The sailor staggered out of the tavern gate. When the salty and wet sea breeze blew, he suddenly covered his mouth, as if he was about to vomit, and ran to the alley aside, as if he was really drunk.

He ran deep into the alley, supported the wall with one hand, and retching a few times, but he didn't vomit anything.

Suddenly a figure appeared behind him, staring at his back, and whispered: "It's pretty good to pretend. Didn't you really drink too much?"

When the sailor heard the sound, he immediately turned around with caution. After seeing the other person's face, he breathed a sigh of relief: "It's an adult."

He stepped forward a small step, hunched his back slightly, and said flatteringly: "Sir, I have already told me the news you asked me to spread in the tavern. Most sailors will know this news without tomorrow morning."

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

The sailors seemed confident: "Sir, you don't know. Even if someone doubts, they rarely go to verify it. When the sailors spread the news, they don't care whether the news they heard is true or not. They just say it happily. Sometimes, the news circulating in the port is simply made up by someone."

As he said that, he was a little embarrassed and continued with a little complaint: "Also, sir, you added that Eriksson's boat will be back tomorrow morning. They just need to wait until tomorrow morning to know everything. Even if they are willing, they don't have to spend time proofing, and just wait for a night."

In fact, even if this news is fake, it will be circulated for a long time, and many times, this is how rumors come about.

"Don't you believe the news you've been circulating?" the adult said softly, with a little playful tone.

"This...this..." The sailor was so shocked that he could hardly speak, "Is this news true? Then... why did the lord say it out? If the news can be blocked, it means that he has mastered a new channel and a golden route. This, not to mention the men of Aimod, even those noble mages will be moved."

"Yes, because so many people are moved, no one can eat it alone. If you want to eat it alone, you can only be eaten by others. In the face of this huge benefit, many people will ignore some details."

The adult's tone was also a little regretful, but he became excited again: "A wise wizard from our chamber of commerce told such a story. In a distant mountainous area, someone discovered a gold mine. Many people couldn't help but traveled over to hunt for gold. They all thought that they would be the lucky one.

"But there are always a few lucky people. Most people can only sell coolies and help the great nobles make money, but they only have some meager gains, which are still far from the imagination of making money. But someone discovered another business opportunity. He began to sell gold products next to the gold mine, but instead made a big profit. He became a rich man because he had a lot of money than the gold digging."

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

If Jiayi heard this "adult" here, he would definitely understand that even if the other party is not a member of the Valoca Chamber of Commerce, it has a lot to do with the Valoca Chamber of Commerce, unless there is another time traveler. This is a famous chicken soup joke about success, which was passed down from Jiayi.

At this time, people had no resistance to chicken soup. Unlike when Jiayi's previous life, people started drinking poisonous chicken soup, which is no longer popular.

The sailor felt that he understood a little, but he was not very clear: "So... that channel is a gold mine. Are you the one who sells gold equipment?"

"Sir" nodded slowly, and a smile of approval appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"So you are from the shipyard." The sailor said with great enlightenment.

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

However, the sailor has limited knowledge. In his understanding, the indispensable thing in exploring new routes must be the ship. From this point of view, it has to be said that it is actually not wrong.

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

Maqi originally came to Jiayi to see the paper mill she was building. Although Jiayi asked Maqi to make a decision on her own, she was responsible for her for the first time and she always felt worried if she didn't pull Jiayi.

However, after seeing Jiayi debugging the lathe, she had a new idea.

This is not the first time she has seen this lathe. She has seen Jiayi use this lathe to cut gears before. Today, when she went down to the laboratory, she saw that Jiayi not only cut out gears, but also has various curved surfaces, which have become more widely used.

Seeing that Jiayi's lathe became more and more useful, Maggie was also a little moved.

"What do you want to do with the lathe? Now you can only process gears. Isn't it useless to you?"

"How could this be? It's not difficult to crush the raw materials with a little modification." After saying that, he looked at Jiayi strangely, as if he was puzzled that he didn't even think of any simple things.

Jiayi patted his head and had been studying the improvements to lathes recently, but he ignored this simple application.

Although there is a small stream in the place where Machi and his friends chose, the water flow is not large and they cannot use water trucks to assist.

After coming out of the underground laboratory, Maqi took Jiayi to the paper mill. Although Jiayi and the others called this place a factory, it can only be regarded as a small workshop.

The site here has not been completely built, but Maggie and the others have already begun to try to start paper making and explore the craftsmanship.

When Jiayi and the others entered the paper mill, they saw a layer of white silk-like flocs hanging on the open space in the site.

Maggie introduced that these are the raw materials after steaming, soaking, and finally bleaching the bark after strong alkali treatment. There are mulberry bark, elm bark, and hemp. Because I don’t know which materials make the paper with the best effect, I tried many of them.

The real rice paper production process takes one or two years, mainly because the raw materials are steamed and dried to be natural bleached after being steamed and cooked. This step takes a lot of time. Jiayi and the others will definitely not use such a long process. They remove the natural bleaching step and use the configured bleach to bleach, saving a lot of time.

Machi asked Jiayi, "Then, see if there are any missing items. If there is no problem, we will start making pulp and paper in a few days."

In fact, Jiayi couldn't see any problem. After all, he was just talking on paper and could not give any constructive opinions.

However, he pretended to go forward and picked up a few strands of raw materials that were being exposed to the sun, and carefully checked it. The fibers decomposed from the bark are now like cotton threads, and the tentacles have a bit of soft feeling.

These fibers will eventually be beaten, then pulped, and finally paper-making, and become a useful piece of white paper.

The quality of paper nowadays is mainly due to the problems with the pulping process and raw material ratio. The paper produced is not only yellow, rough, but also easy to break, and will become brittle after a little time. In addition, it cannot be used to make scrolls, and it is only circulated in some small areas. This kind of paper is not used to print books.

Jiayi checked the paper curtains used for paper making and confirmed that there was no problem. Although there was no bamboo here, the soft wood strips that were cut were not bad. Jiayi visited the entire place of origin and the steps prepared by Maqi and the others. At least for now, there were no omissions in the steps.
Chapter completed!