Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 220
He pointed to the engraving block: "The engravers in our workshop are skilled, and we can carve such a block in a day. This engraving block is preserved, and you don't have any problem printing as many as you want. The more you print, the lower the cost."

This is also the reason why the prices of the Four Books and Five Classics on the market are much cheaper than other books.Because of the high demand, every printing workshop has engraving blocks. If there is a shortage of goods, you only need to take out the engraving blocks and print them.Because the printing volume is large, the cost is low, and the price is naturally low.

For other scarce books, the cost of printing is high, so it is better to have someone copy them by hand.

After leaving Cao Ji's workshop, Du Jinning did not go home, but followed Guan Jiaze to the Guan Mansion, begging to see Guan Lehe.

Not long after Guan Lehe returned home from the academy, he heard a report from his subordinates that his little disciple had arrived. He was very surprised, so he sent a message for Du Jinning to come in, and asked her, "What happened?"

Du Jinning said: "Teacher, I just printed out Cao Ji's book, and I want to tell you something."

"Oh." Guan Lehe pointed to the chair, "Sit, sit down and talk."

Du Jinning sat down and said: "The people who printed the book of Cao Ji said that the movable type printing they used was still clay or woodcut, because it took a lot of time and was not durable, and the cost was high, so they didn't like it very much. I thought, if I make a Mold, pour lead water into it to make lead characters one by one, so that it can last for a long time? A workshop can spend some money to make 10,000+ or ​​even hundreds of thousands of characters, and there will be no need to spend other costs in the future , when printing a book, you only need to hire people to do the typesetting. Because the type is durable, it can be used for dozens or hundreds of years, and it can be sold to others if the workshop is not open. It should be acceptable if the cost is higher. Besides, you don’t need to cast so many characters at once. You can cast a book as soon as you print a book. If you add up, you will have more fonts. The most is that you don’t make much money in the early stage. "

Guan Lehe's eyes became brighter and brighter as she narrated. In the end, he looked at Du Jinning with strange eyes, as if he didn't know her.

Du Jinning felt terrified when he saw him, and said with a dry smile, "Teacher, why do you look at me like that?"

"I see how your little head grows, you can always think of things that others can't think of." Guan Lehe said with emotion.

Feeling guilty, Du Jinning rubbed his nose and smiled without making a sound.

After expressing his emotions, Guan Lehe asked Du Jinning: "Since you came up with this idea, why don't you open a workshop by yourself like opening a teahouse? I heard from Brother Ze that your teahouse can make money. Every month You can get a dividend of tens of taels of silver. You have a lot of shares. If you go on like this, you will be able to open such a printing workshop yourself in a year. Why tell me this way? You Aren't you afraid that I'll swallow your trick?"

"Teacher, you are a gentleman, how could you do such a thing?" Du Jinning flattered him.

"You must not have the intention to harm others, and you must have the intention to guard against others. Although I am your teacher, if I know people and know the face but not the heart, maybe I will become greedy?" Guan Lehe still refused to let go.

"I believe in the teacher." After Du Jinning finished speaking, he nodded vigorously to emphasize this point.

As the saying goes, wear thousands of times and wear them all, but flattery does not wear them.Although Guan Lehe is a gentleman and doesn't like flattery, he still feels at ease after being flattered by Du Jinning.

"You!" He pointed Du Jinning with his fingers, and his smile was full of the elder's doting on the younger generation.

He leaned back on the chair and asked, "What do you want?"

Du Jinning stood up, straightened his clothes, and bowed solemnly to Guan Lehe: "If the students come up with this method to reduce the cost of book printing and let more children across the country be able to read and write, Jinning will not be in vain. The teacher brought me out from the mountain village and taught me a lesson. The method of type printing is entirely up to the teacher.”

These words seem to be high-sounding, but they are also the voice of Du Jinning.

Since she has traveled to this era and knows this method, it is impossible for her to hide this method and only use it as her own money-making tool.Popularizing this method to benefit the people is also a return to God for allowing her to be reborn.Anyway, there are countless modern knowledge in her mind, which are wealth.If you want to make money, you can rely on your own ability.She doesn't want to be rich and powerful, just a little rich is enough.

In addition, she also knew that if she covered up the printing method to make money, she would definitely cause a lot of trouble.After all, she has no roots, no background, and having such a secret is equivalent to a powerless child walking through the downtown with a golden job, which is asking for trouble and seeking death.

The tea making method she told Guan Lehe last time was also the same.

Guan Lehe was deeply moved by Du Jinning's words.

He looked at Du Jinning moved, and repeatedly praised: "Good boy, good boy."

Blinking his eyes to calm down, he said: "However, even if I find a way to get someone to hand over a booklet to the emperor and tell the method, the emperor will let the nobles of the royal family use this method to open printing workshops in various places." The cost of printing has dropped, but whether the price of books will drop depends on the conscience of those who do things. Rather than letting others make profits, whether it will benefit others is still unknown, it is better for us to do it ourselves.”

He looked at Du Jinning: "I will let people try the lead type casting method first. If it works, our Guan family will open printing workshops in various places. At that time, the profits from these workshops will be divided into [-]% of your shares. For Do you have any objection to this?"

Du Jinning shook his head: "The students said it just now, but it's up to the master. The students don't have any objections."

Guan Lehe looked at Du Jinning with an extremely kind gaze.

[-]% of the members may feel too little to those who do not understand this industry.But Du Jinning didn't feel aggrieved at all, it can be seen that he is an open-minded person who doesn't value gains or losses.But also, if he is a person who values ​​profit and loss, he will not take this method out and want to dedicate it to the country.

But for the Guan family, it takes a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to do this in the early stage, which is really a lot of people.

"In the future, if you take part in the palace examination, the emperor will ask you to write a policy theory, and you can also write this method on it. You don't have to worry about our Guan family's business. The Guan family is in your favor, and it will be easy to make a few years of money with this method." That's enough," he said again.

When he said these things, he was well-informed, and he felt that this method was feasible after hearing what Du Jinning said. That's why he said this.

"Yes, sir." Du Jinning did not refuse, and directly agreed.

As for the future, that is a matter for the future, and there is no need to discuss it now.

(End of this chapter)