Chapter 429: Industry
Jiayi, who was riding in an airship, soon arrived in Memphelbo.
After getting off the airship, Chester and Kayi carried a large metal box and placed it heavily on the ground.
Each person who takes the airship can carry a piece of cargo that can be checked, the length, width and height are not more than 4 feet 9, 2 feet, 1 foot 6 (about 150x60x48cm), Jiayi They carry a storage box, the first choice for most chambers of commerce to use airships to transport goods.
However, because this thing uses space expansion technology, it can't be stored in the storage bracelet, there will be conflicts, and they can only carry it away. Fortunately, the storage box is generally not too heavy, because there is a magic circle to reduce the weight of objects, but Jiayi and they are equipped with a machine tool this time, even if there is a weight reduction, it is still not light.
They picked up the box again, squeezed through the crowd, and took a few steps forward, leaving the range of the airship, and finally met Matt, who had been sent by the Chamber of Commerce to receive him.
In order to avoid missing the reception, in recent times, whenever the airship from the academy docked, Matt would come over to guard, and today he finally received it.
It's like that if you don't have a phone to answer someone.
After seeing Jiayi, he first helped Jiayi carry the box to the carriage, and then said: "The president has been waiting for you to come over for a long time, the newspapers and white paper of the academy have caused a sensation, if you don't say you want to come, the president will go over to look for you." ”
After everyone got into the car, Matt explained the recent sensation caused by the newspapers. Not only because of the novelty of newspapers, but also because of the discussion of the price of newspapers, especially for the carrier of newspapers - paper, everyone is very interested.
After the newspaper went on sale, more people came to the Chamber of Commerce to discuss the sale of paper, hoping to buy some, but the Chamber of Commerce itself didn't actually have much paper, let alone take it out for sale.
They soon arrived at the Chamber of Commerce, and Matt called for someone to come and help Jia Yi move the large storage box down and hit it heavily on the ground.
Eunice stepped forward to greet them and greeted them one by one: "Master March, Master Jansey, Master Chester, Master Jed, Master Maddo, I didn't expect you to come together." ”
Eunice has seen these people, originally they came here to help the Chamber of Commerce build the iron-making blast furnace, so everyone is quite familiar, the last time Eunice went to the academy, Jia Yi reintroduced it.
Jia Yi said: "We are going to go out to travel together, take a break on your side, and we will leave as soon as we finish dealing with your affairs." ”
"In such a hurry?"
"Of course, our schedule is very full, and if we move slowly, I don't know if we will be able to make it to the beginning of the academy. ”
As he spoke, Jia Yi kicked the storage box at his feet and continued: "Here is the machine tool I brought to you, which is used to make gears, screws, and clockwork, you have seen it last time, but this time it has been re-improved, and I also brought you two sets of printing presses, a typewriter, as well as paper and newspapers. ”
"Has the newspaper arrived, we have been urged so much recently, we are all asking for newspapers to be paper, and we have urged the newspaper office of the college several times, but we have always said no, and we have been out of the newspaper for many days now. ”
"Isn't this newspaper half a month old?
Jia Yi felt a little surprised, this news has become old news, and there are still people willing to buy it.
"Of course, there is a lot of news in the newspapers, and even news from other countries, and many people are very interested, and in normal times, any rumors can spread for months, and the news in the newspapers is now hot, and many people are interested in the new route, because they have heard that the new route means gold.
"There are even many people who can't buy newspapers, so they borrow other people's newspapers to copy them, and now the copied newspapers are more expensive than the newspapers we sell, and if someone is willing to sell the newspaper, many people will buy it. If it weren't for the fact that parchment was too expensive, I think someone would have copied the newspaper for sale. ”
Actually, there are signs of this now, but parchment is too expensive, so the business has not been done, and if there is white paper for sale now, then it is likely that copying newspapers will become a formal job.
As the imperial capital, there are many literate people in Memphelbo, most of whom also have jobs, but a small number of them lack a source of livelihood for various reasons.
"This time I brought you 3,000 cents of newspaper, and 10,000 sheets of white paper, and now March's paper mill is close to stable, and a new paper mill is being built, and the white paper is ready to be sold. When the new paper mill stabilized, it was time for the college to announce the new papermaking technology. Kaichi said to Eunice.
Eunice looked at Jiayi in surprise, and then looked at March, and saw that she didn't look displeased: "You guys are really willing, if it were me, I would definitely not disclose the new papermaking technique, what a big profit this must be." ”
Kaichi shook his head and didn't speak.
He opened the storage box, took out a stack of newspapers from underneath, and handed it to Eunice: "This is the newspaper I brought here, you can take a look, move all these newspapers out, how are you going to sell them and dispose of them." ”
Eunice flipped through a few pages of the newspaper in her hand and asked curiously, "Why is this different?
"Because this is the second issue, the newspaper is released every six months, and the original first issue is of course different. ”
"Doesn't that mean that the first issue is no longer issued? And the font of the first batch of the first issue is handwritten, which is very beautiful, and the font in the back is much more rigid, but the size is more standardized. ”
"Because we used a new printing press, all the fonts have changed, and the movable type printing press, which I also brought to you this time, will be able to build a printing house by yourself, and you can print books and newspapers by yourself. ”
Jia Yi said that he introduced the principle and use of movable type printing to Eunice, and she was really interested in movable type printing, and with white paper, it was almost subversive for the printing industry.
Jiayi and the others rested for a day, and the next day, Selena took them to the location chosen by Eunice to start installing and debugging the magic machine.
Eunice chose the location by the river near the Imperial Capital, but the river on the side of the smelter where the iron-making blast furnace was located did not flow directly to the Imperial Capital, so it was not feasible to transport iron by water.
After the iron smelting of the smelter, it is transported to the imperial capital by land transportation, where it is first forged into corresponding parts, then assembled into a qualified pendulum clock in the assembly room, and finally debugged or something. In addition to pendulum clocks, the machine can also make fountain pens, nibs and caps, which can greatly increase the output of pendulum clocks and pens.
In the current market, the demand for these two is still growing in large quantities.
After the production of pendulum clocks and pens increases, the Chamber of Commerce can put the extra manpower on the sonar side, increase the labor of sonar, and increase production.
The number of mages hired by the Chamber of Commerce is not large, and they are not willing to work intensively, even if they are just some mages with no further potential, they are still mages. Every mage is a valuable asset to the Chamber of Commerce, and if the mage can be liberated from all kinds of trivial things, it is a good thing for both the mage himself and the Chamber of Commerce.
Eunice is already planning, relying on the current site for the placement of machine tools, to buy all the surrounding area, to build a "industrial park" belonging to the Valoka Chamber of Commerce, of course, she does not know the concept of an industrial park, but it does not prevent her from doing so, to bring all her own industries together, to make it easier to manage and cooperate with each other.
Next to the factory where the machine tools were housed, Selena vacated two houses to install movable type printing presses for Jiayi and them, although Eunice did not have a large amount of paper to print books or newspapers, but it did not prevent them from preparing first.