In front of a house, Lin Yi looked up, and several security personnel were installing various anti-theft systems and security measures on this quaint house that no one had paid attention to before. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Needless to say, this house is the former residence of Professor Jiang Qingping, and now Lin Yi has bought it, and placed all the rare books and other precious books inherited from Professor Jiang to him here, fully fulfilling the original promise, the collection of books belongs to Jinling, and will not leave Jinling.

Therefore, Lin Yi designed this place as a private museum of ancient books, which will be opened to the public in the future.

As the largest private museum of ancient books in Jinling, Lin Yi's initiative has immediately received the attention of the municipal government, as well as the collection and cultural circles. They came to congratulate and help.

However, if you want to maintain and operate such a huge museum of ancient books, you can't do it without financial support. Although Lin Yi had some money in hand, he had not yet reached the point where he could spend millions a year, but fortunately, this problem of worrying about money was quickly solved.

First, sell tickets. Ticket revenue is the main source of income for many museums, and there is nothing to criticize about that. Moreover, Lin Yi feels that this can distinguish between idlers who really love books and those who like to go shopping, those who like to rub the air conditioner and the heating will come in, and those who like to do knowledge and learning will spend money to buy tickets to visit. According to preliminary estimates, the ticket price is not too high, and the annual income can reach about 300,000 yuan, which is a drop in the bucket for the operation of the museum, but it is better than nothing.

Second, Lin Yi didn't expect that the four major domestic ancient book publishers would take the initiative to contact him. The four publishing houses are "Zhonghua Book Company", "Shanghai Ancient Books", as well as "China Bookstore" and "Qilu Publishing House". According to the proposal of the four publishing houses, Lin Yi agreed to their request to borrow the collection and make photocopies for publication. To this end, the four publishing houses will give the museum a commission for each book they publish. For example, if a book is sold for 100 yuan, the museum will receive a commission of 6---8 yuan. Don't underestimate these few dollars, according to the number of books published and the types of books, Lin Yi estimates that he can earn five or six million yuan a year in this area. In addition to being able to fully cope with the museum's expenses, he can also make a valuable additional profit.

Of course, Lin Yi is not a rare amount of money, for Lin Yi, he wants to place these ancient books here to open a museum, in order to preserve these books at the same time, so that they can be used, so that they can exert their residual heat, rather than hiding them as antiques.

Books are meant to be read, read, and learned. Lin Yi's idea is very simple, since the four major publishing houses have the intention of photocopying and publishing, why don't they become adults, so that these peerless and unique books can be photocopied and displayed to the world.

In fact, photocopying of ancient books has been around for a long time. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, due to long-term wars and social turmoil, ancient books in China suffered an unprecedented loss and destruction. People of insight began to use photocopying technology to reproduce ancient Chinese books, so that these rare cultural heritage can be preserved in as original copies as possible.

The first photocopying of ancient books was dominated by the technique of colognes. The Kolo plate is a transliteration of the English collotype, also known as the glass plate, which is a kind of photolithography process. The biggest difference between Kolo and modern offset printing is that the latter is flat printing, and the layers of printed images are composed of dots of different densities; The former is dotless printing, and the layers of the image are "stacked" by inks of different thicknesses, which are richer and more delicate, and the texture is stronger. Of course, this kind of photocopying technology has high upfront investment and operating costs. At the beginning of the 20th century, the use of the Kolo technique to photocopy ancient books was quite a luxury. Because there are more pages of ancient books, the cost of photocopying will naturally increase. Some famous bibliophiles have used the Kolo technique to photocopy extremely rare ancient books, and the price of the finished books often exceeds that of woodcuts of the same period. This part of the photocopy of ancient books, now it is rare to see, worth a hundred times, and the actual market value can even surpass the engraved ancient books of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In addition, because the original copies of some ancient books have been completely damaged or lost, photocopies have become extremely rare "complete copies", and their market, research and historical value are even more immeasurable.

For example, in the early years of the Republic of China, Dong Kang, a famous bibliophile, editionist, and publisher, traveled to Japan four times in ten years from 1926 to 1936 to search for a large number of rare Chinese ancient books. However, it is not possible to buy back some of the ancient Chinese books that are considered "national treasures" or "important cultural properties" in Japan, and some of them are difficult to borrow even once. In this situation, he copied these ancient books in the form of Koro editions. Due to the rarity of ancient books and the excellent printing, the price of these photocopies of ancient books in that year was basically the same as that of the "Fen Room Engraving", which was also presided over by Dong Kang himself and engraved with extremely good engraving, and some even exceeded it. Due to the scarcity of print runs and the high price of these copies, these photocopies have made many readers and collectors in China look forward to the book and are not easy to buy.

