Transcendent Noble

George Village, built on the east bank of the Silver Moon River, is the southernmost administrative village of Randal.

Starting from the south gate of George Village, walk 17 kilometers south along the river bank, and you can see the mouth of the Yinyue River and the Jinshui River.

A dozen paper-making workshops were built behind the fish-proof wall, and one of them belonged to the Sid family.

Sid’s family has been in business for four generations. In this generation of Sid, they have saved a wealth of fortune. They have 5 grocery shops, 1 butcher shop, 1 tavern and 2 hostels in Vestok City. , His men also gathered a group of buddies and freelance craftsmen.

There is a behind-the-scenes boss behind every freedman businessman, and Sid’s family is no exception. Sid's grandfather wanted to donate his family property and exchanged ten acres of Fiefdom from the hands of the village chief behind the scenes. This was also agreed in advance. But the village chief did not agree, but only comforted him and let their family continue to do business.

For High Level people, it is not easy to cultivate a capable freelance trader. It was obviously not time to harvest. But when the time is right, Sid, who has a big family, is not happy again.

No matter how fat the pig is, it can't escape the butcher's palm. When Sid was in panic all day long, the Duke of Wellington sent someone to grab the resources of the shops in Wild Willow City. Sid seized the opportunity and bought the trade manager of Vestok first, moved his family to Wild Willow City, and funded the purchase of 20 public carriages, and obtained the asylum of the Wild Willow City Church.

Wild Willow City is extremely expensive land. It is easy to make money and expensive. Especially the 20 public carriages are losing money every day, and Sid’s behind-the-scenes boss has cut off his supply in Vestok. Sid, struggling to make ends meet, was anxious like an ant on a hot pot. At this time, the villain leader of Wild Willow City introduced him to the car dealer Boss Jack.

Jack Boss possesses great magical power, and he actually knows the sheriff of Flatlake Town. Jack told Sid that Randal led the purchase of the house into the household, and claimed that as long as Sid took out 500 goldsore, he would help him buy a Randal Family citizenship. Only with the citizenship can he get Randal. The goods.

In order to grasp a stable supply, Sid happily handed over 500 goldsall. After arriving in Flatlake Town, he discovered that many of his colleagues had already bought houses in Randal.

After a period of drilling camp, Sid figured out the policies of the Randal Family.

The Viscount Randal held a notarization before the gods, announcing the protection of the private property of free people, supervised by the Flatlake Town Church. RAND has two policies for building a house and buying a house. The person who builds the house and enters the household can be a steward and deacon, or a soldier. Households who purchase a house only enjoy the right to property protection. They can purchase goods and open shops in Flatlake Town, but Flatlake Town has to charge a certain percentage of transaction tax.

This means that merchants can transfer their property to Randal without worrying about being snatched by others.

However, the shrewd Sid thinks the transaction tax is the point.

The Viscount Randal stipulates that bulk commodity transactions must be delivered on the yard, and the yard collects 7% of the total amount of the goods from the seller as a transaction tax. There is no transaction tax on small commodities, but shops need to pay 5% of the total income of the month as a circulation tax.

This means that the vassal of Randal does not need to secretly resell the properties of the commons, and it means that the freedmen traders will no longer be led by the vassal master. Randal leads the business with integrity.

Sid was delighted by this discovery. After discussing with his family, he decided to transfer the accumulated wealth to Flatlake Town. Some people will continue to do business in Wild Willow City, and the other will work for fief lord. , Became his soldier, deacon, steward, and even became the village chief.

Sid received the subscription for the public carriage in Randal, opened shops, bought a house for his brother's son, and gave his beautiful daughter and niece to the vassal family as personal maids. He tried his best to win a few places to build houses.

Obviously, Sid is not the only freedman businessman who has the same idea. They also have many relatives and children, all of whom can write and count, and they also master a few excellent craftsmanship. In the second and last batch, there are only 200 places for building houses.

