Qingfeng Academy, located in the west of Yangzhou City, covers an area of nearly 100 acres, built by the mountains and the water, the environment is quiet, the scenery is beautiful, the courtyard buildings are scattered, the sound of reading aloud from time to time makes people leisurely and fascinated, it is really a good place to learn.

Qingfeng, taken from the meaning of the two sleeves of the breeze, I hope that the students who have achieved success in their studies will be able to do it when they are the government one day: for the official one, for the benefit of one party, the gentlemen of the academy are all erudite and talented, strict management, if it were not for the current dean Su Changfeng and Dean Su to strictly control the number of students, it is estimated that it is far more than the current scale of more than 1,800 and less than 2,000 students.

This scale, in terms of the entire Datang, is also one of the best state-level colleges.

Liu Yuan jumped out of the carriage and looked at everything in front of him with interest, just a few months ago, Mr. Su, the dean here, sincerely invited him to join here, but unfortunately he refused, if ~~ he accepted the invitation, it is estimated that he would be one of the many students here early in the morning.

Approaching Chunfeng Academy, I saw a couplet posted on the gate of the courtyard:

Today I am proud of the breeze, and he is proud of the breeze.

In addition to self-confidence, he is also unusually domineering.

"Stop, what are you doing here?" Liu Yuan just wanted to go in, but he didn't expect that two powerful servants suddenly blocked Liu Yuan's way from the side.

The place of learning is important, and it is indeed not appropriate to go in and out casually.

Liu Yuan saluted them and said, "Two, my surname is Liu, and I am looking for your dean, Mr. Su, who told me that as long as I am interested, I can find him at any time." ”

The two servants glanced at each other, it was estimated that Liu Yuan's calm temperament and gorgeous clothes moved them, but they didn't dare to underestimate Liu Yuan, one of them said to Liu Yuanxing with a salute:

"Young Master Liu, please wait, the little one will inform Dean Su."

The healthy servants trained by this graduate school are really good, alert and polite.

"Liu Yuan? I thought, it's your kid who came to me, hahaha~~~" Soon, there was a hearty laugh, and when I looked up, I saw Mr. Su walking out with a smile on his face and brisk steps, and the healthy servant followed him very respectfully.

Of course, Mr. Su is very happy, as the old saying goes: a thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find, he has always believed that Liu Yuan is a manufacturable material, and before he entered the formal school, he has already changed the famous northern genius Xu Hongji, who is famous in Yangzhou, if there is such a student under his name, it is really a big long face.

It has been so long since the last invitation, Mr. Su didn't have any hope of accepting Liu Yuan as an apprentice, but he didn't expect the peak to turn around, and the health servant of the nursing home reported that there was a person surnamed Liu looking for him, according to his description, he guessed that the person was Liu Yuan, but he didn't expect that as soon as he came out, he really saw Liu Yuan waiting at the door.

Finally figured it out?

"Mr. Su, the kid is rude, I bothered you, and I asked you to come to greet you in person, it's really rude." Liu Yuan also had a very good impression of this kind and noble person, and immediately greeted him politely when he saw him.

"Don't bother, don't bother" Mr. Su smiled and beckoned Liu Yuan in.

This time, with the dean's personal greeting, the two healthy servants did not stop him anymore, and Liu Yuan walked into the Qingfeng Academy smoothly, even in terms of state schools in the Tang Dynasty.

Entering inside, the environment is very beautiful, the health is also very good, the houses are built that are scattered, faintly in line with the shape of the nine palaces, it should be from the hands of the masters, in addition, the biggest difference is that it is full of books.

The smell of paper, the faint fragrance of ink, and the charm of those manuscripts, ancient scrolls, and solitary books left by the ancients are mixed together to form a very special taste, which is probably the so-called breath of books.

Su Lao's office is on an independent small wooden building, the room is very large, but the furniture and decoration are very few, only a big bed, a carved screen, two tables, and then a few mats or something, it seems a little empty.

At this time, there are no chairs, sofas and other furniture has not yet appeared, everyone is still used to sitting on the ground, sleeping a little better, there is a Hu bed (one is called a couch, the island country is extremely revered by the Tang Dynasty, the whole country imitates everything in the Tang Dynasty, and now their tatami mats are learned from the Tang Dynasty), under the signal of Su Lao, Liu Yuan is a little unaccustomed to sitting on the ground.

Luckily, it's very well done, and there is a cushion to sit on, but it's not very hard to sit on.

After the next person finished serving tea and both of them tasted it, Su Lao said happily: "Xiaoyuan, I thought you gave up, but I didn't expect you to finally come, these days, I am still pecking whether to persuade you again." ”

It's bad, this old man Su misunderstood that he was here to apprentice, and he opened his mouth, how disappointed he was.

But no matter how disappointed he is, he still has to say it.

Liu Yuan stubbornly said: "That, Mr. Su, I came here, not to apprentice, but, but to ask you for help if I have something......

"How can you help?" Su Lao, who was waiting for Liu Yuan to kneel down to apprentice, was even ready with words of encouragement, but he didn't expect Liu Yuan to bluntly point out that he was not here to apprentice, but to ask himself for help, his face changed all of a sudden, and his tone was not as enthusiastic as just now.

