Volume 7: Doing Business with the World Chapter 207 The Future of the Clan
The process of obtaining synthetic plastics on Earth is the collision of nitric acid-esterified cellulose and camphor, but in this world, the camphor is replaced by combat tree latex.
At this time, Xiao Yun was faced with a difficult problem: synthetic nitrocellulose cotton fiber, to put it simply, is the white cotton cloth imported from St. Bridget, this thing is too expensive!
At this time, Evelyn, who had gone to Valentine to promote Isaac, returned to the Fire Department. Xiao Yun dragged her into the chemical experiment group without hesitation, and combined the plant fiber project previously researched by Evelyn's applied magic group with the synthetic rubber/plastic chemical experiment group to continue research and find a substitute ...
"Wait, if we just need cellulose that can have deformation resistance between fiber and rubber after reacting with nitric acid, then can we also use the bark paper raw material of the gray dwarves for experimentation?" Evelyn said, pinching her nose.
Xiao Yun slapped his head, pulled Evelyn onto Balk's dragon back, and flew directly to the Hilly New District...
The gray dwarves' process for making bark paper actually uses the most common cattail and flax, plus a small amount of bark as raw materials for fermentation. This kind of paper is relatively rough and hard, with a smooth surface, suitable for writing, and not easily damaged after being soaked in water.
Two gray dwarf papermaking masters were found and placed in the chemical experiment team to continue the experiment. With the help of magic from two spellcasters, Balk and Evelyn, the team was able to speed up the fermentation of grass pulp and wood pulp to obtain cellulose for the nitric acid experiment. At the same time, the team also made toilet paper...
Uh… this is also the most interesting part of the chemical industry. The derivatives that appear during the experiment are like landmines that will surprise you from time to time…
The straw fiber with strong water filtration is combined with cattail grass pulp with good toughness and mechanical strength, and a small amount of rice straw pulp with high elasticity is added. A very small proportion of latex from the fighting tree is used to increase plasticity. The obtained toilet paper is tough and not easy to damage, but it needs to be manually crumpled before use. After letting the human female workers in the wool mill who need to defecate every day try it, they received countless shy likes from the female workers...
When the two gray dwarf papermakers pointed out the toilet paper skill points, they also pointed out the high-grade writing paper skill points... By adjusting the straw pulp ratio and adding wood pulp, various specifications of paper pulp were produced...
The papermaking technology tree was developing rapidly, but the progress of nitrocellulose was not smooth. After several days of struggling, Xiao Yun suddenly remembered that rosin and shellac also accounted for a large proportion of the main components of synthetic plastics on Earth, so he immediately went to the forest to collect samples...
They brought back countless resin shellacs, both well-known and unknown, and put them into experiments. After several sleepless days and nights, they found that the dirty purple shellac peeled off in chunks from a pine plant in the Elf Forest showed properties similar to cotton fiber after reacting with nitric acid.
Holding back their excitement, they mixed the cellulose nitrate, which contained 40% shellac, with rubber latex from the fighting tree and heated them. After condensation, they obtained two types of plastic blocks: off-white, translucent, and opaque.
Put the block of synthetic plastic into the container to melt, and process it with reference to the process of blown glass, and then you can get products like plastic bottles and plastic cloth...
Unfolding the light-transmissive shaping cloth, which has a higher deformation capacity than fiber but lower than rubber, Xiao Yun was silent for a moment, then turned to ask Evelyn, "If we send people to your forest to obtain a large amount of shellac resin, will we be beaten back by your people?"
“Uh…” Evelin was embarrassed.
"Okay, then we'll spend money to buy them." Xiao Yun sighed, and then said seriously, "You guys at most take some of these things back to make handicrafts, and usually just leave them there. If we want to buy them from you, your fellow tribesmen won't ask for too much, right?"
"Of course not!" Evelyn's face darkened. "There are so many of these things in every forest!"
“Good brother!” Xiao Yun gave Evelin a hug.
