Douluo: My dear grandson, come quickly, Grandpa, I am Titled Douluo

Chapter 37 Nobles and soul masters don't need blacksmiths, but they need subversion

The boss immediately sighed: "This book fascinates me so much."

"Although this straightforward language and popular characters are obviously prepared for children."

"But from the perspective of my decades of printing books, this story is definitely suitable for all ages."

talking.

The boss couldn't help being a little excited. He rubbed his hands and asked sincerely:

"Little genius, has your entrusted person ever quoted you for this book?"

This book is really good.

The boss can't decide the price for a while.

But he had already made up his mind.

If it is a person who writes a book, the asking price is quite high.

Then he will stabilize the opponent first and try to give a price as close as possible.

If the other party's quotation is low, he will give a high price, so as not to make the other party feel that they have lost money after the book sells well.

Money to be earned.

Customers also have to hold on.

Ye Tian didn't hesitate to think: "My uncle said that he wants [-]% of the sales of this book Brother Calabash."

"Thirty percent!"

The boss' eyes widened.

[-]% of sales.

Leaving aside the cost of printing books, this [-]% is almost equivalent to [-]% of the profit.

Printing books these days requires engraving, which is to manually engrave the wood with reverse fonts in advance.

The wood absorbs the ink and deforms quickly.

If a large amount of printing is used, the engraving block will be useless after a few days.

Needs to be re-engraved.

And that's without cost of shipping, selling, hiring people, inventory, etc.

a time.

The boss's brain was running fast, and he calculated the price clearly.

With a wry smile:
"Little genius, the price is too high."

"You should also know that any bestseller these days will be copied by the bookstore next door."

"If you distribute books here, our bookstore will also have an advantage in starting the book."

"Twenty percent."

Ye Tian dropped [-]% directly.

The boss brain is working again.

[-]% of sales and [-]% of net profit.

Let alone operating costs.

He can earn less than [-]%.

And often best-selling books are copied faster by other bookstores.

This profit is tantamount to busy work.

"Little genius." The boss smiled bitterly again:

"Printing a book requires engraving, which takes a lot of effort and money, and the engraving will be broken after a few printings. You have to spend a lot of effort to re-engrav, or you can lower it. My profit here is really not enough. .”

"Carving?" Ye Tian tilted his head and stared.

Douluo Continent has already invented paper.

But apparently movable type had not yet been invented.

Printing costs are indeed high.

"You don't carve the characters into individual seals, and arrange them randomly so that they can be printed."

Ye Tian was not stingy, and casually mentioned something.

I want the theory to spread quickly in the mainland.

Indispensably, the reduction in printing costs.

"Seal, printing?"

The boss was startled, as if Ren and Du's two veins had been opened up.

Suddenly laugh wildly.

"Hahahaha, good way, good way!"

The principle of movable type printing is not difficult.

It belongs to the kind that can be seen at a glance.

The boss has been well versed in the printing industry for many years, and when Ye Tian mentioned something, he naturally figured out the key.

So the boss was ecstatic.

The words spoken by the little genius in front of him are worth a hundred gold soul coins!

The sound of wild laughter attracted the apprentices in the backyard of the bookstore to poke their heads out.

In normal times, the boss would inevitably have to scold him.

But this time the boss is still smiling.

He smiled at Ye Tian: "Little genius, you are so right."

"Twenty percent of the sales, deal."

"In addition, the store will give you an additional guarantee of fifty gold soul coins."

"Even if the book doesn't sell well, the money will not be recovered."

The boss immediately set up a written statement.

Send it to Ye Tian's eyes together with the money.

There is no other reason.

Movable type printing will greatly reduce printing costs.

The boss is in business, so he is naturally proficient in spells.

Once he uses movable type printing, he can get [-]% of the profit!
And not only the book Hulu Brothers, but the profits of other books in the future will be greatly increased!
That's why the boss was willing to give Ye Tian a guarantee. "It's a pleasure to work with you. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

Ye Tian picked up the golden soul coin and threw it in the storage space.

