The Primordial Wizard

Chapter 15 Engraving and Printing



After more than a year of contact, especially the compilation of dictionaries together, Ace has confirmed that Peter is a kind person and has a strong influence in the city-state cultural circle, making him the most suitable collaborator.

Please don't do craniotomy. It is my honor to cooperate with you, teacher.

The study room is full of pleasant atmosphere.

Ace has been planning for a long time. He finally obtained the status, fame and citizenship he wanted through the dictionary. Now he can do things that he wanted to do but was afraid to do.

Using engraving and printing technology to promote the popularization of books step by step, becoming the largest printer and publisher in the city-state and even the entire Salia Peninsula, and providing strong financial support for his research on supernatural mysteries. He doesn't care who leads the business, as long as he can get Enough is enough.

He still doesn't have enough prestige and funds. Peter is the best collaborator. As for how to become bigger and stronger, he still has the follow-up papermaking and movable type printing as his confidence.

With the improvement of status, he can start to use other technologies from his previous life to expand the industry, but the industry is not the goal. His goal is not to become an alien trust, but to be extraordinary.

In this world, the absolute power of extraordinary creatures suppresses all dissatisfaction. Everything in the mortal world is at your fingertips. Most of the heroes never care about running industries. As long as they want, mortals will contribute everything. Industry is just a tool for the pursuit of excellence, not an end.

Ace commissioned his father to find a familiar carpenter to prepare a blank engraving, and then borrowed a few disciples from Peter, including Morton, his first teacher of writing.

Morton was also very emotional. In just over a year, Ace had grown from a half-child who could not read big characters to the youngest scholar in the city-state, and even organized them to engage in engraving and printing together.

Mr. Morton, seniors, thank you for your help. It will take us half a month to write the contents of the dictionary in thick ink on parchment paper, and quickly glue it on the blank engraving block, so that the carpenter can directly carve the reverse writing The text is used for printing. This work is very cumbersome and has caused a lot of trouble for the seniors. This is a small reward, fifty silver thalers per person, please don’t dislike it.”

The person who was originally drawn to be a coolie was a little unhappy, but seeing that he could earn fifty silver thalers in half a month, he felt a little more at ease.

The cost of studying with Mr. Peter is still very high, 50 silver thalers a month, and the expenses of a family of three for half a year can be subsidized a little.

The engraving work was progressing smoothly. After the engraving was completed, Ace entrusted Romon to be responsible for the printing.

He converted the original house in the Eighth Street into a ready-made workshop, and hired seven or eight men and women at the price of 40 copper thalers a day to print and bind the Common Vocabulary and Common Language Dictionary.

Although there are slaves in the city-state, they cost 1-2 quintals each, which is too expensive.

Moreover, only nobles and citizens have the right to keep slaves. According to the law, nobles and citizens have the right to keep no more than 20 slaves in the city, and after purchasing land outside the city, they have the right to keep no more than 3,000 slaves.

After the 300 volumes were successfully printed, Romon brought the first batch of books to Joan, Peter's servant. He was the butler of Peter's family and was in charge of specific sales. He priced a book at 50 silver thalers and copied a book on the market. If you want to give the book owner half to a quintal, the price is not expensive.

But excluding the cost, the profit of a book is nearly ten times. If the output is greatly increased, the cost will continue to be diluted, and it is indeed a huge profit.

As for the follow-up, if the response is good, Ace and Peter plan to engrave and print widely read books like Myth and Epic, and control the sales price and production volume. This is what Joan and Romon have to consider.

Ace is now completely obsessed with developing mental power and doesn't care about other things at all. After experimenting, he found several conditions to improve the effect of mental exercise:

One is the environment, the quiet natural environment, the morning light, in places such as mountain tops, forests, waterfalls, etc.,

The best rotation, the effect is amazing;

The second is the state of mind, calming the mood before and after exercise, reducing mood swings and distracting thoughts, the effect is very good;

The third is objects. It is most difficult to exercise with lead products. Lead seems to have a strong inertia to interfere with mental power, and the exercise effect is good;

The fourth is intensity. Every time you exercise, you will feel very tired and have the last bit of energy left, which is just right;

The fifth is a combination of work and rest. After exercising once a day, you need adequate rest and adequate nutrition.

He called the combination of these five conditions the five-step meditation method. And in Buku Town, the nearest town to the city-state, he bought a manor with a beautiful environment. Buku Town is very close to the city-state, and the transportation is convenient. Although there are a few low-level monsters haunting it, it is much better than the wilderness.

His mother, Marina, worried about him, followed him. Romon also hired two veterans to protect them.

Ace goes to meditate quietly every morning, then goes home and sleeps until noon, eats a big meal, then exercises martial arts with two veterans, and reads the miscellaneous books he collected at night, which is very regular.

After meditating with the five-step meditation method for almost a month, Ace obviously felt that his martial arts were also improving rapidly, with various skills at his fingertips, with his eyes, hands, and heart.

If he was older, he would be a very outstanding fighter among mortals, and this was the benefit of extraordinary spiritual power.

It is conceivable how the aristocrats who have inspired the potential of their blood can transcend, and the heroes with special powers are even more difficult for ordinary people to match.

In a blink of an eye, the end of the year came, and Ace's mental power was greatly enhanced. He used to be able to lift silver products weighing one kilogram with his mental power, but now he can lift silver products weighing up to five kilograms. The maximum interference range is expanded from a radius of one meter to a radius of three meters.

In addition, he has slowly awakened his perception, and his mental power is more sensitive to the mental fluctuations of nearby creatures.

He tried to drive iron swords, daggers and other weapons, but unfortunately, the flying speed was too slow to hurt people at all, and the idea of ​​Yujian was directly disillusioned.

But driving the needle, the speed will be much faster, but if you want to kill people directly, you need too high operation skills.

He believes that the root cause is that the mental strength is not strong enough and more exercise is needed.

Life in Buku Town is not without incident, and I have encountered some troubles, but as long as the veterans make a move, the gangsters basically deliver food. As for some troubles in the town hall, Ace's scholar status will let them know what is despair.

Romond sent a servant to bring him a letter, which said,

Dear Ace, Mr. Peter asked you to visit his villa recently. He has already negotiated with Tylos and introduced you to Tylos to study medicine. You are so smart and will definitely become an excellent doctor.

The printing business of our family is also getting better and better. The Myth and Epic that we co-printed with Mr. Peter were very well received, and another batch of Dictionary was printed. The City-State Library also entrusted us to print Medemo The three hundred volumes of Si Jiancheng Ji seem to be distributed to all the nobles for study.

I also collected some fresh medical materials that you asked me to obtain. You can take a look at the quality of the materials.

It seems that my father got some low-level monsters with unique abilities, so I just went back and studied them carefully. After reading the letter, Ace lit a candle, called his mother Marina and two veterans, packed up briefly, and left Buku Town in a carriage.

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