If you want two hundred taels of silver to engrave the "Prison Book", the Linjing Center that manages the accounts is reluctant, to be honest, such a high cost of engraving, if it is not too long, it is far better to ask someone to transcribe it; Thinking that Lin Jian would have to engrave miscellaneous books on a large scale in the future, Lin Jingzhong was even more distressed.

Lin Jian pondered for a while and asked, "Can you invite a skilled master?" ”

"Ah," Lin Jingzhong just casually hinted that he could save some money by carving books, but he didn't expect Lin Tie to take it seriously, he saw that Lin Tie didn't seem to be joking, and said seriously, "Shiliang is famous for producing only tea and paper, engraving books, printing books, Dongyang naturally has skilled masters, and the craftsmanship is better than other places, and there are several masters and famous craftsmen in Jiangning City......" He was not embarrassed to say directly in front of Lin Tie that the masters of Zhengye Hall are from Dongyang, and they can be dug up with some thought.

"Well......" Lin Tie nodded, he was not thinking about the establishment of a bookstore, he was thinking about the two issues of movable type printing and engraving printing, for four or five hundred years, there have been books made of movable type printing in all dynasties, due to the immaturity of technology, movable type printing has not been widely used, as Lin Tie, who knows the process of civilization after a thousand years, of course knows that movable type printing is the general trend.

Engraving printing, the word mold is engraved on the whole bottom plate, a carved plate can only print one page of the book, so each printing of a book has to remake a large number of printing engraving plates, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Movable type printing only needs to rearrange the individual types to print different books, and as long as the technology is mature, the cost of printed matter can be greatly reduced.

Lin Jian only knew that the lead movable type commonly used in later generations was made of lead, and it was unknown whether it was pure lead or lead alloy, and he didn't know what kind of printing ink was used for lead movable type, and whether there were any special requirements for paper, he looked at Lin Jingzhong and asked: "Is there a master who understands movable type printing?" ”

"Movable type printing?" Lin Jingzhong was slightly stunned, Lin Ji Warehouse also operates a paper workshop, he knows a little about engraving and printing, and said, "The clay movable type master knows one or two, and I heard that the clay firing mold is particularly damaged, and it is fired into porcelain without ink; I heard that someone used to use copper to make a word mold, but copper is difficult to melt, a set of word mold to make is too time-consuming, too hard and expensive, ordinary bookstores really do not have this ability, and the copper word mold is not very ink, passed to the present world, only heard that the official workshop of the two capitals has copper word molds......

"It should be that the material of the typetype mold is not the right choice of ink, and maybe it has a lot to do with the printed paper," Lin Jian said, "What's going on, you can help me find some masters who can print movable type, and see if I can find a more suitable method." In fact, if the amount of books printed is large and there are more types of books printed, copper movable type will also be more time-saving and labor-saving than carved plates, which is why the official bookstore uses copper movable type molds......

"Then I'll look for it first......" Lin Jingzhong nodded and kept this in his heart.

Lin Jian remembered that the official book visits in the two capitals were under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, and since the government-run bookstore had been using copper movable type to mold books, it might be possible to start directly from the Ministry of Industry in Jiangning.

Lin Jingzhong didn't know what Lin Jian was thinking, he said: "You talked to Chief Zhao about miscellaneous learning a few days ago, I was thinking that this matter of carving books and printing books is not a kind of miscellaneous craftsmanship?" I've been wondering if Dongyang is qualified to write books and make arguments these days. Even if the copper movable type, how to engrave the type, what ink to use, and what paper to use, I have heard that they all have a knack for it, but ah, even the bookmakers of the government-run bookstore rely purely on their craftsmanship to eat, and they are easy to refuse to tell the secrets of the unique tradition. I later thought that since we could pay a lot of money to solve their worries about making a living, they would not want to. It's just that we bought a unique craft with a lot of money, but we have to engrave it for free and publish it to the world, this dumb person will suffer a ...... loss" Speaking of which, Lin Jingzhong still refuses to do a loss-making business.

The protection of the patent bill after a thousand years is an extremely complex system, and Lin Jian only knows a little about it, and to really promote this kind of play, it takes the strength of the country and several generations of work to succeed, he naturally won't bother to think about this at this time, and only said to Lin Jingzhong: "The most taboo thing for businessmen is not to pluck a hair to benefit the world, what I can tell you, if you want to take the benefits of the world, you must first have the mind to benefit the world." The matter of carving books, at first glance, is a big loss-making business, but we really have this kind of mind and courage to benefit the world, what we want to do in the future, it is easier to invite the world's famous masters and craftsmen than others. In addition, any knowledge to study thoroughly, only one or two people behind closed doors is never possible, no matter how clever a person's mind is, there is a limit, gathering the wisdom of all people to communicate and communicate, is the right way. The purpose of printing a book is to publish one's wisdom and experience so that he can communicate and communicate with others. There is also a direct benefit that we are always exposed to these experiences and wisdom before others. The early bird has insects to eat, and the profit of the businessman is not just competing for an opportunity? If it is feasible, I will set up a society in Jiangning in the future - the Xixi Society gathers all sages who do moral articles, and in other days, our Jiyun Society is going to gather and study these obscene and ingenious skills, craftsmen and miscellaneous craftsmen......"

