Fangshanjin, a corner of the tax customs, in a small courtyard in the printing yard, two donkeys circled around the turntable to drive the printing press to operate.

Animal printing machine is a machine that has been used by tax customs. It is divided into woodblock printing machine and movable type printing machine. It prints a large number of blank forms and blank documents every day to meet huge demand.

Zu Yi is now the chief clerk of the shogunate of General Li Li. He has been working with Li Li today. He is now watching the tax customs inspection near the turntable, but he is reading the book in his hand.

The book in my hand is a thread-bound book, well-made and easy to carry.

Although the content of the book has long been clear, Zu Yi still reads it from time to time because it reminded him of many things.

This book is one of the volumes of "Hualin Bianluo". Of course, this volume is a literal volume, not the form of a book.

Nearly ten years ago, a book vendor sold "Hualin Bianluo" to Yecheng. Emperor Gao Yang of Qi took a fancy to this precious set of books, but he was foolish: he read the words for one night and borrowed the entire set of books from the bookseller.

Then a large number of man-made books (copying books), and overnight, the entire set of "Hualin Bianluo" was copied.

The next day, Gao Yang returned the book to the bookseller, saying that he felt it was not very good after reading it, and the title of the book was not worthy of it, so he would not buy it.

Can the emperor afford this book?

No, I just want to take advantage of it and tease the bookseller.

It’s similar to not paying money after patronizing a prostitute, others can’t do anything about it, but they feel proud.

By chance, Zu Yi, who was then secretary, also wanted to take advantage of it, so he stole several volumes of "Hualin Bianluo" from the palace and divided them into volumes and sold them for profit.

Later, the incident happened, and some other things were convicted and the law was broken, and later it was changed to a job for the people.

After a while, I re-activated it.

Now, Zu Yi looked at the volume of "Hualin Binluo" in his hand, sighed at the past and the rapid depreciation of "Hualin Binluo".

The Liang Dynasty court began to promote woodblock printing, movable type printing, and "Hualin Binluo" that were extremely precious/expensive books that were once depreciated. This was because the emergence of printing technology caused the cost of making books to be greatly reduced.

In the past, books could only be disseminated by hand. Now, as long as the plate is completed and the printing press is started, a large number of books can be produced in large quantities and at low cost (relatively speaking).

The warehouse was piled up, but it was sold out soon.

Because this is a product, and it is a hot-selling product.

This year, under the arrangement of Li Li, Shaofu Temple opened a printing hall to undertake various "businesses", both for officials and for the people.

Zu Yi is responsible for related matters, so he has a good understanding of "insider".

The printing house's "external business" requires the initiative to contact the "book source", that is, contact all the gentry and literary masters, copy the books by borrowing them for a fee, and then print them for sale.

Of course, this move involves the rights and interests of the book owner, so the printing house must give part of the sales gains to the book owner, that is, "dividing the share".

The printing museum has the "copyright" of finished carved or movable type-type products for book plate making, and sells this finished carved and movable type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type-type

The sales income must also be distributed to the book owner.

This practice has caused great controversy.

Many families and individuals refused to "lent" their home books to Shaofu Temple Printing Hall, and did not bother to "cooperate" with the printing hall.

However, the collection of books in the palace has been "opened" to the printing hall, which copies, prints, and sells the collection.

Of course, Shaofu Temple is a royal business industry, and the sales income is naturally included in the inner warehouse.

This happened at the beginning of the month. Although it was just put into practice, it caused an uproar in public opinion.

Then, another incident happened: The Concubine Xiangdong took the initiative to copy a large number of classics collected by the former Xiangdongwang and "authorized" the commercial printing house for copying, then finalizing the edition, printing, and selling.

The sales proceeds, including the sale of "copyright", must also be "shared" to the Xiangdong Prince's Mansion.

It is said that many of the large number of classics collected by King Dong of Xiang were isolated books and were extremely precious, and many people could not get what they wanted if they wanted to borrow them.

There are rumors that the Xiangdong Prince's Mansion can earn at least thousands of chunks a year with its "copyright" income.

Even the book owner can earn so much income, and as the printing party, Shaofu Temple Printing Hall, will definitely have more income.

The preciousness of the books collected by the imperial palace and the King of Xiangdong is one of the best. The commercial books printed in the printing hall will definitely not worry about sales.

Some people took the lead, and it was the emperor and the vassal king who took out precious books to "cooperatively sell".

Therefore, the gentry and literati who refused to cooperate at the beginning also began to conceal their cooperation with the printing house.

A large number of precious books will be copied and made through the Shaofu Temple Printing Hall, and then printed and sold on a large scale, and there will also be business opportunities.

