Chapter 64: A Trip to the City (23)
After thinking about it, Dong said again: "Since you are leaving the day after tomorrow, then Shuniang and I will go out of the city with you, and it will not be too conspicuous to return to Beijing by the way. When we come back from the capital, the book building you mentioned earlier will be built. When the time comes, the lady and I will buy books for you from the capital and send them." z.br>
Delivering books?
Even in the capital, how can there be more books that can be bought in bookstores outside than there are many books in major families and academies? However, if you want their collection of books, even if you don't want a single book, just an ordinary book, it's impossible not to give something.
Zhao Guoer's heart moved, and she thought of movable type printing.
After a little hesitation, she whispered into Dong's ear, "Godmother, I have a way to print a book quickly, do you want to?"
"Yes, of course. What's the idea?" With a heartbeat, Dong suddenly looked at Zhao Guo'er energetically.
Zhao Guoer looked around and didn't speak. Dong patted his head and laughed, and then waved away the people around him, which was looking forward to Zhao Guo'er again.
"Movable type printing."
After briefly explaining the procedure of printing books, Zhao Guoer explained to Dong that it is the difficulty of engraving printing that is used today, which leads to the high price of books and the exceptionally small circulation.
However, if you can change to movable type printing, you can increase the speed of printing. Even if the price of books is still expensive, at least more books can be printed, and they will not be lost after a long time.
"If this method is really successful, it will be a matter of great success."
Dong said excitedly: "If this is really done, I will ask my father to write to the court on your behalf."
"Don't."
Zhao Guo'er hurriedly refused: "Godmother, don't let anyone know that I gave it to you. This should be regarded as compensation for the loss of the sugar mill members. In this way, you can contact a few more families with a lot of books, and maybe you can exchange books for books, and exchange more books to print and sell. Isn't that another money, and fame and prestige among scholars? I don't ask for much, as long as you can get all the books in our library in the future."
"Why are you so bad at settling accounts, kid? If this is true, the bookstore will not make less money than the sugar workshop in your village. The main thing is that no one dares to take it lightly, saying that this business smells as yin and yang as copper."
The Dong family was anxious for Zhao Guoer's "lack of heart", and said funny and angry: "It can also be able to gain fame and fortune and leave a name for eternity."
"I'm not a scholar either, and I'm not interested in gaining fame and fortune and keeping a name for eternity."
Zhao Guo'er waved her hand: "This movable type printing is what I read from a book, and it is a method that an ancient person named Bi Sheng came up with. I don't know why it didn't pass it down. If you have to ask for a seal, you should ask him to seal it."
Please seal an ancient person who doesn't know which dynasty or generation he was born in?
Dong sighed helplessly: "That's an ancient man after all, even if the method is his, but after all, he didn't spread it, right?" Now if you can get this movable type printing out and return it to those who spread it, you will get no less fame and fortune."
"Godmother, I know. But I really don't want that fame and fortune. I just need to be affordable."
Zhao Guo'er said to the Dong family very bluntly: "Those fame and fortune are of no great use to me, even if the saint is willing to make me a county lord. What is the use of a county lord with a false name? I can't even use it to exchange books with people who have a lot of books. It's just a false name, and it can't really protect the sugar recipe.
And you don't hold it anymore. At least in the future, if our sugar business is good, who will look at it. If we let them know that our sugar business is under your protection. No matter how powerful you are, they won't necessarily be willing to risk offending you, and they don't have to snatch the sugar, right?"
Zhao Guoer knew that no matter whether there was movable type printing or not, he would not be able to run away as a county lord.
And he relied on his mother's title of county lord, which is the real county lord who really has a fief.
And if it is obtained by movable type printing, ten out of ten will only be the title of a fictitious county lord without a fief. Not to mention the real magnates, even for ordinary magnates, it will not have much prestige
Deterrence.
If it's just a small thing, they might be able to save face. But when it comes to such great interests as the sugar recipe, they have the means to seize it.
Unless she is willing to let her mother recognize her relatives in advance, with the current emperor's love for the eldest princess's grandmother, no one can easily offend them.
The Dong family is the same, they also need to use the emperor's favor to scare away those who are greedy.
Godmother's father is a second-class master, if there is the reputation and prestige of movable type printing, whether it is his weight in the emperor's heart or in the heart of the reader, it will make people consciously or unconsciously jealous.
Therefore, why does she have to dominate a false name when she doesn't want to admit her relatives in advance?
It's better to give this to the Dong family, who needs it more.
After all, the character of the godmother Dong family may not be the character of everyone in the Dong family. Now, if she wants to develop quietly and steadily in the past five years, she has to give up.
Originally, relying on her godmother Dong in this life, Zhao Guoer knew that if she wanted to, she could easily contact her grandmother in advance and reveal her mother-in-law's true life experience.
However, Zhao Guo'er was suddenly reluctant again.
It doesn't do much good to recover your identity early and return to the capital. On the contrary, her and her mother's words and deeds will be in the eyes of others, hindering her from developing her own power.
Since being inadvertently reminded by Shuniang, Zhao Guoer is already thinking about how to use the quick internal strength method to cultivate a group of secret forces that belong to herself and her mother. If her words and deeds are targeted at this time, what else can she do?
Smiling at Dong's family, Zhao Guo'er added, "Godmother, let's also call each taking what he needs."
"To each according to his needs?"
Dong repeated this word he had never heard before, chewing on the meaning of the word, and then laughed as well: "That's not it. It's really like we're taking what we need."
Nodding, she said happily, "Since that's the case, then I won't be hypocritical to you. My father was a literati, and if he had the name of promoting movable type printing, he would not only be praised by the saints, but also be able to erect a lot of prestige among the literati. It's really more easy for people not to provoke. However, the recipe to help you protect the sugar was agreed before, so you can't use it again. I can't promise you anything about this now. When I get back to the capital, let's see what my dad has to say. But don't worry, I won't be able to do you a disservice."
"Godmother, didn't I say it, you just give me the book. The more the merrier."