Section 46 Books

This issue is also known as the menstrual topic when the Senate is in session, and no matter how many times the vest implements the "vest procedure", marriage with the indigenous people and the consequent inheritance rights of children, indigenous rights, education issues, etc. are called enduring old topics. All sides not only advocate antagonism, but also-for-tat.

"That's-" Xun Suji began to think about it, it didn't matter if he was married to an indigenous woman, he wouldn't be included in the "alternative" list, but it would be a bit more than worth the loss.

"Think about it again, to be honest, you're not busy, and besides, don't you have a secretary?" Mo Xiaoan said, "I see that you are not busy for the time being, the Senate is about to hold a plenary session." You last proposed this matter, and then everyone was arguing in the Senate. Zuihou will definitely have a conclusion coming out. ”

"What if the conclusion is no?" Xun Suji was a little worried, Liu Meilan was already a little fond of him.

"I think most people would definitely want to." Mo Xiaoan said, "What about Weishenme? Push yourself and others. Will everyone hinder themselves from marrying a beautiful girl as a wife? ”

No matter how people say that they are not very interested in indigenous women, a girl from a landlord family is of course more attractive than a girl from an ordinary poor family, and there is also a sense of face satisfaction.

"I thought that after the maid's **, these things would be everyone's own convenience." Hearing that the marriage would be discussed in the Senate, Xun Suji expressed his dissatisfaction.

Mo Xiao'an smiled: "I think the Senate has discussed it a little better." After that, everyone had nothing to say. He probably didn't think it was appropriate, and coughed: "Let's get down to business, let's talk about new export commodities." ”

"To export goods, we still have to make decisions from cheap and large quantities." Zhou Dongtian said, "Most of the industrial products in Lingao now have no economies of scale, and it is difficult to impact the market with prices." ”

There is no price impact effect, only relying on "strange skills and ingenuity", and in the end it is just reduced to a new luxury. This can be seen in the results of the various industrial products they sell to the mainland. In the end, the only consumer markets that can be exported in large quantities are needles and paper. These two are precisely considering that cheapness and quantity completely overwhelm the old market pattern,

"What commodities destroyed the small peasant economy in the initial stage of capitalism?" Xun So-je meditated on the political economy and other courses he had studied. "Textiles that seem? The mass-made machine cloth destroys the hand-made cloth ......"

"Is it valuable to us? Matsue cloth is cheap enough. Besides, even if we go to a mechanized textile mill immediately, it will take a long time to reach the level of dumping. There's also the issue of cotton. Mo Xiaoan said, "Now the executive committee means that the export scale can be formed in a short period of time." ”

"I have something that can work in a short period of time." Zhou Dongtian said, "Books." I made this suggestion last time. The price of books on this plane is too high. Among them, there is a lot of room for price reduction, and the market demand is also very large. ”

"How much literacy can the indigenous people have? Thirty percent is remarkable. ”

I don't know, but ancient readers seem to regard buying and collecting books as a big thing, which shows that books are rare. The market potential is huge. Zhou Dongtian said, "I helped Xiao Xiong print some books to send to the county's teachings last year, and that old boy regarded it as a treasure." Later, he bought some books for Jasmine Xuan as a library, and Liu Dalin was very grateful. ”

Jasmine Xuan's library, with a total of less than 300 books, is not even at the level of a street library in modern times, but in ancient times, this was a great cultural wealth.

"But I don't have time for it - there are too many part-time tasks. This time, I simply got the matter of the movable type printing house completely done. But Lao Mo, you have to help me get rid of the people in the machinery factory, and I need a complete set of equipment to build a movable type printing factory. There is also the Planning Institute, which consumes a lot of resources. ”

"Didn't you already have a printing shop? A lot of textbooks and books have been printed. What about the newspapers in Lingao? I don't think it's made of hand-carved steel plates? ”

"It was printed by a high-speed mimeographer." Zhou Dongtian smiled, "Some of them are also used for lithographic printing. ”

"Mimeograph machine? It's impossible, your printed textbooks and newspapers...... They are all printed exquisitely, just like the regular printing house. ”

Zhou Dongtian shook his finger: "Printing, you don't understand." He explained that he brought a commercial high-speed mimeograph machine, but it was not the hand-engraved stencil wax paper and then coated with ink, and then printed by hand, and then printed by hand, and the printed thing was blurry and easy to fade - that kind of thing is also called a mimeograph machine, but it is a different thing from the equipment he brings.

