In the days of rebirth as a lord

Pickle's wife, Molly, came back angrily from outside. When she saw her husband lazily munching beans, she became even more annoyed: "What else do you want to eat? If this continues, our family won't be able to eat." Speaking of bread, I can’t even eat the sticky stuff!”

Pickle raised his eyelids and glanced at Molly: "What's the matter? Didn't you say you went to fetch water from the river? The water didn't come back, but people came back, and they started arguing when they came back."

"What's the matter?" Molly sat down next to Pickle and said angrily, "Do you know what I saw? I saw the eldest son of the Joseph family, leading the boy named Ben, in the village one by one The area of ​​cultivated land is counted here, and it is said that it is to better count the harvest during the harvest... Didn’t you say that Joseph’s family was illiterate and could not be a farming officer? That’s all right now. Go to that woman in Nora to learn how to read and write. The eldest son of his family has been rewarded with beans several times because of his good learning, not to mention that His Highness has asked Ban to assist him. Don't look at the young boy in Ban, but he is The best of all those who studied with Nora, the reward beans alone can feed him and his sister, and he is also very good at arithmetic, which was taught later..."

Molly thought about it, causing Pickle a headache: "Stop arguing, I know it. If you keep arguing, I'll whip you with a stick!"

"Smack me? Be careful that a stick will hit you one day! Haven't you heard? His Highness has officially declared that group of mud slaves as the first patrol team, and now he is planning to form the second patrol team." What about the team! The patrol guards have food from His Royal Highness, so they won’t go hungry. I heard that during the harvest season, the patrol guards’ homes can reduce part of the tax. Many young and strong men in the village, whether they are civilians or slaves, have signed up.” Molly said.

"Guards? Can those knights agree? Slaves cannot become soldiers. Besides, everyone is going to be soldiers. Who will farm the land?" Pickel sat up now, with a serious expression on his face.

"What if you don't agree? Your Highness is the lord, and knights don't want to listen to His Highness. Besides, slaves cannot become soldiers. It is stipulated by the adults of the church. Our Highness has always been against the church. Yes. As for the manpower for farming, you don’t have to worry about it. The selection requirements for the patrol team are very strict, not everyone can go, let alone a slave trader who brought hundreds of them to His Highness Strong slaves, His Highness's land does not need so many serfs..."

The knights did not agree with Cecil forming a patrol team, but at this time Cecil was no longer the weak prince who had to rely on the protection of the knights.Faced with the knights' doubts, Cecil directly stated that the responsibilities of the patrol guards and their knights are different. The knights are only responsible for guarding the castle, but the patrol guards can do anything for him as the lord at any time, including going to the forest at any time Looking for something or something.

This is an old account of the knights' passive sabotage before the turn over, and the knights who were wronged suddenly dared not argue any more.

On Pickle's side, he rolled his eyes and said to his wife Molly: "Didn't Your Highness want to select someone to be a patrol guard? Tell your brother's two sons about it and ask them to sign up too. Less hungry and stronger than others, he will definitely be selected."

Molly was a little hesitant. Her two nephews were usually the most lazy and slippery. When His Highness was not here, they relied on Pickle's relationship to force the serfs in the village to work on their family's land. smoke.Others don't know these things, but her husband should know them well!

Molly shared her worries, but Pickle smiled maliciously: "That's what we want them to do."

Only in this way, His Royal Highness the little lord will know that soldiers are not so easy to train, and not everyone is as obedient as those mud people.

Cecil didn't expect that there was a villain planning to block him at this time. Of course, even if he knew about Pickle's plan, Cecil would not be worried.The patrol guards are managed by Muziyu. He believes that with Muziyu's ability, he won't be unable to deal with even a few stabbing soldiers.

At this time, Cecil was worrying about another thing. Because of the cultural and educational activities during the snow season, he ran out of parchment.Although there are more than a dozen sheep in Aote Village, a piece of parchment will not last for a few days.Moreover, it is too costly to consume a sheep just to write something.Now, except for Cecil, everyone in the village uses slate, bark, etc. instead of parchment, and charcoal instead of ink and quill.

"This won't work, we have to make paper quickly." Cecil thought to himself.

He originally planned to wait until the yeast powder was sold to earn the first pot of gold, and then began to think of ways to get out the gold-absorbing weapon of porcelain.But now it seems that porcelain can still be slowed down, and papermaking is the most urgent thing.

Paper can not only be used for writing, but also can be used to solve some hygiene problems - as a down-and-out prince, it is too extravagant to wipe his butt with cotton cloth all the time, and he doesn't deserve it.

[System, is there a more practical method for me to make paper now? 】

【Ding!A short answer requires one hundred merit points, and a detailed answer requires one thousand merit points. 】

One, one thousand points?Although it had been expected that papermaking, a cross-age technology, would be more expensive than yeast production, Cecil really didn't expect it to be so much more expensive!After exchanging the method of planting and fertilizing corn with the system, he still has 410 nine merit points left. It's not that he can't afford to exchange for a papermaking technique, but he just thinks it's not worth it.Acquiring merit points is not that simple. It is not something that can be obtained by doing good deeds. For example, he bought more than 100 slaves from slave traders two days ago and raised them well, but the merit points did not increase at all.There are still many questions to ask the system in the future, and the merit value will definitely be saved!

Forget it, don’t ask about the system. Although he never stayed in school in his previous life, he stayed in a sterile room and read a lot of books. Papermaking is one of the four great inventions of Huaguo. He also knew about it, but he didn’t know about it. thoroughly researched.

The process of papermaking is mainly divided into three steps, pulping, papermaking and drying.Pulping is to find a way to make the material into a fine slurry, whether it is stirred, soaked, or steamed.As for the raw material, Cecil only knows that bamboo can be used, but no one in this world has discovered bamboo yet!What can I do?

Cecil was worrying, and a flash of inspiration suddenly came to his mind, and he tentatively asked the system: [Is there any plant in Otto Village that can be used in large quantities to replace bamboo for papermaking? 】

【Ding!A short answer takes one point, and a detailed answer takes ten points. 】

Sure enough, asking directly how to make paper is a sky-high price, but when you know the core technology and only ask for some details, it is much cheaper.