"Your ambition is really not small, if you really want to do this, you can leave a name in history!" Lin Jingzhong heard Lin Jian say this, and he also felt a little arrogant in his heart.

"It's easy to say," Lin Jian said with a light smile, "To do this, it's nothing more than power, money, and power." If you want to help me in the scene, Qingshi will not leave my name alone. It's just that these are still too far away, we will first engrave and print this book by Zhao Shuhan in front of us, and then see if we can find a more convenient and cost-effective way to print books, the bookstore, if you think the time is right, you can do it......"

"I don't dare to leave a name in Qingshi, since I decided to stay in Jiangning, I will sell this body to you," Lin Jingzhong laughed and said, "You have orders, I should do it with all my might, it's just the matter of carving books in the bookstore, Ye Kai knows that he will secretly obstruct ......"

"Since he can earn us dozens of taels of silver today, do you still need to worry about him secretly obstructing it in the future?" Lin Jian asked with a smile.

"Yes." Lin Jingzhong pondered the words "power and money power" that Lin Jian said, as long as he had a stronger power and money power than Zhengye Tang, why should he be afraid of him secretly obstructing it? Don't talk about the future, even now, Lin Jingzhong is not afraid that Ye Kai will dare to openly turn his face with Jiyun Society. If he really wants to make trouble, Lin Jingzhong guessed that Lin Mengde would definitely help them secretly, he felt more and more that Lin Mengde was very concerned about the affairs of Jiyun Club these days, and speaking of which, it was also Lin Mengde who felt that Lin Mengde had made more achievements.

Lin Jian sat in the carriage and thought for a while, and said, "It's better not to hurt the harmony, do you think this is feasible?" You go to Ye Kai to discuss, we want to set up a bookstore, and he can buy 20% of silver shares. If the bookstore of the Jiyun Society can make money, he can divide it into two percent......"

"......" Lin Jingzhong was slightly stunned, he had never heard that the general number had silver shares, and he had never heard that the following semicolons and branches could also let people enter the silver shares, he wanted to refute Lin Lian, thought about it, but he was confused: Why can't the semicolon let people enter the silver shares? I felt that my brain was twisted together, and I thought that Lin Jian always had unexpected ideas, but when I thought about it, there was a lot of possibility.

Lin Jian didn't know who created the act of the silver shares of the merchant at that time, but he thought about it carefully, the silver shares of the firm were some of the embryonic structure of the joint-stock company after a thousand years, and the semicolon also set up silver shares, but this kind of infantile structure was multi-layered.

The advantages of this are obvious, not only without affecting the control, but at least to alleviate the contradiction of peer competition, and to gather more strength.

Lin Jingzhong thought for a while and said, "It's okay, then I'll try to talk to Ye Kai, maybe I'll ask Uncle Mengde to come out below." ”

"Well," Lin Jian nodded, and said, "There are still two manuscripts of the prison book, one will be left in the mansion first, and the other will be taken to the Gu Mansion in the afternoon." ”

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Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, go to Gu Mansion in the afternoon, Lin Wei specially brought Gu Tianqiao, after all, he and the Gu family are the same sect.

As the afternoon passed, the sky began to fall, and the snow before the New Year's Festival was regarded as snow, and the people on the street were quite excited to see the snow, but the homeless people who had come into the city curled up at the foot of the wall felt that the weather was getting colder and harder.

Gu Tianqiao sat in the carriage, watched Lin Jian lift the curtain of the carriage and stared at the homeless people at the foot of the wall, and said, "There seem to be more homeless people on the street......

"Western Qin, Jinzhong, Zhongzhou and other places have a tradition of escaping the spring famine, and this year seems to be earlier than in previous years......" Zhao Hu has more knowledge than Gu Tianqiao, he sat in the front of the carriage and drove the carriage, turned around and said.

Lin Jian sat in the carriage, thinking that the famine in the north was serious, which was very different from the previous tradition of escaping the spring famine, and the news revealed in the Tang newspaper had indicated that the local government along the Huai River had begun to organize troops to stop the displaced people from going south on a large scale, and he thought that the people who went to Chongzhou to find Qin Chengzu and their contacts had also walked for several days, and they should be returning soon, maybe Qin Chengzu would recruit some displaced people who had lost their livelihood to go to Changshan Island, after all, Qin Chengzu had suffered too serious losses in the anti-theft battle before spring and summer, and there were only forty or fifty people left who could really be called elite.

The car arrived at Gu's house, and the inside and outside of Gu's house were already lit up to prepare for the New Year's Festival, Gu Wuchen did not go to the Yamen today, and few officials would honestly go to the Yamen to sit in the hall before and after the New Year's Festival.

Gu Wuchen and his wife Gu were enjoying the drifting snow in the back garden, Gu Junxun also stood in the middle of the garden in a light emerald skirt innocently reached out to pick up the drifting snow, and when he saw Lin Jian and Gu Tianqiao walking in, he hid behind Gu shyly, and did not escape from the garden.