Wancheng bookstore?!

There is no institution of higher learning in Wancheng for everyone, and it is difficult for the heirs of the princes and princes to enter the Zixi Xue Palace in the Qin Palace, and the Nanyang Academy with the mountain head of the Great Qin Daru Valley Liangqiu is in the southern suburbs of Wancheng.

Therefore, the shop of this Wancheng bookstore is not in the market concentration, Kong Xuan specially selected a store facing the main road of Wancheng.

Is there a scholar in the market?!

This is also the point of view that appeared after Kong Xuan's contact with papermaking and printing, although it is biased, but it is also in line with the current national conditions of Daqin.

Hang a wooden sign engraved with "Wancheng Bookstore", and knock on the bamboo tube a few times, which means that Wancheng Bookstore is open!

Kong Xuanxin recruited two clever subordinates, and they put the books, paper and pens of "Shuowen Jie Zi" transported from Mangkhut Yi.

But just as Kong Xuan thought, if you don't say hello, this Wancheng bookstore is simply a door!

But greeting, Kong Xuan also knew that what he was selling was a sage book, what was the difference between selling and those people in the market?!

Therefore, in the morning of the opening, for nearly two hours, except for passers-by, they noticed the opening of a new bookstore, but no one came in to read the book.

After all, in the cognition of most of the people of the Great Qin Kingdom, they are still not polite, not from a rich and noble old clan, and they still want to learn to read and write?

It's a dream!

Kong Xuan was also exhausted of his patience, the two guys are good at doing work, the bookshelf has been wiped over and over again, and the ground has been taken off again and again, but no one has come for a long time!

Just when Kong Xuan waved his hand to let the two guys rest, a noisy sound sounded on the avenue outside the bookstore.

"Seeing that they are wearing blue forging clothes, they should be people from the palace of King Qin, how can they leave the palace, and there are quite a few of them?"

"I guess it's because the market is open after the New Year, so I sent out the palace people to buy some things......"

"This is nonsense, why do you need to go out of the palace to buy the food used in the palace, it is all produced by the inner government itself, in previous years, you have seen so many people sent out by the palace?"

"Strange, you see, these palace people are still pulling the cart behind them! Looking at the struggling horses in front, this cart is definitely not light. ”

"When you say that, I'm also curious, this big cart should be grain, and the palace people should buy things, it must not be something that can be produced by the inner government, but such a big cart of food, the things to be exchanged must not be cheap!"

"Let's go, take a look, it's snowing heavily today, so it's okay, it's better to see the excitement!"

"Well, let's go and see, what to buy in the palace, even if I can't afford it, I can feast my eyes and increase my knowledge!"

As a result, dozens of palace people lined up side by side, and a big car was full of cars behind them, attracting a lot of idle people to follow over to watch the excitement.

Kong Xuan naturally led out of the door passively, and when he looked closely, he found that the team of palace people was walking directly towards Wancheng Bookstore, and it was Kong Xuan's old acquaintance who came to take the lead.

The permanent attendant in the palace is second only to Gao Jin, the chief attendant of Uncle Qin's cronies!

Regardless of whether this team of palace people came to Wancheng Bookstore or not, there was a permanent attendant, and Kong Xuan had to go to say hello.

"Kong Xuan has seen the permanent attendant!"

The kind eyes of the regular attendant and the overseer, seeing Kong Xuan saluting like this, also smiled and helped Kong Xuan up, and replied softly: "Kong Xuan, since you have left the palace, you don't have to be so vain with our family, after all, this is not a ...... in the palace."

Kong Xuan replied: "In the old days, the palace often took care of the eunuchs, Kong Xuan is unforgettable!" ”

The Chang Attendant nodded and smiled: "Okay, Okay, Kong Xuan, you are a good boy who remembers your kindness, I heard the Great Attendant say, this Wancheng bookstore is now managed by you?" ”

Kong Xuan asked in surprise: "The permanent attendant is here for the bookstore today?" ”

Chang Attendant replied with a smile: "Of course, your small bookstore has already alarmed the king, so he sent our family to collect some things." ”

Hearing this, Kong Xuan immediately knelt on the ground in horror and said, "Thank you, thank you, thank you, and thank you Chang Attendant......"

"Get up, get up, look at what you're flustered about, our family is here to support your business, I don't know and think that our family is here to eat people, you lead our family into the bookstore to have a look......"

"Yes," Kong Xuan stood up and led the permanent attendant into the bookstore.

Just as he was about to step into the door, the constant attendant swept the surroundings and ordered: "Just let a few palace people go in with our house, and the rest stay outside the house to watch things, and no one else is allowed to come in." ”

"Whoa." The other palace people responded.

