"Tear it down here"

"Dig a groove and get some flowers to plant here, so that you can separate the places and save the screen."

"There are a few sofas and maza here, so that guests can take a break."

"Open that window a little wider so it gets better light."

In the Yuman Building, the new owner Liu Yuan kept pointing at the furnishings, and several newly bought craftsmen followed behind and remembered while responding.

"Master, that, what's the sofa?" A white, pale carpenter asked cautiously.

Liu Yuan turned his head and looked, and immediately recognized that the person who asked the question was an old carpenter named Lao Bai, the old white man is as his name, the old man is white, but he is very skilled in carpentry, I heard that he has repaired the palace for the previous dynasty, that is, because of this, the most Lu was demoted to an official slave, and after several changes, the most Lu was bought by Liu Yuan, because of his good character and exquisite craftsmanship, he is also the invisible leader of these craftsmen, and his words are very weighty.

By the way, Liu Yuan patted his head, forgetting that this is the early Tang Dynasty, there is no seat now, many people are kneeling, only informal occasions will appear from Hu Renru's Maza, where is there any sofa, Liu Yuan usually makes a wooden pier to sit on.

However, Liu Yuan had already prepared.

"Lao Bai" Liu Yuan called his name and said: "The sofa is a kind of seat I came up with, I drew the drawings, you are the old man in the carpentry, just look at the drawings to build, what do you don't understand, you have a good peck, by the way, I also designed the Xiaoyao chair, Taishi chair, etc., this is my own use, for me to build, remember to use good wood, money is not enough, find Zhao Steward to pay money." ”

After Liu Yuan finished speaking, he took out a few drawings that had been drawn in advance, and handed them to the old carpenter Lao Bai, which he drew in his spare time, all of which were sketches of some tables and chairs.

People are slaves, they don't need to be paid, that is, they spend some materials on their own, for their own good life, Liu Yuan will naturally not be stingy.

"Hey, these things are so novel, let me think about it, well, although it's a bit novel, but with the craftsmanship of the old slave, there shouldn't be any problem, master, when do you want this sofa or a free chair?" Lao Bai pondered for a while, with his vision and experience, although the things Liu Yuan took out, although it was a bit novel, he had never seen it, but the visual inspection process was still quite simple, and there was no difficulty in making it confidently.

Liu Yuan smiled and said, "That's great, let's do it as soon as possible, and when it's done, I'll send it to my new house." ”

Do it well as soon as possible, and get rid of the pain of kneeling as soon as possible.

"Yes, master, the old slave must hurry up and finish it." Lao Bai hurriedly responded. "Liu Yuan, you say, do you want to change a name here?" Du Sanniang on the side suddenly said: "This Yumanlou was created by Chen Chang, and now it is a thing or a person, and this name has to be changed." ”

Xiao Niang also nodded and said, "Sanniang is right, senior brother, change your name." ”

That's right, Liu Yuan patted his thigh, to be honest, he almost forgot about it, he called him Yumanlou just now, the emperor also had to change the country name when he ascended the throne, didn't Liu Yuan renovate it as soon as he took over, change the name, first, the newcomer and the new atmosphere, and second, dilute its imprint, which is also a big thing.

"Little lady, come on, what is the name of this Yumanlou?"

"This kind of thing, senior brother, you can just take the idea, the little lady will listen to the senior brother." Xiao Niang heard Liu Yuan ask for her opinion, this is Liu Yuan has her in his heart, which makes Xiao Niang very happy.

However, she habitually "listens" to her brother.

Du Sanniang said a little jealously: "Liu Yuan, it's better to just have the little lady's gold ornaments, otherwise it will be called Liu Yuan gold ornaments, the surnames of the two of you are here, and Yuan and Yuan are still the same sound." ”

Xiao Niang smiled and said to Sanniang: "I have a family of gold and jade, senior brother, it is better to call Sanniang gold jewelry here, Sanniang is absolutely beautiful Suhuai, no one knows about the whole Yangzhou, no one knows, in the name of Sanniang, business will definitely be booming." ”

"Little lady, it's better to use your name."

