Xia Lin picked up a bamboo curtain and tried to go down to the pulp storage tank to copy a piece of paper, looking at the thin layer of fine pulp left on the fine bamboo curtain, Xia Lin felt that this papermaking should be a success.

When the paper was a little dry, Xia Lin carefully removed the paper from the corner and put it in the wooden frame he brought, pressed out the water with a wooden board, and dried it for a while, and finally got the finished paper with a size of about 80*110cm.

Mixed with part of the bamboo and wood fibers, and rosin gum, alum water and starch as a reinforcing agent, lime as a whitening agent, the quality of this finished paper is not bad, the feel is crisp and smooth and tough, but the color is still a little yellow.

"Is this paper?"

Roy looked at Xia Lin with a satisfied smile on the piece of paper that looked about the same as parchment, and also stepped forward to touch the things he would be responsible for producing in the future, showing a look of sigh.

Crafting something that looks pretty good out of a pile of reeds, bamboo, and rotten wood everywhere, Charin is truly a mysterious and wise mage in the minstrels' tales.

"That's right, but whether it can meet my requirements will have to be tested."

As he spoke, Xia Lin cut off a piece of paper that could be considered to be 16 kai with a knife, and tried to write a light rune on it.

With the completion of the construction of the spiritual power node of the rune, the light rune played a role, and the effect was no different from writing on parchment, and it seemed that the carrier would not affect the effect of the rune.

Xia Lin tried to draw a spell model of the mage armor on another piece of paper with a writing scroll, and as before, after destroying the isolation rune, the mage armor took effect smoothly, and it seemed that the carrier really had no effect on the spell, or the effect was not so obvious.

In this way, Xia Lin was also relieved, he instructed these neighbor children how to use bamboo curtains to make paper, and soon many children who learned quickly got started, and stood in the pulp storage tank with great interest to make paper.

Even if the feet are carefully washed, people will still pollute the pulp when they go down to the pulp storage tank, and Xia Lin will definitely use cement and bricks to build these pools in the future.

This can avoid the pollution of pulp by people, and it is also convenient for papermakers to stand and make paper, without going into the water, which can reduce a lot of work intensity.

After consuming the pulp in the pulp storage tank to a certain extent, Xia Lin stopped this paper-making attempt, and in four days he obtained a total of more than 16 sheets of paper and more than 400 sheets, and the cost was only 20 copper pesas a day to hire the children and various chemical raw materials worth about fifteen silver mar in total.

The cost of various tools is the largest, reaching as much as two golden, but these tools will still be useful for starting a paper mill in the future, and Xia Lin did not include this cost in this papermaking experiment.

In this way, the average cost of a piece of paper is only 2 copper peas, which is 1/10 of a parchment paper that costs 20 copper peas, and it is fully possible to make a profit on a large scale.

Moreover, the quality of the paper is not inferior to that of parchment, and in Xia Lin's opinion, even if it is directly used for simple ink printing, it is completely sufficient.

Having filled the three pools together in the eyes of everyone, Xia Lin didn't intend to disband these half-grown children like this, he gave Roy two more goldenrods and told him to find a literacy teacher to teach these people words and arithmetic.

Of course, the hiring fee of a literacy teacher is at most more than twenty silver mar, and the rest of the money Xia Lin also arranged clearly.

The children who first made paper with them were still given fifteen copper pesas a day, but at the cost of having to attend literacy and arithmetic classes.

Thirty more children over the age of 12 will be recruited to join them, but this group will only receive 10 copper pesas a day.

In order to improve the quality of his future employees, Xia Lin did not hesitate to invest at all, because he knew that the higher the level of knowledge, the lower the probability of production accidents, and the higher the production efficiency.

Therefore, making some upfront investment in this area is definitely a profitable business, not to mention that Xia Lin can also use it to get the prestige he needs.

After arranging the affairs of the slums, Xia Lin prepared to go to the Royal Academy of Magic to promote his new achievements with his freshly baked paper, as well as the Mental Power Meter and Magic Power Meter 2.0.

