King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 66 falls behind beyond imagination

Accept this female discipline delivered to your door, Igor rubs I rubbed my eyebrows, there are more things to do, so tired.

Born in a peaceful and prosperous modern world, the nutritional level of oneself's diet during growth is not bad compared to most of the aristocrats in this world, and his excellent physical quality makes his strength and reaction speed as long as A little training is better than many of the veterans in Wall's defenders...but that's about it, in the eyes of the Night's Watch Legion craftsmen, the stewards, the sick and the sick, and the ordinary wildling beyond the wall, oneself may be The backbone of the Rangers, the elite of the elite; but looking at the entire Westeros, oneself is just a little more discipline and practical experience than the young recruits. The short entry and training time - less than a year - and the gap between the teacher's level - Alliser Thorne - can't be made up by the transmigrator halo and cleverness.

Not to mention those famous players, oneself is definitely not an opponent if Ed left behind Captain Jory, the guard who was watching Arya.

Fortunately, Arya is still just a little girl with no scheming, oneself only needs to use half of the mind that attracted Tyrion's attention to study and study how to coax her in the right way, and then pretend to teach her some more. Basic sword-holding, standing, moving, and even slashing and parrying skills... Before she's high enough to find out that oneself is not the expert she imagined, she can definitely trick her into thinking of oneself as a trusted friend, Jon Snow's first. Two.

Then, if she is not hot for 3 minutes but really wants to continue learning the sword technique advanced, then at worst oneself find a more suitable person to teach him the sword technique. Like Jaqen, like that Sealord's First Sword... Hey, what the hell is that damn guy called, Leover? Oliva? Forget it, don't want this anymore.

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I negotiated with Arya about teaching her sword techniques, and the two left the inner room. Except for the desks, chairs, and cabinets, the empty Night's Watch office couldn't find any fun. , the girl looked around, and soon became restless again.

Fortunately, Eddard Stark soon returned with the original team to take oneself's daughter. Judging from the looked thoughtful expression of Hand of the King, it was obvious that he had "realized" under the guidance of Littlefinger. What, if the big shit stick is allowed to operate step by step like this, Ed's trust in him will be quickly built up step by step, and by then, it will be too late.

The alienation program must be launched as soon as possible, and this takes precedence over everything else.

Today's work is almost done. After Igor gave Jyck a dozen Silver Stags to buy some light practice swords, he was ready to close the door and return to the hotel to think about how to provoke Littlefinger and Ai. relationship between Germany.

“Igor!”

Tyrion looked hurried and rode Morris to the door of the office, climbed off the horse, and walked through the door.

"I'm about to go back to the hotel, why can't I wait for this?"

Imp gasping for breath, waved his hand: "Come inside, let's sit and talk. "

Igor didn't know what was going on, so he followed in a little nervousness, and sat down where he had been talking to Arya, waiting for Tyrion to tell him what happened.

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After some explanations, the chief logistics officer of Night's Watch understood the reason why Tyrion hurriedly came to find oneself: the paper merchant could not provide what the two needed. "Stable, cheap and large" paper, the world's papermaking technology has not yet appeared!
Westeros' existing books are all transcribed on parchment, but parchment is really made of sheepskin. This results in books being expensive and the bulk of it is on paper rather than what Igor and Tyrion thought were paid to the scribes! Just relying on printing to play tricks on the cost of the little head, it is impossible to achieve a huge breakthrough across the era, and earn enough money to fill the big hole of the Ponzi scheme!
"To be honest, I only came to know about it today," Tyrion said apologetically. With his background, in the past, he would throw paper at Morris or Jyck and ask him to buy a Golden Dragon. A stack, the extra is a reward - as for whether a piece of paper is worth one Silver Stag or two Silver Stags, what is the difference to him?
But until I got serious and prepared to hold a major event, I realized that the funds or pocket money in oneself's hands normally seem to be quite strong, and it is not a fart at all.

And Duke Tywin...the expense of not deducting oneself, the dwarf son, is already generous, how could he still lend money to oneself to "fuck"?
I was excited to open a factory, print books, spread knowledge, and make money, but I found that oneself didn't have enough money to buy paper, and it didn't feel good to be poured cold water.

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"It shouldn't." Igor frowned suspiciously. The era of Westeros is similar to the end of the Middle Ages in Europe, and papermaking should have been passed down long ago... Wait, spread! In this world, there is no Celestial Dynasty, no Cai Lun, and no Arabs who are porters and knowledge disseminators. Naturally, there will be no papermaking skills passed down!
Although I have figured out the reason, Igor is still a little resentful: papermaking is not a high-tech, without the Chinese, wouldn't the indigenous people of this world have invented it by oneself? hate iron for not becoming steel returns to hate iron for not becoming steel, but after careful consideration, due to the prevalence of the backward concept of "getting by" due to irregular seasons, the rulers and the lower classes of this world have little incentive to invent and create... excusable.

"Igor." Tyrion asked him expectantly: "Isn't your hometown advanced in technology, how did China make paper?"

"I'm just an adventurer. , China's paper-making process has matured thousands of years ago, and simply is a common technology, I never imagined that there would be a place in the world that couldn't make paper." Igor scratched his head depressedly, the bullshit prosperity and the bud of capitalism, Westeros's The backwardness has refreshed the lower limit of oneself's prediction again. The busyness of King's Landing shops and workshops is just a special phenomenon.

Do you want to develop papermaking in this world? But oneself's understanding of papermaking only stays at the level of popular science, and it really can't be Cai Lun in this different world.

"The paper dealer said there was a youngster outside the city, and he was making paper with grass, but 'the stuff he made can only be used to wipe his butt', I'm going to take the time to take a look and see how it goes. What's going on."

"Using grass to make paper?" Igor was thinking about ways to break the situation, and hearing this moved: Although he didn't know how to make paper, he also knew that modern paper is actually made of plant fibers. Chemically processed, is it possible for the youngster who made paper with grass in the mouth of paper merchants to become Cai Lun of Ice and Fire World?

It may not have been possible, but as long as the direction is right, and there are scientific research funds poured into it, it cannot and must be made possible!
"This is good news, so, take someone to find this youngster tomorrow, to see what his idea of making paper with grass is, if you just put together broad blades of grass and dry them in the sun, then There is no development value, but if the grass is smashed and paper is made by other methods, hire him back, invest in dozens or hundreds of Golden Dragons, let him improve the craftsmanship and select suitable raw materials as soon as possible, in order to make usable Paper."

"Mash grass to make paper?" Tyrion couldn't understand, but over the months he had developed a near-unconditional trust in his oneself adventurer friend, hearing this without the slightest hesitation nodded : "Okay, I'll go tomorrow. Think optimistically, this may not be a huge opportunity. Using printing instead of manual copying will only reduce the cost of making books by a few percent, but if we focus on the entire process from papermaking to book completion. In the hands of oneself, the profit will reach an astonishing level!"

"Indeed, in China, we call it a complete industrial chain." Igor also realized this, and quickly added: " If you find that the youngster's idea of making paper is correct, you must hire him at all costs, sign a non-disclosure agreement, and keep your business secrets firmly in your hands!"

"Complete industry chain? Good words!" Tyrion The smile returned to his originally frustrated face, and things started to get more interesting.

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(end of this chapter)