Chapter 47 Simple papermaking technique, copperplate printing with movable type in one step
"???"
Zhao Gao stared at the black-armored guard in front of him with eyes wider than copper bells.
"Can you say that again?"
Do not believe.
I can't believe it either.
He, Zhao Gao, has been in the palace for so many years, and has grown from a small palace servant to his current position step by step.
There are many people to see.
I have never met anyone who dared to refuse the First Emperor's edict.
But now!
"Anyone who dares to come closer than ten steps will be killed."
The black armored guard stared at Zhao Gao indifferently.
Apart from His Majesty the First Emperor, the only one who could give direct orders was Wei Xiaowei, who is now General Guo Huaiyi.
Zhao Gao angrily rebuked: "Do you know that I am here on His Majesty's orders?"
But the black-armored guards stared at Zhao Gao indifferently, and no matter what Zhao Gao said, they just wouldn't let Zhao Gao in.
"I want to see if you dare to stop me." Zhao Gao's face was filled with anger, his face turned red under the firelight, and he was about to rush inside.
However, after carrying it halfway, Zhao Gao stopped in mid-air.
Because no one, not even a black-armored guard, came forward to stop him.
This is abnormal.
Under normal circumstances.
The order to kill those who come near is relative.
It depends on who you meet and what you are doing, and if he is a close official of the emperor, if he breaks in, he will usually be stopped and advised to go back if he cannot enter.
but now.
Not one of the black-armored guards came to persuade them to return.
This was the real horror. He had never seen the black-armored guards' iron-blooded execution methods before.
This is one of the most elite armies of the Qin Dynasty, with only 10,000 troops.
However, the execution ability of these people has reached an outrageous level.
"General Guo, General Guo, your majesty has issued an edict, and General Guo is here to ride."
Zhao Gao did not dare to get closer and shouted, this time he was really full of awe for Ying Cheng who was rising like a rising star today.
He dare not think of rejecting His Majesty's edict.
After shouting several times, no one came out. Zhao Gao could only sigh helplessly and turned around to leave.
Papermaking!
Paper!
In fact, it is a process of adhering fibers together through a certain chemical reaction.
Raw materials include bark, hemp heads, rags, bamboo, wood, bark, reeds and other herbs with longer fibers.
Step 1: Crush the raw materials.
Step 2: Gray water cooking plus dewhitening
Boil with strong alkali or other chemicals, lime is one of them.
Step 3: Beating or dehydration.
Beating: Stir and beat thoroughly so that the pulp fibers float evenly inside the paper.
Dehydration: Stir thoroughly and filter the cooked pulp to remove the water, leaving a thick pulp.
Step 4: Papermaking or compression.
Papermaking: Put the papermaking mold frame into the paper trough and lift it up evenly so that the pulp fibers remain on the papermaking mold frame.
Compression: Place the thick pulp on a machine for flattening and drying.
Step 5: Dry the paper or dry it
The principle is the same, dry the wet paper in the sun or dry it.
Step 6: Paper
Peel off the paper from the papermaking template to get a square of paper, and then cut it into pieces.
If paper is made with the technology of later generations, it will be a complete assembly line production.
but now.
It requires manual distribution.
After stable technical production is formed, step-by-step improvement and innovation will be carried out.
This is all for the future.
Now.
He needs to follow traditional papermaking techniques and create the objects required for the papermaking process one after another.
Then cooperate with manpower to carry out segmented manufacturing.
some of.
A huge bronze boiling tank for cooking.
Giant sticks and hammers for stirring and beating.
The most important papermaking mold is a fine gauze.
Huge sun drying and drying area.
Large square plan table with cut shaped paper.
It's very responsible to watch this process.
But in actual operation, it is not difficult.
He now has no shortage of manpower, material resources, financial resources, and strength. The only thing he lacks is time.
"The bronze cooking pool doesn't need to be very precise, it needs to be big, like a pot at home, and it needs to be cooked."
"Giant sticks and hammers must be light and strong."
"The papermaking mold frame must be fine and hard."
Ying Cheng gave instructions one by one and assigned all the papermaking components to each group.
There's no way around it.
In fact, papermaking is an extremely simple matter. As long as you know the principle, it is easy to study it.
It was only a matter of time before the papermaking technology was leaked to the world.
He is not optimistic about this.
Therefore, there is a time difference involved.
within this time difference.
He uses papermaking to achieve his own goals, and it won't matter if he makes it public when the time comes.
finally.
All components and things are allocated.
Finally he breathed a sigh of relief.
It can be considered that the first major event has been temporarily completed.
But this is not the end.
There was also bronze movable type printing.
This requires a large number of copper smelting blacksmiths.
After the First Emperor unified the world, he asked Li Si to do a very important thing.
Book with the same text.
This is not just about unifying the current Qin characters.
Instead, it was the Xiaozhuan script of the Qin Dynasty that was born by combining the scripts of the Six Kingdoms and supplementing the Qin script.
A total of 3,642 characters were recorded on the "Bronze Inscription Stele", which is the most orthodox writing method of Xiaozhuan in the Qin Dynasty.
Compared with the sea of 10,000-word texts in later generations, the 3,600-word Qin text is slightly thinner.
But in this era, all added up, there are only so many words.
so.
He needed to use bronze as raw material to create 3,642 yang-engraved Qin character molds.
And using this mold, we continue to produce movable type positive engraving plate molds for printing.
It is impossible to print a book using only 3,642 copper movable type positive engraving plate molds.
Repeated.
The layout is different.
Printed in large quantities.
At that time, one word may require a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand movable type positive and negative printing plate molds, large, medium and small.
All the words added up, that's millions or tens of millions of individual word blocks.
This is an immeasurable project that requires the investment of a large number of iron and copper craftsmen.
As long as it starts, there is no end.
That's all.
Only enough movable type positive engraving plate molds can be used at any time for large-scale ink splash printing.
He has already prepared the paper version of the engraved text.
Now.
The words on these papers need to be turned into Yang-engraved Qin character molds.
Leave professional matters to professionals.
Da Qin's smelting technology is top-notch.
Perhaps other things in Da Qin, even half of Qin's money, were deducted.
But military equipment alone has a very standardized and strict production model.
I wonder if it is possible to make a mold with Yang-engraved Qin characters.
Ying Cheng has never had any doubts.
Is it possible to produce movable type positive engraving plate molds in batches?
Da Qin's mass production of millions of arrowheads every year can give him an accurate answer.
Ying Cheng forgot about the time and arranged things one by one, without leaving others' hands.
And the craftsman who was taken into custody by him.
Decrease at a rate visible to the naked eye.
There were fourteen craftsmen's workshops, but he only knocked down the walls but did not destroy anything inside.
Next.
It is the process of more than 3,000 craftsmen working day and night to build all the components.
And Ying Cheng seemed to have completely forgotten that Zhao Gao had come to see him.
Just as Ying Cheng forgot about his arrangements.
On the Zaohe Plain east of the Zaohe River, the First Emperor exploded.
It was as if he heard words that even he himself didn't believe.
"What, what are you talking about? That Nisun dared to tell you to get out. You didn't even see Guo Huaiyi, and you said that anyone who comes within ten steps will be killed?"
