Liu Wensuo hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, last time you just went to Kujing Lane in civilian clothes, which has caused the people to panic, if you go now, the ministers are all there, as well as the royal driver and guards, it will definitely bring endless trouble to the people of Kujing Lane." ”

With the current position, you can't go at all.

Liu Wensuo told the truth, Zhao Kuangyin said to a guard: "You go to Kujing Lane to call Song Jiu, and by the way, ask him to bring those textbooks." ”

"Whoa." The guards went down, they were all on horses, and the speed was very fast, Song Jiu brought it, and at this time, Zhao Kuangyin was not on the dock, but standing in the future inn, looking at this strange architectural shape.

Song Jiu saw the car.

Zhao Kuangyin asked, "Are you compiling textbooks?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"Why didn't you come to the ceremony today?"

"There is General Han here, and there are many affairs during this time, such as docks, shops, playgrounds, inns, and coal workshops, which require all kinds of technical research and development. Including the research and development of glass and distilled spirits from a testing laboratory to large-scale mass production. The classes that the students moved had to be made up, the teaching materials, the imperial court developed new wheels, and Weichen occasionally had to go to the steel prison. There are too many distractions, Weichen's brain can't turn around, although the dock is good, there are still a lot of things, and he can only solve some things that can be solved quickly, such as teaching materials. In this way, there are fewer affairs, and Weichen can afford it, so he will watch the ceremony in the future. "Song Jiu is telling the truth, but the main thing is to propose marriage as soon as possible, what is the auspicious day of the zodiac, just to find an excuse for delaying.

"Going to Bashu has dragged you down."

"Your Majesty, I don't dare, Weichen was lucky enough to go to Bashu to do some practical things, and it was worth it, it was this delay. It won't stop for two or three months. The graduation time of students will also be delayed. ”

"It's good that you can think like that, what about the textbook?"

Song Jiu brought a large stack of textbooks from his horse. Because it is a brush character, it is very thick. There are six books in total, each with more than 1,000 pages, but the handwriting becomes smaller after printing, and it will be compressed to three or four hundred pages. It was mainly written by students, sorted out and revised by Song Jiu, and then edited by five gentlemen such as Zhu San. It's almost over.

Zhao Kuangyin opened it and looked at it, full of pictures and texts, he was looking at the enlightenment version of physicology, Song Jiu in order to let more people understand it. Although Zhu Sanyan and Zhang Wuren were asked to polish the text, they still said again and again, don't ask for anything four or six bodies, it's best to be half-literate and half-white, so that everyone can understand it.

This time, it was not Song Jiu's outline-style handouts, which were very detailed, as well as punctuation marks and graphic explanations, and even Zhao Kuangyin understood most of them. But this was exactly what he was worried about, and he said cryptically: "Song Jiu." It was printed as a book and easily circulated abroad. ”

"Your Majesty, it doesn't matter, it's just an enlightenment version and a first-grade textbook. Including the textbooks for the second grade, they are all very simple knowledge. In the third grade, Weichen will pay attention to it and report to His Majesty depending on the situation. But I want to really learn about personality. To be able to reach the level of Wechen, it will take at least five years or more. ”

"How many years have you been studying?"

"Your Majesty. Wechen has not studied for a long time, one or two years. However, Wechen has been improving. ”

There's nothing to say about it.

"Although some students studied with Weichen and participated in the test, the important test was still the twenty-one personal disciples, and Wechen signed a contract with them, and the notarization made by the two kings will not let these disciples out, but for the purpose of cultivating Mr. Cheng in the academy in the future. That is, they may be able to make one or two devices, but they still don't know why they are, and they don't know how they work. Even the three math problems that Weichen came up with can only learn them and crack them after at least three years of study. ”

When it comes to the three math problems, everyone laughs together, where is the place, where is the reward, but where is it, so far no one has answered a question correctly.

"Only you understand this knowledge, you can handle it well, and the important thing is to know that it is kept secret."

"Wei Chen Zhi Dao," Song Jiu said. In fact, Song Jiu is really a little difficult about it, if it is really secret, maybe it will be like a divine arm bow, and later generations will know that it is equipped with a bracket, and it is this bracket that makes it more powerful than the European longbow, but what it is, only God knows the way. Now Song Jiu thought about it, and he couldn't figure it out either. Like the science of physical character, if it is really kept secret and it is useless to only popularize ordinary knowledge, then after the change of dynasty, the true essence of mathematics, physics and chemistry will become a mystery like the bow of the divine arm.

But popular, not afraid of the Khitan, it is still nomadic-based, if you really learn physicism, and Confucianism, this country can compete with the Song Dynasty? I'm not afraid of the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Southern Han Dynasty, the emperors of the two countries are competing and having fun, and they can still think of the study of physical character?

He was afraid of real foreign countries.

For example, there is no Confucianism in Europe, and Confucianism will not be regarded as orthodox, once it is obtained, there is no Confucian constraint, and it is regarded as authentic learning, and it will be popularized very quickly, so will it rise in advance? It's a pity that I don't remember it so clearly, and I don't know the history of the development of Europe.

