Early the next morning, Gu Sheng took Yan Ruyu directly to the dock, he and Yan Ruyu had visited the dock a few times in the East Market, and this dock was the first time to come.

Stretching for several miles, they are all large ships that can withstand the waves of the sea, especially several of them with a length of more than 200 meters, as high as a pavilion, extremely spectacular.

It is unimaginable that the wooden ship can be built so big, twice as large as the treasure ship of Zheng He in the previous life, like a giant beast.

It is said that there are sea beasts in the sea up to 100 meters long, and only such a large sea ship can barely resist the attack of sea beasts.

However, there is no need for such a large ship in the coastal waters, and if you sail along the coastline all the way, ordinary wooden boats of one or two thousand materials can sail, so the offshore shipping lanes are extremely important.

This time the battle between the Blue Dragon Gang and the Sea Gang was because of the offshore shipping lane.

Finding the anchorage of the sea ship of the Shubao Trading Company, I saw several large ships hundreds of meters long parked there, several carriages parked below, and several gentry-like men getting out of the car and boarding the ship.

Seeing Gu Sheng, the personnel of the Shubao Chamber of Commerce immediately greeted him with a smile on their faces.

Gu Sheng took out the wooden sign and said, "Which ship is the old book on?" ”

"This way." The staff of the Chamber of Commerce had even more smiles on their faces, leading Gu Sheng and the others towards another boat.

Most of the buyers of used books are big customers, and the prices of many used books can increase by tens or hundreds of times, and even some solitary and rare book editions can be sold for hundreds of taels or thousands of taels of silver.

Of the five ships that came this time, only one was old books, but the profit was nearly half.

"What's on that ship?" Gu Sheng turned his head to look at the boat that a few people had gone up to just now.

"Childe, on that ship is this year's new poetry book, and those good poems and lyrics can be found on it all over the country this year."

"Oh!" Gu Sheng's mind turned, this book treasure chamber of commerce can collect poems from all over the world, and its power is not small.

However, there are a large number of new works of poems, picture books, and novels every year, but the number of travelogues is much smaller, and there may not be one in a year or two.

"Childe, please." The people from the Chamber of Commerce led Gu Sheng onto the boat, and immediately two beautiful women who were no more than sixteen or seventeen years old dressed in light gauze greeted them, one carrying warm water and the other holding a towel.

Gu Sheng knew what it meant at a glance, washed his hands and dried them, and then followed into the cabin.

The interior of the cabin is covered with precious dragon's blood, the walls are inlaid with night pearls as a light source, and the feet are thick furs, and the smell of incense is in the air.

This luxury alone makes people feel that the strength of this chamber of commerce is extraordinary.

The chamber of commerce personnel who turned around glanced at Gu Sheng's expression, and saw that Gu Sheng was looking at it with interest, and suddenly counted it in his heart, and secretly drew a second, which means second class.

"Childe, there are a total of twelve rooms here, and they are all books that the master has painstakingly collected, if Childe has the type he wants, he can also tell him below." A woman in her early twenties, with a bewitching posture and an extremely dignified expression, gave people an extreme sense of contrast, greeted her with a smile.

"Travelogues, folk rumors, and miscellaneous conversations." Gu Sheng said directly.

"Childe came with the slave family."

Gu Sheng was led into a room, and there were a total of five shelves in it, all of which were travelogues.

But there aren't that many books, and the books here are packed in bookcases, and then the bookcases have names on them.

"Which area is Childe looking for? Or the period? Author? Of course, Childe can also find it by himself if he wants to. The woman said softly.

"Humph!" Yan Ruyu snorted lightly, and the woman suddenly chuckled.

"You know all the books here?" Gu Sheng asked curiously.

"Of course, the slave family can be here because the slave family has written down every book on this ship. Although the slave family has not read all of them, the important information of each book is memorized. The woman's face fluttered when she said this, and she was obviously quite proud of this.

"Remarkable! Is there any record of Soul Leaving Grass and Soul Attracting Silk? Gu Sheng praised that there are five shelves of books in this room alone, and there are twelve such rooms in total, and it is not something that ordinary people can do to memorize the important information of these books.

In particular, the books on this ship are constantly changing.

