"Master Yan thinks that in this case, how much is the price of the book, and it is appropriate?" Wen Qihang took the "Liang Zhu" and "Queqiao Meeting" in his hand and asked Yan Wenting.

"The printing quality of this book is very good, the handwriting is clear, the ink is evenly used, the mounting is beautiful, and it is even more rare to have a male version. If the price is 10 times, it will definitely be scrambled to buy. Yan Wenting said softly stroking the two books.

Wen Qihang sighed lightly and said: "This is the reason why it is difficult for my clan's Wenhua to carry forward, the high price of ten times is not something that ordinary people can afford." ”

Limited by the ancient printing conditions, books, which are the carriers of the crystallization of human wisdom, are not used to decorate the study like later generations.

Many books, in fact, exist in the form of unique books, once the original is lost, the hard work of the predecessors will be wasted.

As a result, many books are more expensive than gold, and they are hard to find.

"yes!" Yan Wenting sighed, but said regretfully: "Since Wenjue has such insight, why did he spend a lot of manpower and material resources to print such a book." If the "Four Books" and "Five Classics" handed down by the sages are reprinted, it will be a great achievement. ”

Wen Qihang said with a smile: "What kind of books does Master Yan think are easy to be accepted?" ”

Yan Wenting stroked his beard lightly and said: "Since it is the work of the sages, the teaching of the sages ........"

Wen Qihang shook his head and said, "Master Yan, what you said is a book that literati deliberately read in order to show that they are extraordinary. Anyway, since the boy was in school, his favorite reading books are stories, miscellaneous talks, folklore, etc., and for those books that record the teachings of the saints, he is very bored.

The kid believes that the people are probably like this, which is why when the temple fair, there will be a sea of people, but when the literati hold a poetry meeting, it is a crowd.

In the boy's view, the people are the foundation of everything, and only when there are more literate people, will there be a large number of talents.

And if you want people to take the initiative to read and write, interest is the biggest driving force.

Instead of bothering to promote the words of the saints, it is better to tell the people stories that are interesting, touching, or fascinating.

I believe that only in this way will the people take the initiative to read, read, and learn.

Does Master Yan think so? ”

Yan Wenting shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Wen Jue is really unparalleled in his eloquence. ”

Wen Qihang smiled slightly: "Master Yan praised it, the so-called enlightenment, the bento should be based on interest, for the teaching method in the private school now, the kid called it cramming education." Forcing children to read in this way will stimulate children's rebellious psychology and completely lose interest in reading and literacy.

Only by taking advantage of children's curiosity will they be active in learning, and in order to know what kind of ending the story they like, I believe they will also have an interest in reading and literacy.

And for the people now, the kid believes that the effect is the same. ”

Yan Wenting pondered for a moment and said: "What Wen Jue said is not unreasonable, but so, the words of a saint are not difficult to instill. After all, the sage's subtle words are the foundation of our work for others. ”

Don't go off-topic, okay! Wen Qihang said helplessly: "Master Yan, what we are discussing now is how to improve the literacy rate, rather than teaching him how to behave and do things. Besides, since the troubles of life are literate, as long as there are more literate people, there will naturally be people who can't think of learning the subtle words of the saints.

We don't have to worry about it. ”

"........" What is called learning the words of the sages has become a thing that cannot be thought of. Yan Wenting was immediately angry, breathed a long sigh of relief, relieved the depression in his chest and said: "I have just said that even if it is like this, the price will be as high as more than ten yuan, which is not affordable for ordinary people, how can this be popularized?" ”

Wen Qihang raised the book in his hand and said with a smile: "Master Yan is too worried, in this case, the price of the book is not more than ten times." After all, Shiguan is the income of a common family for more than a year, how can you not eat or drink, just to buy a book like this. ”

"What is the price that Wen Jue plans to sell?" Yan Wenting said in surprise. In ancient times, the reason why books were expensive was because of the difficulty of engraving, in order to save manpower and material resources, many books were engraved with yin plates, such as the yang engraving in Wen Qihang's hand, even if it was a book, it was also expensive.

Wen Qihang sighed: "Limited to the current technology, such a book, even if we only charge the cost price, we also need 200 wen a copy, which is really a bit expensive!"

According to the original intention of the kid, in this case, the price of the book cannot exceed the price of a meal, which is equivalent to ten cents a book........"

"How much does Wen Jue just say?" Hearing the words behind Qihang, Yan Wenting didn't have the heart to listen to it, but when he heard the two hundred texts, he suddenly got up excitedly, stared at Wen Qihang and asked.

Seeing that Yan Wenting's current appearance almost wanted to choose someone to devour, Wen Qihang grinned and said, "Two hundred Wen!" Does Master Yan also think it's a bit expensive? But there's no way! The current movable type printing technology is still not mature enough, and hundreds of copies of it are printed, and those wooden movable types have been completely smoothed. As for the bronze inscriptions, the ink is not good, and as for the stone inscriptions, the texture is really difficult to master........."

"Two hundred texts in one book! Why is Wenjue not satisfied? Does Wen Jue know how much it cost the old man to ask a master craftsman to print the hundreds of books for Wen Jue's poems? Yan Wenting was not in the mood to listen to the chatter of Qihang, and after a short period of shock, he said excitedly. Even if he doesn't care about money, he knows that money is a major obstacle to the spread of knowledge.

"Ahh Geometry? Wen Qihang said dumbfounded.

"Three thousand! It's three thousand! Yan Wenting said excitedly.

"Master Yan, you have been deceived!" Smelling Qihang smacked his lips. Seeing Yan Wenting's current expression, he didn't know whether he was heartbroken for his money or angry after being fooled.

"No one has the courage to deceive the old man, even in the pre-Tang Dynasty, the Yang edition of the book, the country engraved three or five copies a year. While the high cost is one thing, the key is that it takes a long time. This time for Wen Jue to engrave the book, the moon can be completed, or because this engraving is only some poems, if Wen Jue is a book like this, there is no half a year to complete the book.

I don't know how long it took to engrave these words engraved by Wenjue? Yan Wenting suddenly thought.

"Ah, this one is very fast, one day to typeset, one day to proofread, one day to print, one day to bind, about five days, a thousand copies can be produced." The topic changed a little quickly, and I heard an unknown reply.

“........ Is this true? Yan Wenting was really shocked by this kind of printing efficiency, and it took him more than a month to set sail for Wen Qihang.

"Naturally, if Master Yan doesn't believe it, he can verify it himself." Wen Qihang was slightly stunned.

"Good!" Yan Wenting replied succinctly.

“.........”

The power of technology, Yan Wenting probably saw it for the first time, when he personally arranged a poem and printed it, the beard under his chin was excited and windless.

"Good! Good! Good! ........" Yan Wenting kept repeating in his mouth. Probably there are no adjectives in his dictionary, in short, except for a good word, there are no other words of praise.