East Palace.

The eldest prince and the second prince who attended the class together still maintained a distance of estrangement but politeness, and the bachelor of lecturing who taught the knowledge was Hongru of the Hanlin Academy, and he was very satisfied with the two self-disciplined princes.

But companions aren't so reassuring.

Qin Bin's homework was a mess; Although Xiong Ping's homework is done, it looks like a paste; Qiu Mu did a serious job, and the answer was not on the point; Li Rui wrote all the ideas, but the content was too little.

This bachelor of scripture is a well-known old and serious person, and in the face of this situation, he can only let them go back and do it again, and if they can't do it one day to his satisfaction, they will do it again.

Of course, today's homework will still be assigned and done together.

Qin Bin immediately lay on the table with a wail. Today it was his turn to go home on vacation, and he just wanted to go back and relax, but he left two homework and one left, plus tomorrow's class will be reserved for him, and he doesn't want to sleep tomorrow night.

Xiong Ping put away his homework with a smile, he slept too early yesterday, and only remembered that he only wrote half of his homework in the morning, and he could only be confused when he got up in the morning. He knew that his mushy homework must not be in his eyes, and he was ready to rewrite it, so he was not sad at all.

Qiu Mu grabbed his homework and looked left and right in disbelief.

"I'm writing so well, how can I not be qualified? I wrote two pages and the arguments were written so much! I've come up with other ways to do it! His whole person was out of a sense of denial failure, and his face was full of "This is not normal!" Expression.

He patted his head, "You must have caused me trouble!" ”

It's just that although he said "you" in his mouth, he was looking at Qin Bin.

"Come on, it's useful to write more, then I'll write ten pages of nonsense to Mr. tomorrow." Qin Bin lay on the table and said lazily, "Every time I see you writing homework, I am in a hurry, and I can't wait to write for thousands of years." ”

"It's better than if you can't squeeze a word for half a day!"

"It's too much, you know? I'm talking about it succinctly! ”

"Are you concise? I think you don't know how to learn! Li Rui is called concise and to the point! ”

Li Rui, who was innocently lying on the side, blinked.

"Uh...... I can't find the information. I don't read as many books as you do. Li Rui replied to Qiu Mu honestly, "I know how to write it in my heart, but I don't know what sentence Lu Dao uses to interpret." So that's all there is to it. ”

The eldest prince was left by the bachelor to talk a few words alone, and several of them could see that the eldest prince had been shaking his head.

"I really don't know why Your Majesty chose you to read to the eldest prince, all of them are gentlemen, and they can't even read well, and they still hope to understand what the truth is!" A disgusting sarcasm came from their side.

Li Rui and the others turned their heads and saw that it was the second prince's companion Chu Yingnian.

Chu Yingnian's brother has not yet come out of Siqi, he has a heavy filial piety, and he can't enter the palace to continue studying before Qiqi, this time he is here to take leave.

The second prince knew that Chu Yingnian and Li Rui had a holiday, and the two families must have formed a feud this time, and they will not die. He was also worried that something would cause trouble, so he hurriedly called Chu Yingnian over on the other side.

Chu Yingnian glared at Li Rui viciously, turned around and left.

"Li Rui, don't pay attention to him, this is a kitten without claws." Seeing that Li Rui was in a low mood, Qin Bin straightened up and laughed at him in a low voice, "You don't know what to do, I secretly found an opportunity to teach him a lesson a while ago, and he cried like a tearful man, very bad!" ”

"You are shameless, people are younger than you, you actually bully children." Qiu Mu did not miss any opportunity to damage Qin Bin.

"His foul mouth doesn't look like a child, and he gets annoyed when he sees it."

"Hehehe, don't you have a bad mouth?"

"You ......"

Thanks to the daily routine of the two, Li Rui's mood finally improved.

It's really uncomfortable to be swayed in front of someone, but you can't talk back to you.

After a while, the eldest prince came over and sat down on the stool in front of the four.

