Liu Yue'er heard Yun Niang say that there were distinguished guests in the house, cheered up and got up, dressed neatly, and came to the main courtyard to serve.

The Marquis of Jin'an Mansion is really polite, the official silver standard of big ingots, one is fifty taels, one tray is sixteen eight hundred taels, two trays is one thousand six hundred taels, in addition to the brocade box containing four white pearls the size of a dragon's eye, it is worth hundreds of taels of silver.

Lin Lian squinted at the silver and pearls for a while, and then said to Feihu with a smile: "The young marquis is really polite, how dare Lin Lian be such a generous gift?" If Lin Tie doesn't accept it, but he looks down on the young marquis, the young lady and the young lady...... "instructed Lin Jingzhong, who was standing aside, "Jingzhong, you can reluctantly accept the young marquis's generous gifts for me first." ”

At this time, there are not a few people in Jiang Ning who hate the luxury family, but there are not a few people in the court who have pinned their hopes on the luxury family, and there is no need for Lin Jian to pretend to be high and not to associate with the luxury family.

Lin Jingzhong was really afraid that Lin Tie would be stupid and refuse the generous gift of the luxurious Feihu, thinking that it was really worth risking to save the luxurious aunt and sister-in-law the day before yesterday, the innocence of the luxurious aunt and sister-in-law was much more precious than the more than 1,000 silver and four pearls the size of a dragon's eye, and he did not feel at ease in the slightest for Lin Tie to receive this generous gift.

Extravagant Feihu thought that Lin Tie would shirk one or two, he was thinking about how to persuade Lin Tie to accept this gift, where did he think that Lin Tie would accept it so happily, it seemed that he was waiting for them to send a gift to the door, he was slightly stunned, and only laughed after a while: "Lin Juzi is really happy, Feihu likes to get to know happy people......"

Song Jia was a little more settled at this time, but looked at Lin Jian from the corner of his eye, thinking that this person is talented, courageous, decisive, and has a cheekiness that ordinary Confucian students do not have, if Feihu can envelop this person, it can be regarded as a great help, just look at him like this, it is not something that can be impressed by more silver and jewelry, if the hero is stuck in things, he cannot be called a real hero, how to envelop him?

Hao Mingyue didn't want to come over today, but just persuaded her brother and sister-in-law to come over, she was a little unhappy, she sat next to her, the smile on her face was also stiff, seeing that Lin Lian accepted the silver and pearls without refusing at all, she thought that he was really greedy for money, and at this time she saw Liu Yue'er walk in, and thought: Who is this woman? It's beautiful.

Song Jia was still thinking about how to envelop Lin Tie, watching Liu Yue'er, who looked lazy and sleepy, come in, and saw that Liu Yue'er was wearing clothes, she also misunderstood Liu Yue'er's identity for a while, she bowed up a little, and asked lightly: "Song Jia came over to disturb ......."

When Liu Yue'er saw that the young lady called herself a maiden name, she knew that she also misunderstood her identity, and hurriedly said: "The concubine came to listen to the orders of the young lady and the young lady......"

Song Jia knew that the beauty in front of her was the beautiful maid of the Lin Mansion, and she was a little unhappy in her heart, and said secretly: Lin Lian's family has a beautiful maid, but she covets Su Mei's beauty, it seems that men in the world are heroes again, but lust is common, thinking that he has this problem but it is easy to do, I am afraid that he is a fake Taoism that cannot be entered.

Liu Yue'er stood aside and waited, and also peeped at the young lady and the lady of the luxury family, thinking that the lady of the luxury family is childish, the young lady is really beautiful, she has never seen a more beautiful woman than the young lady of the Hou Mansion of Jin'an in Shiliang County and in Jiangning, thinking that maybe when the little girl grows up, she will have such a look, but she doesn't know how Su Mei looks, and she will not be worse than this young lady.

Lin Lian didn't care what the women were thinking about it, he gave them a gift when he dealt with the luxurious Feihu and the luxurious aunt and sister-in-law in the wing room, and returned to Lin Jingzhong's room with Liu Yue'er, and instructed him: "You can directly enter the account with the silver, and the four southern pearls will be kept for me, and I will use them for other purposes......"