Entering the bookstore, the constant attendant swept it and said to Kong Xuan: "The king asked our family to buy some things tightly, I only know what to buy, and I don't know the price, Kong Xuan, you can take our family to take a good look at the bookstore, and also talk about it." ”

"Okay, take a closer look at the bookshelf." Kong preached.

The permanent attendant approached a bookshelf, looked left and right, and asked curiously: "Kong Xuan, other bookstores are all bamboo slips, why, why don't we have a single book slip in your bookstore, this is also a bookstore?" ”

Kong Xuan stepped forward and explained: "The constant attendant doesn't know that the books in our bookstore are not made of bamboo slips, but made of paper!" ”

"Paper?" The permanent attendant is not like Gao Jin, he has seen paper, and he is a little puzzled by this term.

Kong Xuan personally brought a piece of white paper, handed it to the permanent attendant, and said, "Please look at it, this is the paper." ”

Chang Attendant took the paper, and suddenly smiled: "It turns out that this is paper, the king asked our family to look at the purchase on the table, and he didn't dare to look at it carefully, and thought this thing was silk!" ”

Listening to the self-deprecation of the Chang Attendant, Kong Xuan dared to laugh presumptuously, and immediately suppressed the smile by explaining the paper: "Chang Attendant, this paper is like silk, but the cost is extremely low, Wancheng Bookstore has set the size of each piece of paper as nine inches long and five inches wide. ”

"Ninety-five...... It's also auspicious," the Attendant nodded, and then asked again, "How much is it worth?" ”

"Three hundred pieces of rice per bucket." Kong Xuan replied.

"It's so cheap?" The constant attendant was surprised, as if he had thought of something, and then turned his head to look at Kong Xuan: "Kong Xuan, our family is doing things for the palace, you don't have to be filial, whatever the price should be!" ”

Hearing this, Kong Xuan was stunned, he didn't expect that this was already sold at ten times the cost price, and there would be people who thought it was cheap? !

But after thinking about it, this paper is indeed cheaper, five pieces of paper is the face of a bamboo slip, but a bamboo slip is sold for several buckets of rice, and the same silk silk is even more expensive, and it is sold directly with stone as a unit.

"Chang Waiter, this paper is at such a price, it is sold to the palace, and it is the same when it is sold to ordinary people, the cost of paper is indeed low, much cheaper than bamboo slips and silk silk!" Kong Xuan replied solemnly.

"Really?"

"It's true, Kong Xuan will never dare to deceive the permanent attendant!"

Hearing this, Chang Attendant also smiled and said: "Our family really didn't expect that Kong Xuan would actually make such a thing out of the palace, but this thing is indeed cheap, and it may not be able to replace bamboo slips and silk books!" ”

In an instant, the Chang attendant superintendent calculated and said, "Three hundred pieces of rice per bucket...... This price is very low, Kong Xuan, you write it down to our family, and give me a hundred stones of grain for this paper! ”

"A hundred stones?!" Kong Xuan was shocked, he knew that this bucket of rice was 300 pieces, which was 3,000 pieces of rice per stone and 100 stones of grain...... Kong Xuan calculated, it was 300,000.

That's the number of paper stored in the paper mill warehouse in Mangkhut-eup!

As soon as he thought that the pile of paper and the small hill had landed, Kong Xuan also immediately thanked the permanent attendant: "Thank you for your support!" ”

The Chang Attendant waved his hand and said, "No, it's also that your paper sells at a low price!" ”

Immediately, the Chang Attendant looked at the other bookshelves and said, "Let's look at [Yu] over there, right?!" ”

Kong Xuan walked over, took out the brush from the bookshelf, and said, "Chang Waiter, this thing is similar to Yu, but we call him a brush." ”

"Brush?" The permanent attendant muttered, and then said, "Kong Xuan, you and our family have a good talk......

Kong Xuancai explained: "This brush has more hair than Yu, which is more convenient for writing, and the ink is universal, which is much faster than carving words on bamboo slips with a carving knife!" ”

The permanent attendant nodded and said, "Okay, good, good...... How is this item sold? ”

"It is divided into three grades, one liter of the inferior milligram brush, one bucket of the medium milligram brush, and one stone of the upper milliliter brush, and the permanent attendant can come and try these brushes."

"Well, it's about the same price as Yu, take a few, and let us try the difference between this brush and Yu."

Hearing this, Kong Xuan asked the man to bring pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, and asked the permanent attendant to try to write.

