Chapter 11 Movable Type Printing Succeeded
After dinner, Zhao Wuregret walked around the garden, then returned to the courtyard with great interest, sat down on the bed after bathing, took the nameless atlas in his hand, and put down the first set of drawings after carefully reading them.
Take a deep breath and follow the first movement on the picture, breathing quickly and slowly, and after a while, he makes a second movement, doing this four, but the fifth one can't be done because it's too difficult.
After doing it a few times, I didn't succeed, so I had to repeat the first four movements more than a dozen times, like a few times, and finally did the fifth action, it was already midnight, although it was successful, but people were too tired to do it, according to the method of the master of Yuanfa, the long and leisurely breath came in and out of the mouth and nose, and after a while, he fell into a deep sleep.
When I woke up the next morning, I found that I was still in the same position as yesterday, and I thought I would be sour, but I didn't expect that after getting up, I was refreshed and there was no discomfort, which made Zhao Wuregret look forward to the next action more and more.
Just do it, he put the five movements again, but unfortunately the sixth posture can't be done anyway, no longer forced, thinking that he will go to the shopkeeper Zhu today, so he simply got up and washed up, and went out without even eating breakfast.
When I came to the Ten Thousand Books Bookstore, I saw that it had not yet opened, and I thought about it, the current time is only about six o'clock in the future, and people who want to buy books will not be so early, but they are too anxious.
Came to a teahouse on the corner of the street, there are all kinds of delicious snacks in Yangzhou, and when I walked inside, I found that it was almost full, so I walked to a corner and sat down in a place where no one was, and then called a few special snacks.
After paying, there were less than three hundred copper coins left in his arms, and if he didn't get in again, he wouldn't even dare to go out of the gate in the future.
After thinking about it again, he suddenly heard someone reading his own 'will enter the wine', and the sound of frustration resounded throughout the teahouse, and after a while, a cheering voice sounded.
"Brother Wang is talented, and the younger brother admires him so much, there is this poem, which can be passed down through the ages." A complimentary voice exhaled, and there was a chorus of voices around them.
Zhao Wuregret turned his eyes and saw a group of scholars surrounding a young man, and it was the man who was reciting the poem just now.
Hearing everyone's words, the man waved his hand and said, "How can you have this talent!" This poem is not written by me, but by Mr. Zhao Wuregret. When Zhao Wuregret's name was mentioned, the man also clenched his fists to show respect.
"Ah, who is this Mr. Zhao Wuregret?" The man asked again.
"Do you know yesterday's Daming Temple Poetry Meeting?" The young man spoke.
"Well, the teacher said that the smell of copper in Yangzhou Poetry Society is too strong, so the younger brother doesn't pay attention to it on weekdays."
"Hmph, then you can miss the opportunity to stay in the eternal name, ...... at yesterday's poetry meeting" The young man was eloquent, and he added fuel and vinegar to what happened at yesterday's poetry meeting, and Xu Yuanzhi became a villain, and Zhao Wuregret became a big hero who specializes in villains, the whole story has a plot and a protagonist, and it is said that it is full of ups and downs, and Zhao Wuregret blushed.
Obviously, this person was unhappy with Xu Yuanzhi, and portrayed him even more intriguingly, insidious, arrogant, and rude......
Although Zhao Wuregret was also unhappy with the madness, he was also not used to seeing people destroy others like this, so he left after eliminating the snacks in front of him in a few bites.
Thinking about what the man said, he just smiled, there were countless people who participated in the poetry meeting yesterday, and a person like him who had no achievements obviously had no chance.
After walking around the street for an hour, I came to Wanjuan Bookstore again, the door had been opened, and the shopkeeper Zhu was walking around the door, constantly looking.
Seeing Zhao Wuregret, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately greeted him, hugging his fists as soon as they met, "Congratulations to Gongzi for winning the championship in one fell swoop yesterday and becoming famous all over the world." ”
"Shopkeeper Zhu is polite, the little grades are not enough, by the way, why are you in such a hurry to find me?"
"Childe, the movable type printing has been successful," Zhu shopkeeper said with a smile, he went to find Zhao Wuregret a few times yesterday, and ran to the Lin Mansion early this morning, but was told by the door that Zhao Wuregret had gone out, he hurriedly looked around the street, and after seeing no one, he could only open the door and stand at the door stupidly waiting.
Zhao Wuregret couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard the news, and went to the second floor of the bookstore with Shopkeeper Zhu, and saw him take out a book from a drawer.
took a look, but it was the first time in Journey to the West, typesetting in Song style characters handed over to him by Zhao Wuregret, of course, now called Zhao Ti characters, with clear handwriting and clean layout.
"Shopkeeper Zhu, you first print out all the chapters I gave you," Zhao Wuregret said, he told Lin Ruoyi and them a lot of chapters in the past few days, all of which were carefully copied by Wei Zihan and handed over to Shopkeeper Zhu one after another.
"Huh? But Childe, you're not done yet. Shopkeeper Zhu said in surprise.
"Who said you have to finish a book to get it out?" Zhao Wuregret said helplessly, "Now that Journey to the West is hot, and my reputation is being praised, I must take advantage of this shareholder wind to launch it, so that the book can sell better." ”
"Oh," the shopkeeper Zhu didn't seem to understand.
"That's it, by the way, I gave you a total of the first thirty chapters, if they are all printed, how much will it cost?"
"If you take 1,000 copies as an example, it will cost about 200 Wen, and if it is more, the cost can be a little less."
"Then print 10,000 copies," Zhao Wuregret said, waving his hand.
"This, this ......" Shopkeeper Zhu twisted for a while.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Wuregret asked.
"We don't have that much money in our bookstore." Most of his assets are in this bookstore, turning into piles of Four Books and Five Classics.
In the end, it was decided to print 3,000 copies first, but Zhao Wuregret was helpless, the money on his body was only enough to print a book, which was always insufficient without silver.
"Childe, this movable type printing technique ......" Shopkeeper Zhu looked at Zhao Wuregret expectantly.
"It's not appropriate to make it public now," Zhao Wuregret directly refused, he didn't want to be like Qin Shanchang at that time, he had made countless achievements, but let people use them for free, and in the end, he could only sell his house and live in a thatched hut.
"By the way, do you know the Qin Mountain Chief of Guangling Academy?"
"Yes, he still has a lot of books on credit from me." Shopkeeper Zhu said.
"Then does he have any grudges with Huang Fujun?" Zhao Wuregret thought of seeing the quarrel between the two yesterday.
"How is this possible?" Shopkeeper Zhu said with a smile, "The two of them are very good friends, they were still classmates back then, although Huang Fujun has a lot of complaints about Qin Shanchang's lack of business, but he has never alienated him, and the year before last, he also married his only daughter to Qin Shanchang's eldest son, and the two are now in-laws." ”