Evelin: “…” Although it’s very disrespectful to teachers, sometimes I really want to hit him…
So when Elder Meili of Ananas City (General Crest was still playing with Isaac) was confused as to why the Fire Department wanted to buy the resin shellac that was everywhere in the woods and formally wrote a ten-year purchase contract, the research focus of the chemical experiment team had already shifted to synthetic rubber...
The skill points for synthesizing rubber are much more difficult than synthesizing plastic. After all, rubber has a greater requirement for the ability to withstand deformation than plastic, so the additives cannot be used randomly, and can only be tried slowly, little by little...
Bolton Territory.
The campaign against pornography, illegal publications, organized crime and evil in Bolton Territory started from Tal City, the central city of Bolton Territory.
The city of Tal is under the direct rule of Laura. The underground forces have been swept away again and again, and there is basically no "living force". The City Hall announced that all human trafficking and pornographic transactions in Bolton Territory are illegal. All brothels are closed, and women, boys and girls working in special industries are rescued and transferred to Philip's farm for vocational training. All suspected gang members and people with ties to underground forces are tied up and sent to the mine for labor reform. After that, the city of Tal quickly stabilized.
Naturally, they suffered many counterattacks in the process, but it was of no use... The dozens of snake warriors and cat magicians were not vegetarians.
Besides, no matter how suspicious the family army of 500 people owned by Philip's family was, at least the family knights who had joined Philip's family were loyal to His Excellency the Earl. Once Laura made up her mind, the family knights would firmly carry out her orders.
The old butler, who had been sighing and grumbling all the time, was extremely dissatisfied with this action that rudely offended the local nobles, but he was alone and could not make any difference.
After clearing out the population and trading market in Tal City and shifting the crackdown to surrounding towns, the snake tribe, who had enough knowledge of the human kingdom, was fine, but the cat warriors were constantly breaking new ground in their worldviews...
Martin Town is the largest town in Bolton County except for the city of Tal.
The outer room is a casino, the inner room is a brothel, it is directly run by the Martin Town Hall, has hundreds of thugs, and all the nobles in the town can receive dividends. In front of the store facing the main street in the center of the town, the family knights of Philip's family are confronting several local nobles.
The entire street was blocked, the fearful merchants closed their shops, and the townspeople did not dare to leave their homes. The only people left on the street were the soldiers deployed in layers, who seemed to be ready for battle but were actually standing in formation with a nonchalant attitude.
"Mr. Harris, this behavior is too reckless. We can't do this..."
Harris remained unmoved by the old butler's nagging advice. After confirming with the two family knights that they had surrounded the target area and would not let anyone escape, he led his warriors and cat spellcasters to launch an attack - the target was not the surrounded casino, but the town hall of Martin Town!
“You can’t do this!!” The old butler tried to hold back Harris, the leader of the evil deeds, but was stopped by a family knight. He stamped his feet in anxiety and didn’t even bother to be polite. “Are you foreigners here to help the young lady or to harm her? What hatred does the Philip family have against you?!”
Greg, the elder of the snake tribe, was old and could not charge into battle like the young people. He turned his head with a cane and looked at the old butler who kept stamping his feet. He sneered and said, "Be quiet. If Laura Phillip hadn't invited us, why would we, the aliens, care about the affairs of Bolton County?"
"You have deceived the young lady!" the old butler roared angrily.
Gregor shrugged indifferently, turned his head and looked at the town hall where shouts and screams were heard from time to time, and said calmly: "As an alien race, we cannot understand the rules of the human race's power game, but there is one thing that we aliens can see more clearly than you humans... Bolton County is Miss Laura Phillips' Bolton County, not anyone else's. Laura Phillips wants to clean up her own house and get others' approval? Or, can you represent the Phillips family's position better than Miss Laura?"
The old butler froze and could no longer speak; the family knight who was pulling him looked at him with some disgust, and then turned his gaze to the town hall.
The family knights shared honor with their masters. The stronger Miss Laura's rule over Bolton County was, the more the interests of the family knights would be guaranteed. The old butler would be concerned about the opinions of other noble families, but the family knights didn't care about that.