The first thing the constant attendant picked up was an inferior brush, which was dipped in ink and wrote a horizontal on the paper, and then folded a piece, picked up the brush, and exclaimed: "We see that this brush is really much easier to use than Yu!" ”

Kong Xuan smiled and said nothing, handed over the medium millimeter brush and said: "This inferior millimeter is mainly made of two kinds of milli hair, one is wool millimeter, the other is pig bristle hair, one is soft and one is hard, this kind of brush is mainly durable. ”

Chang Attendant nodded, and then said: "Although this inferior brush is not very exquisite, it is better than practicality, and the price of one liter of rice, even at this price, is much worse than this." ”

The constant attendant took the medium millimeter brush from Kong Xuan's hand, and listened to this Kong preach: "This medium millimeter brush is made of wolf hair, weasel and wild wolf, this kind of brush is moderately soft and hard, and the writing is smooth, very practical!" ”

Chang Attendant stared at this brush and replied with a smile: "Our family looks at this brush is also very good, and there is a pattern on it, which is good." ”

However, the Chang Attendant did not try the pen, and continued to ask: "What kind of material is used for the finest brush?" ”

"Hare!" Kong Xuan replied, and then explained: "High-quality brushes, there is little stock in the bookstore, not much. ”

Hearing this, Chang Attendant said: "Since this is the case, our family has decided, ten high-grade millibrushes, 100 medium-grade milliliters, and 1,000 low-grade millimillimeters." ”

Kong Xuan's expression was a little embarrassed: "Chang Attendant, the demand for brushes is a bit large, and I am afraid that the inventory in the bookstore cannot be ......."

Chang Attendant interrupted him with a smile: "This is not in a hurry, it has been closed in recent years, and when the various departments and offices are operating, at least after the sixteenth day of the political month, at this time, you can find someone to make it, and then hand it over to our family, now there are a few samples to take back and give it to the king to see." ”

Kong Xuan thanked: "Then thank you to the permanent attendant." ”

"Don't say thank you, doing good deeds is the greatest thank you to our family!" The permanent attendant said, and then asked about the main purpose of this trip: "Kong Xuan, where is the gentleman who personally ordered "Shuo Wen Jie Zi"? ”

Kong Xuan took the permanent attendant to the other side of the bookshelf and said, "This is it." ”

The Chang Attendant nodded, picked up a copy of "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" and flipped through it casually, and asked, "How many books are there?" ”

"One bucket of grain, one book."

Chang Attendant stared at Kong Xuan with stunned eyes, and said with a smile: "Kong Xuan, you said that the cost of paper is low, this "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" does not matter the price of the paper, it is the manpower of this copying, such a font, I am afraid that I will not be able to copy a book out in a few days, we look at this bucket of rice, I am afraid that the people who copy the book will not be able to eat enough!" ”

Kong Xuan smiled, ordinary people's thinking is generally considered like this, but with the cement of movable type printing, why use manpower to copy it word by word, but it is impossible to get to the bottom of the printing technology with the permanent attendant, so he can only explain: "Rest assured, how much grain is sold to the permanent attendant in the bookstore, how much grain will be sold to others, and it will never vary from person to person!" ”

Seeing Kong Xuan say this, Chang Attendant also said: "That's it, our family doesn't ask, we have already made it clear to you that this is a matter in the palace, since you sell it so cheaply, it is not easy for our family to say anything......

"Although the constant attendant is relieved, the bookstore will naturally not lose money." In fact, Kong Xuan said in his heart, I am afraid that if I tell you about the profits of the bookstore, you must be frightened and drop your jaws!

Seeing Kong Xuan's determined appearance, the constant attendant also nodded and said, "Then take a thousand copies of these "Shuo Wen Jie Zi". ”

Kong Xuan nodded, then turned back to ask the bookkeeper who followed behind: "Can you remember." ”

The man replied: "300,000 pieces of paper, 1,000 low-grade brushes, 100 medium-grade brushes, 10 high-grade brushes, 1,000 volumes of "Shuowen Jie Zi", the owner, a total of 230 stone grain. ”

Hearing this, Kong Xuan nodded, but the constant attendant smiled: "Yes, our family brought three hundred stone grain when they left the palace this time, originally thought it was just a deposit, but I didn't expect it to be more than enough, Kong Xuan, let's look at it like this, I won't bring this grain back, your bookstore is really cheap, three hundred stone grain, more, we don't want it, if it's less, our family won't make up for it, how about it?" ”

Kong Xuan pushed the boat down the water and thanked: "Thank you for the reward!" ”

Kong Xuan turned around, asked the guy to pack a few samples, and then said to the Chang Attendant: "Chang Attendant, there are other people's business in the bookstore, so I can only take some samples for you to bring back first, and for the rest, Kong Xuan must let people rush to make them, and if they are transported outside the Qin Palace, they will not be delayed." ”

The constant attendant nodded and said with a smile: "This is very good, then our family wishes you a prosperous business!" ”

"Thank you, Constant Attendant Jiyan!" Kong Xuan replied with a smile.