Chapter 85: The Account Checking That I Said Good
"You really found more than a dozen palace maids to print books?" When Li Lao Er heard about Empress Changsun, he didn't care at all. He just thought Li Chengqian was making a kind joke. How could he use a woman to print books? He didn't even have any strength in his arms or legs.
But the scene in front of him completely overturned Li Shimin's perception, and this kid was really using women to print books.
Li Chengqian poked his head out from behind and signaled that the former palace maids and female workers could get up. Then he said with a striking remark: "Father, I don't actually want to use them, but the problem is that female workers are cheap, and a month's wage plus a bonus actually only requires three stalemates."
This time it was not just Li Lao Er, but even Changsun Wuji, Li Jing and Cui Renshi's faces turned green. Cheng Yaojing, who was watching the fun, exclaimed: "What did you say? Sanguan?"
Li Chengqian scratched his head: "Well, that's about this number."
Cheng Yaojin stared at the boss with his eyes wide open: "It's almost the same number? Do you know how much salary a lieutenant has per month in the Sixteen Guards, which adds up to five jin of money. If you remove the rice, the maximum amount of money you get is only two jin of money."
"Oh." Li Chengqian nodded seriously: "Then it's useless for you to ask me to react in this matter. If you want to increase your salary, you have to contact the Ministry of War or the Secretariat of the Central Secretariat, who are the supervisors."
Your uncle, is this what I mean?
Cheng Yaojin was so angry that he didn't know what to say, and he stared at a pair of bull's eyes and panted heavily.
In the end, Changsun Wuji was more kind and coughed dryly: "Well, that's not the time to discuss this matter now. Since we are here to watch the new method of printing books, I wonder if Your Highness can let someone show it?"
"It's no problem." Changsun Wuji must have given face. Li Chengqian turned around and waved to the female workers who were slightly helpless, saying, "You guys do whatever they should do, don't care about Your Majesty and all the lords."
"No!" The female workers responded, turned around and left, traveling back and forth between the wooden shelves like butterflies.
At this time, everyone also saw clearly what they were doing.
The trays they held in their hands were actually divided into two parts. The left part was just a hardwood board with a few pieces of paper with a clip on it, and the right part was a rectangular wood frame.
According to the order of handwriting on the paper on the left, the female workers constantly selected one piece of wooden block after another from the shelf to put it into a rectangular wooden frame. Each time one is filled, the frame will be sent to the two female workers sitting behind the table in the middle of the house for inspection.
If there is any error, it will be marked and re-typed. If there is no error, it will go directly to the printing process.
One-page book takes less than a moment to go from nothing to something. Judging from its work efficiency, the fifty pages and one volume that Lu Chengqing mentioned before can not even use half a day here, and can print out thousands of volumes.
After Lu Chengqing and others saw the whole process clearly, their faces were full of green hearts.
Damn, no wonder this kid dares to say that he can print a book with eighty words. Not to mention eighty words according to this printing method, even forty words will he earn well?
Although the great Emperor had known about movable type printing for a long time, he had never seen how it was printed. Today, he was almost shocking. The printing speed was too fast. No matter where there was a mistake, he just needed to change the wrong words and start printing again. However, if he had made mistakes before, he needed to re-engrave the plate.
"Okay, okay! Your Highness is the best for the present and the future."
Unlike Li Shimin and others, Lu Deming and other old guys don’t care what the impact of this new printing method has. What they care about is the convenience brought by movable type printing itself.
With such a printing method, printing difficulties will no longer be the biggest problem in the future. The decline in printing costs will inevitably lead to a decline in book prices, and more authors will emerge.
Now I finally explained to my old friends. I wrote a letter to invite my old friends to come and participate in the event, promising that they would print their books and magazines and publish them all over the world. In fact, everyone was not confident.
But now... don't worry about this problem.
Isn’t it just a book printed? We can afford it.
While excited, several old men and husbands talked about the young man and came to Li Chengqian: "Your Highness, I am happy to see the hunt. I wonder if we can print a book in person?"
"sure."
Li Chengqian asked the busy female worker to go and rest first, then took everyone to the shelf, pointed to the marks on it and said, "Look, the marks on this one, the numbers one, two and three represent the font size, that is, the size of the characters, and the text behind represents which fonts are available on this shelf to choose. Okay, these are probably the ones that need attention, please."
"It's that simple? You can't make a mistake, right?" Lu Deming and others couldn't believe it.
"It's that simple. Master Lu is a great scholar and does not need others to proofread it, so you are the old man who is qualified for all the jobs."
With a try-out attitude, several old guys turned around in the middle of the wooden shelf like the female worker before.
Because they are not familiar with the location, people often ask questions. If they are lucky, they will respond in other locations. If they are not lucky, they can only look for one airplane and one airplane.
Time passed little by little, and the old guys had a lot of fun, and in the end even Li Shimin participated.
what happened.
who I am!
Where am I?
Lu Chengqing's mentality completely collapsed.
Didn’t it be agreed to check the accounts? Except for the beginning when I went to Xichiyuan to take a look, what were we doing in the next time? Go shopping and watch the performance?
Of course, these are actually secondary. Lu Chengqing firmly believes that even if you find something, Li Chengqian will not be able to do anything. The key problem is that this so-called movable type printing is too scammed.
Neither technical nor too high cost. Being promoted by Li Chengqian like this basically means that the five surnames and seven hopes have lost their wealth in this regard.
In the next time, we either lower the price of all the books, or we will fight to the death, waiting to be slowly endured.
Lost, completely lost!
Hu Chengqing suddenly felt discouraged. Even though he knew that he could not make a name for himself, he would continue to do something. Why not go home early and take a shower and go to bed.
As for the open and secret struggles between the aristocratic families and the royal family, whoever is willing to come will come. I am tired and I will not play anymore.
Because most officials did not want to have conflicts with the emperor, a disaster against Li Chengqian disappeared invisible, and the sentence of Hegan Chengji falsely accused him of rebelling.
Chapter completed!