The Yongle Grand Ceremony Printing Workshop was officially opened, and the location was opposite Yongqinghou.

Li Qing took advantage of this reason, and he couldn't go to court, he spent most of his time at home, and occasionally went to the East Palace to see Xiaopang, and his life became more and more comfortable.

The workshop is not large, covering an area of only two acres, and the construction was completed in only two and a half months.

Then, Li Qing posted a recruitment notice and went to the Great Collection Library.

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"Yongqinghou, you can't take this away." The little eunuch saw that Li Qing was going to take the original book away, so he immediately quit, "The emperor said that he can't take it away." ”

"Presumptuous." Li Qing's face was flat, "The emperor asked Benhou to print the ceremony, how can I print it if he doesn't take it?" ”

"That's not going to work either." The little eunuch said with a bitter face, "Master Hou, if you take it away, there will be a mistake in the ceremony, and the slave and maid will not be able to explain it!" ”

At this time, the commander of Jinyi made Ji Gang come over, "I've seen Yongqing Hou." ”

After a pause, he held his head high and said: "Shengshang's words: if you want to print it, copy it, and you can't bring out the original, I see that your kid is not honest, put away your little Jiujiu, dare to fight the original idea of the canon, I want you to look good." ”

Li Qing: "......"

When did he see it, and was it so obvious that I was showing it...... Li Qing sighed helplessly, "The minister obeys the order." ”

Looking at the room of the ceremony, Li Qing was greedy, and said in his heart: "It seems that it is not possible now, let's wait until the fourth child is boiled away." ”

Not long after the ceremony came out, the fourth baby is very restricted, let alone taken out.

There are so many canons, where did Li Qing copy them, he didn't have the patience, so he went to the Hanlin Academy, found a lot of good calligraphy, let these people copy it, and watched it himself.

Zhu Di looked at the Yongle Ceremony very preciously, and after the eunuch cleaned his hands throughout the whole process, he turned the pages one by one, not allowing outsiders to touch them at all.

Seeing this, Li Qing completely broke off his thoughts, knowing that there was a fourth child, and it was hopeless to get involved in the ceremony.

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A few days later, a total of 100 volumes were copied, mainly focusing on poetry and songs.

At the same time, the craftsmen and printers who carved the characters were also ready, and began to engrave according to the contents, and then sorted them, and after several months of busyness, they were finally able to officially print.

In order to steal beams and replace pillars in the future, Li Qing deliberately paid out of his own pocket and bought the same superb rice paper as the main hall, so that the craftsmen could print it additionally.

After being busy with these, Li Qingqing was idle, went to the workshop every day to check the production progress, and spent the rest of his time either listening to music and fishing, or taking the three girls shopping.

After a long time of comfortable life, Li Qing was embarrassed, so he often went to the palace to help Xiaopang deal with some government affairs, or talk to Zhu Di about the mountains.

I have to say that the fourth emperor, is still very comfortable, much more comfortable than Lao Zhu Shuang.

Although Lao Zhu also has a good child, he will pay attention to big and small things, and he is not even very idle.

The fourth child is different, he is really in a state of semi-picking, or rather, he has separated from his eldest son, he is in charge of martial arts, and his eldest son is in charge of Wen.

The second son looked at the eldest son.

In this mode, the country runs more smoothly.

In fact, Zhu Di is like this, not to be lazy, but because the contradiction between him and Wenchen is too deep.

The main reason was maritime trade, and Wenchen hated him to the core, although he didn't dare to show it on his face, he was quite repulsed in his heart.

Unless Zhu Di can stop going to the West, the relationship between the two sides will not be good.

Fortunately, with Xiaopang and his mediation, the country's governance has been very stable.

In fact, in a sense, Xiaopang is more like the Ming Emperor, because he promotes policies and exercises more power than Zhu Di.

For this reason, Zhu Di wore small shoes for Xiaopang.

Xiaopang is not Zhu Biao, and he is not used to Lao Tzu, he is absent from work after being trained, and Zhu Di has no temper at all.

There's no way, the current Da Ming is really not good without Xiaopang.

It's not that Zhu Di can't do it, but he is too good at tossing, opening canals, building the capital, and the Northern Expedition...... Daming's finances have always been in a tight state, and he is not good at finance.

If it weren't for Xiaopang's mediation, Xia Yuanji and others picking and searching, Daming might even collapse.

Of course, Zhu Di understands these, but it does not prevent him from being optimistic about the eldest child.

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The Imperial Study.

Li Qing handed over the printed "Yongle Canon" to Zhu Di, "Your Majesty, please take a look." ”

Zhu Di took it, opened it and glanced at it a few times, nodded and said, "The printing is good, what is the cost of this volume?" ”

"Five hundred wen." Li Qingdao, "However, with the printing, the cost will be lower and lower, but in order to ensure continuous benefits, you can't print too much." ”

"Hmm." Zhu Di asked again, "What is the price?" ”

"Five taels, it has to be silver."

