Xiang Wenxuan and a few people took the carriage one after another early and came to Cao Yan's fast food restaurant.

At this time, Cao Yan was holding a bowl of noodles and sitting in a seat by the street to eat.

Looking at a few people, Cao Yan smiled and said, "Have you eaten it?" I'm in for a treat! ”

"Good! All right! Hearing Cao Yan's words, Xiaoyudian happily jumped out of the carriage, came to the store, took two servings of her favorite fritters and soy milk, and happily ran into the carriage, apparently sharing it with Zhong Xinyi.

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Cao Yan took them to Linjiazhuang.

Keeping along the main road, their carriage stopped at a fork in the river.

Cao Yan took the lead in getting out of the car, led them into a compound, pointed to a water-powered machine operated by several people, and introduced it to several people.

This is an old-fashioned newspaper rotary printing press, which has appeared in many films shot in the Qing Dynasty, but now because of the power problem, Cao Yan has not solved it, so it can only be changed to a hydraulic drive, and the efficiency is much lower.

"This is the printing press," Cao Yan did not bring everyone very close, so as not to disturb these workers, printing newspapers, and of course, there is also a reason that it is not safe.

However, when the others saw the thud, they put out a newspaper at a speed, apparently wanting to get closer and take a look.

Several people looked at Cao Yan, and Xiang Wenxuan asked, "Can you go over and have a look?" ”

Cao Yan looked around the costumes on several people, and had a little headache, there were too many gears and shafts there, he thought about it for a while, and still said, "It's a bit dangerous for the clothes on your bodies to go there, I'm afraid of being twisted into the machine." ”

Everyone looked at the wide hem of their clothes, at the short shirts of the workers over there, and at the sleeves and legs, and at the rotating gears, and knew what Cao Yan was watching out for.

However, seeing the disappointment in everyone's eyes, Cao Yan thought about it and spoke, "Heizi, go get a few pairs of sleeves." ”

"Yes!"

Lin Heizi hurriedly ran out.

The things were brought quickly, after all, it was in the storage room on the side, when Cao Yan took the lead in demonstrating for everyone, holding his hair in a turban, and then wrapping his sleeves with sleeves and tying the hem.

At such a cursory glance, the image is a bit silly, but fortunately, the few people present are not those vulgar and joking people, they all seriously learn from Cao Yan's appearance, and after tidying up themselves, they followed Cao Yan in.

Seeing the fast printing press, Zhong Xinyi asked, "How many copies can be printed on this day?" ”

Cao Yan looked at the invited workers, who were not very skilled in speed, and roughly estimated: "They are still a little rusty, one can probably print more than 1,000 copies per hour, here are four machines, one hour should be 4,000 to 6,000 copies, four or five hours a day, about 20,000 to 30,000 copies, well!" Less is less. ”

"Less?" Xiaoyudian didn't know how to complain, "Gongzi Cao, don't you understand the meaning of Shaozi?" Oops! Xiaoyudi's words, before she finished speaking, she was knocked on the head by Zhong Xinyi, and she screamed in pain!

"It's not big, it's not small!" Zhong Xinyi glanced at her.

"Hehe, it's okay." Cao Yan didn't argue, if they saw the speed of millions of copies in the future, they didn't know what they would think!

"Nephew, how many are you going to print each issue?" Xiang Wenxuan asked, he remembered that Cao Yan said that it would be released in seven days, or half a month.

Cao Yan rolled his eyes and thought for a while, "Now, this issue is going to print about 200,000 copies, in the future!" It will depend on the situation when the time comes. ”

A few people around were stunned, especially Zhong Xinyi and Xiaoyudian, the two of them opened a study, and they could sell ten books and eight books a day, even if it was good, these 200,000 copies are estimated to sell them for a lifetime, right? But Cao Yan plans to sell 200,000 copies in seven or fifteen days, and the latter sentence depends on the situation, nine times out of ten, it means that it will be added, which makes them a little speechless.

"Cao Gongzi! Can it be sold? Xiaoyudian asked the question that everyone else was a little embarrassed to ask.

"Cut, why can't it be sold?" Cao Yan smiled and picked up a newspaper from the shelf, flipped to the last edition, pointed to a paragraph, handed it to Xiaoyudian's hand, and asked her to read it.

After reading Xiaoyudi, I just want to kneel and shout, I really don't understand the thinking of the local tyrant!

