Throughout the night, Shi Yiwen couldn't sleep soundly. He thought about it a lot that night.

He didn't just think about "family", in fact, he didn't care about the Song family at all. Instead, I was thinking about what I had said to Tang Ziqi.

Since the crossing, Shi Yiwen has not had too many plans for the future, and even handed over the soap formula to Tang Ziqi, which was only a temporary idea, but when he said that reason so high-soundingly, when he thought of why the water-powered spinning wheel did not set off an industrial revolution in ancient times.

Shi Yiwen also seems to have begun to believe that this is his ideal of returning to ancient times.

But how can this ideal be realized?

Early in the morning, Shi Yiwen got up, and didn't even go to the Qinhuai River for a run as usual, but after breakfast, he went directly to Sanshan Street and went to Shidetang, which he usually comes to most.

"Shi Gongzi, please take a seat."

Sun Linkai didn't expect that as soon as he opened the door, the big customer in the store arrived, and when he heard that he had something to discuss with him, he invited him to the second floor, and when he ordered someone to serve tea, he didn't immediately ask the other party's intention.

He has been a businessman for many years, and he knows that since the other party came here so early in the morning, there must be something important, otherwise he would not be in such a hurry, and the more anxious he is, the easier it is to fall behind.

"Shopkeeper Sun, don't say dark words in front of the Ming people, I came here today to talk to you about a deal!"

Looking at Sun Linkai, Shi Yiwen directly said his intention.

"I want to buy this Shide Building, and ask Shopkeeper Sun to make a price!"

Belch!

Sun Linkai's eyes widened and he looked at Shi Yiwen in surprise.

"Shi Gongzi, what did you say? Yes, want to buy the Shide Building? ”

"Yes, that's right!"

Shi Yiwen nodded and said casually.

"Please also ask the shopkeeper to make a price."

How much money did you earn this time in Songjiang? Shi Yiwen knows very well that it is almost 700,000 taels, even if the remittance fee is deducted, it is more than 600,000 taels, and it will not cost much silver to buy a bookstore.

"This, this, Shi Gongzi, although Shidelou is not the ancestral name of the Sun family, but below, there is no intention of selling?"

Then Sun Linkai said again.

"To tell the truth, Shi Gongzi is a hundred years old, the most valuable thing is not the signboard, but the word plate in the building, the word mold, not to mention the others, it is the word plate in the printing workshop outside the city, the word mold, there is no hundred years of time, I am afraid that it will not be able to accumulate......"

Otherwise, I wouldn't have come to you, Shi Yiwen thought to himself, the reason why he chose Shide Building is because Shide Building is a century-old shop, with a large number of fonts and enough technicians, such a bookstore can be bought and put into use immediately.

“…… It was also a coincidence that my father bought the Shide Building, so how could I sell it easily? ”

"Really not for sale?"

Shi Yiwen asked rhetorically.

"If you don't sell it, you can't sell it, even if the son pays 100,000 taels, it can't be sold in the future, after all, in the future, this Shidelou will be the ancestral business of the Sun family!"

Sun Linkai refused without hesitation, but in addition to refusing, he said again.

"Actually, why should the son have to buy the Shide Building? If Childe wants to buy a bookstore, there is a suggestion in the next, as far as I know, there happens to be a bookstore in the city that has been closed for many days, if Childe is interested, you might as well go there and ask, I don't know what Childe wants? ”

When he said this suggestion, a gleam flashed in Sun Linkai's seemingly dim old eyes, his peers were enemies, and someone wanted to break in like this, he was naturally unhappy, but he did not refuse directly, but took the initiative to open up for him, and his face was also full of sincere smiles.

"The shopkeeper is bothered, I don't know where this bookstore is?"

The bookstore in Sun Linkai's mouth is not far from Sanshan Street, but it also has to go out of the outer city, near the Yangtze River, but just arrived at the bookstore, Shi Yiwen fell in love with this place, the owner of the study is a young man who looks only thirty years old, when the two meet, he seems extremely polite.

"Childe, you see that although this bookstore is not a brick wall, it is also a brick-based wooden wall with thick beams, and the beams and columns are extremely strong, there are sixteen such big houses in this place, not to mention others, these houses alone, plus this courtyard, are also worth three thousand taels."

Listening to Zhao Wende's introduction, Shi Yiwen nodded and asked.

"It's not a small place, let's go and see the printing plate first."

The house is not important at all, the most important thing is the printing plate and lettering, for Shi Yiwen, who wants to run a bookstore to print newspapers, with these two things, the newspaper can be printed immediately.

"Childe, please come with me!"

Zhao Wende led the way in front and entered a room filled with bookshelves, and the wooden engravings on the bookshelves were neatly arranged like books.

Looking at the engravings that filled the entire warehouse in front of him, Shi Yiwen was stunned for a while, and he raised his head and asked.

"These are our plates?"

"Hui Gongzi, although we Hongwen Building has only been built for 57 years, but in the past 57 years, it has also engraved more than 600 kinds of books, and there are more than 109,000 book plates.

After speaking, he took a very old book from the two-person high bookshelf, and then handed it to Shi Yiwen and said.

"Childe, you see this volume is the engraving on this shelf, although some engraving plates have been used for many years, it is inevitable that they are old and deformed, but they can still be used, after all, the engraving plates are made of high-quality wood, to be honest, if it is not for the fact that there is no intention to run a bookstore, otherwise it will never be easy to sell the ancestral business to others, after all, just these nearly 110,000 engravings are the hard work of three generations of the Zhao family......

Belch......

Looking at the mention of the many engravings in his own bookstore, and Zhao Wende, who was quite proud, Shi Yiwen had another thought in his heart - I'm not rare! What do I want from all these engravings in your house? I want to print newspapers and books, not old books!

After casually looking at the engravings, Shi Yiwen first complimented him.

"Do we have movable type molds in our bookstore?"

"Movable type?"

Hearing this, Zhao Wende shook his head and said.

"Childe does not know, although this movable type is used by each family, but the use is extremely limited, after all, the printing of a book with less than tens of thousands, more than hundreds of thousands, not to mention the number of words needed to print a book, that is, in the mold, printing is also time-consuming and laborious, the movable type, that is, occasionally used on a use, that is, when printing some newspapers and other things, it will be used in movable type, but even so, the size of the word block is different, the words are different, it is inevitable, to say that the printing book, or such engraving is good, durable, and it is not easy to make mistakes when printing......

Zhao Wende's explanation made Shi Yiwen mutter in his heart.

But I'm just going to print newspapers!

The reason why newspapers are printed is not to advertise, but to promote new knowledge, new technology, in ancient times, limited by the lack of public opinion tools, technology dissemination is extremely limited, often many technologies take hundreds of years, will be transmitted to thousands of miles away, but newspapers can be in the shortest possible time in the way of news, let the world people see the amazing efficiency of new technology, in those who read the newspaper will naturally have people interested in new technology, and then willing to adopt new technology, set up factories, Then the change will unfold silently.

But...... Without movable type, what kind of newspaper can you run?