Although the annex built by the samurai was not as luxurious as his Guogong Mansion, there were not many villagers in Jiangjia Village.

Excluding the elderly, children, and women who can't work, there are only about a hundred people who can really work.

The men were again in groups of three, and the middle row of houses was sufficient.

The front hall is a dining hall, and the row of houses in the backyard is used as a warehouse by Zong Xiu, and the carpenters and potters who are still in Jiangjia Village are temporarily inhabited.

Zong Xiu led Yi Chengqing and followed Jiang Lian and walked quickly to the middle row of houses.

The entire house was pierced, leaving only the pillars supporting the roof, which Jong-su remodeled in the style of a later production workshop.

Inside, the hundreds of ten villagers of Jiangjia Village are working in groups of three around their respective workbenches, busy in an orderly manner.

Next to each table, there is a cut of white paper and a polished ink bucket.

The person standing on the left is in charge of sticking stickers to the wooden plate on the table; When the paper is finished, the person in the middle brushes back and forth with a large clean brush, and then the one on the right peels off the paper and puts it aside to dry.

More than forty tables have a clear division of labor and are orderly.

Jiang Jian picked up the newspaper printed in the corner, as well as a bound book, and handed it over.

"Boss, these days we have been working day and night, and according to the owner's orders, 3,000 copies of books have been printed and 20,000 copies of newspapers have been printed."

Zong Xiu took it and looked at it, and saw that the handwriting was clear, and it was not wrong, so he laughed at the moment: "Yes, yes, Jiang Lizheng, inform me to go on a holiday tonight, the wine and meat are open to eat, and I will give you a bonus at the end of the month!" ”

Jiang Lianxi said: "Thank you so much to the owner, the little one is busy first, and the owner has something to greet me." ”

Movable type printing!

Zong Xiu's business is movable type printing, and he now mainly prints books and newspapers.

[movable type printing] first appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty during the Qingli period, for Bi Sheng invented clay movable type; First, the printed text mold of the single word is arranged in the word plate according to the manuscript, inked and printed, and then the word mold is removed after printing, and left for the next typesetting to be used again.

And now is the Tang Dynasty Zhenguan period, and it is still time-consuming [engraving printing].

Engraving printing is extremely troublesome, generally to choose fine and solid wood first, sawn the wood into a piece of plank, and then write the words to be printed on thin paper, and paste it on the board. Then, according to the strokes of each character, use a knife to carve it into a yang script one by one, so that the strokes of each character protrude on the board.

After the wooden board is carved, the book can be printed.

Such a cumbersome printing method is both labor-intensive and wasteful, and no matter how skilled the craftsman is, he can't carve a piece a day, and a piece of engraving plate can not be used several times, and there will be blurred handwriting, unclear printing, etc.

It is precisely because of the cumbersomeness of [engraving printing] that books cannot be popularized now, and most of the books are in the hands of scholars.

If children from poor families want to study, they often have to borrow it by all means, and then copy it by hand after borrowing.

It's not a good relationship, and you don't necessarily have to borrow it.

After all, the slogan preached by Shilin is: everything is inferior, only reading is high.

In Shilin's eyes, books are priceless, and often the books in the family are rarely lent to outsiders.

Zong Xiu listened to Yan Tingcheng's suggestion, and on a whim, came up with the idea of making money by movable type printing.

Didn't you scholars say that 'books are priceless'?

Lao Tzu printed a lot of books, so that everyone could afford to buy books.

I don't just want to print books, I also want to print newspapers, so that 'words and knowledge' will be completely cheap, and no longer under the control of you!

In this way, Zong Xiu's whim led to the early appearance of the first edition of movable type printing "Enlightenment" and [Chang'an Weekly]!

The Enlightenment includes a hundred family names, a thousand-character text, a three-character classic, a Tao Te Ching, and the Analects.

[Chang'an Weekly] is divided into four sections according to Zong Xiu's requirements, namely: poems, stories, current news, and an advertising area.

When the first issue of [Chang'an Weekly] was printed, Zong Xiu was in line with the principle of fame, from poems to stories, all of which were covered by him.

He plagiarized a few more poems, and the poems were considered to be in the past.

When creating the story section, Zong Xiu even enabled the serial method of inducing consumption, and made "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" a beginning.

As for the current news, it is all gossip news sent by Zongxiu Tuoyan Chengcheng these days: what 'Lu Guogong had a pig in three mouths', 'Wei Xiang has recently loved to appreciate lotus', 'What ink treasure did Chu Suiliang copy' and so on.

Zong Xiu deliberately selected a few of Li Shimin's new Huimin edicts to publicize them, and marked the key points, which can be regarded as secretly patting Lao Li's sycophants.

In the advertising area, in addition to an advertisement for their own printed publications, other locations are printed with advertisements for rent, and the rental price is clearly marked.

Zong Xiu didn't believe it, as soon as the Chang'an Weekly Report came out, other big businessmen didn't look hot and didn't come to join in the fun.

Making newspapers, that's to make money.

Zong Xiu beckoned Jiang Shihu to come, loaded 20,000 copies of [Chang'an Weekly] and 3,000 copies of "Enlightenment" into the carriage, and then called the children of Jiangjia Village, and the group rushed to Chang'an City lively.

On this day, Chang'an City went crazy.

More than 20 children carried book frames on their backs and shouted all over the street: "Sell newspapers, sell newspapers, the first edition of Chang'an Weekly has been sold......"

"There are good-looking Romance of the Three Kingdoms, as well as many celebrity anecdotes of the country."

"Selling newspapers, two or three things about Butcher Zhang and Widow Liu, as long as three pennies, you can still paste the window after reading it."

"You can't buy three dollars and suffer losses, and you can't buy three dollars and be fooled."

"Are you still worried about wanting to read but not having a book? The thousand-character text, the "Enlightenment" of the hundred family names, the three-character classic, the Tao Te Ching, and the Analects is on sale, one or two silvers, and a limited edition of 3,000 copies, and the deadline is sold out! ”

Chang'an City is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, is the most prosperous city in the Tang Dynasty today, the literary style is prevalent, and the dignitaries are like carp crossing the river.

More than 20 children shouted the slogans deliberately arranged by Zong Xiu, wandering around Chang'an, and many literati and writers were attracted by the newspapers in the hands of the children.

With the first, there is the second.

Most of the literate literati bought a copy of the fun, and then after some good deeds asked about the above content, they couldn't help but run to buy a copy, and soon the whole Chang'an City became lively.

Newspapers and periodicals are not unusual, after all, there were also 'Di newspapers' within officials during the Tang Dynasty.

But when a large number of newspapers, periodicals and books are sold cheaply, it will naturally attract the attention of officials.

Although on the side of the Shenwu Army patrolling the city, Zong Xiu asked Yan Tingcheng to say hello in advance, but no one stopped him, but Yan Tingcheng on the side of the internal guard couldn't intervene.

Just half an hour after the "Chang'an Weekly" and "Enlightenment" went on sale, dozens of newspapers and books were secretly sent to the Daming Palace and passed to Li Shimin, who was opening the Wu Dynasty with his ministers.

Just when Lao Li and the ministers were watching the "Chang'an Weekly" and "Enlightenment" sent by the internal guards, Zong Xiu knocked on the door of Yi Feng Pavilion alone!

"Haha, Yan, everyone, I came as promised. Today is the first day of our opening, and we are here to congratulate you! ”