- Since ancient times, China has emphasized agriculture over commerce, but in the Song Dynasty, people's concept of merchants and commerce has changed greatly - the Song Dynasty people have a lot of money worship that does not value the door and the lord and the goods. It also caught up with a good era when the country did not disturb the people, and it was easy for businessmen to make money and live a rich life. The businessman is big, the clothes must be brilliant, and the food must be meat. Because of its wealth, the princes of traffic, the power of the officials, and the benefits of each other. Thousands of miles away, crowns and covers each other. The status is not worse than that of officials.

The results of doing business are so good, and now there is no discrimination against businessmen, who doesn't want to do business? Even the scholars and doctors, who were not ashamed to be with businessmen, became businessmen themselves. If you don't believe it, if you go to the street and take a look, you will find such as the defense medicine shop, the Lou Taicheng cloth shop, the Zhang Bachelor Zhuzi History Book Store, etc., they are not ashamed of doing business at all, but use their official positions to make signboards for the shops.

Although the imperial court did not like the family of food and competed with the people for profit, the whole society had been commercialized, and the children of merchants abounded, and it was impossible to order the entire family business to close just because one person was admitted to the Jinshi. What's more, the middle- and low-level officials are really not enough to support their families in Bianjing, and the imperial court is unable to raise their salaries, so they can only do business with the officials' families, and can only adopt a tacit attitude of not encouraging or opposing them.

However, for high-ranking officials and generous people, it is not allowed to take profits from the people, and this article is still binding. The immediate family members of the Manchu Dynasty ministers will not go into business...... However, the imperial court did not prohibit officials from taking shares and making profits. Therefore, everyone has a few 'distant relatives' of wealthy businessmen, and they can enjoy huge dividends every year if they buy some dry shares.

Although Chen Ke is not a high-ranking official, he is already in the limelight, and he must not be involved in business anymore. In fact, he has long been out of any business, including these businesses, the proprietors and shopkeepers registered in the government, and they have no kinship with him. Chen Ke just participated in it. Definitely not the majority.

It's okay to say that this is a helpless move. It is Chen Ke's strategy, in short, this kind of play of paying for others to be the boss also ensures that the eighteen stewards will not be deceived and deceitful...... Because the business was meant to be theirs.

So Chen Ke has a huge debt problem. Not too worried, because in the first place, he didn't really pay for it. Instead, he borrowed money from Bianjing Qianhao, and the debtor was not him, but the firms themselves. Therefore, the eighteenth steward will be more anxious than himself, and he will definitely do his best to make the business bigger and stronger, and strive to get rid of the huge debt as soon as possible.

And he doesn't worry about control, because through the complex equity design, he will lose his decision-making power only if the Qingshen Consortium and the Blue Hat Chamber of Commerce oppose it at the same time. If a decision is made, it will make both of its iron teams oppose. Then it's definitely a bad idea, so don't do it.

Chen Ke believes that a warship built with this design. There is a happy man at the helm. There are people from the Blue God Foundation to supervise the course, and there is no need to do anything by yourself. In this business era, you can ride the wind and waves and have a long future.

As for Xiaomei and Yue'e's work, it is nothing more than keeping an eye on their own money bags, so as not to collude with the Qingshen Consortium and the Blue Hat Chamber of Commerce, but they are unaware of it. It's kind of a final patch on his design.

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After dealing with his worries, Chen Ke can finally travel lightly and do a big job.

"The so-called big job, I'm afraid it will cost you more." Zhou Dingkun couldn't laugh anymore: "My lord, you just promised that day that you wouldn't spend money indiscriminately." ”

"But you also said that you can't save the money you should spend." In the front study, Chen Ke smiled and said, "That's what you said, right?" ”

"Yes......" Zhou Dingkun said with a bitter face: "Let's talk about what you want to do first, right?" ”

"Well," Chen Ke nodded, pulling the vertical line at hand, and Chen Xin walked in and asked, "What do you command?" ”

"Is Mr. Shen here?" Chen Ke asked.

"Here, waiting in the antechamber."

"Please," Chen Ke said and stood up again, "Forget it, I'll go." ”

He walked quickly to the teahouse, Shen Kuo heard movement, and quickly got up and saluted: "Xiaguan to meet your lord." ”

"Brother Cun, I've kept you waiting." Chen Ke walked over, patted him on the shoulder affectionately, and said, "But you also made me wait for a long time." ”

"I'm ashamed ......" Shen Kuo smiled awkwardly: "The lower official is not a son of man." It is said that when he left Dali last year, Chen Ke wanted to get Shen Kuo to be an official in the capital, but he had no choice but to judge the situation and refuse Chen Ke's kindness, so as not to catch fire at the city gate and affect the pond fish.

But he had good reasons...... He said that he deeply understands that in officialdom, jinshi is the last word. So for the time being, I don't plan to be an official again, I want to concentrate on working hard for two years, and then I will talk about it after taking the Jinshi exam.

