Lydia and Arnold settled down in the valley with the Eighteen Black Horsemen.

Eighteen masculine black knights have brought a lot of new vibes to the valley. Not to mention anything else, Liu Ci found that the maids around him have been very fond of dressing up recently. Like Sanman next to her, she is still young, probably a girl who has no enlightenment, and Nana's big girls who have followed her from Rhine City have red faces and heartbeats from time to time, and the pink bubbles make people can't bear to look at them directly.

Liu Ci saw it in his eyes, and did not interfere with the maids to go and watch. Although the black cavalry were built by her and they offered their loyalty, the eighteen knights were people with their own thoughts, not slaves under Liu Ci's name. Without aristocratic status, Liu Ci has no qualifications to keep slaves in this world, and the maids in Zhuangzi are all hired, even if she has some means to subdue her subordinates, she still does not have the feudal idea of helping her subordinates arrange marriages.

The black cavalry is most interested in not the maids of the villa, but the child soldiers trained by Liu Ci himself.

Kerry Blatter, the children's captain selected by Liu Ci, has undergone tremendous changes in his physical fitness and appearance after more than half a year of training. He was already taller than children of the same age, and now he is thirteen years old, and he is a few centimeters taller, and he looks more like an adult.

For a few days, the child soldiers were particularly fond of running to the places where the Black Cavalry lived. The Black Cavalry were brought out of the valley by Lydia and the others every day, and the children were all staring at each other. The black cavalry were envious of their fine armor, and they were longed for in the valley.

Kerry Blatter, who is as strong as a calf, patted Liu Ci's chest and guaranteed: "We will definitely be more powerful than those cavalrymen in the future, Miss, you will wait a few years and see!" ”

Liu Ci was naturally pleased, and she valued this baby soldier rooted in the valley to the extent that she valued the black knight trained by Lydia and the others. The black cavalry only temporarily filled the gap in the armed forces of the valley, and the person Liu Ci really relied on could only be the baby army that she personally selected and laid the foundation with her own hands.

She will always keep the "Eighteen Black Riders" as a team, and gradually fill in the best talents.

When Lydia and the others returned, Liu Ci had a deep conversation with them, and Lydia gradually broke away from the black horse, focusing on teaching the children martial arts.

Liu Ci let them do basic training for more than half a year, and under the premise of sufficient food, the children's physical fitness reached the standard, and the physical deficit left by their parents in the past few years was made up. Not only are they now in good health, but they are far better physically than their peers.

And after more than half a year of special training, it has been possible to distinguish the qualifications and temperament of some children.

Most of the boys, Liu Ci, will train them to become ruthless melee combat soldiers, and most of the girls are obviously more suitable for spying on intelligence, assassination and cover. And choosing Lydia to teach them martial arts, Liu Ci values the history of Lydia's family more.

Although the Hera family declined, Lydia mastered several different Dou Qi Gong techniques. The decline of the Hera family is due to various factors, and external forces and internal talent faults are two of the reasons, but it is definitely not because of the Hera family's practice garbage. On the contrary, the Hera family was once quite brilliant, and there were many great swordsmen.

Lydia came to teach them, and Liu Ci was very relieved.

Of course, she couldn't count on Lydia all either. The same teacher will also have different learning results, and some of the children are better, and Liu Ci will send them to a higher level of study at any cost.

"In a few months, you'll be adding new members."

After Lydia finished the martial arts class, when the children gathered around Liu Ci, Liu Ci saw the little Harvey with a blank eye, so he said this. Last year, because he was too young, Harvey's son was not selected, and the little guy was holding back his strength and was going to be ashamed this year.

After listening to Liu Ci's words, the twenty-three children all had their own thoughts in their hearts.

In this era, there has never been a talk of family planning, as long as you can support it, every family has several children, and they also have younger siblings at home, they must go home and tell their parents, and after a few months, they will send their younger siblings of the right age to participate in the assessment.

The ability to earn their own silver is enough for these children to be proud of themselves and proud to be part of the team.

What Liu Ci wants is such an effect, everyone wants to live a better life, no interests, no motivation, who will unswervingly follow her?

April quickly slipped away, and the small bamboo grove behind Liu Ci's house was shady.

Arnold said that the Black Cavalry could not rest on his laurels, and that he had led someone to Mrs. Betty in the name of a mercenary regiment to take up the mission.

Liu Ci calculated the season and instructed a few hired workers to start cutting bamboo and building ponds.

Now the conditions are better than when he was in the Morok Mountains, and Liu Ci does not have to go into battle himself. She wants to make the valley a comfortable place to live and use in the otherworld, and she can't deal with anything roughly, but has to think about it with a longer-term vision.

Building a pool for paper making is not difficult for the labor force of the villa, and Liu Ci, considering the pollution caused by paper making, asked people to build the pool downstream of the water source near the entrance to the valley.

It is not difficult to cut the bamboo, remove the bamboo leaves, and break the bamboo pieces, and even the pond is quickly built.