"Sanniang, it's best to use your name."

The two girls said on the spot, and Liu Yuan's head on the side appeared black lines, these two chicks, it seems that they don't take themselves too seriously, do business, do you think it's a playhouse, you say a word to me, it seems that none of them finished speaking.

Liu Yuan smiled bitterly and said, "Okay, the two young ladies don't have to fight, I'm already thinking about the new store name." ”

"What's it called?" The two women asked in unison. "The Golden Jade Family." Liu Yuan said without hesitation.

Xiao Niang was secretly happy in her heart, but she still said hesitantly: "Senior brother, aren't there two golden and jade families?" ”

"yes, will it disturb people?" Du Sanniang also echoed on the side.

"Hey, it's easy." Liu Yuan smiled proudly: "The Jinyu family, or the Jinyu family, the Yumanlou, we call the Jinyu family No. 2 branch, so that the guests will know that what is sold here is the same quality as the Jinyu family, the same exquisite and reliable, not only that, I hope that in the three hundred and sixty state capitals of the Tang Dynasty, in a chain way, each state will open a branch belonging to our Jinyu family, and each semicolon is in the name of the Jinyu family, and it is arranged in a row from the second, so that The whole Datang can buy fine jewelry produced by my Jinyu family, and my Jinyu family will become the leading top business in Datang. ”

After reading it, Xiao Niang and Du Sanniang looked at Liu Yuan in surprise, their eyes were full of admiration, they didn't expect Liu Yuan's ambition to be so lofty.

From this moment, Xiao Niang really felt that the original senior brother said that he wanted to build the Jinyu family into the largest and best gold store in the Tang Dynasty, but now it seems that it is not a joke.

After recruiting the craftsmen who originally belonged to Yumanlou and arranging the renovation of Yumanlou, Liu Yuan immediately ordered to follow Ayi beside him to prepare the carriage, and he had to go to the printing workshop to see where it was now.

"I'll go home now and see how things are going over there, what about you two?" Liu Yuan turned his head and asked Xiao Niang what Du Sanniang meant.

These two cute "heel bugs".

Xiao Niang just wanted to speak, Du Sanniang immediately grabbed her, and said first: "Shopkeeper Liu is a person who does big things, these little women of the slave family will not hinder you from working, Xiao Niang, I heard that Li Ji Silk Shop has shipped a batch of good Jiangnan silk, and where is the grocery store, it seems that those Hu merchants have sent new goods over, I heard that there are still many interesting things, let's take a look." ”

"Okay, Sanniang, let's go together." The little lady hesitated for a moment, but quickly agreed.

It's not that she likes those things, but she thinks that when the senior brother is doing big things, it's best not to get in the way of him.

The two girls didn't follow, and Liu Yuan didn't mind, anyway, it's not playing now, it's work, and it's a good thing that they don't follow.

So, Liu Yuan immediately returned to the new house behind the new house, which was used for printing.

Ink rhyme!

The characters of two dragons flying and phoenixes dancing and thick as a bucket written by Lord Thorn Shi are engraved on a plaque and hung on the door of the workshop.

To enter the workshop, you have to go through two passes, one is the courtyard of the house, and the other is the house slave guarding the outside of the workshop, which can't blame Liu Yuan for being too careful, this movable type printing, but Liu Yuan's future is a big fortune.

"The owner, you are here~" As soon as Old Man Zheng saw Liu Yuan coming to inspect, he immediately greeted him.

"How's it going? What about the others? Liu Yuan asked a little curiously.

There are few people in the whole workshop, like ink, paper, engraving and so on, but there is no trace of the movable type and the old master, what are you doing?

