Surviving as a Writer in the British Empire - Chapter 67



＜ Keeping Little Kevin’s House (2) ＞

How was the figure of 1 million wealth possible in the first place?

It is not an impossible figure if you consider whether it is possible or not. Anyway, with a population of 70 million, it is possible to buy only 1 out of 70 people.

However, the current distribution network and printing technology are poor, so it is difficult for a single publisher to handle a million copies of a book.

Nevertheless, the fact that 1 million copies were sold meant, first of all, the name value of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla, and secondly, it accurately captured the needs of Americans as much as that.

this is good enough It’s good… In other words, it was said that it would be more difficult to retrieve.

Because the price of the rotary press that ran like crazy wasn’t free.

If you try to retrieve it, you will lose astronomical amounts of money that are not inferior to what you earned!

It was impossible for Mark Twain, let alone Tesla, to cover the cost of its recovery.

Especially for Mark now.

‘Suzy is cured.’

A letter from Elmira, the home of my aunt, Susan Crane.

Mark Twain couldn’t help but be overjoyed at the story that his eldest daughter, Susie Clemens, who had been sickly, had succeeded in recovering with the huge amount she earned this time.

He even had debts due to his investment failure, but with this incident, everything was perfectly resolved, so he could be anything now.

Besides, frankly, Nikola Tesla’s concerns didn’t make sense to him.

“As for me, while your concerns are understandable… I don’t think they are that serious.”

“No, what are you talking about!! Citizens are getting hurt right now!!”

“It would be a problem if a lawsuit was filed saying that we were responsible for that. But there is nothing like that.”

Mark Twain proudly said.

They obviously wrote it down on the first page of the book.

‘Everything except the scientific principles in this book is fiction. It has nothing to do with the real-life named group person case. In addition, some of the contents can be dangerous, so we recommend that you refrain from following them, and the authors and related parties do not take any responsibility for anything you do after reading this book, and it is entirely the responsibility of the readers.

Now I understand why Hanslo Jin insisted on writing down such prestigious writings when he decided on the subject of the book.

Mark Twain, the publisher in charge, and the publisher’s exclusive lawyer each swept their hearts, but Nikola Tesla did not understand such a reaction even more.

“No, we put the citizens in danger, so what about the lawsuit!?”

“Honestly, I can afford to take that risk. Aren’t all kids supposed to grow up that way?”

Mark Twain proudly said. Nikola Tesla looked at such Mark Twain as if it were bizarre, and realized it.

Unlike Tesla, who was originally born in the Serbian province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and came to the United States, Mark Twain. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is a natural born American.

He was also from southern Missouri, who sided with the South during the Civil War.

Of course, he is an ardent racial egalitarian, contrary to the neighborhood’s tendencies, and an advance guard for the gender equality movement, but the only difference is the direction.

The southerner was right in his propensity to go straight and explosively in the direction he thought was right.

In a word, it is said that the fool is a macho.

Seriously, when he married his current wife, when his in-laws objected at the time, he would have deliberately tumbled off the wagon and forcibly stayed in the house for a few days to persuade her to accept it.

“Besides, you know what? I’ve been doing this a lot since I was a kid. Did I mention that I went all the way to Brazil from Hannibal to the Mississippi River?”

“If you hear that one more time, you will really get a ticket, so be quiet.”

ha······.

Nikola Tesla finally sighed deeply and eventually had to sit down.

Mark Twain looked at his friend who couldn’t throw away this delicate European color with bitter eyes and said,

“Of course I don’t understand what you’re saying. I also wanted to enlighten people moderately, but I didn’t want them to self-destruct in this way. But isn’t this a book that only we have the copyright to?”

“Turn it off.”

Nikola Tesla nodded.

Even though he was famous for his eccentric personality, as Mark Twain said, the contract with Bentley Publishing in England was also intertwined, so he couldn’t just let go of the fight.

Above all, don’t you already know that science study books are selling well, and have also published and sold up to three volumes of ＜King Arthur and the Mathematical Knight＞? With the same label system too.

From noble mtl dot com

In this situation, recklessly retrieve the book with Nicola’s own tackle? He did not know how far the penalty he had to pay would increase.

“Whoa, I wasn’t playing around with your words from the beginning.”

“Heh heh, where did you subtract that much? You, too, enjoyed making it secretly.”

“It was fun, but… I really didn’t want this to happen to me.”

“I understand, I understand.”

Mark Twain patted Nikola Tesla on the shoulder.

Once the big fire is turned off. But Mark Twain couldn’t leave Nicola alone like this.

Anyway, didn’t it sell so well? He intuitively felt that he had to put out the next work or a sequel.

The revenge of the thief brother who was taken away by the police, the Kevin family who moved to a safer place, and the new Kevin’s cousin brothers and sisters?

As a storyteller, Mark Twain wanted to continue the story of this little Kevin.

Of course, in order to continue the ＜Little Kevin＞ series in that way, I had to convince Nick somehow.

I’m not saying this to earn money for piano tutoring for my second daughter, Clara Clemens.

It’s all for the enlightenment of the citizens of the United States. cancer.

More than anything.

“Don’t worry. I am not too mindless.”

“Really?”

“Of course. What kind of label was this label we received in the first place?”

what else does that mean?

To Tesla, who was looking at him with a questioning eye, Mark Twain confidently said.

“In the end, isn’t this all a problem with the level of education of Americans who haven’t cultivated safety awareness enough to follow us even though we said, ‘Don’t do it’?”

“Ummm… For now, that’s the case.”

