Of course, at this price, what can be bought in this era is also a wealthy family! Ordinary people simply can't afford it. The problem is that the wealth of this era is especially concentrated in the hands of these wealthy families!

20 The cost of movable type to engrave these books is almost negligible, that is, the cost of a book is paper and ink, but a book with a dozen pages does not even use two sheets of paper.

You know, this piece of paper is not talking about a piece of paper as large as 32 carats, but about the price of a standard-sized piece of paper that can be made by a papermaking workshop in this era.

And the price of a piece of paper ...... According to the price given by Li Yi before, from the most ordinary burlap paper is about 5 wen a piece, to more advanced paper, that is, paper that can make books, the price of a piece of paper has increased by about ten times, that is, 50 wen.

Of course, there are more advanced papers, such as adding color to the paper, adding wax, adding glue, polishing the paper, and so on.

The problem, even if it is calculated according to the most expensive 100 Wen a piece of paper, this book only uses 2 sheets, which is the cost of 200 Wen, and in fact, it can't use such a good paper at all, and the cost of ink is even lower. In other words, the cost of this book is only 300 words.

Of course, this is not counting the technical value of the printing itself, as well as the value of the workers who carve the pottery characters, thinking that the more printed, the more these costs are almost negligible, and Huo Gang can ignore them.

The cost of 300 Wen is sold at a sky-high price of 20 yuan! That's 20,000 texts! That's 66 times more profit! This...... Huo Gang was a little taken aback.

If you sell books on a large scale to Datang, how much money does it have to make?

Of course, this price is the market price, and you can't sell books at this price, even if you cut it by half, it's violence within violence, it's not a few hundred percent profit, and half of this is more than 3,000 percent profit.

Of course, compared with the war horse, it must be more profitable, but the war horse, Huo Gang can't really sell it unlimitedly, if he dares to sell twenty or thirty thousand war horses to Li Er, then it's really hard to say who threatens who in the back.

So it's good to sell books! Selling books can't increase hard power! Even with increased soft power, this is not something that can be seen in a few years.

"Da Lang laughed, I'm not trying to buy books, I'm trying to sell books!" Huo Gang said decisively, and then he didn't hide it, and directly handed the other nine books he had prepared to Li Yi.

Li Yi was also stunned when he heard the word "selling books", when he took the other books in Huo Gang's hand, when he saw these books that were exactly the same and exactly the same, Li Yi's eyes quickly widened, he immediately realized something, even Li Yi's eyes were a little red, it was stimulated.

He directly raised his head and looked at Huo Gang with some excitement and said, "Chief, this is ...... Printed? ”

"Yes, printed." Huo Gang said very simply.

"If you sell these books, how low will it cost?" Li Yi didn't talk nonsense, and directly turned to Huo Gang and asked.

Huo Gang pondered for a while, it was impossible for him to go to Datang to sell books in person, he would inevitably use Li Yi, so Li Yi's profits must be set aside, and there are also other people's transportation profits, etc., and even the price of paper needs Li Yi to purchase.

After thinking about it, Huo Gang made a decision in his heart, forget it, I won't make so much, and if the profit is concerned, I will barely make ten times the cost of 300 Wen.

"The book in your hand, no matter what is printed on it, one page of the book, 500 words!" Huo Gang said decisively.

Li Yi's eyes widened instantly, and the words in his mouth blurted out directly: "So low!" ”

Although Li Yi regretted it a little when he said this, but the words had already been said, and Li Yi couldn't care about these anymore, he looked at Huo Gang and asked in a hurried tone: "General, are you sure?" 500 articles a page? Whatever is printed? ”

"Yes, 500 pages can be printed with anything, but there is one thing that I can't solve with paper and ink." Huo Gang said very simply.

"Chief, have you kept a profit for yourself?" Li Yi glanced at Huo Gang and asked very sincerely.

"Of course I stayed, I can't work in vain, so, can I do this business?" Huo Gang asked directly.

"Do! You don't have to worry about paper and ink, we have our own workshop in Longxi Li, and when I go back, I will order the expansion of the workshop, and all the paper and ink will be supplied to you first! How long would it take to print a thousand such books? Li Yi asked.

"Half a month." Huo Gang hesitated for a moment and gave a long time, in fact, if it was a thousand-character text, a thousand copies...... Single-wheel printing, it can be printed in one day. Of course, it takes about a day to make these papers into books, and it takes a day to typeset them.

But basically a thousand books were printed in three days, and this is where movable type printing comes in.

