Chapter 87: Progress and the Alchemist's Guild

The Seven Stars Bible is the main text of the Church of the Seven, which is divided into seven chapters of the gospel according to the seven forms of God, and the official version totals more than 300,000 words, and each book is printed with drawings and hundreds of pages.

Under normal circumstances, it would cost at least a gold dragon to buy such a book made of parchment and drawing by hand, and it is usually still priceless and needs to be ordered - no one will have the energy and spare money to get a lot of people to buy it.

After the completion of the first Seven Star Bible, printed and bound on plant-based fiber paper, Tyrion took the sample to the church to sell it, and by virtue of his status and eloquence, he successfully obtained the first order - the church ordered 1,000 copies for 30 silver deer each, and 10,000 copies of the brochure and drawings provided by the church for the price of 1 silver deer per book.

Add to that some of the small orders from merchants and various shops that Tyrion recruits salesmen...... The factory has not yet started, and it can be said that many customers have tentatively ordered new things, and the amount has reached hundreds of gold dragons, and some small customers have even paid in advance due to the identity of the Lannister family.

The first engraving had already been completed, and Tyrion saw that the situation was not good...... No, perhaps it should be said that the situation was too good, and it was already decisively ordered to start making a second set of engravings.

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The above is only one copy of the "Seven Stars Bible", and the rest of the calendar also has sporadic orders worth dozens of gold dragons, and the preparation of the novel and the little yellow book has also begun to be in full swing...... It's a pity that people who can write books are easy to find, and people with experience and talent in H content, Iger has not found them so far.

He vaguely began to feel a little uneasy: if you really can't find it, you can't go out on your own, write something OOXX or something, it's better to say, you have experience, you can illustrate something...... There are no cameras or computers in this world, and everything is drawn by hand!

It's too early to think about this, and there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain.

After discussion, the site of the factory was set outside the southwest city wall of King's Landing, slightly upstream of the many ports of the Heishui River, and south of the competition field.

There are many reasons for this: there is such a large open and clean field outside the city walls, close to the river for easy access to water and sewage and the use of water power, it is not far from the Blackwater Harbor, King's Landing Gate and roads, and it is full of convenient conditions, and the poor people living around the city walls are the best source of cheap labor. After days of mapping and site research, Egg and Tyrion finally found an open field a few miles outside the King's Gate, just a few hundred miles from the road, next to the Blackwater River.

It stands to reason that this location, which is not far from King's Landing and is on the south bank of the Blackwater River, should be quite sought-after and has long been occupied. Thankfully, this is not the modern world of savvy speculators that Iger had before he crossed over. Not to mention that the land around King's Landing was the personal property of King Robert, there was also a very important point that affected the land price: in this era, land that was not protected by walls did not retain its value.

You must know that in the original plot, even the most expensive place in the city wall of King's Landing, such a busy and lively place as King's Landing Blackwater Harbor outside the mud gate, in the Battle of the Five Kings, Stannis led a sea and land army to attack King's Landing from two sides, and all the buildings were also ordered by Tyrion, who organized the defense of King's Landing, to be demolished clean, leaving only a piece of bald land, so as not to become a springboard for the enemy to attack the city.

The place that Egger and Tyrion finally chose was to the west of the above-mentioned prosperous area, and the "bay" of the black water had become the "river" of the black water, the banks of the river were narrow and turbulent, not suitable for merchant ships to dock, and were considered worthless by the merchants, and the original trees were cut down and left idle, and a few farmers who lived nearby privately occupied and planted some vegetables and fruits.

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Arya is a big fan of her sword instructor...... As a father, Eddard, who was influenced by his daughter, also had a slight increase in his favorability for Egger under the influence of Aiwu and Wu, and as Prime Minister and Lord of the North, he was actually interested in Egger's idea of developing the Night's Watch industry in King's Landing. So, without much effort, the chief logistics officer obtained from the prime minister the right to use that large tract of land - as long as the money for the destroyed crops was paid to the peasants, and the rent was not even paid to the Iron Throne.

