Heroes of Silver Moon

"The paper workshop started mass production in September. In order to ensure that the hoarded paper is transported to the Holy Empire before the end of the year, the caravan must set off at the end of November."

"In three months, the paper workshop can probably produce 900,000 copies of cheap paper"

"The lowest quotation we gave to the BRIC Chamber of Commerce is 40 coppers per copy of cheap paper, and 900,000 copies are 36,000 gold coins."

"Excluding the cost of about 1,000 gold coins, you can make a net profit of 35,000 gold coins. According to the share, you can get a share of 7,000 gold coins."

Sir Ilsa gave Simon a sum of calculations.

Simon frowned after hearing this, the money he earned was still too little, and there was a shortfall of 20,000 gold coins on his side.

After thinking for a while, Simon had another idea in his mind, how about reprocessing the paper to make it a more profitable product.

As for the reprocessing of paper, it is nothing more than making it into products such as books, newspapers, toilet paper, etc., and there is no difficulty at all.

Telling Sir Ilsa his thoughts, Sir Ilsa was obviously moved.

In order to open Silvermoon Comprehensive College, the royal family borrowed a foreign debt of one million gold coins from the nobles.

Although the agreement was to pay off in installments over five years, this year the old king ordered the aristocratic council to be dissolved, which offended many creditors.

At the end of the year, there must be many creditors who will come to collect their debts!

Although these creditors can't do anything to the royal family, they are always disgusting people. If there are more gold coins in the account, it must be better to deal with them.

"However, if it is made into a book, the cost of printing or hiring people to copy it is very high," Sir Ilsa was still a little embarrassed.

Every three copies of standard-sized paper can be made into an ordinary book. If someone is specially hired to copy it, the copying fee for that book is fifty coppers.

If it is printed directly with a magic printing machine, the cost will directly reach a silver coin.

The old king only gave them a budget of 5,000 gold coins. Excluding all kinds of initial investment, Sir Ilsa only had 3,000 gold coins left.

If all the money is invested, if the books made cannot be sold, the production of the paper workshop will be affected next year.

"Put it down, teach me about printing, you just need to find some quick workers," Simon promised, patted his chest.

Seeing that Simon had said everything to this point, Sir Ilsa could only nod doubtfully.

Sir Ilsa went to recruit workers, so Simon returned to the Magic Academy and asked Clifford for an alchemy room.

The alchemy room is the room used by alchemists to produce alchemy products.

There is nothing special about it, except for a few workbenches and some tools, it is almost the same as an ordinary room.

Simon bought some iron blocks from Clifford, directly rendered them into high-purity magic steel through mana, and then directly began to restore the living body printing on the blue star.

In fact, this is not difficult, just to create a concave plate that is about the size of the paper, and then make font squares that are put into the concave plate one by one.

Simon took an ordinary book for comparison, first determined the size of the concave plate, and then compared the text in the book to determine the size of the font box.

As for the specific words to be engraved in the block, it is quite simple. Simon found another book of commonly used words and words, and started to make font blocks directly according to the content in it.

Just make up the commonly used words, and adjust the content directly when the time comes.

In less than three days, Simon completed sixty printing blocks.

The books commonly used in this world are generally thirty sheets, or sixty pages.

After all, paper is expensive, and it is impossible for a book to have hundreds or thousands of pages.

After solving the printing plate, Simon turned his attention to the ink again.

The process of making ink in this world is to reprocess the ink ejected from squids, and the cost of this ink is actually quite high.

Simon originally wanted to recreate cheap inks, but gave up after trying.

The ink-making method has high requirements on technology and materials. If ink is made in a simple process, the ink will not only be of poor quality, but also easily deteriorate.

However, if the complete ink-making method is restored, it will not only cost a lot, but also take a lot of time. It is better to use the ink of this world.

After confirming that cheap ink could not be produced, Simon directly put the printing board into the space ring, and then returned to the paper workshop.

Seeing Sir Ilsa again, Simon took out the sixty printing plates directly from the space ring.

Seeing Simon take out so many things out of thin air, Sir Ilsa's eyelids twitched.

Space ring, is this kid so rich?

Forcibly looking away, Sir Ilsa looked at the printing plate again: "This is?"

Simon asked someone to bring a blank sheet of paper, cut it into ten ordinary book pages, and then asked Sir Ilsa for ink, and used a brush to evenly brush the ink onto the printing plate.

Carefully spread the cut piece of white paper on the printing board, and then Simon took a small wooden board, UU reading www.uukanshu. com brush lightly on the paper.

Lifting the paper, Simon put it in front of Sir Ilsa.

Looking at Simon's simple movements and the clear writing on the paper, Sir Ilsa fell silent.

Stupid, those alchemists are really a bunch of stupid pigs, they have created such a complicated magic printing machine, and such a simple method can't be imagined!

Sir Ilsa asked after a moment of silence: "Are these printing plates made for sixty pieces for each book?"

Simon took out a small tweezers, picked up a block of fonts from the groove of the printing plate, and gently placed it in front of Sir Ilsa.

Picking up the little thumbnail in front of him, half the size of the font box, Sir Ilsa fell silent again.

These font squares can be taken out of the grooves, and naturally they can be adjusted by swapping positions.

In other words, as long as enough commonly used words are produced, these sixty printing plates can completely print most of the books.

"Hey", after a long silence, Sir Ilsa finally let out a long sigh.

The cost of each cheap paper produced by a paper workshop is only one copper.

An ordinary book requires three copies of standard-sized paper, and the cost of the paper is three coppers.

These printing plates are completely handmade by Simon, and the cost is completely negligible.

The price of each bottle of ink is fifty coppers. If the royal chamber of commerce does not need the bottle and buys ink in bulk, the cost can be reduced by more than half.

Even with the wages of the workers, the cost of each book will never exceed fifty copper coins.

Starting today, books and knowledge are no longer exclusive to nobles!

Leaning on the wooden chair, Sir Ilsa's face was both unwilling and relieved.