Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 76 One of the Three Yangs, Yang Shiqi
  Go back to the courtyard.

Zhu Xuan called Yan Guan over.

"You help me arrange for someone to go to the Northeast to find a mine called graphite, and bring back a few hundred kilograms of graphite. In addition, help me prepare a few hundred kilograms of coal, iron and other ores, and send them to my second brother first."

Yan Guan felt confused after hearing Zhu Xuan's instructions.

He had no idea what graphite was. Seeing his confused look, Zhu Xuan had to briefly describe the shape of graphite.

Yan Guan understood and asked people to search for it.

Graphite is a high temperature resistant material.

The melting point can reach more than 3,000 degrees Celsius.

Now that the bookstore can make money, he also has money, and is ready to manufacture some things that are only available in industry, such as steel. He wants to try to forge a harder steel as tool steel.

The so-called tool steel is steel that can be used to cut or polish other metals. Ordinary metals are vulnerable to it. It can also be used to try to make seamless steel pipes. If conditions permit, you can even try to rifling.

These are still Zhu Xuan's ideas for the time being, and he doesn't know whether they can be realized.

The foundation of industrialization in the early Ming Dynasty was basically zero. From now on, it will all be driven by him.

After this task was assigned to Yan Guan, Zhu Xuan continued to write the book.

There are so many words in the entire book "The Eight Parts of the Dragon" and "The Four Famous Catchers" that it would take him a long time to finish it. If he left it to others to write, there was no guarantee that anyone would be able to continue it, so he had to do it himself.

When he was almost finished, he gave it to Hou Xian to copy it again.

"There are already two of the four great classics."

"Of the remaining "Journey to the West" and "A Dream of Red Mansions", I am only familiar with the former. I want to read the latter, but I can't get into it."

"How about I write "Journey to the West" in advance?"

"No, I shouldn't be the one to write it. You can leave it to Wu Zhen. I'll make the outline and he'll write the details."

"This book should also become a hit!"

Other thoughts emerged in Zhu Xuan's mind.

Now that he has made money, he also wants to be lazy and do not want to do the coding himself.

It would be more appropriate for someone else to write "Journey to the West". Even if he wanted to write it, he couldn't express the feeling, so he took another piece of white paper and simply wrote down the outline of the story in "Journey to the West".

Find a time to leave the palace and hand it over solemnly to Wu Zhen.

The next morning.

Zhu Xuan went back to the main hall.

Zhu Song did not come to class today and took a long vacation to realize their business empire in the publishing industry.

Zhu Yunxi came, but he was worried. Zhu Xuan asked him what was wrong, but refused to say, as if he was thinking about something.

On the other hand, Zhu Yunwen, a naughty kid, came over to hang out with Zhu Xuan every day, which directly aroused Zhu Yunwen's hatred for Zhu Xuan. However, Zhu Yunwen is now extremely low-key.

Zhu Xuan no longer plots against Zhu Yunwen. The account of Tiger Descending the Mountain will be recorded in a small notebook first. He is still young now and will figure it out slowly in the future.

After school, he ran to find Grandpa Huang again.

In Jinshen Hall, I had dinner with Grandpa Huang and then went back to code.

Several days passed quickly like this.

Wu Zhen asked Yan Guan to go to the palace and tell Zhu Xuan that she wanted to meet him. She selected the first batch of manuscripts to submit and wanted to ask him to review them.

In this case, Zhu Xuan took a day off and went to the bookstore to have a look.

"Little grandson!"

Wu Zhen got up and bowed, then took out the manuscripts.

Zhu Xuan didn't know much about reviewing manuscripts and didn't know which ones met the market requirements. He only looked at whether the stories were good or not. After reading them briefly, he felt that the manuscripts were quite good, but he didn't know much about whether they were really good or not.

"How many of these manuscripts can be signed?" Zhu Xuan asked at the end.

Wu Zhen pulled out five manuscripts from it and said: "These are the only ones that are enough. The remaining stories are too old-fashioned and not suitable for the taste of today's readers, or they are too similar to other story books."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Xuan understood.

Others may look good, but are not suitable for the market, or are plagiarized. Wu Zhenzhen is indeed a great writer of best-selling novels. He has read a lot and can tell what is suitable at a glance.

"Uncle Twenty is not here for the time being. You know better than me whether we should sign the contract or not. It's up to you to make the decision. If possible, invite the author back to discuss the contract." Zhu Xuan said.

"Thank you, little grandson, for your trust!"

Wu Zhen was very grateful, and then took out a manuscript, placed it in front of Zhu Xuan, and said: "The story written by this author is also good in plot, but it criticizes the current shortcomings. I am worried that if it is written too much, printing and publishing it will be detrimental to We have a detrimental effect.”

"Let me see."

Zhu Xuan looked through the manuscript for a while.

The writing is indeed okay. The protagonist in the story is still a county magistrate, but a major corruption case comes up at the beginning. In just over 10,000 words, it incorporates a lot of current political commentary.

The author's conception and perspective are very good, his comments are very accurate, and he definitely has some insights into the politics of the Ming Dynasty.

It’s just that the scale is relatively large.

In modern society a few hundred years later, it would be the official version of online writing.

If printed and distributed, it would easily make Grandpa Huang angry.

Zhu Xuan said after reading: "This book must not be signed. I don't want our Daming Bookstore to close down not long after it opened. But this author has good writing skills and his comments on current affairs are very good. Unlike ordinary authors, he who is it?"

This person who wrote about officialdom attracted his interest.

With this kind of writing power, you can definitely recruit him and cultivate him.

Don't ask him to write about the officialdom and current affairs of the Ming Dynasty. He can write about other dynasties, which is totally fine.

Wu Zhen had already seen this person's information and responded: "This person's name is Yang Shiqi, a graduate of the Imperial Academy. From his content, it can be seen that he has certain ambitions in his mind. He is probably living a relatively good life by writing books and submitting manuscripts. Poverty.”

Most of the students in the Imperial College are relatively poor.

They were studying in Yingtian, and if they wanted to obtain academic honors, they had to rely on their families to provide support from other places.

It would be great if I could be named on the gold list.

If you fail the exam, you will feel sorry for your family members.

There were quite a few Imperial College students who submitted manuscripts, and Wu Zhen selected the five books that could be signed, which were all from Imperial College students.

"Yang Shiqi?"

When Zhu Xuan heard the name, he suddenly felt a little familiar.

Yang Shiqi!
  He chanted it twice and his eyes widened suddenly.

Isn't this Yang Shiqi from Sanyang?

He is already in the Imperial College and has come to contribute to his bookstore.

Zhu Xuan's surprise quickly faded away and he said: "Please, Mr. Wu, help me contact Yang Shiqi. We will make an appointment tomorrow. I want to have a chat with him."

Such historical celebrities would be wasted writing novels.

He wanted to recruit Yang Shiqi in advance and let him work for Grandpa Huang.

"it is good!"

Wu Zhen nodded.

Zhu Xuan then took out the outline of "Journey to the West" from his arms and handed it to Wu Zhen, saying: "Take a look and see if you can write this book. If so, Mr. Wu can also serialize it in our bookstore." , if not, find a suitable person to write it for us.”

(End of this chapter)