Early in the morning, after breakfast, as usual, I walked slowly to Huimin Pharmacy.

There were still a lot of people queuing up for vaccination early in the morning, crossing the crowd and going to his office, where there were some documents on the table, all of which needed to be signed by Zheng Xiong.

I picked it up and looked at it, it was a very normal purchase list, the raw material procurement of the glass factory, the purchase list of Huimin Pharmacy, and the outsourcing purchase list of movable type.

I have to say that the pseudo-octa-core processor of Zheng Xiong's brain is really easy to use, as long as he wants, the bills he has seen in the past are like clearly appearing in front of his eyes, and he quickly found out the problem.

There is no problem with the glass factory, every time there are so many materials to be used for experiments, the procurement curve of Huimin Pharmacy has risen, and there is no problem, there are many people who come, and the consumption of medicinal materials is also more, and the problem appears in the movable type.

The movable type of procurement is also rising in a curve, and it has been almost two months, how much has to be collected.

I didn't have time to think, so I called Qian Wu, and on Saturday, I went to the warehouse of the movable type together, and the more people were better, and the less was not practical.

The master of the engraving version of the previous recruitment is sitting at the table, holding the movable type test printing acceptance, there is also a basket of copper plates on the side, and the money will be given after passing the pass, and the two sides seem to be very harmonious, and they do not forget to say when they take the money and leave.

"Thank you, Uncle Zhang, come to my house for dinner in a few days."

Zheng Xiong and the others walked closer, and several masters saw that it was Zheng Xiong and hurriedly got up and saluted.

Zheng Xiong waved his hand, no nonsense.

"What's the situation with you, why are there more and more movable type acquisitions recently, and no one has reported to me yet."

Several people glanced at each other, and the last one stood up.

"Back to adults, it was okay at first, let's accept movable type, not many people know. After seeing that it is profitable, there are more movable types, it is not difficult to have movable types alone, wood can be seen everywhere, people who are familiar with each other will teach it, and now there are more and more movable types, and many craftsmen are not having a good time, they will get a few movable words, subsidize the family, and now they can't stop if they want to stop. However, the quality of today's movable type has improved a lot, and the money allocated each time is the best of the best, but there are many people who make it, and some people are fellow villagers, so it is really hard to refuse, so they can only apply for more money to buy movable type, but adults can rest assured that the quality of the movable type received is good, and the villain is absolutely not favoritism. ”

The old man who came out to be the representative carefully explained, waiting for Zheng Xiong to reply.

Zheng Xiong's head was as big as a bucket, and at that time, he only thought that the movable type was convenient and easy to obtain materials, and he prepared some movable type for later use, but he didn't expect to set a quantitative limit.

There are not many channels for these artisans to make money, and they have been mobilized by these movable words, and now they are about to form an industry, and they are rashly canceled, but they are afraid that the reaction will be very fierce, and this kind of feeling is very bad.

"Take me to the storeroom."

The old man led the way, and the others followed behind and walked towards the storeroom.

I took out the key, opened the storeroom, and filled the room with movable type, I am afraid that it will be full in a few days.

Pointing to the room, Zheng Xiong asked angrily.

"The movable type in this room is what you call the best of the best, how much does it cost."

"Back to my lord, this is all normal collection, at the beginning our quotations were basically at a normal level, and then there were more movable types, and some people sold them cheaply, from one article to two, to one article three, and then to the current article five movable type, there are still a lot of movable types to sell."

Zheng Xiong was speechless when he heard it, his anger was gone, he followed the trend, and the involution was in the same vein, and he also did not fall, and sighed speechlessly.

"Let's just maintain this scale, and don't raise the budget anymore."

The warehouse was gone, his head hurt, Zheng Xiong walked in front quietly, and the others followed silently.

With the increase in the purchase of medicinal materials, although the pharmacy consumes a lot, there is still pressure on the already small warehouse.

It is not easy to consume so many movable types, and the only way to consume movable types is to publish books.

