Although I don't understand how popular "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was when it first appeared, it should be pretty good judging from the fact that this book has been in existence for hundreds of years.

Most of Mr. Jin Yong's books are serialized in his own newspapers, Zhou Yi intends to follow suit, judging from the fact that the articles written by everyone in the past few days can be seen in the newspapers in one day, the printing technology is already extremely mature, which provides technical support for Zhou Yi, if it takes ten days and half a month to print dozens of words like before, then he can't stand it, you must know that "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is thousands of words at a time, so you have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and the month of the horse.

Early the next morning, Zhou Yi finally came out of the backyard with the first manuscript, and just appeared in the hall, but suddenly more than a dozen people stood up at the same time. Zhou Yi couldn't help but take a few steps back and asked, "It's bright daylight, what do you want to do?" ”

One of them said: "We are from the Cloud Ladder Society, and we have come to ask Zhou Gongzi for advice, and we have been here for a few days......"

Before he finished his words, Zhou Yi politely refused, and then said: "Although I haven't heard of you, but I know your purpose, if I guess correctly, my sister has already conveyed my meaning to you, I will not discuss this with anyone in the future, to be honest, it's annoying, I have to go out now, whether you want to prove that you are better than me or want to have a purely academic exchange with me, I will not accept it." If you are willing to come to me to drink milk tea as guests, I am very willing, and I will not accompany you if you ask for advice or anything. ”

Ignoring everyone's disappointed eyes, Zhou Yi went out along the door, looked at his back, looked at his face, and said: "We have waited for such a long time, he doesn't even have the courage to fight, what a coward." ”

The face of the person who spoke just now sank, and said: "I don't think he has no courage, I can understand his feelings, if a group of people come to you every day and want to step you down, are you happy?" ”

So everyone didn't speak, they all came for the same purpose, and there was no need to hide. Since Zhou Yi should not fight, there is no need for them to continue to stay, so they left after settling the account.

Speaking of Zhou Yi, to be honest, he didn't expect that going to visit Cimu Mountain would have such a far-reaching impact, what kind of Yunti Society, he was still squatting in Daguan Teahouse, which made him feel crying and laughing.

Not far after going out, I saw Zhang Zhong wandering around the street, like a rich boy with nothing to do, although he was actually a rich boy with nothing to do.

"Hey, Hengzhi, where have you been running these days, you have been kicked out by Min Min when you go to the tea shop to find you, what are you doing?" Seeing Zhou Yi, Zhang Zhong hurriedly ran over and asked.

Zhou Yi raised the manuscript in his hand and said, "I recently wrote something at home, so I didn't go out, what are you looking for me?" ”

Zhang Zhong said: "Hey, someone in my family came to me a few days ago and asked me to help, saying that the bookstore in his hand has not received a job in recent months, and the workers are going to strike. I don't want to do it, it's all the Zhang family, right. But I really can't think of any way, the bookstore is the only bit of property that the family has given him, if there is a wine shop or something, I will let him sell fairy wine, and it will not be so miserable. ”

"Oh? Haha, if you really want to eat, someone will send steamed buns, and if you want to sleep, someone will send pillows, which feels so good. Zhou Yi said with a smile.

Zhang Zhong asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Zhou Yi raised the manuscript in his hand and said, "I'll save your brother." Let's go, lead the way. ”

"That's it? Can it be done? Zhang Zhong was very puzzled.

Zhou Yi clenched his fists and said very seriously: "If you are a man, you can't say no." ”

So Zhang Zhong believed it, and went to a small alley on the edge of the city, this alley is very remote, and basically no one enters or leaves at ordinary times.

There was only one young man in the store now, who looked about the same age as Zhang Zhong, but he was much thinner, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was skinny. He was alone in the whole store, deserted.

"Eighth brother." Zhang Zhong entered the door and shouted, and the young man who was reading a book inside raised his head, saw that it was Zhang Zhong, was a little surprised, and said, "Big brother, why are you here?" ”

Zhang Zhong pointed at Zhou Yi and said, "Oh, it's my brother who wants to print something, so I'll bring him to you, oh Hengzhi, this is my eighth brother, Zhang Qing, the word Xichun." This is the famous Zhou Yi, the word Hengzhi, is your brother and my brother. ”

Zhou Yi suddenly thought in his mind that he was probably a talent who could combine the Water Margin and the Dream of Red Mansions.

