Abstract: An inventive method of papermaking can be provided for creating an optimum wet end environment. In a preferred method, an aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite acidified by hydrochloric acid to have a pH of greater than or equal to 4 and less than 7 and adjusted to have an effective chlorine concentration of 1,000 to 10,000 ppm, preferably 3,000 to 8,000 ppm is prepared and charged to a white water pit in a manner to be effective chlorine concentration therein to greater than or equal to 0.5 ppm. Before a step of papermaking, it is preferred that aqueous solution sodium hypochlorite having pH of greater than or equal to 4 and less than 7 is added continuously or intermittently to a raw material water with the expectation that at breaching a residual chlorine concentration becomes greater than or equal to 500 ppm.