After controlling the mayor, sheriff, local councillors and other bureaucrats, the family knights surrounding the casino had no scruples. They captured and tied up the nobles who blocked their way and rushed into the casino to arrest people.
When the casino owner was tied up and brought out, he was clamoring to teach the soldiers a lesson. The soldiers, who were annoyed by the noise, knocked him out and threw him onto a carriage... After the ban on human trafficking, the labor force in Bolton's mines had to rely on these people.
In order to avoid secondary harm during the rescue, the work of taking over the prostitutes, boys and girls in the brothel was still done by the foreign race. When a pregnant and depressed adult human woman was rescued from the narrow compartment in the backyard, even Harris's face changed.
"How come there is a pregnant human here?!" Xiao Rui was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth.
Harris looked unhappy and said nothing. Elder Gregor sneered and said calmly, "It is not as difficult for the human race to reproduce as it is for us alien races. In this kind of situation, pregnant females will not only not be taken seriously, but will also be treated harshly because they are delayed in making money."
The cats all changed color.
The story of the Fire Tribe does show the strange social form of the human world, but listening to the story and seeing it with one's own eyes are one thing. Being here, the cats only feel cold hands and feet.
Staring at the trembling pregnant human being who was helped out, Xiao Rui showed reluctance and said with difficulty: "But if a woman is pregnant, she will have to give birth... Even the mother has been neglected like this, what should we do when the cub is born?"
Elder Gregor moved his lips but ultimately said nothing... He really couldn't say anything.
The accompanying family knight was somewhat ashamed that the shameful side of the human race was exposed to these aliens, and said awkwardly: "Miss Lola will take care of them, and the newborn will also be taken care of by Miss Lola ."
The cats quietly lowered their heads and worked without discussing the matter further.
Xiaorui is younger than Qingyan, who is also a Black Panther. While Qingyan was worrying about how to lead and manage the team, Xiaorui, who had just become an adult, was carefreely worrying about how to get more snacks.
This time they were sent out as "peacekeeping volunteers". Before departure, Ayun reminded the cats to use their eyes and ears more and their mouths less, to experience, feel, and understand more, and to know more about the world.
At first, Xiao Rui didn't take Ayun's words too seriously, but now, she felt that something in her heart was changing... Especially the knowledge she had learned before about collective societies with different structures. Those boring things seemed to gradually come alive at this moment.
On the way to send the rescued human women, boys and girls to Philip's farm, Xiao Rui took the initiative to find Harris who was driving the carriage, and walked slowly beside him.
"Harris, is it always like this in human countries?" Xiao Rui asked inquiringly, "There will always be a part of the human race who can do nothing and whose fate can only be decided by others. Is it also like this in the South where you used to stay?"
She couldn't express herself clearly, but Harris knew what she meant. After choosing his words, Harris said, "In our snake tribe and your cat tribe, if a cub has a warrior talent, he can become a warrior in the tribe. If a cub has wisdom, he can be expected by the tribe to become a wise man in the tribe. We all value the potential of cubs, encourage them, and look forward to their growth. However, the human race is a little different from us."
"Yes, that's what I want to say." Xiao Rui nodded repeatedly and pointed to the carriages with boys and girls in the convoy behind her: "Those are also human cubs, but they are restricted to a designated area. No matter what talents they have, they can only do the same thing, which is harmful to the cubs' bodies. Don't humans find this strange?"
Harris couldn't help but smile . This young and immature black panther was indeed from the Fire Tribe. Although he couldn't clearly express his confusion, he could instinctively see the worst side of human society: "This is the main reason why we, the alien races, can also feel despair... The human society is not a society that allows talented cubs to have room to develop. They use blood, identity, and surname to determine who can do what, so even if they have the largest tribe, they can't keep their word on the Bloomfield continent." (Refer to the difference between our country and the Third Brother's family)
Xiao Rui tilted her head in thought. After a few minutes, the confusion on her face gradually turned into enlightenment. She nodded and said, "Is this what Ah Yun said, about the importance of creating an environment for talents to rise and the importance of it to the tribe... I see!"