"Your homework has been scolded by the bachelor again, and the bachelor said that I interfered too much, and it has delayed my own progress, and I am not allowed to make up any more lessons for you." The eldest prince thought for a while, pointed at Qiu Mu and Qin Bin and said, "In the future, you will work in a group of two, and the two of you will supervise each other's homework, if one of them fails, the other will have to rewrite it for the other party!" ”

"Why!"

"The eldest prince, I don't want to be in a group with this gourd!"

The eldest prince rubbed the corners of his forehead, this Qiu Mu and Qin Bin seemed to be born to be impulsive, and they could quarrel about anything.

He thought about it for a while, Li Rui's arguments are unique, but the foundation is poor, and Qiu Mu has a solid foundation, but because he is the youngest and has limited knowledge, his arguments are very superficial, so it is not as good as these two people.

It's just that Xiong Ping and Qin Bin are both lazy personalities, if these two people work in a team......

The eldest prince could already think of Qin Bin reading the military book with his legs crossed, and Xiong Ping laughing at the miscellaneous books on the side.

These two people write their homework together, and it must be the rhythm of "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ".

Father! You pit your son!

The eldest prince arranged the pairing of the four of them with a "mutual help group", and he felt that this was really bottomless.

It's just that he still has courses that the princes must learn every afternoon, most of these are for the way of the king and the way of governing the country, and some classes cannot be read with four companions, and the eldest prince can only arrange this for the time being.

He obviously found four companions to accompany him to study, but it turned out to be like four more stupid junior brothers, and the four of them will be his right-hand men in the future, and he can't help them.

Think about it often, think about it often.

In the afternoon, Xiong Ping went to Li Rui's room and knocked on his door.

Li Rui opened the door and welcomed Xiong Ping in, and Xiong Ping, who entered the house, took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Li Rui.

"Letter? For me? Li Rui took the letter with a puzzled expression.

"Not for you. It was from my cousin, the county lord of Wanning, to your cousin Li Zhao. Xiong Ping was also curious about what the two children could have a common language for, and they were so good that they wrote letters, "When I went home to rest yesterday, my cousin gave it to me." ”

"I know." Li Rui nodded and put the letter away. "I'll bring it to my cousin when I get home the day after tomorrow."

On the day Li Rui went home, he gave Li Zhao the letter from the county lord of Wanning, and asked curiously:

"How did you have a friendship with the county lord of Wanning?"

Li Zhao happily accepted the letter, looking proud.

"I took her to the vegetable field to look at it for a while, and she said that she had never seen any flowers in our house, and she was going to go home to plant them, and she had to take a lot of seeds!" Li Zhao smiled and brought the letter to his chest. "Cousin, I'll go back and read the letter first, and you can bring me the letter back when you come back!"

Li Rui saw Li Zhao happy like this, and guessed that this child was probably lonely in the Xinguo Mansion.

At home, he lives in the palace, Li Ming has a lot of homework, and he has to learn martial arts in the morning, so naturally he has no time to soak with Li Zhao all day long. Li Ming's personality is a little passive, not self-familiar, Li Zhao is not as gentle as Li Jun, no matter how Li Ming fiddles, the two children don't seem to be able to play together.

His grandmother was busy with household affairs, and his aunt was about to give birth, so she could only find time in the morning to accompany him to grow vegetables.

So this Li Zhao met a girl of the same age in this foreign place, and obviously attached great importance to it.

Li Rui thought of this, Wen Sheng and Li Zhao said: "The Deyang County Lord's Mansion is not so difficult to enter, if you want to go over to visit, I will take you to his house for a walk when you go back." It's just that my friend Xiong Ping and I are not on the same day off, so you have to wait until the big vacation before you can go to the Deyang County Lord's mansion with me. ”

Li Zhao didn't expect that Uncle Tang's family could even walk around casually at the emperor's relatives' house, it was the emperor's old man's relatives' house!

At that moment, he nodded wildly with joy, and ran back to the house with Wanning's letter.

It's so right to come to Uncle Cousin's house!

Li Zhao returned to the room, opened the letter happily, and couldn't help but envy Wan Ning Juanxiu's handwriting.

Her handwriting is so beautiful! She'll have a lot of words!

After reading it, Li Zhao was stunned.

