In the afternoon, Li Xiao rode a horse to the Taoist temple in Tamase.

At the foot of the mountain, this Taoist temple by the mountains and rivers has been built, and the Taoist temple built by the emperor's edict will be a very large one, saying that it is a Taoist temple, but it is better to say that it is a mountain manor villa garden.

It is very beautiful, and covers an area of more than 300 acres, with pavilions and rockeries and small lakes in it, which makes Li Xiao look envious and jealous. It's not only big, but it's also beautiful, it's just art.

Practicing in such a place, Li Xiao is also willing.

This year, Tamase exempted hundreds of closed households from rent, but it did not affect her life. She doesn't live on this money, Li Zhi felt sorry for this sister before, not only returned the property of Tamase's former princess's mansion to him, but even divided the property of the Xuanling family of the Liang State Mansion into two, half of which was given to Tamase, and the other half is now returned to the Liang Guo Mansion who has restored the official title.

Therefore, the current eldest princess of Tamase is indeed very rich, and she is no longer the despondent when she was forced to leave Chang'an before, leaving only a grange in Lanxi.

But whether it was in the past or now, Tamase is still very welcome to Li Xiao.

"Why do you have time to come here today?" Tamase is wearing a Taoist robe, this Taoist robe is relatively slim, and the result is that the chest is towering and too prominent. Li Xiao's eyes couldn't help but be attracted there, and he couldn't help but look at it a few more times.

But Tamase didn't care when she found out, but instead smiled.

"Last time, the eldest princess came to Zhongwei Bridge to see me, and she also sent me food, and brought me a big customer, but there were many things that day, and you didn't take care of you, and I just went back to Lanxi today, so I didn't come to apologize."

Tamase smiled slightly.

"Is there still such politeness between us? Speaking of the printing shop, I also have a business for you here, I plan to print a batch of thousand-character texts, and donate to Lanxi Academy and Gyeonggi County to learn some Mongolian schools! ”

A thousand-word essay is actually just a thousand words.

According to Li Xiao's previous method of printing the Tao Te Ching, in fact, it is enough to carve four editions, as long as two pages, one large page and four pages, and a hard cover. Such a book, too simple.

"Print me 3,000 copies."

"Yes."

The cost of such four editions of the book is very low, and five hundred yuan is enough for carving four editions and writing editions, and the rest is the money for printing ink, paper, and binding.

"How much?"

"Ten cents a piece." Li Xiao thought about it, three thousand books are only thirty yuan, but the cost is really not high, now Li Xiao uses a large number of bamboo paper printing, and bamboo paper is very cheap in Tang paper, far inferior to hemp paper, leather paper, etc.

Ten texts is actually what it looks like when converted into a penny of one hundred words. Compared to the price of copying books, that is less than one-tenth.

"So little, don't worry I have money, this is me doing something." Tamase said.

"There aren't many words in a thousand-word text, don't worry, I won't do business at a loss. Although this order will not make you money, it will never lose. ”

Tamase was shocked.

A thousand-word essay only costs ten yuan, but can it still not lose money?

"Really not a loss?"

"It's not a loss." Li Xiao said with a smile, "After all, you have printed 3,000 copies, and the characteristic of our printing workshop is that the more you print, the lower the cost." Even if it is reprinted in the future, the original version can be reused, and the cost will be reduced again. ”

"Although you don't lose money, you can't make no money, so let's print 5,000 copies of 1,000 characters and give you 100 yuan." Tamase increased the order, and the unit price also reached 20 wen per piece.

Li Xiao didn't say anything more when he saw her like this, anyway, a hundred times is really nothing to the princess.

chatted with the princess for a while, and knew that the princess had also set up a soup kitchen everywhere these times. Originally, this kind of thing should be done by the imperial court, but some people are willing to do it, which is of course a good thing.

On the way back from the Taoist temple in Tamase, Li Xiao thought of a business opportunity.

In fact, it is not necessary to only bury oneself in printing the 20,000 books of the imperial court, and there are actually many business opportunities among the people, or in other words, they can open a bookstore.

Not to mention anything else, Chang'an is so big, and it gathers the largest group of readers in the world, and books are a great demand.

And it is indeed possible to make money by opening a bookstore these days, after all, books are not copyrighted, and many scholars and the like have no place to print their books, so they can only keep the manuscript or find someone to copy one or two copies, which is also the problem that ancient books are easy to be lost.

Opening a bookstore can both sell and rent, Li Xiao's printed books don't even need to find someone to buy the copyright, what book you like, take it and proofread it to open and print, how good?

Louguan Taoist Shengguan, as well as customers like the eldest princess of Tamase, are very good, much better than the imperial court, although the imperial court has a large order, but if you don't give money, you are a hooligan.

Li Xiao's thinking is extended, in fact, printing technology is not only to sell books and rent books to make money, but also to engage in self-funded publishing. In the later generations, any book can be published, and it is enough to pay some money to buy a book number and find a publishing house, the key is money.

Well, in this era, there were actually many people who wrote books, or many scholars had books written by their ancestors in the past, and these books were only partially copied, which was difficult to circulate.

If Li Xiao sells printing and publishing to them, I believe that at such a low price now, those people are willing to print their own books, or Li Xiao can also guarantee that after printing, they can be sold in bookstores and give them some shares, I believe that more people are willing, which can not only make a name for the family and ancestors, but also have benefits, and few people are not willing to do such a thing.

You can't wait for a guest like Zongshengguan to come to the door, you have to take the initiative.

Although he has made some money now, it is still not enough to supplement the 20,000 volumes of printing plan of the imperial court, not to mention that the imperial court is now repairing the Daming Palace, so that Li Xiaojian has to find his own way to build the money of the printing bureau's workshop.

In these years, there was not even a bank, and Li Xiao had neither the imperial court funding nor the government loan, which was very difficult for him.

But things still have to be done, and you can't just say that it is difficult, this is not Li Xiao's style.

When he returned home, Li Xiao was still thinking about how to promote printing and publishing, and he decided to advertise later. However, in these years, there is no Internet and no movies and television, and it is impossible to implant advertisements if you want to.

I don't even have a newspaper yet.

That's right, newspapers.

Li Xiao's eyes lit up, if there is no newspaper, then he will run a newspaper himself.

Newspapers aren't complicated, they're just a few pages.

Thinking of it, Li Xiao immediately began to pick up the pen and paper design, thought about it, and finally decided to make the newspaper simpler, just like the Tao Te Ching, to make eight sheets of paper, sixteen pages and thirty pages.

As long as you open 16 editions, the number of words is about five or six thousand words, and there are so many pages that can actually contain a lot of content.

But what should this newspaper publish?