Chapter 15 Entrepreneurship

A hero with three gangs, who achieves a career, is not to find a few more helpers.

Li Dang asked Mrs. Wen and Wen Wan if they had any relatives and friends in Bianjing in the past. I have amnesia, I can't remember, if I bump into it one day, people say that I turn my face and don't recognize people, that's not good.

Mrs. Wen heard Li dare to say that she wanted to find relatives and friends, she pondered for a moment, and said softly: "The slave family didn't hear you mention any relatives and friends, the slave family only knew that Li Lang came to the capital last autumn, and originally stayed in the Puji Temple outside the city, but later it was too far away from the Gongyuan for the exam, and it was inconvenient to come and go, so three months ago, under the introduction of Chen San, he lived in the side room of our Wen family. ”

"Who is this Chen San?" Li dared to ask.

Mrs. Wen bit her lower lip, a trace of worry appeared between her eyebrows, and she said, "I heard that it is your distant cousin Li Gongzi, everyone calls him Chen San, and I don't know what his real name is." He is an old man, he has participated in many examinations of the Ministry of Rites, but he has not been lifted, and he doesn't want to return to his hometown, so he fell into the capital, because many years ago, he was kind to my master, so he gave him a face and let you live in the Wen family. ”

Wen Wan saw Li Dang nodding on the side, she said uneasily: "This Chen San is not a good thing, I heard that he specializes in doing some things in the capital that are abducted and cheated and thieves, and my father has not been in contact with him for many years, although I heard that he is the only relative and friend of Brother Li in the capital, but the slave family hopes that Li Gongzi should not go to him, so as not to set himself on fire." ”

His only relative in the Bianjing City of the Song Dynasty was actually an old scoundrel, Li dared not to mention how disappointed he was, he saw that Mrs. Wen and Wen Wan were worried, and nodded again and again that he would not take the initiative to find Chen San.

With no relatives and friends to rely on, Li Dang had no choice but to pull up the banner of "Reincarnation Hua Tuo", wanting to make some quick money as a wandering man.

But things didn't go well.

In the Song Dynasty, the consultation fee of You Fanglang was not high, and he mainly had to buy some fake medicine to make a living.

The ancients were most taboo for others to ask their own "eight characters", Li Dang didn't know what to do, he caught the patient and took out the medical record book he printed, and asked people "what is Gui Geng" and "the day of his birthday", naturally half of the patient was taken away, and the other half saw Li Dang take out metal instruments, and thought that Li Dang was an exorcist to capture people's souls, and he was already frightened and disappeared.

The traveling doctor was unfavorable, and Li Dang was engaged in the publishing business again, so he decided to start with the binding style of the book first.

The binding of books in the Song Dynasty is popular butterfly binding, this kind of bound book, the center of the edition, the book leaves to the left and right sides of the spread, like a butterfly spreading its wings, hence the name butterfly binding. Although the name is good, but at this time, the page stereotype printing is still one-sided, a butterfly-bound book is opened, and it is often encountered that the back of the word is facing people, and the front of the word is facing inward, and it is very inconvenient to flip through.

Li Dang found a bookstore shopkeeper who he knew because he often went to buy tabloids, introduced him to the back of his bag, folded a piece of paper with the text printed outward, and folded it in half, and put out the assembly line at the mouth of the plate, so that the binding could be text on both sides, and it was much more convenient to read than the butterfly outfit.

"Good, good! Li Sheng's method is very good! ”

The shopkeeper of the bookstore watched Li Kang's demonstration, and promised to print books in the future according to Li Kang's method, and promised to give Li Kang three cents if he sold ten books in a bag.

After all, he just came up with an idea, and he didn't pay any actual labor and capital, and Li Dang was still very satisfied with the price offered by the shopkeeper in the study.

Ten books and three texts, one hundred books and thirty texts, and ten thousand books are three thousand texts, just when Li Dang was intoxicated by the big sale of books on the back of the bag, and he could dig the first pot of gold in the Song Dynasty, something unexpected happened to Li Dang.

On the third day, when Li Dang saw the bookstore shopkeeper again, he sighed at the pile of small mountains of books that he had printed overnight.

It turned out that after Li Kang's bag was loaded out, the entire bookstore in Bianjing City felt that this kind of book was convenient to read, and soon all the books in the bag were printed.

Li Dare cooperates with this bookstore, the books they print are not advantageous in terms of paper texture, printing quality, and book content, not to mention that the shopkeeper wants to take the lead in forcibly occupying the book market with new packaging, and it is inevitable that there will be some shoddy production.

Looking at the bookstore of Daxiangguo Temple, which was full of new types of bag-backed books, Li Dang was so depressed that he felt like he saw the child he gave birth to shouting at others.

Li Dang then remembered that the Song Dynasty did not have patent invention protection, and he wanted to simply adjust the position combination of the printed book time plate and the folding direction of the paper when binding the book, so he naively wanted to stand out in the book market, which was not something that made the Song Dynasty people laugh off their front teeth.

You have to find a little more technical, not something that others can easily imitate, Li Dang remembered the news about the glass vase in the tabloid he had read in the past, and he went to a tooth finder in an antique market to ask, and sure enough, the price of the glass in the Song Dynasty exceeded gold, and a small glass wine cup was worth several copper coins.

What made Li dare to call it against the sky was that he also saw a crude glass product in the antique market, and a necklace made of green glass beads was actually five or six times the price of a pearl necklace.

If he could move the small glass shop that made and sold counterfeits in the past to the Song Dynasty, he would have a lot of money, no, he was rich enough to rival the country, and Li Dare to make a fortune skyrocketed.

Li Kang originally built a small kiln in the kitchen of the Wen family, which was used to refine medicine, but it was obviously beyond the power to burn glass and glass, but it was a high temperature of thousands of degrees.

After all, the production of glaze is a complex process, which requires several processes, and it is not Li Dang who can operate it alone, so he asked Mrs. Wen if there is a porcelain burning workshop near Kaifeng City, and the workers there will be faster to grasp the heat and skills of firing glazed glass.

The official kiln of Kaifeng in the Song Dynasty was set up in the late Northern Song Dynasty in order to meet the luxurious life of Zhao Ji of Huizong of the Song Dynasty, and the best porcelain workshop was set up in Hebei at this time, and there was no better porcelain kiln near Bianjing City.

However, the construction of a glazed workshop requires money for land, which is a large investment, and Li Dang remembered the Peng Yuanwai of the crazy Peng family lacquerware shop who loved glazed ware reported by the tabloids.

As soon as he asked Mrs. Wen, he learned that this Peng Yuanwai still had some relationship with him.

"Li Sheng said that there is a Peng family lacquerware shop next to Xiangguo Temple on the South Gate Street of Jingling East Palace, which is the largest lacquerware shop in the city. Mrs. Wen took a bite of the cold nest in her hand, and continued to say to Li Dang, "Although this Peng Yuanwai is not related to Li Lang, but he is a fellow villager in Wenzhou, and he is kind and charitable. ”