"Chests? What is a box? My name is Li Zhao. Li Zhao scratched his ears and cheeks, "Could it be that the letter written to others was confused and got me here?" ”

Li Zhao tasted the "box" for a long time, and suddenly a flash of inspiration!

Countryman! Box!

Box!!!

Ha? He thought that the townsman was already hard to hear, and this Wanning actually gave him an even more ugly sound!

Is it popular in Beijing to use nicknames to indicate friendliness?

Then I'm going to give her a nickname too!

'Although Mannings gave me such a nasty name, she was a girl, and I could not meet her in the same way, and if I had learned from her, wouldn't it show that I was a boy with a small belly?' ’

Li Zhao held his chin and thought for a long time, not knowing what name to give to Lu Dao.

By the way, she looks like a fairy, so she might as well be called "fairy master"!

Hmm, wait for him to write a letter, just look up!

Li Zhao got Wanning's "nickname" and continued to look down.

What does this read for? It seems to be "see"? Or is it "true"? Or "Sense"?

Li Zhao touched the word "prophecy" and pondered for a long time.

This word is so complicated, how to write it?

He picked up the pen and wrote down the word according to the gourd drawing, but there were too many strokes, and the word was directly pasted into a big ball, and he couldn't see any words.

He said that day that Wanning might not be able to grow vegetables when he went home, but today he received a letter from Wanning saying that he "made a prophecy", and that only half of the seeds had sprouted.

Although he didn't know what he meant by the "proverb", he could see that it was probably a "crow's mouth" in context.

Looking at Miss Wanning's insightful and knowledgeable idiom, Li Zhaosensen's expression was ashamed.

He hadn't learned how to talk in four words.

Li Zhao finished reading Wan Ning's letter and was about to reply to Wan Ning, he took out the four treasures of the study given to him by his grandmother from the room, and asked Sang Zi to grind ink for him, brewed for a long time, and began to write.

"Uh...... Sang Zi, write a letter to someone, what to write on your head? ”

Hello Immortal Lord? Immortal lord auspicious?

"The slave is illiterate, where do you know how to look up when you write a letter!" Sang Zi waved his hand and said, "You should ask Young Master Rui or Young Master Ming, or ask the gentleman in the mansion!" ”

"Forget it then." Li Zhao felt that it was too embarrassing not to even write the letterhead, and he was willing to figure it out by himself.

Li Zhao took Wanning's letter and read it for a long time, and finally raised his pen and wrote:

"Immortal Lord: Walk as you wish."

He's so talented! Living Anji is happy to walk!

How neat!

Li Zhao then wrote down everything he wanted to say, and showed great coveting of the flower pie on the Wanning Mansion.

He also wrote that the dim sum "leek box" made in the kitchen yesterday was very delicious, but it was just trivial things such as drinking tea and rinsing his mouth after eating.

The two children showed amazing consistency and persistent pursuit in eating and drinking, explored the combination of various vegetables and flowers, and said that they must try it together next time they have the opportunity.

He wrote four or five sheets of paper with enthusiasm, not because of the large amount of content, but because of the large size of his handwriting, and when the typos were pasted, the small amount of content was poured into five sheets of paper.

Li Zhao looked at Wanning's letter, and then looked at his own letter......

Look at Wanning's handwriting, and then look at your "stout" handwriting......

Silently, he took out a few more pieces of letter paper and unfolded them.

His handwriting was taught by his mother, and he thought that his writing was excellent, but it turned out that he was not only inferior to Brother Ming, but even a little girl in Wanning.

He carefully transcribed the new letter one by one, checked it left and right for any mistakes, and then stuffed it into the envelope and prepared to take it to his cousin.

If there are no accidents, my cousin spent his holidays in the North Garden. Now that Brother Ming has also moved to the North Garden, he wants to deliver a letter, and he will definitely go to Zhiyun Academy.

It just so happened that he also made a decision to talk to his cousin.

Gu Qing was not in the North Park at the moment, but was receiving foreign guests in the outer hall.

