"Your Excellency Suren, it's not a matter of money, it's that no one is willing to do it..."

"Triple as much!"

"Your Excellency..."

"Starting next month, your sugar and rum quota is gone. ”

"Aren't you just a scholar? No problem, I'll bring it to you. Fernand patted his chest and reassured.

"Well, it won't be too difficult. Su Lun smiled and said: "If it's too difficult, I'll find someone else, I remember that the Duolong Chamber of Commerce has expressed its willingness to contribute to the territory of Zhenbei City several times." ”

"Don't be embarrassed, not embarrassed at all, our Flamingo Chamber of Commerce is very willing to contribute to the construction of Zhenbei City, please Your Excellency Su Lun give us this opportunity. Fernand said righteously, but his heart couldn't help bleeding.

"Thank you very much for the contribution of the Flamingo Chamber of Commerce to Zhenbei City, I don't know if there is anything you want to say?" Su Lun praised the Flamingo Chamber of Commerce vigorously, and then looked at the remaining few chamber managers.

"Your Excellency Su Lun, our Bauhinia Chamber of Commerce is willing to invite a scholar to Zhenbei City. ”

"Your Excellency Su Lun, our Barlow Chamber of Commerce is very willing to contribute to the construction of Zhenbei City..."

"Your Excellency Suren, we..."

As soon as Su Lun's voice fell, several other chamber of commerce managers expressed their willingness to help the development of Zhenbei City, and they were afraid that they would speak slower, and they would have no chance.

A summit forum on international cooperation on sustainable development in Kezhen Beicheng ended in a cordial and friendly atmosphere. At the meeting, it was decided that six chambers of commerce, including Flamingo, Bauhinia and Barlow, would each provide a scholar from Zhenbeicheng to give lectures in Zhenbeicheng.

The duration of the lecture is two years, and all the expenses of the scholars in Zhenbei City are taken care of by Zhenbei City, and the scholars need to be paid three times the remuneration. After the two parties agreed, it must not be violated, the teaching scholar needs to come when the caravan will trade next month, and the teaching scholar needs to pass the Suren assessment, if the assessment fails, the caravan's share of sugar and rum for the month will be cancelled and distributed to several other chambers of commerce.

And as a punishment, next month the chamber will need to bring in two scholars, and if the problem arises again, then sorry, you will be completely removed from the purchase of sugar and rum.

After the two sides agreed, several caravans left Zhenbei City with the share purchased this month, and now the most profitable trade in Zhenbei City is sugar and rum, which can bring tens of thousands of gold narls to Zhenbei City every month, and Zhenbei City needs to buy various goods and slaves from other caravans every month.

Now Zhenbei City is arguably the largest slave buyer in the Northland provinces, and each time Jean's caravan buys thousands of slaves of all kinds. The ratio of men and women in Zhenbei City is now very unbalanced, and the proportion of those slaves is more than eighty percent, and only two percent are female slaves.

In fact, in the slave market, the number of female slaves was far less than that of male slaves, and many times those slave traders would come and choose female slaves after they were obtained, and those who had a little appearance would be taken away, and only those who could not be seen would be left behind.

There is no particularly good way to imbalance the population of the territory for the time being, in fact, Jean bought more slaves during this period of time with a skill, and ordinary slaves did not buy much. Zhenbei City is now trading with the lords of the Northland provinces, large and small.

Many of the lords' territories were saturated, and Jean went to talk to them about the migration of the displaced people, which they would not refuse as long as the money was in place. All displaced people are managed in one place.

First train in the original territory for three or five days, and at the same time let them eat and eat for a few days, so as not to be unable to keep up with their physical strength when they migrate, and during the training, these displaced people will be formed in formation, a team of ten people, a team of fifty people, and let them elect a person of prestige as the captain, and then divide them into a migration team of 500 or 1,000 people and move to Zhenbei City in batches.

At the same time, each migration team arranged a team of twenty Zhenbei City soldiers and some mercenaries to protect them. The road from Zhenbei to Carthusian is not too dangerous, at most there are some gnolls, kobolds or goblins.

These enemies just gave those soldiers to practice, and the soldiers of Zhenbei City took turns to carry out this escort mission, Su Lun calculated, so that three thousand homeless people would join in Zhenbei City almost every month.

The outer city of Zhenbei City is designed to accommodate 50,000 people to live, and Su Lun is ready to wait until the population of the territory exceeds 30,000 and will not buy slaves or immigrate, or slow down the rate of immigration, because after the population exceeds 30,000, there will be room for the natural fertility population in Zhenbei City.

