Therefore, before that, newspapers were published in nearby residents, centered on the Illuminator Church.

Newspapers published in former periodicals can even be free, because they are only trial versions of tabloids, and at best they can only test the market reaction.

You can also play small advertisements to prepare for the follow-up.

When the newspaper can be printed on a large scale, it can enter the charging model and start to make a real profit.

The blueprint sketched by Lu Qi's words made everyone present seem to see a bright future.

But then, a problem from Neves also gave rise to a new problem.

"Your Highness, not to mention the entire royal capital, even one-third of the royal capital, how can we ensure that it can be delivered in a short time by means of manpower?"

She raised her hand and expressed her thoughts.

This question suddenly made everyone present ponder.

From the beginning, they knew that Luki planned to let the children of the church serve as messengers, which was not a hard job, and allowed them to earn money on their own.

Of course, not all the children in the church have to deliver newspapers, but only select some of them who are capable.

After all, you can't let three, four, or five-year-old children start running to deliver newspapers.

Even if you're a little older, if you're just running around, you'll probably be fine.

But the group of newspapers must be large, with the physical strength of children, how can we ensure that the newspaper can be delivered in a short time?

You must know that even one-third of the area of the royal capital is not small.

Horseback riding is one way, but not to mention whether a child can ride a horse, even if he can, the price of that horse is not cheap.

In this way, the investment is completely disproportionate to the return.

"I've figured out how to solve this."

Lu Qi was prepared for this question.

Since the delivery speed is slow, it is not enough to find a way to speed up this speed.

It's nothing more than a matter of multiple means of transportation.

A four-wheeled car Lucky's could not be built, but could a two-wheeled one stump him?

Everyone was a little curious.

With a masterful smile, Luki led them to Navis's office.

I found paper and pen here, looked for the feeling, and began to sketch directly on them.

Nevis, Merry, and Corson could tell at a glance that Luci was sketching out drawings of unknown things.

Lux, Kahina, and Fiona watched with curiosity.

I saw that Lu Qi's hand did not stop, the sound of swishing kept sounding in the room, the drawings were drawn one after another, his eyes were like rulers, and there was no need to hesitate to put down the pen.

Mei Li and Corson were stupid when they saw this scene, it was the first time they had met, someone didn't even use a draft, not even a measuring ruler and other tools, and just started drawing drawings.

Is this His Royal Highness?

Why is the gap between people so big?

And under Nevis's glasses, there was a lot of adoration.

Although the three of Lux couldn't understand it, they also vaguely noticed that Luqi seemed to be doing something very awesome.

The three of Navis looked at the drawings, while the three of them looked at the focused side face of Lucky.

Twenty minutes later, Luci lifted his pen and called it a day.

Lux asked curiously, "What did you draw?" ”

Luki replied, "I call it a bicycle." ”

"Isn't it amazing?"

Lux asked, incomprehensibly.

Lu Qi didn't speak, and Nevis, who picked up the drawings and looked at them a few times, had already answered for him: "It's amazing!" ”

She raised her tone a little, and her attention was all on the drawings, flipping through them one by one.

Every time she looked at one, Merry and Corson hurriedly picked it up and looked at it, marveling as they went.

"That's amazing! Worthy of Your Highness! ”

"If nothing goes wrong, there is no doubt that this bike is also a life-changing vehicle."

Unlike the focused Navis.

Corson and Merry wished that these drawings were drawn by them at this time, and they were also impressed by Lu Qi's mood.

They are craftsmen, even if they are not competent inventors, but they understand the gold content of these drawings in front of them.

This bicycle, if not the diagram, is unlikely to replace horses and carriages, but it is definitely a driving tool that is several times lighter than horses and carriages.

The main thing is that it is cheap to build and can be mass-produced and sold.

This may be a design that is no less than that of a hand-cranked printing press.

The only pity is that these drawings are so perfect, even the details are marked on them, and there is nothing to do with them at all.

