Seven days passed in a blink of an eye. Gongliang took Migu and the others to the printing house early in the morning. .
Walking through Dongshi, when he saw the printing shop, he saw a clerk standing at the door and looking around furtively.
Spotting Gongliang, the waiter quickly turned around and walked in.
Within a moment, the manager of the printing house came out respectfully followed by a wealthy old man.
The director of the printing house introduced to Gong Liang: "Sir, this is my boss, Chengqiu Zhong, Lu Yi."
Gongliang has read a lot of books about the history of Daxia, and is quite familiar with some of the ancient surnames of Daxia. For example, Chengqiu is a very old surname that existed as early as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, Daqin, and Daxia. The legend is
It has been passed down since ancient times.
When Gong Liang heard this, he cupped his hands and said, "I've met my boss."
"Young Master, you're welcome, please come inside." Chengqiu said with a heavy smile.
When the director of the printing house heard this, he quickly led the way.
After entering the printing shop and walking into the reception hall, there were several pretty maids serving melons, fruits and fragrant tea.
Chengqiu picked up the tea cup and signaled: "Master, please."
Gongliang picked up the tea next to him and drank it, but Migu and the others didn't have any tea to drink, and they didn't care about the ordinary fruits on the table. So Migu sat obediently in Dad's arms, while Yuangun lay quietly beside him.
superior.
After three cups of tea, Chengqiu Zhong just put down the cup and said, "Liu Yong came back to the house the day before yesterday and told me about the young master's printing of books. I picked up the manuscript and looked at it, and then I realized that I had offended the young master. I am special today.
I’m here to apologize for him.”
From the moment he walked in, Gong Liang felt that the person in charge of Chengqiu Zhonghe's printing house was strange, but he didn't know what medicine he sold in the gourd.
But thinking about it, it wasn't a matter of life and death, so I just spent time with them.
At this time, hearing what Cheng Qiu Zhong said, he quickly said: "It's just business, what's the crime? My boss is being polite."
"Young master has written such a good book. Even if my printing house spends all the money on printing, it is natural. He is guilty of blindly asking for the master's money." Chengqiu Zhong turned to the director of the printing house who was standing beside him and shouted: "Stop."
What are you doing there? Why don’t you go and take out the young master’s spiritual stone?”
The manager of the printing house just woke up from a dream and turned around and went inside.
If Gongliang hadn't written a book himself, was good at figuring things out, and had been influenced by a lot of movies in his previous life, he would have thought that Cheng Qiu Shige was really scolding the director of the printing house.
Actually no, the two of them are just cooperating with each other.
But to be honest, the two of them cooperated very well. If Gongliang hadn't been observing, he would have been almost deceived by them. According to his estimation, if the two of them acted in his previous life, he would probably not fuck anyone else.
’s matter.
After a while, the head of the printing house took out a plate from which the spiritual stones of Gongliangfu's engravings were neatly placed.
"Sir, this is your spiritual stone, please take it back."
"What's going on? Isn't this what I paid for the engraving?" Gong Liang said in surprise.
Hearing this, the director of the printing house said: "How can we get the young master to give out the money? If we really let the young master come out and be heard, it will break the backbone of our printing house. Not to mention that the young master will release this masterpiece.
The kindness to our printing company, including the movable type printing technology that Mr. Master passed on to us, can never be used up, so we should pay this money. What’s more, this money is not from our family alone, but the Longcheng Printing House thanks Mr. Master for passing on his art.
A little thought."
When it came to this matter, I felt embarrassed and simply kept the spirit stone.
After he put it away, the head of the printing house took out another rough-bound book and said, "Sir, look, this was printed overnight. What do you think?"
Gong Liang took it and looked at it, and nodded with satisfaction, "Have you found the painter I asked you to find? This book needs illustrations before it can be sold outside."
"Don't worry, sir, I guarantee that you will be satisfied with the small work."
The manager smiled and said: "But we will leave this matter for later. Master, please take a look at this."
Gong Liang looked over after hearing this and saw that he took out a piece of paper from his arms. The paper was full of handwriting, which looked neater and smaller than the engraving.
"This is" Gongliang said strangely.
"This is the movable type printing technology that the master passed on to us. This is just a page that has been engraved in advance, and there will be more later."
"You carved it so quickly." Gongliang said in surprise.
"Engraving is easy. As long as you have money, you can engrave as much as you want. The young one has already printed a page with movable type. This movable type printing technology is indeed much easier to use than the engraving method. Here, the young man would like to thank the young master.
"Young master, this technique has undoubtedly saved my printing shop a lot of money, and also won more reading opportunities for scholars all over the world."
Liu Yong is right. In the past, we relied on engraving. Although we could print books, the price was relatively high.
As a result, children from poor families have no money to buy, no books to read, and they will never get ahead.
The movable type printing technology passed down from Gongliang saved a lot of money for printing. The price of books naturally changed, and the things sold naturally became cheaper. The price of books also dropped accordingly.
This time, because Gongliang taught movable type printing, the printing industry benefited a lot and became the leader in the printing industry.
It was precisely this that led the owner of the printing house to come here and wait for Gongliang to show up and return the spirit stone to him.
Of course, he wasn't just here for this matter.
Chengqiu Zhong had been like an invisible man, drinking tea silently beside him. After they finished talking about the matter, he smiled and said: "I read the master's masterpiece the day before yesterday. I was shocked by heaven and man. It will definitely spread throughout the world in the future. I just don't know if the master has ever found it."
Who sells this book? You need to find a business with a good reputation and run it well. Otherwise, even if the book is good, not many people may read it at the beginning, and time is wasted."
Hearing this, Gong Liang shook his head and said: "It's true that I didn't find anyone specifically to operate it at this time. I just asked the store in Dongshi to help sell things."
"How can this be done? If we act like this, we don't know how much profit those stores will eat up. If you can trust me, you might as well leave it to me to operate this time. The money you will earn by then will definitely be more than what you earn from selling in that store."
Much better.”
"It's not that I can't trust my boss, it's just that I've made an agreement with them beforehand, and I won't go back on my word."
When Chengqiu heard Gong Liang's words, he quickly looked at each other and frowned slightly.
I originally wanted to win over the publication of this book. As long as the book was sold, my printing house's reputation and money would have doubled. Now it seems that this is no longer possible and I have to find another way.
Gong Liang thought for a moment in embarrassment, and then said: "Although Longcheng cannot do it, we can let the owner sell it in places other than Longcheng."
Chengqiu Zhong didn't expect that such a good thing would happen in such a unexpected turn, so he quickly asked, "Young master, you are serious about this."
"nature."
Gong Liang nodded and said: "My boss should know that I am not printing and selling books to make money, but to spread the books. I can make an agreement with my boss. The principal will be deducted for each book, and I will only charge two levels."
Profit. But there is a condition, which is to spread the book I wrote as quickly as possible, spread throughout Daxia, spread throughout the East, and spread to every corner of the world."
Hearing this, Chengqiu Zhong did not answer immediately, but thought about it seriously, his eyes twinkling.
After a while, he stood up from his seat, cupped his hands to Gong Liang and said, "As you wish."
Only now did he put Gongliang on the same level as himself, otherwise Chengqiu Zhong just treated him as a stupid young man and treated him politely.