“I have a way to solve the church’s budget shortage. Let’s hear it.”

“How about selling Bibles?”

The Cardinal tilted his head after hearing my suggestion.

“A Bible is, after all, a craft and a piece of art. But how could we make a large profit by selling Bibles?”

In the Tuscany Empire, printing technology hasn’t spread that widely.

Thus, the price of a single Bible or an academic book is roughly the price of a house.

For high-ranking individuals, that might not be much, but it takes an average of 3 months to a year to hand-copy a single …