When Neves improved the hand-cranked press, she needed them to provide some assistance, and they were like assistants, so she would be nominated in the future.

However, the drawings of the bicycle in front of them, all they have to do is to use a hammer, piece by iron, to knock out the same parts as the drawings and then assemble them together.

The most jaw-dropping thing is that it only took twenty minutes for such an awesome drawing to come out.

If this spreads to the outside craftsman world, I am afraid that no one will believe it.

After listening to this, Lux entered a state where although she couldn't understand it, she felt so powerful.

Kahina's sparkling eyes stared at Luci's face.

Fiona's gaze in her eyes has not been withdrawn for a long time, and the mystery on Luci's body has never dissipated in her eyes, and even as time passes, it becomes more and more curious, as if it has its own gravitational pull, which makes people fall deeply.

At this moment, the corners of Lu Qi's mouth also hooked up a satisfied smile.

Only Lux saw the little smug in this guy's smile, and couldn't help but pout.

Damn, it's for this guy again.

At this time, Nevis came back to her senses from the drawings and couldn't help but say, "In this case, we will have to expand the number of people again." ”

Manpower, especially the scarce human resources with technology, is often particularly expensive in this era of underdeveloped industry.

Now, if you want speed and quality, you must have a lot of people to invest in it at one time.

At the moment, the size of this workshop may not be enough.

When Lu Qi heard this, he thought for a second and said, "This is not in a hurry, you will enter the palace with me later." ”

He also realized that the small wallet on his body may not be enough to spend like this.

But it's not a big problem, because someone will pay for Luki.

When Merry and Corson heard this, they also came over cheekily and smiled flatteringly.

"Your Highness, I don't know the trip to the palace, can you take my little brother for a ride?"

"Your Highness, can I go with you?"

Glancing at the two of them, Lu Qi didn't refuse: "Yes." ”

These two sisters and brothers have been working hard lately, and it is not impossible to take them out to see the world.

Everyone had a meeting in this situation, and now that the meeting is over, they are ready to go their separate ways.

At this time, after cleaning up, everyone left the workshop together.

at the doorway.

"Goodbye."

Kahina waved goodbye to everyone, and before getting into the carriage, she seemed to remember something, looked back at Lu Qi and said, "Your Highness, if you have time, you can come to my house to sit down, my sister and mother both said that they want to see you, or one day, I will take my sister to Lingna as a guest." ”

Hearing this, Lu Qi nodded and said that it was all right.

Casina's mother, Mrs. Lestara, was Barrett's wife, and she was a conservative and respectable woman in Demacia.

If you want to see him, you may have learned a little about Luqi from Kashina.

However, what makes Luqi a little puzzled is why Kashina's sister, that is, Sana, also wants to see him?

He hadn't seen her since the last palace feast, and even that time he had rarely spoken to her.

However, although he had doubts, Lu Qi did not think too much about it.

I thought that one day I would have time, so I went to the Bouvier family to sit down.

Soon, Kahina got into the carriage and left, heading straight for the Illuminator Chapel.

Lux and Fiona are preparing to go to the shopping street on the other side.

So the group temporarily split into two heads, and Luki took the three of Nevise and went straight to the palace.

The carriage traveled all the way, and after a while, it stopped at the entrance of the palace.

"Your Highness."

When a few guards at the door saw Lu Qi, they saluted.

Lu Qi nodded, and led the three of them into the palace, all the way unimpeded.

He first went to see the third world, and after greeting him, he resigned and left.

The purpose of his entry into the palace this time was not to target his old father, but to someone else.

After a while, several people stopped at the door of the marshal's office.

Looking at the door in front of them, Navis, Merry, and Corson were all a little worried.

Lu Qi naturally knocked on the door and shouted, "Auntie is not there?" ”

"Enter!"

Immediately, Tiana's angry voice came from within, as if the good mood of the whole day had come to an end.

Lucci pushed the door open and walked in.

