Chapter 236: Paper Mills
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When the orange sun sets over the walls of Ujung Pandang, the city is still in full swing.
The paper mill was soon built under Jenner's leadership.
The island's Cerviro Qukou were defeated and could only survive as scattered sand, so the Sothians had plenty of manpower and a large number of available labor at any time with almost no foreign enemies.
The paper mill was built near the gate of the outer city, and it was said to be a factory, but in fact it was just a large courtyard, and the outer room was no different from ordinary shops and taverns, and there was a spacious compound inside.
There were a lot of bark, nettles, and bad cocoons in the yard, and the scholars asked Diana to collect all the bad cocoons spit out by the silkworms raised by the women of Soth, and plan to use them for waste, which happened to be the best raw material for making paper.
Several scholars with engineering and mechanical engineering backgrounds worked together to create a rather rudimentary paper-making machine, which included pulping, dewatering, pressing and other functions.
Although it may not seem reliable, it actually works quite efficiently.
Workers chopped nettles and washed them, added bad calluses and bark into large wooden barrels, and Gliston, a chemistry major, after reading the notes left by the witch doctor Kaziba, collected a lot of grass from the forest, burned it to ashes, and made a peculiar alkaline water.
Mixing the alkaline water into the material and steaming it is considered to have completed the processing prefix of the material, and then you only need to put the boiled raw materials into the machine.
The whole process seems complicated, but in practice, it is very simple, and Gliston's alkaline water and the machines made by scholars play the most important role.
The workers worked together, one for transporting nettles and bark, the other for chopping, adding alkaline water and steaming, and each step was carefully taught by the scholars, and in a short time these workers were able to operate independently.
They were all hired by Thor for gold coins, and each of them worked in the paper mill every day, and was paid 10 copper plates, which was already a very good job in Ujung Pandang.
As a result of the emancipation of slaves and nameless, and the subjugation of a large number of Sevelos, not only the natives of the city of Ujung Pandang, but also many defeated Qukou, they eventually chose to join the kingdom of Tsoth.
This made the overall number of the Sos people explode in an instant, with a total of nearly 100,000 people, and with such a large population, the fields are not enough.
The lands that once belonged to the tribes were scattered throughout the barren corners, and now the agriculture of the whole country is under the control of Diana under the control of the Agricultural Bureau.
However, everything was busy, and although they had forgotten to sleep and eat, the division of fields, the cultivation of new fields, and the distribution of farm tools were still slow.
This was also related to the lack of clerks, and Thor had to temporarily promote a large number of nameless people who could write and read to the position of clerk in the Agricultural Bureau, so as to barely speed up some progress.
However, this still led to the accumulation of a large number of people who had nothing to do and no land to plant in the city of Ujung Pandang, which also brought great inconvenience to the management.
Kratos and Blacktooth never rested even in the days when there was no war, and they had to patrol the streets again and again with wolf cavalry or Soth warriors to stop the conflict and deter those who were idle.
The way Thor hired workers was also a new type of attempt, he exchanged his land in the cliff corner, exchanged a lot of gold coins from Diana, and added his stake in the Soth Chamber of Commerce, the entire paper mill can be said to have been built by Thor alone.
At the same time, the paper mill is also registered with the newly established Ujung Pandang City Government, and although the registered category is the Chamber of Commerce, in fact, Saul knows that it will be a production and sales enterprise.
This is also the first chamber of commerce, the first factory, and even the first private enterprise in the entire kingdom of Soth, from the land to the employees, all of which are paid by Thor himself.
Although the significance of Thor's actions was not clear to everyone, in the opinion of the Black Tooth, why should he sell his land in the corner of the cliff?
Considering that it was the largest piece of farmland in the whole cliff corner, Saul's sale to the "government" seemed to people to be like changing money from the left hand to the right hand, and it was completely unnecessary.
But Saul thinks he needs to do it, he doesn't want the whole country to become an appendage to what he wants, but he wants the country to really become his own power, a sword in his hands.
If you want the Kingdom of Soth to become a sharp sword, then you must first let him get rid of his dependence on himself, and let it become a developed machine with systems, rules, and independent operation.
Fortunately, he was the king of the country, the son of God, and controlled the army, the religion, the government, and the scholars, which made it impossible for his business to fail.
But it was all about setting an example, an example of what a true private enterprise should be, and in a city like Ujungpandang, which not so long ago relied on slave farming for its livelihood, Saul thought that such an example was very important.
Perhaps it will not be long before the whole of the Wasteland, and indeed the world, begins to use the white paper provided by the Soth Paper Mill, and perhaps other clever Soth people will start a second business on this land.
In this way, Saul believes that the industrial revolution belonging to the Sothians will not be too far away.
The Sothians may not know what a worker is, or they may not understand what a factory is, but they know that being able to serve His Majesty the King will be the best job in the world.
Moreover, for many people, there is no land to grow anyway, and although there is a small ration allocated by the city government of Ujung Pandang every day for only a stomach, it is not enough to meet the daily needs of a large family, if you can get twenty copper plates a day, you can buy a lot of food from the merchants who come to trade.
Therefore, when Sol recruited workers for the factory, almost all of Wurong Pandang was a sensation, which couldn't help but remind Sol of the exams he remembered with thousands of troops, and in the end he only admitted the few people he thought were the most savvy.
And the facts proved that his feeling was right, and these people quickly learned the operation skills of various links under the teaching of scholars, and the paper mill began to operate on this day.