Chapter 104

Chapter 104

Patent War

Honestly there was confidence enough to cause trouble.

The Holmes series most loved in Britain from the Victorian era, and my fame that became the most famous chef in London now.

The tsunami when combining these two!

Honestly thought power enough to overturn the entire British Isles two times and more.

Although no confidence in science knowledge, thanks to business management experience accumulated in the previous life and modern marketing know-how, my plotting skill also had no lack!

Such me people I couldn't persuade rolling the three-inch tongue were countable on fingers. In the end the Strand Magazine president also smoothly came over to me.

Because I greatly shook the carrot he could be tempted.

That carrot was none other than, my business card the Countess of Albemarle prepared — special advisor and policy consultant of the New Department of Food Innovation.

In fact in my feeling just about honorary position, but if an outsider knowing nothing looks it was definitely a position name looking quite influential.

That is, policy consultant, right? Somehow a title that seems to madly stamp policies and even confirm oneself?

Seeing Sir Samuel rising to minister position and trying to confirm the gochujang business he'll benefit himself I also wanted to follow!

Exactly speaking, ahead planning to make a lower policy department solely in charge of translation of French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish to distribute British cooking recipes all over Europe under the Department of Food Innovation, and slightly inserting Strand Magazine as the beneficiary of that government business that story!

So, currently Strand Magazine is only issuing English edition, expanding that from French to Spanish and setting the foothold to scatter in Europe that proposal.

Honestly I always wondered that there are so many bilingual speakers in London but no proper translation business.

Quality I don't know and just properly conveying the meaning is fine, right.

In the case of Strand Magazine also heard there are many such outcries.

Due to the great popularity of the Holmes series fans arose in various places in Europe, but what actually distributed was only the English original.

In modern person's sense just taking the translation plate and printing locally would do, but reality is just exporting the magazine produced in Britain as is and distributing, so hard to read except English speakers.

This was because of various realistic obstacles.

First, stereotype. Even if translation doesn't need much literary talent, people regarded only scholars can translate multiple languages so the translator's body price was very high.

Second, complexity of the publishing system. One has to comply with publishing standards and copyright issues by country, hard to conclude multinational publishing contracts, and also a difficult homework of coordinating each country's printing technology and editing norms.

Third, existence of pirate editions. In the case of magazines or short stories before official translation comes out, low-quality pirate translations were released first. Well this might be natural because no official translation.

"...Because of these problems our publishing company also wasn't easy to expand business all over Europe. Of course a big market is in front of the eyes so can't ignore, but raising a big business like translation alone as a publishing company is difficult. Exporting to America sharing the same language degree was the best."

"So, well but now it'll soon become irrelevant."

I nodded to the big Guan Yu beard man sitting in front of my eyes.

He seemed quite burdensome this place and continuously wiped the sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief.

This man's name is Baronet George Newnes. Introduced as the founder of Strand Magazine, and a Liberal Party member of the House of Commons.

A famous publisher even in Britain.

He came directly to the hotel to meet Mr. Doyle to coordinate the promotion of the Holmes series, and seeing me and Mr. Escoffier sitting together at that place was quite surprised state.

At that place I poured out all my current government position, and the fact scheduled to be invested as knight in the second week of November under the presidency of His Majesty Edward VII to raise the reliability of the statement.

Mr. Doyle knew, but Mr. Escoffier also didn't know that fact so surprised together.

Well such was a minor problem. The important was that Sir Newnes accepted the fact that Chairman Balfour is behind me and prostrated flat.

Tap tap.

Mr. Doyle touched my arm then sent a whisper.

"Teacher Durand, really what thought? Translating Strand Magazine all over Europe and scattering? My novel too?"

"Yes, well it'll become so. Although can't guarantee. Surely you dislike?"

"No way! Really shocking. The most shocking among the words heard today! Translating Britain's novels into all European languages...? By any chance is that possible reverse too? If possible I want to comfortably read Tolstoy or Dostoevsky's literature in English!"

"Haha, that a bit... I'll consider."

When I suddenly brought up the translation problem, Mr. Doyle also seemed suddenly excited.

In fact the same as the problem of English literature not translated into other country languages, the situation of other country literature like Russian or German also not translated into English was the same.

Of course the translation department talk wasn't completely a lie. I heard Chairman Balfour and Sir Samuel's ambition, and noticed that someday such a department would arise.

Spreading British cooking to Europe, in the era of nationalism that can't be possible with only English, right.

It was words that sufficient localization is needed.

The problems Sir Newnes mentioned were all easy matters solvable at once if the government intervenes.

Recruiting translation manpower? Bilingual speakers are overflowing in London? Immediately the laborer uncle who lived in the house across from us on Baker Street was fluent in Russian and English at the same time!

Publishing standards? Copyright problem? That degree just shaking hands between ministers ends, right? Pirate edition? Who looks at pirate edition when there's official translation?

Until now such matters were impossible, simply because the government had no will and interest to do so.

But if I intervene and lay the bridge? Strand Magazine might somehow become?

In my view the only medium currently in Britain capable of cultural invasion to other countries without resistance is literature.

Preemptively spreading literature, and slightly inserting British cooking recipes there that thought. With this degree wouldn't Chairman Balfour also sufficiently accept?

In my view one needs this degree of complex plan to definitely receive government support, and also draw out the magazine company's cooperation, and successfully spread my measuring tool in London.

