At this time, the other blacksmiths nearby were not happy and laughed and cursed, "I'm not helping you anymore, why don't you tell the military advisor and reward us a little? It's good to forget about us!"

The carver was suddenly embarrassed, and he defended, "The military advisor...the military advisor doesn't know that you all also helped..."

With that said, the carver simply opened the package, walked to the nearby blacksmiths, and each of them grabbed a large handful and put them down on the dirty wrought iron platform.

Everyone has a share.

The blacksmiths were just doing a casual job and didn't help much. They said they wanted benefits and just made fun of them, but they didn't really want them.

Seeing that the carver was really serious about handing out things to everyone, the blacksmiths quickly refused, "Forget it! Just take a few less. You can take it back and eat it! Stop taking it!"

The exchange of favors is noisy and pushed back and forth.

Before leaving, the carver specially grabbed several handfuls of fish balls and placed them on the forged iron table of the blacksmith who was the first to help. He patted the blacksmith on the shoulder. The carver smiled and said, "You are busy, I will leave first."

After saying that, he left with a pack of meatballs that had shrunk severely.

Compared with a few days ago, there was only a slight intersection between the carver and the enthusiastic blacksmith. However, after repeated cooperation, especially after the cooperation brought huge benefits to both parties, the relationship between the carver and the enthusiastic blacksmith quickly became mature.

Networked a lot.

Besides, the ordinary carver with no outstanding abilities just because he got the opportunity to take charge of a stereotyped task, now managed dozens of people that he had never managed before, and he was repeatedly rewarded for it.

There were a lot more social interactions. Then, the carving craftsman who was in the blacksmith camp just now, had something in his hand, and just happened to be socializing. He was a bit dull and inarticulate. Suddenly, he was so happy that he took the initiative to give the meatballs to the helpers.

Make a reward.

After this, even if the carver is no longer responsible for the carving technique in the future, and his subordinates are no longer in charge of people, with this opportunity to take charge and the friendship formed, there is no doubt that the carver is better than others in the blacksmith camp.

With more connections and connections, it will be much easier than others to find help in the future.

Therefore, opportunity is extremely important. The only difference between a person's ability and the so-called emotional intelligence and communication skills is opportunity.

The carver returned to his camp, and the carpenters gathered in the small hut, having nothing to do, chatting happily with meatballs in their mouths.

The carver came back and asked the brothers, "Well, let me ask, who said to use door panels?"

"And that... yes, there is also the inlay, inlay wood... repair method, who thought of it..."

The carpenters suddenly became happy and laughed. They asked what kind of compensation they owed their mother.

The carver was embarrassed, and it took him a while to explain.

Holding up a few military tickets in his hand, the engraver looked around and asked, "The military advisor said there was a reward. Who came up with the idea? Come and get it yourself. I can't remember the person."

Whether they were sitting, standing, or the carpenters outside, they were all stunned.

No matter how many times I have experienced it, every time, some ideas or ideas that the craftsmen do not take seriously are taken very seriously by the military advisor.

The craftsmen are very familiar with technology, but in terms of overall vision of technology, no one can match Li Mengxi.

It's embarrassing for the craftsmen to cut holes in the door panels and stuff them with wood because they can't do it well. But in Li Mengxi's opinion, Li Mengxi knew very well that there would be times when it was necessary to open the page as quickly as possible, such as urgently printing a conscription notice or something.

At that time, the remedial repair and other techniques that carpenters were forced to use at this time were actually rapid manufacturing techniques suitable for emergencies.

In emergencies or time-critical situations, it is easy to make mistakes if you rush to take advantage of them. Therefore, efficient and fast remedial methods are crucial.

The craftsmen may not fully understand the key to this, but every pioneering technology that Li Mengxi thinks is valuable, no matter how small or insignificant the technology is, the value of these technologies themselves is much higher than a mere ten kilograms of grain.

The carver asked several times, but no one came to collect the military tickets.

I was so busy at the time that the person who made the suggestion forgot what he said.

After a long time, the other carpenters said, "Just take it, and the brothers won't say anything."

The carver hesitated for a moment and put the military coupons in his arms.

In the City Lord's Mansion, Li Mengxi, Liu Bei and Guan Yu checked the test papers together. During the checking process, some errors were found. Some words were engraved incorrectly, but the carpenters failed to detect them.

This made Li Mengxi realize that this would not work. Many of the craftsmen were illiterate. If the illiterate people were asked to check whether the spellings were correct, the craftsmen would have to compare them stroke by stroke. If they were illiterate, they would not be able to do it at all.

A thorough inspection of ten lines at a glance.

Therefore, the technique of withering boards requires a well-literate person to be responsible for checking and reviewing the plates.

Liu Bei asked, "The word is wrong. Should I cross it out or rewrite it?"

"No need," Li Mengxi shook his head, "The writing is too slow." He immediately thought of the wooden seals carved by carpenters, "Just carve them into chapters and print them."

On the side, Guan Yu also nodded, "Just mark it and seal it, it's done."

"...You can't carve a black seal without scratching it. Just snap it and cover the words. Isn't this faster than holding a pen?"

That is to say, there is no such thing as a writing brush that can print seals in a snap.