Chen Yi of Xingzhi Academy brought several bookshop owners and the person in charge of the engraved bookstore to visit Mrs. Qiu, wanting to obtain the right to publish and distribute the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

This matter should have been asked by Li Mao, but Li Mao was busy, and after listening to their request, he directly asked Chen Yi to go to the mansion to find the old lady. His family's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was recited by the old lady, and it was his father's work.

So Chen Yi's greeting post was sent to Old Taijun Qiu.

The book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has gained a great sensation in the capital, but because it is all hand-copied, it is not widely circulated, and only some students have a few volumes with people who are friends with the Xinguo Mansion. But with the return of the current Kejin Shi to his hometown or to serve in other places, this "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" finally began to have traces in various places.

Before the Great Chu, all books were engraved and revised by official periodicals, and since the appearance of engraving in the Yin Dynasty, the Jixian Yuan began to appear in Guozijian, which was specifically responsible for printing and distributing books.

After the Hu people wantonly plundered the Central Plains, all the book plates stored in the Guozijian were destroyed, and in order to prevent these books from disappearing from the hands of the Hu people, the doctors and scholars in the Guozijian took great risks, exhausted their energy to silently release many books, and secretly sent them to the local bookstores with courage to republish and re-engrave them, so that many works were not destroyed in one fell swoop.

When the Great Chu was established, these bookstores took out the engravings and books that had been kept for the doctors of Guozijian and refilled the Jixian Academy of Guozijian. In order to commend the righteous deeds of these bookstores, the emperor gave great preferential treatment to these private bookstores, bookstores, and bookshops, and vigorously supported the spread of folk books, completely breaking the history of a large number of books collected by the clan and the government.

It was precisely because of the great loss of books in the previous dynasty that the "Weishuangtang" of the Xinguo Mansion was so sought after by the literati, and later opened a private bookstore, Li Mao was able to spend money to buy a large number of books to continue to fill the collection of Weishuangtang.

Because when the Hu people conquered the Central Plains, the Jiangnan region suffered the least losses, so most of the remaining engraved book shops were concentrated in the Qiantang area of Wuzhou.

And there, it is the base camp of the Jiang family.

No one knows that such a strange book as "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is what the emperor did not order the Jixian Academy of Guozijian to engrave into a book, but only allowed the manuscript to circulate. But the emperor also did not prohibit the popularity of this book, and even many ministers confirmed that they had read this book on the table in the emperor's study, which means that there is nothing wrong with this book in the eyes of the emperor.

Such a strange book that has not yet been circulated and has not been engraved by Guozijian has involved the nobles of the public government of Dachu today, and the business opportunities contained in it suddenly made booksellers go to Beijing to find a way to carry out activities.

Li Mao lived in seclusion on weekdays, and although he was keen on various social activities, he rarely interacted with businessmen. These booksellers couldn't go online directly, so they found Chen Yi of Xingzhi Academy through various relationships.

Everyone knows that Xingzhi Academy was opened by the former chief of staff of the Xinguo Mansion, and now Chen Shanchang and Xinguo Gong still maintain good exchanges, and most of the students in Xingzhi Academy are exempted from shackles, which supports where the funds of Xingzhi Academy come from, and many families guess that it is funded by the Xinguo Mansion.

Chen Yi received several businessmen from the bookstore, and subconsciously felt that this was a great opportunity for the Xinguo Mansion to become famous.

The Xinguo Mansion was established with martial arts, and everyone knew that Li Shuo made decisive decisions and made careful arrangements, and he marched to fight, or divided the ways, attacked lightly, or lured the enemy out of the city, set up ambushes to encircle and annihilate, and his command was extremely flexible, so he won many victories.

However, due to the fact that Li Laoguo Gong was born in poverty, all the art of war and strategy were learned only after adulthood, and he has been criticized by the Jiangmen family, thinking that he is a wild man, and later Li Meng and Li Mao took the road of civil officials in order to avoid suspicion, and the power and status of the Xinguo Mansion are there, but the reputation of Wuxun has not been too prosperous.

Especially compared with the Jin State Mansion, which has been famous for many generations, the confidence is a little weaker.