There is also a country, the Wano State.

If all of them are released, it will evolve into the situation of the Tang Dynasty like Chinese cabbage, and the advanced culture will be desperately transmitted there. Under the influence of Chinese civilization, this obscene island nation quickly transformed from a slave society to a feudal society. It is the Chinese civilization that has codified its heritage, if not, what is the difference with those countries in the South Seas? It's a pity that he is not the emperor, otherwise he would find a way to suppress the civilization of this country. If these learnings are passed on, it will not be good either.

In fact, once it spreads, it will be a time to compete for attention and development. It's okay now, and it will be a big deal in the future, and even at this time, Song Jiu thought of five people, Ouyang Xiu, Wen Yanbo, Sima Guang and Ercheng, but unfortunately he couldn't live that day, otherwise before these four people grew up, they would be found and killed one by one! Especially Sima Guang, he killed him, and everything was fine in the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Kuangyin looked at it for a while, handed it back to Song Jiu, and Song Jiu said: "Your Majesty, this is also a science, it is almost written, and Weichen dares to ask Your Majesty to write an essay." ”

"Okay, I'll give it to you tomorrow."

The next day, Song Jiu received a royal gift, a gorgeous four-six body, in fact, it was made clear in just one sentence, the great Song Dynasty blessings were extended, good luck, and strange people descended from the sky, and passed on the knowledge to my court student Song Jiu, which means that the Song Dynasty is the destiny of heaven.

And yet it's a thousand words!

Song Jiu smiled dumbly when he saw it, this is a standard Song Dynasty four-six-body article. But it is definitely not from the hand of Zhao Kuangyin, so I don't know which minister of Lu Dao ghostwrote. I begin to have a craftsman engraving. It is also a huge project, six volumes. After the engraving is printed, it will reach 2,100 pages and nearly 1.2 million characters, which is more than 10 times the root of the Shuowen. In the three drafts, the most one student ghostwrote nearly 100,000 words from writing to revision. Including five gentlemen, each of them wrote sixty or seventy thousand words for polishing.

Dr. Yan looked at it with a lot of emotion, it was not easy.

Song Jiu smiled, is it much? There is a place called the beginning in the afterlife. If you don't code three million words a year, you can't call yourself a writer. The amount of labor of one person in less than half a year can complete the amount of labor of forty-six people in one year.

Two thousand one hundred pages means that two thousand one hundred stone slabs must be carved, and they must also be orthographed and reversed.

In order to speed up, Song Jiu was not afraid of spending money, so he asked the Yanai to invite more than 300 craftsmen, and almost half of the carvers in the major bookstores in the capital were invited, but it was still not enough, and he asked the imperial court for support. From the surrounding states and counties to the capital, more than 400 craftsmen were transferred to support. Fortunately, the weather was neither hot nor cold, and it was located in the warehouse that is still empty. Carved inside. This grab, before and after the cost of engraving alone reached more than 2,000. Money is used more, and the speed is also kept up. If it is carved by seventy craftsmen. One person has to carve thirty stone slabs, and God knows when he will be able to carve them.

Craftsmen carving. Song Jiu began to move part of the test laboratory, barely producing energy. It is not as good as the glass of later generations, but it can meet the standard of the best glass that has been eaten by the world. But this is a mature technique, not the best glaze occasionally burned out by the big food, and it can be more large-scale and processed, and the cost is lower, and then a little improved, it can indeed be done as Song Jiu said, and dump it on the big food in turn.

This is an ancestor who burned money, burned more than a dozen craftsmen are cold, it is not over, continue to burn, including sulfuric acid and boric acid, now can barely be mass-produced, the cost is still high, fortunately boric acid powder in the proportion of burning glass is not high. Therefore, the craftsmen will be moved to the houses that were built this spring, and will not be moved to Hezhou for the time being. However, these craftsmen Song Jiu did not think lowly, they were not Shinong businessmen, but experts.

Although it was a temporary house, when Song Jiulin left, he repeatedly instructed that it must be beautiful and comfortable. One set of people, or three up and three down, but the real three big rooms are three up and three down. It was the craftsman who moved away, and it was a test related to the glass. While mass production, we will continue to test and improve the miniaturization. But the two acid tests are still retained on the river island, and no one dares to imagine how much money they will burn after they are burned to the fullest. However, this can be moved back for the time being.

There were too many things, but Song Jiu was finally able to return to normal teaching.

Dr. Yan looked at him teaching students, shook his head, and said, "It's not easy. ”

Ten days later, the steward who presided over the engraving brought six volumes of books and said, "Jiulang, they are printed, can you look at the sample?" ”

Song Jiu flipped through it carefully, and Mr. Zhu and the students also gathered around to watch. The steward asked, "Jiulang, you can invite someone from the bookstore to come over." ”

In the past, the printing of books was either presided over by the imperial court, and most of them were engraved by the Guozijian, the secretary supervisor, the Si Tianjian and the Chongwenguan to engrave various official books, and the states and counties with good conditions would also engrave some books, and more than 400 craftsmen transferred by the imperial court came from these institutions.

