Li Shancai is not literate and can't take care of the entire study, but he is quite clever in his tongue, and he has dealings with bookstores of all sizes in the county, so it is only fitting for him to be in charge of external business.

Xu Sheng went, and after a while, he returned to the table with Li Shancai. Li Shancai was stunned, sneering and not knowing what to say.

Xu Sheng said for Huai'an: "The owner cherishes talents, and tells me to leave you behind, you have to work hard, don't let down the owner." ”

Li Shancai has worked in the Xu family since he was a child, from an apprentice to a shopkeeper, he has worked diligently, has not made meritorious contributions, and has not made any mistakes. So he thanked Huai'an for his kindness, and almost knelt on the ground and knocked one.

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm going to live my life!" Huai'an hurriedly helped him up: "So many people are watching, Shopkeeper Li is coming into the table, if you don't sit, everyone won't dare to move the chopsticks." ”

Everyone chimed in, and the atmosphere at the table was much more lively.

At first, everyone was still a little restrained, until the craftsmen began to let themselves go after eating too much wine, opening their fronts, exposing their chests, stepping on the stool, and throwing their fists and dice to open the yellow cavity. Xu Sheng saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly said to Huai'an: "Little owner, go back." ”

Huai'an also felt that it was time to go, and it was not suitable for children. Although with his age in his previous life, he probably understands everything, but he always has to take care of Zhao Pancai around him.

Li Shancai also stood up, explained to everyone to continue, accompanied Xu Sheng, and sent Huai'an and Zhao Pan out.

"I'll hand it over to the two here, it's been a little hard these days, recruit the stereotypical master as soon as possible, make the engraving, and we'll take a look." Huai'an Road.

Xu Sheng nodded repeatedly.

When the new officials took office, Xu Li and the two shopkeepers almost lived in the bookstore for a month, staring at the master and the guys to work. Finally, at the end of the month, the engraving of the "Illustrated Thousand Character Text" was engraved and Huai'an was notified to come for acceptance.

Huai'an deliberately put on his only long shirt and asked his father: "Dad, do I look a lot older?" ”

Shen Yu glanced at it and couldn't help but smile: "Yes." ”

Huai'an proudly carried his little hands behind his back, swaggered to the front yard, and shouted that Changxing had gone out. They were going to the county office to pick up Zhao Pan and go to the bookstore together.

Zhao Zhixian heard that it was a printed book, and saw the "Thousand Characters in Pictures" drawn by Tanhualang with his own eyes, and felt that participating in it was beneficial to Zhao Pan's studies, so he let him go out. He is only talking about principles, but he is not stubborn and unreasonable.

Like the publications of later generations need to be reviewed three times and proofread three times, the ancient proofreading will only be more troublesome, and there are often typos and omissions in the public, and the first book launched by the bookstore is a children's book, and Huai'an must proofread it himself to rest assured.

In fact, he is still not very confident about himself, but fortunately, there is Zhao Pan. Zhao Pan inherited his father's rigor and seriousness, and he was much more reliable than himself in terms of inspection and proofreading.

The engravings on the desk were stacked high, and the two of them were just a head taller than the desk, looking up at the hill of carved plates, and swallowed their saliva silently.

Bi Sheng invented movable type printing in the previous dynasty, but it was not widely used, and to this day, the market is still dominated by engraving printing, page by page typesetting, engraving, and printing.

Zhao Pan is not as pampered as Huai'an, but his psychological tolerance is stronger, but he was stunned for a while, and then rolled up his sleeves and prepared to do a big job.

"Wait!"

Huai'an ran to the back of the table as if he remembered something, spread the paper and ink, and asked Zhao Pan to mention a plaque.

If you want to do something, you must first correct its name, and when a new store opens, choosing a name is a very important step.

Zhao Pan hurriedly waved his hand and said: "I'm a little kid, and I'm not a famous calligrapher, how can I carry a plaque for others!" ”

"I want a child's effect!" Huai'an dragged his friend to the desk: "If it weren't for my words, it would be on my own!" ”

Zhao Pan looked helpless, and picked up the pen after catching the ducks on the shelf: "What to write?" ”

Huai'an thought for a while and said, "Dandelion Children's Library." ”

Zhao Panheng held the brush that was about to catch up with his wrist, and according to Huai'an's request, he used his strength to write these six words on rice paper - Dandelion Children's Bookstore.

The clumsy handwriting is quite childlike and cute.