And the most bullish place of movable type printing is that it can be said that the book can be printed, not like engraving printing, the book begins to be carved according to the book, the time of engraving alone is a long time, and the engraving of a set of engraving is so slow, and the time of engraving two sets of engraving is also longer!

And what about Huo Gang here? You don't have to think about what your book is, write all the Chinese characters, and then just let the craftsman start carving if he has nothing to do, anyway, the same character is carved thousands or tens of thousands, and it can be fired and placed there.

These craftsmen can carve these characters without having to, they don't have to do anything else, they don't have to worry about whether they have a printing business or not, they just keep engraving.

At first, it may be a little slower, after all, not the left and right words can be used at any time, but as time goes by, the speed of their printing is naturally getting faster and faster, and when it comes to the back, it is really a book, and it can be typeset and printed directly.

Li Yi almost squirted out the tea in his mouth, a thousand copies, half a month? That's too fast, isn't it?

"Chief, I'm talking about starting printing from scratch." Li Yi quickly added.

"That'...... In just half a month, the big deal is to increase the number of people, don't worry, I am not short of people now. Huo Gang originally wanted to increase the time, but after thinking about it, there was no need, anyway, if he didn't say it, now Datang has not even popularized engraving printing, let alone movable type printing.

This money, that is, Huo Gang can earn! That's why he's not afraid!

"Then if that's the case, Chief, you say, whatever you need, even if you want steel, I can give it to you." Li Yi gritted his teeth and said simply.

Huo Gang paused, is this book so important to Li Yi? Li Er's steel that is strictly forbidden to be sold, he dares to sell it?

"I don't want steel, I want food, and other common materials, of course, I need some craftsmen, or skilled workers, or I have extra slaves or something." Huo Gang's heart moved slightly, the slave trade in this era cannot be said to be none, but Huo Gang can't buy it if he wants to.

The problem is that Li Yi can definitely buy it, and the slaves bought back by these major wealthy families are actually no different from slaves, but they may have a little human rights. In fact, if the master wants to kill him, he will really kill him casually, of course, the official is strict that the master kills the slave.

But in reality, did the lord kill fewer slaves? There are a lot of them, just find a reason to deal with it, the official just turns a blind eye, and it can't be controlled at all.

I don't know how many maids and the like have been killed by the sons and daughters of these wealthy families, but they are dead, just find an excuse, what kind of epidemic or something, the yamen can't find it at all.

Since the Qin Dynasty, the law has forbidden the burial of living people, but in the Sui Dynasty, in the Tang Dynasty, are there fewer burials? It's just that ordinary people don't know at all, some poor families who sell their children into slavery can only keep silent when they receive some money, what else can they do?

Five surnames and seven wangs, Li Er can't help it, ordinary people still want to sue them?

"No problem." Hearing that Huo Gang didn't even want steel, Li Yi didn't care about other things at all, and directly agreed. "As for the need for craftsmen, slaves, etc., I don't know how much the leader wants?"

Huo Gang looked at Li Yi with a strange expression: "What if I say how many or how much?" ”

"Well, then I'll try my best to send it to General Huo, but these are the ones that came over...... It can only be the prisoner and the allotment. Li Yi paused, and then looked at Huo Gang.

"I know, I'm going to do it. As for the price, you give a price. Huo Gang didn't bother to cover it up, this is not human trafficking, to be precise, Huo Gang is saving them.

"Later, I'll have someone give your leader a price, and we'll settle the matter of the book?" Li Yi looked at Huo Gang and asked.

"It's decided, no matter what is printed, Da Lang will send the book over first, I don't have it here." Huo Gang said with a smile.

"No problem." Li Yi nodded, "Then the price of this book, the leader can calculate it according to 600 wen per page, I will collect it according to this price, can I?" ”

"Good!" People took the initiative to increase profits, and Huo Gang categorically had no reason to refuse.

After discussing with Li Yi, Li Yi rushed back directly overnight, and after Li Yi left, Huo just took a deep breath, the business of this book is probably bigger than Huo Gang thought, judging from the degree of attention paid to Li Yi, Li Yi even attaches more importance to it than War Horse.

Just like what Huo Gang thought, of course Li Yi attaches importance to it, Huo Gang knows if Li Yi doesn't care, but Li Yi knows that if he can really print books on a large scale, what kind of prestige will his Longxi Li family's Dunhuang Fang increase among the five surnames and seven wangs!

You know, books are always the most precious thing in all families! And the books of each family are different from each other, and each family has its own unique books! And if these books are taken out, how much benefit can be exchanged for other families, Li Yi doesn't dare to think now, he needs to go back, and carefully consider it before it is feasible!

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