Businessmen not only have to compete with their peers, but also with other families. 200 places are simply not enough. However, they have money, craftsmen buddies, and connections. In addition to building houses, they can also hire brilliant craftsmen from other places to please fief lord through inventions and creations.

Randal's most popular invention project is papermaking.

The sun is bright and scorching in the afternoon, although the paper mill is located in the col of Linhe, the temperature is still very high. Kali hid in the shade of the trees, looking blankly at the road to Taniguchi, where there was no half of a silhouette empty. He sighed, and when he turned his head, he saw the servant boar holding a greasy pork knuckle chewing happily, and kicked him in annoyance.

"Eat! Eat! Eat! Just know to eat, useless idiot!"

The wild boar had a silly smile on his face and said vaguely:" Hungry." Then he buried his head and continued to deal with the pork knuckle.

"Kali, you don't need to make paper or take a stupid big fellow."

Under another shade of trees, Jon laughed at hehe and sarcastically said: "What? You? Still counting on someone to help you make paper?"

Cali turned his head away with a cold face, fearing that he could not help but smash Yon’s nose. The Uncle of this slut has more money than Sid, and he has the relationship with the first village chief, Maureen. Among the merchants in Flatlake Town, he is one of the very best characters.

Kali is Sid’s fourth son. He is 32 years old this year. He is good at making parchment and kraft paper. Sid told Cali that the family only won two places for building a house, one for himself and the other for Cali’s second uncle. But building a house is not as good as making paper. As long as Kali can make paper, he can ascending to the skies with a single leap and become a vassal of the fief lord.

Cali’s blood boiled over. He took a few buddies, two craftsmen, and the fool boar to the place designated by the lord and set up a paper-making workshop.

However, animal hide paper and straw paper are completely different things, and Kali’s craftsmanship does not help wheat straw papermaking at all. Fortunately, fief lord gave the basic process of papermaking. It is divided into retting and cooking, pounding and mashing pulp, water seepage to remove pulp, and drying into paper.

Every household designs papermaking workshops according to this process, but no one can actually make paper, but no one gives up.

Master Viscount has high expectations for papermaking and personally gave a method. Isn't it just saying that Viscount Lord's method is wrong? Isn't it just spending some money to raise a few people? But who can build a paper workshop, who still lacks this little money?

Who dares to quit now? This is a question of attitude!

So, Kali was stuck in the paper workshop for half a year, as did the others. Over time, Kali had other ideas.

Since I can’t make paper myself, why not learn from other people’s ideas? He began to rent out his own papermaking workshop, and the rent was extremely low, even not enough for the cost of straw pulp. The villagers in George Village are really interested in making paper, and they come to try one's luck one after another, but their performance is not as good as the craftsmen of Cali.

For this, Kali was ridiculed by Jon, but the more he did this, the more he insisted.

"Hey, someone really came over." Jon said suddenly.

Cali quickly turned his head and saw three people walking towards here with their backpacks on their backs.

"Severin, I thought you weren't coming." Kali greeted him warmly. He was trapped in the paper workshop, the news was blocked, and he did not understand the background of Wright and Tunan, thinking they were refugees who had moved here recently.

"Cali big brother, I will succeed soon, how could I not come." Severin triumphantly said, he waved at the boar again, teased: "stupid big fellow, you haven't Are you full?"

The boar is more than two meters tall and weighs at least 500 pounds. It has an ugly appearance and a pair of big and small eyes. It looks very vicious. But Saverin knew that he was actually a good-tempered idiot, and he wouldn't be annoyed by being beaten or scolded. If he was beaten severely, he would just hold his head and cry.

"Hehe, then I first congratulate you on your successful papermaking." Caligan laughed twice, kicked the boar, and scolded: "Stupid pig, put down your elbow! Help with things. "

The wild boar stuffed the half-eaten pork knuckle into his mouth, leaving only a bone outside, and stretched out the big hand of the catkin to pick up Severin's back basket.

"You don't need to help, we take it ourselves."

