From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 130 Paper and Printing

A few days after handling the matter of the horn-hoofed erect species civilization, Tengya and Manya came to visit together and reported that they had completed the tasks assigned by the speaker.

So, Blade Ya went with them to inspect.

What you see is still a tree. When the vine teeth open its surface, a huge smooth curved surface is revealed inside.

Manya stepped forward, fumbled with his nails for a while, then opened a corner and pulled outwards;

The smooth curved surface extends outward just like the toilet paper roller in the previous life.

"Your Excellency, Speaker, this is our result." Teng Ya said with his side palm reaching towards the pulled-out thing that was light yellow all over.

"We used a mixed weaving method of long and short fibers, where the long fibers are responsible for its integrity, and the short fibers are responsible for blocking the diffusion of the dye; after trying what you called 'writing', we achieved good results."

Manya took out a roll of something that seemed to be made of the same material as the object in the tree from his bag, handed it to Bladeya, and introduced it like this.

Blade Tooth took it and felt its texture;

It feels very real to the touch, and the feel is similar to some of the special stationery from his previous life;

Although it is still thicker than the paper used for manuscripts, it seems to be enough for today's tribes.

He solemnly unfolded the scroll, and a standard rectangle of twenty centimeters square appeared in his hand;

“What about seed preparation?”

The witch doctors seemed to have a strong sense of ownership and did not take "working for free" seriously, as if it was a matter of course.

"Of course, this is just to equip the tree with production capabilities. The production of internal finished products requires additional calculations."

"sure!"

"Yes, I support you. Just tell me what is missing in the research, and I will try my best to meet your needs."

In terms of printing technology, Ben Ya proposed two concepts: engraving and living body, and together with the intaglio and Yang engraving, handed it over to interested apprentices to ponder.

With paper, you need appropriate writing tools and printing technology.

All in all, on this day, the Black Forest Troll finally had the concept and entity of 'paper'.

Blade Ya handed back the sample, then came to the new tree species used for preparation, and observed it carefully.

The couple looked at each other, nodded after a moment and said,

"We want to try it. The previous research seems quite interesting."

"How much can the output be?" Dian Dian asked, holding a square meter of paper in his hand.

Give out money?

The witch doctors had no worries about food and drink, and the tree houses were distributed uniformly by the tribe. Luxuries were not to mention what else could they ask for money for?

This made him a little embarrassed.

Now that I think about it, it seems that this situation does not only happen to these two people.

"But it's not troublesome to grow it to full maturity. It only takes ten minutes for each seed to turn into what you see now."

On it, written in not very beautiful troll language, was 'Dedicated to His Excellency the Speaker'.

Of course, this so-called ‘standard’ is only for the convenience of uniform distribution to schools and the government;

‘If that’s the case, then let it go first? Isn’t it too late to improve later when you really need incentives?’

The dye used is dark green, and it looks okay with a light yellow background;

The font structure is complete and there is no blur caused by smudging, and horizontal folds, hooks and other gestures are clearly visible.

Even during the previous process of 'cell research', after it was completed, and even including many previous achievements, the parliament naturally ignored the salaries and rewards of the witch doctors.

In this regard, Kenya thought of the 'quill pen' from his previous life.

He remembered that it seemed to use the natural structure of bird feathers to absorb ink and write?

"If two hundred pages are combined, how thick will it be?"

"The structure of the spell is not very complicated. After mastering the transformation techniques, a witch doctor can produce 2 pills per lamp hour without considering the growth spurt;"

Manya pointed at the finished product and said,

The blade fang gently pulled diagonally along the joint mark, and a complete piece of 'paper' was torn off.

This is the smaller of the two animals originally identified for breeding;

The size of the turkey is similar to that of the previous life, weighing about ten kilograms. It is a kind of meat supplement for the tribe, so there is no problem in the supply of materials.

"What are your plans? Are you going back to the Brain Institute and Spinal Cord Institute?"

"Each piece is 0.03 centimeters, and two hundred pieces are about 6 centimeters."

Blade Ya couldn't help but laugh. He was used to these witch doctor ghosts, and instead focused on the writing effect.

It is still the 'cavity manufacturing' commonly used by tribes, and the carrier is set to the natural roll mode;

In order to facilitate separation, some vague joint marks are left at every one square meter of area.

As for what other trolls like to use, it doesn't really matter, as long as it allows readers to understand what you wrote.

It just so happens that the tribe also has a kind of "egg-laying free-range chicken", and its feathers are long feathers with hollow filaments, which may be suitable for use.

In addition, it seems that I have never received a salary or reward, and I have never felt unbalanced.

In addition, some of the Troll language square characters such as "tree" and "fiber" were extracted to form a new character, specifically used to refer to this new thing.

Later, the naming rights of the new text carrier were handed over to Tengya and Manya by the Rune Council;

Blade Ya was satisfied, and just when he was about to propose something to reward them both, he realized that the tribe seemed unable to give any suitable material rewards.

So, Blade Ya pulled out a few feathers and asked his apprentices to try them.

After a series of simple processes of 'boiling and cutting', it was found that it was actually usable, and it was determined that it was a standard writing instrument at this stage.

They used part of the syllables of their respective names to create a new pronunciation similar to 'kavi';

Blade Ya turned it over and found that there was no penetration on the back of the carrier.

After thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't find a suitable execution method, so he stopped thinking about it and decided to just let nature take its course.

"Okay, that's pretty good. You guys did a great job!"

"If a tree is planted without magic, it will mature in about the fifth year after it is planted; the kind of regulation in your hand can produce three thousand trees per month by then;"

When Tengya and Manya first tried it, they simply used small branches to write, which required frequent dipping of dye, which was not very convenient.

After the most critical thinking problem was solved, the production of original engraving and movable characters was not too difficult. It did not take long to achieve the success of "wooden movable" and "wooden engraving".

Although it has many shortcomings such as difficulty in hanging ink and unstable font printing, it is enough for today's needs.

As a result, as the paper-making trees were brought to maturity, the negative-grained wooden characters were carved out one by one, and the 'First Printing House of the Black Forest' came into being.

Its production capacity was first occupied by "textbooks", while the contents of witch doctor techniques, government documents, etc. were placed further back.

Of course, these are developments a few months later. Long before that, paper’s ‘debut’ was occupied by a letter.

(End of chapter)