Chapter 489: A promising future
Closing the curtain of the carriage window with a click, Halkin sat back in his seat and looked at the interested Theodora calmly.
"Is the Holy Advent Hall the Lord's stronghold of the Salvation Army in Castle Joan?" Covering his head and face with a gray gauze, Theodore drew close to the hem of the veil to reveal a white chin.
"It depends on how you define it." Halkin shrugged, "Saint Sun works here, and the archives and accounting office are also here. If you want to consult about anything, you are still here."
"I just saw a lot of monks here wearing the same costumes. If you don't mind...do you have any important matters?"
"We are all here to attend the meeting of the Cardinals."
Theodora blinked in surprise: "It seems that our Mr. Dwarf's status in the Salvation Army is not low."
"Hahahaha." Halkin shook his head with a smile, "I joined early, before the Battle of Pavia, so I know many people. Miss Theodora came to me for What?”
“You introduced me to the hospital and told me to treat my back sore. I would like to treat you to a meal and thank you.” Theodora pushed a bag of coins. Gave it to Harkin.
Halkin's smile froze slightly, but he recovered immediately: "You can eat, and the money is free."
Theodora looked at Halkin for a long time and took back the bag of coins after confirming that he was not being hypocritical: "That's just me being vulgar."
"I also like money, but I can't do it this way. Accept it." Halkin added the second part silently in his mind, especially not before the next conversation.
When he arrived at the place, Halkin jumped out of the carriage and looked up and saw the four huge characters "Duke's House".
Stepping gracefully on the small stool and holding Mornstein's hand, Theodora also stepped off the carriage.
Stepping on the wet stone tiles, looking up at the sign in front of her, she smiled and said: "Although the tone is loud, the chefs here are very good.
The taste they make does have the feel of Duke Chef. At least, I have never tasted this taste in other restaurants.
I just don’t know why, but they don’t open the private rooms on the third floor. "
Halkin coughed: "Because the cook here is the cook of the Duke of Kush. After the Duke of Kush was beheaded, he came outside and opened this small shop.
The third floor is not open because it is a place dedicated to receiving the royal cardinal and foreign guests. "
Theodora's walking pace was obviously paused: "Just because of a decree, does the chef have to keep the third floor empty all the time? ”
"It's not a decree." Following Theodora on short legs, Halkin nodded to the waiter at the door, "This tavern has shares in the Papal State, and Your Majesty is the major shareholder."
"Then why didn't he keep the chef at home instead of putting it outside?" Theodora couldn't understand.
"Master Wan Piao is so frugal, what can he eat? It's just pie, black tea and the like." Halkin said in a low voice, lowering his head and not looking at Theodora's butt. , "Your Majesty said, rather than leaving it at home to eat dust, it is better to put it outside to generate income. The pie is very delicious. Why did you replace it?"
Theodora who was walking in front couldn't help but smile. A smile.
They said that Saint Sun Horn was born as a farmer, but she still didn't believe it.
How could a farmer sweep across the southeastern part of the Thousand River Valley in half a year and defeat the Imperial Company, the Church, and Niedersal to a complete defeat?
But just such a restaurant made Theodora a little convinced. The way he was desperate to make money was very like an old farmer.
Under the guidance of the waiter, the two went up to the second floor, took their seats, and each ordered a pepper steak and red wine.
Bonato and others sat at another table next to them and ordered a lot of bread, meat rolls and cheese.
"To be honest, I invited you to dinner. In addition to thanking you, I also hope that you can help us again." After tying the napkin, Theodora elegantly placed her hands in front of her knees. .
"What are you helping me with? Just tell me, I will send the god to the west." Halkin said carelessly, swinging his short legs.
“We want to buy a property locally, but it takes one year to become a naturalized citizen. Do you have any ideas?”
“Simple.” Halkin snapped his fingers, “Only if you show If you show your investment ability, your household registration will be approved. I will take you to say hello tomorrow."
"What is the investment ability?"< br>
Haer Jin's eyes rolled: "Strength... Ha, let me tell you, as long as you are willing to participate in my new industry, with my guarantee, you don't need to buy jihad bonds."
"New industry? What new industry?" The Norns' discrimination against craftsmen was not as high as in the west. They were happy to participate in the so-called "inferior industry".
“Printing industry.”
Recommending the printing industry to Theodora was not just nonsense by Halkin.
The basis for what he said was the patent leather box in his hand.
According to the report of this regular meeting, both the Pigments Guild and the Printing Guild gave their report results.
The printing guild designed a set of movable type printing and casting technology based on Sheng Sun's simplified letters.
To be precise, this printing and casting technology was not invented by a certain letterpress craftsman, but by a mint named Akyu.
This method was once used in mints to cast impression dies.
As for why the experienced group of relief engravers failed to get it out, Halkin suspected that they did it on purpose.
After all, if movable type printing is popularized, their income is estimated to be significantly reduced, and competition will become extremely fierce.
It's just that they couldn't defeat Shengsun's army, so they just obeyed and rebelled.
