The spring thunder woke Li Li up, who was resting for lunch, stood up and sat there for a while. After a while, he came to his senses. He remembered that he was on the boat and took advantage of the break in the road to sleep.

Therefore, the scenery outside the window will slowly move backwards.

It was sunny outside, and Li Li was in a good mood, because he received good news today.

This good news comes from Huainan.

Last winter, the Qi army launched a large-scale invasion, and the war continued until now. The front line was stable at the Huai River and entered a stalemate. Although the Qi army heading south was coming in full force, it failed to break through any important Huainan area.

What does this mean?

This shows that Liang Jun’s combat effectiveness is actually not bad. As long as the head coach is selected and dealt with properly, he will not become a fool who can be bullied.

This time, Qi took advantage of the situation to rob, and the emperor was extremely decisive and directly appointed the King of Poyang, who was in charge of Huainan, as the commander, and sent a large number of troops to reinforce.

After several months of confrontation, the generals of the Liang army worked together to push the Qi army to the north bank of the Huai River.

For Qi, the army now has no place to settle in Huainan, and it will be meaningless if the war continues.

So as long as the Liang army does not make any mistakes next, the Qi army will have to stop and give up the invasion of the south.

While thinking about it, the boat docked.

The ship was parked not far downstream of a river dam. Li Li got off the boat and looked at the workshop beside the dam in the distance. He felt relaxed and walked quickly.

This site is a papermaking farm. Because the relevant equipment requires hydraulic power, it is built next to the weir barracks. The equipment installation was completed before the New Year and began trial operation just after the New Year.

When the personnel and the machine are ‘run-in’, formal production can begin.

This time, Li Li was traveling casually, entering the workplace, watching the busy workers, without disturbing them, but silently watching the machine running.

He doesn't know how to make paper, but he can learn it. Now he has spent a lot of time and carefully researching the steps of making paper. He believes that it is generally divided into two parts: pulping and papermaking.

It is subdivided into: bubbles, boiling materials, washing materials, drying, scattering materials, scattering paper (paper making), squeezed dry, and baking paper.

The foaming, cooking, washing, bleaching, and pulping into pulping, picking up paper, squeezing, and baking paper into papermaking.

The most important thing is whether papermaking is successful or not. Nowadays, the mainstream papermaking raw materials are hemp, rattan, and there are fewer bamboos, so the production of bamboo pulp is quite troublesome.

When using bamboo as raw material to make paper, the first step is to "bubble", that is, soak bamboo, which takes at least three months, and then after a series of treatments, the pulping step can be completed.

When it comes to the papermaking stage, the steps are the same as using hemp and rattan paper.

In short, even making hemp paper is not low, and making bamboo paper is time-consuming and laborious, so the price of paper is not low, so it is difficult to promote it.

Li Li, who has seen many mechanical equipment, felt that if he wanted to improve the papermaking process, he had to use the "mechanical power" to replace manpower with the power of machinery.

So after a long period of research and experiment, we finally found feasible methods to improve the papermaking process.

Preparation: Use a hydraulic bamboo cutter to cut bamboo into bamboo slices of similar sizes, and then use a drum hydraulic washing machine to clean the surface of the bamboo slices;

Bubble ingredients, boiling ingredients: coal-fired steaming cooker, steam bamboo slices, water and quicklime for several days, and soften directly. Considering the efficiency, a multi-stage steaming cooker is used;

If you are bleached, you will be exempted from it. Anyway, the current product is "dwelling paper", so it does not require bleaching, and it also saves you from eating according to the weather.

Making materials and pulping: Making materials and pulping with hydraulic machinery, saving a lot of labor;

The above is to shorten the pulping process from at least four months to several days, and the following papermaking steps are also introduced to hydraulic machinery.

Paper making and paper are divided (paper making), squeezed and roasted, and all are carried out continuously by hydraulic machinery.

First, use a hydraulic continuous papermaking machine to continuously produce bamboo pulp and form it to form a long paper tape;

Second, use a hydraulic roller machine to squeeze out the copied paper to remove a lot of moisture;

Third, the pressed paper is wound around the outer wall of the cylindrical drying cylinder and dried directly, while the drying cylinder is heated by coal-fired and rotates hydraulically;

The method Li Li took was to replace manpower with hydraulic machinery in the existing papermaking process, and use slices and high-temperature steaming to shorten the bubbles and cooking time.

It can be free from the influence of weather and seasons, greatly shorten production time, increase production volume, and significantly reduce costs, and produce good quality (relatively not fragile and soft) paper.

However, such paper has yellow color (eliminating the bleaching and bleaching process), severe ink leakage (very strong water absorption), and cannot be used as calligraphy and painting paper, and is just used to make clean paper (toilet paper).

Li Li came to the last part of the work section, looked at the hydraulically driven crimping machine, and "wrinkled" the newly dried strip bamboo paper, followed by cutting.