Chen Ke naturally didn't say anything, but just told him to read more of the books he gave him when he had time, and asked him to do him a favor. Shen Kuo has feelings for Chen Ke, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the two cherish each other, because they don't want to cause trouble and refuse each other's kindness, they already feel deeply guilty, so they naturally agreed.

It took eight months for Shen Kuo to do the things that Chen Ke asked him to do, and he wanted to hand them over to him by attending the wedding. Who knew that on the road, he was delayed for a few days due to illness, and when he arrived in the capital, the wedding had ended for five days...... That's why Chen Ke said, you made me wait for a long time.

"I haven't seen you for a long time, why did you get separated?" Chen Ke let him go to the study and said, "Let's talk inside." ”

The two sat down in the study, and Zhou Dingkun sat beside them. Because there are more people, and they don't look like I'm of my race, Shen Kuo doesn't know how to talk about it.

"This is my friend Mr. Zhou." Chen Ke introduced him: "His brother is Zhou Dingqian. ”

"Oh." Shen Kuo and Zhou Dingqian dealt with each other a lot, and they understood at once. Since Zhou Dingqian was Chen Ke's confidant, Mr. Zhou must have no problem this time: "Fortunately, I will be lucky." ”

After a few greetings between the three of them, Chen Ke broke the stuffy gourd and said: "Brother Cun said in the letter that movable type printing has been greatly improved, I found a rich man, you tell him, what progress is there, if you can impress him, Brother Zhou will buy your design and open a movable type printing shop in Bianjing!" ”

Speaking of movable type printing, one of China's four great inventions was born in this era. But any invention, at the beginning of its existence, may experience a situation where no one applauds. When Chen Ke asked the people around him if they knew that there was movable type printing, without exception, they all got negative answers.

But Chen Ke clearly remembers that Bi Sheng is a person of this era, and he is very old, and he should have invented this technology that can change the world. Therefore, he has always felt that it is his responsibility to popularize movable type printing.

When he had enough strength, he ordered people to search for Bi Sheng throughout the country. However, there is no history book about Bi Sheng's life and deeds, only Shen Kuo wrote a few decades later in the "Mengxi Writings" record......

And Shen Kuo only described that Bi Sheng was a cloth cloth, and he did not explain his origin and life at all. So it still means that he didn't say it, Chen Ke still had to find a needle in a haystack.

However, he believed that since it was cloth, there was no such thing as having enough to eat, and it was purely a hobby of studying printing. So Bi Sheng must be working in the printing industry. Only those who are familiar with printing technology will realize the shortcomings of engraving printing and try to improve it.

It's just that the Song Dynasty was very prosperous in culture and education, and there were printing workshops in every state and county in the country, and if you want to find this person, you still have to go through a lot of trouble.

It wasn't until last winter that I found this great inventor who was unknown when he was born and who was glorious after his death in Yingshan County, Qizhou. It's a pity that Bi Sheng has been dead for six years......

But fortunately, Bi Sheng did not take his invention to the grave, but selflessly passed it on to his disciple Wang Dashan.

So the people sent by Chen Ke brought Wang Dashan and all his tools to Dongchuan City.

Chen Ke immediately ordered him to make movable type, and Wang Dashan used cement to make blanks with the same specifications, engraved anti-body words at one end, and burned them hard with fire, and the movable types of clay were made.

At that time, Chen Ke was holding these clay movable words, not to mention how happy he was. The superiority of movable type printing over engraving printing is too much higher, and with this little gadget, he can profoundly influence the thinking of the people of the Song Dynasty!

But the result of the trial poured cold water on him. Facts have proved that the quality of movable type printing is not as good as that of engraving, and the clay movable type cannot be used too many times, and the improvement in efficiency is not significant, and the cost reduction is also very little.

Seeing the miraculous technology he repeatedly boasted of, with such an effect, Shen Kuo, Su Song and others were greatly disappointed, but Chen Ke insisted: "Movable type printing must be stronger than engraving printing, even if it is clay movable type, when the number of printing increases, the benefits will also appear!" ”

Because of the shortcomings of engraving printing, it is too big, first, engraving is time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly, each page needs to be engraved a plate, even if it is a line of words, it has to be re-engraved. Therefore, the number and proficiency of stereotyped workers directly limit the development of the publishing industry.

Second, it is inconvenient to store a large number of book plates, and a single engraving of the Analects requires a room. A printing company can have dozens of book engravings, even if it is a giant.

Third, there are typos that are not easy to correct.

These three points of movable type printing can be overcome.

As for the problem of movable type printing itself, Chen Ke didn't worry about it at all, because he had Shen Kuo and Su Song. These two extraordinary scientists and inventors are masters of problem solving.

And he also has general improvement ideas - one is advanced lead type, and the other is elementary wooden type. There is no theoretical obstacle to the two types of movable type, the key is to see if they can turn the theory into practice.

Chen Ke handed over the task of lead movable type to Su Song, who was guarding the foundry, and handed over the task of wooden movable type to Shen Kuo-

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