Hearing Xiao Zheng's question, Xie Wenxin's eyes lit up and he said excitedly: "Earn!" Definitely earn! The cost of papermaking has dropped by nearly fifty percent, and the output has tripled, and you read this book, which originally cost 200 wen and can be sold for 400 wen, but the average poor family can't afford it. Now the cost of a book is fifty wen, and it will drop after the process is improved, and the quality of this paper has also gone up, and you can earn more than the original by buying two hundred wen and fifty wen, and the profit here can be greater, and the villain has never seen such a big profit in running a bookseller for generations."

"That's good, buy 300 wen per book, don't drop too hard, you have to give other merchants some way to live, the profits here are 30%, not what I want, you have to hand over all the profits to the Datang Royal Bank, of course, this also includes the taxes you pay."

"No! You have taught us such a good way to make money, and you have become a scholar in the world, we will hand over fifty percent, otherwise the villain will not do it" Xie Wenxin said with some excitement.

Xiao Zheng thought for a while and said, "That's fine, leave me one percent, and the rest of the transaction will be sent to the academy for those poor scholars to study."

"This is a good thing, thank you, sir" Xie Wenxin's face bloomed with joy.

"My lord, this academy exists, but where can I find this teacher who teaches?"

After Wei Qingquan came out of the academy, he said: "My lord, there are more than 120 students who have entered the academy now, all of them are poor students and the children of some Hangzhou merchants.

After listening to Wei Qingquan's words, Xiao Zheng smiled and said: "If they don't come, we can't force people to invite people, don't worry, are you afraid that the phoenix won't come if you have a plane tree?" We have a wide recruitment list, and I don't believe that no one comes."

While a few people were talking, they followed the entrance of the academy and saw a carriage coming from a distance, and when the car came to a standstill, two old men of about sixty years old came down.

When the two saw Xiao Zheng, they arched their hands and said, "Gong Xiao, don't come to harm, right?" ”

Seeing that the two of them were familiar, he suddenly thought about it, and hurriedly stepped forward and gave a deep salute and said, "Why does Mr. call him like that, the boy has seen Mr."

I know, and one of the people who came was Gai Wenda, one of the "Eighteen Scholars of the Qin Palace" at that time.

Xiao Zheng has already met with this person a few times, and even Xu Jingzong, who has always been proud, admires his talent, and Xiao Zheng has talked about this person a lot, Gai Wenda has read a lot of books since he was a child, especially good at "Three Legends of the Spring and Autumn Period", after Li Shimin ascended the throne, this person was promoted from a bachelor of literature to a doctor, and worshiped a bachelor. At that time, the great Confucian Liu Zhuo, Liu Liangsi, Kong Yingda were very impressed by this person, and the people of the time described his knowledge as "ice born in water and cold in water", and in the first year of Zhenguan, he was appointed as the teacher of Li Ke, the king of Shu, to assist him in governing Shu.

After meeting Gai Wenda back then, he also mentioned that he was very familiar with Xiao Zheng's master, and it was in the same year, so it is not an exaggeration to say that it was the same year, so every time Xiao Zheng saw this person, he was commensurate with his juniors.

Gai Wenda saw that Xiao Zheng was still very useful for treating his elders with courtesy, and when he introduced a few lines of people, Xiao Zheng was startled, and the person who accompanied him was Gai Wenda's brother Gai Wenyi, who was also a famous Confucian, and was called "Ergai" at that time.

hurriedly came over to salute, Gai Wenyi didn't dare to do it.

asked how the two got to Jiangnan, it turned out that after Li Ke returned to Chang'an, Li Shimin saw that his age was too careful and uncertain, and he listened to Wei Zheng's suggestion and wanted him to be older before becoming a vassal.

So the two of them fell quiet, and after nothing happened, they traveled all the way to the mountains and rivers, and they were also at ease when they made friends with local celebrities. After arriving in Yangzhou, they were going to find Xiao Zheng to catch up with the past, but when they heard that Xiao Zheng was building a academy in Hangzhou, the two of them asked Xu Jingzong to borrow a carriage and rushed over.

When he saw the scale of the academy, he was shocked, pointed to the academy and said, "This is the academy you built?" It's not an exaggeration to say that the glass alone is worth 10,000 dollars."

"This is just the beginning, and it will be built later, and the younger generation will build it on the scale of 10,000 students."

Hearing Xiao Zheng say this, Gai Wenda was stunned and laughed and praised: "Only you Xiao Zheng can have this courage in the Tang Dynasty, it is difficult for the two of us to enter Jiangnan and obviously feel a different atmosphere from other places, in just two years, this land in Jiangnan has burst out with vitality, you are more clever than your master, not bad!" The saints did not choose the wrong person."

casually flipped through the new book that Xiao Zheng handed to the two old men, and Gavenda almost pulled his beard off.

"How much does it cost to use a book as white as snow? Or send these poor students in vain? How much did you spend on this?"

After waiting to enter the school hall and looking at the canteen with more than 100 words, the old man didn't stop after making a piece of braised pork and sweet and sour fish pieces with a lacquer plate.

After eating, the Gai brothers looked at each other.

"Boy, we have an idea, we are going to resign from the position of King Wu Xixi to the sage, with my old face the sage will definitely be gracious, and my brothers will be ready to spend the rest of the rest of the year here, can we?"

Xiao Zheng was happy after listening to it, and said with a smile: "The younger generation also has this thought, you are sending charcoal in the snow, just now we also said that there is no gentleman in the academy, I didn't expect you two great talents to come here, help my academy, and you will be the head of this Hangzhou academy in the future."

Wei Qingquan was also very excited, he didn't expect these two great Confucians to come together, and he asked with some concern: "Gai Gong, these students are very children of scholars and merchants, I don't know ...... you."

Gavinda immediately understood what he meant, glared and said, "Merchant children can't study, and poor families can't become generals?" The saints' disciples and the people who are in business, if the saints can teach the old man, can they teach the old man? Fool's view! ”。

"Junior, I still have an idea, in the future, you can see if you can invite more knowledgeable hermits to come over for the academy to strengthen the lintel of the academy," Xiao Zheng said with a smile.

"Don't worry, as long as you treat these people I invite with courtesy, the old man will come to him," Gavenda patted his chest and agreed.

"First of all, I will take you two to see the house we have prepared for the gentlemen, which is built next to the edge of the academy."

Pulling the two of them to the house by the lake, I saw two rows of two-storey houses scattered along the lake, the windows were all made of glass, and all the utensils in them were available.

"Every gentleman has a house like this, you can live in it empty-handed, even if your whole family moves over, the scenery by the lake is good, the house is designed by the Yan brothers, the monthly money is twice as high as your Yulu, what do you want?" Xiao Zheng said to Gavenda with a smile.

"The only thing that the old man regrets is that he came here late, I should have come a long time ago if I knew that you were doing such a good thing."

Everyone laughed when Gavinda finished speaking.

Brought the two Confucians to the classroom, the two old people liked the new desks, chairs and blackboards very much, and Govinda also tried to write a few words on the blackboard with chalk, although his hands were a little raw, but he soon liked the use of the blackboard.

Called more than 100 students over, many people have heard of the names of the two, and when they hear that these two people will take root for a long time, they are very cold and the scholars have tears in their eyes when they give the two of them.

"In the future, although the old man in Jiangnan will not dare to catch them all, he can gather half of them in the duel," Gai Wenda said very proudly.

After listening to this, Xiao Zheng led a few people to salute and said, "I will thank you two for the students of Jiangnan Xinxin."