Win-win strategy for all participants.

This was exactly my final idea.

"If only guaranteed overseas expansion of Strand Magazine... The production cost of that spoon free gift, half our publishing company will bear!"

"Hmm, until now the thought of being able to publish the Holmes series in French or German never thought at all... A dream-like matter. If there's a matter I can help I'll help. I agree."

"By any chance, is my 'cooking guide' also possible to translate into Spanish..."

"Wait wait, I'm also still in the conception stage. Have to go back and discuss again!"

The benefits I can obtain through this cooperation are largely two.

First in cooking at least one could be liberated from that trash-like imperial unit system! My stress halves!

And if Strand Magazine spreads all over Europe, someday in the future when I export Nutella it will clearly become the best advertisement board! Then I simultaneously sit on a pile of money!

Of course this is still an unreachable goal, so for now producing Durand tablespoon first and seeing.

Spreading my exclusive unit system through the magazine, and using that definitely raising London people's cooking quality. In that process Strand Magazine naturally spreads all over Europe, and later making that my promotion board.

Moreover all matters roll without me directly touching. I just comfortably sit in the restaurant office and watch the rolling sight.

Too... fun?!

With this degree of achievement, wouldn't the change degree rise 10 percent more?

Like that this incident was cleanly organized.

Receiving permission from Chairman Balfour and Sir Samuel was also much smoother than expected.

Translation support department, that idea also received extreme praise.

Especially Chairman Balfour seemed completely fascinated by my plan—first attempting cultural invasion to other countries through literature, then slightly inserting even cooking strategy.

In fact this was entirely modern person's sense.

In the current era no intellectuals thought culture has that degree of power. But I personally experienced how much benefit various cultural invasions like British Invasion, Hollywood blockbuster, Hallyu craze bring to the economy.

Like that the eventful October ended.

First week of November, how much the revised Strand Magazine publication boiled London people's blood one absolutely couldn't explain with words.

Holmes and Dumont's amazing performance entangled in the Hound of the Baskervilles incident!

I asked to just change a few lines for tablespoon promotion, but Mr. Doyle caused a big accident.

Saying with only one measuring tool the image absolutely doesn't catch, I carelessly threw one Western sauce recipe I remembered, but Mr. Doyle embedded that as is in the novel so the same uproar occurred!

What did I give? For now ranch dressing sauce improved matching my taste...

Mayonnaise and sugar, pepper, buttermilk matching the ratio and blending brings out a very savory taste... A sauce where accurate ratio is the core of taste, even in the previous life it was the most popular sauce in America.

Mr. Doyle staged a scene of detective Holmes dipping this a lot on chicken with simple imagination alone, but the real problem was people really made and opened their eyes to the new concept of 'dipping sauce'.

People who until now recognized sauce as just scattering on food or slightly dipping, started dipping anything in cooking because of Holmes!

Ranch sauce on chicken! Peanut butter on chicken! Ranch sauce on grilled eel! Ranch sauce on fish ball! Salt on samgyeopsal?!

I screamed. At this rate before I make Nutella people might suddenly think of dipping cookies in chocolate jam!

Preempting my future pension insurance plan is absolutely not! If chocolate jam, what I made had to rise on the first page of history!

Here Mr. Doyle caused one more accident.

Whether some muse settled on him due to recent incidents, he showed amazing concentration of additionally writing a new short story in just a few days.

A new short story disclosure that didn't exist even in history.

Protagonist, Jean-Pierre Dumont.

Title, Gourmet Chef Dumont and the Light Disorder Mystery.

Seemed to have made a title that just looks somehow from science novels recently reading, but the content was too shameless and bizarre.

What relation on earth between chef and physics?!

And one Swiss scientist who received great impression from this short story a few months later directly takes a boat and comes to my restaurant... For now even I couldn't imagine such butterfly effect.

My fully raised nerves had to be used to soothe two inventors who hurriedly fled from America.

Mr. Thomas Edison and Mr. Nikola Tesla.

The two people came to me holding the completed refrigerator prototype in their arms.

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"Received threat from finance king Morgan...?"

In the end the worried matter burst.

The refrigerator prototype the two people brought, and the design drawing. There an interferer poured cold water.

The two genius inventors ultimately succeeded in implementing the early type home refrigerator in 1901 jumping over ten years of time, of course the plug technology I delivered in the middle also contributed.

Plug and socket.

And the small engine Mr. Royce the other genius engineer made.

Well don't know how they did, at the end of exchanging technology with each other they barely made a 3 meter size small (?) refrigerator that talk.

The two people, adding Sir Crookes the President of the Royal Society here tried to burst fireworks greatly looking ahead to the future of this technology.

As for me well roughly knowing the future of various modern sciences developed with only one refrigerator so let it be, but from a past person's position this one would have been a tremendous innovation.

The problem was shameless guys even infiltrated the joint research institute the two people established, but concentrating too much on research the two people who were growling suddenly cooperating and researching so the American finance hyenas who regarded strangely didn't notice up to the point of inserting spies in advance that seemed.

Even a science ignorant like me knows refrigerator is a tremendous technology, let alone people who were doing money play?

At once noticing the power of technology and backstabbing.

Diverting part of the technology through spies, and hanging a patent war.

Certainly a troublesome situation.

The fame and backing I accumulated until now didn't reach America.