Reincarnated Swordmaster

Chapter Title: Dark Heaven Village

"Good machinery is needed, you say?

What's with the sudden talk?

And why do I have to go to the Western Regions?

Zhuge Sa cracked his knuckles as he spoke.

'Right--so, how many copies do you think a novel sells in a year these days?'

'No idea.'

'Even with metal type printing so advanced that the Great Ming Empire churns out over ten million books a year, most of them are classics, scriptures, or the trendy Wang Yangming studies. At least eighty percent help with the imperial exams, and the rest are treated as trash. Novels take up such a tiny share that even a thousand copies a year per title is a stretch—and that's only in big cities. Otherwise, they just gather dust in some old bookshop, never seeing the light of day. Realistically, three hundred copies sold means it's a smash hit. Unpopular ones just get passed around among friends.'

'......'