In the wing room next to him, Gao Chengduan was wearing a brand-new official robe, and he turned around to let Shi Quanbin see it, his face was full of joy, and he said vigorously: "Pavilion Chief, go to the restaurant to eat at night, don't refuse!" In the past few years, I have offended a lot of people in the Sansi Yamen, and now it is difficult to find someone to celebrate with. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Shi Quanbin said goodbye again and again, boasting that Gao Chengduan was wearing an official robe, and suddenly he was much more energetic.

In a few days, the official court can make the confession system well, one is that the yamen is close, Gao Chengduan runs there diligently, and the other is naturally Gao Chengduan spends money. Officials are promoted, all kinds of formalities are completed, and the money spent is not small. And the more low-level petty officials are, the more the public officials who handle them dare to open their mouths, like Xu Pingfeng County Marquis, except for the usual practice, no public official dares to ask him for bribes. Gao Chengduan's small master book is different, as long as you can intervene in the middle, you have to use money to send it, and if you are less, it will make it difficult for you.

This has become a stubborn disease in the officialdom of the capital, everyone knows it, but there is nothing to be done. The imperial court also turned a blind eye, and the small officials only had a small amount of money and food every month, and they couldn't support their families without making some extra money. In order to get the official notice, petty officials scraped together everything, and there were even many people who pledged loans. After taking office, in order to solve this trouble for the petty officials who were bankrupt, they were allowed to use the minister's money to make up their accounts.

In the end, I used the money in the treasury to offset the money, and I also handled it many times in the middle, and everyone fell a little, I really don't know what the purpose of deliberately setting the small officials' salaries so low. Is it just to make them greedy and self-defeating?

Xu Ping couldn't figure it out anyway, he couldn't understand many things in this world.

Gao Chengduan didn't come to this point, don't look at him dressed plainly, in fact, his family is very rich. How many generations of ancestors were born as public officials of the three divisions, and they have not always been honest heirlooms, and they have already saved a lot of net worth. Shi Quanbin routinely wanted to use the minister's money to make up for the expenses of his official lawsuit, but Gao Chengduan refused, he would rather spend ten times the price to buy an official body, what is this money.

Shi Quanbin promoted the Ordinance Editing Office, responsible for all miscellaneous matters, and Gao Chengduan was the chief bookkeeper of the Editing Office, in charge of clerical miscellaneous matters. In the words of Xu Ping's previous life, Gao Chengduan is the director of the office, and Shi Quanbin is the logistics director, and the errands of the two are different from others, and they are close to each other every day.

Seeing Xu Ping come in, Shi Quanbin and Gao Chengduan hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Xu Ping entered the room, walked to the table, took out a small cloth bag from his arms, carefully placed it on the table, and said to the two of them: "Come and see, how about using this to print the charts and the like in the regulations?" ”

Shi Quanbin has found a craftsman to engrave the diagram in the regulations in the past two days, but the engraving is different from the ink used for movable type, and the effect is not very ideal, and he is also worried. Seeing that Xu Ping proposed a new method, he hurriedly came up with Gao Chengduan to take a look.

I saw a heavy copper plate on the table, on which a table was drawn, but it looked a little crooked. Next to it is a picture of a pine crane drawn casually, and the tree still looks a little, and the crane is a great test of people's ability to associate.

Shi Quanbin stretched out his hand to touch the copper plate, and felt that the concave and convex feeling was obvious, which was no worse than the movable type, and the fineness was far better than the engraving. Since it's all metal, I think it can also be printed with movable type.

