my magic industry

Chapter 27 Papermaking
Helgana is located at the junction of two tributaries of the Seine River. Not far from the slums, there is a huge reed field. The building materials for local people to build shacks are naturally taken from here.

And reed is an excellent raw material for papermaking, easy to obtain and easy to handle, except for the common problem of herbaceous plants: the fiber is too short, it is perfect, so Xia Lin has long taken a fancy to this reed marsh.

A group of people pushed two flatbed carts containing small stone mills, various papermaking materials and tools to the edge of the slum, and under the vigilant eyes of the locals, they chose a place less than half a meter away from the river. place, start digging pits with shovels in groups.

Xia Lin asked Wyatt to observe the three groups of work carefully, and asked him after a while if he saw anything.

"...Your Excellency Xia Lin, I found that there are quite a few differences in the way the three of them work.

Roy likes to use words to encourage his team members. It seems that the members of their team are very motivated, but Roy's work efficiency is not high.

Adams tried his best to dig holes, and his team members naturally also worked hard.

Edmund seemed to be no different from ordinary team members. "

Wyatt thought for a moment, and then expressed his opinion to Xia Lin.He knew that this question was Xia Lin's test of his ability, so his attitude was quite correct.

"Well, yes, these three are the factory directors I have elected to manage my industry. What do you think you should do if I ask you to manage them?"

Xia Lin nodded, she had nothing to do with what Wyatt said, and asked instead.

"..."

"I figured I'd slip a few of my own under them and have them keep an eye on the three."

Wyatt was silent for a moment and expressed his thoughts. Xia Lin's evaluation of this was in line with the boy's growth background, but he was not satisfied with this answer.

"No, as a manager, you don't need to keep an eye on the people under you all the time. You only need to grasp two powers, that is, financial power and personnel power. This is the most critical part of any organization."

Xia Lin shook his head and taught:

“Financial rights will be supervised by financial personnel assigned by the board of directors in the future. You only need to understand this aspect, be able to understand the books and discover possible tricks in them.

You must grasp the personnel rights again. These three factory directors have the right to propose candidates for factory management positions at all levels. However, the candidates for these management personnel do not meet the requirements for the development of the factory. In the future, they will be reviewed by you and finally submitted to our company. File here.

At the same time, you also have a responsibility to regularly summarize the reports of these factories and submit them to me, including the factory's cost, expenditure, profit, number of employees and changes, equipment operation status, product market conditions, problems that need to be solved, etc. Wait, these two points are the focus of your future work. "

"Financial rights and personnel rights?"

Wyatt murmured these two fresh terms several times in a low voice, and suddenly realized.

Indeed, the most important thing for an organization is these two powers, just like the chief must control the tribe's money and the power to appoint warriors, witch doctors, and subordinate chiefs.

Thinking of this, Wyatt immediately showed admiration to Xia Lin. His master is really a wise man who can explain the essence of things so clearly.

As for the report, he also carefully remembered it in his heart. After hearing Xia Lin's words, Wyatt finally figured out his role under Xia Lin.

While the two were talking, trouble quickly came to the door.

The slums are huge, so it is impossible for there to be only one gray organization called Tongshou. The place Xia Lin chose is managed by a gray organization called Fish Tooth. These organizations will pay close attention to anyone who invades their territory.

Usually, it doesn't matter if people from the slums come here to cut some reeds, but seeing Xia Lin and a group of people digging holes here, they didn't know what they were doing, and soon a menacing man led a few people over from the slums.

However, Roy was very clear about how to deal with these people. Seeing that they were not friendly, he took the initiative to greet them, and actually dispelled his hostility with only a few words, and chatted and laughed happily with him.

Seeing that the few people didn't seem to have any covetousness about Yutou's territory, after offering some copper coins, the man was coaxed away by Roy with satisfaction.

After solving this trivial trouble, Xia Lin also gained a better understanding of the power of gray organizations at the grassroots level in the slums.

However, in less than an hour, some local residents took the initiative to report to the gray organizations, which shows how far these organizations have controlled the slums.

This made Xia Lin a little entangled. If these organizations were not dealt with, they would not be able to use the cheap manpower and land here, but Xia Lin did not have the power to deal with them, so he could only rely on those big businessmen and nobles. In cooperation with merchants and nobles, he has to give up more benefits.

However, it is better to give profits to merchants and nobles than to these gray organizations. After all, Xia Lin will build this place into his own base in the future. gray tissue.

Soon three adjacent pits about three to four square meters in size and more than one meter deep were dug. These three pits were the leaching tank, washing tank and pulp storage tank.

In order to insulate the soil, Xia Lin asked people to find stones from the river to repair the bottom and wall of the pool, and then spread a fine mortar mixed with clay, lime and sand on the gaps, and then it was officially papermaking. .

First of all, the reeds harvested from the reeds are chopped off and cut into small pieces that are as long as the palm of your hand. Some bamboos used to strengthen paper fibers are also removed from the green bark and cheap wood is also smashed with a sledgehammer and cut into small pieces. In the soaking tank, add plant ash water and lime and stir slowly, then soak for a few days.

Xia Lin took advantage of this time to find a skilled bamboo craftsman in the city, and ordered ten bamboo curtains for papermaking from him. The pulp will not be leaked through the water, and the fineness of each bamboo thread even reaches the millimeter level.

After explaining the requirements, the bamboo craftsman pondered for a while, and finally offered a price of ten silver maars for each sheet.

Xia Lin was completely acceptable to such a price, and readily paid the deposit. After receiving the deposit, the bamboo craftsman and his apprentice quickly produced the batch of bamboo curtains.

At this time, the water in the soaking tank has also turned black, and the soaking material is taken out. Seeing that the reeds and bamboos are soft and whitish, they are sent to the washing tank and introduced into the river water for repeated cleaning.

The finally obtained white and tender reed stalks, bamboo and wood fibers are put into the brought small stone mill and ground into viscous papermaking raw pulp, mixed with water in proportion and put into the pulp storage tank to fully stir and mix evenly.

Pour in the rosin gum, alum water, potato starch, and a small amount of lime that Xia Lin prepared with turpentine and gelatin, and stir several times.

The resulting pulp in the stockpile appeared to be of a uniform texture and a good color.

(End of this chapter)