Qiaoxian, Dingjiazhuang.

On this day, after having breakfast with his grandmother, Cao Bin left Dingjiazhuang and went to the county seat.

In the sky, the sun was high, and the heavy snow, which had been falling for seven days and seven nights, finally stopped.

The snow was knee-high along the way, and as far as the eye could see, the world was vast.

In the mountains and forests in the distance, I occasionally see one or two lonely new graves.

Come to think of it, this is the fate of the soldiers who died in the Battle of Chibi.

"Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer. These damn troubled times! ”

Broadly speaking, from the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion to the end of the establishment of the Jin Dynasty by the Sima family, more than 100 years have been troubled times.

But in reality, both the beginning and the end are much more than a hundred years.

After Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, the later Han Emperors were mostly young, resulting in the dictatorship of foreign relatives and the seizure of power by eunuchs.

From then until the Sui and Tang dynasties, in the middle of more than 500 years, the world has not been very peaceful.

"Two Jin... Southern dynasties... Five... Hehe! ”

After stopping to watch for a while, Cao Bin shook his head and left.

Along the way, from time to time, I saw people entering the city from all directions.

Xu is approaching the end of the year, and people urgently need to purchase New Year's goods to go home for the New Year.

In addition, the road was closed by heavy snow before, and it was not easy to catch up with the sunny weather, and people came out.

The "Four People's Moon Order" says: "The first lunar month is the first day." Bow down to your wife and children, and worship your ancestors. And the day of worship, into the wine to descend to the gods, is the family respect, no big and no small, in order to rank before the ancestors, children and great-grandchildren, each on the pepper wine in the parents, called the longevity, happy as also. ”

It can be seen that the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival has been around for a long time, and it has been more solemn in the Han Dynasty.

Of course, this time is not called the Spring Festival, but the day of the New Year.

Soon, the county seat of Qiaoxian County appeared in sight.

The county seat is not big, and the streets are full of people coming and going.

"Cao Prodigy!"

"Prodigy Cao is here!"

Cao Bin followed the crowd into the city, and from time to time passers-by greeted him.

"Is this the Cao prodigy from this county? Sure enough, he is a talent with an extraordinary temperament. ”

"Of course, even the scholars admired him."

"Tsk, I heard that he is only eleven years old this year, and he is already so good, when he is older, won't he want to be famous all over the world?"

Some passers-by who only heard his name but did not know him looked at him curiously and whispered about it.

"Hello folks!"

Cao Bin's face was full of smiles, and he returned the salute.

Soon, a shop called 'Sanmi Shoya' appeared in front of me.

"The owner is here, please come in!"

Seeing Cao Bin's arrival, an old man in the store hurriedly greeted him.

"Lao Ding, it has been snowing heavily recently, how is the business in the store?"

After being welcomed into the inner hall by the old man, Cao Bin sat on the main seat, holding a cup of hot tea, and asked the old man.

This shop is one of the private properties of Grandma Ding's, and Cao Bin asked to open this 'Three Flavors Book House' the year before last.

Lao Ding is a side branch of Grandma's family, who knows a little arithmetic and business, and was invited by him to be the shopkeeper.

"The owner is graceful, it has snowed heavily for several days, the city is quite bleak, sparsely populated, and the scholars rarely go out, and the business in the store is quite deserted."

Shopkeeper Ding went to the cabinet and took the account book, presented it, and replied with a wry smile.

"These days, less than ten sets of books have been sold?"

Looking at the records in the account book, Cao Bin was extremely surprised.

In this era, the price of books remained high, and ordinary people could not afford to buy one even if they earned money without eating or drinking for a year.

Therefore, most of the ordinary people are illiterate, and the writing is monopolized by the elite of the family.

If you want to say that you are poor and rich in martial arts, you have to wait until the Ming and Qing dynasties to be qualified.

In view of this, Cao Bin opened this bookstore, no, it should be said that it is a one-stop cultural industry.

Don't look at this shop is small, but the sparrow is small and has all kinds of organs.

In front is a bookstore, and in the backyard is a small workshop.

From 'new papermaking' to 'movable type printing', to binding and selling to the outside world.

As a result of this process, the cost of books has been reduced by more than ten times, and the price of selling books to the outside world has been two to three times cheaper than others.

Rao is so, because the county is sparsely populated, the business of the 'Three Flavors Book House' is quite bleak.

"The little old man is not doing well, please forgive the owner."

Shopkeeper Ding was taken aback and hurriedly knelt on the ground to make amends.

"Okay, I don't blame you."

Cao Bin flipped through the account book and waved his hand.

His original intention of opening this bookstore was to promote his own books such as "Three Character Classic", "Thousand Character Text", and "Zengguang Xianwen", and he was just doing business in passing.

After all, he didn't know that he was Lao Cao's grandson before, and he just thought that he was from an ordinary civilian background, so he wanted to wrap himself in a golden body.

'There is no force behind him, the bigger the business, the faster he will die', he understood it in his previous life!

"You prepare, I plan to move to Xudu after a while, and when the time comes, the bookstore will be taken away with the workers and utensils in the workshop."

Closing the account book casually, Cao Bin returned it to the other party and commanded.

This is also the purpose of his coming out today, asking the other party to clean up the workshop first.

You can leave the others with you, and you must take them with you from the workshop.

Cao Bin had a hunch that when he arrived in Xudu, this workshop would come in handy.

"Yes, little old man obeys."

Shopkeeper Ding didn't ask the reason, and directly agreed.

"Well, you told the workers that after arriving in Xudu, the monthly salary will be doubled, so that they can work hard."

After finishing the order, Cao Bin stood up and said to Lao Ding casually: "By the way, I allow you to bring your relatives to Xudu together." ”

"Little old man, thank you for the grace of the Dong family!"

When Shopkeeper Ding heard this, he was overjoyed and solemnly bowed to him.

"I don't have to worry about you, if there's nothing to do, I'll leave first."

patted Lao Ding's shoulder, and Cao Bin put on a posture that I am very optimistic about you.

"Little Lao'er sends the owner!"

Lao Ding shook his head, there was nothing important in the store that the owner needed to worry about.

"You can get busy."

After drawing a big pie for his employees, Cao Bin stepped out of the store.

After finishing his errands, he did not stay long and returned to Dingjiazhuang.

"Xiao Langjun is back!"

Seeing Cao Bin coming back, the maid Qinghe greeted him and gave him a hot towel.

"Hmm."

Cao Bin took the towel and wiped his face and answered.

All the way back to the study in the backyard and sit on a chair.

Pointing to his shoulder, he said to the maid who followed him, "Pinch my shoulder." ”

"The slave obeys."

Qinghe responded obediently, and pinched it lightly and heavily.

"Hmm... Once the workshop is arranged, the rest doesn't matter. ”

"Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed!"

Cao Bin's eyes were empty, and after thinking about it, he found that it had basically been arranged.

Regardless of whether Lao Cao comes to pick him up or not, he plans to go to Xudu to develop.

Qian County is too small, only Xu Du can display his ambitions, and it is not in vain for him to cross a game.