Either it is the major bookstores, the front shop sells books, the back shop carves books, and the more than 300 craftsmen who are helped to pull in various methods in various offices are from these bookshops. All of them are for commercial purposes.

Song Jiu's six sets of books, one of which is for teaching, most of them are still circulated to the people through major bookstores, otherwise they can only be distributed free of charge. In that case, no matter how much property Song Jiu has, it will not be enough to issue it indiscriminately. Song Jiu nodded and said, "Start work first, print 1,000 sets, each divided into 500 sets, and distribute them to Hezhong and Hebei." ”

"Well, how much does that cost to the bookstore?"

"Six hundred dollars."

"Six hundred yuan, that's not good, this money is not enough for the cost of ink and paper, Jiulang, it's not a small mouth, do you know how much your handouts cost for a manuscript outside? Eight hundred dollars, the content of which is not as knowledgeable as one of the books. ”

"I know the truth, but this is a good deed, it is education, it is to cultivate talents for the country, other money can be earned, this money cannot be earned."

"You can't make money to save lives and help the wounded, you can't make money for education, Jiulang, which the old man appreciates very much," Dr. Zhang said.

"What do you old master know, the selling price of six hundred yuan means that the more you sell, the more Jiulang loses, Jiulang vegetables have made some money, and the available money is also powerful, and that money is not floating in the water, it is money earned by wisdom!"

"Steward Zhu, don't fight, so be it, six hundred yuan, and also say to the various bookstores, allow them to earn a little, but I don't want each set to sell for more than one penny. It has nothing to do with me how to sell it, but I must sign an agreement when ordering, and if it exceeds one penny, I must be compensated ten times the price of the book. ”

The steward left reluctantly.

He asked Yanai to invite him to take care of Song Jiu, what is to take care of, it is to make money, but this business made him very unwilling.

It is true that Song Jiu did a lot of losses in this transaction, and the most lucrative ones did not include those that were given away for free, and also discarded the cost of engraving, and the cost of a set of printing still reached nearly 700 yuan. No way, paper is expensive, ink is expensive, and it is a big character, which takes up extra paper!

Otherwise, Song Jiu still wanted to sell it cheaper. He set a precedent for this kind of thinking, in fact, there is a kind of engraving in the Song Dynasty, called family carving, engraved for free to give to relatives and friends or private school students, because of limited financial resources, the number of prints is small, but to do good deeds, the proofreading is fine, the engraving is good, and the quality often exceeds the official engraving. However, the country has not gotten better yet, and there are not many people with special wealth, and they have not seen their families. Song Jiu's half family is the first time.

The stewards of dozens of bookstores arrived one by one, looked at the books, and listened to the price, and felt incredible. A Book of Changes is only more than 20,000 words, and the price has reached 150 texts, not to mention such a thick six-volume book.

People have to sell it like this, what can they do? If it is sold cheaply and well, the sales will be large, and I am afraid that Song Jiu will regret it, so I signed more than 7,000 sets at once. Hearing this number, Steward Zhu was so anxious that he wanted to jump again. However, cheap does have the benefit of being cheap, and in less than a month, 7,000 sets of books were sold out.

The various stewards of the bookstore left overjoyed, and Steward Zhu kept chanting in his mouth and left, Yuping said: "Jiulang, you can send a matchmaker to the door to propose, you have made an appointment with the lady of the Pan family for a month, and now it is almost forty days." ”

"I'm so busy that I don't know what the days are."

"There isn't much money at home," Yuping said, Song Jiu wanted to use the money, Yuping didn't stop it, but she was just as frightened when she used the money. The high-priced vegetables were sold all over the capital, but in just a few months, more than half of the money earned from the houses built for more than a dozen glass craftsmen, the glass workshop, the deed money for Pan Weide, the money used for the test, and the money used for this set of book engravings fell in the blink of an eye. The test will continue to burn money, build a new classroom when it is hot, and other expenses that you can't think of. I made a lot of money last year, but immediately the money was not enough.

Song Jiu said: "It's really not good, after the glass is officially burned, put it on the store, use it for advertising, and then sell the glass." ”

"That's an idea," Yuping let go of her heart and said, "Tomorrow is a good day, let the matchmaker go to Pan's house." ”

"Okay."

The next day, the two matchmakers came over, this is the beginning, and it must be the beginning of a good job, part of it is its own strength, and part of it is also the matchmaker will say, especially Tian seems to be a little reluctant, and the mouth kung fu of the two matchmakers has become particularly important. Yuping gave each of the two matchmakers a gold ingot of more than 30 taels, and asked the matchmaker to propose marriage for Song Jiu's Pan family.

The matchmaker took the money and happily proposed to go, while Song Jiu and Yuping sat at home waiting for news. The sun was past noon in a blink of an eye, and the weather was getting hotter, and the morning cicadas were singing outside...... (To be continued......)