Chapter 120: Generation difference

This work is not very labor-intensive and can be completed by a group of children. Su You is planning to set up a shift system to get familiar with the new process and experience the efficiency brought by wisdom.

But these are things for later, we are still in the festival, today is Human Day, and the food for the festival is "Seven Vegetable Soup".

It is similar to Laba porridge, but it is made of seven kinds of vegetables chopped and boiled into a soup. Legend has it that it can pray for the New Year and prevent all kinds of diseases.

With Su You's picky taste, it couldn't be too simple. Among the vegetables, he chose water spinach, lettuce, winter bamboo shoots, radish, dried mushrooms, water chestnuts, and pickled mustard.

The bacon sausages were almost done, and while everyone was working, he led Shi Wei to guard the smokehouse, smoking them with peanut shells, pine and cypress branches, chaff, sawdust, and spices.

Then chop the sausages into pieces and boil them into the porridge together, making it both vegetable and rice.

After eating the seven vegetable soup, Su You disbanded the firecrackers and gave them to the children to go crazy.

After today, life will return to normal. The breakfast shed has already gained a reputation and cannot be left behind. It is also an important place for children to practice their life skills.

Su You held a copper bowl and placed it on the ground, exposing a crack, and used incense to light the firecracker fuse inside.

After lighting it, he quickly closed the bowl and ran to the big circle formed by the children: "Get ready"

"Boom!" The big firecracker exploded, and the copper bowl flew into the air like a flying saucer.

The children screamed and rushed towards the take-off point, jumping with their hands and feet to catch the copper bowl falling from the highest point.

You can play this game a hundred times without getting tired of it. Su You also brainwashed the children: "The essence of explosion is that gunpowder oxidizes from solid particles into a large amount of gas in a short period of time after encountering fire. The gas pushes the copper bowl to fly

Toward the sky."

After playing for a while, Su You led the children to modify firecrackers and tied two firecrackers to bamboo sticks. Part of the mud on the seal of the lower one was washed out. The upper firecracker had a longer fuse and the lower one was shorter.

Insert the bamboo sticks into the ground, light the fuse together, and with a "swish" sound, the firecrackers are sent into the air, and then explode in the sky.

Shi Wei was extremely interested in this thing. Su You was secretly worried and pulled her aside: "Weier, this thing is very dangerous. It can hurt people in large quantities. You are not allowed to join in the fun with my brother. See you.

When he plays with things like sulfur, charcoal, fire salt, etc., run far away."

After saying that, he thought about it again: "No, in the past few days, I have cast a set of weights, based on the weight of one cubic decimeter of distilled water, divided the weight grades according to the decimal system, and obtained a new weight unit to facilitate his work.

According to chemical calculations, anything that can explode should not exceed half a chemical two during testing!"

There is no way to use precision weights and measures. We can only start with laboratory applications. The names can only be called chemical pounds, chemical liang, chemical money, and chemical minutes, which respectively correspond to kilograms, hundred grams, ten grams, and grams obtained by the distilled water measurement method.

As for the more sophisticated things, leave it to Zhang Tianshi himself. Isn't he a genius? The method tells him that there are a lot of talents in the Taoist sect and it is not his turn to worry about it.

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Meishan City is still immersed in the festive atmosphere, but life is back on track.

The merchants who came early began to gather gradually, and there were many more kinds of food in the breakfast shed.

A poem, an article, and a person gradually spread among the scholar-bureaucrats in Meishan.

"Pictures of Orchid Stones" and "Essays to the Ancestor" by Su Mingrun.

Many scholar-bureaucrats held yellow wattle sticks in their hands, beating their children while scolding: "Look at other people's children, look at Su Mingrun!"

The child was unconvinced and frowned, "He has had no father or mother since he was a child. Dad, are you sure you really want me to become him?!"

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What interests merchants is that Meizhou City has produced many new products in the past six months.

Snow salt is a good thing. For the first time, Da Song salt surpasses Xixia green salt in quality, without any unpleasant smell.

Jade porcelain is also remarkable. Many big porcelain dealers have seen Jun porcelain from the imperial kiln. Regardless of the glaze color, shape, and quality of the body, it is as white as snow and as strong as jade. In good conscience, it has surpassed the imperial kiln.

The colors are also elegant, simple and abstract, which makes people think about it, and is in line with the elegant aesthetic taste of the Song Dynasty.

Tie-dyed cotton and linen, for the first time, have elevated the colors to a level of exquisiteness and beauty. In addition to the unique printing and dyeing techniques, the rich primary colors obtained from three plants: safflower, gardenia, and indigo. Under Su You's reminder, theoretically it can

Mix up thousands of colors.

The book, the book is amazing, the handwriting is strong and graceful, as thin as silk thread, neatly arranged, the paper is extremely high-quality, it shakes and rattles, and a woody fragrance hits your face when you open it, this is... borneol?!

The cover is light green, with light blue bamboo shadows on it. The printing quality of this set of "The Complete Works of Du Gongbu" surpasses all current printing houses. It is said that the prefect has prepared to present it to the imperial court for royal viewing.

All of these are not easy to imitate. Let’s take a book as an example. Do you see the title page? Are the five small characters ordinary? But if you look at it through the light, do you see anything weird?

It's really weird. Watermarks can be seen through light. On the upper left is a branch of orchid, and on the lower right is a moss stone. In a large blank space are water patterns with wave crests that are extremely close to but not connected. There is a box in the middle, and inside it is actually two lines of text "Meishan."

Cheng Sheren's house has been published, and I have already informed my superiors that I am not allowed to overturn it."

This is a common anti-piracy measure in the Song Dynasty, called "Pai Ji".

But other people's plaques are printed in the open, for fear that others won't see them. The Cheng family's plaques are actually hidden in the dark, and you can't see them if you don't pay attention. This is to tell other bookstores that if you have the ability, you can imitate them.

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What does it mean to show off elegantly? This is it!

Paper watermarking is actually very simple. The stone paper is pressed in three layers. When the middle layer is not dry, it is pressed with a copper plate engraved with patterns, rolled with a roller, and then sandwiched between the other two layers.

Paper will do.

It sounds simple, but paper production alone involves sulfate cooking technology and stone powder addition ratio.

This in turn involves the purification of Glauber's salt and the powdering of water by flying method.

Printing ink involves oil blending, powder making, flavoring, and mechanical tempering.

Watermarking involves brass smelting, fine casting and welding.

Printing involves fine cutting and binding.

The cover involves two-color precise overprinting...

Dozens of various technologies add up to form the difference between Meishan Jiangqing's industry and other places.

For example, if other bookstores want to produce books like Chengjia Bookstore, they need to overcome many problems one by one. For them, it is simply as difficult as climbing to the sky.

And it also involves cooperative relationships with several other companies, such as printing, which is inseparable from the metallurgical technology of the Shi family, the porcelain making technology of the Shi family, and the color mixing technology of the Su family.

The only thing that can break this situation is that there is currently only one royal family in the world.

However, the royal family generally does not come to compete for the benefit of books. The reason is extremely simple. The royal family of the Song Dynasty ruled the world together with the scholar-bureaucrats!

The Jiangqing family are all scholar-bureaucrats with a strong reputation!

All of these, the price cannot be set too low, otherwise it will be suspected of bullying peers by relying on technology. For example, "The Complete Works of Du Gongbu" can only be priced at a set of eight pieces. Meizhou Books, which has the best reputation in the world, has already

It spread among the scholar-bureaucrats.
Chapter completed!