"The equipment we make ourselves cannot be compared with this fast mimeograph machine in terms of printing effect." "But modern equipment doesn't have a longevity problem, and although I have a lot of spare parts with me, I'm going to end up with it sooner or later -- too many things have to be printed." So this time I proposed to build a new printing house. ”

"I'm very supportive"

"Support is support, and this thing is not so easy to do." Zhou Dongtian explained that the printing house needed to manufacture special equipment, as well as a large amount of metals such as lead, copper, and steel, and it also required a lot of workers - workers had to be specially trained.

"It takes about three to four months for the printing plant to form a production capacity."

"It's been a long time." Mo Xiao'an thought that this was something that could be done immediately.

"Fast enough." Zhou Dongtian said, "This is on the basis of our complete set of industrial systems and material support, if a few of us cross the bare buttocks, at least two or three years of tossing." ”

"I'll make a report right away," Mo Xiao'an said excitedly, "The typesetters don't know if there is one in Guangzhou." ”

"There should be, although movable type printing in China has not been widespread, it still exists in some low-end applications. Guangzhou's Di Bao or something is a movable type arrangement -- to be honest, it's bad enough. No wonder many foreigners do not admit that the Chinese invented movable type printing. Not at all on a level. ”

"The foreign devils still don't admit that we invented gunpowder."

"Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese. Now it's the mainstream view. Except for a handful of historians with white supremacist tendencies, it is Bacon's invention. But when it comes to the concept of printing, it's a bit embarrassing to say. The jishu of modern printing has basically nothing to do with China. If there is anything, the concept of block printing and the use of movable type was invented by the Chinese. Zhou Dongtian said, "Let's not care about this, let's talk about what books to print first." To engage in movable type printing, we must first do movable type, and the amount of movable type required is very large. I have to have a basic idea. ”

"I just don't know what kind of books are good to sell," Mo Xiao'an thought for a while, "Confucian classics such as the Four Books and the Five Classics should be the best to sell, right?" ”

"It's definitely the best sell, but the competition is fierce. There are too many Indians. ”

"It's best to have competition -- we dump at a low price......," Zhou Dongtian said, "once it becomes a scale, the cost advantage of our books is simply not comparable to that of traditional engraving printing." ”

"In fact, it is better to print "Journey to the West", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin". These three kinds of books were published in the Ming Dynasty and must be easy to sell. As for the edition, the electronic manuscript of the People's Literature Edition is used as the manuscript. The People's Literature edition belongs to the fine school, and there are few typos, and it will definitely be a sensation when it is printed. "The end of the Ming Dynasty was an era of active publishing. There are many types of books, and recreational books are beginning to account for the majority of booksellers' publishing sales.

"Dream of Red Mansions should also be popular." Mo Xiaoan said, "And don't commit taboos, anyway, there is no dynasty to test." ”

"Let's forget about "Dream of Red Mansions", otherwise there will be many people rushing to become the author. Everyone wants to sign it. Zhou Dongtian said, "Last time I printed a series of "Thirteen Classics and Qing People's Annotations", several of them wanted to be the author of the book, and they were mixed with contemporary Confucianism. ”

"It's naked piracy."