Tiana sat behind the table, raised her eyes and just wanted to ask Lu Qi to stop calling her aunt, but when she saw that there were three people behind her, she turned to ask, "What's the matter?" ”

"Didn't you say last time that my aunt said that I would come to see you when the printing press was ready."

Lu Qi said with a smile on his face.

Seeing that this kid's aunt was getting more and more agreeable, Tiana sighed in her heart, and she was too lazy to care, so she said, "I'll take a look." ”

About the printing press, it was discovered when the microphone pipe went to the workshop last time.

At first, it was Lux who said they were working on something.

But Tiana, who only treated this as a child's nonsense at the time, didn't take it seriously, and didn't take it seriously until she saw the microphone with her own eyes.

Then when I arrived at the workshop, I found that the microphone was only made by Lu Qi, a kid.

This was outrageous, and upon closer questioning, Tiana learned that he was actually trying to build a machine that could print quickly.

So at that time, she left a message, and after the printing press was built, she came to the palace to find her.

Lu Qi handed over the sample of the newspaper that he had packed up before, and the number was about forty: "These were printed before I came, and it only took a minute. ”

Tiana took it, and she could indeed smell the scent of ink on it, and she looked at it carefully a few times, one by one.

His expression became more serious.

"Forty in a minute?"

"Yes, Navis said, the improved version could be faster."

As Luci responded, he gave up a spot to reveal Navis, who was hiding behind him.

Navis was startled, nodded hurriedly, and said in a trembling voice, "For example, if I expected it, the improved version can print eighty sheets a minute." ”

Ten minutes, that's 800, and 4,800 in an hour.

And that's just one machine, 48,000 sheets an hour for ten machines.

This made Tiana's eyes flicker, and with her shrewdness, it was natural to see what happened to Luki.

She looked at Lu Qi: "You want to borrow someone's hand?" ”

Lu Qiyan nodded.

Tiana said: "I can directly borrow someone from your scientific research institute, but there must be conditions, this printing press includes an improved version, and the official must also have it." ”

Lu Qi was speechless when he heard this: "It's like if I don't borrow someone, aunt, you won't come over to ask for it." ”

Tiana was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "I almost forgot that your kid was my own." ”

Isn't it just a big and small official position centered on the royal family and expanding outward?

And Tiana is the representative of these official unifications, don't look at her as Marshal Demacia, you think that Tiana is done just by fighting.

In fact, she also has to take care of many things outside the war army.

And Lu Qi, as the son of the third, no one is more official than him

Lu Qi said again: "Then is it better to talk about it now?" ”

Tiana nodded and said, "I can borrow twenty of you for half a month." ”

"Only twenty? Auntie, I'm not asking for food. ”

Lu Qi shook his head and stretched out a hand: "Fifty, a month." ”

Tiana also shook her head: "Twenty-five, it's still half a month, the scientific research institute is all talents, much stronger than ordinary craftsmen outside, twenty-five is already a lot." ”

"Even if it's all geniuses, that's the efficiency of twenty-five people, I'm here to borrow people, not brains, forty-five, a month."

Lu Qi's attitude is also very resolute.

Tiana frowned, exuding a sense of oppression from a strong man, and said lightly: "Thirty, half a month, and then there is no more." ”

Feeling such momentum, the three of Navis began to tremble at this moment.

"You don't scare people." Lu Qi was indeed undaunted, and insisted, "Forty, a month!" ”

Merry and Corson looked at Lu Qi's back at this time, their eyes full of admiration.

is worthy of His Royal Highness the Prince, I'm afraid he is the only one who dares to bargain with the Marshal like this.

Seeing that she couldn't be frightened, Tiana also put away her momentum and said with a light smile: "Thirty is my last concession." ”

Lu Qi was speechless: "Are you so slammed on your own people?" ”

"Brothers should also settle accounts." Tiana shrugged her shoulders and said, "People have lent it to you, so do you want the scientific research institute?" ”

The old witch muttered to herself, Lu Qi reached out and groped in his arms, then took out the concept map of the bicycle inside and slapped it on the table: "What about adding this?" ”

Tiana looked at the concept map with interest, and her expression gradually changed.

