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Chapter 55 Hot Business

It was like God was always listening to Ronin's thoughts. Early the next morning, Yenny Yen's nephew drove the steam car to deliver the goods.

When you go to Crow Town, you don’t have to find a way to find transportation tools. Just get on Yennifer’s nephew’s steam car. Although it’s not comfortable, it’s definitely much faster than those carriages.

Before leaving, I specially handed over Donina to Ms. Yennifu. The only headache now is the magic in the Code of Order.

The content of the book "Research on the Origin, Faith, Development and Relationship of Religion and Magical Organizations" has been read intermittently. I have gained a deeper understanding of the old power system, and I have no problem giving Telsu, but I have not finished learning the ritual magic in the Code of Order.

Previously, I tried to use handwritten methods to get a handwritten copy, but it would take at least one month to use handwritten content in the "Code of Order" to be terrifying.

Nephew Yenny's nephew, who was driving a steam car, mentioned something.

"Mr. Austin, do you remember the last time you said that if those short guys brought some samples for you, they brought some new things during this period. I think you will be interested."

Luo Ning was still thinking about how to back up the content of the "Code of Order". When he heard the other party's description, he nodded expressionlessly. After all, satisfying his curiosity is to reward himself when he can ensure his safety. Now his safety has already gone wrong, and those fresh things naturally become less important.

"It is a machine that can print quickly. Book printing uses lead printing technology, engraving movable types on lead alloys, and then printing them. The dwarfs said that their machines don't need to do this. They just need to put white paper on and then input them with those strange keys to print them out at a very fast speed."

Seeing that the young man seemed not very interested, Yenny Yen's nephew further introduced it.

"If you are not interested in this thing, there are other things. Let you take a look at it at that time. There should be items that you are interested in."

After hearing Yen Nifu's nephew's description, Luo Ning suddenly became interested and screamed involuntarily.

"typewriter……"

Yenny Yen's nephew immediately shouted and praised.

"Yes, it's called a typewriter. This is how they introduce it. Do you know this kind of new thing?"

Of course, Luo Ning knew that typewriters had appeared very early in his previous life. He couldn't help but sigh at how terrifying the technology of those dwarfs who were disliked by Dawn Castle had developed to.

However, the typewriter does not seem to be very helpful in copying the Code of Order, but you can look forward to the movable type printing technique mentioned later.

After about an hour, I arrived at Crow Town. Everything here was as old as before, with a strong sense of business everywhere, and people came and went.

I followed Yen Nifu's nephew to the store. Sure enough, after the fresh items were taken out, it was confirmed that they were typewriters.

However, the keyboard is different from the keyboard logo of the previous life. All the keyboards here are cast with fine iron. When you tap, you will feel severe pain and a not very comfortable feeling.

Yenny Yen's nephew immediately took out a stack of paper from below, stuck it on the typewriter, and reached out to signal.

"You can try it."

Luo Ning typed something casually. The ink used in this typewriter is more fragrant than the ink used in the previous typewriter, and has a herbal fragrance, so it can be judged that they used pure natural plant ink.

"The price of this kind of machine is not cheap at all. The price of a machine reaches 5 gulfs, and few people can afford it here."

Yennifu's nephew stroked the iron shell of the typewriter and sighed. "So its sales will not be too small. Only those rich people will buy one to look fresh. Moreover, the wholesale price has reached 4 guan. If only two or three units are sold, the profit margin will not be too high."

After saying that, he moved the machine down and took out some new things from under the counter, such as the flashlight used for lighting. He was more interested in these things and more practical.

However, Luo Ning was not very interested in flashlights with low-tech things, and just played with them casually and handed them back.

"Do you know where there is a printing shop?"

He had to find a way to copy the Code of Order as soon as possible, and the printing shop was the only hope.

Yenny Yen's nephew went out and pointed to a shop not far away.

“It’s right there, the price is not cheap, you can go and take a look.”

Following Yenny Yen's nephew's guidance, Luo Ning arrived at the door of the printing shop. There were already a long queue at the door, with at least nearly 300 people.

“So many people need to print things?”

Luo Ning felt a little strange. Most of the people here have no knowledge reserves and do not read books. What are they printing?

He looked forward to the door of the store and looked at it. A middle-aged woman next to him grabbed it. After a blank look, she said very unfriendly tone.

"You want to go to the line?"

Luo Ning looked embarrassed and looked at the woman who held him.

"Not that, I just want to see what is being done here, why are there so many people queuing up?"

The middle-aged woman looked up and down at the young man, feeling that the young man didn't let go of his hands and explained after lying.

"Mr. Ryan is writing for us."

Ryan? Write a letter?

These words are connected by Luo Ning instantly thought of someone and asked in a hurry.

"Ryan Kent?"

The middle-aged woman looked at Ronning with suspicious eyes. "He is a celebrity in Crow Town now, and no one is qualified to call Mr. Ryan's name directly."

Luo Ning was surprised. It was indeed a small man. He was actually writing letters for others here. According to the mice, didn’t this kid escape with the money?

There was obviously no time in line, and he still had a lot of things to do. He stood at the door and shouted.

"Ryan Kent, I'm Austin."