Zhao Pan hung up the brush, tilted his head to examine his words, and asked puzzledly: "Why is it a children's bookstore?" ”

"Because I want to build a bookstore that specializes in printing Mongolian books." Huai'an said: "Our children have their own bookstore. ”

Zhao Pan was excited, and felt that he was very honored to be able to participate in person.

"But," he asked, "why dandelions?" ”

Huai'an explained with a serious face: "I hope that the books we engraved are like dandelions, fluttering with the wind and falling on every child's desk." ”

Zhao Pan looked up at the sky at forty-five degrees, with a look of longing and yearning, what a beautiful and meaningful thing they were doing.

saw his friend's dark eyes shining with an abnormal light: "In this way, we can earn a lot of ...... Small money, money! ”

"Smack!" It is the sound of the three views shattering.

Zhao Pan's teachings about his father in his mind - what "the rich and the rich cannot be lewd, the poor and the lowly cannot be moved", what "the gentleman is righteous, and the villain is profitable" - all have been greatly impacted.

Chapter 20

The workload is too large, and the two discuss the division of labor and cooperation.

Huai'an's foundation is not solid enough, he is mainly responsible for checking the typesetting and drawings, and then passing it to Zhao Pan, line by line to check whether there are other words or missing words, and after a busy day, he only read less than thirty percent.

On the carriage back to the county office, Zhao Pan pondered: "I can discuss with my father, every day when Shen Shi ends school, come to the bookstore for an hour, can you?" ”

Huai'an nodded: "Yes!" ”

The two hit it off and agreed to come to the bookstore every day and go home at the same time.

What they are doing now does not know what the result is, so Huai'an has not mentioned the matter of sharing to Zhao Pan, but Zhao Pan spends time and energy regardless of remuneration, this pure and enthusiastic exclusive to children makes Huai'an particularly moved.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, it may not be only children who have this purity, Zhao Zhixian is also such a person, he is the most righteous and selfless person Huai'an has seen in his two lives, Huai'an doesn't want to see a good official who really loves the people like a son lives so poorly.

No matter how good a person is, he is not a Buddha who enjoys incense offerings in the shrine, he still has an old mother's wife, a son still has to study and marry a wife, and a daughter has to save a dowry......

Huai'an knew that his ideas were particularly vulgar, but he was originally an ordinary layman, and he would only help his friends in a layman's way.

Time passed day by day, and the printing work was slowly promoted step by step.

Zhao Pan is serious in his work, and whenever he sees something wrong, he will point it out and destroy it, so that the stereotypical master can redo it.

This is a very laborious job, Huai'an is better, he only looks at the drawings and typesetting, Zhao Pan's side, and the situation happened in a few days.

Because the text on the engraving is reversed, from a scientific point of view, children between the ages of four and seven are in the process of gradually improving their spatial orientation cognition, and they are prone to confusion when they see too many mirror characters. So when Zhao Pan practiced calligraphy at home, there was a situation where the left and right sides were reversed.

Zhao Chun was strict in his studies, where could he allow his son to make such a low-level mistake, he endured it once or twice without speaking, and finally couldn't bear it for the third time, and beat Zhao Pan's right hand into a crystal pig's trotter with a ring ruler.

Huai'an was on the side at the time, so frightened that both jaws came out.

Zhao Pan was both painful and aggrieved, tears fell and fell, and he didn't dare to cry.

But I heard Zhao Chun reprimand: "I'm crying early!" When you go to the field, you also write like this, and the paper does not have to be sent to the examiner, and the outer curtain will be directly removed, and then you will cry to me again, and I promise not to beat you again. ”

Huai'an listened to the grievances of his friends. If in the next generation, someone shouts at a junior child: You are more than 3,000 days away from the college entrance examination, why do you still make such a careless mistake?!

The whole world will think that this parent is not normal.

However, under the imperial examination system, prodigies like Shen Huaiming are very few after all, and most of the scholars are forced to study hard since childhood, because the imperial examination is a real army crossing a small bridge, and old children who cannot achieve fame abound.

It is precisely because of this that after Fan Jinzhongju, he will go crazy with joy.

In fact, there is a follow-up to Fan Jin's story, after the middle move, Fan Jin continued to study hard, in one fell swoop to be admitted to the Jinshi, elected as the imperial history, and stayed in the capital, and then was promoted all the way because of his outstanding political achievements, and finally worshiped the four grades. What is the concept of the four officials? In the later generations, it is already a level above the main hall level.

Therefore, at present, the imperial examination is the only way for poor students to break down class barriers, and it is also the best way for scholars to realize their political ambitions.

was in a fugue when he suddenly heard Uncle Zhao shouting at him.

