Chapter 215： Cheap paper on Cape Breton Island

For many days in a row, Marin ate fatty beef hot pot every day. As a result, when he was on fire, his mouth was blistered. Then, Marin paused to eat hot pot.

However, so much beef was not consumed, and Marin did not stop eating beef. Then, Marin changed to fried steak. First pour oil on the pan, then take out the good steak, add black pepper to make black pepper steak. Of course, it's not the half-cooked steak that is half-cooked or half-cooked, but it is half-cooked, which is both tender and not so uncomfortable.

The introduction of black pepper fried steak is also very popular. In this era, cattle are an important animal, and beef is relatively rare. Ordinary people usually eat pork or lamb. But beef is often eaten by nobles and rich people.

However, French cuisine has not yet appeared in this era. Moreover, Europeans also lack food oil at this time. Therefore, the use of fried food is still very rare. More cooking methods are roasting and boiling.

The black pepper fried steak made by Marin combines the beef eaten by the upper class with the pepper eaten by the upper class. Moreover, the taste is good. As a result, this simple "noble" eating method using beef, black pepper, butter or olive oil, and onions as an auxiliary material quickly became popular in East Friesland and spread to all of Europe.

Years later, suddenly a sheet of paper was brought back from Cape Breton Island in North America ...

Marin took it very seriously and rushed to Port Emden to personally check the quality of the paper. Upon inspection, Marin found that the paper seemed to be of very good quality. Moreover, it seems to cater to the needs of Marin. There is a lot of oil paper in this ship's paper.

Marin once said to the craftsmen who went to the north of Cape Breton Island to establish a paper mill, they hoped to make very cheap paper, and then made thick oil paper, using oil paper bags instead of animal skins, became a Important moisture-proof packaging bag.

Then, the paper craftsmen sent to Cape Breton Island used whale oil, soaked the thick paper and heated it to produce whale oil paper.

However, Marin knew that really good quality oil paper was actually made by applying dry oil to the surface of the paper. Dry oil is mainly tung oil, catalpa oil, linseed oil, etc. This kind of oil dries quickly and easily forms an oxide layer on the surface of the paper, which has a good waterproof effect.

On the contrary, it is a non-drying oil. This oil is difficult to oxidize and dry, and it exists in a relatively stable oil state for a long time. This kind of oil is very suitable as a lubricating oil because it is not easily oxidized. Anyway, Marin remembers that past chemistry teachers said that non-drying oil is not suitable for oil paper.

Whale oil is rather strange. Although it is animal fat, it has a high iodine value, as high as 110 to 135, which is a semi-dry oil. But the iodine value of tallow and goat oil is only 30 to 40 points, which belongs to obvious non-drying oil.

Therefore, in order to enhance the performance of the butter paper commonly used in later generations, the paper must be soaked in sulfuric acid before being coated with butter. Otherwise, the butter is not easily oxidized and it is difficult to form a dry protective oil film on the surface of the paper.

Because whale oil is a semi-dry oil, it is not as difficult to oxidize as butter. Therefore, although the quality of whale paper is not as good as tung oil paper, it is barely enough.

Touching the whale oil paper, Marin did not find his hands greasy. Therefore, these whale oil paper can form an oxidized oil film after a long time or after high temperature drying.

With this batch of whale oil paper, Marin decided to find someone to make these oil paper bags. In the future, goods that are easy to get wet, such as sucrose and salt, will be sealed and packaged in oil paper bags to avoid deterioration due to moisture.

You know, these years, sucrose and salt are very expensive commodities. If the moisture deteriorates, the loss will be great.

However, because of the high cost of oil paper before. Moreover, it is difficult to make qualified oil paper with animal oil. Therefore, in order to protect valuable commodities such as sugar and salt, many people use animal skin bags to hold these things.

And Marin's paper mill on Cape Breton Island, because of the use of later generations of paper technology, resulting in low paper costs. According to a report sent by Garland, the cost of papermaking at Cape Breton Island Paper Mill is quite low. Because, in the papermaking raw materials, except for sodium sulfate, it needs to be purchased from Egypt, which is a bit of a cost. The rest, such as wood, is cut down everywhere. This stuff is everywhere in North America. The coal used for fuel is also the same. There is a large coal mine on the Cape Breton Island-North Sydney Coal Mine.

Generally speaking, the cost of making paper on Cape Breton Island is the sodium sulfate imported from Egypt, the labor cost of logging, digging and transporting coal, plus some salary from the paper craftsmen. This cost is nothing in front of the efficient chemical pulping of modern technology.

According to the estimates of Tara ’s assistants, the cost of papermaking on Cape Breton Island is about 1 Finney per 100 sheets of paper, which is several times lower than the cost of Daming papermaking.

This is also something that can't be done. Who is Daming Paper? The cycle is as long as more than 100 days. On Cape Breton Island, turning wood into pulp takes only a day. Therefore, although the salaries of Marin's paper-making artisans are higher than those of Daming's, the labor costs such as logging are also higher than those of Daming's paper-making workshops. However, in the face of efficient modern technology, this gap has long been offset. Moreover, it is far beyond that.

After hearing that the cost of one hundred sheets of paper was only Fenny, I came to join the lively Jeffrey, who could fit a big goose egg in his mouth. He has been an old man for many years, and has a lot of dealing with paper.

Jeffrey is very clear that at present, the price of paper in Europe is 1 Finney per sheet. The cost is about 1 fenny, but it is enough to reach dozens of times the papermaking cost of the paper mill in Cape Breton Island.

That is to say, www.novelhall.com ~ Marin has reduced the cost of papermaking by dozens of times. This is absolutely very important for the spread of culture.

I used to pay 2 Finneys for ordinary people. The price of a piece of paper is 1 Finney. That is to say, ordinary people only have to buy two pieces of paper after working for a day ...

Under such circumstances, can ordinary children read books? Obviously can't read it. You know, a book has dozens of sheets (a large sheet of paper). This is only the cost of paper. In addition, knowledge itself has a cost. Coupled with costs such as printing, the average person may not be able to afford a book for a month. Therefore, before the mid-19th century, most people could not afford to read books.

It is known that after the emergence of mechanical pulping and chemical pulping in the mid-19th century, the cost of papermaking has been greatly reduced. Then, European culture spread rapidly, and science really took off in the second half of the 19th century.

Therefore, the decline in paper costs has a great impact on society.

Marin saw the cheap paper produced on these Cape Breton islands as if he had seen the great development of technology. Of course, there is the promotion of cheap oil paper bags. In the future, there will be a large number of cheap oil paper bags for the storage and transportation of susceptible goods.