Chapter 111: it should be
Chapter 111 This is how it should be
After about half a month, Zhao Sheng finally restored all the blueprints drawn by Bai Wutong.
When Bai Wutong was notified, it attracted everyone who had been curious for many days.
White Indus can always design unexpected things.
Presumably, this time will also surprise everyone.
Bai Wutong looked at these paper machines and praised Zhao Sheng, and then, under the curious eyes of everyone, came to the site where the wood flowers were stacked.
Cui Lingyi couldn't help but ask: "Teacher, what do you think Little Phoenix is doing?"
She has never read the "Baiye Quanshu", so she has no idea what these strange machines can do.
Yang Quanzi had already guessed it, and said with a smile: "Mrs. Bai probably thinks that the pile of wood flowers here is too wasteful, so she plans to use it to make paper."
As soon as these words came out, everyone made a sound of surprise.
"Paper?"
Paper is extremely precious, because the cost of making paper is high and the workmanship is complicated.
Xu Zhiyi, who wrote the "Complete Book of Baiye" together with Yang Quanzi, has seen the artisans of the paper workshop with their own eyes, working hard all day, only to make a maximum of 300 pieces of paper.
After the paper is made, it is necessary to control the heat and bake it in the alley, let the heat dry the paper slowly, and then lift it up after it is completely dry to get a piece of paper that can be written on.
If you are a little careless when making paper, the paper will be useless.
This does not include the selection of papermaking materials, the proportion of paper formulations, and so on.
Paper is expensive and you have to ask someone to transcribe it slowly and decide it into a book in order to become a complete book. Therefore, many scholars in the world have to grit their teeth and hesitate to buy a book.
Hearing that Bai Wutong wanted to use these wood flowers as fuel to make paper, everyone was surprised, and immediately showed the admiration of Mrs. Bai.
Bai Wutong is simple, just for himself, and he will work hard to use toilet paper without any worries in the future.
White Indus first designed the great movable type printing, and now he is ready to use these machines to improve papermaking.
If it is successful, it will surely benefit the people!
Cui Shi Ze was very emotional and excited in his heart. He stepped forward and said, "Mrs. Bai, please feel free to speak up if you need anything. Cui must do his best!"
Teacher has made a statement, and the students naturally all stood up and said, "So do we! If you have something to do with Mrs. Bai, just tell us!"
Paper-making generally requires high-quality bamboo or wood with bark thrown away. Bai Wutong wanted to use wood flowers. Someone from the Qinghe Twelve family kindly reminded: "Madam, if you want to make paper, I am afraid that wood flowers can't be used."
Bai Wutong smiled, "Try it, in case." In fact, she is very confident, so there should be no problem.
Everyone wanted to help, but Bai Wutong couldn't do it alone, so they asked everyone to set up several large earth stoves on the ground, scooped water from the reservoir, poured the wood flowers and water into the pot, and boiled it repeatedly. Boiled into a pot of white pulp bubbling like poison.
Bai Wutong stirred one of the cauldrons with a large wooden stick. Seeing that the wood flowers were completely boiled and turned into wood pulp, he said, "It can be poured into the first paper machine for filtering and rinsing."
The filter-rinsing paper machine can only pour half a pot of wood pulp into it at a time, and two people need to add water to it and push the handle of the paper machine to make it run like a pulp. The top flows into the barrel below.
Repeatedly filter and rinse, operate several times, all impurities and oversized particles in the pulp have been filtered, and the color of the pulp will appear pure milky white.
When Xu Zhiyi and Yang Quanzi went to the paper workshop to observe, they had never seen such complicated steps in papermaking.
However, when I saw that the wood pulp, which is even whiter than bamboo and wood, can be filtered out using wood chips as a raw material, I was stunned.
Other people saw that the machine finally precipitated white wood pulp. Although they didn't know how to make paper, they couldn't help but feel excited when they saw Yang Quanzi and the others.
Can wood chips and wood chips really make paper?
The precipitated wood pulp is put into another paper machine again.
Bai Wutong saw everyone pouring wood pulp into the second machine with great effort, thinking of modern streamlined operations, fast, clean and simple, they are really primitive.
If it can be improved, let the filtered and rinsed wood pulp go directly into the pulper.
Bai Wutong is not an engineering major. It is already a lot of brains to draw such machine drawings, and making her transform may hollow her out.
She pinned her hopes on Zhao Sheng, and inadvertently mentioned, "If the machines can be used together, there is no need to carry them so hard."
When Zhao Sheng heard Bai Wutong's words, he had a flash of inspiration, and he immediately showed an excited expression. It seemed that it would not be difficult to design two machines together, just like the waterwheel can be turned to lift the water, he should be able to do it.
Bai Wutong hooked the corners of his lips when he saw this expression on his face, maybe one day the toilet paper produced automatically will be able to be produced.
Pour wood pulp into the pulping machine, add water to mix, enter the wooden frame where the paper is deposited, filter out some water, and everyone is surprised to see that a complete piece of paper seems to appear faintly.
At this step, Bai Wutong took off the wooden frame and put it on another paper machine.
The wooden frame is sandwiched by two wooden boards wrapped with absorbent cloth, so that the fibers in the wood pulp are compressed together, and then a snow-white paper really appears.
It is white and has a slight luster. As long as it is dried and tested with pen and ink, you can know that it can reach various grades of high-quality paper.
Mrs. White really made a complete paper!
Everyone showed a shocked expression.
Before everyone stepped forward to observe it, the next second, Bai Wutong pressed the knife on the template, and with a "click", the complete sheet of paper became several pieces, and then slid down the track, neatly again. piled together.
Everyone was immediately dumbfounded, this is not to write Spring Festival couplets, why cut a piece of paper that can sell at a high price.
Bai Wutong didn't care about everyone's astonished expressions. Using the prepared wooden stick, he rolled all the newly pressed paper into small paper rolls one after another, and put them into the machine for baking paper to evaporate the water.
Cui Shi Ze was shocked for a while before he realized it, and asked incredulously, "Why did Madam Bai make paper like this?"
Paper is precious in this era. Bai Wutong looked at the toilet paper put in the evaporation bucket and was a little worried, if he said the reason why he would be pointed at him.
Hesitating for a few seconds, thinking that it is impossible for them to use toilet paper because they think paper is precious, Bai Wutong calmly said: "The cleaning paper I want to do should be like this."
(end of this chapter)