"Huh? This ......," Zhu Di said in a humble heart, "Won't this be too dark!" ”

The price is ten times the cost, and Rao is black-hearted fourth child thinks it's too dark, "Does anyone buy it like this?" ”

"Absolutely." Li Qing said with a smile, "First of all, Xungui is not bad for money, they don't know much about big characters, but they attach great importance to their children's education, so they are naturally willing to spend money to buy it;

Secondly, although the Wenchen's income is not high, the vast majority of the Wenchen are from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other wealthy places in the south, and most of the families are not poor in money, and they can afford it. ”

Li Qing said confidently: "Your Majesty, this is the Yongle Grand Ceremony, although it is a printed copy, but with the identity of the royal production, they are definitely eager to rush to it." ”

paused, "If the emperor is not afraid of hard work, he can also double the price again!" ”

"Oh?" Zhu Di is very interested in money, because without money, he can't do those big things, "What's the way?" ”

"Limited Edition Ceremony Signature." Li Qingdao, "On the cover of the Yongle Ceremony, if the word 'Yongle' is inscribed by the emperor himself, its value will be even higher, and the officials will not be allowed to be heirlooms?" ”

"It's worth so much when I write two words?"

Li Qing smiled and nodded: "The emperor is the Ninety-Five Supreme, and the words in the inscription are of course valuable." ”

Hearing this, Zhu Di couldn't help grinning, and immediately felt that he had lost his imperial demeanor, cleared his throat, and said, "This matter will be handed over to you, I have made money, and I will be rewarded......"

Balabala drew a cake, and Zhu Di said, "After the ceremony is released, someone must copy it, and it is estimated that it will be worthless at that time." ”

"It doesn't matter, there are so many volumes of the canon, and when it's worthless, change it." Li Qing said with a smile, "In fact, the ceremony is valuable, and the most important thing is the identity of the royal product. ”

He picked it up and pointed to the lower left corner of the cover of "Yongle Canon", "Your Majesty, please see, just the four words 'royal production' cost dozens of words, this is difficult to imitate, and few people dare to imitate." ”

Zhu Di took a closer look, the four small characters were delicate, and he smiled happily, "I have always been relieved to do things......

There was another burst of cake, and the choked Li Qing rolled his eyes.

Li Qing interrupted his spell casting and arched his hand: "The emperor will approve me to pay some money again, and I am going to open a royal bookstore to facilitate sales." ”

"Want money again?" The joy on Zhu Di's face disappeared, "How can you make it so well?" ”

“…… Do you give it or not? ”

"You ......" Zhu Di was angry and snorted: "I can't recover the cost when the time comes, I want you to look good." ”

"This emperor can rest assured, the Yongle Ceremony will definitely be a big hit." Li Qing is full of confidence.

"Aang." Zhu Di said in a sullen voice, "About the inscription...... How many questions do you think are appropriate? ”

Li Qing thought for a while, "Ten copies per volume will be enough, and if there are more, it will be worthless." ”

"Well, I'll send you the printed book later." Zhu Di waved his hand, "Go ahead, ask the prince for money." ”

“…… The minister retired. ”

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Xiaopang is not like Zhu Di, and he is very happy to approve the money.

Seeing that he was so refreshing, Li Qing asked by the way, "How much money does the treasury have now?" ”

Xiaopang sent the eunuch away, and then whispered, "I'll tell you, don't tell my father." ”

"Don't worry, I'm the tightest mouthful."

Xiaopang nodded and said proudly, "Don't be nervous now, the national treasury has more than three million taels of silver and more than 1,800 stones of grain." ”

"Hiss~ so much?"

"Shhhh Xiaopang glanced at him angrily, "Let my father know that he has to increase his efforts to repair the project again, or immediately go on a northern expedition, he can't have money." ”

Li Qing nodded amusedly, "Got it." ”

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Li Qing built a bookstore next to the printing house, which is not large, covering only half an acre, but the decoration is very exquisite.

The bookshelves are all made of mahogany, and the bookstore is decorated with a lot of bright yellow ornaments.

Li Qing's main focus is the royal golden signboard, which naturally wants to render the royal style.

The academy as a whole gives people a sense of unattainability, and invisibly screens the customer group.

After the academy was completed, Li Qing immediately spread advertisements in Beijing, in addition to the nobles of Wenchen, the local rich gentry were also in his sales range.

Jinling is a rich place, since Lao Zhu set the capital here, Jinling is even more upper, not inferior to Suzhou and Hangzhou.

There was no shortage of rich people in Beijing, and the bookstore soon attracted a large number of rich people.

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