my magic industry

Chapter 28 Cooperation
Xia Lin picked up a bamboo curtain, and tried to go down to the pulp storage tank to copy a piece of paper. Looking at the thin layer of fine pulp left on the fine bamboo curtain, Xia Lin felt that this papermaking should be considered a success. .

When the paper was a little dry, Xia Lin carefully peeled off the paper from the corner and put it in the wooden frame he brought, pressed out the moisture with a wooden board, and dried it for a while, finally got the size The finished paper is about 80*110cm.

Some bamboo and wood fibers are mixed, rosin glue, alum water and starch are used as strengthening agents, and lime is used as whitening agent. The quality of this finished paper is not bad. It feels crisp, smooth and tough, but the color is still a bit yellowish.

"Is this just paper?"

Roy watched Xia Lin show a satisfied smile on the paper that looked similar to parchment, and went forward to touch the things he would be responsible for producing in the future, showing a sigh of relief.

Using a pile of reeds, bamboo and rotten wood that can be seen everywhere to build such a pretty good looking thing, Xia Lin really deserves to be a mysterious and wise mage in the bard's story.

"That's right, but whether it can meet my requirements or not, I have to test it."

As he said that, Xia Lin cut a piece of paper that could be regarded as a 16-carat paper with a knife, and tried to write a light rune on it.

With the completion of the construction of the rune's spiritual power node, the light rune has played a role, and the effect is no different from writing on parchment. It seems that the carrier will not affect the effect of the rune.

Xia Lin tried to use the writing scroll to draw a spell model of the mage armor on another piece of paper. As before, after destroying the isolation rune, the mage armor took effect smoothly. It seems that the carrier is really nothing to the spell The impact, or the impact is not so obvious.

In this way, Xia Lin was relieved, and he taught the children in the neighborhood how to use bamboo curtains to make paper, and soon many children who learned quickly got started, standing in the storeroom with great interest. Pick up paper from the pulp tank.

Even if the feet are washed carefully, the pulp will still be polluted to some extent when people go down into the pulp storage pool. In the future, Xia Lin will definitely use cement and bricks to build these pools.

This can avoid human pollution to the pulp, and it is also convenient for papermakers to make paper while standing without going down into the water, which can reduce a lot of work intensity.

After consuming the pulp in the stock tank to a certain extent, Xia Lin stopped this papermaking attempt. After four days, she got a total of more than 16 sheets of 400K paper, and the cost was only 20 copper bis per day for hiring children. And various chemical raw materials with a total value of about fifteen silver mals.

The cost of various tools is the big one, reaching as much as two Jinlents, but these tools will still be useful in setting up a paper mill in the future, so Xia Lin did not include this cost in this papermaking experiment.

Calculated in this way, the cost of a piece of paper is only 2 copper pess on average, which is 20/1 of a piece of parchment that sells for 10 copper pess. It is fully possible to make large-scale production profitable.

Moreover, the quality of the paper is no worse than that of parchment paper. In Xia Lin's opinion, even if it is directly used for simple ink printing, it is completely enough.

Under everyone's pity eyes, these three pools were buried together. Xia Lin didn't intend to dismiss these half-grown children just like that. He gave Roy two more gold lunettes and asked him to find a literacy teacher to teach them. These people learn words and arithmetic.

Of course, the hiring fee for a literacy teacher is at most twenty silver Maars, and Qian Xialin also arranged for the rest clearly.

The children who made paper with them in the first place still give out fifteen copper bis per day, but the price is that they have to attend literacy and arithmetic classes.

In addition, 12 children over the age of 10 will be recruited to take classes with them, but these children can only receive [-] copper pes a day.

In order to improve the quality of his future employees, Xia Lin is not hesitant to invest, because he knows that workers with higher levels of knowledge have a lower probability of production accidents and higher production efficiency.

Therefore, making some initial investment in this area is definitely a profitable business, not to mention that Xia Lin can use this to gain the prestige he needs.

