"Are you kidding? How can it be! After being educated, Solam finally got the definite news from the bald sage that Ferron really didn't have movable type printing......

But Soram doesn't believe it! Is it hard to print with letters? Isn't it just an extended use of seals? How could it be that Feren hadn't invented such a thing? You know, Ferent even has stockings, and you tell me there is no movable type printing?

Or is it true that my Great Huaxia is really the race of the Son of Heaven? Crushed the IQ of a group of magical races created by even magical civilizations?

The bald sage was also strange here, he wondered if there was something wrong with Solam. This guy used to question whether he had studied history or not, but now he perfectly shows what it means to be a historical idiot. Is it not clear whether movable type printing has appeared on the mainland?

Solam was stupidly skeptical about life, and the bald sage was also wondering if he was too blind, could such a fool really invent movable type printing?

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Finally, after almost half an hour, Solam's doubts were solved by the bald sage.

Feron really didn't have movable type printing, that's OK.

As for the reason, it is also normal, that is, there is no need and there is no market. It has always been emphasized that books have always been a luxury in Faerun, from ancient times to the present! The average person simply can't afford to spend it. And more importantly, there is no desire to spend!

In Faerun, it is not difficult for ordinary people to know how to read, and many churches have this kind of measure, and many pastors of the Good God Church will go to the mountains and countryside to spread the doctrine, and at the same time as spreading the doctrine, they will also popularize the lingua franca. Because in this way, their teachings can be spread more easily.

But even so, there are many people who are too lazy to learn. After all, not everyone has the time and free time to attend lectures. In a world where productivity is comparable to that of the real world and the Middle Ages, if you want to be fed, you have to work. Moreover, the children of the poor are in charge of the family at an early age, and in ordinary families, children need to help the family with things at a very young age. In this case, who is interested in sending their children to learn to read?

Eating enough is the first thing, or survival is the first thing! Many parents feel that learning words has not changed their lives, and in a word, reading cannot be eaten!

Knowledge changes fate, this kind of thing rarely happens in Faerun, because this is a feudal society, commoners are commoners, nobles are nobles, it is impossible to change just because you have read books, in many countries, many official positions are hereditary, passed down from generation to generation, for example, a tax officer, generally a family has been serving, why should you be a commoner to compete with them?

Besides, Feilun does not have a system such as the college entrance examination and the imperial examination, and reading is really not as useful as imagined. At least not as useful as being a professional.

In this case, the common people naturally have no desire to buy and acquire books, because it is not attractive to them. This also means that there is a serious lack of market for books among the common people.

You must know that movable type printing in ancient China was also invented after the imperial examination system was perfected in the Song Dynasty. At that time, the sentence "There is Yan Ruyu in the book, and there is a golden house in the book" stirred up thousands of ordinary children who wanted to "sell goods and the emperor's family" through the imperial examination, and soared into the sky.

That's the book market, and how many people are there in the elite? For them, the manuscript is completely sufficient, and even they prefer the manuscript, after all, knowledge can only be monopolized by them to maintain their status, otherwise why do you think those gate valve families before the Song Dynasty were so dick? It's not that they have a monopoly on knowledge, whoever becomes the emperor has to need them to be officials.

The nobles of Faeron are similar, and they are not willing to let the commoners share power with them. Moreover, the aristocratic class of Faeron is much more powerful than those of the gate lord family, if a noble class is not happy with the king, he can overthrow the king in a few minutes and play by himself. After all, the king was only a member of the aristocratic class.

There is no demand without the market, and there can be no progress without demand, which is an eternal truth.

At the same time, there is also a thing in this world called spells! It's a lot more stuff than a printing bullfork! A transcription technique, just a level 0 trick, can be used by a magic apprentice. This is much more convenient and quick than a manuscript. The cost is also much lower. After all, movable type printing requires lettering, while transcription only requires a snap of the finger.

Therefore, even if there are idle people, they will not be idle to think about movable type printing.

In short, the position of books in Faeron is actually very embarrassing, the original largest number of commoners, do not need this kind of thing, and the rich and powerful class who need books do not need to invent any new methods of printing, whether it is manuscripts or transcription can meet their needs.

As a result, the development of the printing industry was restricted, or from beginning to end, there was no printing industry in the Feilun continent.

"I see...... I thought it was ...... Never mind. "Solam's heart is churning, damn, he has accidentally become a great man who promotes the process of civilization.

Really, Soram was really careless.

Didn't Soram order a batch of books in the Knowledge Islands at that time?

Solam has never been the kind of personality that picks and searches, since he decided to improve the quality of his people, of course, it is impossible to make a small fuss, besides, those books don't have much money, so Soram casually said a number, 600,000!

At that time, he scared the owner of the bookstore stupidly, and he thought that Soram was a troublemaker. Because they rely on Candle Castle, their Knowledge Islands have a strong cultural atmosphere, and they also do book trading, but 600,000 books of all kinds can't sell so much in the entire Knowledge Islands in twenty years!

Fortunately, Solam directly called the people from the Fortune Church on the island to testify, and directly signed the purchase contract, and the money was paid by the Fortune Church, so it was impossible to go back on it. Solam has always had his own account in the Wealth Church, and he doesn't know how much Solam has on it, but if he calculates it, there are at least two or three million gold coins, after all, for so many years, the income from the entertainment street in Port Carlin has been hit to Soram's account on time every month, but Soram has never used it much, so when he gave Nazaire the Development Chamber of Commerce, he took a little.

After that, Nazaire's Chamber of Commerce was soon on the track, and it didn't need Solam's financial support at all, but brought huge profits to Solam every year, and this part of the profits was on the books of the Chamber of Commerce, anyway, the Chamber of Commerce was Solam's, and Soram could use it if he wanted, and he didn't need to say hello to anyone.

In the face of a local tyrant like Solam, what can the owner of that small bookstore do, of course, is to kneel down and sing about conquest. This little boss is still a bit business-minded, of course he knows that he can't afford this business, so he gathered a group of peers in a very short period of time and began to subcontract!

All in all, everyone earns money, although he earns the most, but he also leaves soup for others. But even so, they still can't complete such a large order in a short time. You know, they do all manual work, and they don't use transcription very much, after all, handwriting is much cheaper than using transcription for magic apprentices.

It is said to be ten copper plates for a thousand words, and many people on the island rely on this to subsidize their families. In other words, it is more expensive than Dianniang's remuneration, but it is still enough to support the family, or that sentence, there is little demand for books, even if you copy books, it is not every day.

At that time, the boss wanted Soram to give him a grace time, or simply deliver the goods in installments. Soram was flirting with Sianna fishing at the time, and didn't pay much attention to the boss, just casually said that it would be okay to print with movable type, and the boss looked confused.

Solam didn't think much of it at the time, thinking that in this world, movable type printing is not called this name, which is also normal. So I reluctantly explained two sentences, and let the boss get out...... I didn't expect ......

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