In the beast world, I got rich and became the favorite of the group

Chapter 195 Taking Advantage + The Mystery of Paper (2000 words)
"For the foreign orcs studying in the city, as long as they study hard and pass their studies, the city can cover all their board and lodging expenses. How about it? Are you willing?"

Yes, of course!
These patriarchs were so excited that they couldn't speak, and the little beasts in their hearts were cheering wildly.

——It can also solve the food, clothing and housing of some tribesmen, and they can also get free planting skills for free. After all, they are taking advantage of it, right?
"How many orcs do you want... ah no, student! As long as you don't mind, we can send all the orcs in the tribe to study!" No whoring is free, no whoring, of course they are willing to have as many as possible.

An Jin smiled slightly, "Of course."

The orcs who are cheering today never imagined that this will be the beginning of their "suffering" in the future.

An Jin, "Some time ago, the city just completed two major projects, so I didn't spare time and manpower to build the school. After a few months, I will send someone to notify you when everything is ready."

So she sent the orc guards to send some patriarchs out of the city.

This is really an opportunity that came to her door. She was still worrying about how to mobilize these orcs to join her school, but now she has no worries about the source of students.

The next step is to start building the school.

Houses, tables, benches...these are the most basic school facilities. Don't worry about the rest now and add them later when needed.

During her deliberate training in the past few years, a large number of skilled craftsmen have emerged in the city. After An Jin explained the construction policy to them, he could just leave it alone with peace of mind.

Because she has another important thing to do.

--papermaking.

If you want to learn, writing is necessary, and paper is the tool that carries writing and civilization.

Papermaking is one of the four great inventions of ancient China. As a Chinese, An Jin is proud from the bottom of her heart.

In different eras and regions, the raw materials used in papermaking are also different, and the quality of the paper produced is also different.

An Jin has been imagining the papermaking project since last year. He began searching for relevant papermaking materials, and finally settled on the mulberry bark and some tough straw that can be found everywhere in the forest.

The people in the collection team took her order to collect the raw materials needed to make paper.

Three days later, the first batch of mulberry bark and straw was sent to the newly built paper mill, where the two were mixed in a certain proportion.

Under the guidance of An Jin, these mixed products were soaked, cleared, steamed and dried day after day by the orcs in the workshop, and the unqualified fur was also removed during each link.

……

It was now the beginning of the hot season, and the weather was already so hot that people were choking. Nearly 100 orcs were squeezed into the small paper mill, and An Jin was among them.

The air was mixed with the smell of heat and sweat, and the sweltering air was slightly distorted, and everyone was sweating profusely from the heat.

"Open the windows on all sides to the maximum." An Jin said.

The orcs near the window immediately opened the window.

Although the wind outside is also hot, it is cooler than inside, bringing a touch of refreshment to this stuffy and sticky room.

Everyone sighed inwardly with relief. Fortunately, there were large windows for opening and closing, otherwise they would have been suffocated to death.

In the past few weeks, they have soaked and cooked the mixed hay many times, and the straw fibers have also softened.

Immediately afterwards, the orcs began to chop it manually, the finer the chop, the better.

An Jin retreated to the corner and sat on a stool to supervise the work. Suddenly, a slender, cold white hand appeared in front of her eyes, holding a bowl of water and bringing it to her mouth.

"Take a break, don't be so anxious, they can do it themselves." Mi Yin fed her water and hugged her to her folded tails.

"No, I don't worry. Papermaking is a very cumbersome project. If you are not careful, the pulp in the whole pond may be destroyed." An Jin put the bowl after drinking water in his hand.

"Then don't tire yourself out, you are the most important." Mi Yin's cold fingers fell on her forehead, and she tried the temperature, it was a little hot.

Although he knew that it was the high temperature in the room that made her body temperature rise, he still couldn't help feeling worried, so he took her outside to get some fresh air before returning to the house.

A few days later, the orcs put the crushed pulp into burlap bags, tied the mouth of the bags tightly, and then went to a nearby river to repeatedly rinse the impurities in the sacks before pulling them out of the water.

Squeeze out the water in the sack so that only a large piece of homogeneous pulp remains in the sack.

The orcs carried the sacks back to the papermaking mill, opened the bags, and showed the finished product to An Jin, "Chief, does it need to be washed again? This is the first time we have done this, and we don't know if it is good or not..."

An Jin stretched out his hand to twirl the soft fibers, his eyebrows curved, "It's very good, it's much better than I expected, and then continue to work according to the steps I said before, and let me do it after each step is completed look."

After receiving her affirmation and encouragement, the orcs' enthusiasm obviously increased a lot, and they all returned to their posts, rolled up their sleeves and started working hard.

After resting for a while, An Jin also got up and joined the busy papermaking project.

Gou Ni stayed at home and came to help when she had nothing to do. The two stood side by side, talking and laughing while working.

The papermaking this time is not as heavy as iron smelting in the past, and the overall work is much easier. Many females have come to help, and the males are obviously more energetic in their work.

The females put the cleaned grass into delicate gauze bags, and the males throw these sandbags into a large pool filled with clean water and stir back and forth in the pool.

This step allows the "pulp" in the raw material to flow into the water through the gauze filter.

As the pulp gradually melted into the water, the originally clear pool water became turbid, and obvious small flocculent fibers could be seen.

The orcs took out a rectangular, three-layered large bamboo sieve that had been woven long ago from the corner.

They carefully put the sieve into the pool of mixed pulp and water, and under the guidance of An Jin, they quickly swung the sieve left and right the moment they pulled it out of the water.

A thin layer of pulp quickly forms on the bottom layer of the sieve.

"God..."

Someone in the crowd exclaimed.

"This is just the newly formed pulp. It still needs to be dried in the sun. Come on, carefully carry the sieve towards me..."

She led the orcs to the open outdoors.

The air outside is dry, the sun is high, and there is a large concrete space not far away.

After draining the excess water, the orcs turned the sieve over and carefully poured the layer of pulp onto the cement open space.

The second layer of pulp covers the first layer.

Do the same for the third layer, the fourth layer, the fifth layer...

However, in one afternoon, half a person's height of paper pulp was piled up on the originally empty concrete floor, and large swaths of water stained the ground, which gradually dried under the scorching sun.

(End of this chapter)