Chapter 257: Thread-bound Books and Folding Fans

After Li Xian's letter on the expansion of the school was passed, it immediately began to be implemented on a large scale, and all the officials of the entire Guozi School, the school administration, the school inspectors and other officials of the prefectures and counties were all busy, busy with expanding the school building, recruiting teaching assistants, raising money and silk, etc., and in addition, the craftsmen in various places were also busy printing the scriptures, which was the most urgent thing at present, because even if the students were recruited, it would be useless without the scriptures. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

Of course, in this process, there are also some agency personnel who are passive and slacking off, and even some people deliberately engrave typos on it, and there are dozens of errors in some volumes, but they were quickly discovered by Li Xian, and then they were severely punished by Li Xian, all of whom were first dismissed from office, and then fined, so that even if the people of the later party wanted to stop the progress of the project, they were helpless.

After the scriptures were printed, Li Xian was ingenious and bound each book with a thread according to a certain scale rule, which made the original volume of books that were several feet or even longer, and extremely inconvenient to read, be fixed into a book half a foot wide and a foot long, which could turn pages, such an improvement actually made reading suddenly simpler, and the pleasure of reading was greatly increased in an instant, which led to not only those newly recruited poor children, but also high-ranking officials and nobles, eunuchs and celebrities are also trying their best to search for this newly modified line-bound book.

It is at this time that in Luoyang, Chang'an and other big cities in several Daxing bookstores suddenly large-scale sales of wire-bound books, although each bookstore has thousands of such book-bound books, but still sold out in a short period of time, businesses across the country have appeared to produce a large number of wire-bound books craze, but just this is far from satisfying the majority of readers to the pursuit of wire-bound books, such a situation has made the scroll books that have been circulated for hundreds of years quickly withdraw from the stage of history, except for some paintings, calligraphy works, Special types such as the Holy Decree are still outside of the application scroll, and almost everyone is desperately pursuing high-quality, inexpensive, and easy-to-read thread-bound books, and even the Empress Wu and her cronies, who have always been resistant to Li Xian, can't help but join the craze.

"Prince Qiyu, this time it is just the income from the sale of thread-bound books, and my Mingtang firm has earned hundreds of thousands of yuan, hehe, such a big business is not something our business has not done, but this time it is too easy to earn, and the brothers all seem to be crazy, but now the bookstores everywhere are imitating, and our interests have also dropped sharply, and now we are only maintaining an income of hundreds of yuan a day, which is really embarrassing." Ni Lai, the chief shopkeeper of the Ming and Tang Dynasty firms (the original Xiantang firms, renamed to avoid the suspicion of the crown prince Li Xian), who secretly reported the news to Li Xian, was full of joy, but in the end, he was unwilling.

But Li Xian laughed and said, "We have eaten enough meat, we should let others drink some soup, right?" What's more, the current pot of soup is already cold, we don't need to hang it anymore, hundreds of thousands are enough, and then wait and prepare another new commodity, this commodity is a folding fan, it is something that is more popular with literati and scholars, and even tailor-made for them, but this thing still needs to be promoted, and when you produce it, it will probably form a new craze like the thread-bound books in the first few days. ā€

In this action of expanding the school, Li Xian not only gained unprecedented prestige, but also received more than 100,000 dividends, which can be said to be the absolute biggest winner of fame and fortune.

Not only that, Li Xian also led more new fashions soon after, such as one day in the court, he took an ivory folding fan, on which were written poems, the font is the imitation of Wang Xi's shape, this folding fan immediately became tall, was surrounded by Manchu officials, and from time to time someone asked, where did this folding fan come from.

When Li Xian said that it was from a newly opened folding fan shop somewhere in the West City, all the officials were suddenly boiling, so that even the early dynasty was not good, and they were all eagerly looking forward to dispersing the dynasty as soon as possible, which made the Empress Wu who presided over the early dynasty a little surprised, and all the officials were absent-minded when they went to the court overnight, such a peculiar scene was the first time in history.

And finally looking forward to the dispersal of the dynasty, the officials all rode horses and squeezed to the West Market, and for a while, high-ranking officials gathered in the West Market, squeezing the spacious West Market into a flood.

In front of the folding fan shop in the West Market, there are even more crowds, rubbing shoulders, and one by one the high-ranking officials squeezed together regardless of the image, rolled up their trousers, rolled up their sleeves, and squeezed to the front row, ready to buy a delicate and fashionable folding fan.

"What's the squeeze? While lining up. Originally, at the beginning, in the face of these high-ranking officials, the guys in the store were all dry-mouthed and frightened, for fear that a bad service would cause the anger of those high-ranking officials, but then these officials actually squeezed one by one without any image, and finally the guys began to get angry.

But I saw a chubby official snorting: "I am Lang Zhong from the Ministry of Rites, come here to buy a folding fan, pick a good one for Lord Ben, and I will definitely reward you with money." ā€

The guy sneered when he heard this, and said lightly: "Line up at the back, don't you see that even the waiters of your Ministry of Rites are queuing up in an orderly manner?" Also, you see, the one in front is the Shangshu of the household department, and that one is the prime minister of the dynasty, and the other one is the king of the county, and the other one is the prince, which of these is not more than you? Even they are lining up in a regular manner, how can you be a little etiquette lang who is qualified to shout here? Just by virtue of your words, today's folding fan is gone, and it will not be sold to you, and it will not be sold for any money. ā€

The guy shouted, and his heart was secretly refreshed, how many years have he been a young man, where have he heard such a thing? A young man actually shouted at the dignified Ministry of Rites, that is a high-ranking official on the fifth grade, the most incredible thing is that he actually said that he was a "small" Ministry of Rites Langzhong, such words actually came from his own mouth, not to mention himself, even if it is all the shopkeepers in history, I am afraid they have never done this like themselves, right? Today's feat of his own, not to mention the last, is absolutely unprecedented.

Soon after, such a folding fan was also placed on the case of Empress Wu, which was bought and given to her by Shangguan Wan'er, with a poem recently written by Empress Wu, and Empress Wu was also happy in her heart, and secretly praised Li Xian for having a good eye, and actually found such a wonderful thing, even she was so excited, no wonder those officials were so absent-minded when they were in the court. (To be continued.) )