In the following days, Song Yan devoted himself to printing, and Monk Jinggen followed Zhou Qingqing everywhere to run the case, and the name of the consultant was worthy of his name.

According to Song Yan's observation, his senior brother may have gone to curry favor with Zhou Qingqing at the beginning, but after following a few cases, he was quite happy with them, and most of them went to the case.

Could it be that this is still a detective who has been delayed by becoming a monk?

Jinggen also invited Song Yan a few times, but Song Yan didn't have much interest in ordinary cases, and basically "declined" - something like "don't go, get out".

After all, he has seen the ghosts and monsters now, and the "Big Buddha" state brought by the 100-level Yijin Sutra has also personally verified the effect, and Song Yan decided to keep a low profile for the next period of time.

And the Jinggen monk doesn't care, the relationship between the two of them is very good, and no one will be polite when there is anything to say in such a trivial matter.

Besides, Jinggen didn't really want to ask Song Yan to help with the work, it was more like discovering something new and running to share it with friends.

On the other hand, after Yan'er fell into a coma that day, she woke up in the afternoon of the same day, and then continued to work as if nothing happened, still working hard as always.

If Song Yan hadn't checked it herself, she would have almost thought she was pretending to be unconscious.

However, since she couldn't find any clues, Song Yan no longer bullied Yan'er, saving her from looking angry all day long.

It's just that Yan'er's learning ability is indeed quite amazing, but after a few days, she can not only complete Song Yan's instructions well, but also handle the invitation notes handed over by the Song family independently, and eliminate some requirements that clearly show fraud funds.

Now Yan'er seems to be a senior assistant, if it weren't for the tight time, Song Yan even wanted to teach her a few martial arts to try.

The progress of the research of printing technology has been steadily improving, and Song Yan understands very well the truth that if you want to hurry, you can't reach it. First explore and summarize a set of more mature technological processes, and then directly learn and use them by craftsmen, which is much less labor-saving than exploring in the actual production process.

So in this process, Yan'er became Song Yan's best experimental tool, and she was responsible for the practical operation of various types of work, and Song Yan improved the process according to the actual performance.

After all, after the printing factory was opened, it was impossible to find a bunch of martial arts to operate with internal force, at most Song Yan would produce bookboards, and other processes would be completed by ordinary workers.

However, although the formulation of process standards was very smooth, the problems that had occurred in Fangxing Academy before appeared again in Song Yan - the cost was too high.

Even if Song Yan makes the mold by himself now, and then Yan'er presses the finished product, saving a lot of labor costs, the average cost of a scripture is still high.

With the current productivity of the Great Zhou, the technology of copper plate refining and paper making is not mature, and the cost of these two raw materials cannot be reduced, so it is naturally difficult for printing technology to be popularized.

Song Yan roughly calculated, assuming that a copper plate can be printed 500 times, then the cost of a Yijin Jing is about three taels of silver based on factors such as material cost, labor, and loss.

Even if it is printed on a large scale, due to the limited copper reserves, the subsequent use of slate may be even higher.

In the past few days, Song Yan has already made thousands of taels of silver just by doing experiments, and if he really wants to use the Song family's money to print it on a large scale, I am afraid that it will drag the Song family down in a month or two.

"In this era, printing books is really not something that ordinary people can afford...... Sure enough, I still have to find a way to sell books to make money. Song Yan couldn't help but shake his head.

If it is sold, the cost price of other martial arts is about the same, then considering the expenses of transportation, marketing, warehousing, etc., a book has to be sold for four taels or five taels of silver to make money, and it is no wonder that Fangxing Academy can't do it.

In this year, an ordinary resident of Beijing has a monthly income of about 20 to 30 yuan, and after deducting daily expenses, he can have about half of his free disposable income a month.

It can't be said that I can't afford to buy books at all, but if it's just some leisure reading materials, the sales will naturally not be high, and the martial arts method is about the same.

"Sure enough, the cost of printing is higher than that of hand-copying, but unfortunately the efficiency of hand-copying is too low, and it is easy to make mistakes, otherwise it is better to hire someone to copy the book. ”

He tried to recruit people to copy by hand in the Hongwen Academy in the north, although each person was required to hand in ten copies of the Yijin Sutra every day, but in fact, most of them were parallel goods, which did not provide much experience.

It's all a mountain village man.,I don't know a few big characters.,It's normal to copy a few wrong words.,Even if you change to Beijing.,In fact, you can't avoid this problem.,It's just the level of error and omission.。

After his Yi Jin Sutra reaches level 100, it takes 100,000 experience to upgrade each level, and if it is an ordinary level Yi Jin Sutra that provides 100 points of experience, it is a thousand to upgrade to one level......

I don't know how long it will take to copy by hand, and if it is printed, the cost price will be three thousand taels of silver, and the liquidity of the entire Song family will be put into it, which is barely enough for him to be promoted to more than ten levels.

According to Song Yan's guess, the next time Yijin Jing ushers in a qualitative change, I am afraid that it will be at least level 150, and maybe even level 200.

The Song family started with business, and the strength may not be anything in Shangjing, but the money is already in the middle and upper reaches, so it is conceivable that Song Yan's demand for funds is conceivable.

"At the end of the day...... There's no money!"

......

Just when Song Yan was thinking hard about making money, time came to the first day of December in a blink of an eye, and this day was also the death anniversary of Song's mother.

With the investment of the Song family regardless of the cost, a small ancestral hall has been built in Song Yan's small courtyard, and only Song Mu's single spiritual seat is enshrined in it.

So on this day, the people of the Song family, who had never come to the small courtyard before, began to visit in waves in the name of worshiping Song's mother, and there was an endless stream.

Song Yan sat on the rocking chair on the ground and sent Yan'er to receive them one by one, but he himself didn't even bother to stand up, and he didn't take the Song family in his eyes at all.