"It turns out that you are Zhou Yi, who has admired the name for a long time, and I am still figuring out that long link of yours." Zhang Qing said.

Zhou Yi said: "That's just a casual remark, don't be serious, I came this time to have a big deal to cooperate with you, I don't know if you are interested?" ”

Not only Zhang Qing, Zhang Zhong also showed a strong interest, he asked, "I don't know what big deal Brother Heng has?" ”

Zhou Yi asked, "Do you know about movable type printing?" ”

The method of movable type printing is to first make a single word of the yang text reverse text mold, and then according to the manuscript to select the single words, arrange them in the word plate, ink printing, and then remove the word mold after printing, and leave it for the next typesetting to be used again. During the Qing Dynasty of the Northern Song Dynasty (1041-1048), Bi Sheng invented the birth of movable type printing of clay movable type signs.

Now more than 70 years have passed since the invention of movable type printing, but Zhou Yi rarely saw a bookstore that used movable type printing, and even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the engraving printing invented in the Sui Dynasty was also the most popular printing method, and there was no one.

It is said that movable type printing is more advanced than engraving printing, but advanced things have never formed a trend, and in the final analysis, cultural development is not prosperous enough. Some books have been popular for hundreds or thousands of years, and plate making is certainly more convenient than movable type printing. Books such as the Analects, the University, and the Mean are all fixed layouts, and the engraving plates can be taken out directly when they need to be printed.

Another problem is that there are too many Chinese characters in China, and a set of tens of thousands of characters, and only one of some commonly used characters is far from enough. Although some rare words are used less, they can't just have one. Therefore, it is printed with movable type on a large scale with a lot of models. And it's easy to make mistakes when arranging. Therefore, the development of movable type printing is restricted.

These are all questions that suddenly came to mind.,Remembering that if you want to serialize a novel.,It's necessary to use movable type printing.,It's troublesome to engrave thousands of words.,Unless it's assembled into a single hairstyle in the future.,Then you can engrave a set.,But that's all for the future.,It's not needed now.。

"Movable type printing? I have a full set of movable clay type in my store. Zhang Qing said.

This answer made Zhou Yi very pleasantly surprised, and he also thought that if he didn't have it, he would have to burn it, which was very time-consuming, and he was afraid that he would have already come back from the exam when "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" came out.

"That's really great, listen to me, our cooperation will start immediately, this is my manuscript, I want to publish a newspaper, do you know what a newspaper is? The newspaper is issued every once in a while, and it can publish all kinds of things, for example, I can write poems and lyrics on it, and I can advertise my own store, so that you can collect money from others who advertise, do you understand? Zhou Yi excitedly explained that newspapers are of great significance, as long as they make their newspapers popular, then they can control the entire trend of public opinion.

Zhang Qing and Zhang Zhong both looked at Zhou Yi and said, "I almost understand." ”

Zhang Zhong said: "What you wrote, I'll take a look." Hey, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? What to say? The general trend of the world, divided for a long time, must be combined for a long time, tsk tsk, this beginning is so domineering. Hey, Eighth Brother, you're going to get rich, if this thing appears, everyone will definitely buy it like crazy. ”

"Yes, yes? Come and take a look at me, wow, it's really, big brother, you are really my good big brother, it seems that it is only a matter of time before I rise, Zhou Gongzi, you are my savior......"

Looking at these crazy two people, Zhou Yi had to cough twice to indicate his existence, and when the mood of the two calmed down, Zhou Yi said: "The content of our cooperation is that you publish a newspaper here on the first and fifteenth days of the new year every month, and I will authorize the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" I wrote to you to exclusively serialize, and then I will account for fifty percent of the income from selling newspapers, and the advertising income belongs to you. In general, this is the mode of operation, and you have to make your own plan for the specific amount. That's what I thought of it, what do you think? ”

"Aha, okay, the rest hasn't been studied deeply, but I think it's very good with your idea, it's really Hengzhi's production, must it be a high-quality product? I seem to be able to foresee that such a wonderful story will definitely make everyone crazy, Hengzhi, we will go to Meizhou to take the exam at the beginning of next month, these few days, my father wants you to come to my house as a guest. ”

"Guest? Go to your house? ”

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