I saw that it read, "With the notice here in this newspaper, plus my household registration certificate, from August 22 to August 25, I will go to Dongcheng Linjiazhuang to receive a bucket of rice (each household registration is limited to one time), this statement was proposed by the county lord Xiang Yixin, and Cao Yan led all the members of the board of directors of Yiyueru Commercial Bank to implement it." "Below are the names of those directors, including Zhong Xinyi's name, and there is one written around it, please cut it down along the dotted line for easy exchange.

The others were horrified when they saw Xiaoyudian's face, and they also picked up a newspaper from the shelf and read it.

"Brother Cao, this?" Xiang Yixin was a little moved, this is helping her buy people's hearts, in these years, none of those so-called talents who want to help her have helped her like Cao Yan with real money like her!

"It's nothing, just find a reason to lighten some of the burdens of the people." Cao Yan said indifferently, in fact, he was also helping him cut leeks that were worth a good person.

These words, let everyone think back, it seems that Cao Yan has been doing these things for the country and the people, from the beginning of learning that Jiulongzhai was preparing to come to ransack Jiangning Mansion, he personally went to pit them, and then he opened a restaurant, small profits are sold to facilitate the people who enter the city to eat, and then to collect grain at a protective price, put grain at a low price, and then invite those people to help him work at a high price, and then later, a circle of canals was built to facilitate the people far away from the river to get water.

This incident all proves what Cao Yan said in front of Xiang Yixin before: "Do you think that the matter of governing the country can be explained clearly?" "It turns out that it's not about saying it, it's about how to do it.

And Xiang Yixin also remembered that when she was patrolling the street recently, she saw more and more smiles on people's faces, and fewer and fewer people with sad faces, it turned out that the problem was here!

"Brother Cao, how much does it cost this time, please let me know, and I will help make up for it." Xiang Yixin suddenly spoke.

Xiang Wenxuan, who was over there, swallowed back what he was about to say with his mouth open, and he should have wanted to say the same thing.

Cao Yan looked at everyone and shook his head, "It doesn't cost much money in a month, you and the prince don't have to worry about this." ”

"Then I'll be relieved, but in case the money is not enough, just remember to say it." Xiang Wenxuan said politely.

"Thank you, Lord Wang, I know it in my heart."

"Can you go and see where the typography is?" Zhong Xinyi obviously saw the difference in the engravings that came to print just now.

"Well, you don't need to ask about this, I'll take you to see it." Cao Yan said with a smile.

Then he led the man to the next room.

As soon as you enter the door, you will see shelves, the shelves have many layers, each layer is full of rows of plates, and the plates are set up with a square with a plane of one cubic centimeter and a rectangular metal with a height of three centimeters.

"What are these?" Zhong Xinyi asked, while taking out a metal strip from the plate, only to see that there was a word "suffer" on it.

"Movable type printing." Cao Yan said.

"Movable type?"

"Well, it's to use these words to combine the words you need to form an article." After Cao Yan finished speaking, he saw that they still didn't seem to understand, so he casually took the plate in front of him and said with a smile: "You come with me." ”

After saying that, he brought the people to a large iron frame.

Cao Yan continued, "This iron frame is a layout, and these small frames are a column," Cao Yan picked up a small frame casually, and filled it with the plate of metal bars he had just brought.

It was quickly filled, Cao Yan tightened the four screws on the side of the small iron frame, then shook it, and after finding that it was very tight, he handed it to several people.

The men took a look.

Finally, I figured it out, isn't this piece equivalent to a whole engraving? Moreover, seeing that many of the words that Cao Yan poured in were the same, everyone was not impressed, Cao Yan's mind was meticulous.

"Cao Gongzi, you're really smart!" Xiaoyudian can be regarded as Cao Yan's fan, so he hurriedly boasted.

"Hehe, pass the award, pass the award......" After all, it was plagiarism, Cao Yan still modestly replied to that sentence, and he always thought that he still had to be cheeky, and even the poems that others often used to pretend to slap their faces when they crossed back didn't use it much.

"And how do you find these words?" Zhong Xinyi looked at this huge venue and the countless shelves, and felt a headache when she thought about it.

"This ......" Cao Yan didn't know how to answer! Because he used Hanyu Pinyin, which has not yet appeared in this world, he pointed to the children who followed, and then said: "These children, will help you find it, this thing can't be explained in a sentence or two, if you want to know more about it, I will let these children tell you in detail." ”。

"Oh, then thank you Brother Cao first," Zhong Xinyi also knew that such a complicated thing would definitely not be clear for a while, so she didn't ask.

Of course, when leaving, the few people present each took a newspaper and wanted to take a good look at what changes this edition of Cao Yan had made from what they had shown them before.