Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology-Chapter 856: Yadav Typewriter (2/2)

Vijay rubbed his temples he could feel his forehead throbbing, "Forget it. I have seen enough. What you have done is very impressive, outstanding even," Vijay praised, not hiding his admiration, which caused Govardhan to become at a loss for words. His face turned red like a tomato, unable to respond.

"However, there is a lot of polishing to do."

"How much did you spend on this project?"

"Around 4.5 million, Your Majesty."

"Did you use the company's machine tools for processing?"

"Ah, yes, Your Majesty."

"Hmm."

"Normally, if you are using the facilities of the company, you are required to share the patent with the company, but seeing your case, I feel like some amendments should be made to the Intellectual Property Act of the Empire."

"So let's do it like this: I'll talk to Jeevan about it, calculate all the hours you have used the company's equipment, and pay the hourly fees which include a 50% premium to the company, and you can keep 100 percent of the patent rights since you have put all the money in it yourself."

"With that being said, I'm very interested in this invention of yours. I have a few ideas to make it better as well. So what are your goals? Are you going to start a new company?"

Hearing the question, Govardhan immediately shook his head, which caught Vijay by surprise as he thought the person would at least hesitate to answer. But getting the answer so straightforwardly caught him off guard.

"Why don't you want to start the company? Or else, do you want to outright sell the whole intellectual property rights of your invention?" he asked with an unbelievable look on his face because he could clearly see the passion in the man, who was willing to spend millions of his own money to pursue something illusory with no guarantee of return.

"Ah, n-no, Your Majesty. If possible, I want to stay in the company, and I can make the modifications as you want. I can also provide authorisation to Venkatapatti Scientific company to manufacture the printer—uh, t-typewriter."

Vijay's expression became clear, 'So this guy wants to stay as far away as possible from management and finance. I see. Come to think of it, the choice he made completely suited his body language and mannerisms.'

A new way of cooperation began to take shape in his mind.

"In that case, form a laboratory as a subsidiary of the Tirumala Printers company."

"Tirumala Printers, Your Majesty?" Wasn't he an engineer at Venkatapatti Scientific? Why was Tirumala Printers brought up?

"Yes, Tirumala Printers. Despite the typewriter and traditional printers being completely different in category, they are still in the same industry. Therefore, the industry chain of Tirumala Printers will be more helpful to manufacture your typewriter, and they will have more experience in setting up the production plants, sales channels, logistics management, and finances. So it is best that you shift the company."

Govardhan thought for a while and felt like it made sense. In the end, he nodded in agreement to His Majesty's suggestion, mainly because both Venkatapatti Scientific, the company he is working for, and Tirumala Printers, the suggested company, are both companies under Raya Machinery Group, an industrial group under the royal family's industries.

Vijay quickly did calculations in his mind and put forward a generous offer,

"An investment of 40 million will be allocated by Tirumala Printers to start up the laboratory, accounting for 51%. The remaining 49% will be in your hands. This can be considered as your investment in intellectual property rights."

"The finances of Tirumala Printers and your laboratory—let's call it Yadav Laboratory—will be separated, and for every 100 varaha Yadav Laboratory receives from Tirumala Printers as royalty payments, you will make 49 varaha. How does that sound?"

"Th-thank you for your generosity, Your Majesty." Govardhan agreed immediately with excitement.

Now that an understanding had been reached, without making any delay, Vijay summoned Bhaskaracharya and the dedicated lawyer of the company, and had the contract finalised.

Govardhan, having signed the contract and gone home like a wooden man, finally woke up. The realisation of what had just happened hit him in the face, making him burst out laughing.

"Hahahah!"

His two daughters, one eight years old and the other eleven years old, looked at their father with worried gazes. "What happened to Father?" they thought in their hearts. But how could Govardhan tell his daughters that they were suddenly multimillionaires, possessing wealth held by the top 1% of the empire?

Govardhan's mind is very clear. Even though he didn't receive any money from the transaction, he never thought that he was being cheated or that he was being taken advantage of.

Because when His Majesty, via Tirumala Printers, invests 40 million for 51% of the laboratory named after him in a few days, then it would mean the 49% he currently holds would be worth over 38.5 million varaha. That is a mind-boggling return on investment, especially considering that his total investment—even including the payment he had to make to Venkatapathy Scientific for utilising the machine tools—would not exceed 5 million.

