Chapter 55: Hot Business

It was as if God was always listening to Ronin's thoughts, and early the next morning, Ye Nifu's nephew drove the steam car to deliver the goods.

You don't have to find a way to get to Raven Town, you can just get into Ye Nifu's nephew's steam car, although it is not comfortable, but it is definitely much faster than those carriages.

Before leaving, he deliberately handed over Dong Nina to Lady Ye Nifu, and now the only thing that troubles him is the magic on the Code of Order.

The content of the book "The Origin, Belief and Development and Relationship of Religion and Magical Organizations" has been read intermittently, and I have a relatively in-depth understanding of the old power system, and it is no problem to return it to Telsus, but the ritual magic on the "Code of Order" has not yet been learned.

Previously, I tried to make a manuscript by hand, but it would take at least a month or so for the horrific content of the Code of Order to be copied by hand, which is unrealistic.

Ye Nifu's nephew, who was driving a steam car, brought up an incident.

"Mr. Austin, remember the last time you said that if those dwarves sent you some strange things, they would keep some samples for you, and they brought some new things in this time, I think you would be interested."

Luo Ning was still thinking about how to make a copy of the content of the Code of Order, and when he heard the other party's description, he just nodded expressionlessly, after all, satisfying curiosity is a reward for oneself when it can ensure the safety of one's situation, and now that one's safety has gone wrong, those new things naturally become less important.

"It's a machine that can print quickly, book printing uses the lead printing process, the ones are engraved with movable type on the lead alloy, and then typesetting and printing, and those dwarves say that their machine doesn't have to do this, just put the white paper on it, and then use those strange keys to input, and it can be printed, very fast."

Seeing that the young man didn't seem to have much interest, Ye Nifu's nephew introduced further.

"If you don't have any interest in this thing, there are other things that I can show you when the time comes, and there should be something you're interested in."

Luo Ning suddenly became interested after hearing Ye Nifu's nephew's description, and couldn't help but exclaim.

"Typewriter ......"

Ye Nifu's nephew immediately shouted praise.

"That's right, it's called a typewriter, that's how they introduced it, you know this new thing?"

Of course, Luo Ning knew that the typewriter had appeared very early in the previous life, and he couldn't help but sigh at what terrifying level of technology had been developed by those disgusted dwarves in Fort Dawn.

However, the typewriter does not seem to be of much help in the reproduction of the Code of Order, but the movable type printing mentioned later can be expected.

After about an hour, we arrived at Raventown, where everything was the same, and everywhere was full of commercial atmosphere, and people came and went.

followed Ye Nifu's nephew to the store, and sure enough, after the new gadgets were taken out, it could be confirmed that it was a typewriter.

It's just that the keyboard is not the same as the keyboard logo of the previous life, and the keyboards here are all made of fine iron, and there will be severe pain in the fingers when you hit it, and the comfort is not very good.

Ye Nifu's nephew immediately took out a stack of papers from below, stuck it on the typewriter, and stretched out his hand to signal.

"You can give it a try."

Luo Ning typed a little content casually, the ink used in this typewriter is more fragrant than the ink used in the typewriter in the previous life, there is a scent of herbaceous plants, so it can be judged that they used pure natural plant ink.

"The price of this kind of machine is not cheap at all, the price of a machine has reached 5 dong, and few people here can afford to use it."

Ye Nifu's nephew sighed as he stroked the iron shell of the typewriter. "So its sales are not too small, only those who have the money will buy a picture of freshness, and the wholesale price has reached 4 dong, if only two or three units are sold, the profit margin will not be too high."

With that, he moved the machine down and brought out some new gadgets from under the counter, such as a flashlight for lighting, which were more interesting and practical to Ye Nifu's nephew.

However, Luo Ning was not very interested in low-tech things such as hand flashlights, so he just played with them casually and handed them back.

"Do you know where there is a print shop?"

He had to find a way to get a copy of the Code of Order as soon as possible, and the printing shop was the only hope.

Ye Nifu's nephew went out and pointed to a shop not far away.

"It's right there, it's not cheap, you can go and have a look."

Luo Ning followed the guidance of Ye Nifu's nephew and arrived at the door of this printing shop, where there was already a long queue at the door, at least nearly three hundred people.

"So many people need to print something?"

Luo Ning thought it was a little strange, most of the people here had no knowledge at all, and they didn't read books, what the hell were they printing.

He leaned forward to the door of the store to take a look, and a middle-aged woman on the side grabbed him, and after a blank look, her tone was very unfriendly.

"You want to cut the line?"

Luo Ning looked embarrassed and looked at the woman who was holding him.

"No, I just want to see what's going on here, why are there so many people queuing?"

The middle-aged woman looked the young man up and down, feeling that the young man was not like lying, and then let go of her hand to explain.

"Mr. Ryan is helping us write letters."

Ryan? Write?

These words connected Luo Ning instantly thought of a person and hurriedly asked.

"Ryan Kent?"

The middle-aged woman looked at Luo Ning with suspicious eyes. "He's a celebrity in Ravenville right now, and no one is qualified to call Mr. Ryan by his name."

Luo Ning was surprised, it was really a small man, he was actually writing a letter for someone here, according to those rats, didn't this kid have already fled with the money.

There was obviously no time in line, and he still had a lot of things to do, so he thought about it and stood at the door and shouted.

