Chapter 671: On the General Trend of the World
Because the price of these books is slightly lower than the market price, especially the "Thousand Character Text", which is cheaper than many enlightenment books, and she prints them in large quantities, without hiding her secrets, Shudi, Lianghu and Jiangnan, wherever her Yuzhou caravan can go, she will sell this book as a local souvenir.
Such a large amount of dumping made Zhao Hanzhang gain the favor of many readers, and also made her name more firmly remembered.
The family has a monopoly on knowledge, but at present, there are not many families who consciously monopolize knowledge, and they are more likely to cherish the books handed down by their ancestors, and are unwilling to talk about the transmission of knowledge.
They don't want to pass on their own knowledge, but they are still willing to pass on the knowledge of other families.
Therefore, later, with the "Thousand Character Text" and other enlightenment books, they were not only willing to collect a printed copy of Zhao's Bookstore, but also willing to explain to them some handouts.
But Zhao Hanzhang believes that it is not enough.
She needs more talent and prestige.
She was also very bold, and directly took out a few books on agricultural books, craftsmen's skills, and military books to the bookstore.
Now Zhao's bookstore and paper mill have opened in Chen County.
Unlike other workshops, bookstores and paper mills are currently only available in Xiping and Chen County, and most books from other places come in from these two places.
Zhao Hanzhang handed over the books to the bookstore and said, "Print them, each of them will publish 3,000 copies, and hand them over to the steward of the Treasure Pavilion."
The steward of the Treasure Pavilion will ask the merchants from all walks of life to send it out.
When fishing, you naturally want to catch whatever bait you use.
But this was not enough, Zhao Hanzhang watched her people work hard to dig the dam and dig the canal, and at the same time sincerely wrote an excerpt to the emperor.
No place is immune to natural disasters, and starting next year, the places north of the Central Plains will usher in waves of disasters.
Including the area of Bingzhou and Jizhou occupied by Liu Yuan.
Even the biggest calamity is in Jizhou.
The drought began in Youzhou and Jizhou, and the locust plague also began in Youzhou and Jizhou, and the army of flying locusts would go west and south from Youzhou and Jizhou, and no grass would grow wherever they passed.
The disaster will affect Bingzhou, Sizhou, Yongzhou and Qinzhou, as well as the northern area of Yuzhou, the people of the six states and the Han people in the north of Yuzhou will be miserable, and they have suffered from food shortages for several years in a row.
It stands to reason that Zhao Han couldn't please him, but at that time, Zhao Han was ruthless, not only forcibly requisitioning grain, grass and horses, but also forcibly issuing military service, raising a large army to attack the south, taking advantage of the serious locust plague in the Central Plains, and directly exterminated the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
So Yongjia only has five years.
But now, the king of the East China Sea died two years early, and the emperor also moved the capital away from Luoyang, she doesn't know what her fate will be next.
But people can migrate, Luoyang can also change hands, but natural disasters will not change.
So she has to take precautions, not only for her, but also for the emperor to let the states take precautions.
But what she wants to write about is not only a natural disaster, even if she has the heart to compete for the world, she doesn't want to grab the emperor's position, she hopes that he can still sit in that position steadily.
On the day he is there, the world will be stable for a while.
Therefore, Zhao Hanzhang wrote to the emperor about the general trend of the world and told him that although Liu Yuan is ambitious, you also have me and General Gou Xi, and he can't beat him for the time being, so we should take this opportunity to develop more agriculture, appease the people, accumulate grain, and strengthen the city wall, in case one day Zhao Han attacks south again;
He also told him that you are the co-ruler of the world, and now the people are still famine, so we can't spare time, but it doesn't matter, let's appease the people first, let them farm with peace of mind, store more grain, and then attack north in one fell swoop when we are strong, and grab back the lost land.
Going around and around, it's still one, appeasing the people more, saving more food, and saving more money.
Zhao Hanzhang wrote his own proposal, hoping that the emperor would issue an edict to appease the people of the world, especially the people of Yanzhou, to eliminate their fears, to pay less money, to cultivate more fields, and to store more grain, just in case......
Zhao Hanzhang wrote a lot of freely, and finally handed the excerpt to the bookstore first, and said to them: "Carve it out, print more, and send it to all schools, so that they can support the cultivation in various places in the future."
When building water conservancy, appease the people and persuade them to teach agriculture."
The bookstore was stunned when he got the fold and asked, "How many copies of this will be printed?"
Zhao Hanzhang said, "Let's have a thousand copies first."
The bookstore breathed a sigh of relief, there were quite a lot of prints, and he was quite scared, afraid that there would be too few prints, and it would not be cost-effective.
The craftsman carved according to the fold, Zhao Hanzhang couldn't help but worry, "In the future, if I have an official document that I want to publish in the school, I will have to carve it one by one, which will not only take time, but also cost materials."
Fu Tinghan said: "Movable type printing requires a lot of literate people, and it cannot be widely used at present, so wait for another two years."
"In two years' time, the first batch of students will graduate, and they will know most of the words and will be able to work in the bookstore," he said.
Zhao Hanzhang touched his chin and said, "In three years, haven't they finished recognizing the words?"
Fu Tinghan looked up at her.
"Okay, it's *** in a hurry, okay, then I'll wait another two years, but does the bookstore master movable type printing?"
Fu Tinghan said: "Hu Jin has tried wooden movable type, and he has also tried clay movable type, and I asked him to find tin, lead and copper, and let him try them one by one."
For movable type printing, Fu Tinghan, like Zhao Hanzhang, knows the general principle, but it is not easy to make it, after all, who knows the details.
He could only hand it over to Hu Jin and the craftsmen to study, and it was up to them to do what they could do.
"Now the clay movable type can be used, but because there are not many literate people, typesetting is also very difficult, and it is only used in Xiping at present, and no one in Chen County can do it." Fu Tinghan said, "I will ask Hu Jin to cultivate two respectfully and send them to Chen County."
Zhao Hanzhang was about to talk about this, but she didn't expect Fu Tinghan to pick it up, she glanced at him approvingly, and asked, "How about you say that I also run a bookstore in Luoyang?"
"It's not good," Fu Tinghan said, "I can help you build a paper mill, but I really can't squeeze out the bookstore."
Craftsmen in bookstores are the most difficult to find and the most difficult to cultivate.
Zhao Hanzhang could only regret, and then continued to stare at the teenagers in the school in a daze, these are all talents, and they are needed in all walks of life.
It took the bookstore two days to engrave the folds, and then began to polish, ink, and print......
When Zhao Hanzhang's excerpts were sent to Yuncheng, the printed manuscripts were also put in the schools of various counties and counties, and at the same time, they were circulated out of the schools, copied and sent to various places.
Her students were very familiar with her true biography, and after reading the excerpt, they immediately understood what she meant, and when they were sent out to support the construction of water conservancy, they told the servants and day laborers about the reason why the envoy was building the water conservancy at this time.
Tell them that the envoy wants everyone to farm more conveniently, and that if there is a natural disaster in the future, they can deal with it more, and in order to save more food for you, the king will reduce the tax barabala......
However, the focus of outsiders is different from that of Zhao Hanzhang and the students, and they focus on Zhao Hanzhang's views on the general trend of the world in the first half at a glance.