George village, built on the East Bank of Yinyue River, is the southernmost administrative village under Randall''s leadership.
Starting from the South Gate of George village and walking 17 kilometers south along the river bank, you can see the estuary where Yinyue river meets Jinshui River.
More than a dozen paper mills are built behind the fish wall, one of which belongs to Sid''s family.
The SID family has been engaged in business for four generations. By the SID generation, they have saved rich family property. They have five grocery stores, one butcher''s shop, one pub and two hostels in westock. They also gather a group of guys and free migrant workers.
Behind every free businessman, there is a boss behind the scenes, and the SID family is no exception. Sid''s grandfather wanted to give his family property and exchange ten mu of land from the behind the scenes village head, which was also agreed in advance. But the village head didn''t agree, just comforted him and let their family continue to do business.
For the upper class, it was not easy to cultivate a capable free merchant. It was obviously not time for harvest. But when the time was ripe, Sid, who was a big family and a big business, was not happy again.
No fat pig can escape the butcher''s palm. While Sid was in constant panic, the Duke of Wellington sent someone to seize the shop resources in wild willow city. Sid seized the opportunity, first bought the trade management of vestock, moved his family to yeliucheng, subscribed for 20 public carriages, and obtained the shelter of yeliucheng church.
Yeliucheng has an inch of land and an inch of gold. It is easy to make money and spend a lot. In particular, the 20 public carriages are losing money every day, and Sid''s behind the scenes boss cut off his supply in vestock. Sid, who couldn''t make ends meet, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. At this time, the villain leader of yeliucheng introduced jack, the owner of the car store, to him.
Boss Jack has great powers and knows the Sheriff of Pinghu Town. Jack tells Sid about Randall''s purchase and entry, and claims that as long as Sid takes out 500 gold sol, he will help him buy a Randall family identity. With the identity, he can get Randall''s goods.
In order to master a stable source of goods, Sid was very happy to hand over 500 gold sols. After arriving at Pinghu Town, he found that many of his peers had bought houses in Randall''s lead.
After a period of drilling, Sid found out the Randall family policy.
Viscount Randall held a pre God notarization and announced the protection of the private property of the free people, which was supervised by the Church of Pinghu Town. Rand has two policies: house building and house purchase. People who build houses and enter households may serve as administrators, deacons, or soldiers. Families who buy houses and enter households only enjoy the right to property protection. They can purchase goods and open shops in Pinghu Town, but Pinghu Town will charge a certain proportion of transaction tax.
This means that businessmen can transfer their property to Randall without fear of being taken by others.
However, the shrewd Sid believes that the transaction tax is the focus.
Viscount Randall stipulates that bulk commodity transactions must be delivered in the freight yard, which collects 7% of the total amount of goods from the seller as transaction tax. There is no transaction tax for small commodity sales, but shops need to pay 5% of the total income of the current month as circulation tax.
This means that Randall''s vassals do not need to secretly resell public land properties, and that free civil and commercial traders are no longer led by the vassals'' master. Randall''s business is aboveboard.
Sid was elated by this discovery. After discussion with his family, he decided to transfer the accumulated wealth to Pinghu Town. Some people continued to do business in yeliucheng, while others wanted to work for the Lord, become his soldiers, deacons, stewards, and even become the village head.
Sid led the subscription of public carriages in Randall, opened shops, bought houses for his brothers and sons, and gave his beautiful daughter and niece to the vassal family as a personal maid. He tried his best to fight for a few places to build houses and enter households.
Sid is obviously not the only liberal businessman with the same idea. They also have many relatives and children, all of whom can write and calculate, and master several excellent craftsmanship. The second and last batch of places for building houses are only 200.
Businessmen should compete not only with their peers, but also with other families. 200 places are not enough. However, they have money, craftsmen and contacts. In addition to building houses and entering households, they can also hire skilled craftsmen from other places to please the Lord through invention and creation.
Randall''s hottest invention is papermaking.
The afternoon sun is bright and hot. Although the paper mill is located in the mountain depression near the river, the temperature is still very high. Kali hid in the shade of the tree and looked eagerly at the road at the mouth of the valley. There was no one there. He sighed and turned to see the servant mountain pig eating happily with an oily pig elbow. He couldn''t help kicking him angrily.
"Eat! Eat! Eat! Just eat, useless fool!"
Shan pig''s face hung a simple smile and said vaguely, "hungry." Then bury your head and continue to deal with the pig''s elbow.
"Carly, you don''t have to take it out on a big fool if you can''t make paper."
In the shade of another tree, Jon said with a smile and sarcasm, "why? Do you expect someone to help you make paper?"
Kali turned his head with a cold face. He was afraid he couldn''t help smashing Jon''s nose. The bitch''s uncle is richer than Sid and has the relationship with the first village head Maureen. He is one of the best businessmen in Pinghu Town.
Kali is Sid''s fourth son. He is 32 years old. He is good at making parchment and kraft paper. Sid told Kali that the family had only won two places to build houses, one for himself and the other for Kali''s second uncle. However, building a house and entering the house is not comparable to papermaking. As long as Kali can make paper, he can ascend to the sky step by step and become the vassal of the Lord.
Kali''s blood was boiling. He took some guys, two craftsmen and stupid mountain pig to the place designated by the Lord to build a paper mill.
However, animal skin paper and straw paper are completely different. Kali''s technology is not helpful to straw papermaking. Fortunately, the Lord gave the basic process of papermaking. It is divided into retting, steaming, pounding and beating, seepage and fishing, and drying into paper.
Every household designed a paper mill according to this process, but no one could really make paper, but no one gave up.
