"No, no, this is also something made by those tooth soldiers. They said this thing is called a magazine, and it will be published once a month from now on."
One issue a month? This sounds pretty good. Xue Cheng looked at the enthusiastic crowd. Most of them bought the picture album "Journey to the West".
But there were still some people rushing to buy another small booklet. Xue Cheng asked curiously: "What is this?"
"This? This is the Jianning Dictionary."
"What is this "Jianning Dictionary"?"
This is another new word that Xue Cheng has never heard of before.
Bookstore owner Uncle Wei said: "Do you know the book Shuowen Jiezi?"
Xue Cheng shook his head. He was literate, but only to be able to read family military books. He didn't have much interest in literature, so naturally he didn't know these books.
Uncle Wei said: "Shuowen Jiezi is a book compiled by Xu Shen, a classic scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is a book that explains the meaning, origin and usage of characters. "Jianning Dictionary" is compiled with explanations of five hundred commonly used Chinese characters.
A reference book, many people are now willing to buy one and go back to learn some common words."
oh?
Now Xue Cheng also became interested. He opened a dictionary and found that the words in the dictionary were different from the words he knew.
"Uncle Wei, is this word written wrong?"
Uncle Wei touched his beard and said: "I heard from Zhang Dalang, who is my partner, that this character is a simplified character created by King Jianning. It is for the common people to read and write. The strokes should be as simple as possible, as long as they can be recognized."
"this?"
Uncle Wei said: "Actually, it's okay for Lord Jianning to do this. These simplified characters can still tell the appearance of the original Chinese characters. If you are really familiar with these five hundred simplified characters, you can understand everything in the notices. In daily life,
It’s enough to use it.”
Today's scholars in the Tang Dynasty generally view literature with an inclusive attitude and do not have the pedantic stubbornness of later generations.
Uncle Wei didn't think there was any problem with King Jianning's promotion of simplified Chinese characters among ordinary people.
Anyway, these common people in Guizhou have no intention of taking the simplified Chinese characters to take part in the imperial examination.
As long as you can read fluently and understand notices and letters, this is enough.
Here, Xue Cheng took his sister and bought a bunch of large and small things at the market. Finally, it was time for the market to close.
After all the customers have left, each store begins taking inventory.
Sun Jianguo was calculating with one hand and looking at the account book with the other hand, and quickly took stock of today's income.
Ten dollars! Sun Jianguo walked out of the store excitedly and shouted: "I made ten dollars today!"
Players in various stores made loud noises one after another.
This guy Sun Jianguo is so mean!
Even though this guy is tall and thick, he is actually the president of the university knitting club!
Sun Jianguo was born in the north and liked knitting sweaters since he was a child. He still did not give up this hobby when he was in college.
After Li Yan launched two major activities, Sun Jianguo quickly thought of his hobby - knitting sweaters!
Longyou Road, where Guazhou is located, was originally an area with developed breeding industry.
There are a lot of sheep in Guazhou, and several states adjacent to Guazhou have the tradition of raising sheep.
Sun Jianguo decisively discovered this business opportunity! Wool textile industry!
This was the core industry of the Industrial Revolution in England. It was through this industry that England made its fortune and then started the Industrial Revolution.
Where there are sheep, there is wool, and there is soil for the development of the wool textile industry.
But how to weave wool into wool?
This touched upon Sun Jianguo's knowledge blind spot. He was afraid that other players would learn from his ideas, so he could only secretly look for partners on the forum.
However, Sun Jianguo was lucky. He quickly found a classmate from his school, Zhou Boran.
Zhou Boran has a master's degree in mechanical engineering from the Four Major Tiankeng. He also entered the game through advertising on the campus network.
This guy is a second-test player, and his natural attribute points are not as good as those of the first-test player.
Therefore, players in the second test of the martial arts competition basically do not consider winning prizes, they are all aiming at this business activity.
This event can also be participated in as a team. When Sun Jianguo came to visit, the two of them hit it off and immediately formed a team in the game.
Zhou Boran originally had a master's degree in mechanical engineering and had strong hands-on skills. He quickly found a complete set of machines from the British textile industry in the information.
The reduced wool needs to be cleaned and degreased, carded by a carding machine, and then spun into wool through a textile machine.
The woolen textile industry actually developed very early in the West, but it has always been produced in manual workshops.
Real large-scale production only started after the invention of the steam engine.
However, players have now demonstrated on the forum that without qualified steel and seals, players cannot build a steam engine with their current technology.
So forget about steam engines.
Fortunately, there is a dense water network near Guazhou, and the Shule River is a fast-flowing river.