All the conditions for printing were met, the plates were cut, and the censorship and verification were done. The key paper was busy for three days in a row. The craftsmen cooked countless pots of paper pulp day and night, working overtime to produce a full set of paper.

Thousands of large pieces of paper.

Papermaking can be so fast thanks to the many technologies improved by Li Mengxi, such as alkali, activated carbon for color removal, large ponds specially built to facilitate papermaking, and hollow spaces in the middle specially used to speed up the drying of paper.

Wood-heated earth walls, and other technologies.

There are so many technologies, but they are far from enough to produce more than 10,000 sheets of paper in three days. We have to be prepared in advance.

Being prepared means that before the decision was made to make large-scale paper, a large number of nets were copied, complex heating walls were built, pulp tanks built with stones, and plant ash and alkali were all prepared.

Especially plant ash alkali, which takes longer to extract than boiling salt, but the yield is much lower than that of salt. If Li Mengxi hadn't prepared a lot of ash alkali before, there wouldn't be enough for papermaking in the past few days.

Alkalis are available.

After everything is in order, start printing.

Starting printing in the afternoon, the craftsmen laid the door panel flat, applied a layer of ink on the plate with a brush, and then lightly wiped the ink on the plate with a linen cloth. Then the two of them worked together, holding the four corners of the large paper with their hands, and

The paper was spread on the wooden board.

After that, one of the craftsmen took a round stick and rolled it on the paper, and attached the paper to the printing plate. Simply rolling it was not enough to completely fit it tightly. The craftsmen also had to be gentle with their hands.

I patted it everywhere, and then after making sure that all the words were printed, I lifted a corner and carefully peeled off the paper.

Behind, someone else took the printed paper and hung it on a long bamboo pole. There were already many papers hanging on the long bamboo pole.

After a while, someone came over, took the papers away, and took them to another place to dry.

Li Mengxi was wandering around the printing site. He found that the printing tools were still slightly insufficient. He still felt that a pressing plate was missing. When printing, he took down the wooden board and pressed it to press all the words onto the paper.

No more using your hands to flatten it.

After just looking at it for a while, Li Mengxi discovered that in the entire paper printing process, the lamination process was the most troublesome. Not only was it time-consuming, but the paper would be punctured with just a little force from his fingers, which was very detrimental to production.

It's just a matter of haste that the printing plate was withered this time. In the future, a pressure plate will definitely be needed.

After turning around for a while, Li Mengxi told the craftsmen not to mix up the papers, and then went to the place where the papers were dried.

The paper drying area is very simple. It is just a lot of long poles set up. There are many test papers with long ink stains hanging on them like drying clothes. On the side, there are several fires lit. The flames are fierce, burning all around.

The air is heated and steaming.

In the papermaking process, after making paper, you can stick the paper on the fire wall and use the heat of the fire wall to steam the paper dry.

But the test paper was different. The test paper was not wet and could not be pasted on the wall. Therefore, Li Mengxi came up with this temporary method of drying with hot air.

The drying process of the printed matter is necessary, because after the paper is printed, the ink is not dry for a while. If the paper is stacked together, the ink will be contaminated and the quality will be affected. If the paper is hung alone, it will take up too much space, so

, it is especially necessary to have technology that can dry the ink quickly.

In Li Mengxi's imagination, the complete appearance of the ink drying technology should be a long rope with many clips on it. Then, the rope will keep turning, passing through the charcoal basin or even the charcoal basin. It will turn halfway.

At the circle position, someone is responsible for taking off the paper after the ink has dried, and then the empty rope is transferred to the printer.

This is the production method to solve the problem of ink contamination.

How fast can printing be? We started printing in the afternoon and continued printing until the evening. Fifteen boards were printed at the same time. In about an hour and a half, more than 8,000 test papers were all printed.

In the City Lord's Mansion at night, all the students in the City Lord's Mansion came out to put out test papers. There were piles of test papers piled high on the tables.

There is still one last step to go. Due to the problem with the board, there are many places where words or pictures are not printed on the test paper, so we have to use stamps and seals to add them one by one. In the middle of the night, Li Mengxi, Guan Yu and Liu Bei were together, and the three of them faced the mountain of test papers.

He was busy reprinting.

Stamping is an extremely tedious task, and there is no room for sloppiness. Li Mengxi yawned repeatedly as he stamped.

On the side, Liu Bei saw that Li Mengxi was very sleepy, so he persuaded him, "Xi'er, you might as well sleep first, and I and Yun Chang will come and seal the rest."

Li Mengxi thought about it, and then he went back to sleep.

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Liu Bei and Guan Yu were busy until midnight, and they finally finished printing more than 8,000 and nearly 9,000 test papers.

Guan Yu's neck was so tired that he looked through the results of his busy work under the light. On each test paper, there were dense black words, and he was flipping through the pages. For the first time, Guan Yu felt dazzled by reading the words, and he was a little tired of reading them.

a feeling of.

In three days, nearly 9,000 large volumes were printed using traditional papermaking and printing techniques, and the number of printed words was roughly several hundred thousand. The terrifying efficiency of printing technology was fully demonstrated.
Chapter completed!