Chen Yi naturally read the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and only felt that he really didn't follow the wrong master back then, this old Xinguo Gong was really a person with great wisdom in his chest, and the brave retreat of the rapids back then was by no means just emotional.

It's a pity that the luck is too poor, otherwise now that Li Meng is alive, the Xinguo Mansion will soon become the mansion of the generals.

But now it's different, if Li Laoguogong's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can be promoted, and then ask Wu Yuzhou to think of cultivating a group of storytellers in Yunmeng Pavilion, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms will spread all over the country and become the brightest signboard of the Xinguo Mansion.

The beauty of this book is that it is suitable for all ages, and it is appreciated by both the elegant and the vulgar. Maybe it's because Li Lao Guogong is not from a family, although the whole "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is history, but it is also mixed with the words of various novels, which is not difficult at all, but the truth contained in it is not superficial, it is most suitable for street talk, elegant narrative in the house, and listening to books in the hall.

In addition, there are many well-known stories in the "Three Kingdoms", so it is easier to accept.

Therefore, Chen Yi accepted the entrustment of these booksellers and engravers, and went directly to Li Mao, the Duke of Xinguo, to explain the infinite benefits behind this and persuade him to accept it.

Li Mao naturally wanted to agree, but this book was retold by his mother, and it was at least necessary for the old lady in the ward family to speak out, so there was today's trip.

Gu Qing heard that the president of the publishing house and the director of the printing house wanted to see her, so she hurriedly dressed and went to the front hall to meet the guests.

Booksellers and engravers, though also merchants, were the least discriminated against among the merchants of the Great Chu, because most of them were literate and literate, and some of them were also very knowledgeable, and their speech was not unpleasant.

The businessmen of these bookshops are the heads of the largest bookshops in the Qiantang area, and their bookstores are all over the north and south of the river, and these people also maintain a good cooperative relationship with the major carved bookshops in Dachu, so when they came this time, they also brought the backbone of the major bookshops, just to show the Xinguo Mansion their strength and exquisite skills.

These bookshop owners are all familiar with each other, among them, Wu Yingren, the owner of "Zhuzhai", is the eldest, so he was the first to explain his intentions, and the person in charge of his long-term cooperation of the book-engraving shop "Hua Saburo Engraved Bookshop" provided his own engraving, printing paper, bound books and red books for Gu Qing to see.

These people made a lot of preparations when they entered the house, not only carrying heavy large and small editions, but also bringing a lot of paper and previous books. Private bookstores are not like official book repairs, and the quality is definitely not as good as the official version, but the skills of these folk book engraving companies are also constantly developing, and they boast that they will not be much worse than the official ones.

Gu Qing finished reading the various "bidding materials" sent by the three companies, and asked the person in charge of "Hua Saburo" curiously: "Aren't you tired of bringing so many boards to Beijing?" ”

"Old lady, a piece of engraving usually takes a lot of effort from the master, this is the foundation of our engraved bookstore, so naturally we want to bring it up for you to see. A board is well carved and can be used for many generations......"

Gu Qing saw that this person began to talk endlessly about how many doorways this engraving has, and knew that he had misinterpreted her meaning, and hurriedly interrupted: "The old body just thinks that these boards are too large, why don't you bring some movable characters over and put them together?" ”

Several people in charge of the engraved bookstore looked at each other, and one of them was bold and asked bluntly:

"Old Taijun Qiu, what is movable type?"

Gu Qing was stunned.

Isn't there movable type printing here yet? At this time, isn't the time calculation equivalent to the time at the end of the Song Dynasty?

Yes, at this time, the family was still extended, and the printing of books was probably privately controlled by these families before, and I heard that the imperial examination was only started in the Yin Dynasty, and the local book business should have progressed very slowly.

"You can try to break down all the commonly used words into one by one, and before you want to print, then let people typeset them on a plate, arrange all the living characters in order, and when you finish printing, you can use them repeatedly......" Gu Qing just nodded slightly, and the eyes of several people in charge of the engraved bookstore immediately lit up.