So Zhou Boran quickly thought of a good way to use a water turbine to drive the machine!
Zhou Boran drew pictures and built the first hydraulic textile machine in the world of "Feng Yun of the Tang Dynasty"!
The working efficiency of this machine is not very high, and it cannot be compared with the efficiency of later steam engine factories.
But this also saves too much manpower and material resources than manual production!
In the rented factory, carding machines and textile machines were working at full capacity. Sun Jianguo and Zhou Boran hired nearby women to work in the factory.
Now that we have the machines and personnel, and there is no shortage of wool in Guazhou, this woolen factory is really open.
But the only question is, how can we sell the yarn we spun?
At this time, it was Sun Jianguo's turn to take action. He rented several shops in Dongshi and transformed them into what they are now.
Sun Jianguo's idea was very avant-garde. He was not selling wool door to door, but turning wool into a business that made him rich.
Longyou Road is bitterly cold in winter, and now it has begun to get colder in autumn.
At this time, most people only wore linen clothes, and only the rich wore clothes made of silk.
Whether it is linen or silk, the thermal insulation effect is limited, and these days' clothes are very uncomfortable to wear.
Sweaters have great advantages over these clothes!
It is light, warm and comfortable to wear, and the price of sweaters knitted from machine-produced wool is only slightly higher than that of linen.
This is also a price acceptable to ordinary people.
But both Sun Jianguo and Zhou Boran firmly believed that this sweater was more comfortable than clothes made of linen and silk, but it was still not easy to get people to accept a new dressing habit.
When the two were discussing how to promote wool, Zhou Boran proposed: "We should hire more people to knit wool and sell it for trade. The sweater is so comfortable, everyone will definitely buy it!"
But Sun Jianguo shook his head and said: "Thousands of years of dressing habits can't be changed so easily, and we have already invested a lot. If we don't withdraw the funds, then all my capital will be lost."
Zhou Boran also sighed. The capital for starting a business today is all paid by Sun Jianguo.
Zhou Boran is regarded as a technical investor, accounting for 30% of the shares.
Zhou Boran is a second-test player with no savings at all. He does tasks in the city on weekdays and can barely maintain food and clothing.
Not to mention taking out the money to invest.
The two lovers sighed for a long time, and Sun Jianguo suddenly had an idea and said: "Yes! I have a way!"
Zhou Boran immediately asked: "What can we do?"
"Inducement!"
"Incentive, don't you have no money? Do you want to cut the price for a promotion? Then we won't be able to participate in this month's event."
"No, no, no, the inducement I am talking about is not a price reduction!"
Sun Jianguo said: "Do you know how I joined the Woolen Fabrics Association?"
Zhou Boran shook his head quickly. Of course he didn't know why Sun Jianguo, a tall and rough man, wanted to join such an association.
Sun Jianguo said: "When the previous president recruited new members, he said that if you learn to knit sweaters, you can sell the knitted sweaters for money. My family was short of money at the time, so I joined this association."
"There must be a lot of people who are short of money in Guazhou City today. Instead of hiring them to knit sweaters, it is better to turn knitting sweaters into a sideline business so that people can make money."
Zhou Boran asked: "How to change?"
Sun Jianguo said: "We sell their wool, they knit clothes, and we buy them back at a price higher than the cost of the wool. In this way, when people buy our wool, they are not only weaving clothes for their families, but also a way to make money!
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Sun Jianguo added: "And they bought it back and knitted the sweater. If it is comfortable, can the family not wear it?"
"And by doing this, you will be more motivated to knit sweaters, and the cost may be lower than hiring workers directly."
"What's more, this is also a big industry that drives the development of the entire Guazhou! If it is successful, we will be the father of Tang Dynasty Wool Textile!"
Zhou Boran was also excited to hear this. He is a mechanical major, but now the mechanical major is called a sinkhole major.
It is obviously the cornerstone of industry, but the salary is meager and the treatment is poor.
Zhou Boran's mentor often lamented that if he could go back to the era when machines dominated the world, how glorious it would be to be a mechanical engineer.
Textile machines, steam engines, trains, cars, tanks and airplanes, these are all masterpieces of mechanical engineers. These inventions have greatly changed the world, and their inventors have been crowned with supreme glory and written down in textbooks.
Although Datang Fengyun is a "game", Zhou Boran still feels a sense of accomplishment!
I am the one who invented the wool spinning machine in this world!
But Sun Jianguo and Zhou Boran didn't know that this so-called game was really a real world!
And their inventions were also included in the history books of the Tang Dynasty, and they became immortal with these inventions!