What is it like to be a teacher as a magister?

Chapter 101 Papermaking
Wald carefully pulled out a thin piece of paper from the oven, held it horizontally with both arms for fear of being damaged, then slowly turned around and put it on the table.

Beside him, Sophia stared at him the whole time, and finally bent down to check carefully like Wald.

"Success?"

"I don't know yet."

After Wald finished speaking, he took a deep breath, then stretched out his hands, and staggered to tear the paper from the middle.

"Tear..."

The tough feel and neater torn edges made him so excited that he almost stopped breathing.

"Success!"

Sophia picked up the quill next to her and wrote her name on the paper.

"It feels so good, the key is that it's so thin." She couldn't help but take a breath.

"My lord's request is that you must be able to write directly on it with a charcoal pencil. Now it seems that the standard has been met." Wald smiled.

"I'm afraid neither white beard paper nor parchment can do this." Sophia sighed.

"The most important thing is that almost only gray basswood is used as the raw material. Compared with the former two, it is almost free."

"No, Mr. Wald, technology is the most valuable." Sophia said with a smile.

"Yes." Wald nodded solemnly: "My lord also said that knowledge is valuable."

"Congratulations, we really succeeded, 13 experiments in 116 days, it was not in vain." Sophia said relaxedly.

"In fact, I never doubted it, but I didn't expect it to succeed so quickly. Thank you, Miss Sophia, for accompanying me to find suitable materials these days. Without your knowledge of botany, we would never have been able to go so smoothly."

"Thank the lord, without his improvement plan, it would be impossible for us to have these things in front of us."

"Yes." Wald sighed: "The craftsmanship of white whisker paper has always been a secret, and the cost of parchment paper is ridiculously high. Even the mid-range gray bird paper is not affordable for ordinary people. The improvement of paper has already begun. After staying for more than 100 years, today we have taken another big step."

"It must have taken a lot of time just for these devices." Sophia sighed while stroking a large dryer.Even after being squeezed, more than 52% of the water will still remain in the base paper, and this is the role of the dryer.

"Yes, in fact, this step could have been omitted, using natural air drying instead." Wald said: "It's just that the lord always strives for precision and perfection in everything he does. This dryer and the roller press over there, even if you take it alone Coming out is also a highlight in magic engineering.

"As for the craftsmanship, Ms. Sophia may not be clear about it. Just the first step of pulping, the adult's manuscript provides three methods. Among them, the medicine pulping method lists more than 20 kinds of mixtures. The breadth of the material is breathtaking."

"The lord's academic attitude is worth learning from."

"Yes."

"Next, are you planning to mass-produce it?" Sophia said with a smile: "If you sell this kind of paper to Thunder City, you will definitely be able to make a lot of money."

"Your Excellency seems to have other plans, but we will give priority to providing them for our own use. Miss Anne's school has basically been completed, and will enroll a large number of students." Wald said: "Also, despite the assistance of these equipment, it is still It needs human hands to operate, and now what we lack most is people.”

"The children of Twilight City are really happy." Sophia thought that when she was studying, she could only use charcoal pencils and wooden boards most of the time.

She can already imagine that once this high-quality and cheap paper appears, it will have a profound impact on the entire academic world.

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"Lack of people."

Colin leaned back on the soft chair with a terrible headache.

He considered everything and made the most detailed plans, but in the end many subsequent works were put on hold for lack of manpower.

Annie smiled and said, "It will be much better after the last batch of students arrive."

"Walde needs manpower to make paper, and there is also a shortage of manpower for engineering construction. After the school is completed, teachers are needed. The little girl in Shanhu also said that there are not enough people. After the seeds mature in two days, Sofia needs a lot of manpower to sow the seeds. I Now I really want to issue a lord order to make all the residents of Twilight City put down their farm work, anyway, the food they grow is nothing more than nothing."

"But that will cause panic in a short period of time. Not everyone believes that there will be a bumper harvest in a few months."

"I've tried to recruit as many people as possible from the defenders, but it's unreasonable to say less, after all, the students don't have much time to make arrows."

"After the first batch of students in the new school have completed their basic education, it should be much better."

"That will take at least half a year."

"Yes."

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Residents of Twilight City have had a rough life recently. First, the lord exempted one-third of this year’s grain payment for the first time, and then heard that children aged 9 to 14 can be sent to school. Not only do they not need tuition fees, but they can also take care of their children daily rations.

Exempting one-third of the grain does not allow farmers to relax too much. After all, the seeds have been sown, and the things that should be done every day have to be done. It is just some work such as weeding and catching insects to increase production, but it can no longer be so hard. .

But going to school is a good thing anyway.

Unified education is a very unfamiliar concept to the residents of Twilight City. They imagine that going to school should be like apprentices in a blacksmith shop. Several children follow a master, and after they finish their studies, they also open a blacksmith shop.

Therefore, when most parents take their children to the designated place to "sign up" and see a sea of ​​people, they are a little dazed.

Anne did not expect so many people to come. According to her initial calculation, even with the daily rations, some children in their teens are already indispensable labor force in the family, and it is impossible to come to school for two meals.

But she obviously underestimated the allure of the word "satisfaction" for the poorest.

Even the defenders of the fortress dare not say that they are full for three meals a day.

But after thinking about it, Ke Lin still gritted his teeth and decided to give the school children a higher food ration. On the one hand, the food intake of children is definitely not as high as that of soldiers. On the other hand, these ten-year-old children will be a long time after him. The most important source of talent here, if possible, Colin also hopes to give them enough nutrition during their developmental stages.

Naturally, there are certain risks. If something goes wrong with Sophia and there is no expected bumper harvest in nine months, the fortress may usher in a big crisis.But the risk is still worth taking.

Since only 2000 students could be accepted, Annie decided to conduct an interview with all those who came.

The content is very simple, nothing more than chatting a few words to see if the child's mind is flexible.

Those who are eliminated will also receive a small piece of black bread as compensation.

The "enrollment" work was successfully completed three days later, and all 2000 children aged 9 to 14 were recruited, and the personnel information was registered one by one—Wald's first batch of paper just came out of the newly built workshop. It came in handy.

(End of this chapter)