At night, the knight of Alcobar purred loudly, this knight was good at everything, fair, kind, brave and loyal, and his favor with the Earl of Donchester reached 78!

God's mercy, this is 78! The Earl was the first to see that his subordinates had a vassal opinion and could pass the 60 passing mark! ― On a percentile scale. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, this is not to say that those with a favorability rating of less than 60 are rebellious retainers and thieves, in fact, in this era, it is the norm for vassals to have a favorability of less than 30 for their lords, and the whole of Europe is full of betrayals, conspiracies and assassinations, and people like the knights of Alcoba who adhere to chivalry are almost extinct.

-- According to Donchester's personal analysis, the general rating of this favorability is as follows.

0~10: Stranger

10~20: People who are more familiar with each other

20~30: General friends

30~40: Good friends

40~50: Confidant

In the upper Donchester, it can't be analyzed, because the confidant itself is already a BUG, and I haven't seen that I can sing for a thousand years when I meet a confidant, and the death of a confidant is also a household name. Generally speaking, as long as you reach this level, you don't have to worry about the other party betraying or anything - people can die for you, what else can you betray?

But the Earl of Donchester just liked the Knights of Alcoba a little more.

The same is loyalty, a loyalty can never be a hundred like.

As long as the Knights of Alcoba can purr a little smaller.

The Earl thought bitterly that the Knights of Alcoba were good at everything, and it was this habit of snoring that could wake up the dead from the ground, let alone the deaf and clear-sighted Earl, but this was not a big deal, and if he annoyed the knight for such a thing, but it made him lose his favor, then the Earl wanted to cry without tears.

Therefore, for the past two days, the Earl has been almost sleepless at night, and during the day he has to ride around to inspect everywhere, and his spirit is simply terrible. But fortunately, the development of the county of Demunster is really pleasing, and this alone can make the Earl a hundred times more energetic.

"No way, hold on for another day, tomorrow I will go to the castle and I must sleep in the dark, no one can wake me up!" The Earl gritted his teeth and swore as he fumbled his way into his clothes, pulled out a flint and steel in the bright moonlight, and lit the candles on the menorah.

-- In these days, even candles are luxuries, and the Earl himself bought them from a merchant with a silver coin, and he had to sharpen the wax head once in a while, otherwise the oil would accumulate, and it was extremely inconvenient. With the candle in hand, the Earl took out the quill pen he had with him, the special inkfountain inkwell, and finally, a roll of paper......

Yes, paper.

Before the crossing, the Earl of Donchester had never imagined that what he missed most was not a computer full of all kinds of bad things, nor a lot of figurines that he had painstakingly collected, but a soft roll of paper that could be used to wipe his ass.

If he could, the Earl would even be willing to exchange a year's tax from the Earldom for this most inconspicuous roll of paper, and he was going to wipe his ass with leaves! How can this make Lao Tzu's delicate chrysanthemum love? In the summer, there are still broad creeper leaves, and in winter, when the leaves of the trees have fallen, his beeping servant actually brought the needles of the conifer to wipe Lao Tzu's ass, and he couldn't believe it.

So the first winter of the crossing has just arrived, and stroking his red and swollen chrysanthemums, the traverser Count Xiao Tang, who wants to cry without tears, made up his mind: no matter what, get the paper out first!

And paper is the most profitable trade in human history...... One.

Take a pure handmade soil papermaking workshop as an example (note: because there is no specific cost of the ancient papermaking workshop, so the cited data is Mr. Fei Xiaotong's "Yicun Handicraft Industry" China Republic of China Land Paper Workshop), a pure handmade soil papermaking workshop, hire people to set up a workshop, buy tools, buy a cow to grind raw material pulp, the starting cost is 1,000 yuan.

Such a workshop, can make 80 knives of clay paper every day, 28 pieces of each knife, because the raw materials are poor, the technology is low, the finished product is rough, so the writing can only be used as practice paper, the biggest use is to burn it in Qingming, there is no technical value at all, it is completely unable to compete with rice paper, Korean paper, foreign paper of low and low-grade products.

To make such low-grade soil paper, buy papermaking raw materials, hire a person to watch the cattle, hire two workers to make paper (one is responsible for scooping the pulp into wet paper, and the other is responsible for drying the paper on the wall), workers' wages plus food, buy firewood for baking paper, buy various additives needed for papermaking, freight for transporting raw materials, additives, and finished products, depreciation and maintenance of papermaking workshops,

The total sum of zero and zero, calculated based on 360 days of work in a year, the total expenditure for a year is 2,598 yuan.