After a few minutes, she raised her head and looked at Lu Qi seriously: "This can also be made?" ”

Lu Qi smiled: "It's basically just about to start." ”

Now looking at the confidence on this kid's face, Tiana can't question it.

Almost quickly believed.

Because, this kid can't dig up a bunch of little secrets, and before that, he has made a microphone and a printing press.

This bike, I'm afraid, is also one of them.

After thinking about it for a moment, Tiana was just about to bargain.

Lu Qi smiled and took back the concept map, and put forward a condition that could not be refused: "Seventy, one month." ”

Tiana suddenly laughed and scolded: "I'll just give you the scientific research institute directly!" ”

Lu Qi thought for a while: "It's not impossible, I even found the dean of the scientific research institute." ”

As he spoke, he glanced at Navis.

Tiana looked over as well, and Navis trembled with fear.

Tiana smiled: "This little girl is still too young, wait a few years, fifty people, a month, no more." ”

Regarding Navis's abilities, she is recognized.

She really didn't expect that the Menke family, which has been declining over the years, has now produced such a good little girl.

By Lu Qi's side, I am afraid that within a few years, he will be qualified to become the president of the scientific research institute.

What is the research institute?

That's where the artisan inventors of the entire Demacia stay, and basically all the people who can get in are talents, so Lu Qicai is trying to bargain here.

To borrow one from that place is about to find two from outside.

The main thing is that those who borrow don't have to pay yet, and the royal family will pay them salaries.

"Okay, fifty people, a month."

Lu Qi thought about it and agreed to this condition.

It's not bad to be able to prostitute fifty talents for a month, and what he wants to think about now is how to squeeze out the talents of these scientific research institutes in this month.

Seeing that this kid was already thoughtful, Tiana threw a silver medal to Lu Qi: "Go ahead, take this to the scientific research institute to pick people." ”

Luki took the silver medal, and the effect of this thing was the same as that of a token, and the token was equal to the command.

"Thank you, auntie."

Lu Qi smiled.

Seeing him turn to leave, Tiana also showed a helpless smile.

At this time, Mei Li and Corson, who did not dare to breathe during the whole process, left Tiana's office and breathed a sigh of relief.

They were so nervous that they immediately looked at Nevis.

There was also a faint urge to hug his thighs in his eyes.

This girl is hand-picked by the marshal, and she can become the president of the scientific research academy in the future, which is too awesome.

"Navis, do you hear that? Work hard, and you will be the president of the scientific research institute in the future. ”

Walking in front, Lu Qi said with a smile while throwing the silver medal in his hand one by one.

Hearing his words, Navis lowered her head and said softly, "I don't want to be the president of the scientific research academy. ”

Merry and Corson were stunned for a moment when they heard this.

Look, are you talking about human words?

The Menke family and the inventors of the whole country have dreamed of a position, how can you give it to you and you don't want to be it?

Lu Qi also said strangely: "Why don't you want to?" When you get to that position, you will be glorified and respected wherever you go. ”

Navis whispered, "I just want to stay with Your Highness. ”

This is not a confession, but a simple long-cherished wish.

She set a very simple goal for her life.

That is to spare no effort and use what he has learned all his life to help His Royal Highness.

This surprised Luqi a little, and instead of throwing it away, he handed it to Navis and said with a smile: "That's not appropriate." ”

Navis took the silver medal in front of her and nodded slightly.

That's when Merry and Corson came to their senses.

It's small!

Their pattern is smaller!

What the dean is not the dean.

Is it important to have the thighs of His Royal Highness?

The two shook their heads and sighed, but they didn't expect to lose to Navis in this regard.

However, by this time, they had changed their minds.

Don't ask for hugging the thighs of His Royal Highness, as long as you can hug Nevis's thighs.

After a day of diarrhea, I advised everyone not to drink cold water in the middle of the night.

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