Since Lin Zhao came to Sanyuan Bookstore, Xie Sanyuan has always been wary of him, not that he thinks Lin Zhao's character is not good, but this young man is too handsome, once he shows his fifteen-year-old eldest daughter, most of his family business will fall into the hands of this kid!

Lin Zhao looked at his boss a little speechlessly, and said, "It has nothing to do with the owner's daughter, there is a business to discuss with the owner." ”

"Business?"

Hearing that it had nothing to do with his daughter, Xie Sanyuan let down his vigilance, lowered his head and took another bite of food, and asked vaguely: "You kid is all mixed up working in the bookstore, what business can you discuss with me?" ”

At this time, it was noon, and there were no guests in the bookstore, Lin Zhao took out two jujube wood pieces brought out of his sleeve and put them on the table, and then said to Xie Sanyuan, who was eating with his head down: "The owner takes a look at these two objects." ”

Xie Sanyuan had almost eaten the meal, put down the dishes and chopsticks, picked up the two wooden blocks on the table casually, put them in his hands and played with them, and frowned slightly: "You made this out?" The engraved Yin text is not very regular, but it is barely the same, but what is the use of carving this thing, where is there a seal of words? ”

On these two wooden blocks, one was engraved with the word water, and the other was engraved with the word fire, Lin Zhao found a piece of white paper, put the two wooden pieces together, and then printed it on it, turned his head to Xie Sanyuan and said with a smile: "Dongjia, you have been a bookstore for half your life, you should know that if this wood is dipped in ink, you can print words on the paper." ”

Xie Sanyuan didn't understand what Lin Zhao meant at first, but after all, he had been in this industry for nearly twenty years, and he quickly reacted, he first glanced at Lin Zhao, and then asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Lin Zhao didn't answer this question, but asked, "How many sets of engravings are there in the owner's workshop now?" ”

Xie Sanyuan hesitated for a moment and said, "About ten sets." ”

The technology of engraving printing, which has been used in another world for more than 1,000 years, and has not been replaced by movable type printing after the emergence of movable type, naturally has its advantages, such as a set of engraving, as long as it is well preserved enough, it can be used for hundreds of years or even one or two hundred years, and passed on to future generations.

Xie Sanyuan started to build a bookstore in his twenties, and after a few years, he began to run his own printing workshop.

These engravings are the most valuable things in Xie Sanyuan's property, and his Sanyuan bookstore may really leave it to his daughter as a dowry in the future, but these engravings will definitely be passed on to his young son.

However, engraving printing also has its drawbacks, that is, each set of books must have its own engraving, and a page is a plate, which is time-consuming and laborious to produce.

Some books with a large number of words, a set of books have hundreds and thousands of stereotypes!

The eight or nine sets of engravings in Xie Sanyuan's workshop are basically classics such as the Four Books and Five Classics, and each set of books is only two or three hundred stereotypes at most.

The smile on Lin Zhao's face retracted, and his face became serious.

"The owner, if we can make enough of these small fonts, not a lot, only about 5,000, and then print some more commonly used words, and put them together with wooden frames, when the time comes, thousands of books in the world, the owner can print whatever he wants!"

Although Lin Zhao's words were tempting, they were actually problematic.

First of all, some people write books and like to use some rare characters, so as long as it is a word, no matter how rare it is, they must make one, so that the mold of a set of movable type is estimated to be 20,000 or 30,000 words.

In addition, the fonts do not change automatically, and after one set of books is printed, someone has to rearrange the next book, which is a little easier than carving a set of plates.

Then there's the service life.

A set of engravings is well preserved enough to last for many years, while movable type is far less lifespan than engravings, which is one of the reasons why engravings have not been eliminated in another world.

In addition to these factors, there is also the quality of printing, engraving one-piece, movable type printing quality must be slightly inferior.

These problems, for the previous Lin Zhao, can only be solved by himself little by little, in order to really do business, according to Lin Zhao's previous estimate, he estimates that it will take half a year to pounce on this, in order to achieve something.

But now it's different.

Behind Lin Zhao, there was an incomparably thick thigh, and now Lin Zhao only needed to put forward an idea, and then put out some money to count it as an investment, and the matter that was settled could be handed over to the relatively professional Xie Sanyuan to deal with.

Xie Sanyuan can't do it, Lin Zhao can also find another person in Yuezhou Mansion to do this business, anyway, now, there are few people in Yuezhou City who can trap him!

Xie Sanyuan looked at the two wooden blocks in front of him, frowned and thought for a long time, and then slowly asked, "What kind of material is this?" ”

"Jujube."

Boss Xie took a deep breath: "This method, I heard for the first time, whether it succeeds or not, I want to try it myself, but you just said that you want to do business with me, you first talk about it, how to do business?" ”

"It's not complicated, others can see it, so it can't be seen by outsiders."

Lin Zhao said in a deep voice: "If this thing can be obtained, when the time comes, I will give a hundred, and the owner will also give you a hundred, and we will get another printing workshop, and the books printed by this workshop can be sold in the Sanyuan bookstore first, but the income of the Sanyuan bookstore will be divided into one percent of me, and the income of this workshop must be divided into half of me." ”

Xie Sanyuan finally became serious.

He couldn't help but look at Lin Zhao and asked, "Do you have a hundred?" ”

Lin Zhao smiled: "If not, I don't dare to mention this matter to the owner." ”

At this time, Xie Sanyuan became completely serious, revealing his side of being a businessman.

He was able to do business in Yuezhou Mansion for twenty years without harm, naturally it was impossible to be as mediocre as he looked on the surface, this Boss Xie looked down and thought for a while, then looked up at Lin Zhao and said, "I have two questions. ”

Lin Saburo said with a smile: "The owner just asks." ”

"First, if you can get this thing, why don't you get it yourself, but give me half of it?"

"Because I don't know anything about it."

Lin Zhao said with a smile: "I wanted to go into the workshop a few times before, but you didn't allow the owner, since I didn't understand, I could only find someone who understood to do it together." ”

Xie Sanyuan nodded and continued to ask: "The second question, you also said it just now, this thing is not complicated, others will see it, now you show it to me, what if I leave you to get it myself?" ”

"Two hundred yuan, I can take it out myself."

"The proprietor is not such a person."

Lin Zhao said with a smile.

Xie Sanyuan frowned and said, "What if I am?" ”

"You've been doing something with me for so many days, and you haven't let me see anything wrong, and today you suddenly mentioned this matter to me, you should be prepared."

"Yuan Dagong knows about this."

Lin Zhao didn't hesitate, and said directly: "I am his junior." ”

"Yuan Da Gong...... Are you a son of the Lin clan in Yuezhou? ”

Lin Sanlang nodded: "Lin family side branch." ”

Xie Sanyuan nodded reassuringly.

"So, I understand."

Lin Zhao smiled bitterly: "I can't see that the owner is so shrewd on weekdays. ”

Xie Sanyuan smiled, ignoring Lin Zhao, but looked at the two small wooden blocks on the table, slightly distracted.

He muttered to himself.

"If this thing can be done, Sanyuan Bookstore may become a ...... The world's No. 1 bookseller! ”