My Empire War Game

Although those nobles refused to use paper for writing to prevent knowledge from being spread on a large scale, this method is only temporary. As paper spreads more and more widely, and more and more areas use these papers, there will eventually be Some people use paper for writing.

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

As long as the price of parchment books is still expensive, there will be merchants who use paper to transcribe and sell them at a slightly lower price. Don't think that those merchants are afraid, as long as there is enough profit, there is nothing that merchants dare not sell, as long as they are given money, even the rope for hanging them will be sold. Not to mention books.

It is estimated that the nobles' idea of ​​blocking knowledge can only last for a while, and then they will find that the number of paper books on the market has been flooded.

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

Craftsmen will select lambs of appropriate age, usually two to three years old, to make parchment paper, and observe the coat color at the same time. From experience, we know that the coat color is pure white, and the parchment paper produced from it will also be pure white and flawless.

And if you want to make paper with pleasing dark lines, 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 leather for scars caused by diseases or parasites.

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

To make parchment, you first need to soak the sheepskin in clean water and remove the hair on it. You also need to add lime powder or other things. This process usually takes three to ten days.

After cleaning, the leather needs to be stretched on the wooden board, and at the same time, the parchment needs to be scraped with a knife. After a series of steps, a piece of parchment is considered complete.

The minimum price of such a piece of parchment is one Jinnar, and a book made entirely of parchment may cost hundreds of Jinnars, and this kind of parchment book is thick, but the content recorded does not have paper books Many, it is only a matter of time before they are replaced by paper.

But so far, no businessman has done this. Maybe someone has done it secretly, but Su Lun doesn't know it yet.

After entering the winter, most of the activities in the Principality of the North Wind have stopped, and the wind and snow in the northern wasteland are very cold. At this time, doing business is basically looking for death. Those hungry monsters in the wasteland are about to go hungry. Dangerous anytime.

During this period of time, the trade of the Principality of the North Wind was basically interrupted, and there were about two months of snow every year.

So usually in winter, the Principality of the North Wind will cancel most of the outdoor labor during this time, and people who don't need to work, except go to the tavern to drink and go to the training ground to train, they just stay at home and make villains. Therefore, every winter in the North Wind Principality is an opportunity for population explosion.

Under normal circumstances, around August next year, the North Wind Principality will usher in a baby boom. Although the wind and snow blocked North Wind Principality's trade for two months, although it lost a lot of income, it also gained an opportunity for population growth.

However, although other cities in the Beifeng Principality have canceled outdoor work this winter, Zhenbei City has not. The design of the floating city has been completed, and various renovation works are proceeding in an orderly manner, so the renovation work of the inner city of Zhenbei City has not been interrupted. .

Moreover, although Zhenbei City is located in the north, under the influence of the Harvest Altar, the city is not very cold, and the renovation work can continue.

In the inner city of Zhenbei City, after a few months, all the factories that were originally located in the inner city have been relocated. For these factories, Su Lun specially isolated an area in the outer city, and all the factories are inside.

Su Lun's royal palace, which originally occupied the largest area, has also been moved to the outer city. The area of ​​the floating city is limited, and Su Lun has decided to live in the North Wind Tower. The saved land will be used to build other buildings.

The first phase of the floating city's renovation project is progressing smoothly. The first phase of the renovation is more concentrated underground. Here, a network of leylines will be laid underground throughout the floating city.

The energy of the element furnace can enter all places in the floating city through the leyline network. At that time, it will basically become a magic city.

In Zhenbei City, there are actually a lot of good magic props, but the place is still at the level of civilization in the Middle Ages as a whole, such as magic lamps, which have been widely used as early as the era of the Arcane Empire, but in Now, magic lamps are only used inside the wizarding organizations and wizarding towers.

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

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

Magical energy cannot be used without restraint, and detailed planning must be done before use, and no flaws are allowed in the leyline network. This is a very large project. Su Lun and Hathaway made a cost calculation, and it will cost about 10 million to 20 million kinnars to complete it.

Fortunately, Su Lun has been making money in various ways. The southern pirates have obtained tens of millions of kinnars, and this time they have obtained huge profits in the west of the mainland. The project cost of the first phase of floating city.

The second phase of the project will need to use the income of Zhenbei City. Zhenbei City’s current income is very high, plus the output of various ores in the underground world and the output of secret realms, plus some extra income from Su Lun 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 on a continuous basis, so that the pressure on resources will not be so tight. The second phase of the project will build a complete set of ecological balance system, as well as the living system of the floating city.