The talents scattered from the county office, hurried back to their homes, and re-posted the notices that they regarded as treasures.

Many people were secretly surprised to see that the notice that disappeared overnight was re-posted by a group of showmen.

After inquiring, I found out what happened, and I couldn't help but laugh secretly.

In this way, with the news that Xiucai unveiled the notice in the middle of the night, the news that the Ministry of Rites was about to publish a new edition of the Analects spread throughout Daxing City.

The Analects has a supreme position in the minds of readers. Whether rich or poor, every reader will have a copy of the Analects in their hands, read it several times a day, read it by heart, and memorize the teachings of the sages.

However, the Analects produced by the Ministry of Rites is different from the one they have, because it was printed with block printing.

It is said that every character on the new edition of the Analects is exactly the same, the same size.

More importantly, the newly printed Analects was extremely cheap.

Such a beautifully shaped and inexpensive "Analects" is about to be released, which has touched the minds of many readers.

'I'm going to have to buy a copy and read it!' Countless readers said in their hearts.

The next day, the sun had just risen, and the spring chill was still pressing.

Countless scholars poured out of their homes and into the streets to see what was so special about the Analects printed by the so-called block printing technique.

Dr. Wang walked out of the house and went to the bookstore to buy a new edition of the Analects.

When I arrived at the place, I saw that there was already a long line next to the bookstore, and I realized that I was late.

In desperation. I had to line up, and when I saw my peers leaving happily with the Analects, and from time to time there were cheers, Dr. Wang couldn't help but feel itchy.

The team moved forward little by little, and after waiting for a long time, it was finally Dr. Wang's turn.

'A copy of the Analects. Dr. Wang said eagerly.

'Twenty Wen! In the bookstore, a clerk in his twenties said.

'Twenty Wen? Dr. Wang exclaimed.

The price of 20 wen is not that this book is expensive, but that it is too cheap.

Books are the most expensive treasures in this era, and the reason why scholarly families are respected. It is because of the rich collection of books in his home. Ordinary people flaunt their wealth, and families flaunt their collections of books.

And it's not relatives and friends, and if you want to borrow a book, you don't have to open your mouth.

As a result, ordinary people want to read but can't. Because the price of books is just too expensive.

The price of an ordinary book on the market is more than 100 yuan. This is a high price that the average person says is unaffordable.

'Twenty Wen! The clerk rolled his eyes and said. The same words have been asked to him countless times, and he is too lazy to answer now.

Twenty Wen is already an ultra-low price, Rao is so. The Ministry of Rites is still making a lot of money.

The Analects are all woodblock printing, each handwriting is very small, the font is small, and the number of words on each piece of paper is more, so that the new version of the Analects only uses half of the paper of the previous Analects, which can be said to save a lot of costs.

In this way, the cost of paper, engraving, ink, plus the cheap labor hired from the displaced people, and the cost of transportation, the cost of a copy of the Analects is about ten wen.

The cost of ten wen is sold for twenty wen, which is already a 100% profit. This is also the price set by the Ministry of Rites in order to promote education, otherwise there will still be people buying it if it is sold for fifty yuan.

Seeing the clerk nodding, Dr. Wang quickly took out twenty pieces and handed them over.

The clerk took the money and handed over a copy of the Analects.

'Hurry up! Someone in the back urged.

Before Dr. Wang could watch, he was pushed away by the crowd behind him.

After walking out of the crowd, Dr. Wang found a quiet place and couldn't wait to pick up the book in his hand.

Smelling the rich scent of ink, Dr. Wang took a pleasant breath.

Open the book, rows of small characters appear in front of you, sure enough, each font is the average size, the font is the original peacock character created by His Royal Highness the Acting King, each word is square and round, beautiful and abnormal, thousands of times stronger than the usual hand-copied books.

'Value! Dr. Wang said secretly in his heart.

Anyone who saw the new edition of the Analects had the same idea, it was so beautifully made and so cheap that almost all the readers in Daxing City wanted a copy.