So, how much does a year cost?

The smallest scale of the workshop, based on the daily output of 80 knives of paper, can produce 28,800 knives of low-grade soil paper a year, the wholesale price is 20 yuan per 100 knives, and the annual income is 5,760 yuan.

Revenue 5760 yuan - cost 2598 yuan = profit 3162 yuan.

Workshop value: 1000 yuan.

Annual profit: 3162 yuan.

Even if you add the raw material labor freight, the interest in the first year can reach 8 cents!

What is the realm of eight-point profit?

Loan sharking, that's no more than that.

Moreover, usury also has the risk of repaying the debt (the debtor cannot pay it back), selling paper, and getting what you pay for.

And in a country where paper-making technology has been revealed for 2,000 years and there is no secrecy to speak of, what was it like in the Middle Ages, when parchment rolls were still used?

It's not papermaking, it's printing money!

What was the price of a parchment roll that was common in the Middle Ages?

Even today, you can buy real parchment paper in Japan, a large A4 size piece for about 160 RMB. At that time, a Bible on parchment - this was the property of a tycoon in the Middle Ages, the price of a vineyard in Italy! According to records, a nobleman named Michel Witz (died 1588) bought a manor house for 2,500 florins, when the horses were only 30 florins and cattle 10 florins, which is equivalent to the price of 80 horses and 250 cows!

As for paper, Cai Lun's improved papermaking method uses tree bark, fishing nets, and rags. But the fishnet rags, which were also linen, were cheap, but at the level of Desmond at the time, they were not even considered. In the end, the bark is still used, but the textbook does not write about the kind of bark used to make paper!

No way, it's a lot of grinding.

In the end, it was found that in fact, all bark can be made of paper, which is nothing more than the difference between good and bad quality......

Gotcha, without saying anything, start making paper.

The raw materials are dried for two months, soaked in the lime pond for three months, then dried for another month, and then soaked in clean water for a full seven months, before the raw materials reach the point where they can be made into pulp. Then, grinding pulp, mixing paper medicine, making paper, pressing paper, drying, peeling, paper appeared.

The cost is almost non-existent.

The raw material is tree bark, the cattle are ready-made, the rooms are ready-made, and the castle is so large that it is empty anyway; Labor is a peasant - this is a God-given right, and serfs are to plow the land for the lord three days a week without compensation, and work for free for three days! The only difficulty was the grinding of stones, and in the end a blacksmith was found to do it, which cost three silver coins.

That is to say, it costs three silver coins, so how much does it cost to sell?

I don't want a gold coin at a time, I don't want a silver coin at a time, I don't even want a silver coin at a loss, and five pieces sell for two silver coins in a roll, which is really a conscience price - for the Middle Ages.

As for the merchants, they can sell the paper for five or even ten times the price! Where do the lords, the nobles, and the shepherds of the Lord and the monasteries not need paper? And these yellow paper (plant fibers) with the fragrance of trees on them are ten million times better than stinky kraft paper and greasy parchment! The merchants even came up with the advertising slogan: "This is the best paper from the south, it is contraband, it is imported, it quacks!" It was a genealogical gadget that only the Great Chiefs were qualified to use, light, thin, and durable, better than stinky brown paper, not to mention greasy sheepskin nicknames. ”

In fact, since the advent of paper, the Earl has never bothered with money again.

The merchants, who came from all over Ireland, from Wales, from Scotland, from England, and even from Brittany to Normandy, drove their wagons and sailed their ships, and lived every day in the Earl's domain, just waiting for a roll of freshly baked paper!

And these merchants, they must not come empty-handed, they want to do business, if they want to trade, they have to bring their own goods, and the merchants have more goods, the competition is greater, and even the price has been reduced; And with the increase of merchants, Desmond gradually became the largest merchant circulation in Ireland, and now even three-year-olds know that in Desmond, there are no goods you can't buy, all cheap and useful novelties, which the Earl of Donchester never expected.

However, even though papermaking is so profitable, Earl Tang has not forgotten his original intention of making paper - in order to protect his pink chrysanthemums. So, if you're not too dirty, you can find a roll or two of paper in the manure bucket that the castle carries out every day.

In fact, there are quite a few people who volunteer to pick up dung every day - they almost fight for ownership of the dung......