"Old lady Qiu, where did you get this method?" The person in charge of Hua Saburo's family couldn't hide his excitement and said: "We must ask that master for advice!" ”

"Uh......" Gu Qing didn't dare to say that it was invented by a person named Bi Sheng in another time and space, so he had to say vaguely: "Isn't this the reason for seals?" Aren't many seals connected together just the words on a page? Since engraving is so troublesome that you can all make it, it should be easier to move type, right? ”

The person in charge of several book engraving shops no longer cared about whether they could get the copyright of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" at this time, and all the questions revolved around the details of "movable type printing". Gu Qing thought about the process of Bi Sheng's invention of movable type printing in the history textbook, and said more about the details of his knowledge.

For example, you can use cement instead of wooden boards, you can use copper or lead movable type molds, for example, there are many commonly used words, rare words can be used with the system, you can use clay to stick the bottom plate to jam the movable type, and so on.

Everyone in the family knew that Lu Dao Qiu Lao Taijun was used to all kinds of whimsical ideas, but they didn't know that Lu Dao could think of such things that no one would guess. Or is it because this old lady Qiu is not a scholar, so what she thinks will not stick to conventions and conventions?

It was a pleasant surprise, and all the booksellers and engravers who came were eager to stay in the palace and listen to the teachings every day.

Gu Qing talked for a long time, his mouth was dry, and he was a little tired. Chen Yi saw that several booksellers wanted to talk about it more, so he coughed lightly a few times, reminding them not to forget about business, and it would not be too late to mention these things in the future.

They hurriedly talked about "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as if they had just woken up from a dream, but they were always shaking their minds when they spoke, and obviously their minds had drifted to "movable type printing".

Gu Qing saw that these three companies were equal in terms of skills and strength, but the areas where they focused on business were different, so he generously gave the right to publish and distribute "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to the three, and all three of them could be sold or printed.

However, the three of them have different skills, one is good at drawing plates, Gu Qing suggested that he draw more illustrations, and the other is good at overprinting, Gu Qing suggested that he make more color books, and one is beautifully bound, Gu Qing asked him to make more "collector's editions" and "hardcover editions" for large collections.

The three got this great benefit, where there is no follow, and immediately set the route of "picture book version", "color printing version" and "hardcover version", these three types have their own merits, although the content is different, they are not afraid of tearing each other down, everyone makes money by means.

As for the income, since "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is the work of Li Laoguogong, in addition to the fact that they spent a lot of money to copy the original version of the transcript from Li Rui, they also agreed that the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" sold in the future will be sold by the Xinguo Mansion and they will take 50%.

The Xinguo Mansion was responsible for asking the scholars for introductions, inscriptions, annotations, etc., and the three families had to advertise "Three Kingdoms Killing" in the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and by the way, sell "Three Kingdoms Killing" in the bookstore.

The income of the Three Kingdoms Killing was agreed upon by the Xinguo Mansion seven and the bookstore three.

These three bookstores didn't expect that there was anything to make money in the game "Three Kingdoms", so they only agreed to this kind of benefit distribution as a general additional condition.

It's just some overprinted paper games, which don't cost much, and the return on cost of 30% is more than enough.

Gu Qing said that his energy was really low later, so he only drafted some frameworks, and did not leave any written contracts, and agreed to come back to discuss in detail the day after tomorrow, so he asked the family to send off the guests, leaving Chen Yi alone.

She really has no confidence in doing business, and she can't come back from a Linglong Pavilion, she wants to listen to the advice of her staff and professionals, so she asked Chen Yi to find some people who are good at business to counsel this matter, and she is only responsible for the final decision.

On the other side, Li Zhao, who finally waited until the guests had left, hurriedly ran to the front hall, and shouted as soon as he entered the door.

"Cousin grandmother! I want to go to Xingzhi Academy! Huh......"

In addition to my grandmother in the front hall, why is there an old gentleman with a goatee?

Aren't the guests all gone?

The author has something to say: Little Theater:

Chen Yi: Oh, look at how well my academy is running, even children want to go in!

Wu Yuzhou: My Yunmeng Pavilion is also good, and he wants to go in when he grows up.

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