"Master Pei, long time no see. How can you have the leisure to come to Pingkang Square today? Guo Li arched his hand.

When Pei Yang saw Guo Li again, he was full of emotion, thinking that Guo Li was just a fire leader of Zuo Jin Wuwei at the beginning, and now he has become a Shaoqing of Zhengsi in just a few months. In contrast, it took me so many years to get mixed into the fourth grade, which is simply not the same. When it comes to jealousy, envy and hatred, Pei Yangdu doesn't have such thoughts. How many people in the world can write sage articles like Guo Li?

"This official came here for official business, but I didn't expect to meet Guo Shaoqing by chance, it's better to meet by chance, why don't you go to Chunyu Building for a drink?"

I didn't expect this Lord Pei to have such a hobby, Guo Li showed a smile that could only be understood, "Guo has something to do, I'm afraid I will go against Lord Pei's kindness." ”

"Lord Guo, please."

"Master Pei, please."

The two of them were at a stalemate at the same time, and Pei Yang had to take a step first and walk towards Kang Yi's study. Guo Li saw that the direction the other party was walking in Kangyi's study, and secretly said that Pei Yang would not go to the study, right? Wouldn't it be embarrassing if that were the case? Until the door of the study, Pei Yang found Guo Li following behind him, and said in surprise: "Lord Guo is not in trouble, why did he follow this official all the way?" ”

"Master Pei misunderstood, Guo has an appointment with Kangyi Bookstore, let's take a look today." Guo Li's heart was galloping with 10,000 grass and mud horses. You said that it was not good for Pei Yang to go there, but he also went to Kangyi Bookstore.

Li Sui was busy settling accounts, and when he saw two people standing at the door, he hurriedly beckoned: "Two adults, please sit inside." ”

At the door, no one would take the first step, the four eyes looked at each other, and the two of them were humble to each other.

"Lord Guo, please."

"Master Pei, please."

It stands to reason that Guo Li's current official rank is half a level higher than Pei Yang's, and Guo Li should be in front of the door first. Guo Li considered that the other party was older than himself and wanted Pei Yang to be advanced. Under the humility of each other, Pei Yang finally couldn't resist Guo Li and stepped into the bookstore first.

"Shopkeeper Li, I wonder if the edict issued by the imperial court can be known?" Pei Yangdao.

"What do you mean?" Li Sui asked.

The emperor issued an edict to "Chong Metaphysics", and the four books of "Tao Te Ching", "Zhuangzi", "Liezi" and "Wenzi" were the subjects studied. This official is here today for the sake of these four books. ”

"Rest assured, these bookstores are well supplied." Li said.

With movable type printing, you don't have to spend a lot of time stereotyping, and it's not easy to print a few textbooks?

"The official has come to inform me that several bookstores are watching the book this time, and they want the official to hand over the book to them for printing. It's difficult, the official wants to use the method of secret auction, which one has the best bid, and which one gets the right to print. ”

Secret shots? Guo Li knows the auction, the method that foreigners come up with, whoever bids the highest will get it, and what is this secret auction?

Li Sui understood, and after Pei Yang left, he explained it to Guo Li. The so-called secret auction is that the official formulates a price, for example, a 5,000-word "Tao Te Ching", the official price is 50 Wen, and whoever pays the lowest price and less than 50 Wen will win the right to print. If it is an official sale, whoever pays the highest price will get the auction item. If the price is lower than the official price, it is an unsuccessful auction.

is still an ancestral thief, in this way, the bidder is almost invincible.

It was the first time Guo Li had heard of such an auction method.

"Shopkeeper Li, how is the font mold made?"

Shopkeeper Li led Guo Li to the backyard of the study, only to see a box against the wall, which was full of copper lettering.

"The word mold has been prepared, and ten common words have been prepared. At present, we are waiting to win the right to print the book. Shopkeeper Li smiled all over his face.

"How are these words placed?" Guo Li saw a bunch of fonts, and if he really wanted to open the print, he was afraid that it would take a lot of effort to find the fonts.

"According to the classification of the six books and the method of distinguishing between the heavenly and earthly branches, all the character patterns are classified and placed. What the adults see now is the Tianzi font model, a total of 586 characters. ”

"Six books? It's too cumbersome to find. Guo Li thought about it, and the "Xinhua Dictionary" in his previous life was arranged according to pinyin and strokes. Pinyin is too shocking, or according to the strokes are better.

"Place the font according to the order of the first stroke and the number of strokes of the word, so that the typesetter can find it quickly and quickly."

"Strokes?" Li Sui didn't understand.

"It's the order in which it's written. For example, this character", Guo Li casually took out a character mold, "Its strokes are dots." ”

Li Sui saw that Guo Li took out the word "for", and then saw Guo Li take out the word "country" and said, "The first stroke of this country is vertical." According to the point, horizontal, vertical, and apostrophe, the whole word is classified by how many strokes. ”

Guo Li sorted and copied the "Xinhua Dictionary" in his previous life, and thought about it, and it seemed inconvenient that ancient books had no punctuation.

"There are no partition symbols in these models, and two dots are used to speak, and one point is used to break sentences." After finishing speaking, Guo Li picked up the brush and dotted a little on the paper, and dotted a little bit up and down to become a colon. After Guo Li demonstrated, Li Sui understood what Guo Li meant.

This is truly an epoch-making feat.

The articles of the ancients have no broken sentences, and the whole article is integrated. When reading an article, there is often a deviation in the understanding of the meaning due to broken sentences.

Guo Li's proposal solves this problem.

Guo Li didn't say any periods, commas, quotation marks, ellipses and the like, there are two points on behalf of colons to speak, and one point on behalf of periods and commas to indicate broken sentences, such improvements have made a lot of progress.

While the two were discussing, Fifth Valley came in excitedly with a pile of papers in his hand.

"Fifth Valley, it seems that there are happy things."

"Tell your lord, this is the notice fee for the eight shops in the city."

"Notice?" Li Sui and Guo Li asked at the same time.

"We didn't want to print books, we found a few shops and promised them to leave their names at the end of the book, and these stores promised to pay two cents per book."

Wizard! He really deserves to be a business wizard.

Guo Li looked at the fifth valley, and after making sure that the other party was not a person who came through the crossing, he praised: "A merchant has two pennies, if you find dozens of shops, this book is a business without a book." ”

Li Sui told Wugu the two suggestions made by Guo Li just now, and the other party didn't understand at first, but finally understood what Guo Li meant under Li Sui's fiddling.

Mr. Guo deserves to be Mr. Guo.

"Secret shots?" When Wugu heard that Pei Yang was going to use the method of secret shooting to decide the ownership of the book, he suddenly burst out laughing, which made Guo Li and Shopkeeper Li inexplicable.

"Four books, all of which belong to Kornhill Bookstore. Li shopkeeper, the word mold version of the hand to look for, try to find reliable and honest people. This time, we will take down the book engraving of all the states and counties of Datang. "Thinking of the number of states and counties owned by the Tang Dynasty, the face of the Fifth Valley shimmered with glowing gold.

Guo Li was stunned.

Shopkeeper Li was stupid.

What happened to Fifth Valley? Crazy?