Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 191 Make Money
Historically, the invention of the quill pen can be traced back to the ancient Egyptian civilization, and it has been passed down for thousands of years.
Compared with the writing brush, its advantages are too obvious, the writing font is small, not to mention saving paper.

The best quill pen absorbs ink once, and can write dozens of characters continuously before the ink is used up. Compared with a brush that needs to be dipped in ink once to write one or two characters, it is really easy to use.

The most important thing is that the speed of writing with a quill is many times faster than that of a brush. When you "draw" a character with a brush, others have written a long string of characters with a quill.

In addition, this is a novel thing. In other people's words, this is a very magical pen, so many people want to get such a pen to try.

Sure enough, as Zhang Qingfeng expected, the business came quickly.

Many students asked Zhang Qingfeng for ink because they ran out of a small amount of ink.

They found that the ink ground by carbon ink block is not suitable for writing with quill pen at all, and only Zhang Qingfeng's ink is most suitable for quill pen.

But Zhang Qingfeng shirks that the production of ink is difficult and expensive... In short, it requires money.

In the end, he even directly sold a bottle of [-]ml ink for [-] yuan, which is almost the same amount as a bottle of hero ink in later generations.

Zhang Qingfeng's ink is metal gall ink. According to historical records, Europe has already started using this ink in the 3rd century.

This kind of ink is very troublesome to make, mainly because the raw materials are hard to find.

In ancient China, Galla was a kind of textile dye, and Zhang Qingfeng found this raw material from a cloth dyeing workshop after a lot of effort.

Only this kind of raw material is not enough, green vitriol is also needed.

Green vitriol was sold by Zhang Qingfeng in the drug store. Its scientific name is ferrous sulfate. In ancient times, it was a medicine for treating typhoid fever, which was incredible.

Gallic acid, which is rich in gallnuts, reacts with green vitriol water to produce metal gallnut ink, which is also a special ink for European medieval quill pens.

In order to make this ink suitable for writing with a quill pen, some gum needs to be added. In short, the cost is not low. A bottle of [-]ml ink costs about a dozen cents.

But compared to Zhang Qingfeng's price of [-] Wen for a bottle of ink, this cost is nothing.

Zhang Qingfeng didn't expect at all that he didn't make money by using saltpeter to make ice, but instead made money from quill pens and ink.

With money, he can buy more paper to write the Romance of the Gods, so he doesn't have to worry about bankrupting his family.

In less than a month, quill pens became popular in the academy, and Zhang Qingfeng's business was getting better and better.

Faced with such a situation, Zhang Qingfeng directly approached his parents and taught them how to produce ink.

It is better to let them earn this money than to plan food in the soil all year round.

Yang Maocai and his wife were very surprised that their son suddenly started such a business.

They were even more pleasantly surprised when they found out that they could earn hundreds of Wen every day in this business.

"That's the way it is, father and mother, as long as you manage well, this business will only grow bigger and bigger. In the future, we can buy a house and land in the city and become a big family." Zhang Qingfeng made a wish to his parents.

"This, is this true? I'm not dreaming, am I?"

Zhang Qingfeng's mother still couldn't believe it, maybe she couldn't accept it for a while.

"Of course it's true. The eighteen pennies here are all earned by me this month." Zhang Qingfeng pointed to a box and said.

This box is full of copper coins, and a full box weighs tens to hundreds of catties.

In order to store the money, Zhang Qingfeng rented a farmyard near the academy. Not only could he store the money, but he could also use it as an ink workshop to make ink.

It was okay at the beginning, but as he made more and more money later, he became a little worried, which was one of the reasons why he called his parents.

"Sanlang, I have something to discuss with you." On this day, Yang's father, Yang Maocai, approached Zhang Qingfeng and said.

Zhang Qingfeng just came from the academy, he asked Father Yang: "What's the matter?"

"That's right, you have too much ink to do during this time. Your mother and I are too busy. I want your two older sisters to come and help. Look..."

"That's it? You can do it yourself. I'm only responsible for soliciting business for you." Zhang Qingfeng said.

Next, for making ink, Zhang Qingfeng has completely left it to his parents.

He himself quietly rented a private house near the academy, and every day after school, he returned to the rented private house to write "Feng Shen Yan Yi" non-stop.

He planned to spend half a year writing this "Fengshen Yanyi".

Now, Zhang Qingfeng has become a celebrity in the academy, and his story of the fengshenyanyi has been spread by the students of the women's academy.

At first, Zhang Qingfeng was still very angry, but after thinking about it, this was also a way to increase his reputation.

What is his main purpose of traveling to this world?Isn't it just to increase fame and complete the tasks of the system?
As for publishing a book and selling it for money, that is not as important as completing the task.

What's more, even if you spend money to publish books, you may not be able to make money, because in ancient times there was no such thing as legal rights protection. If your books sell well, others can print pirated copies immediately.

After figuring it out, Zhang Qingfeng let it go. He said that anyone can spread his novels, even storytellers, can use his stories to comment on books.

However, at present, his novels are only popular in the circle of scholars, and have not spread to the ordinary people. Mr. Storyteller does not even know that there is a book called Feng Shen Yan Yi.

Now, every time Zhang Qingfeng writes a chapter of the novel, he will give it to Liu Rongqing and the others in the women's school.

The students of the women's school would immediately copy out dozens of copies of these contents.

Afterwards, students from other classes in the academy would also ask students from the Girls' School to borrow and copy. In this way, at least hundreds of people would help him spread the book for free every day.

Even the professors and the head of the academy, after reading Zhang Qingfeng's "Fengshen Yanyi" novel, were astonished, and instantly became Zhang Qingfeng's fans.

Now Zhang Qingfeng is in the academy and has to be reminded every day.

With the spread of the content of Feng Shen Yan Yi novels, Zhang Qingfeng's quill pen and ink business is also getting bigger and bigger. With this relationship, many people are willing to take care of Zhang Qingfeng's business.

Since the spread of the quill pen, 80.00% of the manuscripts of Fengshenyanyi that are popular in the circle are copied with the quill pen.

Because when copying long-form novels, the advantages of quill pens are too obvious, which also makes more people choose quill pens, and also makes Zhang Qingfeng's ink business better and better.

After Zhang Qingfeng's parents came, the family's business also changed from earning hundreds of dollars a day to thousands of dollars a day, and sometimes even thousands of copper coins.

(End of this chapter)