This attitude naturally caused a lot of complaints, but because of Song Yan's previous fame, no one dared to speak up in person at this time, at most, he went back and scolded behind his back.

Song Yan didn't care, he wished he had less contact with this group of relatives, lest everything find him for help. Rather than refuse with a cold face when the time comes, it is better to not enter the living from the beginning.

In this way, if the Song family really encounters any difficulties in the future, as long as Song Yan takes action to solve it, the Song family will be grateful to Dade instead of thinking that this is Song Yan's obligation.

This is the nature of human beings.

On the other hand, Song Yan had long expected that the day of Song's mother's death would be the day when the Song family tried to contact him, but these people were not the target that Song Yan was waiting for.

It wasn't until more than a dozen waves of worshippers left one by one that the old housekeeper Song An appeared beside Song Yan and said, "Young Master Hongwen, the master is invited." ”

"Song Yushan is finally willing to see me?" Song Yan said with some amusement, it had been several days since he had returned to the Song Mansion, and he had not really met the head of the Song family.

The old butler showed a wry smile on his face, but he didn't care about the offense in his words: "Young Master Hongwen wants to see the master, so naturally he can do it at any time." ”

Song Yan got up and patted the old butler on the shoulder, not embarrassing him much, just said, "Let's go...... Yan'er, I'll go out, you stay here and print well. ”

"Leave it to me, young master!" Yan'er wore a coarse cloth glove and some ink on her face, but she was still full of energy.

Good boy, it's a pity not to work.

......

Just when Song Yan got up to meet Song Yushan, in the headquarters of the six doors, Wen Yiqi also summoned two subordinates, and they were the two who were usually the most wrong.

Zhou Qingqing and Qi Mushi stood in front of Wen Yiqi at the same time, staring at each other with big eyes, no one was convinced.

Qi Mushi returned to Shangjing very early, but since what happened to her in Qin Ning, she also realized that she had been exposed to the eyes of the Xianyin Sect, and after clarifying the suspicions, she quickly adjusted her plan.

And Zhou Qingqing has been busy interrogating the exorcist monk in the past few days, and he has just gotten some results, but he didn't expect to be called here by Wen Yiqi.

Wen Yiqi looked at the posture of the two, and couldn't help but smile and said, "The next action requires the cooperation of the two of you." ”

"Master......"

"The ...... of the Doorman"

The second daughter was suddenly shocked, and at the same time she was about to excuse herself, but Wen Yiqi sank her face: "This is an order." If the action was successful, Mu Shi recorded a first-class merit, and the Qing Dynasty mentioned the head of the Di Zi level; if the action failed, Mu Shi was demoted to the Xuan Zi level, and the Qing Dynasty was not allowed to be promoted within three years. ”

"This ......" Qi Mushi and Zhou Qingqing couldn't help but glance at each other, knowing that Wen Yiqi was determined to cooperate with them, so they had to bow their heads and not speak.

In fact, the two don't have any deep hatred, they just don't like each other, after all, the high-level headhunters in the six doors, only the two women of the same age, belong to the most direct competition.

Moreover, the backgrounds and experiences of the two daughters are very different, Qi Mushi is a disciple of Wen Yiqi, and the starting point is much higher than that of ordinary head catchers, while Zhou Qingqing is just the opposite, from the local level step by step to today.

So the two inevitably looked down on each other, and after Qi Mushi was promoted to the local level, Zhou Qingqing was even more unconvinced, thinking that she was relying on the backstage, but it was not easy to say it clearly.

Wen Yiqi knew the contradiction between the two, but he still decided to let the two cooperate, and then said: "Tell me about the information you each found, the cases of Huo Laogui and the Four Princes are actually the same thing." ”

His words made the two daughters stunned, and they looked at each other again, but this time they were all surprised.

They were all checking down in their respective directions, and they were trying their best to complete a big case, but who would have expected Wen Yiqi to say that this was the same thing?

Zhou Qingqing was silent for a moment, and then took the lead in speaking: "We caught Huo Yan, a hundred ghost Daoist, in Nancheng a few days ago, who claimed to have come for the sword of the Four Princes. ”

"Sabre?" Qi Mushi couldn't help frowning, "What's so strange about the sword of the fourth prince?"

Zhou Qingqing glanced at her and said: "Huo Yan confessed, it is rumored in the rivers and lakes that the sword of the fourth prince has nine dark iron ingredients, and if it falls into the hands of a demon cultivator like him, it is the main material of a Jindan-level magic weapon...... But we have confirmed that the sword of the Four Princes is just an ordinary sword. ”

"In other words, someone deliberately spread this news and led the hearsay Demon Cultivator to attack the Four Princes......"

Qi Mushi muttered to herself, and then said frankly the news she had found: "I received news before, someone from the Xianyin Sect is trying to get close to the four princes, and the initial suspicion is that it is Zhao Jinghua, that is, the concubine that the four princes are about to accept. ”

"I went to the Great Guangming Temple to find Song Yan before, and wanted to use him to meddle in the matter of the four princes' concubines, but I didn't expect it to be exposed, and as a result, I was framed by the people of the Xianyin Sect in Qinning...... By the way, Song Yan is very eccentric, he claims that he has not learned martial arts, but his strength is not weak, and he can easily pass the bronze formation of the Great Guangming Temple. ”

Qi Mushi didn't hide her secrets, she told the information she knew, but when she talked about the part of "Song Yan's strength is not weak", Zhou Qingqing's expression couldn't help but be a little weird.

It's not weak...... So you provoked this monster?

Zhou Qingqing looked at Qi Mushi with a strange gaze, looked at the latter a little hairy, and couldn't help touching his side face, and then looked back inexplicably.