Chen Kefu and the others rode slowly through the East City and arrived at the West Market. The West Market is a lively place, pedestrians are weaving, shoulder to shoulder, after arriving in the West Market, Chen Kefu and others also began to dismount and walk.

Liaodong City is not only a war fortress, but also the first trade city in Liaodong. Therefore, after a few years of exhibition, there has already been a complete set of business plans here. The market of Liaodong City is divided into two cities, east and west.

The East Market is close to the inner city, and has always been a treasure from all over the world, all of which are accumulated, and the goods operated by the market are more high-quality luxury goods to meet the needs of the noble lords living in the inner city, and gradually the East Market finally formed a special luxury product

Market.

On the contrary, the West City Gate is directly opposite here, and not far away is the Da Liao River that leads directly to the north and south to the sea. Most of the merchants from all over the world live in this area. There is a Khitan here

The people, Turks, Xi people, Central Plains people, Mòhé people, Murowei people, Silla people, Ji people, and even the Dongying people, Bōsi people, and the Great Cannibal Hu merchants also set up shop here. It can be said that it is the entire Liaodong, Liaoxi, and the sea

East, the largest and most prosperous commodity trading place.

There are many houses with common surnames around the West Market, and the goods sold in the market are mostly clothes, candles, cakes, medicines and other daily necessities. The West City is more prosperous than the East City, and it is the main business district and economic activity center of Liaodong City

This is also known as the "gold market". There are two equal streets with a width of ten steps in the north-south direction and the east-west direction in the west market, and the four streets cross vertically and horizontally into a "well" shape, dividing the whole city into a rectangular area.

After the recovery of Liaodong City by Chen Kefu, after the influx of many merchants, the market of the entire Liaodong City is more prosperous, and the West Market is more and more lively. In the words of those merchants in the Central Plains, Liaodong City is simply a small Chang'an.

Not only Zamuan, who is from the Murowei tribe, looked at the various storefronts and colorful goods, and he didn't know where to put his hands. Even the envoys of the two agrarian countries, Ji and Silla, were a little surprised

Already. Some of them have been to Liaodong City, but at that time, Liaodong City was only a trading city for the Liaodong and Liaoxi tribes, but now, after Liaodong City has many merchants from the Central Plains joined, its excitement has doubled several times.

The neat rows of storefronts have already been formed into rows according to different types, and they are all gathered together. On both sides of the wide street, there are mountains of goods piled up in front of each store. groceries

Shops, new goods stores, gold banks, fruit shops, shoes and hats shops, medicine shops, at a glance, there are fù girls and children shopping there everywhere. Most of these are the relatives of the Sui family who have just arrived in Liaodong from the Central Plains, although they arrived in Liaodong as soon as they arrived

Sons are all assigned. But it is impossible to bring all kinds of items from the Central Plains thousands of miles away, but fortunately, Chen Kefu is also generous, and he will give twenty yuan to settle down.

In the newly occupied city of Liaodong, all kinds of prices are not expensive, and the rice is less than 30 yuan, which is much cheaper than the heavy bandit areas of Shandong, Henan and the Central Plains. The soldiers who stayed in Liaodong were basically all

saved a lot of money, settling-in expenses, food, rewards, and all kinds of miscellaneous money, Chen Kefu was very generous to everyone. These family members, who have money, have been shopping all over the city.

Compared with the gloomy clouds and mist in the plain, everyone in Liaodong can feel a unique temperament in Liaodong. A new temperament, a vibrant, thriving, and confident temperament. Coming to Liaodong is not a match, nor is it a difficulty, but the beginning of a new life. There were no wars, no bandits, and not even the excessive taxes of the government.

The Chinese people have a tradition of loving their roots since ancient times, and if they weren't happy anymore, these family members would not be willing to leave their homeland and come to the legendary bitter cold Liaodong. It was only when it arrived in Liaodong that although Liaodong was cold, even the fields allocated were barren, but in comparison, Liaodong did satisfy everyone.

The envoys were all greeted by this optimism, confidence, and happiness of all the people in the city. Many people were secretly surprised in their hearts that the Sui State was able to turn Goguryeo's Liaodong so quickly

Liaodong of the Sui Dynasty, it seems that there is no change in this place. In particular, they noticed that most of the former Goguryeo people who were in the bottom position in Liaodong City were now living in the city as coolies and porters

This kind of work, but there is no sense of dissatisfaction and unyielding on everyone's face. On the contrary, these deceased people who should have been hostile to the Sui people were very happy, and this happiness was from the heart, and they could see it at a glance

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Passing by a quaintly decorated storefront, Mi-sang, an envoy from the Silla Kingdom, asked to go in and take a look. This is a bookstore, to be precise, the official store of the Liaodong Army. The government-run store, that is, Chen Kefu used it

The profits of the shops opened by the seized money and grain went to the army, and a portion of the dividends were given to those who had died or were disabled in the war. On the day the army was first established, he said that he would follow him

Chen Kefu, if which arrow takes the first step,

Or if he is injured, he Chen Kefu and the broken military camp will bear it for a lifetime.