Booksellers from all over the world, obtaining the "franchise license" of these books means getting a money tree.

After Li Li's operation, he forced the books to become popular products, which made Zu Wei extremely admire: those who steal the hook were killed, and those who steal the country were the princes.

I secretly made a few books from the palace to sell them, making some money; if you can do it, you can print the books in the palace on a large scale, sell them casually, and sell them at a good price.

Zu Yi understood what Li Li wanted to do:

Books became popular products, and Li Li used this as bait to catch golden carp.

It is to use book franchise licenses as bait to absorb a large amount of funds to partially solve the problem of large amounts of funds needed to implement the new policy of the two Huaihe River.

Cooperate with other means, the "opening" of Beidao Xingtai and the implementation of the new policy will no longer be short of money.

It's that simple and easy, Zu Yi feels that making money is not a problem for Li Li at all.

Zu Qi handed the book to his entourage and put it away and moved it to the next door.

Next door, the woodblock printing press was running. Li Li, who was coming to patrol, watched the workers operate.

The operation he looked at was not operating the printing press, but unboxing the newly arrived goods and inspecting them.

Goods are full of lead type molds, tens of thousands, so they are full of weight.

Zu Qi came to the side and watched the boxes of well-made fonts being opened and placed on the platform for random inspection, which made him feel pleasing to the eye.

This is not a font model, it is money, it is a string of yellow copper coins.

The price of each ten font model is 20 cents, which is not expensive, but the production cost is very low, and it is said to be less than ten cents. Therefore, for the Poyang Printing Factory, which sells complete sets of font model on a large scale, this is a huge profit.

There are thousands of characters that do not repeat, divided into commonly used characters, secondly commonly used characters, very used characters and rare characters, and rare characters. A set of movable character characters sold by Poyang Factory has equipped with "one character, two model", "one character, multiple model" and other equipment according to the frequency of characters used.

Therefore, a set of font models has tens of thousands of yuan in quantity and is sold for tens of thousands of cents.

This is a complete set of font molds and also retail, so that the printing workshops opened in various places can replace worn font molds in a timely manner.

At the same time, Poyang Printing Factory also sells platters, inks used for movable type printing, printing machines, and personnel training (paid).

With the bamboo paper produced in Raozhou, those who want to start a printing workshop to make a lot of money can get everything they need in Poyang, Raozhou.

Now Shaofu Temple is taking the lead in the trading of printing books, and its expected huge profits have attracted merchants to follow suit. However, Poyang, Raozhou, sells a full set of equipment so that those who are interested in doing this business can get what they want.

Zu Yi looked at the workers' random inspection of the characters, and saw Li Li's smile with satisfaction, he couldn't help but think of the topic Li Li talked about during a chat:

"There is a way to make money, called 'joining a chain', and the routine is very deep..."

"You can think of joining a chain as an old store opening a branch in various places, such as a restaurant. However, the owner of the branch spends money to buy names, recipes, and cooking equipment from the owner of the old store."

"And spend money to ask the old boss to guide the chef, how to do things."

"So, how do old shop owners make money? It's very simple. You can earn a fee for your own name, make a profit, sell equipment, and make a profit for personnel training."

"People who open branches are called entrepreneurs. Before the branch is opened, the old store makes a lot of money from entrepreneurs. Once the store is opened, all kinds of raw materials must be bought from the old store, so the old store has a steady stream of income."

"The branch is open, there are few customers, and the old store can help attract business and charge a fee."

"Branch operation, equipment loss and maintenance, you have to spend money to ask the old store to send someone to do it. This is a steady stream of income."

"In order to ensure the quality of food, old shops send people to branches to check from time to time. If the inspection fails, they will be fined, which is also a revenue."

"If the branch cannot continue to operate, the store mainly resells equipment and raw materials, but cannot find the seller. OK, the old store recycles the price, and the price is a fracture... 30% off."

"If you reclaim the equipment, please modify it. As a new equipment, you can sell it to new entrepreneurs at full price, and make another profit..."

"There are entrepreneurs who keep starting businesses, but how many can they succeed? But no matter whether these entrepreneurs succeed or not, those who make a lot of money are joining chain companies."

"The entrepreneurs who keep coming out are like leeks that keep growing. They join chain companies and keep cutting leeks. Don't live a good life..."

"It's like opening a restaurant branch, and it's like this, it's like opening a printing branch, and it's like that..."

Li Li's voice had a different meaning. Zu Qi only felt that it was a kidnapped whispering in his ear, seducing him to take the bait. After he was sold, he also smiled and helped the other party count the money.

Such geniuses can cut the leeks from big manors and big temples, and they don’t know what tricks they can do.
Chapter completed!