He has already pointed out the strategy of movable type printing.

As for how to practice, it is the boss's own business.

Ye Tian is not afraid of the boss hiding it.

You can hide it for a while, but you can't hide it for a lifetime.

In a few months, I am afraid that all the printing bookstores in Wuhun City will use movable type printing.

Of course, this is a follow-up.

……

out of the bookstore.

Ye Tian walked south, asked several shops along the way, and asked where the blacksmith shop street was located.

If theory is a powerful ideological weapon, it can dare to teach the sun and the moon to change into a new sky.

Then the real physical weapon is the super accelerator of this process.

Ye Tian, ​​who is familiar with the plot line, naturally knows that Sangua relies on the production of hidden weapons.

Not only smoothed out the disadvantages of the two great empires in terms of soul masters and Wuhundian.

It can even be said that it is far beyond.

After all, if the soul master is dead, he is really dead.

Soldiers with weapons die, and within a few days new troops can be recruited.

What does Wuhundian use to fight against the two great empires, it simply can't fight.

Not as good as others in the technology tree, to be honest, Wuhundian didn't deserve to lose.

This is not an isolated case.

Ten thousand years later, the Douluo Continent lost to the Sun Moon Empire because its technology tree was not as good as others.

So much so that it was annexed by the Sun Moon Empire.

As Ye Tian who has received compulsory education.

Naturally understand that science and technology are the truth of primary productive forces.

He can't just sneer at hidden weapons just because he doesn't know how to make hidden weapons and He Sangua has used hidden weapons.

Stones from other hills, can learn.

The road he and his grandfather will take next is destined to be tortuous.

All knowledge and insights must be turned into powerful weapons.

"Government grows out of the barrel of a gun!"

Ye Tian said silently.

This is also his original intention to come to the blacksmith shop.

Proven by historical experience.

Focus on theory, not on mastering military power.

It can only be a flash in the pan, a moth to a flame.

No matter how advanced the theory is, without powerful assistance, it is just a piece of waste paper.

Ye Tian went south again through two folk alleys.

Come to a low and dilapidated street.

The sound of tinkling can be faintly heard in the street.

I glanced at the word "ingenuity" on the plaque in front of the street.

Ye Tian shook his head:

"It is said that the status of blacksmiths in Douluo Dalu is low. Looking at it now, it is true."

Ye Tian also understood this.

It's not that Douluo doesn't need a blacksmith.

It's just that in this era, precision forging depends on strength.

And strength has something to do with soul power.

But those with a little bit of soul power all went to become soul masters.

Furthermore, the high-end consumer groups in mainland China are soul masters and nobles.

And soul masters generally don't need forging.

For soul masters, forging is too low-end.

It's not as fast as practicing martial arts.

For another group of nobles.

There has been no war in the mainland for more than a hundred years. Moreover, the two empires have been established for thousands of years, and the land that can be divided has already been divided.

Even if there is a war, the nobles cannot acquire land through conquest like their ancestors did.

As a result, the desire for war is greatly reduced.

Weapons, as a resource of war, are not so hot anymore.

For the nobles, instead of spending money to buy weapons, it is better to go to the golden cave to spend time and wine.

Geniuses are gradually stripped of this industry, there is no demand, and the decline of blacksmiths is inevitable.

The Craftsmanship Street in front of you is one of the few blacksmith industrial chain streets in Wuhun City.

Although the world is generally not interested in the blacksmith industry, they are full of contempt for low-level practitioners like blacksmiths.

But the pots and pans at home still need iron.

Although the standing army is not seriously depleted due to peacetime, it is still in demand.

Blacksmiths also rely on this to maintain their daily livelihood.

Ye Tian looked at the few streets with almost no pedestrians, his eyes were deep.

"The rule of noble groups and the rise of the soul master class do not require blacksmiths."

"But to subvert nobles and soul masters, blacksmiths are necessary."

(End of this chapter)