The Road to a Strong Country with an Engineering Doctorate: the Beginning of Papermaking in the Northern Song Dynasty

Song Yi accidentally traveled through the Northern Song Dynasty and became a poor Taoist priest outside Bianliang City. The countdown to Jingkang's humiliation is two years away, and the Jin envoys have openly humiliated the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers in the court. He quietly moved into Po Tao Temple and used plant ash to make alkali and bamboo chips to make paper. When the new translucent paper appeared in the Zichen Palace, the officials were in an uproar: "This paper is as thin as cicada wings, and its price is even higher than gold!" Song Yi chuckled: "Your Majesty, making paper is just the beginning." Wanyan Zonghan, the envoy of the Kingdom of Jin, sneered when he heard this: "The Song Dynasty only has these strange and obscene skills?" He slowly took out the gunpowder formula from his sleeve: "So, does this count as a miraculous skill?"