"I don't think the works of later generations should be published for the time being, but the works of the Ming Dynasty and before the Ming Dynasty should be published first. Some of the Qing people's compilation and collation can also be published. For example, "Three Hundred Tang Poems", "All Tang Poems" and so on. ”

"You guys are so uncreative" Xun Suji was not very interested in this, and suddenly thought of a good idea, "I don't think you need to print anything else, first print a few thousand true colors/feelings/miscellaneous/zhi and so on." Japanese or Hong Kong. The white girl and the black girl also print a little, and they can be sold to Europe in the future......" he swallowed, "If you think the scale is too big, just print a photo album of Japanese **." Even if it's not a ** photo, you have to let Da Ming Shishu see a nosebleed. ”

He felt more and more that his ideas were surprisingly good: "This kind of reserve must be in the hands of the elders. Besides, we have digital cameras, computers, and professionals who know how to make a photoshop, so we can make our own magazine like "Loft". Isn't this day and age fond of women with small feet? Let's just set up a magazine called "Step by Step" to publish close-up photos of various small foot models......"

Mo Xiao'an was still laughing at first, and when she heard that she was going to run a magazine for a woman with small feet later, she couldn't help frowning: "It's so disgusting, I want to vomit when I hear it." You might as well engage in black silk weishenme to cater to this bad habit? We were meant to change the lives of society. Besides, the ancient society was very feudal and conservative, how big a market will you have if you engage in these? ”

"The market is not a problem. You must know that most of the classical erotic/erotic/novel came from the Ming Dynasty - it can be seen that there was a great demand for this kind of consumption during this period. Xiaoxun, your idea is very good - there is a fatal problem. Zhou Dongtian said, "The jishu paper and ink printed by color plates are all things that we can't handle." Now I can give you a few copies with a scanner and a laser/inkjet printer. Large quantities are not possible. ”

Xun Suji was a little disappointed, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "How is H Man?" It's okay to express it only with lines.,Black and white lines.,Clever engraving can be done engraving.,The Japanese H comic should be more in line with the aesthetic taste of the Chinese people.。 Meiman is too rough, and it's a ghost girl who is drawn, so Akito shouldn't be interested. ”

He continued to talk about his plan for publishing H Man, and his interest was the same as that of H Magazine: "As for the selection of materials, I think the general direction is fine - the style of painting should be more beautiful. As for tentacles, people, ghost animals, ** and the like, I'm afraid the taste is too heavy, and people in the Ming Dynasty may not be interested. ”

"Not necessarily, there are still some perverted things in ***, I think there should be a market for **, and the soft ones are good." Mo Xiaoan was also aroused by the conversation, "Actually, BL's H comic should have a large market. ”

"There are a lot of rotten women?"

"NO, I heard that there is generally a good male style in this era, and I generally like beautiful young men who look like women. BL's H comic is painted more than a woman, and she will definitely be able to vote for the rich people of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"How do you know so much about BL?" Zhou Dongtian suddenly asked.

"Well, well, this, in fact, I have been in a relationship with a rotten girl...... Mo Xiaoan hurriedly pleaded that he was innocent, and there was absolutely no problem with orientation.

"Of course, comic book publishing is possible, but it's a lot of work." Zhou Dongtian didn't ask any further, "Actually, there is a simpler way, and the lithograph printing is enough." It depends on how quickly we can train the plate-making workers. It can only be considered as a long-term consideration. ”

The proposal to set up a movable type printing plant and to print books on a large scale did not attract much attention from the industrial sector, which was nothing more than a few simple machines, and it was not much difficulty, but attracted the attention of both the large libraries and the cultural sector.

The focus of attention is nothing more than the types of books that are printed. Of course, they don't care about more than just "signature".

Benefiting from the cheap cost of paper and printing, the large-scale publication of Lingao's books to the market is bound to form a cultural wave no less than the use of the Gutenberg printing press in medieval Europe. Not only will all kinds of books in the field of traditional thought be popularized on a large scale, but all kinds of practical books and literary and artistic works will also pour into thousands of households.

