My Empire War Game - Chapter 670

Although the nobles refused to use paper for writing to prevent the spread of knowledge on a large scale, this method is only temporary. As the spread of paper becomes more and more widespread, more and more areas use these papers, and there will eventually be Some people use paper for writing.

After all, not all scholars are nobles, and for those businessmen, the appearance of paper has brought them great convenience. These businessmen will not refuse to use paper to control the circulation of knowledge like nobles, they are more concerned about profit .

As long as the price of parchment books is still expensive, there will be merchants who use paper to copy them and sell them at a slightly lower price. Don’t think that those merchants dare not. As long as there is enough profit, the merchants don’t dare to sell anything. As long as they give money, even the ropes for hanging them will be sold. Not to mention books.

It is estimated that the ideas of the nobles who want to block knowledge can only last for a while, and then they will find that the number of paper books on the market has flooded.

How high is the cost of a parchment book? The parchment of this era is made of lambskin, and a complete parchment is a small lamb. And it is not easy to make a piece of parchment, not all parchment can be made into parchment.

Craftsmen make parchment paper and select lambs of the right age, usually two to three-year-old lambs. At the same time, they observe the color of the coat. From experience, it can be known that the color of the coat is white, and the parchment paper will be pure and flawless.

And if you want to make paper with pleasing dark patterns, you have to choose leather with mottled fur. In order to ensure the perfect quality of the paper, it is also necessary to carefully inspect the skin for scars caused by diseases or parasites.

Generally speaking, it takes about five sheepskins to have one suitable.

To make parchment paper, you first need to soak the sheepskin in clean water and remove the hair on it. Lime powder or other things need to be added. This process usually takes three to ten days.

After cleaning, the leather is stretched on a wooden board, and the parchment paper is shaved with a knife. After a series of steps, a piece of parchment is completed.

The lowest price of such a piece of parchment is a kinnal, and a book made entirely of parchment may require hundreds of kinnals. Moreover, this kind of parchment is heavy and contains no paper books. Many, it is only a matter of time before it is replaced by paper.

But so far, no merchant has done this. Maybe someone has done it secretly, but Su Lun still doesn’t know.

After entering the winter, most of the activities of the Northern Wind Principality ceased. The wind and snow on the northern wasteland was very cold. At this time, the business was basically looking for death. The hungry monsters on the wasteland were almost starving. It is dangerous at any time.

During this period, the trade of the North Wind Principality was basically interrupted, and there would be about two months of wind and snow covering each year.

So usually in winter, the Northern Wind Principality will cancel most of the outdoor work during this time, and people who don’t need to go to the tavern to drink, go to the training ground to train, just build villains at home. Therefore, every winter in the North Wind Principality is an opportunity for population outbreaks.

Under normal circumstances, until around August next year, the North Wind Principality will usher in a wave of baby births. Although the wind and snow blocked the Northern Wind Principality’s two-month trade, although it lost a lot of income, it also gained an opportunity for population growth.

However, in this winter, although other cities in the Northern Wind Principality cancelled outdoor work, Zhenbei City did not. The design of the floating city has been completed, and various renovation works are proceeding in an orderly manner. Therefore, the renovation work of the inner city of Zhenbei City has not been interrupted. .

Moreover, although Zhenbei City is in the north, under the influence of the harvest altar, the city is not very cold, and the transformation work can continue.

In the inner city of Zhenbei, after several months, all the factories that were originally in the inner city have all been relocated. For these factories, Suren deliberately isolated an area in the outer city with all the factories inside.

Originally, the palace with the largest area of ​​Sulun has been moved to the outer city. The area of ​​the floating city is limited. Sulun has decided to live in the North Wind Tower. The land saved will be used to build other buildings.

The first phase of the Floating City renovation project is progressing very smoothly. The first phase of the renovation is more concentrated underground, where a ground vein network will be laid under the entire Floating City.

The energy of the Elemental Furnace can enter all the places in the floating city through the earth vein network. By then it would basically become a magic city.

In Zhenbei City, there are actually quite a few very good magic props, but it is still at the level of medieval civilization as a whole, such as the magic lamp. This thing has been widely used as early as the Arcane Empire, but it is here. Now, magic lights are only used inside the major wizarding organizations and wizard towers.

In addition to part of the price, it is the energy required by the magic lamp. Compared with the electrical energy of the previous life, the magical energy of this world is more violent and more difficult to control. In addition, stable and continuous energy is not easy to obtain.

However, after the elemental melting furnace was established, the energy problem of Zhenbei City was temporarily solved. After laying the ground vein network, Su Lun could even build rows of street lights in the inner city. In his blueprint, the inner city of the element pool is more advanced than the previous life. After all, many times magic can do things that the previous life could not do with technology.

Magical energy cannot be used uncontrollably, and detailed planning must be done before use. The ground vein network does not allow any defects. This is a very large project. Su Lun and Hathaway made a cost calculation, and it would cost about 10 to 20 million Kinnars to complete this.

Fortunately, Suren has been making money in various ways. The southern pirates have obtained hundreds of millions of kinnals, and this time they have made huge profits in the west of the mainland. These are basically the same. The cost of the first phase of the floating city.

The second phase of the project requires the use of Zhenbei City’s income. Zhenbei City’s current income is very high, coupled with the production of various ore and secrets in the underground world, plus some extra income that Sulun gets from time to time. , The second phase of the project is estimated to be sufficient.

The transformation of the floating city does not require all the money to be taken out at once, but is continuous, so that the resource pressure will not be so tense. The second phase of the project will build a complete ecological balance system, as well as the living system of the floating city.