Chapter 617: The Development of Industry
And here in Guangzhou, as soon as Yingchun's second poetry collection was translated, I heard that a hundred books in the bookstore had been sold out, and the robbers were all businessmen from the capital.
Yingchun is a little puzzled, here in Guangzhou, my mother also sent a lot of books out, but why no one cares, only the capital has an effect.
When he said this, he told the third brother who came to sit here to sit here, and Jia Jin analyzed it for her with a smile: "Who is the mother sending here, it is nothing more than the wives of some officials. These people are all subordinates of our father, and the books sent by our mother, they must not have read them, but they put them in the study for them.
"The books that can be sent back to the capital, don't talk about them, our people will definitely have to read a few sentences. The second sister's translation is so simple and easy to understand, it only takes a few sentences to be fascinating, how can it not attract people to linger in the world of the book.
"Our family is all book lovers, whether it is my sister-in-law or my brother Zhu, I think we all love my sister's translation. In addition, the eldest brother is the new favorite of the DPRK and China, and the books he loves to read, naturally others will want to read them too. But what we sent back is only available to some relatives and friends, and it is not enough to circulate at all.
"It's not enough to circulate, so naturally I'll go to the bookstore to find it. But I can't find it in the bookstore, so it will naturally be remembered by those scheming businessmen. They found a book in Guangzhou that they couldn't find in the capital, and if they didn't sweep it all at once, how could it be worth their entanglement back and forth? ”
After hearing these words, Yingchun sighed lightly, and his hand couldn't help but rub Jia Jin's head: "You kid, you are really a seven-trick exquisite heart." This cause and effect before and after, how do you understand it? ”
Jia Jin patted her sister's hand away and said with a smile: "My sister said that my hair is so easy to straighten, don't mess it up with me again." ”
Yingchun laughed, and took his younger brother to his mother, asking her what she was going to do and if she wanted to print some more.
Of course, Xing Shuang also knew that the books were sold out, and when she heard her daughter ask, she said with a smile: "You don't know, there are actually more than 100 copies printed in this head." Earlier, I printed 500 copies, but I was afraid that the bookstore would be burdensome if it was sold so much, so I only let people take 100 copies, and let the rest be rented in a warehouse for storage.
"I know that your first 100 copies have been sold out, and now I have already asked someone to send another 100 copies to the bookstore. You don't have to worry, although these 500 copies look like a lot, once they start to become famous, it will only be a matter of a few days. ”
This thing, as expected, is a matter of effect. When no one cares, no matter how good the book is, no one wants to buy it. But once someone started to grab it, it was in short supply.
Soon, the 500 copies were sold out, and another 1,000 copies were printed, but the supply still exceeded the supply.
In this case, the bookstore can only print a few hundred more copies in a few hundred days to meet the needs of the world, and then come to Jiafu to discuss with Mrs. Xing whether to find a larger bookstore to cooperate.
When Xing Shuang heard this, she smiled and said, "It's not necessary to have a bigger bookstore, it's just that my son is the best at building some machines or something, and it's most appropriate for you to ask him." ”
The boss of the bookstore went to ask Jia Lian again, Jia Lian already had a blueprint for mechanical printing, and immediately took it out to show the boss, and the two of them worked together to build a large printing plant, which was convenient for his sister to print books, and second, to facilitate future development in the future.
This series of changes has made mass production further put into life, and more people understand the benefits of mass production.
The number of people who came to look for Jia Lian gradually increased.
With the first printing factory, there was the first weaving factory, and then what umbrella factory, what porcelain factory, of course, this is all a later story.
It is only said that the fame of this "visitor from the east" has gradually resounded all over the country. Due to the popularity of the first book, Robinson Crusoe, the second book of poems translated by Donglaike was snatched up as soon as it was put in the bookstore.
It wasn't until this second book that the preface began. After reading the introduction in the preface, everyone realized that this "East Visitor" was just a translator. And the books he translated were all written by English people on the other side of the ocean.
Everyone was curious, and they didn't believe that Westerners could write poems and essays. But the facts are in front of them, and the "barbarians" in their hearts actually have their own culture.
As a result, foreign goods have gradually become popular, and their curiosity about the other side of the ocean has led to the fact that the people are no longer very repulsive to these Western things, and even many rigid families have begun to gradually accept foreign goods.
At this time, Jia Lian's fountain pen was finally successfully mass-produced, and a large number of them appeared on the market, and the favorite pen of "Donglaike" was used as an advertisement, which soon attracted a large number of new fountain pen diehards.
Everyone likes this kind of pen that is easy to carry and easy to write, and every time you buy a fountain pen, you will get a copybook, which makes many calligraphy lovers have entered the pit.
Yingchun didn't expect that at first, she just wanted to introduce her favorite to her mother, and it would bring such a big change. It can even be said that in the south, it has driven the development of the entire industry, and has also let his brother's industry take off directly.
Jia Lian is even more driven by this series, and he is busy not seeing people all day long, either inventing new machines in the laboratory, or going to field investigations to see how to improve other people's tools.
Jia Jin invented a sewing machine for her sister-in-law before, and now she is also taken by her brother, running between Guangxi and Guangzhou. From a white fat young man, he ran into a little black monkey.
At the end of the year, there was finally time to rest and reunite with the family, Xing Shuang looked at the two sons who were thin and lean, and she was distressed and relieved.
Happily, the sons have been planning for so many years, busy for so many years, and finally it has paid off. Things really went on according to their ideas.
But this thing has tired the two children like this, can you not feel distressed as a mother?
So during the Chinese New Year, Xing Shuang mentioned it, saying that he couldn't do everything himself, and that it was the right way to teach what he had learned to put it into practice.
Jia Jin can't stand such a toss, although he is in a period of great energy, he can't stand such a toss in the wind and rain along the way. As soon as his mother spoke, he echoed: "Exactly, although we have an old saying that the apprentice of the academy starves to death the master, if this master is willing to constantly innovate, he will not really starve to death, right?"
"The ability of the eldest brother, is it possible to achieve it all the time in his hands? It is said that brainstorming is the best brain, and more people must participate in it to have better ideas and build better machines. ”