"A reasonable, healthy and sustainable collective must have an environment that allows outstanding talents to stand out, and will not restrict the talents of any individual in the collective with any prejudice or bias, nor will it stifle the talents of any individual. Such a collective has a future."
Xiao Rui let out a long sigh and said with emotion: "I used to think these words were annoying, but Ayun even asked us to memorize and write them down. It turns out that these words need to correspond to each other in order to be understood."
Harris smiled and nodded.
After living in the Snake Tribe for a while and taking some courses with Qingcao, Chengfeng and others, Harris was quite envious of the Cat Tribe - the Cat Tribe was closer to the Snake Tribe and the Snow Wolf Tribe than they were, and received more care from Ayun.
Now, Harris no longer had any envious thoughts... Ayun was fair to all races, and the snake tribe got no less than the cat tribe.
Xiao Rui sighed and asked Harris curiously, "What Ayun knows, don't humans know? Why do they treat their own people like this?"
"Well... the human race also has many wise men, and some of them should know these principles." Harris thought for a moment before saying, "Just knowing the principles doesn't mean you can apply them. We have a small population of orcs, so we can understand them if we talk about them more. But the human race has a large population, and there are tens of thousands of people in Laura's territory. It's hard to explain them to everyone one by one."
"Moreover, not everyone will necessarily accept the right truth..." Harris looked back and made sure that everyone was far away, then he lowered his voice and said, "For example, in our Snake Tribe, everyone knows that the fairer the management meeting is, the better it will be for the Snake Tribe. However, some elders still want to gain more benefits for themselves, so they can't stand the fairness of the management meeting..."
Xiao Rui was surprised at first, then suddenly realized and said, "Yes, there are many people like Xia. We have cats, you have snakes, and of course humans have them too! They have a large population, so there are more people like this!"
Xia from afar: “???”
The grassland has entered the hottest period of summer. Xiao Yun temporarily withdrew from the chemical team and shifted his attention to the most important priority of the tribe during this period - the female snow wolves who were in heat during the winter have entered the delivery period!
There are about sixty female Snow Wolfs who show signs of pregnancy and whose bellies bulge out when in human form.
Perhaps because the female orcs did not sacrifice their individual evolution for the sake of reproduction, these expectant mothers did not suffer from leg swelling, morning sickness, physical ailments, or mental and psychological changes like human women. They ate and drank as usual, and their labor was not affected. Most importantly, their bellies were not big. At first glance, I thought they were middle-aged men with beer bellies.
Uh, it's a bit eye-catching... If Xiao Yun hadn't been watching the female Snow Wolf for seven years, he might have doubted his life .
In terms of childbirth, the style of female Orcs is also very different from that of human women - after the due date, they no longer transform into human form, and even remain in wolf form when sleeping.
In a farm that had just harvested a crop of sweet potatoes and was currently plowing the field, several large wolves were trotting happily in the field, dragging triangular pears (tractors produced in the Hilly New District were primarily supplied to cats and snakes); Xiao Yun stood on the ridge of the field, seriously... observing the belly of one of them.
That was one of the expectant mothers. Under the long and dense wolf hair, there was no visible bulge on her belly...
"Xuehua, Lanlan's due date is the earliest, right?" Xiao Yun turned his head and said.
"Well, Lanlan is the first to go into estrus, and also the first to show signs of pregnancy." Xuehua flipped through the list of expectant mothers in her hand and nodded.
Reproduction of the tribe is a big deal. This group of females who chose to go into estrus were registered after they showed signs of pregnancy. Each expectant mother has a special file, which records their various reactions and taste changes during pregnancy... In the past, births in the tribe were too casual. Taking advantage of the fact that there are more pregnant females this time, Xiao Yun plans to improve the physiological characteristics, needs, taboos, and welfare of pregnant females.
