Chapter 62 Culture and Entertainment of the Wu Dynasty

Chen Jiru ate breakfast and went into the room to sleep.

In this regard, Han Chen is noncommittal, many people like to read books, engage in research, and even have fun, but they don't have that heart during the day.

In the morning, a carriage drove into the Dawang Village, and the farmers were busy with their own work, that is, women and children, who were also helping beside them, not wanting rice and grain, just to contribute to the owner, and naturally no one was watching.

Inside the carriage, a middle-aged man dressed as a scribe looked strange through the window.

The weather is cold, and this Dawangzhuang is working on the ground, which is quite untimely.

This person is the proprietor of Xin Xintang who bought "The Outer History of Confucianism" and took it to be printed, called Lu Dayong, his own uncle is the inner servant of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, the business of the bookstore is smooth, and all parties have taken care of it, which is also the fundamental reason why Han Chen chose Xin Xintang to print "The Outer History of Confucianism".

The big shopkeeper of Ningbo Xin Xintang was also accompanied in the carriage, and when he saw that the proprietor was puzzled, he whispered that Han Chen took advantage of the farm to repair the Zhuangzi and subsidize the villagers.

"The History of Confucianism" has more than 400,000 words in 58 chapters, and it was only completely recorded yesterday afternoon, and the four stenographers have not withdrawn it, so they naturally know what happened in Zhuangzi.

When Lu Dongzhu heard this, he nodded again and again, and said that this Han Xianggong is also a kind-hearted person.

It is rumored that in the Xin Xintang, there are the shares of the fathers-in-law of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, which is only in the left and right of Yingtianfu, and no one easily touches it, and the bookstore next to it does not dare to print it.

"Journey to the West", in the Wu Dynasty, was also a banned book.

Because of the relationship between the inner servants, and the fact that Lu Dayong can have today, it all depends on his own uncle to take care of him, and he will also give his uncle a pension in the future and continue the incense, so Lu Dongzhu is particularly concerned about this theory of the reincarnation of good and evil.

It's just that the attendants are incomplete in this life, so they all believe in reincarnation, and pray for a complete next life and a real man.

Lu Dongzhu is also in the same vein.

Seeing that Han Chen was kind-hearted, Lu Dayong, who was particularly valued because he had made a poem in the realm of the Bodhisattva such as "Living up to the Bodhisattva realm", glanced at Aunt Han again.

When he arrived at the place, he spread the word, and Han Chen personally came out and welcomed Lu Dayong into the house.

The living room sat separately, Dong'er made people serve tea, and Lu Dongzhu explained his intention.

But it was Lu Dayong who heard Han Chen's oral statement, four speed record books, in order to catch up with the progress, more than 400,000 words, no need to change the magical things, only to feel that this Han Xianggong is really a genius, specially came to visit.

In the bookstore industry, the competition in the Wu Dynasty was also very fierce.

Especially in the land of Jiangnan Wenhua, it is really not a lie, just on the street in front of Baoguo Temple, there are no less than thirty or forty bookstores of all sizes.

Regardless of Yingtian Nanjing, there are no less than 300 peers.

Nowadays, the two major killer weapons for bookstores to make profits are the current text and the other is the script.

Shiwen is the college entrance examination exercise, similar to the "three-year college entrance examination and five-year simulation" in modern society.

Without him, I look forward to being admitted to the Jinshi, getting ahead, being an official and enjoying all the glory and wealth, and glorifying my ancestors.

The script is aimed at the public, the literacy rate of the Wu Dynasty is extremely high, and it is the first of all dynasties, but most people can only be regarded as able to read words, not to mention serious reading, and will not go to the imperial examination.

This part of the people is the main consumer force of the script.

Not limited to peddlers and pawns, merchants sit in Jia, everyone is beautiful, and the small family is jasper......

Shi Wen has nothing to say, Aunt Han has never even been a showman, so Lu Dongzhu naturally will not come to the door to make an appointment.

This time, Lu Dongzhu wanted to see if Han Chen was interested in writing a script.

Although "The History of Confucianism" will be able to sell the world, arouse heated discussions among readers, and is even very likely to be passed on, when it comes to making money, it is really not as good as the book that writes all the love in the world!

This thing is actually very easy to understand, even modern, and satirical literature can't sell popular novels.

Printing "The Outer History of Confucianism", Xin Xintang is more for seeking fame and establishing his reputation among readers.

Selling current texts and scripts is the business.

Xu heard the name of the stupid scholar and the stupid goose in Han Chen's predecessor, and Lu Dongzhu specially brought a few popular books to show Aunt Han, so that he could make a sample.

Several beautifully bound booklets are lined up on the table, and you can tell what is said in them just by looking at the names.

"The Biography of Ruyijun", "Spring Dream Trivia", "Huaichun Liji", "The History of Emperor Yang of Sui", "The Secret History of Emperor Zetian", ......

Aunt Han opened it casually, and it was full of beautiful illustrations...... This is his cool drops, all of them are embroidered versions!

As far as the eye can see, it is full of words of tigers and wolves!

Aunt Han was immediately stunned, it turned out that the cultural and entertainment activities of the ancients were not as scarce as imagined!

What is this, where is the love story, this is clearly the Wu Dynasty version of Liu Bei!

In Aunt Han's mind, a lot of pictures flashed suddenly, the young man held the script, and his bloody soul suddenly awakened, and then he slammed his ......

and the deep lady, it is said that this is also a favorite......

Seeing that Han Chen was stunned, Lu Dayong thought that this Han Xianggong was an old-fashioned rotten Confucian, and immediately wanted to explain a few words, but he didn't want Aunt Han to raise his head and ask, "Like this, how much money is a book?" ”

Hey, it turned out to be all the way!

Lu Dayong smiled, "Han Xianggong has a great talent, and he has written such a strange article as "The History of Confucianism", and the great name will coax Shilin in the near future!"

I am willing to attach the tail of the Korean Prime Minister and cooperate for a long time!

It's just that the first book to test the waters, Xin Xintang is willing to pay Han Xianggong a thousand taels first! ”

To put it bluntly, Lu Dongzhu has never seen Han Chen's ability to write a script, the first one will try the water first, if it works, the manuscript fee will increase again in the future.

In fact, even if Han Chen's words are like shit, Xin Xintang can make a lot of money.

Because, at this time, famous sentences such as "if life is only as first seen", "the most can't stay in the world", "live up to it", and so on, have been spread in Yingtian Nanjing, and the Qinhuai River sang every night, and these new words were turned over and sung in the past, and Aunt Han's name was unmatched for a while.

In addition, "useless is a scholar", "shaking hands and tears in the west wind does not dry" are praised among readers, and strange books such as "The History of Confucianism" that will be sold soon, as long as Aunt Han is willing to write a book and print it, there is no reason to lose money!

Although Lu Dayong opened a bookstore as an uncle and an internal servant, he is also quite a businessman, although he is not as good as Li Caiwei and Miss Li, but he is generally qualified.

As long as Han Chen writes a notebook and comes out, he takes it back and prints more than 100,000 copies of Xinxintang first, and sells them all over Jiangnan, and in the blink of an eye, the gross profit of more than 100,000 taels will be in hand!

It's just a thousand taels of pen, it's really not worth mentioning.

However, being able to make money is Lu Dongzhu's own ability, but it has nothing to do with Han Chen, so this price is not low.

Han Chen was also very simple, and he didn't negotiate the price, he responded directly, but he was thinking in his heart, what kind of script should I get out of my uncle? Is it possible to follow the trend and write a book of Xiao Liu Bei?