With cheap printing, there was no need for a traverser to compile any deviant ideological works - Huang Zongxi's thought was enough; There is no need to reinvent modern science and technology, and the rediscovery of ancient Chinese obliterated scientific and technological works is enough to trigger the "blooming of a hundred flowers" in the whole society.

The late Ming Dynasty was originally a period of gradual "liberalization" of social thought, and the Crossing Group took this opportunity to add a fire to this trend of thought -- to disturb the Ming Dynasty in the ideological field, or rather to the social thinking of traditional society.

Jihua in Eshui also had the intention of compiling and publishing a large number of vernacular pamphlets for publicity. He was compiling the "Record of the Atrocities of the Usurpation of Ming" in the previous stage, and recently he is compiling the "Records of the Atrocities of Zheng Rebellion" and "The Atrocities of Liu Bandits". If this kind of political pamphlet can be distributed in large quantities to the society of the Ming Dynasty, its effect will be very significant.

In the long run, the various political ideas of the crossing group can be distributed in the form of pamphlets. A pamphlet is far more effective than spreading simple rumors. Moreover, the booklet can be preserved and circulated for a long time, and the effect of a single dissemination can last for many years.

Ding Ding is very supportive of this jihua. He was no longer satisfied with publishing a few newspapers and internal magazines, and began to meddle in the ideological field. The publishing industry is a piece of fat that he has long seen haode. The current publishing industry may only be able to print textbooks, scientific manuals or political propaganda pamphlets, but in a decade or twenty, when a new generation of young indigenous people grows up, their demand for books will explode.

So he is very enthusiastic about Zhou Dongtian's jihua. At the Council of State, he actively advocated support for the establishment of large-scale movable type printing houses and called for the establishment of a publishing group under the Ministry of Culture.

However, Yu Eshui of the Great Library resolutely objected, saying that in terms of the type and quality of book resources, it was most reasonable for the Great Library to be responsible for the book publishing business. After all, the people of the big library are in contact with all kinds of books every day, and they have in-depth research on the content and editions of the books, and they have natural advantages in choosing themes, adding, deleting, revising, and editing - and they also have some experience. Even if the Ministry of Culture sets up a publishing house, it still needs the assistance of a large library in the business field, and it is better to directly entrust the large library to publish it than to have multiple institutions in one place.

"As for the publisher's signature, it doesn't matter. It can be called Joint Bookstore or the Commercial Press. It's a name anyway. ”

In the end, Tintin was forced to give in - after all, the resources were in the big library, and if the other party had a bad heart, it would be difficult for him to make a name for himself, even if he had a name. Eventually, he accepted the idea of forming a "Publication Steering Group". This non-permanent organization is mainly responsible for the selection of topics for book publishing and the demonstration of revision plans. It is composed of Ding Ding, a representative of the Ministry of Culture, Yu Eshui, a representative of the Grand Library, and Zhou Dongtian, director of the printing plant.

Under the impetus of all parties, the new publishing and printing organization began to operate. Zhou Dongtian began to set up a new printing enterprise.

Zhou Dongtian's small printing factory is located in Bairen City, and although the scale is not large, the treatment it enjoys is the same level as that of Lingao Telecom Company, and it belongs to a first-class key department. In the past, it was even located in the compound of the Executive Committee.

Even now it occupies a separate yard. The gate was locked all day long. Anyone rings the bell first, and then a small opening will be revealed in the door, and visitors will have to show ID to enter. The security was so tight not only because this courtyard was filled with most of the printing equipment and equipment of the Crossing Group, but also because it was also responsible for printing negotiable tickets and various official documents.

As soon as you enter the courtyard gate, there is a large no-fireworks mark painted on the wall. The slogan in black reads: No smoking, no fireworks, ink and paper everywhere, and it's too late to put out the fire. There is a specially built water storage tank in the brush room, equipped with a manual pumping machine, buckets and many sandbags. A number of fire extinguishers removed from the ship were also concentrated. Zhou Dongtian has been wondering if he can get better pumping equipment - fire extinguishers have an expiration date.