Papermaking requires several papermaking pools and a large amount of fiber raw materials.
Fan Wenqing walked around the camp, marked out a large piece of flat land, and took the idle residents to the woods to dig soil and cut wood, and brought back a large amount of materials.
As the papermaking pool piled up, Fan Wenqing thought of a small bamboo forest in another direction.
The quality of paper made from bamboo fiber is better than that made from bark or hemp.
In order to meet various needs, Fan Wenqing went to the bamboo forest and brought back a batch of bamboo, which she soaked in ash water along with other raw materials such as bark.
The bamboo mats used for scooping the pulp are relatively delicate, and it is inevitably difficult to weave them purely by hand.
Fan Wenqing gritted her teeth and asked Si Lan to ask the infrastructure team for advice. She made a wooden mat weaving machine similar to a loom, and taught Tao Zhenzhen how to operate it, and asked her to sit beside it every day to weave bamboo mats.
All the equipment was prepared by Fan Wenqing as quickly as possible.
When the raw materials are soaked to the appropriate degree, the papermaking pool she and the residents built can be officially put into use.
Fan Wenqing immediately transferred the degummed raw materials to the pulping barrel, and took several strong residents with her to take turns pulping with wooden pestles and hammers.
Many modern people have never been exposed to papermaking, and many people gathered to watch on the spot.
After beating the pulp, the process is transferred to a large pool to add water and scoop out the pulp. The technique of this step is very critical. Fan Wenqing, who has the theory but has never put it into practice, has failed many times in this step.
The onlookers could not bear to watch and tried to help, but they all failed miserably.
Everyone was puzzled. After thinking for a long time, they advised Fan Wenqing: "Why not let Si Lan come and take a look and teach us."
Fan Wenqing looked at Si Lan from a distance as she was studying the principles of integrated circuits and shook her head. "Forget it, Sister Lan is busy."
"She already has enough to take care of. If you keep asking her for everything, she's not a god. Won't she get sick from being exhausted?"
"I think I've mastered some techniques. Give me some time and I'll definitely be able to do it well."
"And Sister Lan... I don't think she knows these things?" It seems that Si Lan's strengths are quite obvious. After setting up the camp, except for occasional necessary work, she has rarely done fine work such as weaving and polishing.
The things she makes are getting bigger and more magnificent.
If it wasn't absolutely necessary at the moment, Fan Wenqing doubted whether she could find the time to make a four-wheeled vehicle.
In order to achieve the "four-wheel vehicle goal" as soon as possible, Fan Wenqing decided to disturb Si Lan less so that Si Lan could concentrate on the things at hand.
In fact, Si Lan had little experience in papermaking and could not help much. Fan Wenqing's judgment this time was correct.
In the end, Fan Wenqing used up a bucket and a half of pulp to make a relatively smooth and thin wet paper.
Her hands were sore from working with the wet paper, and seeing that this time the wet paper seemed to be successful, she quickly put it on the earthen kiln, set up a drying cage on it, and slowly dried it.
The residents waited with her until the paper dried.
Perhaps everyone has participated in the process of collecting paper, and this step is particularly touching.
As the slightly yellowed paper gradually evaporated moisture, became dry and hard under the high temperature, everyone held their breath.
After a while, the paper was completely dried. Fan Wenqing carefully picked up the paper and looked at it through the light - there were no gaps, no obvious faults, and no exaggerated bumps.
She touched it gently. Although it was not as smooth and soft as modern paper, it was the first successful paper she had made by herself. She was so happy that she almost shook the paper to pieces.
"Success, success, ahhhhh, I made the first piece of paper in my life!"
The residents rushed over, touching this and that, and were inexplicably happy: "Now that we have paper, can we use paper to record a lot of things in the future? We can even ask the infrastructure team for various tutorials and write them down? - We don't have to carve words on leaves and bark anymore!"
To be on the safe side, Fan Wenqing asked someone to get some charcoal sticks, cut them into thin pieces, and carefully wrote a few words on the paper.
I found that there was no pressure when writing, and the handwriting was clear and smooth, and it was not easily rubbed off on the paper.
This was completely sufficient in the current environment. Fan Qingwen picked up the paper and rushed towards Si Lan.
"Sister Si Lan, Sister Si Lan, I succeeded, we succeeded in making paper!"
At this time, Si Lan was listening to several professionals talking about knowledge related to circuit boards. Upon hearing what they heard, everyone turned around and saw Fan Wenqing running towards them with a piece of paper in her hand. Her joy could be felt from her hair fluttering in the wind.
"I succeeded, I made this paper successfully! Sister Si Lan, look!"
Si Lan took it, touched the paper, and looked at it through the light. She also praised it very much: "It looks very good."
Fan Wenqing stuffed another piece of charcoal into her mouth and said, "Try it. Write a few words on it and try!"
Si Lan was very supportive and immediately spread the paper on the wooden table and wrote a line of words.
Finding that the touch was not bad, she nodded again: "Very good."
Fan Wenqing especially liked being praised by her, and was so happy that she turned around several times on the spot.
Si Lan asked again, "Is mass production possible recently? Is the process difficult? Is it easy to get started? You're short-staffed. Do you want to ask Officer Fang to bring in some more people?"