After arranging the matters in the slums, Xia Lin was going to bring her newly released paper, Mental Meter and Magic Meter 2.0 to the Royal Academy of Magic to promote her new achievements.

However, when he came to the entrance of the Imperial Academy of Magic, Xia Lin was stopped by the guards at the entrance.

At this time, the graduating cadets had already left, and the new batch of cadets had also entered the school. The campus was completely closed, and no one was allowed to enter or leave except the professors in the college and those with the approval slip signed by the dean.

Although Xia Lin was wearing a mage robe and a ring of mage badges and jazz badges on his chest, in the eyes of these academy guards, he was no different from others. They were not the stewards of the small chamber of commerce, so they would be so easily captured by Xia Lin. The mage's status was bluffed.

After trying to persuade her, but still unable to do anything, Xia Lin had to go back home first, and then went to the East District to visit Ellen following the instructions of the Greg Chamber of Commerce steward.

He wants to see if he can make an appointment to meet Manan Yamos, the dean of the Academy of Magic, through the relationship of the Gregg family, and he can also sell his industrial park plan to Ellen. Get some wool off your body.

During this period of time, Ellen obviously made a lot of money relying on the two businesses of spinning and cloud sugar. Seeing that Xia Lin's attitude became more enthusiastic than before, he first opened his arms and gave Xia Lin a hug, and looked aside. Wyatt, who served as Xia Lin's entourage, seemed a little surprised by his beautiful and delicate appearance, and then asked with a smug smile on his face:
"My friend, what brought you here, I just wanted to talk to you about expanding the production of cloud candy. You may not know that the nobles are so fascinated by your delicious cloud candy Crazy.

The [-] pounds of cloud sugar every day have not yet arrived at the Greg Chamber of Commerce and have been ordered by all the nobles. Now everyone does not add brown sugar to the tea, but adds cloud sugar and lemon juice. Speaking of which, this is still your Karl cake Shop for ideas for them!

During this period of time, many members of the Sugar Guild also asked me to bring you a message, and they can't wait to get involved! "

While talking, Ellen suddenly remembered something again. Before Xia Lin could reply, her happy expression suddenly faded, and she held Xia Lin's hand and said to Xia Lin with a serious expression:

"By the way, Xia Lin, I want to tell you something.

In order to promote Yuntang and unite with other chambers of commerce in the spinning industry, I held a banquet in the name of the Star Blue Flower Magic Association some time ago.

At this banquet, Her Royal Highness Princess Dorothea, the president of the Star Blue Flower Magic Association, also came. She was very interested in the multi-layered luxury fruit cake I provided at the banquet, so she also became interested in you.

During this time, there may be an envoy from Her Royal Highness to invite you, so you have to be prepared! "

After speaking, Ellen thought about it again, and added worriedly:
"His Royal Highness Dorothea is the crown prince unanimously elected by our enlightened nobles, she has always been gentle and generous, and is very interested in new things.

Don't have any pressure, I believe your talent will definitely impress her, if you can get the appreciation of the princess, maybe you can have a chance to be promoted from a knight to a baron!Become a real nobleman! "

"I see, thanks for reminding me, Ellen!"

Hearing Ellen's words, Xia Lin was startled at first, and then quickly began to think about the impact of being in the eyes of the princess on her.

As for the name of the Star Blue Flower Magic Club, he had heard a little about it in the academy, but the magic clubs in the academy were established by noble children to socialize with each other, and did not recruit sergeant students, so his understanding was quite limited.

A magic association is a traditional loose organizational structure in the history of mages. Members of the association trade magic materials at agreed places, pass and exchange various spell information and research results, and at the same time join forces to attack external enemies when necessary. .

In the past few hundred years, magic associations have played a very important role in the development of mages. It is the frequent exchanges between mages that have established the four-element system of earth, fire, feng shui, which mages use to understand the world today. .

At the same time, the four major magic systems of evocation, conjuration, prophecy, and illusion appeared in the empire, and all kinds of runes were summarized, making it easier for the new generation of mages to learn spells.

(End of this chapter)