The sailor staggered out of the tavern door, blown by the salty sea breeze, and suddenly covered his mouth, as if he was about to vomit, and staggered into the alley to the side, as if he was really drunk.

He ran deep into the alley, propped himself up against the wall with one hand, retched a few times, but spat nothing.

A figure suddenly appeared behind him, staring at his back and whispering, "It's quite similar, isn't it really too much to drink?"

When the sailor heard the voice, he immediately turned around vigilantly, and after seeing the other party's face, he breathed a sigh of relief: "It's my lord." ”

He took a small step forward, bent his waist slightly, and said flatteringly: "My lord, I have already told me in the tavern about the news you asked me to spread, and it will not be until tomorrow morning, and most of the sailors will know the news." ”

The adult asked in a deep voice, "Oh? Do they all believe it?"

The sailor seemed confident: "Your Excellency, you don't know, even if someone doubts, they will rarely ask for verification, and when the sailors spread the news, they don't care whether the news they hear is true or not, they just say it happily, and sometimes, the news circulating in the port is simply made up by someone." ”

Saying that, he was a little embarrassed, and continued with a little complaint: "Moreover, my lord, you also added that Erickson's ship will return tomorrow morning, and they only need to wait until tomorrow morning, they will know everything, and even if they have the heart, they don't have to bother to verify it, just wait for one night." ”

In fact, even if this news is fake, it will circulate for a long time, and many times, this is how the rumors come out.

"You don't believe the news you've gotten out?" the adult said softly, with a hint of amusement in his tone.

"It's... The sailor was almost speechless in shock, "is this news true? If the news can be blocked, then it means that a new shipping channel, a golden route, has been mastered. This, not to mention those old men in Al Mod, even those high-ranking mage masters can't help but be moved. ”

"Yes, because so many people's hearts are moved, no one can eat alone, and if you want to eat alone, you can only be eaten by others. In the face of this huge interest, many people will ignore some details. ”

There was also some pity in the adult's tone, but he turned excited: "A wise mage of our chamber of commerce told such a story, in a remote mountainous area, someone found a gold mine, and many people couldn't help but travel long distances to pan for gold, and they all thought that they would be the lucky one.

"But there are always a few lucky people, and most of them can only sell coolies and help those big nobles make money when they get there, but they only have some meager income, and they are still far away from the imaginary dream of making a fortune. But someone found another business opportunity, and he began to sell gold mining supplies next to the gold mine, but he made a lot of money, much more than the gold panning, and became a rich man. ”

After saying that, he looked at the sailor and asked softly, "Now, do you understand?"

If Jia Yi hears the words of this "adult" here, he must be able to understand that even if the other party is not a member of the Valoka Chamber of Commerce, he has a lot to do with the Valoka Chamber of Commerce, unless there is another traveler. This is a famous chicken soup joke about success, which was spread from Jiayi.

At this time, people still had no resistance to chicken soup, unlike when Jia Yi was in his last life, people began to drink poisonous chicken soup, and this traditional chicken soup was no longer popular.

The sailor felt that he understood a little, but he didn't quite understand it: "So... That channel is a gold mine, are you going to be the one who sells gold mining equipment?"

"My lord" nodded slowly, and the corners of his mouth slowly showed an approving smile.

"So you guys are from the shipyard. The sailor said with a sense of enlightenment.

Before the adult's smile could be fully revealed, it turned into a wry smile, and he couldn't understand why the other party thought of the shipyard.

But the sailor's knowledge is limited, and in his understanding, the indispensable thing to explore a new route must be the ship, and from this point of view, it must be said that it is not wrong.

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"Jiayi, can you also use this magic lathe for our paper factory?"

March originally came to see Jiayi to see the paper mill she was building, although Jiayi asked Marchie to make her own decision, but for the first time, she was completely responsible for herself, and she always felt uneasy if she didn't pull Jiayi.

However, after seeing the lathe that Kaichi was debugging, she had a new idea.

This lathe is not the first time she has seen it, she has seen Jia Yi use this lathe to cut gears before, and today I went down to the laboratory to see Jia Yi in addition to cutting out gears, there are also various curved surfaces, and the application has become more widespread.

Seeing that Jiayi's lathe is getting better and better, March himself is also a little moved.

"What do you want a lathe for? You can only process gears now, and you're useless over there, right?"

"How could it be? With a little modification, the raw materials can be crushed, and it is not a difficult thing. After speaking, he looked at Jia Yi strangely, as if he wondered how he didn't think of anything simple.

Jiayi patted his head, he has been studying the improvement of lathes recently, but he has somewhat ignored this simple application.

Although there is a small stream in the place where the March people are located, the current is not too large to be assisted by a waterwheel.

Coming out of the underground laboratory, March took Jiayi to the paper mill, which they called a factory, but it was actually a small workshop.

The site wasn't quite built, but the March family was already experimenting with paper-making and exploring the craft.

When they entered the paper mill, they saw a layer of white silk flocculent material drying in the open space in the field.

March introduced on the side that these are the raw materials after the bark has been steamed, soaked, and finally bleached by strong alkali treatment, including mulberry bark, elm bark, and hemp, because I don't know what material makes the best paper, so I tried many kinds of them.

The real rice paper production process takes one or two years, mainly because the raw materials need to be dried in the sun for natural bleaching after cooking, this step takes a lot of time, Jiayi they will definitely not use such a long process, remove the natural bleaching step, and directly use the configured bleach for bleaching, which saves a lot of time.

March turned to Kaichi and asked, "Well, let's see, if there's anything missing in these things, if it's okay, we'll start making pulp and paper in a few days." ”

Jia Yi actually can't see any problems, after all, he is only talking on paper and can't give any constructive advice.

However, he still pretended to step forward and pick up a few strands of raw materials that were being exposed, and carefully examined them, the fibers decomposed from these barks were now like cotton threads, and there was still a little soft feeling to the touch.

These fibers are finally beaten, then pulped, and finally made into paper, which is truly a usable blank sheet of paper.

The current paper quality is not good, mainly because of the pulping process and raw material ratio problems, the paper produced is not only yellow, rough, and easy to break, a little longer will be brittle, plus can not be used to make scrolls, only in some small areas of circulation, did not use this paper to print books.

Jiayi checked the paper curtain for papermaking again, and confirmed that there was nothing wrong, although there was no bamboo here, but the shaved flexible wood strips were not bad, and Jiayi visited the entire production area, as well as the steps that Marche had prepared, at least for now, there was nothing missing in the steps.

Wait another two months, it will be time to harvest the elf rice, and then the excess elf rice stalks can also be used as raw materials for making paper, but I don't know what the pulp made of the elf rice is.