In just one day, all 10,000 copies of the Analects printed by the Ministry of Rites were sold out. The profit of each book is ten yuan, that is, the Ministry of Rites earned one hundred yuan in this day's time.

100 guan a day, that doesn't actually mean that 3,000 guan a month, and 30,000 guan profit a year.

And this is still the sales volume of Daxing City in one day, if you look at the entire Jingzhao County, it is not ten times more.

If you look at the entire Guanzhong region, it will not increase by a hundred times, and if it is issued nationwide, it will not be a thousand times.

The eyes of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites glowed with excitement, and he shouted: "Immediately publish it with all your might, not only the Analects, but also the Analects, the University, the Mean, the Book of Songs, the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Historical Records...... I'll print them all out with all my might.

'Yes! All the officials of the Ministry of Rites were also agitated.

As long as it develops according to this posture, the Ministry of Rites, which has always been chicken, will become a new department in addition to the Ministry of Household and Industry in Daxing City.

Everyone knows that the credit for all this is due to the invention of engraving printing by His Royal Highness the Acting King.

It seems that if you follow His Royal Highness the Acting King, you will get earth-shattering benefits, and the other departments in the Daxing Palace are not only ready to move.

Many ministers frequently asked to see Yang Yu, asking this and that, to see if there was a way to get their department out of poverty and become rich.

While dealing with the crooked officials, Yang Yu looked at the "Analects" in his hand absentmindedly.

Simple book cover, plain content, no illustrations, no patterns, this is just the most ordinary white paper in later generations, but this era has become a high-quality book sought after by everyone.

In the following days, the books printed by engraving were beautiful and generous, and the price was very popular with readers, and the purchase volume increased greatly. Often, once the Ministry of Rites prints the book, as soon as the door of the Ministry of Rites is opened, it is immediately sold out.

Looking at the hot sales situation, such a high demand, and the Ministry of Rites is unable to print enough books.

Looking at the money that was reachable, but unable to do anything because of its own reasons, the whole department of the Ministry of Rites was heartbroken.

In the end, stimulated by money, the Ministry of Rites finally put down its noble posture and began to cooperate with the Ministry of Industry, of course, the Ministry of Rites publicized it to the outside world in order to better publicize the teachings of the saints.

The huge productivity of the Ministry of Industry joined. This greatly speeds up the speed of printing. A large number of books began to be paved along the brick road to the nearby counties.

There was a buying frenzy in these counties. Often, families carry boxes and boxes into their homes to replace old books that have long been yellowed.

On the best day, the Ministry of Rites sold 100,000 printed books and made a profit of 1,000 kan. This made all the officials in Daxing City red-eyed.

Meantime. In order to print books. The Ministry of Rites purchased paper on a large scale, resulting in a shortage of paper in Daxingcheng.

Yang Yu was dressed in civilian clothes and was accompanied by Wang Xi and Dong Yue. In front of one of the largest bookstores in Daxing City.

Yang Yu sat in the carriage and saw that the bookstore was full of people, no one came in and out, and the sales were quite hot.

'His Royal Highness the Acting King is wise, as soon as this printing technique comes out, the world's readers are no longer tired of copying books. The king sighed.

Although he was a eunuch, he could also read and hyphenate, and he was ecstatic about the appearance of a large number of exquisite and low-cost books.

Yang Yu couldn't help nodding proudly in his heart, he didn't expect the world to respect cheap books so much, and he was a little surprised by such a popularity.

At this time, a group of fourteen or fifteen-year-old teenagers rushed to the bookstore, chattering and rushing into the bookstore.

Even a young man works so hard, it's really the rise of the empire! A scribe who had just walked out of the bookstore and passed by the group of teenagers nodded in approval.

As soon as the words fell, several teenagers rushed out, each holding a beautiful book in their hands, and they were all elated.

