Surviving as a Writer in the British Empire - Surviving as a Writer in the British Empire chapter 23

Learning Book (3)

What kind of existence is Hanslo Jean to Bentley Press?

A gold nugget that fell from the sky.

Second Advent Jesus.

saver.

After all, a publisher is also a company.

The most important thing for a company is money.

And Hanslo Jin, the publisher’s best killer, twisted the company’s fate.

However, for Richard Bentley Jr., the president of the 3rd Bentley Publishing Company, Hanslo Jin was not at all like that.

‘He is a pioneer.’

Peter Perry, Weekly Serial, Vincent Villiers.

All three were unconventional attempts unimaginable in Britain today, and they succeeded.

It’s as if you’ve seen it from the future and said, “This will surely succeed.”

Well, a person who really lifted the curtain of time and looked into the future would have just invested in stocks without writing anything, but in reality, Hanslo Jin didn’t seem to be interested in that at all, so maybe not.

Anyway, the important thing is that Hanslo Jin can see the ‘road to success’.

So even if you follow well after that, Bentley Publishing House is waiting for endless glory.

Those two are enough.

Richard Bentley Jr. only thought so… but.

This is really unexpected.

“It wasn’t really a textbook…”

“You said no.”

***

Seriously, don’t trust people.

What Bentley is looking at is King Arthur and the Knight of Math, a study book written with Lewis Carroll from my ideas.

The big frame is the same as the chronicle of the legend of King Arthur.

Arthur, the son of the late King Uther Pendragon, grew up in the house of an ordinary knight while hiding his identity, pulled out Excalibur with Merlin’s guidance, and blah blah~.

However, the knight mentioned here is not a knight who fights on horseback.

It’s the board game knight.

“Well, what is this Number’s Duel about, Mr. Author…”

“It is the main material of this study book.”

I said it out loud.

This is a battle, but not a simple battle.

In this ‘Mathematics Knight’ worldview, life does not physically die.

However, there is a concept called ‘Numbers Card’, which quantifies the ‘experience’ that person has from day to day, and according to training, each person’s metaphysical concept, the card, can be materialized into reality.

And when a dispute arises, a duel is held to compete for the number of this card.

So, the winning side steals the opponent’s number, and the person who took all the cards either dies or is subordinated to the winner.

The rules of the duel are different for each participant.

At first, it’s a simple way to compete with the big or small numbers you have. So, someone with a lot of experience is always at an advantage.

However, as the story progresses, artifacts containing the power of ‘formulas’ such as Excalibur appear, and borrow that power to insert formulas into number cards to overturn unfavorable fights.

“If you watch the mock duel between Arthur and Kay in the beginning, you will understand.”

“Ummm… definitely.”

Originally, Arthur had 2 and 3 cards, and his stepbrother Kay had 5 cards.

Arthur in the days without Excalibur could not win against Kay no matter what.

Arthur, who does not have the power of formula, has no choice but to just randomly give out numbers, and since Kay’s 5 is higher, he will eventually fail.

However, after obtaining the formula of ‘multiplication’ contained in Excalibur, you can beat Kay’s 5 by making 2X3=6… that is the basic gist of the rule contained in this novel.

At first glance, of course, it seems simple.

Indeed, Lewis Carroll protested that way.

—If this is the case, it can only contain four, four rules, and operations. This, this versus, alternative! What to study!

─This is the prologue. Is it just for ‘snap’? More complicated stuff with magic later!

At first, it’s okay to just raise it because it’s a competition between people, but before Arthur becomes king, the monsters and fantasy species that you will encounter during your adventures with Bedivere, Kay, and Merlin cannot be defeated simply by playing high cards.

You have to create a formula that exactly matches the number the monsters have, otherwise you lose the card and strengthen your opponent.

So, make formulas suitable for various situations, and later, fractions, decimals, negative numbers… By middle school math, you should even add irrational numbers.

anyway.

“Huh… this is…”

“How about this?”

“…to be honest, I feel a bit childish.”

Well, that’s right.

I couldn’t help but nod my head.

The core of the ‘familiarity’ technique is the coordination of the known and the unknown.

Originally, people quickly accept familiar things and take time to accept unfamiliar things.

That’s why I deliberately made the game itself as simple as possible, and the story was also simple and familiar, and I chose the legend of King Arthur.

And, because of that.

“But… somehow the more I look at it, the more I fall for it.”

“Yes?”

“yes. You said it was written by Lewis Carroll, right? Certainly, each sentence is… I’m sorry, but it’s more fun than the author, so I keep reading.”

Needless to say.

I briefly glanced at the Bentley, but it can’t be helped.

Lewis Carroll is one of the top native Englishmen with high writing skills.

Certainly, by speeding up the tempo, the rhyme of the writing also sped up, so it progressed like rap. Genius means genius.

“How are you as a parent?”

“If you are a parent… are you talking about my children?”