"Ryan Kent, I'm Austin."

Everyone in line looked at the young man who was shouting loudly.

A moment later, someone rushed out of the printing shop, it was the little man Ryan Kent, who saw the young man and walked over with a quickened pace.

"Mr. Austin, you're just in time, come with me."

Led by Ryan Kent, I entered the printing shop, and the smell of ink was refreshing, and I saw the printing workers who were busy.

All the way to the innermost part of the store, Ryan Kent explained.

"Our business is quite hot, and our revenue has reached close to Rp 100 in the past few days, and I can already have a hunch that soon we will become a strong competitor to Leviathan Mail."

As he spoke, the little man put a printed product that the printer had brought into an envelope, sealed it with fire paint, and placed it on the table beside him.

Ronin frowned.

"I've heard from people who have been to Crow Town that you took all the parrots with you the other day and closed the store?"

Ryan Kent took another piece of paper, put it in an envelope, and explained.

"After I got your money, I opened a branch on the street according to you, the low price and fast speed attracted a lot of people to come to the mail, the people of the Leviathan Company came to make trouble, I said that it was the people of the Order Church according to your orders, and I showed them the badge, and then the people of the Leviathan Company left, since the Leviathan Company did not threaten, I moved everything to the place facing the street, and then in the middle of the days when I disappeared was mainly a trip to the field, Go and buy back the parrot messenger that was trained and sold as a pet, after all, there is too much business, and the original number of parrots is no longer enough. ”

So it sees, it seems that his first investment has not been wasted, he has not looked away, Luo Ning looked at the busy employees in the printing shop, and had new doubts.

"This is a printing shop, not our parrot delivery company, did you buy this place?" 、

Ryan Kent blushed and raised his hand to scratch his head, a little embarrassed.

"The price of this printing shop is very expensive, the acquisition needs at least 500 dong to be able to do, I just cooperate with them, because most of the people who want to send letters are illiterate, and I need to ghostwrite, but the number is too large for me to write, so I simply talk to the printing shop about cooperation, let them print the content and address of the letter according to the sender's dictation, I only need to put it in the envelope and mail, on the 30th of each month, I will share the profit with the printing shop, we account for 3% of the profit, even if this is the case, we also make a lot."

Nowadays, the price of mailing letters is low, and the poor can also mail them, but the poor are illiterate and cannot write letters, so they have to be written by others.

After hearing the explanation, Luo Ning finally understood, but this printing shop wants to take 7% of the profits, which doesn't sound very cost-effective.

Ask after a moment's thought.

"How much money do we make now?"

Ryan Kent watched for a moment, leaning his head up, lowering his voice.

"300 dong, several partners in other places also took out some of their savings and invested in shares after seeing the profits, so we have opened several stores in other places."

Then the printing shop will take away 700 Rp of profits per month, Luo Ning thought about it for a moment and continued to ask.

"How many does it cost to hire a literate person per month?"

Ryan Kent frowned, not knowing what the young man was going to do, but he still answered truthfully.

"A literate person needs a salary of about 2 dong per month."

Ronin made a mental calculation and immediately made a decision, he took out the Code of Order and gave it to Ryan Kent.

"I rushed to print an identical copy for me, and if the pattern on it could not be printed, I drew it, about 20 or more pictures, and then told the printing shop that either the profit would be reversed, or the cooperation would be terminated after a week."

Leaving the printing shop, Ronin quickly ran back to Ye Nifu's nephew's shop.

"I want a typewriter, twenty of them, the sooner the better, preferably within three days."

Ye Nifu's nephew was stunned for a long time, and then immediately readily agreed.

"With such a large amount, I will definitely push the price down a little more."

"I'm going to take this one first."

Coming out of the printing shop with a typewriter and printing paper, Ronin was quite excited, and he calculated an account.

It costs 100 dong to buy 20 printers, and then hire 20 literate people to write letters with printers, and the monthly labor cost is 40 dong, and the total monthly cost is only 140 dong, which is much more cost-effective than 700 dong per month for a printing shop.

Back inside the print shop, Ryan Kent explains the print shop owner's intentions.

"They don't want to, because there's only one printing shop here, and it's a monopoly business."

Luo Ning had already guessed that the printing shop that monopolized printing would certainly not agree to the transfer of profit sharing, so it would definitely terminate the cooperation.

"Follow me."

Out of the printing shop, Ronin asked Ryan Kent to take him to the new store of Parrot Flying Mail, which was small but bright and clean.

He put a typewriter and printed paper on the counter and immediately demonstrated it.

"Twenty typewriters will arrive in three days, and you can hire twenty literate people to type and write letters in those three days, and then keep the cost of sending letters down and expand your customer base."

Looking at this new gadget, Ryan Kent was ecstatic.

"With this thing, we can leave the print shop and go it alone."

But he quickly raised new questions.

"But we don't have enough messengers, and now we have a total of one hundred and thirty parrots in several stores, which is the number of all the parrots trained in the past few days, many parrots are overloaded, they are already overwhelmed, they are sick, and it takes five years to train a parrot to be competent."

Luo Ning smiled.

"Not enough messengers? From now on, parrots can constantly become messengers, and everything that flies in the sky can become messengers. ”

The date for returning the book can be slightly postponed by one day, just in time to find the messenger on this day.

"Ryan, do you know where there are the most birds near Raventown?"