Blue Dragon Emperor: Lord of Thunder

Chapter 81 I Love Inventions
"Honey, are you looking for me?"

Floris, who couldn't get fired, begged Ron to think of a lot of new clothing ideas for her in pursuit of novelty.

What he was wearing at this time was a set of white shirts painted with a cartoon version of Floris with special dyes, and a pair of nondescript cotton linen wide-leg pants with holes.

These continuous little novelties finally allowed Floris to barely endure the position of manager, but only playing this role for a long time still made Floris, a spellscale, feel a little worse than death.

Ron looked at Floris' expression full of resentment and numbness, as if she had been working overtime for half a month, and she also learned that she would be off during the May Day holiday, and almost couldn't hold back her laughter.

"Hey, I have some interesting things for you." Ron said seriously.

Hearing the word "interesting", Floris's pointed ears immediately raised: "Then can I stop playing the role of manager?"

"No, it's doing fun things while being a manager."

Ron ruthlessly dismissed her resignation.

"When you traveled from Lunia to the country of the thousand islands, what kind of paper did you see?" Ron looked at Floris and asked.

"Paper?" Floris asked in confusion.

"The Lunia paper seems to be made from birch bark, and the quality of the paper is much better than the papyrus used here, but it is also more expensive."

The continent of Lunia has a higher latitude. Unlike the continent of Oonia, most places have a mild climate with more rainfall and plenty of sunshine, so papyrus that can be used to make paper grows.

In the cold Lunia, there is only birch bark paper. The raw material output of this kind of paper is not high, and the production process is very complicated and time-consuming, so the price is very expensive, and non-nobles cannot use it. Asia is more precious.

Ron shook his head. In this world with extraordinary power, the polarization is very serious. The powerful don't care about the cost of paper, while the weak have no access to the carrier of knowledge at all. Therefore, the technology of papermaking in this world for thousands of years is useless. It has not changed, and the backward system naturally has not changed much.

But Long knew what papermaking meant, which was the basis for popularizing knowledge, emancipating the mind, social development and even transformation.

What Long En wants is not a group of ignorant and ignorant people who can only engage in small workshop production. What he wants is a steam engine, what he wants is a light and heavy factory, and what he wants is to crush the productivity of other countries. Gold coins lying and swimming in it!

"Fluris, take some people to the pioneering land to collect some scraps of wood and building materials. Wood chips, branches, and leaves are fine. You are going to get some pasture, livestock hair, or any hair that the family doesn't want. OK."

"And then do this..."

Ron told Floris about the papermaking process that he still had a slight impression of in his previous life, but Floris had to bring someone to experiment with the specific formula ratio.

"It's really possible to make paper out of these waste materials?" Floris asked with suspicion and excitement.

Her excitement was not because she realized the role of papermaking, but simply because the spellscale was interested in new things.

Ron heaved a sigh of relief as he watched Floris, who temporarily put aside the pain of not being able to resign, bouncing out of the dragon's nest.

Finally, she was fooled by this brainless spellscale, but she didn't know how long papermaking could keep her interest and concentration.

After Floris left, Ron summoned the copper hammer again.

"Honorable True Dragon, is there any urgent work?"

The first sentence of the copper hammer made Ron a little overwhelmed.

How do you make yourself look like an unscrupulous boss who oppresses employees?

Well, building thousands of sets of armor in half a month seems to be a bit of a suspicion of squeezing these dwarves, but Ron will not admit it. He even sent someone to buy (rob) drinks for these dwarves and came back. What a bonus!
"No, just some simple things."

Long told Copper Hammer the idea of ​​movable type printing and casting movable type.

"The main material of movable type is copper, and then copper, tin and..."

Ron searched through the Onia common language dictionary, but couldn't find the word corresponding to the metal antimony, so he felt a bit stuck for a while.

"Do you know if there is anything that can be smelted with gold to make it more brittle?" Ron asked.

When it comes to metal smelting, he is in the familiar field of copper hammer. He tugged on his beard and thought for a while: "You mean 'brittle pyroxene'?"

Under the description of the copper hammer, Long confirmed that the so-called brittle pyroxene was the antimony of the previous life.

Moreover, this kind of brittle pyroxene is widely used in minting currency, and it is a relatively common ore. There are many such things in the minerals excavated by the kobolds.

"Oh! It's a genius-like idea! It's worthy of being a real dragon!"

After listening to Long En's description, Copper Hammer, a minor nobleman, understood the benefits of movable type printing: greatly reducing the time it takes to transcribe the same documents and books.

But he just sighed and didn't think too much, because the disadvantages of movable type printing are also obvious: limited by the expensiveness of paper, it still cannot be popularized. s things.

What he didn't know was that the papermaking technology combined with printing technology had also been put on the agenda by Long En.

"Oh, dear dragon, there is one more question." The copper hammer suddenly thought of something: "Copper alloys can't stick to ink, and printing that thing on paper will only turn expensive paper into a mess of dogs shit."

Ron smiled, only saying that he would think about it himself.

Copper Hammer shrugged. He only needs to follow Ron's instructions. Anyway, he can make copper movable type that meets Ron's requirements. It doesn't matter to him whether the ink sticks or not.

After the copper hammer left, Ron raised the corner of his mouth.

In his previous life, he went fishing at work, and he often watched videos such as Survival in the Wild and The Traveler's Book to pass the time.

Once I dozed off and heard the video talking about oil buns. When I woke up hungry, I found out that it was the ink used in copper movable type printing!

Therefore, he was very impressed with the ink ratio and production process.

It just so happens that the world also has the materials needed for the ink, so Ron directly ordered the family to find a bunch for himself, and started to make them.

"The world of gunpowder and the compass already exists. Once papermaking and printing are developed, the four great inventions will be complete."

"When the power of papermaking and printing is unleashed, gunpowder must also be put on the agenda. Paper carries truth, and ink prints truth, but only artillery can determine truth."

Ron was still obsessed with cannons and growing mushrooms.

"After all, it's a man who has a cannon, no, the romance of a male dragon!"

(End of this chapter)