However, limestone is not so easy to find in the grassland, and Liu Ci has to ask Stull. Stuart has been doing well in Amster City lately, what is a businessman? Transporting the Xiyi Empire's items to the Spurs, and sending the Spurs' specialties to the Ruiyun Empire for sale.

Business is the process of communicating with each other, and Stull doesn't have limestone in his hands, but he can ask other colleagues to help him find it.

The characteristics can be clearly described, for the sake of profit, the merchants dare to hire people to go to the Moloch Mountains to catch monsters, let alone mere stones. Stuhl's peers soon brought him large quantities of limestone from elsewhere, and the amount of money spent on the purchase of limestone was almost negligible in terms of the daily turnover of the Four Seasons.

In addition to papermaking, lime powder is also needed elsewhere in the lodge. Like the growing herd, it is best to sprinkle lime powder on the ground every once in a while to prevent many diseases.

Although the Magic Continent has already sprouted a paper industry, parchment rolls are still the main way to record important information, because it is durable and can be preserved for many years.

However, the plant "bamboo" has not been clearly understood before, and no one even dares to eat bamboo shoots, let alone use bamboo to make paper. Stuart had seen the amulet given by Liu Ci, and he had always been steadfast in his belief that it was a "scroll", and he had always been curious about what scrolls could be made from paper products.

Liu Ci wants to recreate yellow table paper, and the first curious baby is Stull Garland.

He entrusted the business in the city to his subordinates to take care of, and he stayed in Liu Ci's valley without leaving, and he was bound to see how these bamboos could be turned into paper.

There is already such a thing as "paper" in the Magic Continent, and other people can't draw symbols even if they use yellow table paper, and Liu Ci doesn't think there's anything worth keeping technically secret, so he lets Stuart run around the paper pool every day.

This is probably a matter of identity vision.

If she crossed into the other world was a girl from an ordinary family, and she wanted to earn wealth by relying on the golden ideas in her head, then she would definitely try her best to keep every idea as strict as possible. Because the wealth brought by various "inventions" that are different from the times can make her live a rich life in another world, which is the foundation of her life.

Liu Ci is different, since she was born, she probably hasn't lived a life of lack of money. The hardest days were just the time when I first crossed, because I didn't have the strength, and I was in the Moroch Mountains.

In the Earth Federation of the Great Universe Era, the Liu family can last for thousands of years, of course, not only by virtue of the identity of the "Dust Heart Fairy" believer. The Liu family just seized the best opportunity to start from the opportunity of "faith" and continue to develop and grow themselves.

There is no shortage of gold coins, and he can easily earn gold coins, what Liu Ci values most is not the wealth of the rich country. Combined with her background and experience, strength is undoubtedly what she desires the most.

This kind of open-mindedness and casualness are not understood by outsiders, which also causes that in the eyes of Stull and others, Liu Ci trusts the people around him very much, and never thinks about keeping any technical secrets from them.

Actually, Miss Ci didn't care too much...... In the face of Stuhl's increasingly serious trend of brain-dead fans, I have to say that some misunderstandings are really beautiful.

"Can you make paper by soaking the bamboo strips in lime powder, then mashing them, and selecting the thinnest parts? …… It's really an intoxicating technology. ”

Faced with the finished yellow sheet paper, Stull was amazed.

Liu Ciqi said: "I've seen bookstores in the city, there is no shortage of paper books in them, and they don't all use parchment rolls? Besides, the aristocratic invitations are also high-quality paper, why don't you look like you've never seen the world? ”

Stuart's eyes widened, his boss sometimes has no "common sense" for a day or two, but he is still prone to emotional ups and downs.

"How is this the same? The manufacturing technology of paper is in the hands of Ruiyun people, and although it is cheaper than using parchment rolls, it is not likely to be much cheaper. But look at the boss, you make paper, the cost is almost negligible......"

Liu Ci was speechless for a moment.

For a nation that is good at writing, it is really difficult to list the varieties of paper in ancient Chinese history. Yellow table paper is not a precious variety, and the cost is of course low.

Looking at Stuart's excited appearance, it seems that he has found a golden hen that can produce gold coins again.

Liu Ci was very speechless, so she told some of the paper varieties she knew, and Stull was dazzled when she heard it.

"The straw of the barley, the bark of the mulberry tree...... These are all papermaking raw materials?! ”

"Each precious paper has its own secret recipe, so don't get too excited."

Liu Ciliang poured cold water slowly, there are many paper-making recipes in "Qi Min's Technique", but they are far more difficult to produce finished products than yellow surface paper. It is said that the most famous rice paper in China is inherently known as "paper longevity for thousands of years" because its calligraphy and painting do not fade, easy to preserve. However, good rice paper must use sandalwood bark as the main material, what does the sandalwood tree look like Liu Ci has never seen the real thing, this tree species has long been extinct in the Earth Federation in the era of the universe.

Liu Ci's cold water did not extinguish Stull's enthusiasm, and he muttered to himself.