To put it simply, this method is to place the engraved copper plate underneath and erect a fist-thick mud blank on the outside.
Then the molten lead and tin water is poured into it, and it becomes a character mold about 20 centimeters long.
Then you can use it by polishing the rough edges and thorns a little. Since the characters used by the empire are all phonetic characters, they are not a two-dimensional structure but a one-dimensional structure.
Therefore, the coder does not need to read, and only needs to insert the letters in order one by one, which greatly improves the feasibility.
Then the first step to the feasibility of movable type printing was completed, and the remaining three pieces of the puzzle were only paper, ink and a screw press.
Only when all four are present, can movable type printing have the possibility to replace letterpress printing.
The ink has now been developed. The formula given by Saint Sunzi was roughly correct, but one egg white was missing.
The ink produced by mixing lamp black, linseed oil, and egg white works perfectly with the typeface.
Of course, due to technical flaws, the letters will be slightly misaligned, the handwriting will be a little blurry, and the printing stability is not as good as letterpress.
But it is more convenient and large in quantity. A set of movable type printing can be used thousands of times, but a set of relief printing can only be used thousands of times at most.
It takes days to weeks to carve a complete letterpress, this type of movable lettering only takes a few hours.
Especially when printing a variety of books or mass production, it reduces a lot of repetitive work.
As for the paper and spiral embossing machines, the former used old technology to make one, while the latter only remembered that it applied the principle of an oil press. I still don’t know how to make it.
The spiral embossing machine has not yet been designed, but if it is fully manual, it is a little troublesome but can be used.
Currently His Majesty Sheng Sun is preparing to build a movable type sealing workshop and a printing workshop.
The former produces movable type ink and printing presses, while the latter prints textbooks, holy teachings on salvation, official documents and manuals, yearbooks, times and other books that need to be printed on a large scale and constantly updated in large quantities.
But there is a problem. The cost of a set of movable type with punctuation marks that can be printed is about 60 to 80 gold pounds.
If you want to recover the cost, you have to print it thousands of times before you really start to make profits.
This is a new technology, and no one is optimistic about it at the moment, so except for Horn himself, there is no wealthy businessman who dares to invest money.
Especially the engravers from the printing guild, who worked against the will and secretly obstructed it.
Until movable type printing replaces this group of engravers, the Salvation Army Government has no way of killing them and can only delay them.
So in addition to the government-run printing workshops, Horn hopes to have some private ones to supplement them, so that he can save a lot of money and manpower.
For Halkin, after spending hundreds of gold pounds on the giant spider silk project with no results, he urgently needed new achievements to prove himself.
Halkin wanted to make progress so much. He also wanted to live in a big townhouse and receive a car every day.
These few people in front of him, he traveled all over the country and recognized them at a glance. They must be the rich and stupid roe deer from Norn.
For these Norns, they are not afraid of the local printing guild.
The Norn guild has an army!
This kind of underworld guild organization with unlimited means makes the Norns have no psychological barriers to stealing technology and destroying the market.
The dwarves, who believed in their promises, were defeated several times by the Norns.
But for the reformist dwarf Halkin, even though Theodora is a Norn, they are also the best investors.
Outsiders are not afraid of guilds.
Bookseller, with relevant industry experience.
It’s not too perfect. He accompanied Smiley and said hello, and he had been waiting for this all day.
After listening to Halkin's story, Theodora did not continue speaking, but cut the black pepper steak immersedly.
After swallowing the steak in her mouth, she picked up a handkerchief and wiped her mouth before saying, "Is this information inside information?"
"You wait three to five days, It can be seen on the city's bulletin board." Halkin chewed the beef with his mouth, and the crumbs flew everywhere. "Maybe the bulletin on the bulletin board is printed with movable type."
New printing. Technology? Theodora silently finished the remaining half of the steak before putting down her knife and fork.
This technology sounds good, but is this technology really as reliable as the dwarf in front of me says?
"I can give you a guarantee. You only need to pay for one set and you can get two sets of movable type."
Halkin immediately figured out Theodora's mind: "I can give you You get some orders for literacy textbooks. You don't even need a space. I can find you a free workshop in Ashheard Town.
As for the house problem you mentioned, I can guarantee that if you hire a printer. Place the place in Huilu Town, and the mayor will give you a good place to live for free.”
“Your Excellency, I am very grateful for your kind invitation and am willing to give it a try.” Theodora took a sip of red wine, "But what can you gain?"
As the director of the Industrial Temple of the Evangelical Chamber of Commerce, Halkin grinned and said: "If you can come and participate, I will I got what I wanted, it’s a win-win situation, come on, I’ll give you a drink.”
After drinking all the wine in the cup, a blush appeared on Halkin's face.
Take the call, colleagues!
You guys don’t know how to inquire about information and have no connections.
The target has not come down yet, so I have completed the target ahead of schedule.
What is qualifications, what is loyalty, what is implementation? Halkin leaned back on the cushion.
Losers, what are you fighting with me for?
(End of this chapter)