Chu Tianxiu set the day for taking office.

Eight days later, before the rainy season, he and Dong Xianliang, Chao Fangzheng, and the main father Yan and other three new county commanders, went to the four counties to take up their posts.

Di'er immediately went to purchase a batch of daily necessities needed by her uncle.

Danyang County is a poor and remote place, and there are no materials for Jinling City at all, basically all the things that my uncle will use have to be brought from Jinling City.

Of course, the county lord Li Yu, Di'er and Zu'er, as the "county lady", naturally want to go together.

As the lord of Danyang, Li Yu has nothing to do on weekdays, practicing swordsmanship, riding, reading books and whatnot, and is quite leisurely.

The things they want to bring, all kinds of rouge and jewelry, are naturally more than the county magistrate.

Eight days to prepare for this, so there's plenty of time.

...

In the past few days, Chu Tianxiu has certainly not been idle.

Before he went to work, he had to get a very important thing in order.

That is the first draft of the first forty chapters of "The Stone Record", which has been written. It's nearly 400,000 words, a very thick book.

After the Lantern Festival performed "The Story of the Stone", there were already many dignitaries and nobles who eagerly wanted to buy the manuscript of this book, but they were nowhere to be found.

Taking advantage of this heat, he hurriedly printed "The Story of Stones" and sold it. Otherwise, everyone will copy the book, and who will buy his book?

Chu Tianxiu is going to divide "The Story of Stones" into two books.

I took out the first half of the book and sold it, and by the way, it also drove the sales of the faint paper to almost stagnate.

Now that the manuscript of the first half of the book is available, the next step is, of course, to prepare for "printing and publishing".

The Great Chu Dynasty has just come out of the era of bamboo slips, and has not yet fully stepped into the era of paper books, only a small number of scholars have paper books in their hands, of course, there is no so-called "printing and publishing" concept.

They are still in the stage of "copying books by hand".

All the scholars in Dachu borrowed books from the rich people's houses, and then copied them word by word under the lights. Whether it is a gate lord scholar or a Confucian scholar, they all copy it by hand.

The only difference is that wealthy families can hire poor scholars to copy books without having to do it themselves.

Such a backward production method made the scholars of Da Chu toss to death, and their hands are about to be wasted.

There's nothing to say, just go straight to printing!

Papermaking and printing are all supporting big killing techniques, which are enough to sweep the entire Great Chu Dynasty.

Chu Tianxiu couldn't explain to others what "engraving publishing" was, so he could only teach it himself.

He took Zu'er out of the city and came to the Duhou papermaking workshop not far outside the city to see how the papermaking workshop was doing.

Old Craftsman Sun was extremely attentive and took Chu Tianxiu to inspect the papermaking workshop.

Since he worked with the little marquis, his daily salary is one tael of silver, his monthly salary is thirty taels, and his annual income is three hundred and sixty taels.

With a day's wages, Mr. Sun can buy 500 large pancakes, and he is so rich!

This is almost the most valuable craftsman in Changle Street, and he earns more money than those small rich and small landlords. It made the neighbors extremely envious and salivated.

Even Mr. Jia, who teaches a private school in Pingwang's Mansion, has an annual salary of less than 100 taels of silver, and his eyes are above the top, are far from comparable.

They only hated that they didn't have the opportunity to work for the little dusk.

Sun Laojiang's three sons, who can only do rough work, have all become fragrant buns on Changle Street, and they have each married their daughters-in-law, preparing to build a house and give birth to a few big fat dolls in the coming year.

The workers of this papermaking workshop are still in full swing, and the daily output is about 10,000 pieces of dusk paper.

This capacity, how to say.

In the future generations, it is really low and pitiful.

If 10,000 pieces of paper are made into paper books, it is only 100 copies.

This is already the limit of Jinling City's sales volume.

Twenty copper coins and a piece of dusk paper, the number of men and nobles who can afford it is very limited after all. When their needs are gradually satisfied, the amount of paper they buy will also slowly decrease.

The library of the Pingwang Mansion has not yet been completed, and a large number of books have not yet begun, so it cannot explode the production capacity.

However, the cost of each piece of paper is less than a tenth of a copper penny, and the profit is surprisingly rich. This Dusk Hou Workshop has already paid off, and it is very, very... Earn.

It is as high as five or six thousand taels of silver a month, and the annual income is sixty thousand taels of silver, which is simply a rumbling money printing machine that never sleeps.

If it weren't for this paper-making workshop, which was an industry under the name of the lord of Danyang County of King Ping's Mansion, no one would dare to offend King Ping Li Rong.

I'm afraid that many wealthy families will try their best to take the papermaking workshop for themselves.

"Old craftsman Sun, the output of papermaking is too low, buy all the 100 acres of wasteland next to the workshop, and expand the papermaking workshop tenfold!"

Chu Tianxiu pondered for a moment and said.

With a daily output of 100,000 sheets, it should be able to meet the demand for paper for a long time.

"Ten in a day... 100,000? ”

Old Master Sun was taken aback and swallowed his saliva, "Little Marquis, it can be done by increasing production." But can it be sold? ”

The production has skyrocketed tenfold, and he can't imagine who bought so much paper.

"You don't have to worry about selling paper, just do the papermaking work."

Chu Tianxiu smiled.

A small amount of unsalable paper has begun to appear, and it is difficult to expand sales.

After greatly expanding production capacity, he is ready to reduce the price of paper somewhat, cut it by half, or even two or three folds, anyway, the profit margin of paper is very large.

