Chapter 50: Movable Type Printing
As soon as Fang Xinghan finished saying this, everyone present pricked up their ears, wanting to hear what Hong Xiaobao had planned.
"Ah, this is simple," Hong Xiaobao didn't take it seriously at all: "Build a sect, it takes money." Fortunately, I still have a lot of ideas to make money, as for people, let's find it slowly, this is not in a hurry. ”
There are so many ideas to make money? How many good ideas are there in this world to make money? How many warriors go out of the city to hunt in order to make money? If it is easy to make money, the materials of demon beasts are so cheap?
"This ......" Fang Xinghan received Hong Xiaobao's song "Chivalrous Journey" before, which was more valuable to him than ten thousand gold, and hurriedly asked: "That Xiaobao, if you go out of the city to hunt, I will ask Shixian to go with you." With his strength, it is still no problem to hunt some high-level demon beasts, and he can sell them at a better price when the time comes. ”
In fact, he originally wanted to go by himself, but he was also a sect leader, and asked him to personally work for a young man who had just turned eighteen, and his face was always a little unpleasant.
But he didn't want to, Hong Xiaobao decisively refused: "No, how much money can you make from hunting, no matter how expensive the monster materials are, it's drizzle, people have big plans!"
Crowd: (⊙o⊙)
Big plan?!The money for the materials sold by hunting monsters can only be regarded as a small amount of money?!
How can the materials of a six-star demon beast be sold for 10,000 taels of silver, right? It's just a drizzle?!
Well, the main reason why the potions in this world are ridiculously expensive and the price of demon beast materials is not so amazing, the main reason is that hunting demon beasts can be cooperated by many people, and there is generally no big problem under level suppression, but the alchemist can only use money to smash experience, so the gap is so huge. For example, a yellow-grade high-grade condensation dispersion costs 20,000 taels of silver, while a sixth-level demon beast material can only be sold for 10,000 taels - there is no way, the price between the material merchant and the processor will always be so huge.
"That'...... Xiaobao, can you tell me about your plan?" Fang Xinghan asked. All the people pricked up their ears.
"Hehe, it's actually quite simple, I plan to get a copy of "Jianghu Events", collect more interesting anecdotes on the rivers and lakes when the time comes, and then serialize some novels or something by the way. Hong Xiaobao took a mouthful of food, and the money-making plan came as soon as he opened his mouth.
Crossing over from the earth to such a martial arts-like fantasy world, if you can still worry about money, then it's a fart!
"Jianghu Events"??
"This ...... Xiaobao," Hong Wenqing asked, "I can barely imagine this big news in the rivers and lakes, what is this novel? Why have I never heard of it before for my father?" everyone nodded together, they really hadn't heard of it.
"Novel?" Hong Xiaobao explained: "A novel is a story, get a protagonist, and then tell the life of this protagonist in detail, the plot is still quite tortuous and interesting, well, I already have a general idea, and I should be able to write it soon." ”
Is the story serialized in this "Jianghu Events"?
Everyone was still a little confused, after all, they hadn't seen it, but Fang Xinghan was well-informed, and soon found that there was an incomparably huge problem that needed to be solved: "Xiaobao, this big news in the rivers and lakes can barely be thought of, and if the novel is serialized, it can be okay, that's the amount...... At that time, even if you hire thousands of people to copy, this efficiency will not be very high, right?"
He's on the point.
In this world, books have always been copied by hand, and it is basically the limit that a person can write two or three hundred words an hour, but the number of words in this Jianghu event report and this novel will not be too small, so if you calculate it, even if a person keeps copying every day, he can't write much, right?
If you hire more people, you can increase production, but the cost is ......
That's the question that everyone here wanted to ask. Of course, they also want to know how Hong Xiaobao plans to solve it - after all, Hong Xiaobao is extremely smart, and he has a lot of ghost ideas in his head, what if there is really a way?
Well, obviously, they guessed right.
Hong Xiaobao said with a smile: "Ah, this is simple, I was bored in the first two days, and I just developed a set of new technologies! This set of technology I named movable type printing, which is very simple and practical, and it is also very easy to make." ”
Movable type printing! Just hearing this name is very high!
Everyone's eyes lit up, Hong Wenqing had always known that although Hong Xiaobao was not very good at doing a lot of things, some of them were still very powerful, and hurriedly asked: "Xiaobao'er, how is this movable type printing technology made and used?"
"Well, it's actually very simple," Hong Xiaobao dipped his finger in some water and drew a square on the table: "This square is a rough blank, each square is carved with a word, and all the words are carved. In this way, as long as the individual characters are lined up together in a mold, and then the ink is printed on the paper, and a page of paper will come out! Then, when the page is finished, all the characters will be taken out and rearranged on the board, so that you can print as many as you want in a day!"
Movable type printing! Hong Xiaobao can actually come up with such a sharp method!
This can simply have an incomparably huge impact on the world! With this thing, wouldn't it be this great event report, but unlimited printing? As long as there is enough paper and ink? It can even be said that as long as the layout is arranged, one person is enough to be responsible for the printing task of thousands of major events?!
"Convinced, I'm really convinced!" Fang Xinghan stood up and saluted Hong Xiaobao extremely respectfully: "Fang Mou only represents the students of the world, and I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Brother Xiaobao for this invention!"
The head of the Holy Son School Palace actually saluted Hong Xiaobao! If this matter spreads, I am afraid that the jaws of the entire Jianghu will drop in shock.
But the people here all take this matter for granted.
Students, there has always been a problem that is difficult to find a book. A good book often needs to be circulated by several people, and at most it is copied with a pen and returned. It invisibly increases countless time costs and manpower and material resources.
Think about it, if you want to read a book, you often just can't hear its name but can't see it, and it is extremely difficult to buy it if you want to buy it, after all, there are not too many good books in the world, and it is very likely that there are hundreds of hand-copied books all over the world. How difficult is it to borrow?
But now with this movable type printing, it's different.
As long as the plate is arranged, you can print as much as you want when the time comes! And the price is definitely not too expensive, and anyone can afford it.
It is never an exaggeration to say that such a thing can change the world!
Yun Caixiao looked at Hong Xiaobao with a happy smile on his face. Brother Xiao Bao is Brother Xiao Bao after all, and he will always be so smart!