Tornance pushed aside the big hand of the boar, the giant man retreated two steps to the side and gave way.

Kali was secretly surprised. The wild boar was abandoned in the poverty-stricken home since he was a child. He was born stupid, prayed for will not, and ate too much. Even the pastor of the poverty-stricken home disliked him. Sid adopted the wild boar according to the priest's will. He was expecting him to be a thug. Didn't expect this fool would rather be beaten than fight back. He was just a mess.

The wild boar is stupid, his brute force is not fake, as long as he stands firm, five or six brawny man can't move. But this bald head easily lifted the boar aside... It seems that these two people are not good stubborns... I don't know what the relationship between them and Robert's family is... Kali's face is calm, and his heart has changed. Many thoughts.

The paper mill is near the river, a small warehouse, and a wooden shed. A few people entered the shed, and Kali opened the mouth and said: "It is still the old rule. Tools, straw pulp, and charcoal are all ready-made. You can use them as you like, and my people will give you a hand. After the end, give me eight copper ropes. Your rent. However, you must never add any poisonous grass!" As he said, he winked at his old craftsman.

The old craftsman bent down and glanced at the back basket Severin brought: "Seabuckthorn roots, fire leaf grass, blue heart grass..." He lifts the head, embarrassed: "Poison is not poison. .However, the grass juice of Huoye and Lanxin both burn hands...Paper is used to wipe people's ass...Kali, do you think this works?"

"Try it You will know."

Clement indifferently said: "Mash the fire leaf grass and blue heart grass together and put them in a straw pulp tank to ferment 10 hourglasses, then grind the sea buckthorn roots and boil them into a gelatinous shape. , According to the ratio of 1:20 into the pool, and then pour the fermented straw pulp into the pool according to the ratio of 1:4, stir evenly, you can try to dredge the pulp and dry it. But be careful, the fermented straw pulp will affect people His skin burns, it’s best to wear a leather apron and deerskin gloves."

The calm tone of the middle age person makes people believe him. Cali’s heart beats with peng peng, he feels this This papermaking is very likely to succeed.

However, what should I do if paper is successful? Kali hated himself for failing to check the background of these two men in time last time. He gritted his teeth and instructed the old craftsman and a few guys: "Do it!" . They burned the fire, fetched water, and smashed the grass. After a while, the workshop was as hot as a steamer. Clement made a few occasional words, but Severin was like an outsider, stupidly stuck there, doing nothing.

Cali talked to the two of them several times, but they were all dealt with indifferently without getting any useful information.

Time flies quickly, and it is evening in a blink of an eye. Clement looked at the sky and said, "I'm afraid we won't see the result until tomorrow morning. We are going to go back to the village church for evening prayer. Severin, what do you do?"

"I...I want to stay Here." Severin said weakly.

The pope stared into the eyes of the young man, and asked softly: "No evening prayer. Will you not join the morning prayer tomorrow morning?"

"This...I... "Savelin's heart was full of guilt, and his expression became extremely tangled.

Kali eyes shined and persuaded with a sad look: "Severin, you should go back to pray. If it's not that you can't get out of your body, we don't want to miss any holy light prayer. In order to reduce ungodliness For our sins, we donated 50 jinsols of atonement to the church, and Father Miller specially presided over the atonement prayer for us."

This remark instead made Severin make up his mind. He said: "If it can By making paper, I am willing to donate all my bounty to the church. If it fails, I will serve the church for half a year and pray for the benevolent Lord of Radiance to forgive my sins."

The Pope Sighed in my heart, nodded and said: "Good luck, child."

"Wright uncle!" Severin chased to the door and said sorry: "Can you tell my parents, I will I live here and don't go home anymore."

"I will."

Clement touched Severin's head compassionately, and turned and walked out of the workshop. Before Tornance left, he glanced back at Severin.

"Robert's boy, you should go back with them." Cali leaned against the wall and said quietly. The shadow covered his face.