"It is said that Nanzhu is famous, and it is the first time I have seen Nanzhu today," Lin Jingzhong said, "These two plates of silver can order a big ship, and after the New Year's Festival, it takes a lot of silver to buy land and boats," and laughed, "My eyes are shining when I see silver now, it's really insulting." ”

"This silver is also what we have earned in exchange for our hard work," Lin Jian said with a smile, took the brocade box containing the pearls, put it in his arms, and said, "The world says that Nanzhu is good, and no one will ask about the hard work of pearl divers." The ancestors of the luxury family also made a fortune from this Nanzhu, who would have thought that the luxury family would become a prince today? ”

The New Year is approaching, and the Yamen shops are preparing to remove the old and welcome the new, and they can't do anything at the beginning and end of the year, even if Lin Jian goes to Jiangdao Prison to be the prison officer, he will not officially go to his post until after the New Year's Festival. Lin Jian put the pearl brocade box in his arms, and went out of the house in the forest scene with Liu Yue'er and went back to the main house.

Liu Yue'er was worried about the four pearls the size of a dragon's eye, thinking that Lin Jian would probably take these pearls to please Su Mei, yawned, and asked Lin Jian what else he had to serve while cleaning up the scraps of tea on the bookcase, Lin Jian also felt a little sleepy, and said: "I'll take a nap, if Zhao Shuhan comes over at night, I will talk to him all night......

"You men are really, if you don't talk about things during the day, you will be beaten into the night, and sitting for a long time at night will hurt your body." Liu Yue'er said.

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Lin Shu talked with Zhao Shuhan all night and revised the manuscript for several days, and it was not until the night before Chinese New Year's Eve that the manuscript was finalized, and he also took an elegant title of "The Book of Prisons", and asked Qian Xiaowu and Chen Enze to help copy the manuscript in two copies.

"Ah...... It's really hard," Zhao Shuhan's physique is not as good as Lin Jian after all, although he didn't have to go to the yamen to sit in the hall for several days, he studied and revised the manuscript in the room, once he succeeded, he still felt back pain.

"It's worth the hard work," Lin Jian looked at the three stacks of manuscripts neatly packed in a brocade box, and said, "I will send the manuscripts to Zhengye Hall tomorrow, and if they want to rush to work, they will probably be able to smell the smell of ink-scented books in the rest of the month." ”

"Hehe," Zhao Shuhan also smiled happily, who doesn't want to have the moment when Fu Zi came out with his years of hard work, looking at Qian Xiaowu to collect the manuscript, he said, "Wait a minute, there is another place, I want to revise it." ”

Qian Xiaowu didn't know what else to revise, so he put down the box containing the manuscript.

Zhao Shuhan picked up the pen and wrote the word "Lin" after his name on the cover page of the manuscript, Lin Lian hurriedly grabbed Zhao Shuhan's wrist and said: "Brother Zhao, you are harming me, Lin Lian doesn't dare to get this name of deception...... and instructed Qian Xiaowu, "Quickly remove this page and rewrite it." ”

Zhao Shuhan said: "In the past few days, I have benefited a lot from talking to Brother Lin, and the prison book can be finalized, but Brother Lin has no credit?" If I don't write your name, I'm stealing your credit......" Zhao Shuhan stood there, flipped out the manuscript, and listed more than a dozen, "Look at it, if you hadn't reminded me, where would I have thought of it?" ”

"A brilliant masterpiece of 100,000 words, I only have a few words, how can I be qualified to be listed?" Lin Jian said.

"Brother Lin, if you want to resign, don't engrave this prison book," Zhao Shuhan was also hard-tempered, and picked up the three boxes of manuscripts to leave, "I'll pay you back the silver the next day." ”

"Brother Zhao, you're hurting me." Lin Jian sighed helplessly.

"What do you have to do with me?" Zhao Shuhan said with a smile, picked up the pen and wrote Lin Lian's name on the cover pages of the manuscripts of the three books, and said, "Around the New Year's Festival, I have free time, and I will stay at home and write the methods of studying prison books according to the points you said; If the book is completed, your credit will be greater, and if I don't list your name, won't I be even more ashamed? ”

Lin Jian shook his head and smiled bitterly, he didn't think of using this way to become famous in the world before, Zhao Shuhan insisted so much, although he was ashamed in his heart, but as long as people were always a little greedy, he pushed the boat down the river and no longer pushed it, leaving Zhao Shuhan to have a dinner in the house, and let Zhao Hu send him back to the house in a car.

