Chapter 69: The Plan to Steal the Sky and Exchange Books (Ask for Collection, Recommendation)
Li Bicheng's test result was beyond Zhang Yanzhi's expectations, and not long after he finished the second hanging bottle, he actually sobered up on his own.
He looked at Zhang Yanzhi strangely and asked weakly:
"Are you from the Song Mansion?"
Seeing Zhang Yanzhi shaking his head and denying it, Li Chucheng immediately breathed a sigh of relief, no matter who it was, as long as it wasn't from the Song Mansion, the situation wouldn't be any worse.
"Let your wife and daughter do it." Zhang Yanzhi is not easy to trust as a stranger, and it will be much better for him to face his relatives directly.
Hearing that his daughter was also coming, Li Chucheng's eyes lit up, and he didn't know that his mother-in-law almost sold her daughter in order to treat herself.
"You're still weak, don't get too excited."
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"In the future, you must insist on taking medicine on time, and you will be cured in more than half a year."
"During the treatment, I recuperated in the house, kept the room ventilated and bright, and occasionally walked around the neighborhood to bask in the sun." Zhang Yanzhi seemed to be very professional and said, he was in a mood and played role-playing.
But he thought in his heart: Modern medicine had such a huge technical generation gap in the Ming Dynasty, and it was a fool's medicine, should he consider opening a pharmacy to sell medicine?
But here comes the problem again, the stall is too big: he has no manpower!
Alas, the road still has to be walked step by step, and the meal still has to be eaten with a mouthful; If you take too many steps, you will wrestle, and if you eat too quickly, you will choke, so you should put away your greed and advance steadily.
"Okay." The two mothers and daughters who listened to Zhang Yanzhi's words silently wrote it down, and then nodded in agreement.
"Also, Mrs. Li, I'd like to ask you for a favor."
"Please." The eldest sister asked suspiciously, what can she do as a woman?
"I hope you can help me change my book."
"Changing books?"
"There are nearly 100 beautiful books in the courtyard wing, and I want to exchange them with the local gentry."
"When a person comes, you can take him in directly to pick up a book, and the specific exchange standards can be implemented according to this booklet." The booklet is a traditional Chinese character printed by Zhang Yanzhi on a computer in modern times, and the computer is so convenient, who still writes it by hand now?
"The older the book, the more I like it!"
"Okay, a little bit of a hand." The eldest sister has also read a little, so it's no problem to give her this task.
It's just that Zhang Yanzhi has to worry about the promotion and publicity.
"By the way, you are already dead in the eyes of the Song Mansion, and you have recently changed your name and surname to live for a while under the grievances."
"Thank you, Childe!" The eldest sister Touniang's heart was relieved and she thanked for a while, the Song Mansion was a big mountain in her heart, and now it can finally be removed.
"It's all your own people, what's polite."
"Today, Yunshang will accompany her family in the yard to have a good rest, and I will go out to do something." After speaking, Zhang Yanzhi didn't wait for the eldest sister to answer, and strode out of the courtyard.
There was originally a plan to steal the sky and exchange books, but the executor was relatively vague, and since Li Chucheng and his wife had a fixed base in the city, they made the eldest sister head mother the executor.
The price of an ancient book in the late Ming Dynasty in modern times ranges from thousands to tens of millions, among which the content, author, stock, and font author (manuscript) are the criteria for judging.
Based on the modern judgment of the value of ancient books, Zhang Yanzhi set a rough range of exchange standards, and the books within the range are all valuable, and the exchange will be executed. Outside the scope, Zhang Yanzhi does not intend to let it go, and directly acquires it at the market price.
Because Zhang Yanzhi was worried about the diffusion of technology, the content of the books was mainly focused on cultural history: there were common imperial examination books such as the Four Books and the Five Classics; There are historical books such as historical records; There are also strange novels, chatting about fasting or something; What's even more outrageous is that Jin Dada's martial arts novels (except for those after the Ming Dynasty) are mixed in, which is purely funny.
The books were all printed by Zhang Yanzhi in the modern printing house.
Removed some of the anachronism. Vertical traditional Chinese, paper upper layer, printing is very exquisite, but also searched for relevant pictures on the Internet, with a large number of color pictures (1), to improve competitiveness, because of the need for independent edition, plus a large number of color pictures, even if each set of printing more than 1,000 copies, the cost is still high.
It's just that now Zhang Yanzhi never expected that these books can also sell well in modern times, not only because of the various funny illustrations on the Internet, which greatly increases the interest of the book, especially because it has a unique Australian and Song Dynasty imprint, which is precious to the world (small stock and no pirated prints). It is known as one of the essential magic weapons for crossing by the house world.
Master Song's study is located on the west side of the entire Song Mansion, open the window is the beautiful scenery of the West Lake, several small islands in the West Lake are dotted in the meantime, the breeze blows, the weeping willows on the island are green and swaying, the birds are frolicking in it, a good scenery of birds singing and flowers, reading in such a fairyland is also a kind of enjoyment.
Facing the West Lake is a vigorous desk, behind the desk is an ink landscape painting, the painting is very elegant and free, but the most conspicuous is the bright red signature of the Jinling Rite Department waiter in the lower right corner of the painting; On the left and right sides of the landscape painting is a couplet, which is mentioned: "In the scrolls of articles through the ages; The news of flowers is raining. It is also stamped with the signature of the prefect of Goose City. It can be seen that the master here must not be bad. On either side of the couplet is a large larger-than-human mahogany bookcase, filled with books.
At this moment, Master Song is standing in front of the bookcase with his hands in his hands, people have no long-term worries, there must be near-term worries, and there is no change, and now the Song Mansion with the same scenery in front of people has actually reached a dangerous point.
The Song Mansion is famous and very prominent: the great-grandfather and grandfather of Master Song and himself are all scholars, while his father is a jinshi.
But Master Song knows very well that the Song family is supported by Jinshi and people, and if there is no Jinshi and people, the great business of the Song Mansion will be divided up by others in less than two years.
But the Song family's parents have all passed away, and the influence is not there. The entire Song family is only supported by one person, which is far from enough.
Therefore, after he repeatedly failed to take the Jinshi examination, he extinguished the mind of taking the examination again, developed the family business with peace of mind, and educated the next generation.
He worked hard to send all the sons and nephews of the family to Fenghu Academy in Goose City, one of the four major academies in Zhujiang Province, which actually included his 'fool' eldest son, which shows his intentions.
The scientific examination is about people, finance, and learning.
People are connections, wealth is goods, and the final learning is knowledge (2).
Therefore, Master Song not only values the studies of his children and nephews, but also attaches great importance to the management of the Song family's connections and goods.
(1) According to research, in the Song and Liao periods, China already had color printing technology. The color printing of the Ming Dynasty was also very developed, but it was only a few monochrome combinations, far from reaching the level of madness of the illustrations in Zhang Yanzhi's customized booklets.
(2) The order of the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty: county examination - > government examination - > hospital examination - > township examination - > meeting examination - > tribute examination.
The more the previous exams, the more important the words people and finance, the county exam, the government exam, and the hospital exam are all examined by local officials, which is self-evident.
The next level of the township examination was personally sent by the emperor to the provinces to conduct the examination, and when he arrived here, the people and money were barely used, but the status of knowledge began to rise.
When it came to the meeting examination and the tribute examination, which were mainly examined by the court members and even the emperor, knowledge had obviously occupied the main position at this time.