Everyone in the queue looked at the yelling young man at this moment.

A moment later, someone rushed out of the printing shop. It was the small Ryan Kent. After seeing the young man, he accelerated his pace.

"Mr. Austin, you are here just in time. Come with me quickly."

Under the leadership of Ryan Kent, entering the printing shop, the scent of ink that made people feel refreshed, and the busy printing workers were watching.

Walking all the way to the innermost part of the store, Ryan Kent explained.

"Our business is quite hot, and the revenue in the past few days has reached nearly 100 rupiah. I can already have a premonition that we will soon become a strong opponent of Leviathan Post."

While speaking, the little man put a printed product that the printer had just taken into the envelope, then sealed it with fire paint and placed it on the table beside him.

Luo Ning frowned.

"I've heard people from Red Crow Town say that you took away all the parrots a few days ago and closed the store?"

Ryan Kent took another handed paper, loaded it into the envelope, and explained.

"After I got your money, I opened a branch on the street according to your words. The low price and quick speed attracted many people to mail it. The people from Leviathan Company came to make trouble. I said as you told me, it was the people of the church of Order, and showed them the badge. Then the people from Leviathan Company left. Since Leviathan Company did not threaten, I moved everything to the street. Then I disappeared in the middle. During the days when I went to another place, I bought the parrot messenger who sold it as a pet after training. After all, there were too many business and the original number of parrots was not enough."

So that's it. It seems that his first investment was not wasted, and he didn't miss it. Luo Ning looked at the busy employees in the printing store and had new doubts.

"This is a printing shop, not our Parrot Express Company. Did you buy it?"

Ryan Kent blushed, and he raised his hand and scratched his forehead a little embarrassed.

"This printing shop is expensive, and it takes at least 500 gulf to be able to do it. I just cooperate with them because most of the people who want to send the letter are illiterate and need me to write on their behalf. However, I can't write the number too large, so I simply talked about cooperation with the printing shop and asked them to write the letter according to the oral content and address of the sender. I only need to put it in an envelope and mail it. On the 30th of each month, I will share the profit with the printing shop. We account for 30% of the profit. Even so, we will make a lot of money."

Now the price of mailing letters is low, and the poor can also mail them, but the poor cannot write and can only write others.

After hearing the explanation, Luo Ning finally understood that this printing shop had to take away 70% of the profit, which sounded really not a good deal.

Think about it for a moment and ask.

“How much money do we make now?”

Ryan Kent observed and put his head up and lowered his voice.

"After seeing the profits, several partners from other places also took out part of their savings to invest, so we also opened several stores in other places."

Then the printing shop will take away a profit of 700 rupees per month, and Luo Ning will consider it for a moment to continue asking.

“How many shields do you need to hire a literate person per month?”

Ryan Kent frowned, not knowing what the young man was going to do, but he still answered truthfully.

"People who are literate need a salary of about 2 gulf per month."

After calculating the calculations in his heart, Ronin immediately made a decision, and he took out the Code of Order to Ryan Kent.

"I will print one of the same books for me. If the pattern on it cannot be printed, it will be drawn. There are about 20 pictures. Then I told the printing shop that either the profit will be reversed or the cooperation will be terminated in a week."

Leaving the printing shop, Ronin quickly ran back to Yenny Yen's nephew's shop.

"I want a typewriter. Twenty units are available. The faster the better. It is best to arrive within three days."

Yennifu's nephew was stunned for a long time, and then he immediately agreed happily.

"I will definitely suppress the price for such a large quantity."

"I want to take this one away first."

Luo Ning was very excited when he came out of the printing shop with a decent typewriter and printing paper, so he did the calculations.

It takes 100 rupees to buy twenty printers, and then hire twenty literate people to write letters using printers. The monthly labor cost is 40 rupees, and the total monthly cost is only 140 rupees. It is much more cost-effective to give the printing shop a score of 700 rupees per month.

Back in the print shop, Ryan Kent explains the intentions of the print shop owner.

"They don't want to, because there is only this printing shop here, which is a monopoly business."

Luo Ning had long guessed that the printing shop that monopolizes printing would certainly not agree to the transfer of profit sharing, so it would definitely terminate the cooperation.

"Come with me."

After leaving the printing shop, Ronin asked Ryan Kent to take himself to the new store of the Parrot Flying Post Company. Although it was not big, it was bright and clean.

He put the typewriter and printing paper on the counter and immediately demonstrated it.

"Twenty typewriters will arrive in three days. You can hire twenty literate people within these three days and type and write letters specifically, and then continue to reduce the cost of sending letters and expand the customer base."

Ryan Kent was ecstatic to see this fresh thing.

"With this thing, we can leave the printing shop alone."

But he quickly asked new questions.

"But our messengers are not enough. Now there are a total of 130 parrots in our stores. These are all the parrots trained a few days ago. Many parrots are overloaded and cannot afford it. They are much sick. It takes five years to train a parrot to become competent."

Luo Ning smiled embarrassedly.

"The messenger is not enough? From now on, parrots can continue to become messengers, and all things flying in the sky can become messengers."

The date of returning the book can be slightly delayed by one day, just for this day to find the messenger.
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