"Printing technology of the Alliance—the sharp weapon of religion and cultural transmission!"
Xolotl stroked the tough bark paper in his hand, silent in thought. After nearly six years of development, the Alliance's papermaking techniques had made great progress, and the scale of papermaking had expanded at breakneck speed. In the Lake Capital, Tenochtitlan, and in the Royal Capital, Tzintzuntzan City, there were both vast papermaking workshops. Smaller papermaking workshops had also sprung up in the Alliance's city-states. Papermaking technology was rapidly spreading across the world of Mesoamerica.
Extremely convenient bark paper, reed paper, and grass paper had already become indispensable daily consumables among the priestly and noble classes. The caravans and merchant groups of the various states had the same strong demand. However, most people still wrote and communicated on paper mainly with traditional graphic symbols.
As for the Alliance's script, it was spreading together with papermaking—especially the kana-like script that conformed to Nahua Language word order and had spontaneously been simplified from Nahua pictographs. It was the easiest for ordinary nobles to master. High nobles and priests, meanwhile, would study the scriptures printed by the High Priest Council, seeking the mysteries of the gods within the intricate square characters. The use of these scripts had already, of its own accord, moved toward a process of Mexica localization. The sentence order they used and the pronunciations they chanted both differed from those of the Celestial Empire.
"The priesthoods of the kingdom and the Alliance control woodblock printing, and they are also fervent about printing religious texts and images. Tens of thousands of Main God pictures and scriptures are being printed at flying speed! Even the shrines in Purepecha villages have Main God pictures pasted up and bound copies of the Sutra of Ali kept on hand. The faith of the