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The deeper the contact with the Ming society, the more Xu Yuanzuo has an illusion: it is obviously a feudal society, why does it feel more free and open than later generations!

There is simply nothing against the law!

It's just that the book is published without approval, and even the publishing house can get one if you want! As long as you get someone and a place, you can start work blatantly.

Even if the little yellow book is really printed, no one cares!

It can also sell well......

This is the case with the Xu family's bookstore.

Strictly speaking, there are two types of bookstores: commercial bookstores and domestic bookstores.

Bookstores that operate externally will not use too good workers and materials to make engravings, because that increases the cost of books and reduces profit margins - books have a market price, and there is no copyright, so if your home is too expensive, the buyer will buy another one.

For ordinary scholars, of course, the bookstore is not something that can be brought by the family, and the wages of the engraving craftsmen alone can eat them. However, for a gentleman's family, especially a high-end gentleman like Xu Jie, raising a troupe and a bookshop at home is a trivial matter. In their opinion, everything that needs to be used should be purchased by themselves, otherwise it will be too cheap?

And this kind of carved book workshop is kept at home, why use it?

First, the host's family has accumulated manuscripts and poems, and this has to be printed with dozens of copies to distribute to friends and classmates. The stereotypes have to be kept so that they can be published in the future.

Second, during the New Year's festival and the birthday of the elderly, you have to engrave some Buddhist books and Taoist scriptures and donate them to the temple and Taoist temple. This is a meritorious deed.

The third is that someone borrows it. For example, a hermit like Chen Jiru has a big name and no money. What should I do if I want to engrave a book? Of course, I asked my local tyrant friends to borrow it. So the main family also gained prestige and accumulated favors.

The above are just the main businesses. Occasionally, a single rare book is found, which is engraved out of the consciousness of the reader, so that the ancient book will not be annihilated. It's just that this kind of thing is hard to come by, because the solitary rare book is not visible everywhere.

All in all, it is necessary to have a book-engraving workshop at home.

Xu Yuanzuo has never seen the world, and only then did he know what it meant to be "a big family".

Come out of the Xu steps. Xu Yuanzuo went to see Xu Fan first, reported on his work and study in the past few days, and then talked about meeting Shao Fang with his eldest father just now.

Xu Fan was very open to this matter. I don't think this righteous son has robbed the scenery of my son-in-law. After following Xu Jie for so many years, the wisdom he has learned is far beyond his age. Otherwise, he would not have given up on Beijing without complaint, and followed his father back to his hometown to retire - he is only forty years old this year, just in the prime of life.

"What do you think?" Xu Fan asked.

Before Xu Yuanzuo answered. Xu Cheng first explained: "If you just print books. This engraved bookstore is still placed in the public house. You don't need to worry about materials and labor. If you have any other uses, you will simply assign the engraving workshop to the garden management company, and the public will use it in the future, and the cost will be borne by the garden management company. ”

Xu Fan nodded and said, "That's exactly what it means." ”

Xu Yuanzuo thought for a while and said, "Can you set up a separate bookstore?" ”

"What does it mean to be alone?" Xu Fan was stunned.

"It's that we appoint the shopkeepers, the guys, the workers, and the external business." Xu Yuanzuo said.

"Don't bother with that." Xu Fan laughed: "I do a bookstore." or a businessman who donated his prisoners, to earn a good reputation as a Confucian businessman. Or the hands and eyes to the sky. The calendar Cheng Mo that can be obtained, the examination papers of the grandmasters of various provinces. The former can't earn silver, the latter can earn silver, but not everyone can earn it. ”

In an official-oriented society, the textbooks for the imperial examination must have the widest audience. Especially in the eight-strand system, in the Longqing Wanli period, famous artists came out one after another, and there were few good articles. If you just want to memorize the Four Books and Five Classics to be able to Chinese style, it is simply whimsical. Which one of the exams has not read three or five hundred famous model essays?

Although these model texts are open to the public, it is not easy to get them as much as possible. You can't wait for everyone to put it on the shelves before you start engraving, right? If you want to get your hands on it as much as you can, you have to be useful in the key links. Xu Yuanzuo doesn't talk about people, he can't even figure out where the key links are.

"I want to make reference books." Xu Yuanzuo said frankly: "The profit here is not small, and the capital is not small. It must not be placed in the public house, for fear that it will provoke people to ask questions. ”

Xu Cheng and Xu Fan glanced at each other and asked, "Reference book?" ”

"A book in hand, no need to ask for a book." Xu Yuanzuo smiled: "It's a bit like "Sayings""

Character books such as "Shuowen Jie Zi" focus on "words". Studying the source is the first, analyzing the meaning of the word is the second, but the real usage of the word is not touched.

Taking the word "De" as an example, there is only one short article in the "Shuowen": "Shengye." From 彳? Sound. More is more than that".

Although it does solve the pronunciation and structure of the word "de", is "sheng" a definition? As for the students who don't have a teacher to teach, do you know how to use the word "de"?

"I just want to include thousands of commonly used words, cut their sounds, and then interpret them as 'original meaning', 'ancient meaning', and 'modern meaning'. Supplemented with example sentences. Xu Yuanzuo thought for a while and said, "For example, the word 'de'." If I want to come, I should write clearly 'the original meaning: ascending', 'the ancient meaning: ascending', 'the righteousness: gratitude', e.g., 'Zuo Chuan': Ran Zede I care', 'righteousness: kindness', e.g., 'the world's virtue and its forbearance'. ”

Neither Xu Fan nor Xu Cheng were scholars, but they soon realized Xu Yuanzuo's ambitions.

Xu Yuanzuo continued: "There are many people in the world who read books, and there are even more people who delay their future because they can't afford to ask Mr. Gao Ming to explain. If this book is born, even if it is a poor country, it can be studied alone, and it seems that there is a famous teacher by his side. This is a great merit. He considered his "conscience" clearly, and added: "As for the fame and benefits brought by this book, it is even more immeasurable. ”

Only one sentence flashed in Xu Fan's mind: "Er Cao's body and name are destroyed, and the rivers and rivers will not be wasted." ”

Xu Yuanzuo looked at Xu Fan's expression and drank Xu Cheng, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "Am I treating pearls as fish eyes again?" ”

This is the case with "Kindergarten Transcript", which proves that Xu Yuanzuo's vision is far from profound enough in terms of culture, especially in the current cultural field. In fact, as long as you look at the methods used by the court to win scholars, you can see that officialdom and cultural circles overlap greatly. Any cultural behavior may have a political signal lurking.

From this back to the judgment of interests, the big profit for Xu Yuanzuo is a small profit in the eyes of the monarchs who seek the country. And the little residue that flowed out of the fingers of the gentlemen was enough for Xu Yuanzuo to eat.

"I have to talk to my lord about this." Xu Fan licked his lips: "If you can really succeed......"

The impact is just too great!

Just excerpts of example sentences, there is a lot to be done.

In many points of view, from the debate of the ancients to the present, there is no shortage of sentences at all, as long as you intercept what you need to discuss, you can unconsciously sow seeds through the reference book.

Not to mention anything else, just Zhuangzi's sentence "I have an end to life and there is no end to learning" I don't know how many students were encouraged to work hard, until a few years after the rise of the Internet, the second half of the sentence "With an end to the end, there is no end, and it is gone".

Sentences with completely opposite views can be truncated, let alone stuffing some private goods in the dictionary? Can those students who are studying be able to tell the difference? (To be continued......)