Yan Jikang has passed the weak crown, the ancients attached great importance to the men's crown ceremony, presided over by the father and brother in the ancestral hall, and also selected guests to worship the ancestors of heaven and earth. But at this time, Yan Jikang was already alone, so Shen Mengxi named him the word "Sheng'an" after he worshiped his parents' spiritual position. Yan Jikang didn't care about the crown gift, thanked the princess for giving him words, and still lived in the princess's mansion every day with peace of mind, carving woodblocks every day.

At this time, the classics were mostly hand-copied, and the engraving prints were generally only used for Buddhist scriptures, amulets, calendars, etc., and the family gate valve was even more disdainful of using engraving. Yan Jikang had only heard of engraving before, and had not actually touched it, but after his first engraved "Heart Sutra" was recognized by Shen Mengxi, he was out of control and became obsessed with engraving, and then began to engrave "Diamond Sutra".

Halfway through the carving, he got the news that his brother and brother had died on the way to exile, and he was seriously ill.

After more than two months of tossing and turning, Shen Mengxi couldn't stand it, and reminded Yan Jikang, who was languishing to death: "I said, you have to get better quickly!" You owe me two more things! ”

Yan Jikang hugged Shen Mengxi's waist and cried, and after crying, he seemed to have figured it out.

After that, his condition quickly improved, and after he recovered, he began to engrave again, he immersed himself in his own world, forgetting all the pain and troubles in the world, and his engraving skills improved rapidly.

After carving the "Diamond Sutra", he is ready to start carving the four books and five classics.

Shen Mengxi looked at the stacks of engravings and said, "Twelve, you do a good job, let's open a printing house or publishing house when we go back." Yan Jikang didn't care about all this, and nodded indiscriminately. - He only carves and forgets himself.

Inspired by Shen Mengxi, in the past two years, Yan Jikang began to tinker with movable type printing, from clay movable type, wooden movable type to lead movable type, copper movable type have been tried one by one. Shen Mengxi soaked all kinds of paper in Wuling space and repeatedly studied papermaking methods, but the space bookstore was too small, and there were too few books related to papermaking, so they tried to make paper with bamboo and bark, but they did not make much progress.

She also really founded Luoyang Bookstore, printing various books with movable type, and deliberately assigned two subordinate officials to be responsible.

Although the printing effect of books is not as ideal as that of handwritten books, it is slightly rigid and stiff, but it is better in terms of high efficiency and low price, so that many ordinary students can also afford to buy books. The bookstore also hires civilian students from four disciplines to do proofreading and binding work, and the remuneration is gratifying; and cooperated with Sun Yicheng to prepare to print medical books such as "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" and "Qianjin Fang"; He also began to prepare for the printing of the Book of Songs and Lisao, and even cooperated with Qin Tianjian to prepare a large number of calendars for the coming year.

To be honest, in the past few years, Shen Mengxi has made a lot of money in engraving, papermaking, and printing.

She has fiefdoms, granges, and doesn't value money very much, but the loss and deficit are ugly, so this year she worked hard to find a painter to develop an overprinted color New Year painting with Yan Jikang, ready to make a lot of money with the calendar.

Buddha statues, ladies, door gods, and the god of wealth have all designed a number of versions, and the calendar also found Taoist priests to calculate the solar terms, taboos, directions, etc., in short, put a lot of effort.

At the end of the month, Luoyang, Chang'an's Fang City, and even the whole country, there are exquisite calendars, wall calendars, New Year's paintings, low prices, and hardcover versions of high-priced products, exquisite paper, unseen, for a time the family rushed to buy.

Facts have proved that as long as you put your heart into it, you can still make money, Shen Mengxi looked at the account book and thought beautifully.

Shen Mengxi specially sent exquisite Buddha statues and the God of Wealth to Emperor Wu in exchange for more rewards.

Shen Mengxi's entrepreneurship, in the eyes of Emperor Wu, is just a unique way to raise a face, she didn't interfere, just smiled indulgently and said: "It's okay, Yue'er is happy!" "She also assigned a master of the palace's royal paper mill to use for her.

Long live the Spring Festival of the second year, the princess's mansion is full of joy and smiles.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, on the basis of doubling the monthly money of the Princess, the princess rewarded the princess for meritorious deeds, and the greater the contribution to the princess's mansion, the higher the bonus, and the new papermakers Qiu Wangchun and Yan Jikang got the highest reward, more than Yi Ling.

Two months in advance, the princess's mansion began to be busy, papermaking, engraving, printing, mixing pigments, framing, selling wholesale in the shops of the fang market, entertaining and appeasing merchants from all over the country who were waiting in line for the workshop to print New Year's pictures and calendars, and promoting the New Year's pictures of Luoyang Bookstore along the post station...... In short, the entire princess's mansion moved, because of a Luoyang bookstore, the princess's mansion worked together and was unprecedentedly sincere.

By the end of the month, all the printed matter was sold out, everyone was relieved, the guards brought back a few carts of silver, Shen Mengxi completely forgot the idea of not engaging in business before, haha laughed, it is much easier for the second generation of officials to do business.

She was not stingy, and took out one-third of her profits and distributed dividends to everyone in the house, and everyone was happy for a while.

He also brainstormed and mobilized the whole government to design and manufacture novel lanterns and floats.

Another third was allocated to the escort team, and the rest of the money was spent to repair the Chang'an residence, in short, there was not a penny left.