Now he eats exclusive papermaking, eats a mouth full of oil, and only makes money and does not lose.

However, he was ready to change from making money from making paper to making money from selling "The Stone".

"By the way, Old Master Sun, do you have any familiar carpenter masters, the kind that can carve finely!"

Chu Tianxiu asked.

"Yes, in the hoop bucket lane of Changle Street, there are many skilled craftsmen. The villain knows a lot of craftsmen in the city, and he has been friends with his neighbors for decades, and they are all honest and responsible. ”

Old Master Sun nodded hurriedly, "The little one will go find one immediately?" ”

"Okay, find a master carpenter, the kind who can take apprentices and a group of workers to work! Be willing to become a craftsman in the name of the county lord. ”

Chu Tianxiu said cleanly.

...

It didn't take long.

Old craftsman Sun came with an old carpenter in his forties and fifties, with some civility, rough calluses on his hands, and he was also an honest man.

"The little one's surname is Lu, and the old craftsman Lu knocks to see the Hou Ye. The villain is willing to play for the little marquis! ”

The old craftsman said excitedly.

With the example of making a fortune in front of the old craftsman Sun, the craftsmen in Jinling City are very keen to become craftsmen under the name of Xiao Duhou.

Old craftsman Lu introduced himself.

This old craftsman used to be a carpenter for a large family, carving various paintings and characters on the Taishi chairs and screens, and doing some meticulous work.

The most important thing is that he has done a lot of work to carve characters, and he actually knows a lot of words. The carved handwriting is not much more than that of Jinling Confucianism.

This is very rare among the poor craftsmen at the bottom of Jinling City.

However, most of the craftsmen who work for large families are short-term workers and are not very stable, and this work comes and goes. When there is income, life is moisturized. When there is no work, the income is often low.

What craftsmen yearn for the most is, of course, to have a stable job and work for a long time.

"Okay, it's you! I'm going to build a printing workshop, and you're going to be the owner. ”

Chu Tianxiu was overjoyed.

Recruit this old craftsman Lu into his command.

And let the old craftsman Lu become a food town under the name of the county lord, so that it is not easy to cause technology leakage.

He immediately asked Sun Laojiang to receive a sum of silver from the county lord and led people to build a large printing factory, which was placed next to the Duhou paper-making workshop, which was also convenient for taking paper and guarding safety.

He asked this old craftsman Lu, with some of his apprentices, to start working and carving "The Stone Record". Woodblock printing is made of wood, and movable type printing is made of cement.

Chu Tianxiu explained a little.

Lu Laojiang immediately understood what engraving printing and movable type printing were all about.

Lettering and engraving have long existed in the Great Chu Dynasty, and it is not a high-tech secret for craftsmen.

Seals, in the royal and government offices, are even more commonly used.

It's just that Da Chu has no paper, only bamboo slips and a small number of brocade silk books, so the people of this era have no idea of engraving and printing into books.

Now that I have paper, I can use engraving to print words, and after a little thought, I will understand that this method is simply... It's simple, it's brutal, it's shocking.

Of course.

Lettering is a hundred times slower than writing.

Lu Laojiang took more than ten of his apprentices and grandchildren, and worked day and night, each of them could engrave one or two hundred words, and they could have a little more after they were proficient.

At the end of the day, you can carve two or three thousand words.

The various details of printing should be repeatedly run-in.

It will be a little slow at first, but because the most efficient "clay movable type printing" is directly used, you can take whatever you need.

After ten days and half a month, after stockpiling tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of words of cement, the efficiency of printing becomes very terrifying.

Direct typesetting.

Take it and put it back when you're done with it, so you don't need to cut it repeatedly.

Arrange a new layout, they only need an hour. Even if you encounter an unfamiliar word, you can carve one at any time, and you won't delay it at all.

In order to keep this epoch-making technology strictly secret, to avoid the emergence of too many competitors. These craftsmen brought their families and moved directly to live in this engraving and printing factory.

published the first "Stone Record" first, and sold this fire book for a long time.

Once the "Stone Record" is published, it will certainly greatly enrich the night life of the scholars and people of Jinling City.

In the future, this printing house can also print "Poems", "Shangshu", "Analects"... There were thousands or tens of thousands of books before the pre-Qin period.

These are all essential reading materials for private school teaching, and books for teenagers and Confucian students. This is a hard demand, and you can't buy it.

As long as the price is right, buying a book is naturally far less troublesome than copying it by hand.

Chu Tianxiu is very optimistic about the huge potential of this printing workshop.

The paper-making workshop, and the new printing workshop, gave him two egg-laying chickens. Every day at dawn, "goo", a few hundred taels of silver will be in hand.

This source of silver is rolling!

Even if he goes to Danyang County to take office, he doesn't have to take any corruption and bribery, he will make money every day, and he won't be able to eat it all while lying down.

Haha, let's see who can catch Ben's little pigtails!

This little dusk marquis will be the most incorruptible county order among the thousands of counties in Dachu, and the blue sky lord who is dedicated to the people!

Chu Tianxiu couldn't help but be happy when he thought of this.

"Uncle, what are you laughing at?"

Zuer is strange.

"Uncle Ben has finished a major event before taking office, and is waiting for the cashier! Let's go, my uncle will take you to the city to go shopping!

Uncle, I'm going to Danyang County to take office in a few days, let's go and say goodbye to Shen Wanbao and their old friends. The people in Jinling City are less interesting, and they will miss me very much! ”

Chu Tianxiu said proudly.