"Dad, what do you think this is?" At this time, Zhou Fan suddenly showed a mysterious smile and took out the book of rites from his arms.

Zhou Yi was stunned, took it a little dazed, and opened it casually, but saw that it was just a book of etiquette, and couldn't help but smile and said: "Who came up with this method to bind this Caihou paper together, and it will be much easier to read it in the future." ”

Zhou Fan also smiled when he saw Zhou Yi so calm. He also knew that his father must have gone astray. In his heart, this book of rites is just a lot of Cai Hou paper together, although it is very practical, but it is not reliable.

In recent years, the price of Caihou paper has always been high, especially in Yizhou, which is located in a remote area, and the price of Caihou paper is several times more expensive than that in the Central Plains.

If it's just a book like this, that's fine, but if there are more of them, I'm afraid no one can resist it.

Zhou Fan smiled and said, "If I say that the cost of this book of rites is less than thirty yuan." ”

"What did you say!" Zhou Yi exclaimed in surprise, and in addition to being excited, he almost threw away the etiquette in his hand.

And Lu Zhi on the side was also stunned, looking at Zhou Yi and the book of rites in his hand in disbelief.

"I said the cost of this book is less than thirty dollars." Looking at Zhou Yi's surprised expression, Zhou Fan couldn't help but say.

"Stinky apricot, you're not sick, don't talk nonsense, did you say thirty gold as fifty dollars?" Zhou Yi asked solemnly.

The whole book of rites is about 90,000 words, and the book of rites in his hand has about more than 300 pieces of paper, although it is not big, but it is also more than 300 pieces of paper, and now he Zhou Fan actually said that so many Cai Hou papers add up to less than 50 yuan, how can he believe it.

Zhou Fan couldn't help but roll his eyes, that is, this book is really made of Cai Hou paper. That's not as exaggerated as fifty gold: "You heard it right, it's fifty dollars, and Dad, you can see what is the difference between this paper and the original Caihou paper." ”

Fifty dollars is really too much, the price of the paper in this book is only forty dollars, and the rest is some pen and ink money, as for the labor cost of copying, it is really expensive, after all, nearly 100,000 words, with the current speed of ordinary Confucian copying, I am afraid that it is really impossible to do it in ten days and half a month.

However, this labor cost Zhou Fan didn't need to be counted at all. Anyway, I believe that it won't be long before Ma Jun will be able to get out the movable type English technique. At that time, there will be no need for manual labor at all.

Hearing this, Zhou Yi opened the Book of Rites again, and after careful observation, he found that this paper was completely different from the Caihou paper he had used before, and it was not worse, but better: "Isn't this Caihou paper?" ”

Suddenly Zhou Yi was depressed, if the paper became worse, the price became lower, it would be forgivable, but now the paper has become better. The price is even lower, which is what he can't understand.

Lu Zhi, who was on the side, took the book of rites and looked through it with affection.

"Yes, this is not my improvement of Cai Hou paper, now this paper is not only much more comfortable to use than Cai Hou paper, but the price is even cheaper, even ordinary people are afraid to use it." Zhou Fan said.

"Good. This is really a great fortune for Confucian scholars in the world, with this paper, all readers will no longer need to use the heavy bamboo slips in the future. It only takes some manpower to copy, and you can get a book. Lu Zhi exclaimed with some excitement.

"And that's not all!" Zhou Fan looked at Lu Zhi, who was very excited, added a fire again, and said: "Don't hide it from the teacher, I have already thought of a way to produce such books in large quantities and quickly, and there is no need for manpower to copy them, as long as I want to, there will be thousands of etiquette books in Dahan, and when the time comes, even if it is a copy in everyone's hand, it can be read by Yan." It's just that the method hasn't been perfected yet, and I'm afraid it will take a while. ”

"Yuanyang, what you said is true?" Lu Zhi's whole person was stunned, this news was so shocking that even if it was him, Lu Zhi, he couldn't come back to his senses for a while.

He Lu Zhina is also from a poor family, and he is too clear about Yiyan's path to study.

If it weren't for the fact that he met his teacher at that time, he would not have had the opportunity to read so many books, let alone Lu Zhi today.

And now that he Zhou Fan has broken the situation of running a sail, it is simply a blessing in the world, and there will be no more people who want to study, because they can't get books, and they will lose their opportunities.

"Nature is true!" Zhou Fan said solemnly. With Ma Jun's ability, in less than half a year, at most a year, I am afraid that the movable type English technique will be able to be figured out, and everything will be easy by then.

"Yuanyang, have you ever thought about such a consequence?" Zhou Yi's face changed and he asked seriously. Although he was also very excited, he looked deeper and farther than Na Lu Zhi, after all, he not only wanted to think about the world, but also for Zhou Fan and their Zhou family.

I have to say that if the method Zhou Fan said can be successful, this book will become worthless and become popular, which will definitely be a blessing for Tianxiayan.

But in the same way, the birth of this book also brought a huge trouble.

To know why today's scholars can be strong, and why they can be passed on, it is because of this problem of knowledge monopoly.

In these years, most of the people from poor families are not qualified to study, they can't even afford to eat, where do they get the money to study.

Moreover, most of the subsets of scriptures and histories are kept in the hands of the scholars, and they will not be taken out easily at all, which is equivalent to monopolizing knowledge and monopolizing the opportunity to be an official.

Just like the Xun family where Xun Yu is located, all of them are talents, just because there are books at home. On the contrary, those who are from poor backgrounds can't afford to read at all, except for a few people like Lu Zhi, who have a chance to get ahead, no matter how good their talent is, they can only be wiped out in the vast sea of people.

And now, the birth of this book has undoubtedly broken this point and broken the monopoly of the scholars, if it really goes on like this, I am afraid that it is not only the Yizhou scholars who are enemies with Zhou Fan, but the entire Han scholars, and when the time comes, I am afraid that no matter how powerful Zhou Fan is, there will be no way to be the enemy of the scholars in the world.

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