"That, that's like this" Liu Yuan hurriedly explained: "Because of many reasons, I can't follow Su Lao's left and right, but I want to do something useful for the world's readers, our ancestors left a lot of excellent literary works, and the students are very hard to copy, and it is easy to travel, so I want to print it out for the convenience of the students." ”

Mr. Su replied unhurriedly, and then asked casually, "Then what are you going to sell for?" ”

Speaking of which, it turned out that it was still for business, and it is estimated that the help mentioned is to find a reliable official text in his own place, and Mr. Su's face was a little unhappy, and he suddenly became unhappy.

In his opinion, having no talent but not thinking of making progress, and spending all his mind on speculation is simply degenerate.

Like printed books, it's not nothing, but because the cost is too high, the printed books are also high, the wool is out of the sheep, and some are sold as high as one or two or even a few taels, which is how can those poor students afford it, and the upright Dean Su is most disgusted to see someone use learning to earn ill-gotten gains.

How can the incense of the scroll be injected into the smell of copper.

"Fifty texts in one volume," Liu Yuanyu said in an astonishing voice.

"What? Fifty wen? Su Laoxian suddenly screamed in surprise.

If you want to move for the price of thousands or even thousands of Wen, fifty Wen is simply the price of cabbage, not to mention anything else, it is to go to Tianfu Restaurant to drink a pot of excellent Tianfu incense, and it also costs dozens of Wen, the price of a pot of wine, you can buy a book, which is simply gospel for students in the world.

"This ~~ is so cheap, can it work? By the way, can that quality be guaranteed? Mr. Su asked immediately.

Liu Yuan patted his chest and said with a "righteous and awe-inspiring" face: "I just want to do something for the world's readers, and I don't go for silver, the quality is absolutely guaranteed, at least the words are clear, never blurry, of course, Wuwen is just an ordinary version, I am going to publish another annotated version, that is, in some important or difficult places, please annotate it, so that students can easily grasp it and learn it with half the effort." “

"I thought about it for a while, the most suitable in the whole Yangzhou is Mr. Su, you are recognized as a great writer, and the dean of Qingfeng Academy, looking for you is the most suitable, I want a lot of admirers of Mr. Su's talents, and can not worship the disciples under the door to have an opportunity to learn from your old man, and we will also print in front of each book, this is a book annotated by the great writer Su Lao, by the way, this preface also has to be Su Lao first, so that the people who buy the book know the Tao, this is Mr. Su's teaching, however, there are many words, I think, Each volume has to be sold for eighty texts, firstly, the cost has increased, and secondly, you can't belittle Su Lao's talent, right? ”

"Of course, this pen fee must not be missing." In order to show his sincerity, Liu Yuan said as he put two ingots and ten taels of silver on the table and gently pushed it in front of Mr. Su.

Twenty taels is equivalent to three or four months of his silver.

Mr. Su stood up all of a sudden, his eyes widened, he looked at the silver on the table, stared at Liu Yuan, and said in a trembling voice: "Really~~ Really, let me annotate, and let me write the preface and print my name?" ”

Readers, talking about the bones, seeking fame, if you print your name on an ancient book, it is definitely a great thing for a hundred generations, strictly speaking, whoever buys that book, that is his own disciple in disguise, selling more, that is called peach and plum all over the world.

With a sound of "brush", Su Lao suddenly pushed all the silver back to Liu Yuan's side, and then held Liu Yuan's hand tightly and said: "Xiaoyuan, good job, good look, I underestimated you before, I didn't expect you to be so high-spirited, this is a great thing for the benefit of the world's scholars, what kind of silver, where you can use the old man, you must do your best, talking about silver is vulgar, and then talk about this, I will immediately drive you out of the city, you can do it regardless of the cost, I can't make a contribution?" Ha Lu Ha ~~~"

"Which is, which is~~ Su Lao, you are a teacher, and you are both virtuous and virtuous."

"Which ~~" Su Lao suddenly whispered: "Xiaoyuan, that, when printing my name, can it be printed a little bigger, and also, the book I annotated, it still sells a little less than eighty wen, how about a hundred......"

"The younger generation should follow the teachings of Su Lao." Liu Yuan was happy in his heart and agreed again and again.

Hehe~~ Reader, this style is good, you want fame and not profit, it's so good, the pen fee is saved.

Mr. Su thought that Liu Yuan wanted to do something for the world's scholars, and operate at a loss, but he really didn't expect that Liu Yuan had already made movable type printing, and he didn't need to buy boxwood at a high price everywhere, nor did he need to ask for a skilled carving master, as long as some of the cement that could be dug up without money, papermaking had appeared in the Han Dynasty, and it was very developed in the Tang Dynasty, and a few pennies could buy a large bundle, and the ink was ordinary, and it didn't cost a few dollars, and the cost of a book was less than ten yuan, and it was sold for fifty or one hundred yuan, which was dozens of times the profit.

Besides, who said that a book is only printed in one volume, I can print it separately, and there are three volumes, the upper, middle, and lower, otherwise, there are dozens of copies, and the profit will not come up, right?

A famous and advantageous broad road, Liu Yuan's face is "righteous and awe-inspiring", and his heart is happy, as if he sees one of his hands stretched into a golden mountain