Cthulhu Gonfalon

Wanting to engage in papermaking in this world is the idea that Yuxiong had long ago.

The cultural spread of the world is very slow, and one of the important reasons is the lack of cheap cultural carrier - paper. Here, books are assembled into a book with animal skins made from various kinds of animal skins, and the cost is simply high. A blank book, about thirty pages, means that the cost price in a wholesale store requires six gold coins, and the retail price is generally eight to ten gold coins.

Why are there not many world wizards? Some people blame it on the intelligence of ordinary people, and emphasize that talents with high intelligence can become masters. In fact, the problem is not here, but the money.

A mage needs to learn at least "common language" such as lingua franca, ancient elf language, dragon language, dwarf rune, celestial language, abyss, hell, and mystery. And a true master of language proficiency often knows more kinds of languages ​​- for example, Satan, the head of the Void Mask Church, a mage who has just stepped into a higher rank in the past two years. He knows three in total. Thirteen languages, and still learning more languages ​​- for example, this year he self-learned a strange language called the mind-nosed strange, this species is basically not in the main plane, but there are countless floating in the void There is still a lot of distribution in the world of size, they are good at using spiritual shocks to make the prey feel like a twist, and the name "heart" comes from this.

According to him, the plan is to master more than one hundred languages.

The Master is not only learning the language, but the culture is even bigger. Astronomical geography, customs, and human history... Forget it, all the words listed are very suspicion of scamming. In short, the cost of the Master is huge, and the cost of “learning” is a big part of it.

The main body of learning expenses is the purchase of books.

Books don't fall from the sky, they have to pay for themselves. Or buy a blank book and copy it yourself. A senior mage often has books on a number of bookshelves, and even an entire library. what are these? It’s all money!

Why is there a relatively large number of mages in the Federation of the Federation? It is because they have a systematic training mechanism, and young people who are interested in the magic road can spend less money to borrow books here, which greatly saves money.

Not only that, in the process of learning spells, "copying scrolls" and "copying spells" are inevitable, and failure is commonplace. If you fail once, you will lose a page of animal skins, and more than one book will be directly simmered. Failed hundreds of times - this number is really not much, poor Palin in order to learn the intermediate spell "ice storm", just scraped off the reel has nearly two hundred, plus books and ink And therapeutic agents... In the past few years, he basically spent all his salary in the stationery store.

Even if you don't consider the mage's expenses, you should learn language and arithmetic—this is almost the minimum requirement to get rid of the illiterate title. You need at least thirty or fifty books. If you learn more about law or art, you need to add a zero directly after that number. Learn something about history... Hey, don’t count that much.

In a world where the poor are generally a family that may not be able to pick up a gold coin a year, the cost of learning is really too large to be supported.

So if you can have papermaking, there are a lot of cheap paper and books, maybe the culture of this world can spread more widely?

All said that "knowledge changes fate", if cultural knowledge can be popular among the poor, maybe their fate can be improved?

Yuxiong doesn't know if his guess is correct, but he thinks, you can try it.

So he built a small experimental workshop on the riverside of the ash forest, trying to study papermaking.

"I think about what papermaking is like..." Xiong Xiong sat next to a pile of trees that had just been cut down, and looked down. "Have learned in history class, saying that Cai Lun cooked the broken net of waste wood." The pulp, then spread flat on the cloth, becomes paper – it seems quite simple...”

He waved his hand, and a big tree flew up around him. He was crushed by invisible power, screaming, and quickly collapsed and shattered. In a short time, he became a group of sawdust.

Then Xiongxiong ingested the river water, mixed it with the wood chips, and then boiled it by using the technique.

The rivers and trees polluted by negative energy have a thick black mist during the boiling process. These black fogs are not the chemical gases in the paper mills on the earth, but the negative energy that is dispelled. If ordinary people get a little bit of it, they will have to die - in terms of danger, it is even more terrible.

After boiling for a long time, the group didn't know what it was supposed to have turned into a turbid slurry, and there was no negative energy. Yan Xiong tried to take some, and the tricks were spread out on the linen he had bought beforehand, and then dried by the technique.

After a while, those things were completely dry. Yan Xiong took it off the burlap and got a piece of dark green thick paper, which was hard and thick and didn't look like it could be used for writing.

"This seems to be something wrong..." He said to himself. "If Cai Lun made this kind of thing, the emperor would not be killed if he was kind. How could it still be a history?"