We were poor before, so we didn’t have the conditions to be particular. Now the Fire Department is not well-off, but at least we have surplus resources to redistribute (Comrade Xiaoping said: Although we are not rich, we live a good life), so we should encourage production and reproduction, and give preferential treatment to pregnant females.
For example, the group of females that choose to go into heat in winter, regardless of whether they are pregnant or not within those short two or three days, will move into their own little homes with their partners...there is no need to squeeze into a big dormitory!
Qingcao, the first pregnant and childbearing mother three years ago, did not show any signs of fatigue, lack of strength, or inability to work during her pregnancy. Naturally, this mother did not receive any vacation benefits... But Xiao Yun was also worried that Qingcao might be gifted and different from others.
This time, the whole process was recorded to dispel Xiao Yun's worries. The female Snow Wolf tribe can eat more and work harder when they are pregnant, and they have more energy than when they are not pregnant. Apart from their bad tempers and the fact that they will kick their partners out of the house if they disagree with each other, they have no other problems, so it's perfect!
"Let's increase Lanlan's extra snacks by 50% in the evening. Hasn't she been particularly fond of sweets since she got pregnant? Let Niu Jiao prepare some high-sweetness snacks for her." Xiao Yun observed the hard-working expectant mother for a while, and said to Xuehua, "This extra snack will still be paid through the official account, and will be reimbursed at the end of the month."
"Okay." Xuehua nodded, made a big stroke, and raised Lanlan's "public spending" level again.
After running around for half a day with the Fire Department's financial manager, Xuehua, checking on several females who were due to give birth, and confirming that the expectant mothers were still performing well at work, Xiao Yun was busy setting up the delivery room in the second half of the day...
Three years ago, Qingcao also only moved in wolf form after she entered the delivery period. On the day of delivery, she was a little irritable, but still rushed to the fields to work, and ended up burying Ruhua in the grass... When she returned to the tribe with her bloody daughter in her mouth, everyone was shocked, and Xiao Yun almost choked when he heard about it later.
This time, Xiao Yun definitely didn't want to experience that kind of excitement, so he kept a close eye on the expected delivery dates of the expectant mothers - no matter how tough the Snow Wolf tribe was, the cubs were still very easy to get hurt! If the cubs that were finally born had some problems due to the unclean birth environment, wouldn't Xiao Yun be sick to death!
The largest meeting room in the tribe was requisitioned, and it was thoroughly disinfected inside and out with disinfectant and flushed with water using a hose. Then, a dozen single rooms were isolated and laid out with clean boiled blankets. Disinfected scissors, towels, basins and other items were prepared.
After dark, the expectant mothers were organized and dozens of big wolves were called together for a meeting. They told these females who were about to give birth not to force themselves to work or run around if they found that their bodies were abnormal, or if they had difficulty controlling their emotions, or were irritable and irritable. They should honestly return to the tribe to wait for the birth...
Halfway through the meeting, Lan Lan raised her paw hesitantly: "Ayun, I just felt a little uncomfortable in my stomach... It seems like something is about to come out."
Xiao Yun sucked in a breath of cold air, and quickly asked Xuehua and several other females who had given birth to take Lanlan to the isolated outer room of the conference room, wash her with hot water, and mainly wash her butt, and then help Lanlan, whose legs and feet began to tremble and who was a little unsteady, into the delivery room...
Given the huge difference in physique between giant panda mothers and their cubs, it is quite difficult for a mother panda to give birth. Even if the cubs of an adult female of the Snow Wolf tribe are much smaller than the mother's body size, the birth process is not an easy task either.
Not long after Lanlan entered the delivery room, she began to sweat with her tongue sticking out, and let out a low, anxious roar from her throat. She couldn't help twisting and turning on the blanket. Xuehua was experienced, so she woke Lanlan up and asked her to walk around the delivery room, touching her belly from time to time. Lanlan resisted this, but she also knew that Xuehua was concerned about her, so she endured it and didn't get angry.
Xiao Yun squatted outside the delivery room, staring at Lan Lan's partner...