The strip-shaped bamboo paper wrapped around the roller will wrinkle after encountering a scraper blockage. As long as the various "parameters" are adjusted, the wrinkles are just right and the paper will not be damaged. Then, the soft and relatively uniform 'clean paper' will be done.

After being cut by a paper cutting machine, you can pack it out.

The fine wrinkles on clean paper (toilet paper) can increase the contact area and strengthen the water absorption performance. Therefore, the clean paper produced by the new process has relatively strong water absorption and will not easily rot after absorbing water.

Although it is obviously not as good as toilet paper in later generations, in this era, there are absolutely no competitors in terms of price or quality.

Such papermaking process can be made by making wrapping paper with a slight change, adding bleaching technology, and adding hemp pulp to make writing paper of average quality.

If reeds and straw are used as raw materials, low-priced funeral paper can also be made.

Wu Xiang, who was in a hurry, was so happy when he saw Li Li looking at the machine, and he was also very happy: "Cun...Li Lang, this venue is so amazing!"

Li Li went out in casual clothes, but he had a follower around him, so Wu Xiang called him "Li Lang". Li Li nodded when he heard this: "Of course it's amazing, it's the only deal."

"Such papermaking farms must be built on the edge of the weir to have stable hydrodynamic power. Unless the river water drys up, it will be able to produce from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, which is very stable."

"The industry with a bright future...how is it? Wu Dongzhu, how are you talking about cooperation and making money?"

"It's almost done, it's almost done. When they visited the scene, they were all stunned." Wu Xiang laughed, smiling happily.

"Every link is being discussed from raw materials, to transportation, to production, to export, and it is almost done."

"They have started to purchase bamboo from various places and transported it to Poyang. Several papermaking farms are already being built... Poyang has built many dams in the past two years. Now, in addition to storing water, it can also run papermaking sites, which is amazing."

Wu Xiang became more and more excited as he spoke. He did not expect that Li Li really came up with a solution to improve the papermaking process. Although the sales of "clean paper" had not yet been opened, he absolutely believed in Li Li's judgment.

Wu Xiang is a general of the military rank, but he has no actual position, so he is still the helper of Li Li to handle various affairs. Now, he is responsible.

In the papermaking industry, seeing the bright future of money, we are of course full of energy.

Li Li asked Wuxiang to sell this improved papermaking process to a few people at a high price, so more than one papermaking farm in Poyang started production this year.

There is more than one ‘production line’ in each workshop.

Once several papermaking farms are in operation, the demand for bamboo and quicklime will increase significantly. Jiangzhou is rich in bamboo, and in the past two years, due to the large number of snails being culled in Poyang County, there are also a large number of lime kilns.

There is no shortage of raw materials and pulping agents, so as long as Poyang's papermaking industry opens up sales, it can develop rapidly, and then affect and benefit many people.

"I've been in office for three years by the end of this year."

Li Li said slowly, Wu Xiang listened with his ears.

"In three years, I will achieve the goals set by that year."

"Next, will I continue to stay or have other appointments? I don't know, after all, the term of office of a local official is long and short. However, as long as the foundation of Poyang is laid, even if I leave, I don't need to worry."

"You can't always call the general but do nothing. The country is in trouble. We always have to serve the court and share the worries of the emperor."

"So, we must remember that we run industries and make money by doing business. Everything is for our ambitions."

"Our ambition is to be able to protect the country and the people, to make achievements, not to be a rich man."

Wu Xiang heard this and asked, "Li Lang, did you hear any wind?"

"I don't need to listen, I know it all." Li Li looked up at the sky, "In the first year of Taiqing, Daliang was vast in size, starting from the coast of the East China Sea in the east and reaching the land of Bashu in the west."

"What about now? It's almost half cut in half, and the situation is in danger."

"It's like a golden bowl, not only half of it was cut off, but the remaining half was full of cracks. As you see, it could be broken at any time. In chaos, how can the family be stable?"

"I have been in the Poyang Inner Historian for two years and have laid the foundation, so I don't need to do anything for the rest of this year. At the end of the year, I can still achieve the expected goals."

As Wu Xiang listened, he heard a different meaning: Li Li didn't plan to be honest in Poyang and finish this year.

"We have not wasted time in the past two years, right?" Li Li turned his head and looked at Wu Xiang, his eyes flashing.

"The robbers who came to the door to rob the owner beat the head and bloodied, and then left with the stolen property. I think there must be many people like us who can't swallow this."

"The robbers returned with a full load, proud. They believed that the robbed families had suffered heavy casualties and were scared out of fear. Therefore, no one would catch up with them. At this time..."

"At this time, someone suddenly jumped out and knocked them on a scoop..."

"I think the success rate of the strong man who is guarded against and the boy who is not noticed after the attack is the same. What do you think?"

"I think so!"

Wu Xiang clenched his fists, his eyes full of firmness: "Li Lang, no matter what decision you make, I will be with you!"
Chapter completed!