He thought for a while, and took some from the group of things that were probably pulp, spread it on the sackcloth. However, this time he paid special attention to the details, and found that there were many small pieces that could not be spread very fine.

"This is not enough!" He suddenly understood, and the technique used to break the pulp again. This time he greatly strengthened the intensity of the smashing. He felt that it was wood, even if it was iron.

As a result, the pulp was indeed very thin and uniform, and after drying, it did get a flat paper.

Gray-green, crumpled, can seem to be used to wipe the **** of soft paper.

"This is toilet paper... I want to make paper that can be written!"

He pondered and thought about where he still did not do well.

The first thing to do is to remove the color, because he needs white paper.

How to remove the color? filter?

He tried to filter it and filtered out a lot of gray-green dirty water, but the color of the pulp did not improve significantly.

It seems that filtering is not enough, washing it?

He used to make some clean water, and filtered a small group of pulp for experimentation several times. The color of the pulp was slightly lighter. If you lower the requirements, you might also be able to write it—provided that writing brush.

The world is popular with feather pens, that is, using long inks of poultry to write. It is obviously impossible for such a pen to be written on a soft and rough paper. At least the paper invented by Yuxiong is certainly not good.

"So to say... I want to invent ink and brush?"

He pondered a bit and decided to improve the papermaking first.

However, the so-called "the book hates less when it comes to use." At this time, his knowledge of reserves has been used up. I don't know how to further purify the pulp and make them whiter.

After thinking for a long time, he decided to develop a spell, a spell to purify pulp.

The essence of this spell is to absorb the pigment in the pulp, which is not particularly high-end. It took only a few hours for Yuxiong to design it, and then experimented and perfected it in a few hours. He finally got his first magical spell in the world that could be spread out. .

Yuxiong's pulp purification, entry-level spells, spells are composed of spells and runes, and the casting material is a small piece of charcoal. Using this spell, the pigment in the pulp can be extracted and turned into a viscous colored colloid, and the original variegated pulp becomes white.

After completing this spell, Kazuo finally got the white pulp he wanted. Using these pulps as raw materials, white paper was obtained.

However, it is still soft and crumpled paper, not at all like the ability to write a feather pen on it.

Even more troublesome is that this paper is obviously not conducive to packaging and preservation. As you can see the shape, it is definitely not a durable thing.

Yuxiong thought about it carefully and tried to press the paper flat.

Smoothed out, but not enough.

He thought about it again, trying to spread a little more pulp on the linen, then flatten it and dry it.

This time, he finally got a smooth white paper.

Of course, there seems to be a big gap compared to the white paper on the earth. However, some people have already done their best and can't think of any improvement.

He tried it with a quill and ink, and he accidentally discovered that the paper would let the ink out, and he couldn't write a small print.

"Okay, the next is the brush."

The brush is theoretically very simple, that is, the animal hair of the appropriate length is bundled, stuffed into a thin bamboo tube, and then tied up.

"There is no difficulty at all!"

It took only a moment, and Xiong Xiong made the first brush in the world.

However, the effect of sucking ink is very poor. After sucking the ink, it is not continuous at the time of writing. The effect is simply to make people want to marry.

This is obviously a failure.

Yuxiong thought for a long time, then pondered - is it because there is grease on the hair?

To remove the oil, you need to use soaping, which is hard to beat him. There are people in the world who have invented soap - the quality is not as good as on the earth, and the price is slightly more expensive.

The animal hair after washing is really much better, although it is still not very easy to use, but at least it can be written smoothly.

This is okay, the rest of the problem, let the users overcome themselves!

Yuxiong put his gaze on the ink.

The ink price in this world is very expensive. A small bottle of about 50 grams requires almost twenty gold coins. For a quill that consumes less ink, it is a big deal. The brush is a big one to eat ink. If you use it, it is estimated that the poor can't afford it.

So Xiong Xiong began to study the manufacture of ink.

This time he was shamefully defeated, but he found an alternative.

Mix a little glue with water and mix the ash to write. Although the effect of writing is not so good, it is good to use it.

The biggest problem with this method is that it is not convenient to temporarily adjust the ink for each use. But "inconvenient" is better than "no", isn't it?

Yan Xiong was interested in creating the "ink block" that ancestors used for many years. He tried to glue the ash into pieces, and found that the ink block could only be cut and crushed.

Well, this is fine...

A few days later, at the high-level meeting of the Void Mask Church, Yan Xiong proudly demonstrated his invention.

"Look!" he said to everyone, "This is something that will change the whole world!"