sent away the eldest grandson Wuji.

Li Chengqian returned to the house with a smile.

Xiao Hatsuko has been following behind him.

"Your Highness......"

"Huh?"

Li Chengqian looked at him puzzled: "What's the matter, just say something if you have something." ”

"The slave maid is puzzled, why does His Highness say that books can change this era?"

"Don't they all say that strong soldiers and strong horses describe a strong country?"

Xiao Chuzi asked a question that had been held in his heart for a long time.

"There must be strong soldiers and strong horses, but there must also be books."

Li Chengqian walked in front, and Xiao Chuzi followed behind.

He patiently explained.

"The most striking feature of a country being strong is that it wants the country to be rich."

"After all, no matter where the soldiers and horses are, they must rely on money and food to support them."

"And if you want the country to be rich, people who are loyal to the country are indispensable."

Li Chengqian looked back at Xiao Chuzi: "But do you know how many people are really loyal to Datang now?" ”

Hearing this, Xiao Chuzi was puzzled.

"The courtiers of the Tang Dynasty, if they are not loyal to the Tang Dynasty, who else can they be loyal to?"

"Loyalty to your family."

Li Chengqian sighed and said, "How many of the huge Tang Dynasty courts have nothing to do with the family?" ”

"Fang Xuanling, his wife is Fan Yang Lu's family, Du Ruhui, and he is from a family."

"Not to mention Su Shichang, Yao Silian and other top bachelors in the Tang Dynasty."

Li Chengqian looked back at Xiao Chuzi and patted him on the shoulder.

"You don't understand it now, but one day you will."

"When our books are printed, I'll teach you to read."

Xiao Chuzi looked at Li Chengqian.

There was disbelief in his eyes.

"Your Highness, are you really willing to teach me?"

"Of course."

Li Chengqian smiled kindly: "Qing porcelain and Qinghe were all taught by my mother, and they are all literate." ”

"And you've been following me for so many years, it's time to be literate."

"Otherwise, I won't even have someone to write for me in the future."

In ancient times, there was a strict hierarchy.

Let subordinates read and hyphenation, that is a kind of praise for subordinates.

And it's the biggest compliment.

Xiao Chuzi was full of excitement, and tears almost poured out of his eyes.

"I mean, you kid don't want to cry, do you?"

Li Chengqian looked up and smiled: "Okay, okay, don't die like this, we have to go to the paper mill to arrange things tomorrow." ”

"Hmmm......"

Xiao Hatsuko nodded heavily.

The breathing is much heavier.

……

On the second day, Li Chengqian set up a new factory next to the paper mill and named it the Printing Factory.

When everything was ready, he ran to the palace again and found Li Shimin.

The purpose is the same, and he is simply worried about Li Shimin's imperial study.

After explaining the cause and effect.

Li Shimin didn't even have a reason to refuse.

I can only agree with tears.

Seeing that he agreed, Li Chengqian was not polite.

commanded the Long Wu Army to almost empty Li Shimin's imperial study.

It was also the first time he experienced the thrill of robbery.

In particular, it was the dignified Khan who robbed.

Look at his face of forbearance and sadness.

Li Chengqian's heart is not to mention how refreshing.

Should.

Let you always rob me of my stuff.

This time it also allows you to experience the feeling of grabbing.

After the books were carried out, Li Shimin walked to Li Chengqian's side with a black face.

"I warn you, if one of these books is damaged, I will give you ten commandments."

"If one is lost, I'll beat you with a hundred rulers!"

After the threat was over, Li Shimin turned around and left.

Li Chengqian shrugged his shoulders, what's the big deal with the damage?

Can't I pay you back the new one?

Li Chengqian rolled his eyes, didn't bother to speak, and followed the team back to the printing house directly.

At this moment, the printing house was ready to go, and it only waited for Li Chengqian to give an order to start printing.

Li Chengqian did not hesitate, and waved the small colored flag in his hand suddenly.

"Open the seal!"

The workers cheered and immediately began their work in full swing.

Although there are no machines in this era.

However, it also has a cheaper labor force and a higher level of work than in later generations.

Under Li Chengqian's arrangement, the three processes of papermaking, bookmaking, and printing have completely become one-stop flow operations.

Not to mention the paper, but also the printing house, fifty craftsmen can produce nearly 1,000 books a day.

And he produces it here, and the eldest grandson Wuji is responsible for selling it.

On the first day, the eldest grandson Wuji was just trying to open a bookstore.

As a result, business was booming that day, and people buying books lined up from the streets to the end of the street.

Until the books are sold out, there are still many people in line.

The reason for this boom is that it's so cheap.

Take, for example, the well-known Analects.

The Analects consists of 20 chapters and 492 chapters, and the materials used are 200 pages.

And not only the paper, but also the cost of ink and rubbing craftsmen, the cost is not less than two dollars.

Two pieces of copper is a full 2,000 copper plates, and this is still the cost price.

If such a book is transferred to an ordinary bookstore, it will cost at least 5,000 copper plates.

You must know that in the early Tang Dynasty, the monthly salary of a state-level official like Cheng Yanjin was only 8,000 copper plates.

And his monthly salary is only enough to buy a copy of the Analects.

Not to mention those poor children, I am afraid that they will not be able to afford a book for a lifetime.

But now it's different, with Li Chengqian's streamlining.

The cost price has been controlled by Li Chengqian.

The price of a book is only 100 yuan, which has dropped by more than 200 times.

Even if it was sold in the end, it was only two hundred dollars.

At this price, in the past, you couldn't even buy a blank book.

But now, I can buy a printed book.

How can these poor scholars not be crazy about it?

Some people even came from afar after hearing about it.

At night, they began to queue up outside the bookstore, waiting to buy books.

In order to cope with this situation, the eldest grandson Wuji added two more bookstores.

As a result, demand is still in short supply.

Even in the end, Li Chengqian's printing house was sold out.

Originally, he divided the fifty craftsmen into small teams, and each team printed one type.

But this business is really hot.

When the eldest grandson Wuji opened five bookstores, the supply on his side was in short supply.

Such a hot scene, of course, is what Li Chengqian is happy to see.

With a wave of his hand, he hired another hundred men to print the book, and more than doubled the size of the printing house.

This time, it is finally supplied with the ferocious book-buying frenzy.

Of course, such a hot scene also gave Li Chengqian the impetus to develop better printing technology.

For example, printing presses......

Li Chengqian still remembers.

The first printing press in Greater China was the Niuli printing press, which was introduced in the late Qing Dynasty.

Since people at that time had already started to use mechanical printing.

And he didn't believe that he couldn't do it......

Even if you can't do it yourself, don't you still have a system?

Li Chengqian flipped through the system store.

In the end, he really found out.

It's just that the price is too beautiful.

A semi-automatic printing press costs 40,000 points......

"Why don't you go and grab money!"

Li Chengqian couldn't help but slander in his heart.

Who would have thought that the system would really talk back.

{The price of the product in the system has its own reasons, please don't talk nonsense about the host......}

"I'm ......"

Li Chengqian was helpless.

He can't just take the system out of his head and beat it up, right?

Li Chengqian gritted his teeth fiercely: "Don't be complacent too early, I don't believe that I, a person with an IQ of 18, can't get a printing press." ”