However, when he came to the gate of the Royal Academy of Magic in the Imperial Capital, Xia Lin was stopped by the guards at the door.

At this time, the graduating non-commissioned officers had already departed, the new batch of non-commissioned officers had also been enrolled, and the campus had been completely closed, and no one was allowed to enter or leave except for the professors in the academy and those with the approval signed by the dean.

Although Xia Lin was wearing a mage robe, and there was a ring of mage badge and a jazz badge pinned to his chest, in the eyes of these academy guards, he was no different from others, they were not stewards in the small chamber of commerce, and they would be so easily deceived by Xia Lin's mage status.

After trying to persuade but still couldn't do it, Xia Lin had to go home first, and then follow the instructions of the manager of the Greg Chamber of Commerce to visit Ellen in the Eastern District.

He wanted to see if he could make an appointment with Manan Amos, the head of the School of Magic, through the connections of the Greg family, and by the way, he could also sell Eren his industrial park plan and get some wool from his fat sheep.

Ellen obviously made a lot of money from the two businesses of spinning and cloud sugar during this time, and when he saw Xia Lin again, his attitude became more enthusiastic than before, he first opened his arms and gave Xia Lin a hug, looked at Wyatt, who was Xia Lin's entourage, and seemed to be a little surprised by his beautiful and delicate appearance, and then asked with a smug smile on his face:

"My friend, what brought you to me, and I just wanted to talk to you about expanding the production of cloud sugar. You may not know that the nobles are mad at your delicious cloud candy.

The four hundred pounds of cloud sugar per day have not yet arrived at the Greg Chamber of Commerce and have been ordered by all the nobles, and everyone now does not add brown sugar to the tea, but adds cloud sugar and lemon juice, speaking of which, this is still the idea that your Carl Cake Shop gave them!

During this time, many members of the Sugar Guild have also asked me to bring you a message, and they can't wait to get involved! ”

Ellen suddenly remembered something as he spoke, and without waiting for Xia Lin to reply, his happy expression suddenly fell, and he took Xia Lin's hand and said to Xia Lin with a serious expression:

"By the way, Xia Lin, I want to talk to you about something.

In order to promote cloud sugar and unite other chambers of commerce in the spinning industry, I held a banquet in the name of the Star Blue Flower Magic Society some time ago.

At this banquet, Her Royal Highness Dorothea, the president of the Star Blue Flower Magic Society, also came, and she was very interested in the multi-layered luxurious fruit cake I provided at the banquet, so she also took some interest in you.

During this time, there may be an emissary from Her Royal Highness to invite you, so be prepared! ”

After saying that, Ellen thought about it again and added worriedly:

"Her Royal Highness Dorothea, the unanimous Crown Prince chosen by our enlightened nobles, has always been gentle and generous, and is interested in new things.

Don't put any pressure on you, I'm sure your talent will impress her, and if you can get the Princess's appreciation, maybe you will have a chance to rise from Sir to Baron! Become a true nobleman! ”

"I see, thanks for the reminder, Ellen!"

Hearing Ellen's words, Xia Lin was startled at first, and then began to quickly think about the impact of his gaze on himself.

As for the name of the Star Blue Flower Magic Society, he had also heard of it in the academy, but the magic associations in the academy were all established by the children of the nobility to communicate with each other, and they did not recruit sergeant students, so his understanding was quite limited.

A magical association is a loose organizational structure in the historical tradition of mages, in which members trade magical materials in agreed locations, exchange information and research results on various spells, and join forces to strike at external enemies when necessary.

Over the past few hundred years, the Magic Society has played a very important role in the development of mages, and it is the exchanges between mages that have established the four elements of earth, fire, feng shui, and the four elements that mages use to understand the world.

At the same time, the empire has appeared four major spell systems: plastic energy, spells, prophecy, and illusions, which summarize all kinds of runes, making it easier for the new generation of mages to learn spells.