Fan Wenqing immediately asked, "Sister Si Lan, do you have any needs?"
Si Lan pointed to a pile of large leaves on the table, where calculations and records were kept. "We have too many orders here, and using leaves is really inconvenient."
"If your paper can keep up, and you can provide some pen and ink, our efficiency will certainly improve."
Fan Wenqing immediately gestured, "I understand. I think this requires proficiency. I'll lead you all in more practice, and everyone should be able to get the hang of it. In a week at most, I'll be able to provide everyone with paper! I promise!"
Si Lan: "Don't put too much pressure on yourself. We are also working on it as we discuss it. There is no rush."
Fan Wenqing: "It doesn't matter. Working faster also frees up time to do more things."
"But I really don't know how to make that kind of inkstone. Using pure natural ones is definitely not enough, but I heard that artificial ones also require more processes. Can anyone tell me how to do it..."
One of the project members immediately said, "I know this. I learned it in class before."
"The most common method is to find pine wood, burn pine soot, mix it with animal glue, grind it, steam it, and the finished product is pine soot ink."
"Call me when you want to do it. I know the theory, but there are bound to be discrepancies in practice. Call me and we'll study it together. If you succeed, I'll record it so I can brag about it later. Hahaha."
Fan Wenqing was a little worried: "Aren't you busy?"
That person: "There are so many people here, they don't need me anymore."
"The main thing is that we're almost done with the framework now, so we need to start the actual implementation. You won't need me in the early stages anyway, so I'll be free to help you."
Fan Wenqing immediately agreed: "Okay, okay, I'll call you then."
Xiang Xiang looked at Si Lan again: "By the way, Sister Lan, I have an idea that I want to discuss with you."
Si Lan: "Go ahead."
Fan Wenqing: "Look at our camp now. It has gradually changed from a gathering-oriented one to a production-oriented one. Even the aunt who used to be only responsible for cooking and growing vegetables has started making paper with us."
"But the camp, including the newcomers, only has about sixty people. Sister Lan, your team definitely can't work with us anymore. If we divide the sixty of us up and work on this project a little bit, and then divide it up, we won't have anyone left to go out and collect resources."
"So I'm thinking, can we have Officer Fang talk to the other camps? We can directly adopt a camp-based division of labor. Our camp owner will produce and send the products to other camps. The other camps with less productive forces will be responsible for our food and materials. We can then use vehicles to exchange resources at fixed times."
Si Lan thought about what she said and rejected one point first: "We can't let others supply the food. At present, we are only familiar with Yuan Kuo's camp. We can only ask them to send these resources to us. We can work with other camps first."
"As for the rest..." She thought for a moment and said, "You can give it a try. Wait for Officer Fang to come back and talk to him."
"If the other camps are willing, we can form a large alliance, directly using cities and towns as units, developing what each place is good at, and then integrating resources at the end, which will be much faster."
Fan Wenqing was immediately excited: "Then we're not a camp anymore, we're a city! Our home has expanded!"
Si Lan found it funny and thought that since they were all from the same country, they should all be considered one family.
However, she understood Fan Wenqing's true intention, nodded, and encouraged her: "Then start planning and implementing it. Can you handle it?"
"I can do it! Sister Si Lan, you can take care of many things at once, and I will try my best to keep up."
"If this can be done, it would be best if you had a few more people go with Officer Fang to make the contact. That way, if Officer Fang is busy, you'll always have someone to fill in. Secondly, Officer Fang spends a lot of time out on the road, so he doesn't understand the production situation at the camp as well as you do. If you go there in person and have a good conversation, your efficiency will be higher than if Officer Fang goes alone."
Fan Wenqing smiled and said, "What's going on when a big boss goes out to negotiate?"
Si Lan said: "You can think so."
Fan Wenqing turned around with joy and discussed this matter with others.
As soon as she left, the people in the computer team looked at Si Lan and said, "They really like to discuss things with you."
Si Lan shrugged: "There are only so many people in a camp. If we don't look for this or that, there's no such thing as likes or dislikes."
Everyone knew that she was keeping a low profile, so Xiaoxiao didn't say much and was about to continue the previous topic.
Just then, the sound of wheels rolling was heard outside the camp.
Looking back, I saw several residents who had moved from the camp to the beach.
They put down the few cans of sea salt from the cart and hurried back to the camp: "Where's Sister Lan? Where's Sister Lan?!"
Si Lan stood up and walked over to ask them what happened.
They first took out the salt jars from the storage space. When they saw Si Lan, their eyes reddened and they sat down on the ground, wiping their tears: "How unlucky! We are so unlucky!"
"We recently collected salt, but we encountered a weather warning, so we didn't send it back. We were just about to send it back and dry it a second time, when the sea suddenly hit in the middle of the night!"
"We didn't have anyone outside to give us a heads-up. Even when the infrastructure team discovered the situation and warned us, we didn't have time to listen. In the end, the salt fields were washed away by the waves! We were so busy running that we didn't even have time to take the salt we harvested last time. Now our seaside base is destroyed, and a lot of salt has been lost too. It means half of our efforts have been wasted!"
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