Old man Zheng habitually looked around, and when he saw that there was no one, he said with a wicked smile: "Owner, this place is just a show, for others to see, when the time comes, a large number of printing, I peck that someone will come to visit, just make an illusion, the real printing, just behind." ”

After speaking, he led Liu Yuan out of a small passage from a large pile of paper and sundries, and when he walked to the back, it suddenly became clear that there was a hole in it: several slaves were familiarly sorting out paper, ink, printing plates and other things, and the old master was very serious about carefully arranging boxes of carved movable type on a wooden shelf.

Wonderful!

When such a large printing workshop opened, who knows when Cui Tingshi and these officials will come to inspect it, or have peers and friends come to visit or something, as soon as outsiders come, they will stop their work and go outside to make a show and hide people's eyes, so that the secret of movable type printing can be preserved, and when the time comes, with the quality and price, monopolizing the distribution of books and making a windfall is simply handy.

"Think more than I do, do a good job." Liu Yuan gave him a thumbs up and praised: "Master Zheng, I don't have to worry about you doing things." ”

This is a high compliment, the old man Zheng's old face almost smiled into a flower, and he said modestly while laughing: "The owner has won the award, this is what the little old man should do, what he should do." ”

"Old Master Gu, I see you put this movable type like this, when you look for it, will it take a lot of time to find it?" Liu Yuan saw that Lao Gu put those movable types that had been made on the shelves one by one, this closed space, there are several large shelves dedicated to movable type, to calculate, there are two or three thousand commonly used movable types alone, when you find a word, how to find it.

Liu Yuan prepared that he had prepared the pinyin method of 龗 early in the morning, and threw it out, arranging it in the form of letters, ready to surprise everyone again.

"Owner, this is simple, just divide it into categories, to be honest, it's a little difficult at first, but after mastering the method, you can find it with your eyes closed, and it's not time-consuming at all." Old Master Gu said happily.

Got a way? Can you find it with your eyes closed?

Liu Yuan said in surprise: "What method do you use?" ”

"Sideways, add the number of strokes, I didn't know what to do at first, but I thought about it with Foreman Zheng for a few days before I came up with it, and this method is very good."

Yes, the Chinese text, are all pictographs, with the side and the method of strokes, it can indeed be very well classified, for example, a "partial" word, you can put it in the category of "亻", the "flat" word is a dish and nine strokes, as long as the classification is good, it is indeed easy to find out, when Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, there is no difference between pinyin letters, people still print fast.

It is said that the wisdom of the ancients is very outstanding, and the ancients did not deceive me, and they thought of such a good way in a few days, which made Liu Yuan, who wanted to be in the limelight again, also convinced.

"Owner, don't worry, you will definitely be able to settle it today, and you can officially start printing tomorrow to make money." Old man Zheng said happily.

"What do you want to print now?"

Old man Zheng said respectfully: "The Book of Songs, the original version of the Book of Songs, and then there are the Book of Songs annotated by the scholar of Su University, and those punctuation invented by the owner will also be used in the annotated version for the first time, by the way, the owner, how much do we print in the first batch?" ”

"Try printing a thousand copies of each first."

"Yes, host."

Liu Yuan looked at it and nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, you and the old master are here, I will rest assured, work hard, I will let Tianfu Restaurant send two tables of wine and food later, you can enjoy it, and you will throw off my arms tomorrow." ”

"The owner is merciful, thank you for the owner here, and in the evening, the little old man must pay a few glasses to the owner." Old man Zheng was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly said.

"Excuse me" Liu Yuan waved his hand and said, "If there is something to do at night, let's pass it." ”

Cui Tingshi has an invitation, to fold the confiscated things from Yumanlou into silver, which is convenient for storage, in fact, it is an old drama of collusion between officials and businessmen, Liu Yuan, who has just tasted the sweetness, will naturally not let go of the opportunity to make a big profit, and if you have money to earn, you can get a relationship with officials, killing two birds with one stone, cool.

After Liu Yuan finished speaking, he turned around and left.

"The owner walks slowly." Old man Zheng and Old Master Gu all said respectfully.