In this life, Yang Yu's eyesight finally came into play, and he swept his eyes and found that the books in the hands of these secondary two teenagers were very familiar.

A bad feeling suddenly rose, and Yang Yu rushed into the bookstore.

looked around, and sure enough, in the most conspicuous place, I saw a stack of printed "Qin Shi Mingyue".

'How is this possible!' Yang Yu said.

"Qin Shi Mingyue" directly sent out two copies, one to Wei Mingyue and one to Yang Jier.

Now a group of secondary school teenagers actually rushed into the bookstore and could take out a copy.

Yang Yu stepped forward to pick up a book, a clerk wanted to stop it, Dong Yue stepped forward and handed over twenty yuan, all printed books are at this price.

However, the clerk glanced at Dong Yue contemptuously and said, "This book is fifty articles!" ‘

Nowadays, the bookstore is selling well, and the clerks have eyes on their foreheads, and if they were a scribe, these clerks would respect them.

But Dong Yue looked like a rough man, and if he was killed, he couldn't be a well-educated person.

Dong Yue's face suddenly turned ugly, he snorted, and added another thirty with a black face.

Yang Yu opened the book and found that this Qin Shi Mingyue was exactly the same as his one in terms of content, but it was not as good as the wood carving Li in terms of carving techniques, and the characters were slightly stiff and dull.

But in this era of spiritual scarcity, this book immediately aroused the interest of countless people as soon as it came out.

Just when Yang Yu stayed at the door of the bookstore for a while, almost everyone walked out of the bookstore and there would be a copy of Qin Shi Mingyue in their hands, and many people were reading it in fascination.

'Yang Ji'er! Yang Yu gritted his teeth.

Being able to have Qin Shi Mingyue and instruct the Ministry of Industry to print is obviously a good thing that Yang Jier has done.

Yang Ji'er, who was depositing money in the Imperial Bank at this moment, suddenly shuddered, couldn't help but tighten her clothes, and muttered: "Who is talking bad about me behind my back." ‘

It turned out that since Yang Jier opened an account in the Imperial Bank, she has completely become a money fan.

When he secretly entered Yang Yu's secret courtyard that day, Yang Ji'er secretly took out a carving of Qin Shi Mingyue.

When the Ministry of Rites relied on engraving and printing to make a fortune, Yang Ji'er's eyes suddenly shone golden, she looked at Qin Shi Mingyue in her hand, and thought of a way to make a fortune.

For the trivial matter of printing books for Princess Izumo, of course, the Ministry of Industry will do so, and even with the enthusiastic help of Ping Honggui, Yang Jier directly borrowed the distribution channel of the Ministry of Rites to distribute "Qin Shi Mingyue" in an all-round way.

Under the care of Ping Honggui, as soon as "Qin Shi Mingyue" was put on the shelves, it was placed in the most conspicuous position.

The unique comic style, the wonderful storyline, and the battle between the hundreds of schools of thought, all of these things contributed to the popularity of Qin Shi Mingyue.

Children cry, adults buy for children.

The artist was attracted by the comic style and regarded it as a treasure and bought it.

Ordinary people are tired of reading the words of the sage, and they face a boring life every day, and at this time, they suddenly have a book of spiritual food in front of them, how can they not buy it.

Even some illiterate people buy it, and they don't read words, but they can look at pictures!

Driven by various factors, Qin Shi Mingyue was completely on fire.

Its sales surpassed that of the Analects in a short period of time, which stunned everyone.

Behind the fire of the bright moon in the Qin period, the price of paper in Daxingcheng rose by another percent.

A Xiucai found a few bookstores and found that the price of paper had risen sharply, and the quantity was scarce, so he couldn't help but sigh: 'Daxing paper is expensive. ‘

As soon as this remark came out, it was immediately recognized by many readers.

All of a sudden, Daxing paper is expensive, and it has become another beautiful talk in Daxing City, and the thief who steals words is two important things in Daxing City. (To be continued......)