Of course, Suren can also choose to continue to expand the city, a large city of 100,000 people is not so easy to build, and then a large number of villages or small towns will definitely need to be built around the city, and the peasants are not suitable for living in the city.

Cities with a population of more than 100,000 in this world will have a city circle around them, and it takes a few cities to supply a large city. For example, the capital of many kingdoms, with a population of two or three hundred thousand, such a city is almost supported by the power of the whole country.

In the previous life, those ancient capitals of the Hua Kingdom, which were often millions, would have a large amount of food imported every day, and if Su Lun really wanted to build a large city with a population of more than 100,000, he would first build a city circle, and then upgrade the city.

As the territory grows, there is a need for more and more educated people in the territory, so he plans to open a training school, and let those caravans provide scholars to prepare teachers for this training school.

The papermaking technology used by the aborigines of this world is still very primitive, and the quality of the paper produced is not good, yellow, rough, and the toughness is poor, and people are generally more willing to use parchment when it is used to record important things, of course, the price of parchment is too high, and the value of any book made of parchment is hundreds of gold nars.

Zhenbei City now uses wooden tablets and living linen to record them, and parchment is only used for some important things, after all, a parchment can make a parchment.

Su Lun didn't have much research on papermaking, but he still knew more or less about papermaking, one of the four great inventions that affected the world in his previous life, so he planned to improve the papermaking technology in this world based on some experience in his previous life.

The papermaking technology of this world did not pay much attention to these techniques because of the poor quality of the paper, and Suren asked Jean Jean to hire a few craftsmen to come to the town of Beicheng with a high salary when he asked Jean Jean to buy slaves. The craftsmen were a little skeptical when they saw the price Jean offered, but after the local lord's assurance, they were a little skeptical. Jean directly migrated the craftsmen and their families to the north of the town, half-forced, half-induced.

After coming to Zhenbei City again, when they were assigned housing, these people were still a little incredulous, and when it was determined that these houses were really allocated to them, these craftsmen burst out with great enthusiasm.

The day after the papermakers arrived, Suren began to study and improve papermaking, and his knowledge of papermaking was limited to what was recorded in junior high school history textbooks, so he could only experiment with the two little by little.

In fact, Su Lun is not good at this kind of climbing technology tree, and the building in the territory that can speed up research is the academy, but Su Lun has no scholars now, and the academy cannot be built, as for the wonder building 'Great Library' that can greatly improve the research progress of the technology tree, he does not have any drawings now.

There is no attribute bonus, so Su Lun has to research it on his own, but although he can't use the academy to climb the tech tree, the attribute bonuses of some basic buildings are still useful.

After communicating with the paper-making craftsmen, Suren sent out some slaves to set up a paper-making workshop in the outer city, which covered an area of thousands of square meters, and contained all the steps used to make paper.

In three days, a brand new paper mill was built.

[Papermaking workshop: A workshop used to make paper, the appearance of paper represents the spread of knowledge, papermaking technology +5, paper quality +5, work efficiency +10, territorial culture +2, prosperity +2, the spread of knowledge makes your territory more prosperous. 】

After seeing the properties of the paper workshop, Su Lun was quite satisfied, and then handed over the raw materials for preparing the paper to those craftsmen and asked them to make paper according to the previous process, while Su Lun watched them make it from the sidelines.

After learning about the process of papermaking, Suren began to reconstruct this papermaking technique with some knowledge from his previous life. First of all, the raw materials are changed, using bark, jute and other plants, using water conservancy machinery to grind these raw materials, and then soaking them in lime water, and then making them in the order of beating, copying, and drying.

It took half a month to complete a set of processes, and then the first batch of paper was finally made.

"My lord, this paper is made according to your improved process, and the quality of the paper is much better than the previous paper. Joel excitedly ran over with a stack of papers.

Su Lun took the paper and looked at it, this kind of paper is a little better than the original toughness, but the paper is still a little brittle, the surface of the paper is also very rough, far less smooth than the paper he used in his previous life, and the color of the paper is also yellow, the paper is also a little absorbent, and the writing effect is a little poor. In terms of overall quality, it is slightly better than the yellow paper burned on the tomb on the Qingming Festival in the previous life.

"My lord, this paper is much better quality than the previous paper, and it can be used for writing. Joel, the foreman next to him, said excitedly.

"No, the quality of this paper is still too poor, and the process needs to be improved. Su Lun shook his head and changed his words randomly: "But these papers still have progress, and everyone will be rewarded with ten points." ”

The craftsmen, who were still a little disappointed, instantly cheered.

"Well, continue to improve the process, and also produce some of this paper. Suren said to Joel.