Chapter 292: Silas's Proposal
Silas's psychological burden, Luna actually can't understand, after all, there is no printing in this world, although everyone in the nobility has a metal stipophory, but that thing is pressed to the fire paint, not the kind of seal with ink that Luna used in her previous life.
The same font is even more impossible.
A person writes the same way, and the difference is nothing more than what looks pleasing to the eye and what can't bear to look at directly.
At least Luna thinks that the university scholar who has saved his chats with his friends for the record is still very readable in the font alone.
Of course, her father, her mother, her teacher, and the less impressive, her eldest brother, her uncle, and Fleming, were also very good at writing.
But the problem is that she is going to carry forward the printing technique, at the very least, she can open a small bookstore to make more money, after all, there is not a serious bookstore in this royal city!
Since it is a bookstore, the book always has to be sold out, and it is not appropriate to use the handwriting of living people as a mold, and it is even more inappropriate, as well as the social status of these living people, and changing the font is also more troublesome than picking up the book directly.
Staring at the pile of small pieces of wood on the table, Silas pinched his eyebrows purple, then looked at Luna and asked, "You asked the carpenters to work overtime just to do this?"
"That's right!" Luna nodded, but looking at Silas's gaze, she was instinctively defensive, and after thinking about it, she added, "They haven't finished carving the book for me yet!"
For her, this movable type printing is actually just a by-product of her discovery that the wood of this engraving, although the material is soft, is full of toughness and durability.
More importantly, what she wants to do is actually stereotyped printing, although the flexibility of movable type printing is stronger, but in terms of here and now, it is far less convenient than stereotyping, the carpenter is you give him a texture, whether you recognize the words can be engraved, but typesetting needs to be recognized by the typesetter.
These days, it's hard to find cheap workers who can read.
"Let them stop working first, and I'll use it. Silas looked at his daughter and frowned, Luna's meaning, he didn't hear it, but he cared more about whether the document could be issued in time than whether the inconsequential antique book could be reprinted.
Although it will be more troublesome to re-engrave, in fact, even if it is re-engraved and reprinted, it will come faster than having people copy it by hand.
"I can assign someone to you, and ask him to carve a whole piece for you to make do with it. Luna also knows that this matter is related to government affairs, and it is unlikely that she will fight with her father, but within the scope of operation, she also wants to fight for herself.
Mainly, since the land began to freeze recently, construction on the manor side began, and although she had already made the budget, when it came time to start spending, Luna was still a little shocked by the speed at which her savings were dying.
In fact, she has enough money to repair the manor as a whole, as well as the ground buildings near the manor that she appropriated for other purposes, but the problem is that this is spent, and she has to wait for the next dividend, and she has to wait until the next winter.
The so-called surplus food in her hands, not panicking in her heart, although Luna has worked hard to integrate into the surrounding environment over the years, but in the end she still carries some things left over from her previous life, and she can't change it, and she doesn't want to change it.
"What are you doing in such a hurry to carve out that book?" Silas was a little surprised by his daughter's insistence, and with what he had always known about Luna, he didn't think that Luna was just simply willful, so he thought about it and asked.
"I'm going to open a bookstore. Luna pursed her lips.
Just when Silas was stunned by his daughter's unusually high pursuit, and at the same time felt that Mr. Gout had taught Luna very well and understood the importance of writing at a young age, Luna hesitated to spit out two more words, "Make money!"
Silas, who suddenly realized that he was thinking too much, raised his hand and rubbed his face, "You lack money?"
"On the manor, every day I spend money like running water, and after midsummer I have no money. Luna looked at Silas pitifully.
"You can't ask for money to open a bookstore?" Silas glared at his daughter.
"But printing books makes money quickly......" Luna snapped her fingers and began to settle accounts for Silas, in fact, this matter has been calculated since she got the antique book, so when it comes to calculating the accounts, that little mouth is really stupid.
After some calculations, even Silas was a little surprised, what surprised him was not that Luna had planned a long time, but that the profit of the bookstore was actually very considerable.
After all, the things that her daughter has been exposed to since she was a child are all used by the royal family, and they are naturally the best, whether it is paper or ink, even if it is a carpenter's salary, it is more expensive than the average outside, but even so, according to Luna's calculations, she can earn back at least ten times more for a book.
This is still a softcover book in the daughter's mouth, not to mention, the daughter also plans to add some gold painting to the book according to the preferences of the nobles, or painting, or even incense, such a book is made, although it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, but in terms of cost, it will not cost much more than the real cost of the softcover book, and its profit can climb to dozens of times the cost.
"Hiss......" took a deep breath, and Silas looked at Luna for a moment, then thought for a moment and said,
"So be it, when your uncle returns, you go to him, and give you and him forty percent each, and give twenty percent to the treasury. I'll be in charge of that.
As for your tight cash, you can ask Samuel to get the money first, and then deduct it from the profits.
Later, I'll write to your uncle. ”
"This ...... It's not good......" Luna looked at Silas in surprise, this was the first time she had seen her father, with such fanfare, pulling in money for the treasury!
Silas picked up a small piece of wood, shook it in front of Luna, and said:
"Since you want to make money with this, you can't keep it on your own. ”
"Why?" asked Luna, confused.
Although she knew that once a certain technology produced benefits, it would definitely be favored by many people, but just like the sugar production before, after seeing too many things where the aristocracy hated her uncle for eating a big cake alone, but she could only stare at it, Luna actually didn't think it was a problem for a long time.
"Do you know why I'm going to have the craftsman do the engraving again?" Silas took the small wooden block and pointed the lettering at Luna for her to see.
Luna shook her head.
"Robbencheng, how much did the teacher tell you?"
"Robben City is a place of great interest for scholars, with a huge library and a lot of scholars. Unlike other places where the brave are generally more respected, the people who are revered there are university scholars. The teacher also said that there were many people who were better than him. ”
Luna said as she reminisced.