The shop is decorated in an antique style, and the shelves inside are filled with shelves of books full of ink. Books, for the people of this era, are sacred. After Yang Guang ascended the throne, he built a temple in the eastern capital

Wendian, the total number of books in the collection reaches more than 30,000 volumes, limited to writing 50 copies, divided into three products, in the east and west corridors of the temple of the eastern capital, listed in the row. Moreover, the people of the world are required to donate books, and each book is given as a reward.

Books represent the inheritance of cultural etiquette, the past and the future of a nation. In such a wild place, everyone was surprised to see so many books suddenly. Printing books in this era was cumbersome, costly, and difficult to print. Ordinary people often can't afford to buy books or can't save books, so they can only borrow books from those temples or official eunuchs.

Silla's envoy Misheng was Silla's Ministry of Rites, and books and culture were the things that were in charge of his official position. He was very proficient in the culture of the Central Plains, and at a glance, there were many classics of Zhuzi, such as the Analects, Mencius, the University and the Mean: The Book of Songs and the Book of Songs

There are books such as "Book of Rites", "Zhou Yi" and "Spring and Autumn". Meisheng's face was a little swollen red, and he said to Princess Shengman beside him, "Your Highness, I didn't expect that there would be so many scriptures here. In previous years, it was very rare for us in Silla to collect a copy, can Your Highness ask Marshal Chen to let us buy some of it? ”

Only the nobles of Silla had it, and these books of scripture and history were even more rare, and they were generally copied. If you can buy so many ready-made ones at once... That day was very helpful to Silla.

Princess Shengman nodded, "Marshal Chen, I, Silla have always admired the culture of the Central Plains, and suddenly I saw that there are so many books here, I wonder if I can let Silla buy some?" ”

Chen Kefu smiled, "Oh, Silla also admires Chinese culture? That's good, buy as much as you want. We are originally a bookstore, and we will sell it naturally if we buy less. Just tell the boss how much you want. ”

An elementary school apprentice in the store hurriedly called the shopkeeper from the back, and the shopkeeper was a retired soldier of the Liaodong Army who had a broken hand. Just because he knew some words, he was arranged to be the shopkeeper in this bookstore.

"Boss, we want to buy these classics, I don't know if we can?" Meisheng said hurriedly.

"Yes, of course, I don't know how many copies you want?"

"I want it all!"

The shopkeeper smiled, "Do you really want it all?" We have a lot of books in the store, and there's a warehouse in the back. ”

"No matter how much I want!" Meisheng didn't want to miss this opportunity, so he nodded busily.

The shopkeeper used that one-armed to fight skillfully on the abacus, and after a while, he looked up and said, "This guest, we have a total of thirty or seventy classics in our store, if you want them all, we can give them to you now."

There are 307,000 copies in total, 1,000 copies each. You buy more, we sell each book for one penny, a total of 37,000 dollars. If you need us to deliver, as long as it is in Liaodong City, we will deliver it, you are a big Gu

Customer, this is the first time to do business, we will not charge additional shipping this time. You see, do you pay cash or a silver ticket? ”

The shopkeeper didn't see a response for a long time after speaking, and when he looked up, he saw the sweat on the face of the beautiful student.

Meisheng didn't think that 37,000 yuan was too expensive, but she never thought that such a small store would have more than 300,000 books.

More than 300,000 books, what is this concept? Not only him, but everyone was stunned and couldn't believe it.

Chen Kefu looked at them and smiled proudly, the reason why he could have so many books was because he asked the craftsman who printed the book to come up with the bell movable type printing technique. With movable type, he had enough slave manpower. Just the template

When it comes out, it can be printed day and night. Since the papermaking technology of this era was not advanced, the paper was brittle and expensive, and good paper was really expensive. Chen Kefu used his knowledge to create several new forms of papermaking and movable type printing

The brushing technique is all out.

Originally, he got these to print those commentaries.,In addition, it's also for his national sinicization plan...

Printed textbooks. As a result, who would have thought that printing and papermaking in this era were still so backward. In the end, Chen Kefu simply printed the book, since the book is so expensive, we simply printed the book and sold it. Sold to the Central Plains, Liaodong all over the country. pass through

A lot of history subsets have been printed, but the most printed are all kinds of commentaries, legendary books, and by the way, some comic books have been printed. Not to mention, it's just such a whole set of industries of papermaking, book compilation, printing, and sales, and the profits in it are actually skyrocketing

The benefits are amazing. It's faster than his war and robbery, just this book, the cost is only ten yuan, but the internal price of the Sui people is fifty yuan, and it is usually sold in large quantities to those merchants is also fifty yuan. A book nets forty dollars,

Four-quarters of the profit.

However, when printing books, Chen Kefu had several special regulations, and each bookstore could only sell those subsets of scriptures and histories that could be bought on the market, as well as various legendary books, storytelling, comic books, Buddhism, and Taoism

Scriptures. The rest of the miscellaneous studies that people usually look down on, no matter what kind of miscellaneous books they are, are not allowed to be printed and sold, especially the books on the art of war, the strategy of war, the production and manufacturing, and the guidance of agricultural production such as the Qi people of the Northern Qi Dynasty

Books and all kinds of medical prescriptions are forbidden to be printed and sold to the outside world. In particular, it is forbidden to sell to foreign nationalities, and merchants must be inspected at the borders of all localities to prevent people from bringing them to foreign nationalities.