On the other hand, with the gradual maturity and popularization of photocopying technology, since the 30s of the last century, domestic publishing houses and related institutions have also put the systematic sorting and large-scale photocopying of Chinese ancient books on the agenda. Different from the personal behavior of bibliophiles such as Dong Kang in their pursuit of rarity, rarity, solitude, and uniqueness, it was the mainstream appeal of publishing houses during this period to provide more readers, scholars, and researchers with more and better quality photocopies of ancient books at a relatively low price.

During this period, large-scale photocopying of ancient books, represented by the "Four Serials", "Hundred Books", "Twenty-four History" and "Collection of Books", came into being. Taking the "Four Series" as an example, the so-called "Four Books" means that according to the classification of Chinese classical books, all ancient books are divided into four categories: "Subsets of Classics and History". From 1922 to the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the "Four Serials" was edited by the Commercial Press, with a total of 502 titles, sequels, and three parts, divided into more than 3,100 volumes, which can be said to be the largest new series in China in the 20th century. This is a huge publishing project completed by the Commercial Press under the auspices of the famous publisher Zhang Yuanji, which spent a huge amount of money to search for rare books of the Song and Yuan dynasties, using the most advanced photographic plate-making technology at that time, and painstakingly completed for more than ten years. In order to facilitate the purchase and reading of readers from different walks of life and different spending powers, the "Four Serials" has launched a variety of binding methods such as wire-bound editions, miniature editions, and hardcover editions, and the prices are also different. In terms of sales methods, it is also divided into a combination of pre-order whole sales and single-line retail, and readers can choose different purchase methods according to their own circumstances. At that time, the famous scholars Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Chen Yinke, Zhao Yuanren, Lin Yutang, etc., all purchased and read different editions of the "Four Serials", which shows the great influence of this large-scale series of photocopied ancient books. At present, the entire set of "Four Serials" is extremely rare, and the auction price has exceeded one million yuan.

Now, Lin Yi has agreed to the four major ancient book publishing houses in China to photocopy and publish all the books in Professor Jiang Qingping's collection, which is a huge sensation for the Tibetan community.

Why?

You must know that collecting books is mainly about collecting. What is Tibet? It is to be kept at home, hidden at the bottom of the box from others to see. Rare books, rare books, that is, the fewer such things, the better. Not to mention photocopying, you can't even take a casual photo.

The old ideas and traditions of the Chinese book collecting industry are set aside there, and the family treasures cannot be exposed, let alone the very connotative things such as book collections. If they are like Lin Yi, take out all those rare books and photocopy and sell them, yes, those who like to do learning are good, there are cheap and cheap materials to investigate, but for collectors, it is undoubtedly a thunderstorm.

With cheap photocopies, who is going to get a taste of your priceless original? Especially those ancient book sellers who hold their hands and wait for the price of their collections to rise, they are sad. What is not in the market, that is a treasure, what is flooded in the market, that is cabbage.

To put it bluntly, Lin Yi is tantamount to reprinting all kinds of martial arts cheats in martial arts novels and selling them --- a big sale.

Therefore, when Lin Yi made such a move, he was immediately criticized by the Jinling book collection community.

Of course, everyone can't say it too bluntly and scold "cut off my financial route" and "never have children and grandchildren", but say in a tone of righteous indignation that Lin Yi's doing this belongs to the wanton "destruction" of ancient books, which are precious and precious, and cannot be photocopied casually...... In short, Lin Yi is very wrong to do this, it is disrespectful to ancient books, an insult to various book collectors, and a spiritual insult!

Lin Yi, dizziness!

I didn't expect that I was just a scholar, and I would cause a sensation in Jinling again.

Perhaps, it's time to leave.

Lin Yi thought silently, especially when he didn't dare to think about that person...... The woman. It's good to leave and forget everything. He said to himself.

In the hotel, Lao Cao had already prepared his luggage to go back, as well as all kinds of "local products" he bought in Jinling, "Nanjing plate duck", "osmanthus cake" or something, and he had a big bag.

Looking at the heartless old Cao, Lin Yi was envious, it was so good.

But at this moment, a phone call came and looked, but it was Professor Kong from the city hospital.

The first thing Professor Kong said on the phone was: "Lin Yi, are you okay?" ”

Lin Yi smiled bitterly, because even he didn't know whether he was good or bad like this.

Insomnia, not sleeping well, always dreaming of her...... From time to time, she woke up in her sleep, holding acupuncture in her hand, and "wiped her out".

She will never come back.

Seeming to understand Lin Yi's thoughts, Professor Kong sighed over there, and then said, "Lin Yi, someone wants to see you!" (To be continued.) )