"Song Xiaosi, Pang Feiji, take out the solidified rubber!"
Li Zexuan saw everyone's reaction, but he did not say anything. Everything was within his expectations.
"Ah? Take it out? Master, how do we take it out? "
Pang Feiji looked at the tofu in the stone trough and asked. To him, the solidified rubber latex was as fragile as tofu!
"Wash your hands and take it with your bare hands!"
Li Zexuan was speechless.
After the rubber latex solidified, although it looked like tofu, it was actually much tougher than tofu. This was because the solidified rubber was sticky. Instead of saying that it was like tofu, it was more like a dough with a certain degree of toughness.
Song Xiaosi and Pang Feiji moved the rubber from the stone trough into the buckets that they had prepared beforehand.
"Both of you, follow me with the rubber!"
Li Zexuan looked at the rubber that was about to take shape. He was very happy. Although he knew the theory behind the solidification of rubber, it was only on a theoretical level. It was his first time doing it in practice.
After a while, under Faubert's lead, everyone arrived at the papermaking workshop area.
"Faubert, where is the papermaking machine?"
It was difficult to find something in such a big papermaking factory. Li Zexuan asked Faubert directly.
"Papermaking machine?"
Faubert was even more confused. What did the extraction of rubber have to do with the papermaking machine?
"Yes, it's the new papermaking machine that we made before!"
Li Zexuan nodded.
Seeing that Li Zexuan was not in the mood to explain, Faubert could only bring him to a big factory.
"Master, the papermaking machine is here!"
Needless to say, Li Zexuan also saw it. He said to Song Xiaosi behind him, "Xiaosi, you two pour the rubber in!"
At this moment, the two of them believed Li Zexuan's words without a doubt. They poured the rubber into the papermaking machine's pulp inlet. Li Zexuan stepped forward and raised the roller of the papermaking machine slightly. Then, he asked the servant next to him to pull the donkey and start the papermaking machine.
The papermaking machine's paper outlet was a thin, white film-like object that was slightly thicker than paper. This was the plasticity of rubber. It could be rolled flat like dough, and during the rolling process, most of the water in the rubber could be squeezed out.
"Xiao Si, find someone to cut these rubber pieces into sections. Then, just like drying paper, put them outside to dry!"
At this point, the process had basically come to an end. In the modern rubber production and refining process, it was generally only at this step before it could be compressed and packaged and sold all over the world.
"Yes, Boss!"
After staying in the workshop for so long, Song Xiaosi was very familiar with the papermaking process. He responded and called for the servant next to him to cut the rubber.
"Master, that's it? But I still can't see the use of this rubber! "
Seeing this, Uncle Fu asked the question in his heart.
Li Zexuan smiled and replied, "It's not over yet! This is only the first step! Through the steps just now, Faubert, you must have seen that the rubber is very plastic. Its most important characteristic is that it can change its shape at will! After the rubber is completely dried, we can proceed to the second step — molding. By then, Faubert, you will know the magical use of this rubber! "
Faubert nodded thoughtfully.
Li Zexuan did not disturb him. He left with Pang Feiji and looked around the new workshop. As they were about to go back, they met two people. They were two girls.
"Yamachō, you're here?"
"Sir!"
Different names represented different identities of the owners of the voices. They were Mo Lingwei and Little Fishy.
"Ink Girl, Little Fishy, why are the two of you together?"
Looking at the two beauties, one big and one small, Li Zexuan did not feel any joy. Instead, he felt some lingering fear. Beauties were beautiful, but beauties with the characteristics of witches were not very good!
"Yamachō, your memory is really bad! Didn't Little Ningzi tell you that? I've been polishing the glass to make an astronomical telescope! "
Mo Lingwei rolled her eyes and said sarcastically.
"Oh!"
Li Zexuan suddenly realized that Yan Shaoning had indeed told him. But now, the two girls were obviously gossiping and chatting under a big tree. They did not look like they were doing "research" at all.
"Ink Girl, how's the progress on your side?"
"Not very good. Yamachō, your craftsmen are not good at all. It's not as good as me polishing it myself!"
Mo Lingwei pouted and said with some dissatisfaction.
Fine, she was getting someone to work for her for free, and she was being despised. Li Zexuan choked and said helplessly, "Okay, then you polish it yourself! I'll wait for your good news at the Academy! "
Then, he looked at Li Yu and asked, "Little Fishy, what about you?"
Little Fishy was not as presumptuous as Mo Lingwei. Although she had a demonic nature in her bones, she only released it to outsiders. In front of Li Zexuan, she had always been more obedient. Perhaps it was because Li Zexuan had given her the capital to settle down in Chang 'an City, or perhaps it was because Li Zexuan was Meng Wenhao's mentor! Hearing Li Zexuan's question, the little girl smiled sweetly and then replied,
"Sir, it's Steward Ma who wants to move the editorial department of Datang Daily here. He has been busy preparing lessons in the Academy recently, so he sent me here to inspect it first! A few days ago, I met Sister Weier here. She told me the principle of the telescope. I feel that what she and Brother Shaoning are doing now is very meaningful. After chatting for a while, I feel that we hit it off quite well, so we became good sisters! "
"Oh ~!"
Li Zexuan whispered in his heart, "Of course, the witch and the witch hit it off." He actually knew about Ma Zhou's intention to move the editorial department to the new workshop, and he also agreed. Firstly, the office environment here would definitely be better. Secondly, it was close to the Academy, so it would be convenient for Ma Zhou to take care of the work on both sides at the same time.
"By the way, Sir, I want to write in detail what Sister Weier is doing now in the newspaper. Although it looks boring, if it is displayed in the newspaper, it can promote Sir's work and attract more people to join it!"
Li Zexuan heard this and thought in his heart, "Isn't this similar to modern academic papers?" To be honest, he really wanted to set up a top academic journal similar to the "Nature" and "Science" in his previous life to gather the best academic results of mankind. But was this really appropriate?
Once he did this, it would easily cause technology leakage! This was what Li Zexuan was very unwilling to see. The modern scientific knowledge he brought could only take root and sprout in the Tang Empire. It could never be spread to foreign countries and become a weapon for foreign countries to deal with the Han people!
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