About two hours later, Lanlan let out an even more anxious growl, as if she was gathering her rage to tear someone apart; Lanlan's partner jumped up and tried to rush into the delivery room, but was held tightly by Xiao Yun and Chief Ali who came to check on the situation.
After waiting for another ten minutes, the sound of a very tender wolf cub finally came from the delivery room...
Xiao Yun and Lan Lan's partner rushed into the delivery room together, and saw Xue Hua pinching Lan Lan's mouth with both hands, preventing her from licking the cub and eating the placenta. Another female Snow Wolf who was assisting in the delivery was happily using a hot towel to wipe the wolf cub, which was only the size of two palms and whose eyes were not yet open.
Lanlan's partner ran up and hugged Lanlan's neck. Xiao Yun didn't care whether it was inappropriate or not, and went around to the back to check Lanlan's butt... The blood had not been wiped clean yet, and it looked a little creepy, but the wound could not be seen with the naked eye. It was much better than the tragic situation of human women giving birth. He immediately let out a long sigh of relief.
Lanlan’s successful delivery set a good example. The next day, two more expectant mothers voluntarily entered the delivery room and gave birth to three cubs - two of which were twins.
Lanlan was able to jump around again after lying down for a day. But maybe it was because she was too young (32 years old), although she ate well during pregnancy and took supplements after giving birth, she did not secrete breast milk as successfully as Qingcao. Fortunately, other females who gave birth in the cluster secreted breast milk smoothly, and her cub survived the full month by relying on milk.
Hmm... the images of female snow wolves during lactation are more eye-catching than during pregnancy...
The wolf cubs were weaned when they were one month old, and the groups of little fat boys were managed by several disabled tribesmen in the Ayi tribe (tribal kindergarten). Every day when Xiao Yun got up early and went to the chemical experiment group, he could see several disabled tribesmen taking more than 70 wolf cubs for a walk in the tribe...
He squatted down and picked up a plump wolf cub that looked like an Alaskan pig in every way except for its fur color. He held it in his arms, opened its mouth to check its milk teeth, and ignored the pink|tender little claws that slapped his back. "The teeth have grown out, can you eat meat now?"
Ayi's tribesmen laughed and said, "Not yet. We can only eat soft-cooked minced meat porridge."
Xiao Yun let the struggling cub go, and caught another one to check its teeth: "Can you take care of so many cubs at once? If you need help, just let me know."
Ayi's tribesman tilted his head and thought for a moment: "It's more difficult to brush their teeth before going to bed, but it's okay at other times."
"Okay, let's find a few people to help brush my teeth. I'll talk to Xuehua later." Xiao Yun nodded, let go of his hand to let the little wolf cub escape, and waved goodbye to the teachers and students of the kindergarten.
After Xiao Yun walked away, the wolf cubs all roared at Xiao Yun's back...
Evelin, who came out halfway to meet Xiao Yun, said: "..."
“Teacher, you always go and mess with them whenever you have time, and they will remember you.” Evelin didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
"How can that be called trouble? That's just caring about the growth of the next generation of the tribe." Xiao Yun shamelessly paused and said, "When these kids grow up, they will hate me."
"...You are still very self-aware, huh?" Evelyn said with dead eyes.
That night, Xiao Yun, who was considered the "worst" by the wolf cubs, appeared in front of the children with a few volunteers and a toothbrush.
"Be good and don't move. Brush your teeth and then you can go to sleep." Xiao Yun looked at the frightened little wolf cubs with a grin. He reached out and hugged a little one with short legs who tried to jump onto the kang but failed. He clamped the unfortunate child in his arm with one hand and pinched his little mouth open.
"Oh oh oh~~~~~~" The little wolf cub struggled and looked to the "kindergarten teachers" for help.
Unfortunately, the "kindergarten teachers" were busy brushing the children's teeth, and no one noticed him...
So the little wolf was pressed on the head and had his teeth brushed, and was also stroked by the "weird uncle" Xiao Yun...
Evelin, who was called to help, said: “…”
I always feel that the teacher is not doing his job properly, but I have no evidence...