Before the New Year's Festival, Zhao Shuhan wanted to stay at home and concentrate on writing the manuscript of the prison book research method, and Lin Jian took a manuscript the next day and took Lin Jingzhong to Zhengye Hall to talk about the engraving of the manuscript.

Zhengye Tangcai, who specializes in paper and bookstores in Jiangning, is also a native of Dongyang Mansion, and Lin Tingxun is a son and daughter. He saw that Lin Lian had only been in Jiangning to run the Jiyun Society business for a month, and he also knew that young people could not be bullied, and Lin Lian, who had Gu Wuchen's support behind him, could not be bullied, he saw that Lin Mengde gave three points to Lin Lian, Lin Lian had something to ask for at this time, and naturally he was polite for three points, and the cost of engraving the book was also discounted by 80%, even so, the hundreds of pages of prison books in Huanghuang can be called a masterpiece in the world, and it costs 200 taels of silver to engrave a hundred books.

Engraving manuscripts, printing ink on paper is a cost, and hand-carved plates are also a greater cost.

Although there was a movable type printing technology in the world, the materials of both clay movable type and copper movable type were easy to deform, and they could not find suitable printing ink to cooperate with clay movable type or copper movable type to make the printing exquisite, and the bookstore was generally more willing to carve and engrave words on the whole mulberry board.

Lin Jian was originally difficult to understand these, and tried to take a copper movable type ink in Zhengyetang, and found that ordinary ink was difficult to get on the font mold made of copper, even if Zhengyetang tried to make some special ink, the effect was not good, and he thought in his heart that even if he switched to lead to make the typemold, the key problem was to find the right printing ink.

Whether it is the material of the character mold or the material of ink, Lin Jian learned that the carved calligraphers of the bookstore have been studying it for hundreds of years. It's just that the scale of general bookstores is limited, and there is a lack of sufficient communication between various bookstores, which makes it difficult to support large-scale material screening.

Although movable type printing has a history of four or five hundred years, the practical effect is not good, and naturally it has not been applied on a large scale.

If there is a state to support the systematic selection of materials, why can't movable type printing be used on a large scale for four or five hundred years? If there is sufficient communication and communication, future generations can at least take many detours on the basis of predecessors; If materials science itself is guided by systematic theories, the direction of screening will be clearer and the time will naturally be shortened.

There are more than 100,000 words in prison books, and more than 300 carved plates are required for a single set. The smaller the word, the more difficult it is to engrave, the larger the word, the more expensive it is to print; A page of engraving plate engraved wrong word to re-engrave, if in the process of brushing, the carved plate damage to re-engrave. Generally speaking, there are not many prints in a hurry, and the bookstore only produces two sets of carved plates for cross-printing; If you are in a hurry, three or four sets of carved plates will be printed at the same time, even if the carved plates are damaged, the printing operation does not have to stop.

Two sets of carved plates are nearly 700 pieces, and only these materials, labor and loss require more than 100 taels of silver, which is mainly due to the low cost of people. After a thousand years, it is difficult to imagine a master who can carve the carved plate like a work of art, and the salary for carving the plate for more than six hours a day is less than 30 copper.

Generally speaking, the more manuscripts are printed, the more the cost of hand-carved plates can be diluted, and the first edition of the Liyuan lyrics and songs written by celebrities in the world can be printed and sold in thousands of copies, and the number of famous books such as the Four Books and the Five Classics is more, after all, all the people in the world have to use it, and these books can dilute the cost of the carved plates to make a profit.

As a small category of miscellaneous science, it is beyond ordinary people's imagination that prison books can be sold in 100 copies, and the cost of each book after printing is naturally higher than ordinary people's imagination.

"Counting our hard work these days, printing a hundred books, each book needs to be sold for four taels of silver to return to the original," the printing of the book costs two hundred taels of silver, so that Lin Jingzhong, who followed Lin Lian over, was heartbroken for a while, and on the carriage back, he said to Lin Lian: "Zhengyetang is really greedy, Ye Kai said politely, if he really doesn't earn our silver, this book can be printed for one hundred and forty or fifty taels of silver...... This book is still a small matter, and if you really want to print miscellaneous books on a large scale in the future, it will not be such a waste. ”

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