Around the Tang Dynasty in the 7th century AD, engraving printing was invented in China. With the printing of books, a formal publishing industry began to emerge. After the middle of the Tang Dynasty, in present-day Sichuan and other places, private publishing engaged in engraving printing has become very common. Most of the publications printed in the early days were almanacs, calligraphy books and Buddhist scriptures that were widely needed by the public. It was not until the 30s of the 10th century, that is, in the Tang Dynasty after the fifth dynasty, that engraving printing was widely popularized and had a non-negligible role and influence, that it attracted the attention of the government and was used to engrave Confucian scriptures, and since then there has been a publishing business sponsored by the government.

The second half of the 10th century to the middle of the 19th century, including the Song Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty, was a period of comprehensive development of publishing in ancient China. During this period, movable type printing was invented, and printing technology was continuously improved and improved, and later overprint printing appeared, which was in a leading position in the history of printing in the world at that time. During this period, the government-sponsored publishing industry flourished, and many collections of general collections, class books, and series of books were edited and published. There are also many private engravings; The private publishing industry is developing rapidly. The places where the books are engraved are almost all over the country, and the variety and number of books published have greatly exceeded those of the previous generation.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing Guozijian collected the Song and Yuan book editions from Hangzhou and all parts of the south of the Yangtze River to continue printing and publishing, known as the "Nanjian Edition". Many skilled workers in Hangzhou also went to Nanjing with the book plates of the West Lake Academy, and Nanjing replaced Hangzhou as the most important publishing center in the country at that time. In the mid-16th century, a large number of illustrated novels and opera books were published in the Jiangnan area, centered on Nanjing. Skilled printers from the neighboring areas of Huizhou, Anhui Province and Jianyang, Fujian Province, also came to Nanjing. Nanjing has also become the center of woodcut color overprinting. The prosperity of publishing promoted the prosperity of the book trade, and at that time, Nanjing's Sanshan Street and Neiqiao area were lined with bookstores, and the sales of books were very large.

In the Ming Dynasty, official engravings began to have internal engravings, which were controlled by the eunuchs of the celebrant supervisors. The master of ceremonies and the treasury of the factory set up the governor to take charge of his affairs, and the engraved books are mostly for the preparation of laws and decrees and the collection of scriptures and histories, etc., which are called "the book of the master of ceremonies", also known as "the book of the factory". Most of them are large characters and huge volumes, the layout is broad, the lines are sparse, the big black is bilateral, the text, the small note and the broken sentences are circled, with good white cotton paper and good ink fine printing, the binding is gorgeous, but the more proofreading is not fine, and there are many mistakes. In the Ming Dynasty, all departments of the central government engraved books, and Qintianjian and Tai Hospital also engraved books of this specialty. The Yongle Canon, compiled by the Ming Dynasty government, is the largest book of its kind in ancient China. The book contains 7 to 8,000 kinds of ancient books, 22,937 volumes, about 370 million words, handwritten books, and 11,095 volumes.

Ming Dynasty magistrate inscriptions were also common. The provincial political departments, the judicial divisions, prefectures and counties, Confucianism, academies, and supervision and transportation departments have engraved many books. The feudal palaces were also engraved with books, which were called "feudal mansion books" or "feudal carved books". Most of the books engraved by the feudal government are based on the rare books of the Song and Yuan dynasties rewarded by the central government, and they have favorable material conditions, and the feudal kings themselves also have a certain amount of knowledge, so many of the engraved books are the top grades in the official engravings of the Ming Dynasty.

You can consider getting a printing shop first, but the prosperity of the printing industry is inseparable from paper, the legendary Luoyang paper is expensive, and now it is just as expensive, printing and papermaking are also complementary to each other.

Their movable type is also an advantage at this stage, although the service life is not long, but it can quickly print books, small-scale printing has a great advantage, and now the paper can not meet the conditions of a large number of printing.

Zheng Xiong stopped.

"A few of you are ready, I am going to build a printing house, do you have any familiar manpower in this regard, find a few to come. There are a lot of literate people in the pharmacy, you can transfer a few to typeset and proofread, if you have a candidate, you can also report it, and the provincial transfer is over. ”

"Yes, sir."

It is not difficult to build a printing plant, as long as the required materials are purchased, it can be manufactured, but it will also make a lot of manual money, and it can make money, but not much, and there is no windfall profit from alcohol glass.

Now it's time to run the business.