised and asked Han Xiaowu quietly, was this the ore containing precious metals?
When they learned from Han Xiaowu that this was the most ordinary rock, the craftsmen were stunned and could not understand what the Lord was doing for calcining this thing.
The time for calcining the rocks was very long, and Jiang Xingchen could not keep guarding here, so he instructed the craftsmen to notify him once the rocks were burned into powder.
Han Xiaowu didn't see the result of calcining the rocks. Although he felt sorry, he couldn't stay here for a long time. He still had a lot of work on hand.
The calcination of more than a dozen kinds of rocks is not a matter of one or two days. In the next few days, Jiang Xingchen would go to the smelting workshop from time to time, but he returned in disappointment every time.
The method of checking whether it is lime is very simple. Just add water and you will know that quicklime turns into ripe lime and will exude heat.
In the past few days, Zhao Danqing, Mo Hongxian, and even the old man who was studying Xianning's injuries with two great doctors came to ask how Jiang Xingchen rocks were sold for money.
Jiang Xingchen was very surprised and said to himself: "It's a big deal for rocks. If you want to sell them, they are paper made in the future and cement that is configured."
However, he then remembered that Han Xiaowu asked himself what rocks are for, and he casually said to sell them for money.
After several days, more than a dozen rocks were not calcined except for three furnaces, they tried all the other ones, and none of them were limestone.
Jiang Xingchen was a little depressed, but he did not give up. Now his demand for paper is too urgent. In the second issue of Xingchen Monthly, in order to attract attention, he also added the storytellings mentioned in Xingchen Teahouse.
In this way, there will definitely be someone who will follow suit. We can’t sell publicity, but there is no problem selling storytelling. Water Margin, and the Tianlong Ba Folks that have been talked about for nearly a year in the Star Teahouse, can be sold for money.
Jiang Xingchen had really thought about papermaking too simple before. He thought that she would tell Xianning the key point that she would be able to make it in less than a few days. Even if someone imitated it, it wouldn't matter. It just happened to hype the paper I launched. Can comparisons show good or bad?
But now, once paper cannot be made, it is equivalent to making wedding dresses for others. The new market opened up will be divided into a large share by many people who seize the opportunity.
So, Jiang Xingchen instructed Han Xiaowu to expand the scope of search for me. If there is no territory, go outside the territory and find all the different rocks around me. Remember not to repeat them.
Everyone in Xingchenling was confused. I wonder where Mr. Jiang was crazy. Grandpa Fu was a little worried. Now that Xingchenling is developing so well, Mr. Jiang must not have something to do with him.
Even Xian Ning was wondering. She knew that Jiang Xingchen must be for paper, but what did this have to do with rocks really made her unable to figure it out.
That is, the old man can still keep his normal life and tell everyone: "Don't worry, this kid is absolutely fine. If we can understand what he does, he will not be Jiang Xingchen!"
"What are these words?" The group of people looked at each other, completely speechless at the old man's strange words.
Just as Jiang Xingchen was busy looking for limestone, a necessary condition for papermaking, the medical industry outside began to chaotic, and a large number of sheep intestinal lines appeared on the market, causing the already sharp drop in the price of sheep intestinal lines to plummet again.
With this result, the medicinal materials shops were happy and the common people were happy. In the past, they could not afford this thing, and ordinary pharmacies could not be purchased. Now they can finally use it.
But at this moment, the military headquarters could no longer sit still. In the past, the sheep intestinal line was the secret of the Emperor's team, and only Zhaojia Pharmaceutical could produce it, so they could only buy it from Zhaojia Pharmaceutical.
But now, it is no secret that the sheep intestinal thread on the market is much cheaper than the ones in your Zhaojia Pharmaceutical.
The number of sheep intestinal lines appeared on the market, causing the price to plummet the day after the Imperial Court meeting, many ministers raised this issue. They also compared the sheep intestinal lines of Zhaojia Pharmaceutical with the market, but there was no big difference.
Although the Marshal, some senior officials of the military headquarters and several commanders had a good relationship with Zhaojia Pharmaceutical, in this case, they could not continue to spend a high price on Zhaojia Pharmaceutical.
Even if the emperor could not object to this matter, he was thinking about suppressing the Xingchen Colonel.
So the marshal sent a letter to Xingchenling, asking Zhaojia Pharmaceutical to lower the price, at least the same as the market.
In the evening of that day, Zhao Xiang took the letter from the Marshal and his eyebrows were condensed into a lump. He knew that the intestinal thread on the market was basically the cost price. If it were at that price, Zhao Family Pharmaceutical would not make a profit, but would lose money.
"Dad! I'll go find Brother Jiang and think of a solution!" Zhao Danqing said, stood up and walked out. (To be continued...)