“yes.”

Oh, I couldn’t speak because I didn’t have a chance to say it, but Richard Bentley Jr. is also married. It also has a son and a daughter in mourning.

However, I heard that it was left at the ex-president, that is, at the father’s house.

“How do you, as a parent, want to read to your children?”

“Come to think of it, you said it was for learning… Hmm. Certainly, mathematics is the most important subject to understand first. My kids were also supposed to educate the successor, so I called a tutor, but I always hated it. But if it’s this… Yes, I think it will be fun to read.”

thank god.

I smiled and nodded my head. After all, the passion for learning is the same in every country.

For Asians, that’s the only answer, so it’s just unusual.

“By the way, writer?”

“yes?”

“Thank you so much for coming with such a valuable offer, but… what about ＜Peter Perry＞ and ＜Vincent Villiers＞?”

The eyes began to stare at me, as if they weren’t planning on serializing three novels at the same time.

I waved my hand and denied it.

“No, no. No matter how much I am, I can’t afford to work on three works at the same time. If you do, you will die from overwork.”

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“Really?”

“Really? This article is just a draft.”

So, isn’t it intentionally proceeding as a monograph? Just like serialization in magazines, there is no definite date when it will be serialized again.

In the first place, self-completion is more important in learning novels, so a book is better than a series.

So I will only write the story, and the text will be written by Lewis Carroll.

And after I inspect it again, I hand it over to the publisher.

If the initial story is reviewed properly through this draft, the subsequent content will be written by Lewis Carroll himself without my help.

By the time I left Surrey, he already seemed to have fallen in love with this worldview.

‘A world where the depth of mathematics is, heh, power… Eh, if it’s a place like this, me too, whoo… whoo, Joe. Joe.’

······To the extent that I warned her that she would make a Mary Sue character if she did it wrong.

Anyway, if it goes well, the publisher will catch the point and do it on its own, even if I don’t have to do post-processing myself.

This will lighten my burden even more.

Even so, the royalty share is a whopping 7:3!

Of course I am 3. At first, not even half, but the whole thing I tried to give, I ended up tearing it off. In the end, after arguing, we decided on the condition that we promise to spend some of the proceeds elsewhere.

Even so, the ratio is absurdly high compared to the cost.

Anyway, then, the study book work is over with this.

“Now, can we welcome guests?”

“Ah, yes. That’s right. I will ask you to come.”

“You don’t have to. I was listening outside.”

In an instant, the door opened.

Then a short but stocky old man entered with burning eyes.

“It must be the first time we meet, but it is not unfamiliar. I wonder Even though it’s a face completely different from what I expected.”

“It’s a coincidence. So do i. Of course, I think it’s because I’ve met them a few times in pictures.”

“hahahahaha, that spirit is certainly as expected. No, more than that.”

The old man stretched out his arm at me. I grabbed that hand.

It was like a solid rock, but more than that, it was a hot hand.

“Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Please call me Mark Twain.”

“This is Hansol Jin. Please call me Hanslo Jin, author.”

***

“Whoop, whoop. Whoop whoop.”

similar period.

The same London, near Marylebone.

It had only been out for several months, and the middle-aged man, whose hair had turned to sunset, looked at the manuscript he had just finished editing with bloodshot eyes.

It is perfect. Indeed, a perfect manuscript was born.

“It was a very long time of humiliation and persecution.”

Like f*cking fanboys.

If the writer wants to kill the main character, he kills him, so how can he protest against that!

No, let’s put that aside. Citizens have the right to freedom of expression and assembly.

However, isn’t it a bit serious to make personal attacks, send a 5700-word document threatening to take the lives of family members, and hold a funeral for something that doesn’t even exist in front of the house?

Even the publishing house that needs to be stopped is whining about the drop in sales, and requests to come back and revive it like ＜Peter Perry＞ are pouring in.

For Arthur Conan Doyle, it was an intolerable insult.

“But that ends with this!”

Whoa ha ha! Arthur burst into laughter.

It was worth it.

Protestantism in France in the 17th century, which he clung to for a long time, and the Edict of Fontainebleau, which suppressed and persecuted the Huguenots.

The ambition to profoundly capture the lives of pilgrims of faith who seek asylum in the distant Americas in search of freedom of religion.

And the grand world view that made that ambition a reality! A profound human description! The perfect era testimonial! A perfect masterpiece with all of this!

Because ＜The Refugees＞, the best historical novel that will surely go down in the history of British literature, has been completed!!

Oh, of course, there was a small phrase in the corner that said that there was help from the Royal Society of Literature, albeit in a small way. First of all, it’s a contract.

“Mayor, bow before my perfect novel! And awaken true pride and patriotism!! hahahaha!!”

And so, finally, under the name of Harper & Brothers, the masterpiece of Arthur Conan Doyle appeared on the market.

and.

wondrous.

No one paid any attention.

It was summer.