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Chapter 74: Papermaking

"Even if you walk slowly, you can persist every day and increase the number of things, which will be of great benefit to your health." Xu Qilin said: "There is also badminton, so my sister can play with the palace maids. If you don't like it, I can also think of other equipment for my sister."

Xu Hui nodded and said, "I know how much I care for you. Well, my sister will walk around Bingxia Palace twice from today and add more doses in a few days. As for the equipment, I don't have to worry about it!"

Well, since my sister agreed, she will definitely be able to do it. This is also her temper.

Seeing that there was nothing else, Xu Qilin stood up and took his leave.

Xu Hui told some trivial matters before sending me to the gate of the palace and led by the palace servants.

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His Majesty Li Er personally inquired about the motion of Ma Dami's wife. He couldn't even do this papermaking work if he couldn't help it.

The next day, officials from the Ministry of Works came to Xu's mansion and asked Xu Qilin to go for guidance.

The site facilities, application tools, and even the craftsmen have been asked to be on standby, which really makes Xu Qilin feel very moved.

However, except for asking the craftsmen to chop the raw materials and grind them fine, Xu Qilin did not command too much. He just made a list and asked the officials of the Ministry of Industry to purchase them as soon as possible. There was no alkali and sulfur yet, so papermaking was a big deal.

Of course, you can't buy hot alkali, and only natural alkali can be bought. The so-called natural alkali is the naturally produced sodium carbonate. It was called halogen alkali in the Han Dynasty and shizhong in the Tang Dynasty.

In ancient times, one of the sources of natural alkali was wood ash and the other was a natural saline-alkali lake. In addition to the alkali lake in the grassland area, the Nanxiang Basin located in the Central Plains was also an important source of natural alkali in ancient times.

With natural alkali, and caustic reaction with lime, a highly alkaline alkali can be obtained. Using pulp to make less time and high output.

As long as the most important process of preparing husk alkali can be completed, other glue and bleaching will have no technical content.

Because it is still in the experimental stage, it is small in scale and works fast, Xu Qilin is not so busy. He goes home by himself at noon and leaves a message to come back tomorrow.

Why are the public tiring work done to the death? The officials of the Ministry of Works and the craftsmen may not be happy to work hard.

On a hot day, eat and drink enough, and have a nap in the air-conditioned room. It’s so beautiful! Then, well, I have to go to the palace to read the whirlwind book to His Majesty Li Er.

Xu Qilin was lazy at home, and Xiao Zhao and Princess Jinyang were still studying in the palace. Of course, the rest and play time was also a long time. It was a child and a girl, so I didn’t expect to take any fame and fortune.

Xu Hui checked the words written by the two girls, and gave them praise and encouragement, so she asked them to take a nap and took a moment when she returned to the main hall.

After waking up, Xu Hui washed up for a while and then came to the side hall again. As soon as he walked to the hall gate, he heard two girls talking inside, laughing from time to time.

These two little girls are more energetic than usual and wake up before they even greet them.

Xu Hui smiled slightly and walked into the side hall. He saw the little sister and the little husband squeezing and rubbing against the couch, with their little heads almost all together, muttering and making crisp laughs from time to time.

"This supervisor is so bad. He deserves to be whipped." Princess Jinyang pointed at the character on the drawing book with her little finger and said, "Look at Zhang Fei's face is full of beard, but it is a child's face. It's so interesting."

Xiao Zhao laughed twice and said, "It's just that the painting is interesting and the writing is humorous, so I love to read it!"

Little Shizi nodded repeatedly and smiled, "It's so beautiful. I've watched it for the second time, but I haven't seen it enough."

Xiao Zhao immediately became alert and refused to answer this, for fear that the princess would stay and refuse to return her.

Xu Hui was curious, and took a light step. He leaned over and stretched his head to peek. He saw Xiao Yizi holding a book in his hand. It was in a weird style, with characters on it and text next to it.

Xu Qilin is used to being lazy. A comic book has only fifteen or sixteen pages and has more words, which means that he can roughly explain the story. In fact, this is not an authentic painting book, but can only be considered an illustration novel.

But this is also original, not only in the form of a painting book, but also in the plot that is different from the Three Kingdoms.

In ancient times, it was unusual to tell stories to children to sleep. Not to mention children, even adults, even a few people who read and read literally could not hear any long stories.

There were also storytellers in the Tang Dynasty, but they were very different from those in later generations. At that time, storytellers were called Bojun, and storytellers were called Bojunren, which meant that Bojun smiled.

But the stories they told are not long-lasting and serialized. They are very short and mostly collections of Buddhist scriptures. Some tell ancient stories, all of which are relatively independent and can be finished in a short time.

Therefore, like Xu Qilin, if a novel is broken down into several volumes, and each volume tells two or three short stories, it will look very novel and unique. With interesting illustrations and easy and funny text descriptions, no child doesn’t like to read it.

"Liu Guan and Zhang have eaten peaches after becoming sworn brothers!" Xiao Yizi swallowed, thinking that the peaches he drew were really tempting, and looked very delicious.

Xu Hui couldn't help laughing out loud, scaring the two little girls.

"Xu Chongrong——"

"Sister--"

Xu Hui touched the heads of the little sister and the little princess and said in a harmonious voice: "What books are you reading? Are you so happy?"

Xiao Yizi brought the book to Xu Hui and said, "This is the painting book Xu Xiaolang gave to Xiao Zhao, it looks so beautiful."

Xu Hui glanced at the younger sister, reached out to take the picture book, looked through two pages, couldn't help but laugh, and said, "It's the Three Kingdoms of the Later Han Dynasty, can you two understand?"

"I didn't know it well before. After reading the picture book, I knew it almost the same." Xiao Zhao grinned and said, "I have seen the empty city plan. My brother said that there will be more than a dozen copies, and I will finish it when I return to Jin."

An empty city plan? I haven’t heard of it!

Xu Hui was curious and flipped through the picture book. He quickly finished reading two short stories about the Taoyuan Mercy and whipping the Inspector. Another book on the gaze case read "Dong Zhuo Enters Beijing (Two)" on the cover.

How come you have the urge to keep watching and unable to stop when coaxing children?

Xu Hui felt a little strange, but she still reached out to pick up the second one and looked it up.

"Xu Chongrong, I remember all the stories inside and I can tell you." Little Shizi raised her little face proudly.

Seeing Xiao Zhao next to him covering her mouth and laughing, Xiao Yizi felt embarrassed and hurriedly added: "Xiao Zhao is even more powerful. She can talk from beginning to end. But I don't want to know first, it's more interesting to read the picture book by myself."
Chapter completed!
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