Huai'an was so frightened that he took half a step back.

"Don't just look at it." Zhao Chun said with a straight face: "Take it as a warning." ”

Huai'an nodded like pounding garlic: I'm very good, don't hit me, and ...... I can't write such a complicated word.

As a human being, there is nothing wrong with food. For example, he is still practicing simple characters such as "big, small, human, sky, and fire", which are mostly symmetrical structures, and no matter how you write them, you can't write them back.

Zhao Chun nodded, and went out with his hands, leaving only Zhao Pan, who was crying into tears, to be coaxed by Huai'an.

"Silly boy!" Huai'an learned to look like an adult, sighed and said, "Why didn't you tell Uncle Zhao directly, it's because you have seen too many engravings." ”

Zhao Pan shook his head and threw out a few tears: "What if he doesn't let me go to the bookstore again?" I'll just be careful when I write in the future. ”

Huai'an: ......

Zhao Pan really thinks that it is particularly meaningful to establish this children's bookstore, in fact, even if he tells the truth, Zhao Chun may not object. The magistrate has the responsibility of educating the people, and Zhao Chun attaches great importance to the style of study, and the people engrave and print high-quality Mongolian books, which just proves that Anjiang County is a great person and prosperous.

But Zhao Pan is still young, where does he know this, lest his father lock him up at home to study in anger, he won't be able to do this.

Huai'an appeased Zhao Pan, it was getting late, and he refused the enthusiasm of Mrs. Zhao and Aunt Zhao to keep the meal, and he was going home. When I walked to the courtyard and met Uncle Zhao who had returned from the front office, he said goodbye respectfully, and he was faster than a rabbit.

With a gust of wind, the corners of Zhao Zhixian's robe were lifted, and he shook his head helplessly: "This kid ......"

After Huai'an left, Zhao Pan felt that his father beat him in front of his friends, lost face, and hid in the house and refused to go out.

Zhao Chun went to the wing room in person, knocked on the door twice, and said in a deep voice: "Eat." ”

Zhao Pan was angry, but he didn't dare to delay for a moment, and opened the door to eat in the hall.

……

Huai'an finally learned the efficiency of engraving printing - it's really slow and outrageous! The two shopkeepers took turns urging the stereotype master to revise the engraving, hurrying slowly, and finally saw the sample book at the end of the month.

When Huai'an got the sample book, there were words in his mouth: "When I have money, I must buy a set of movable type printing tools, pure copper, printed fast and good!" ”

Shen Yu was very surprised: "Do you still know about movable type printing?" ”

Huai'an hurriedly excused: "I listened to the craftsmen while they were chatting. ”

Shen Yu said to his wife: "It seems that because of his tossing, there is also unexpected growth." ”

Xu Tinglan was looking at the sample book, saying that it was a book, but it was actually a booklet made of cardboard, only the size of a palm, bound with a wooden button, and the five words on the cover "Picture Telling a Thousand Words" were Zhao Pan's handwriting, childish and cute.

The difference from ordinary books is not only the size, but also the live nails that can be taken apart. When opened, there is a stack of cardboard, which can be recited separately.

"That's good!" Xu Tinglan praised.

"yes, yes!" Huai'an came to the spirit, spread out a piece of rice paper, and handed the pen to his father like a little dog's leg: "You help me write a waist seal, and I will stamp your private seal." ”

Shen Yu obviously didn't understand what the "waist seal" was.

Looking at his son's enthusiastic gaze, he couldn't bear to refuse, and asked suspiciously: "But make a preface?" ”

Huai'an shook his head: "No, it's a slender piece of paper, wrapped in the middle of the book, and you can use it as a bookmark when you buy it." ”

In later generations, book publishing was almost "no book without waist", and asking celebrities to write testimonials was a marketing method and disguised advertising. Although it has been criticized by many readers, it is still "long-lasting", which is enough to show its effectiveness.

"I've thought of all the recommended words, so you can write: pay attention to early childhood enlightenment education, don't let your child lose at the starting line."

Shen Yu: ......

Fortunately, he had a strong ability to understand, and quickly understood Huai'an's meaning, and highly generalized, making the following summary: Ascending must be inferior, and going far must be self-defeating.

Huai'an was obviously not very satisfied, but he asked someone to do something, and it was impossible to do everything as he wanted, so he went to the front yard with a thousand thanks, and ordered Changxing to send it to the bookstore, and according to his mother's proposal, he printed 5,000 copies first, priced at three yuan, and sent them to major bookstores.