In the next few days, several taller palaces in the palace were installed with lightning rods, and the military aircraft workshop was still continuing to produce, although Xia Hongsheng said that the relatively high ones could be installed, and those low ones could be left alone, but Li Shimin still decided to install all the roofs in the palace to ensure that there would never be a thunderbolt into the palace again. Li Lao'er's family is rich and capricious, and Xia Hongsheng went with him. The incident of the thunder splitting of the palace in the second year of Zhenguan, with Xia Hongsheng's agitation and participation, finally did not cause much turmoil.

It's just that Xia Hongsheng's name has become even louder, and then Xia Hongsheng's way of learning things has spread, saying that Xia Hongsheng is proficient in the way of things, to what extent? Proficient to the extent that it can shock the world and mess with ghosts and gods!

After these words reached Xia Hongsheng's ears, Xia Hongsheng's heart was a little messy. Isn't that what you're concerned about, right? Why is it that no one goes to teach the magic of Gewu, no one is curious about it, and no one wants to come to learn Gewu?!

However, Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng ran to Xia Hongsheng for three days. Xia Hongsheng and them had many interesting and magical little experiments, and let the two of them go back and think about the experiments by themselves. It is also said that everything in the world has its own way, and only by exploring these ways and peeking into the way of all things in the world can we know what is the way of heaven. Because all things are born by nature, it is natural that we must also explore the way of heaven from the way of all things.

Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, who were fooled by these words, were stunned for a moment, thinking that they had finally found the entrance to the Heavenly Dao, and went back to do the experiment excitedly.

The person who also ran to Xia Hongsheng's house twice in three days was Li Tai, who showed enthusiasm for the things in Xia Hongsheng's mouth that he couldn't match before, and kept asking questions. Xia Hongsheng was also happy to teach him, and began to gradually teach Li Tai science lessons in private.

Xia Hongsheng's fame has risen all the way with this incident, as if he has already had some momentum in the limelight.

This made Xia Hongsheng feel. The other one is almost ready to be implemented.

So Xia Hongsheng went back to Zhuangzi and asked the housekeeper how much money he could use at home. These two incomes alone have reached tens of thousands, which is what Xia Hongsheng left after he took out a lot of money and invested it in the military academy. But surprise is surprise, but this little money is still far from enough to support what Xia Hongsheng wants to do next.

However, Xia Hongsheng also understands that there is no need to worry too much about money. Nowadays, the liquor of the liquor workshop and the glass products of the glass workshop have not been completely rolled out at present, and the liquor is still limited to Chang'an City, and the glaze is still in the initial stage of entering the market. No market feedback has been generated. When these two inputs are rolled out, there is no need to worry about money. However, if you want to wait for the liquor and glass to completely spread out and become a scale, I am afraid it will take at least a year.

told the housekeeper and the bookkeeper to use the money to slowly collect some land in Jingyang, and don't care about the quality of the land, because it is not used for farming, but the area can be increased. It's best not to get too far from Zhuangzi. told the two of them to slowly find an opportunity to reclaim the land. Xia Hongsheng went to the greenhouse to take a look again, and saw that the fruits and vegetables inside were growing very well. I went back to Chang'an with confidence.

When he arrived in Chang'an, he had just returned to the door of his house and was about to go in, when he heard someone calling him behind him, and when he looked back, he saw that it was Li Gang who came over, so he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed.

"Hehe, it's really time for the old man to come." Li Gang looked at Xia Hongsheng's appearance. So he said with a smile.

"The student went back to Jingyang yesterday and came back." Xia Hongsheng explained: "I also invite Master Li to go in and rest, I don't know if Master Li came in person today, what is the so-called matter?" ”

invited Li Gang into the hall and sat down. I saw Li Gang take out a book from his long sleeves, hand it to Xia Hongsheng, and said, "Today, the old man is here to say good news to you." Your book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has now been published. Today, the old man sent a copy to His Majesty, and the old man brought it to you. ”

Printed?

"Master Li only needs to send someone to spread the word, and the students will go to see Master Li from now on, so why bother Master Li and let Master Li run in person!" Xia Hongsheng was overjoyed, hurriedly saluted and thanked him, and then took it, the dark blue cover was printed with the four big characters of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and the author's name was also signed below, Xia Hongsheng. Turning the frontispiece, a scent of ink came to my nose, and what caught my eye was the preface written by Li Shimin himself, telling the benefits of the book. At the end, it was Li Gang's own handwriting, and then turned back, there was still a poem, but it was Yan Shigu who signed it.

"This ......" Xia Hongsheng looked at the scroll in his hand with some excitement, and then looked at Li Gang.