The woman pondered for a moment and said, "I don't have an impression of the Soul Leaving Grass, but I remember that there is a Soul Eater Spider in Volume 3 of the Fu Shui Guangji, saying that there is a kind of spider that spits out silk on people, and then people die.

Later, a master passed by, saw the corpse, and said that the man's soul had been fished away and eaten.

The slave family thought of this story when they heard Childe say 'Soul Silk', and I don't know if there is a connection between the two. ”

Gu Sheng was surprised at first, and then overjoyed.

I was surprised that this woman even remembered the contents of the book, and she was happy to finally find a record related to the soul silk.

The silk spit out by this soul eater spider is probably the soul attraction silk that he has been looking for.

"You can take the Fu Shui Guang Ji and show it to me." There was a hint of a smile on the corner of Gu Sheng's mouth.

"That set of books was sold last year, and I still have some impressions." The woman said apologetically.

The smile on the corner of Gu Sheng's mouth froze, and he finally found some clues, but he told himself that he had sold it......

"Where did you sell it? Who bought it? Gu Sheng asked.

"Childe, the slave family can't reveal the identity of the buyer." The woman apologized.

"I'm just going to borrow it." Gu Sheng grabbed a few silver tickets and shook them, then stuffed them into the woman's sleeve. "Tell me where it was sold and what is your surname, this is not a leak of identity, right?"

The woman hesitated for a moment, and then whispered a little nervously: "Hongqiao Mansion, surnamed Xie." ”

In this era, there are not many large families in a place, and it is easy to find as long as you have a location and a surname.

Gu Sheng nodded: "Don't worry, I haven't asked anything, you have accompanied me well, I am very satisfied." ”

The woman relaxed a little and smiled.

"Are there any other books like this?" Gu Sheng asked again.

"No more. In my impression, there is only a record in the set of "Fu Shui Guangji", which is the collection of books of a large family, and now the family is in the middle of the road, and the descendants will sell that set of books to the master's family. ”

"About the art of disgust with victory, Taoist supernatural powers, martial arts and Taoist masters, as well as those rumored heavenly treasures such as washing the marrow and changing blood, and resurrecting the dead, you can find out the books about this kind of record."

"There are some of them, but most of them are rumors, and no one knows how true or false they are." The woman smiled, and regarded Gu Sheng as the kind of rich kid who liked the rumors of Zhiwei.

This kind of rich kid is not uncommon, and she has encountered it a few times.

The woman first took down eight bookcases on the shelf, and then beckoned someone to pick up other books, a total of more than twenty bookcases were placed in front of Gu Sheng.

Gu Sheng opened it and looked at it, and was satisfied.

Almost all of these books were left over from the previous dynasty, or even before the previous dynasty, and they are still well preserved, at least the content is not missing.

He also saw two volumes of bamboo slips and three volumes of silk books, and even the people of the Shubao Chamber of Commerce carefully held them.

"How many taels of silver do you need?" Gu Sheng asked.

"Among them, there are seven solitary volumes, a total of 1,400 taels; There were eleven copies of the previous dynasty that were discontinued, totaling 1,100 taels;

Before the previous dynasty, there were two handwritten scrolls, totaling 800 taels; two rolls of bamboo slips, 1,600 taels; Silk books in three volumes, 1,500 taels, a total of 6,400 taels.

Childe also knows that these books are almost extremely rare, and it is even more rare to preserve them, which is enough to support the heritage of a family......"

Gu Sheng wants to contribute to global warming.

Although he knew that these solitary and out-of-print books were expensive, and he was also prepared for heavy bleeding today, this was indeed more expensive than he imagined.

You can calculate carefully, there are 200 21 solitary books, 100 21 of the out-of-print printed in the previous dynasty, 400 21 handwritten scrolls before the previous dynasty, 8021 volumes of bamboo slips, and 5021 volumes of silk books.

Is it expensive?

For ordinary people, it is naturally sky-high, and they can't afford to buy a copy if they are bankrupt.

But for many big families, this price is really not expensive.

However, there is one point, these books are miscellaneous and travelogues, and they are not valuable kinds.

Rare books and historical classics, written by celebrities, are really valuable, and the price can be several times higher, or even more than ten times.

As for the martial arts techniques that can reach the realm of cleansing the marrow, they are not comparable to this kind of book, and they will not even be sold at all.