A few days later, Li Yuanjiaxing called Han Lucheng over vigorously.

It's just that when he asked about the sales of "University" for the second time, and this time he got a definite result, Li Yuanjia's face instantly sank: "What's the matter?" Doesn't that mean that almost everyone who reads this thing has to read? Our pricing is so low...... Why did only 30 copies be sold? ”

In three days, more than 30 copies were sold.

Anyway, when he heard this number, Li Yuanjia's mood could hardly be called happy, and his face was naturally not very good-looking.

“……”

And after listening to his words, Han Lucheng felt a little cold on his scalp.

If you are not happy above, you will be unlucky if you don't say it well!

However, he also knew that the king hated the guy who told lies to fool him the most, so after hesitating for a while, he could only bite the bullet and say: "After the king asked yesterday, I went to Xinhua Bookstore this morning and asked Liu Zhicheng...... Ahem, according to him, the key is that there are two reasons, one is that the book "University" is not easy to sell in the first place......"

"Huh? What did you say? ”

Without waiting for Han Lucheng to finish speaking, Li Yuanjia directly interrupted his words, glared and asked, "You just said that "University" is not easy to sell?" Han Lucheng, who said this? ”

"Back to the king, it was the shopkeeper of Xinhua Bookstore who said it."

After taking a deep breath, Han Lucheng first threw the pot directly to Liu Zhicheng, and then said carefully: "According to him, this "University" is indeed quite embarrassing, because ordinary readers have already had it, and people who don't have this book are rarely willing to buy it in bookstores, because ...... This book has so few words! ”

"Huh?"

After listening to Han Lucheng's words, Li Yuanjia was stunned for a moment, and his face that had just darkened instantly eased a lot.

Word count...... Too little?

This may sound strange, but if you are careful about it, it seems to make sense.

Seeing that the king's expression eased, Han Lucheng suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and decided to quickly make up for the shopkeeper Liu who threw the pot for himself: "Later, I also went out to find someone to ask, and found that books like "University" are indeed relatively common, and everyone seems to be in good hands, and even if there is none, it can be copied in a day or two, and many people feel that it is not worth buying a special ......."

It turns out that, as Wang Pu and many people expected, "University" was not as popular as Li Yuanjia thought.

In fact, in this era of the "small-scale peasant economy", in fact, just like the demand for various necessities of life, books are in many cases in a state of "self-sufficiency".

This is especially true of a classic such as "University".

For example, those big families generally do not lack books, because they either hire people to copy such classic books all the year round and provide them to the children of the family to learn and use, or they simply engrave and print hundreds of copies themselves, and in addition to their own use, they can also sell some outside; Second, the real "poor ghosts" actually don't come to the bookstore to look for books at all, because even if the books are cheap, they must be cheap, but they can't copy them with a pen, right?

That's why the "University" in the bookstore is indispensable, but the sales are definitely not too large.

Generally speaking, several bookstores in the East Market prefer to sell books that are not very "famous", but are also widely known. The great families will not take the effort to engrave or find someone to copy it, and ordinary scholars are the kind of books that are not easy to find...... You can't copy it if you want to!

The words of "University" are too ordinary and have nothing to do.

And this is also what Wang Pu was not very optimistic about at the beginning, but because he knew that the king just wanted to test the effect of movable type printing, he didn't bring it up.

But no one expected that the king would order the printing of 2,000 copies in one go! However, Li Yuanjia's attitude was still very resolute, so that Wang Pu, Li Zhong and others had to accept this order......

"Hoo ......"

After exhaling softly, Li Yuanjia's face was slightly hot.

Tsk, it's a bit embarrassing!

Subconsciously glanced at Han Lucheng, and found that the other party lowered his head very wisely at this time, and his two hands hung down on his sides in a very regular manner, Li Yuanjia secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Fortunately, it's only 2,000 books, and it's not worth much.

It may be heart-wrenching to put it in a small bookseller, but for Han Wangfu, even if these two thousand books are all put in the warehouse and rotten, it will not affect anything, and Li Yuanjia will not frown.

It's just a mistake in judgment, and it's just a little hot-faced......

Anyway, in the past year or two, Li Yuanjia has not been slapped in the face by this era once or twice, for example, the promotion of Arabic numerals, which he values most, as well as the promotion of punctuation, as well as movable type printing, seawater salt, etc., which one is not so? Before doing it, I was full of confidence, and I felt that as long as I took it out, it would definitely be a full house, and I could even change the history of a certain field or something, but after investing a lot of energy and financial resources, I found that the taste of being slapped in the face by the times was quite painful and uncomfortable!

Just when Li Yuanjia secretly pursed his lips and decided to stick to the "mistake" to the end, Han Lucheng next to him had already squeezed his fists and pinched them, and finally couldn't help but speak: "King, there is one more thing ...... you"

Seeing Han Lucheng's embarrassed expression, Li Yuanjia had a toothache, and his face turned black and shouted, "What's the matter?" Say! ”

"Yes, my lord."

Taking a deep breath, Han Lucheng's eyelids jumped, and he hurriedly said: "It's that there have been many customers at Xinhua Bookstore in the past few days, and many people have flipped through the book "University", but many of them only flipped through a few pages, and put it down without even asking the price......

"Well, so what's the reason?"

His eyes narrowed slightly, where did Li Yuanjia not know what Han Lucheng wanted to say at this time?

Sure enough, after hesitating for a while, Han Lucheng lowered his head and said in a low voice: "King, the main thing is the font we printed on the book, many people say that he is too ugly and too rigid......"

After saying this, Han Lucheng kept his head buried and didn't dare to raise it.

Even if he knew that the king had a good temper and would never blame the people for their outspokenness, Han Lucheng still felt that he was a little dead at this time!

Even if the king has a good temper, it doesn't mean that he won't be angry, right?

Fortunately, Han Lucheng was worried that it didn't last long, and after Li Yuanjia pondered for a while, he suddenly smiled and said, "I know...... I even know that many people call this font Han Wang Ti, and when you say it, it's a mockery, right? ”

"No, the king......"

"Alright, I know this better than you!"

While waving his hand to interrupt Han Lucheng, Li Yuanjia couldn't help but think of the second child who often laughed at him because of Song characters, and pouted and said indifferently: "But I still say that, whether it is engraving or movable type, I want to use it more in the future, and I can only use it well, and I can only use my Han Wang character ......"