"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is so exciting, the old man naturally wants to share it with his old friends. You are also his protégé, how can Shi Gu be unhappy to have this strange book? Li Gang said with a smile.

God, there is no more luxurious lineup than this book, when the emperor personally made the preface, two of the most prestigious and prestigious Confucians in the Confucian forest, personally wrote for this book!

Xia Hongsheng bowed very excitedly: "Students write Li Shi and Yan Shi to carry it!" ”

Li Gang shook his head: "Erben is a genius in the sky, so why do you need the old man to help." It's just, Jingshi, I don't know how you want to operate this book, so that the world's poor people are willing to follow suit and sell books? ”

Li Gang has always been thinking about this matter, in his opinion, if he can use this book to set this precedent, he can lead the scholars of the poor family to have a way to live while doing knowledge, and as Xia Hongsheng said, so that people who do learning are willing to print their knowledge and distribute it to the world, then its significance is far beyond the book itself.

"If you want to do this, you have to take the lead in the printing bureau, or the students themselves will recruit craftsmen, carve movable type by themselves, and set up a workshop for printing books. Then you can print the book in the name of the workshop, sell it to the outside world, and then advertise the world, all the scholars' documents, you can submit to the workshop, if selected, the workshop needs to pay the author money, in exchange for the full force of publishing the book, naturally, the author's fame will be added, after the book is printed, these books will be sold, and the dividends from the sale, the bookstore will leave a small part to recover the cost of printing and buying the right to print, and the rest will be given to the author of the book. In this way, it is not only a way for the public to know their knowledge and fame all over the world, but also to get money to support their families, and there must be many people who are willing to do so. Xia Hongsheng simplified the concept of the publishing industry in later generations and explained it to Li Gang simply.

"Yes, this method is very good!" Li Gang stroked his beard and nodded, and said: "It's still up to Jingshi to take care of it, if you need to use the old man, just say it." ”

"Master Li thinks about the world's scholars, regardless of his reputation, he supports the students to mess around, and the students thank Li Shi Gaoyi for the world's poor scholars!" Xia Hongsheng's words came from the heart, and he bowed deeply and bowed to Li Gang.

Li Gang shook his head: "However, according to the old man, it is best for you to make your own printing workshop for this book printing!" You have quite a few workshops under your command, and you should be able to do it. If it is done by the printing office of the imperial court, I am afraid that the printing office itself is already very busy, and it will not take care of it. ”

"That's what the students mean." Xia Hongsheng said to Li Gang: "The printing office is responsible for all the printing related matters of the imperial court, and it has many affairs and is very busy. If it is up to the students to set up their own printing shop, they can do just that. ”

Li Gang nodded, thought for a while, and said: "To make a printing workshop, we need craftsmen who engrave letters, and we also need handymen who make plates. These people, the old man can ask someone to help you inquire. ”

"That's great! Students are worried about where to find a skilled letterer! Xia Hongsheng thanked him again.

The two discussed some more book printing, Li Gang was about to leave, Xia Hongsheng sent Li Gang away, and then he began to think about the book printing by himself.

The printing workshop is not just used to print a few books, the key is to sell books, and to be able to sell books, in order to make a profit, in order to pay the author's manuscript fee. If "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" wants to start at this point, it should naturally sell a lot. Only then can other literati see the sweetness and blush, so that they can write and submit their own articles.

But now that there is no way to advertise, how can we publicize it and attract more people to come and buy the Three Kingdoms?

"Hongsheng, today my sister-in-law wants to cook a meal by herself, what do you want to eat, tell my sister-in-law to come!" Xia Hongsheng was thinking about it, when he suddenly heard his sister-in-law's voice, looked up, and saw that his sister-in-law didn't know when she walked in, and when she came to him, she asked, "What are you thinking, so distracted?" ”

"Oh, this "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was printed today, Li Shi brought a copy, I'm thinking about how to get people to buy this book." Xia Hongsheng pointed to the book on the table and said.

Sister-in-law picked up the book, flipped through it, and put it back again: "Sister-in-law can't understand it, Hongsheng, what kind of story did you write?" ”

"It's about the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world is divided into three, but it is said that there are Liu Guanzhang and three people......" Xia Hongsheng listened to his sister-in-law's question, so he waved his hand and said in the tone of listening to the radio and radio in the later life. But as he was talking, Xia Hongsheng stopped, and a look of surprise suddenly appeared on his face, and his hands suddenly slapped hard, startling his sister-in-law, and heard Xia Hongsheng say: "There is!" Ha ha...... Sister-in-law, thank you for letting me think of a way! (To be continued.) )