“Then, now this is rather something we should enlighten! So we must find a way to slowly but surely and incrementally improve the knowledge of us Americans.”

“Is there any way?”

“We will always find an answer.”

Mark Twain grinned.

“I have a few things in mind right now.”

“what? already?”

“It’s a problem because it’s not something you can decide on your own. wait a little bit.”

So Mark Twain calmly, ignoring his friend’s astonished gaze, sent a telegram to London, England.

***

“…so that’s why you came to me?”

“yes. Writer.”

Huh, the Americas are bizarrely complex.

I never thought that noblemen who didn’t study and only learned booby traps would come out.

No, it’s not that I didn’t expect it at all. Did you write a phrase to avoid responsibility for nothing?

There were so many people watching and copying things like ＜Home Alone＞, Tic Tac, and You Tube that a lot of problems arose.

Actually, I was more surprised that Nick was really Nikola Tesla.

No, why are these two friends? Is there something that attracts geniuses to each other?

However, like Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla, I wonder if he was too naive.

Is it because they are geniuses? I think everyone thinks as rationally as they do.

Unfortunately, humans are not such rational creatures. Rather, emotions have a stronger influence on behavior.

Behavioral economics did not rise to the mainstream of the 21st century for nothing.

Americans in particular are much more ignorant than we think.

Even though there was such a thing as public education, it was like that.

So what about Americans in the 19th century who didn’t have that? It would be much more ignorant.

It was an uncivilized era in which the theory of the night view state, which only robber aristocrats blinded by money, was accepted as orthodoxy.

If so, is there any way to solve this?

It would be nice to simply say that there is no such thing, but isn’t Nikola Tesla wanting to solve it right away anyway?

Even Mark Twain would know that. That’s why I sent this telegram.

“He is also the father of American literature. I got a good point.”

“yes?”

I smiled and checked the telegram again.

“They say they are thinking of changing the subject.”

“Yeah… I’ve seen it that way too, but honestly, is it possible at once? Besides, would that really work?”

concerned eyes. Well, of course there is a ‘successful’ case where you earn money like crazy, but you might wonder why you need to change it and pay for something else.

But what we came up with is different yet similar.

so.

“I can’t get through.”

I said with confidence.

If it becomes a problem because the subject of scientific knowledge is ‘human’ – isn’t it less of a problem if the subject is limited to ‘nature’?

“Because everyone is afraid of natural disasters.”

Florida’s hurricanes and California’s earthquakes were famous even in modern times.

And I know the correct answer by intertwining with this.

that’s right

“＜Crisis Survival Number One＞.”

Exactly, is it close to the ‘Survival’ series?

Because I’m drawing a main character who survives various incidents and accidents.

“······ But won’t the material come off easily? There are not too many types of natural disasters.”

“Well, don’t worry. First, it will start with hurricanes, earthquakes, tidal waves, etc., but later it will gradually widen. Uninhabited islands, volcanoes, thresholds… there are so many dangerous things in the world!”

At first, it’s a ‘household’ format, so it’s going to be something that can be beaten at home, but when Kevin grows up——he can find it from this side as much as he wants.

In other words, it is a ‘survival in the wild’ format.

Forests of the Rocky Mountains.

Jungle of the Mississippi River.

California’s Mojave Desert

A lake so large that it is nicknamed the Great Lakes.

If you do anything, even the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

The United States of America, which occupied the entire vast North American continent, has infinite materials just to wander around in it.

Besides, ‘survival’······· Isn’t it a legendary science common sense series that has been in the format for over 20 years and has even been animated?

“Um, that part and again, the problem is, of course, there is a set of experimental devices and this… a set of booby traps.”

“Huh, in so many ways, I feel full of energy.”

I was amazed when I first heard it. No matter how terrible the concept of copyright was in the era, it was such a speedy plagiarism and commercialization in this era.

After all, it should be called the capital kingdom of the Holy America of True-Capitalism.

But, well, it must be the 19th century.

“First of all, our advantage is, of course, that we are the original authors. Let’s ask Mr. Tesla to build a set of experimental devices himself. Much more professionally, and with things that you can do directly with the experiments that are coming out right now. Besides… it would be nice to have some safety items in it as well. Then we will be able to control the damage.”

It’s kind of like an emergency kit.

Of course… the name should remain the same. Maybe it’s because they’re sangmacho, but there are too many people who say that Gao doesn’t live when there’s a first-aid kit in the name.

How do you know? ······ I didn’t want to know, rot.

anyway.

“But, there is a market preoccupied by the author… will it work?”

“Will it work? There’s no way it won’t work if you put it in the enclosed item starting with Volume 2, right?”

“yes!?”

“Oh, of course it should be priced slightly higher.”

Oh, so you won’t live? Aren’t you going to buy the sequel to the Million Seller that sold 1 million copies?

Even this, first of all, is ‘free’.

You may be dissatisfied with the increased price, but you will be more than satisfied with the abundant contents.

Attach a genuine label here, um… besides.

“The composition of the enclosed set is said to be divided randomly. One set of Tesla’s special experimental devices, one set of electrical devices, and one set of booby trap devices… Something like this. Of course, you have to pack it well so you can’t see what sets are in it before you buy it.”

“······Writer, then that’s it.”

I averted the stare of Mr. Bentley, who was quietly astonished.

That’s right, random gacha box… No, it’s a photo card.

Nineteenth century sacred American kingdom of capital, this is the true capitalism of the twenty-first century.

You should be glad you don’t have an autograph lottery ticket, right?