After touching it for a while, Shi Quanbin withdrew his hand and said: "There should be no problem with this copperplate for printing, and the copper is easy to polish, and it can be typeset together with movable type." But--Yun Xing, the diagram on this board is too poorly drawn, and if you look at the pine crane in that drawing, your eyesight is almost like a chicken perched on a tree. Is this because the person who painted the painting himself has poor craftsmanship, or is it because this copperplate is not easy to paint, so it can only be painted like this? ”

Xu Ping's face flushed slightly, and he said: "Don't care about these details, it's just that the painting skills are a little worse, if you change to a master painter, it is not uncommon to paint as if you were alive." ”

"That's good, when do you pass down the method, I'll go to the Hanlin Academy to find an edict, draw it with my heart, and then print it out for everyone to see?"

Xu Ping nodded again and again: "Okay, that's it!" ”

Although the name of the Hanlin Academy is Hanlin, it has nothing to do with the Hanlin Bachelors in the Academy, which are all painters and carvers, who specialize in making jade treasures for the royal paintings, and are actually craftsmen. However, craftsmen can also become officials to a certain extent, and they have a separate official rank system, which is not included in the civil and military affairs, and is called a trick officer.

Seriously speaking, the Hallym Academy and the Hallym Bachelor are not unrelated. The rest of the Hanlin Academy now paints and carves jade with their handicrafts, and the handicrafts of the Hanlin scholars are scholarly articles, all of which serve the emperor himself. It's just that the social status of the industry is different, and the identity of the practitioner is very different.

Shi Quanbin has been working in the palace for many years, and it is still very easy to find a master craftsman from the Hanlin Academy to help.

Xu Ping wanted to talk to Shi Quanbin in detail about the production method of copperplate, but after thinking about it, he forgot it. In terms of specific technology, Shi Quanbin is half a bucket of water, it's okay to take care of it, but he still can't be counted on to do it.

Let Shi Quanbin put away the copper plate, and Xu Ping sat down at the table.

Holding the copper plate in his hand, Shi Quanbin said "ah": "This copper piece also weighs several catties, and it is worth a lot of money!" After a while, the price was calculated, and the money was allocated from the minister's treasury and sent to the marquis's house. ”

"You can do it." It's not that Xu Ping is reluctant to make this money, the rules are the rules, and he can't use the family's money to supplement the treasury at the beginning, which will make it difficult for the people below.

The miscellaneous officials served tea, Xu Ping took a sip, and said to Shi Quanbin and Gao Chengduan: "By the way, copper is only convenient for making calligraphy and paintings, and it is not necessary to use copper for all." When you make plates, you can still use steel to make them, and just put the copper of the calligraphy and painting part into it. In this way, copper is saved, and another one is good for typesetting. ”

Shi Quanbin immediately wanted to reason, and agreed in his mouth. He has always been in charge of the Three Divisions Engraving Book Company, and there are many typesetting and arrangement, and these inlays have long been accustomed to it, and it is not so difficult to understand.

After chatting for a while, Xu Ping said to the two: "In a day or two, the officials of the prefectures near the capital will arrive one after another, and the new regulations that have been set must be printed as soon as possible." The first time - print 2,000 copies, one copy for each of the officials in the three divisions, and take it back when they leave the three divisions, and compensate for the loss according to the price. If it is printed less, it looks petty and not enough. ”

"So much? But that's a lot of money! "Books in this era are not cheap, and the regulations of the three divisions are huge and incomparably large as long as you think about it, and Xu Ping's spirit startled Gao Chengduan.

Xu Ping smiled: "Don't worry about money!" Just watch, the three divisions will have endless money to spend in the next few months! In addition, the officials of the lower prefectures and counties should be transferred to the capital, and their residences should be arranged, so as not to let them have worries. ”

After cleaning up the old officials, the field affairs under the three divisions alone don't know how much extra income they will make, taking advantage of this opportunity, the three divisions are not spending hard, and all of them are handed over to the treasury, one will scare the court officials, and the other is to tie their hands and feet.

Shi Quanbin didn't know where Xu Ping's confidence came from, and he was skeptical: "I have already agreed with the store and housekeeper to live in the vacant house they haven't rented out for the time being, and the newly built house will be ready soon." (To be continued.) )