Perfect.

Hire a construction team, plan well, and the night watchman will start working in full swing at the first stronghold in the south.

On this day, Egg and Tyrion returned to King's Landing together.

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"Maybe I'll move here in the future, it's not only a big place, but it doesn't stink. ”

"The place is good, it's too far from the brothel. ”

"There are more people in the industrial area, so naturally there will be prostitutes coming with them, and in the future, there will also be brothels that belong to the assets of the night watchman. Speaking of brothels, Iger couldn't help but worry about his dwarf friends. Because of his own reasons, Tyrion didn't meet that Shae again, but after all, he is not young, and he doesn't know if he will be able to find true love in this life: "Of course, the prostitutes used for the workers will definitely not be able to serve the noble Lannisters, why don't you raise them yourself?"

"I like to change the flavor from time to time. Tyrion didn't pay attention to Egger's joke, but said seriously: "I suggest you still live in the city, it's convenient for you to move out, but what about your cute little apprentice? She is the daughter of the Prime Minister, how can she travel more than ten miles here every day to take your swordsmanship lessons? There is such a Stark child who is very helpful to our career, even if you don't consider personal preferences, you can't leave her behind." ”

"Definitely. There is no need for Tyrion to remind Egger that he is also aware of this, Arya's presence is too helpful to him: "Just talking, I will try to stay in the city as much as possible." ”

"But you did remind me. Tyrion quickly diverted the topic elsewhere: "Building a factory is a business, and providing services to the workers is also a business, and in the future we can find someone to open a canteen, a variety of shops, a brothel, a casino - right next to the factory, and then restrict the workers from leaving during work, and only allow them to spend in the factory area, so that we can pay the wages a little higher, anyway, the workers take part of the money and still spend it in our hands, isn't this what you want to have a stable capital chain!"

It's too fast, I haven't even scratched the eight characters, why did I even think about the service industry came out, Tyrion you are the traverser, right?" Egg squinted at him: "What a black-hearted boss, completely worthy of the title of little devil." ”

"Learn from you, I'm a little devil, you're a big devil!" The dwarf gestured rudely at him and fought back mercilessly: "I just want money, but you want to kidnap people to the desperate Great Wall to fight wild people and kill strange ghosts, and you want people's lives!"

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Originally, it was a joke, but Egg found that he couldn't joke about it at all, and the atmosphere suddenly froze: "...... Somebody has to do it. ”

"yes, somebody has to do it. Tyrion immediately realized that something was wrong, he often did this, jokingly not paying attention to the heat. He quickly diverted the topic: "When the time comes, the salaries of these people must be high." ”

"Well, it has to be high. Egger nodded, he was afraid of death, and he didn't want to face human predators by himself, but he could give honor and security to those who had to face it.

The two tacitly avoided the topic and continued to discuss other aspects: a young nobleman living in King's Landing was told that he was optimistic about what Tyrion was doing, but unfortunately he had no decision power in the family and could not be the master of a large amount of money, so he notified the elders to come to King's Landing - just wait for the Earl of Kings to arrive in King's Landing in two days to visit the workshop and products, and the first investment is likely to be in hand.

Riding side by horse, the two returned to King's Landing from King's Gate, skirted the Visennian hills, walked through Steel Street, and passed by Baylor's Great Chapel, where Iger suddenly spotted a strange building.

In fact, he had seen it on the first day of his arrival in King's Landing, but the stench of King's Landing and the strangeness of his arrival completely overshadowed all other feelings, but as he became more familiar with King's Landing, the sense of disobedience in this building became stronger and stronger: it was a grand building that looked like a grand hotel, significantly taller than the surrounding buildings, but much smaller than the Great Chapel that had just passed, and it was clearly located in the center of King's Landing, but it looked in disrepair, the gate was closed and no one came to pass, and even some of the windows were broken and not repaired.

"What's that building for?"

Tyrion raised his eyes, "That's, the Alchemist Guild Hall." ”

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