Although the wealth of over 38 million is virtual since he doesn't actually have the money in his hands, he has no doubt in his mind that if he wants to sell his stake, thousands of people will be willing to take it over, even if he quotes 40 million. Even if people do not understand his invention and do not see its uses, the sole precedent of His Majesty not failing in investment is enough for people to bid for the shares in his hands, no matter the cost.

Now, of course, he didn't want to sell the stake in his hand, because if he really wanted money, he could have simply invested his salary into the real estate market or the stock market, which is continuing to grow. Why would he put it all into innovation, which more often than not leads to no result?

While the Yadav family is happily celebrating, Vijay has gotten back to the Royal Palace and gone directly into his study room.

First, he wrote a letter to Prime Minister Vinod about amending the Intellectual Property Act of the Bharatiya Empire. Vijay didn't go into specifics about how the act should be amended, since the amendment required this time was nothing but adding a clause into patent ownership—where employees, even if they are using the company's equipment to do the research, as long as they are paying for the machining hours and the investment for research is their own, then the organisation has no right to claim any part of the patent. Of course, several other terms and conditions are applied, but overall, that's the short gist of it.

Vinod would have to hold a committee meeting with the ministers as well as the legal professionals and carefully amend the Intellectual Property Act of the Bharatiya Empire.

The next objective of Vijay was to design a typewriter layout that is usable to the Bharatiya Empire.

Thinking about it, Vijay fell into deep thought, because his decision now will affect how humans interact with machines in the future.

In hindsight, the QWERTY layout seemed to be the obvious choice, but on another note, it is an extremely foreign concept to the Bharatiya Empire. For eastern cultures like Bharatiya, Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, the QWERTY layout is very unnatural, as the way the language is used is completely different from the way it is used in the West. The only reason it was so widely accepted in his previous life was because English had already become the language of the globe; they were left with no choice but to learn the layout.

So Vijay finally decided and chose to build the layout from the ground up.

First things first, he added numbers from one to zero in the first row, all in Devanagari script, which is essentially the numerical system that was used by the Arabs and, consequently, the Europeans.

Going on, in the second row, he added the vowels.

The third row is the velars.

The fourth row is the dentals.

The fifth row is the semi-vowels.

The sixth row is the arithmetic and other necessary symbols. In fact, he added the symbols like exclamation, comma, quote, question, equal, plus, minus, star, slash, and others.

As for the last row, it only contains two keys: one, the space key occupying over 70% of the entire layout; and secondly, the enter key.

After inputting everything, Vijay took a quick look at his work and nodded in satisfaction.

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[ १ ] [ २ ] [ ३ ] [ ४ ] [ ५ ] [ ६ ] [ ७ ] [ ८ ] [ ९ ] [ ० ] ← Numerals (Devanagari)

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[ अ ] [ ఆ ] [ इ ] [ ई ] [ ಉ ] [ ঊ ] [ ಋ ] [ ೠ ] [ এ ] [ ஐ ] [ ఒ ] [ औ ] ← Vowels

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[ क ] [ ख ] [ ಗ ] [ ங ] [ च ] [ ছ ] [ ಜ ] [ झ ] [ ஞ ] [ ट ] [ ಠ ] [ ड ] ← Velars → Retroflex

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[ ढ ] [ थ ] [ द ] [ ந ] [ త ] [ ಧ ] [ ನ ] [ ப ] [ ফ ] [ బ ] [ ಭ ] [ म ] ← Dentals → Labials

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[ य ] [ र ] [ ல ] [ ವ ] [ श ] [ ஷ ] [ स ] [ హ ] [ ಳ ] [ ಴ ] [ র ] [ ् ] ← Semivowels & Specials

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[ ं ] [ ঁ ] [ ः ] [ । ] [ , ] [ ऽ ] [ " ] [ ! ] [ ? ] [ = ] [ + ] [ - ] [ * ] [ / ]

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[ SPACE ] [ ENTER ]

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Vijay came out of the study room with two letters in his hand. To his surprise, Kavya was actually sitting on the sofa right in front of his study room.

Without uttering a word, Kavya came forward, handed him a cup of tea, hummed, refused to elaborate, and left swinging her very alluring back.

"Oh boy, this is going to be a long day," he said to himself.