Great Tang’s Talented Little Landlord

Ma Zhou looked towards Li Wangyou’s eyes burned even more, and now he doesn’t care that “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” is just a novel.

This is the first book printed by Great Tang, the first book with punctuation marks!

Yan Liben can draw illustrations and sign the money. How can it not make Ma Zhou’s eyes hot.

“Hehe, teacher, what do you think is the discipline I can do for you? I also want to do my part for your book, teacher.” Ma Zhou rubbed his hands and said sorry. .

Li Wangyou looked at Ma Zhou with a smile, but suddenly he had cares.

Such a good free labor force, you don’t need it for nothing.

He copied “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, and the most tiring thing was to copy it stroke by stroke with a brush.

Because this manuscript is to be sent to the bookshop for engraving, every word is sloppy, so it must be concentrated attention completely and written carefully, which is very tiring.

I accidentally mistyped a word, and the entire manuscript had to be rewritten, and there was no chance for it to be altered.

The past few days have long been copied so that Li Wangyou is very impatient.

Although the mobile phone cant be given to Ma Zhou, if you dont care about writing, just copy it out, and let Ma Zhou help him re-write the manuscript seriously, how much time will be saved.

“Binwang, are you willing to copy the manuscript for me? This manuscript will be sent directly to engraving. In the future, the book “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” will be all Binwang’s pen and ink. How about , Are you willing?”

Ma Zhou’s head is so dotted as a chicken pecking rice: “Yes, naturally willing, it is the honor of the discipline to work for the teacher.”

Li Wangyou was very happy, patted Ma Zhou on the shoulder and sent a sweet date: “On the cover of this book, I will write your name and indicate that it is your Ma Zhou Ma Binwang’s ink draft.”

These words made Ma Zhou even more excited, wishing to start copying now.

Not only can I leave my name in the teacher’s book, but I can also see the “updated” content immediately. Ma Zhou is very satisfied with this.

Yan Liben, who was concentrating on painting, couldn’t help but lifts the head when he heard this, looking towards Li Wangyou with expectation in his eyes.

Li Wangyou saw Yan Libens small eyes, and immediately gave him a sweet jujube: “Liben will naturally leave his name on the cover, the illustration is drawn, Yan Liben.”

Pretending to look like he didn’t care, Yan Liben lowered his head and said nothing. He just continued to paint, but the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but turn up, obviously extremely satisfied.

The first volume of “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, which is the first five chapters, has already been copied by Li Wangyou, so I don’t have to copy it again by Ma Zhou. This is a pity for Ma Zhou and can only wait for Li Wangyou to write the next part of the manuscript.

The two talked, Yan Liben has completed a drawing, dried the ink and handed it to Li Wangyou.

“Master, can you see it like this?”

Li Wangyou took the manuscript, and at first glance, he almost wanted to collect the manuscript by himself. It was really good to use it for engraving. waste.

I have to say that letting people like Yan Liben draw illustrations for themselves is really a cannon for mosquitoes, and a sledgehammer for killing chickens.

Yan Liben was originally good at drawing characters. After studying sketch perspective with Li Wangyou for a period of time, the line drawing of the characters is firm and round, the clothes are simple and thick, and they are more vivid and vivid.

He painted the picture of Liu Guanzhang and the three worshiping in Peach Garden Sanjie Yizhong and Taoyuan Garden.

Yan Liben can be hailed as the “Myth of Red Green”. The level of illustrations he painted is higher than that of later illustrators, so I don’t know where it is, which makes Li Wangyou extremely satisfied.

“Liben, this illustration is very good, very good. There are four chapters left, you can draw them together, and I will send it to the bookshop for engraving, and I will try to print it into a book after a decade.”

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Won the compliment from the teacher, Yan Liben immediately nodded, ran back to a few cases, and again worked at the desk to paint seriously.

Because only line drawing is needed, and the size of the illustrations is not large, it didn’t take much effort, so Yan Liben drew all the five chapter illustrations.

Li Wangyou also wrote the cover of “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, and in Yan Liben’s expectation, wrote a line of small words: “Illustration draws Yan Liben”

These seven words made Ma Zhou’s eyes enthusiastic. I wish I could re-transcribe the first five chapters now so that Li Wangyou would also write on the cover: “transcribe the horse Binwang”.

All the manuscripts for the first volume of “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” are all ready. Li Wangyou is ready to strike while the iron is hot, and today he sent it to the bookshop for early engraving and printing.

It will be launched one day earlier, and those who have read this book will understand the pain of “chasing changes” one day earlier, wow hahaha, how happy!

Li Wangyou took Niu Wu and rode to Hu County Bookstore.

When the owner of the bookstore saw Li Wangyou’s arrival, he hurriedly stepped forward to give a salute: “The old man has seen Baron of Hu County, is there any place where the old man can help?”

Li Wangyou smiled and stretched out his hand to pass his stack of manuscripts over.

“Master Sun, this is a book I plan to print. You can see how soon it will be printed.”

Master Sun took the manuscript with both hands and looked through it briefly. After a while: “Baron of Hu County, old man can print it naturally, I dont know how many copies of this book you need to print?”

Li Wangyou wondered, this is the first one, or dont print too much for now If you cant sell it, youll lose out.

Although “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” is one of China’s four great masterpieces, what if Great Tang people don’t like it? This may not be impossible.

Li Wangyou originally wanted to print 10,000 copies. Anyway, lifespan was used for woodcut engraving, that is, about 10,000 printings, and 10,000 copies were printed just to complete the engraving use lifespan.

However, out of cost considerations, he decided to print less and try the water first: “Print a thousand copies first. If it sells well, then print it again.”

After hearing this, Mr. Sun Fang hesitated: “Baron of Hu County, look, how do you calculate the wages?”

Last time I helped Li Wangyou print flyers because I only engraved a few in total. Only one engraving plate, plus in order to obtain engraving printing technology, Sun Fangzhu naturally did not charge Li Wangyou’s engraving labor cost.

The stack of manuscripts that Li Wangyou took out now has almost a hundred pages, which means that more than one hundred engravings are needed.

The labor cost of engraving is not cheap.

The engraving craftsmen in the bookstore charge for engraving and printing, which is actually the same as engraving seals, and they charge according to the number of words.

For every engraving of one hundred characters, Sun Fangzhu needs to pay the craftsman two hundred liters of copper. The engraving of one page of the manuscript is almost 400 liters.

This thick stack of more than one hundred pages of manuscripts, all engraving is completed, only the manual cost of engraving craftsmen, it needs 40,000 copper coins, equivalent to 40 pens.

And other labor such as paper, ink and printing, Sun Fangzhu still does not know how much it needs.

Because although he has obtained this engraving printing technology, he has never printed a book, so he can only roughly estimate how much it will cost.

However, Sun Fangzhu silently estimated it in the heart, and the number he got surprised him.

According to his estimation, not counting the cost of engraving, but only printing costs such as paper and ink, the book Li Wangyou wants to print will not cost less than 100 texts.

In other words, if Li Wangyou wants to print a thousand copies of “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, it is just the cost of the bookstore, which is about one hundred and forty pens, with an average of 140 copper coins per copy.

For such a large expenditure, Fangzhu Sun cannot be cautious.