Datang: Empress mother-in-law sent Li Er to test me

They guard one-third of an acre of land all day long, and their wives and children are hot on the kang, not to mention facing the loess and back to the sky. If they can make money in a year, it is God's reward.

How difficult it is to earn their money!

Inside the big tent, there was silence.

After a long time, Du Yan said in a deep voice: "Zhang Shaoyin, I think you are still a little impatient."

"That's right." Changsun Wuji echoed, "It's enough for us to just make some books and sell them!"

Zhang Dun looked at them, he asked you to come as a consultant, not to persuade me, but just to persuade me, so I invited you here for nothing?

"Then put it down first."

Zhang Dun thought for a while and said, "I've been thinking about it for the past two days. Let's make paper for a while. If there is a lot of paper, let's talk about what to do."

"So good."

Changsun Wuji, Du Yan and Cheng Yaojin said in unison.

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The next morning.

Outside the chief executive's mansion, two thousand disaster victims gathered.

Chen Ran and a dozen or so gentry were dressed in the same clothes as those of the victims around them, hunched their necks and blended among the crowd.

Chapter 287 Chen Ran and a Dozen of Gentlemen Secretly Learned Papermaking Techniques

To their relief, none of the [-] victims selected this time knew them.

And the person in charge of the General Manager's Office, who was in charge of this work-for-relief, didn't know them either.

"Listen up!"

This time, the person responsible for leading [-] disaster victims to the camp workshop was a middle-aged clerk from the General Manager's Mansion.

The middle-aged clerk said with a loud voice: "When you get to the place later, don't ask questions, just do what you are told, understand?"

"understand!"

The victims said in unison.

"Okay, let's go!" The middle-aged scribe waved his hand and led everyone away from Jinyang County.

When they came to the camp workshop, Chen Ran and a dozen gentry couldn't help being surprised.

Is this made by the General Manager's Mansion?

We didn't even know any news beforehand?

Is this a paper-making workshop?

Chen Ran and a dozen gentry saw two burly soldiers standing outside the workshop in the camp, and their expressions became more dignified.

It seems that the people in the Chief Executive's Mansion take this place very seriously.

There are government soldiers guarding it, and it is impossible for ordinary people to go in!

Fortunately, this time we came in person!

Chen Ran and a dozen or so gentry remained silent, mingled among the two thousand victims, followed the middle-aged scribe, and walked into the workshop.

"Fifty of you, follow him."

"Fifty of you, follow him!"

"You guys, follow him!"

In the workshop, the middle-aged scribe called 50 government soldiers, and then divided the [-] disaster victims into [-] teams with [-] people as a group.

Each team left with a mansion soldier.

With the experience of weaving bamboo tools, the victims cooperated very much and followed whoever they were told to follow without any objection.

Chen Ran said in a low voice: "We are also separated. Everyone enters a team. You must remember the whole process clearly, understand?"

More than a dozen gentry nodded one after another.

The people sent out before were to learn how to weave bamboo utensils. After three days of learning, all they learned were semi-finished weaving methods.

With the lesson learned from last time, everyone separated in advance without hesitation, mixed in the team, and went to learn how to make paper.

They believe that everyone learns a part of papermaking, and when they go back, they will piece together each other, and the papermaking method will be completely learned by hand!

Chen Ran mixed up in the first team of 50 people, followed the mansion soldier, and came to the kiln.

"What you are going to do is this!"

The government soldier looked at the victims, pointed to the boiling water in the kiln, then pointed to the wooden barrel full of "clinker" placed aside, and said: "Pour the contents of the wooden barrel into In the kiln, then stir with a long stick!"

"The boiling water needs to be heated continuously without stopping, let alone stirring, do you understand?"

"Understood!" The fifty victims said in unison.

The mansion soldier hummed, waved his hand and said, "Let's get started!"

The fifty victims immediately began to get busy.

At the moment, there are a total of 25 kilns in front of them.

Half of the people carried wooden barrels and poured the "clinker" in the barrel into the boiling water in the kiln.

The other half held wooden sticks in their hands and kept stirring the boiling water.

Holding a long stick, Chen Ran looked seriously at the clinker in the barrel, which was poured into the boiling water in the kiln, and while stirring, he observed carefully.