Lord Viscount had high expectations for papermaking and personally gave the method. Giving up means that Lord Viscount''s method is wrong? Don''t you just spend some money and raise a few people? Anyone who can build a paper workshop needs this little money?
Who dares to quit now? This is an attitude problem!
So Kali was trapped in the paper mill for more than half a year, and so were others. Over time, Kali had another idea.
Since you can''t make paper yourself, why not learn from the ideas of others? He began to rent out his own paper mill, and the rent was very low, not even enough for the cost of straw pulp. The villagers of George village are really interested in papermaking and come here to try their luck, but their performance is not as good as Kali''s craftsmen.
For this reason, Kali was ridiculed by Jon, but the more so, the more he insisted.
"Well, someone really came." Jon said suddenly.
Carly quickly turned around and saw three people coming here with baskets on their backs.
"Severin, I thought you weren''t coming." Carly came forward and greeted warmly. He was trapped in the paper mill, the news was blocked, and he didn''t know the background of Wright and Tunan. He thought they were recently moved refugees.
"Brother Carly, I''m going to succeed soon. How can I not come." Severin said triumphantly. He waved to the mountain pig again and joked, "silly man, you haven''t had enough?"
Mountain pig is more than two meters tall and weighs at least 500 pounds. It is ugly and looks very ferocious with a pair of big and small eyes. But savilin knew that he was actually a good tempered fool. He was not angry when he was beaten and scolded. If he was beaten hard, he would only cry with his head in his arms.
"Hehe, let me congratulate you on your success in papermaking." Kali laughed twice, kicked the mountain pig hard and scolded, "stupid pig, put down your elbow! Help take things."
The mountain pig stuffed the half eaten pig elbow into his mouth, leaving only one bone outside, and stretched out a Pufan hand to pick up Severin''s basket.
"Don''t help, we''ll take it ourselves."
Turnans pushed away the big hand of the mountain pig, and the giant man stepped back two steps to the side and gave way to the road.
Carly was secretly frightened. The mountain pig was abandoned in the poor''s house since he was a child. He was born stupid, couldn''t pray, and ate so much that even the priest of the poor''s house despised him. Sid adopted the mountain pig according to the priest''s wishes. He expected him to be a thug. Unexpectedly, the fool would rather be beaten than fight back. He is a complete loser.
Mountain pig is stupid. His brute force is not fake. As long as he stands firm, five or six strong men can''t push. But the bald head easily lifted the mountain pig aside... It seems that these two people are not good at stubble... I don''t know what their relationship with the Robert family is... Carly was calm on the surface and had many thoughts in his heart.
The paper mill is near the river, a small warehouse and a wooden shed. When several people entered the shed, Kali said, "it''s still the old rule. Tools, straw pulp and charcoal are ready-made. You can use them, and my people will give you a hand. After that, give me the rent of eight copper sols. However, don''t add any toxic grass!" Then he winked at his old craftsman.
The old craftsman bent down and looked at the basket brought by Severin: "Seabuckthorn root, fire leaf grass, blue heart grass..." he looked up and said in embarrassment, "there is no poison. However, the grass juice of fire leaf and blue heart is very hot... Paper is used to wipe people''s buttocks... Carly, do you think this can work?"
"Just give it a try."
Clement said faintly: "Mash the fire leaf grass and blueheart grass together, put them into the straw pulp pool for fermentation for 10 hourglass, grind the Seabuckthorn root, boil it into a gel, mix it into the pool according to the ratio of 1:20, and then pour the fermented straw pulp into the pool according to the ratio of 1:4, stir it evenly, and then try to catch the pulp and dry it. But be careful. The fermented straw pulp will burn people''s skin. It''s best to wear an epithelial apron and wear it Deerskin gloves. "
The middle-aged man''s determined tone made people believe him. Kali''s heart pounded. He thought that the papermaking was very likely to succeed.
However, what should I do if the papermaking is successful? Kali hated that he didn''t check the background of the two people in time last time. He bit his teeth and told the old craftsman and several guys, "do it!"
When the boss spoke, the guys did everything. They burned the fire, took water, and grinded the grass. Soon, the workshop was as hot as a steamer. Clement occasionally mentioned something, but Severin clubbed there like an outsider and did nothing.
Kali accosted the two people several times, but they were dealt with in the past without getting any useful information.
Time flies, and it''s evening in the twinkling of an eye. Clement looked at the sky and said, "I''m afraid we won''t see the results until tomorrow morning. Now we''re going back to the village church for evening prayer. What do you do, Severin?"
"I... I want to stay here." Severin said weakly.
The Pope stared into the boy''s eyes and asked softly, "don''t attend the evening prayer. Don''t you attend the morning prayer tomorrow morning?"
"This... I..." savilin''s heart was full of guilt, and his expression became extremely tangled.
Kali''s eyes brightened and he said with a sad face, "Severin, you''d better go back to prayer. If you can''t get away, we don''t want to miss any holy light prayer. In order to reduce the sins of impiety, we donated 50 gold sol''s atonement contribution to the church, and father Miller specially presided over the atonement prayer for us."
These words made Severin make up his mind. He said, "if I can make paper, I am willing to donate all my bounty to the church. If I can''t succeed, I will serve for the church for half a year and pray for the merciful Lord of glory to forgive my sins."
The Pope sighed in his heart, nodded and said, "good luck, child."
"Uncle Wright!" Severin chased the door and said shyly, "can you tell my parents that I''m staying here tonight and won''t go home."
"I will."
Clement compassionately touched Severin''s head and turned away from the workshop. When Tournus left, he looked back at Severin.
"Robert''s boy, you should go back with them." Carrie leaned against the wall and said faintly. The shadow covered his face.