After Li Xian's petition on expanding the school was approved, it immediately began to be implemented on a large scale. All officials of the entire Guozi School, academic administrators, school inspectors and other officials in various states and counties were all busy, busy expanding the school building and recruiting teaching assistants.
, raising money and silk, etc. In addition, craftsmen everywhere are also busy printing scriptures. This is the most urgent thing at the moment, because even if students are recruited, it is useless without scriptures.
Of course, during this process, some agency staff were passive and slow in their work, and some even deliberately made typos on them. Some volumes had dozens of mistakes. However, they were quickly discovered by Li Xian, and he was severely punished by him.
The punishment is always to be dismissed from office first, and then to be fined. In this way, even if the back-party people want to stop the progress of the project, they will be helpless.
After the scriptures were printed, Li Xian was ingenious and bound each volume with threads according to certain dimensional rules. This made books that were originally several feet or even longer in length and were extremely inconvenient to read.
It was fixed into a book that was half a foot wide and one foot long, and could be turned. Such improvements suddenly made reading easier, and the pleasure of reading also greatly increased. This resulted in not only the newly recruited poor children, but also the
Dignitaries, officials and celebrities are also actively searching for this newly modified thread-bound book.
Just at this time, several Daxing bookstores in big cities such as Luoyang and Chang'an suddenly started selling thread-bound books on a large scale. Although each bookstore had thousands of such thread-bound books, they were still sold out in a short period of time.
As soon as the books were sold out, merchants across the country began to produce a large number of thread-bound books. However, this alone was far from satisfying the majority of readers' pursuit of thread-bound books. This situation made the scroll books that had been circulated for hundreds of years quickly withdraw from history.
On the stage, except for some paintings, calligraphy works, imperial edicts and other special types that still use scrolls, almost everyone is strongly pursuing high-quality, low-price, and easy-to-read thread-bound books. Even Empress Wu, who has always been resistant to Li Xian,
He and his cronies also involuntarily joined in this craze.
"Prince Qi, this time just from the sales of thread-bound books, my Mingtang firm made hundreds of thousands of dollars. Haha, our firm has never done such a big business, but it is really easy to make money this time.
, all the brothers seem to have gone crazy, but now that bookstores everywhere are imitating it, our profits have also dropped sharply. Now we only maintain an income of several hundred pounds a day, which is really embarrassing." Secretly reported the news to Li Xian.
Ni Lai, the chief shopkeeper of the Ming and Tang Company (originally named Xian Tang Company, changed its name to avoid Prince Li Xian's taboo), was full of joy, but in the end he looked unwilling.
But I heard Li Xian chuckle and say: "We have eaten enough meat, we should let others drink some soup, right? What's more, the pot of soup is already cold now, there is no need for us to hang on to it for dozens of times.
Wan Guan is enough. Next, let’s prepare another new product. This product is a folding fan, which is popular among literati and refined people. It is even tailor-made for them. However, this product is a folding fan.
Things still need to be promoted now, and by the time you produce them, they will probably form a new craze just like the thread-bound books of the past few days."
This time through the expansion of the school, Li Xian not only gained unprecedented popularity, but also received a dividend of more than 100,000 yuan. It can be said that he gained both fame and fortune, and was the absolute biggest winner.
Not only that, Li Xiangen soon led more new trends. For example, one day when he went to court, he took an ivory folding fan with poems written on it. The font was an imitation of Wang Xizhi's shape. This folding fan immediately became an instant success.
He became taller and was surrounded by officials from all over the court. From time to time, people asked where he bought this folding fan.
When Li Xian said that he was from a newly opened folding fan shop somewhere in the West City, all the officials were so excited that they couldn't even go to the morning court. They were all eager to leave the court as soon as possible. This made the host of the morning court
Empress Wu was a little surprised. All the officials were absent-minded when they went to court overnight. This was the first time in history that such a strange scene happened.
After finally waiting for the end of the dynasty, the officials all rode their horses and crowded into the West Market. Suddenly, high-ranking officials gathered in the West Market, squeezing the spacious West Market to a crawl.
In front of the folding fan store in West Market, there was a huge crowd of people, rubbing shoulders with each other. Regardless of their appearance, senior officials crowded together, rolled up their trouser legs, rolled up their sleeves, and crowded into the front row, preparing to buy an exquisite and fashionable folding fan.
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"Why are you so crowded? Go in line." At first, facing these senior officials, the waiters in the store were all thirsty and frightened, fearing that poor service would cause the wrath of these senior officials, but later these officials
They were all noisy and crowded without any image, which finally made the guys start to get angry.
But I saw a fat official humming: "I am a doctor from the Ministry of Etiquette. I came here to buy a folding fan. If you choose a good one for me, I will definitely give you a reward."
The waiter sneered when he heard this and said calmly: "Quine up at the back, didn't you see that even the minister of your etiquette department was queuing up in a neat line? Also, look, the one in front is the minister of the Ministry of Revenue.
He is the prime minister of the current dynasty, and that one is a dignified prince, and that one is a prince. Which of these does not have a higher status than you? Even they are lining up in a neat line, and you are a little
What qualifications does a young doctor from the Ministry of Etiquette have to make such a fuss here? Just based on your words, today’s folding fan is gone and I won’t sell it to you for any price.”
As the waiter yelled, he felt secretly happy. He had been a waiter for many years, and how had he ever heard of such a thing? A waiter actually yelled at the doctor of the Ministry of Etiquette, who was a high-ranking official in the fifth rank.
The most incredible thing is that I actually said that I am a "little" doctor of the Ministry of Etiquette. Such words actually come from my own mouth. Not to mention myself, even all the shopkeepers in history have probably never been like me.
Have you ever done it? The feat I accomplished today is absolutely unprecedented, if not unprecedented.
Not long after, such a folding fan was also placed on Empress Wu's desk. This folding fan was bought by Shangguan Wan'er as a gift to her. On it was a poem recently written by Empress Wu. Empress Wu was also happy and secretly admired it.
Li Xian really had a good eye and discovered such a wonderful thing. Even he was so moved. No wonder those officials looked so absent-minded when they went to court. (To be continued.)