The more he looked, the more surprised he became.

After the contents of the wooden barrel were poured into the kiln, it miraculously turned into pulp!

This is impossible!

Four words popped into Chen Ran's mind.

He knows best how difficult it is to make pulp.

After all, he has a papermaking workshop at home.

Logically speaking, it would take a lot of time to make pulp, but how long has it been since the pulp was made?

"The old man will change with you. You go to stir with a long stick, and I will carry the bucket."

Chen Ran couldn't help exchanging with one of the victims, and then carefully observed the clinker while pouring the barrel into the kiln.

Watched for a full two hours.

Chen Ran felt that people were going numb, but he still didn't figure out how the clinker was made.

do not care!Chen Ran gritted his teeth, and first remembered the process of stirring and pouring the clinker in the barrel into the kiln, and waited until he went back.

Maybe someone else is making clinker.

Thinking of this, Chen Ran was surprisingly relaxed.

The day passed quickly, and at dusk, under the leadership of the middle-aged clerk, everyone returned to the chief manager's mansion and received their wages for the day.

The victims were joyful, looking forward to tomorrow more and more. The eyes of other victims who watched them not far away were all red and jealous!

But Chen Ran, and a dozen or so gentry, left in a hurry and returned to Chen's house.

"How are you learning?"

In the hall, Chen Ran and a dozen gentry were devouring food while looking at them and asking.

"What should be learned, I have learned!"

One of the gentry raised his brows with joy and said, "I think the method of making paper is not difficult."

"Hahaha, me too, I feel very relaxed."

"Easy to easy, it just feels like a wheel on a carriage, doing repetitive movements all the time."

Everyone, you are talking with me.

Chen Ran nodded approvingly, and when he was full, he stood up first and said solemnly: "Let's go, let's all go to the old man's papermaking workshop, let's go and see if we can make that kind of paper according to the method of the chief manager's mansion." Plant blank paper!"

More than a dozen gentry nodded and followed him to the workshop.

The Chen family's papermaking workshop is larger than the camp workshop set up by the General Manager's Mansion, and the equipment is more complete.

Chen Ran brought a dozen gentry to a kiln, and when the water in the kiln boiled, he said to them, "Let's start!"

"it is good!"

The gentry nodded with a smile.

However, no one moved for a long time.

Seeing that they didn't move, Chen Ran couldn't help but said, "Do it."

The smiles on the faces of a dozen gentry gradually froze.

Do it?How to do it?What the hell, you got the paper out for us, we are so active.

One of the gentry couldn't help but said, "Old Chen, where's the pulp?"

"That's right, we can't move without pulp."

"I'm in charge of compounding glue in the workshop run by the General Manager's Mansion."

"I'm in charge of picking up paper."

"I'm in charge of pressing the baking paper!"

"..."

The gentry spoke one after another, and the more Chen Ran heard it, the more ugly his face became.

After talking about it, he understood that what they did was to wait until the pulp was available before starting to work!

But no one is responsible for making pulp!

No, there is one!

Thinking of this, Chen Ran's expression became even uglier, his mother seems to be making pulp!

But at this time, more than a dozen gentry gradually fell silent, and all turned their eyes to Chen Ran.

"Old Chen, if I remember correctly, you were the first to set off."

One of the gentry said seriously: "That is to say, the pulp step started from you."

"If you want to do it, you are the first to do it. You have to make pulp for us so that we can proceed to the next step!"

Chen Ran: "..."

Chapter 288 Only Selling Books to Scholars, What Benefits Do Common People Have?

Being stared at by everyone, the muscles on Chen Ran's face twitched.

He was the first to follow the 50-man team, and it was true at the beginning.

The pulp process also started from him.

But his job is to pour the pulp in the barrel into the boiling water in the kiln, and then stir it with a wooden stick.

As for why the "stuff" in the wooden barrel is poured into boiling water and stirred, pulp can appear.

He doesn't know!

Now after listening to what everyone said, Chen Ran understood that all their calculations were in vain.

"Ugh!"

Chen Ran sighed sadly, and said, "This is completely different from what the old man thought!"

When Chen Ran finished his story, more than a dozen gentry stood on the spot dumbfounded.

A thought came to mind at the same time.

It's over, I'm busy today.

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