In the wing room next to him, Gao Chengduan was wearing a brand new official robe and turned around to let Shi Quanbin see it. His face was full of joy and kept saying, "President, go to the restaurant to have a drink at night, don't refuse! In the past few years, I have offended many people in the Sansi Yamen. Now it's hard to find someone to celebrate with you."

Shi Quanbin said yes repeatedly, and praised Gao Chengduan for wearing an official robe and suddenly became much more energetic.

In just a few days, the official court can be prepared for the prosecution. One is that the yamen is close to, Gao Chengduan runs hard to run there, and the other is that Gao Chengduan naturally spends money. The promotion of officials, all the procedures are completed, and the money is spent is quite large. Moreover, the lower the level of a small official, the more dares to speak out. For example, Xu Ping's county marquis, no public official dares to ask for bribes from him except for ordinary cases. Gao Chengduan's small chief clerk is different. As long as he can get one in the middle, he has to pay for money. If he is less, he will make things difficult for you.

This has become a stubborn disease in the capital. Everyone knows it, but they can't do anything about it. The court also turned a blind eye. The minor officials only had a little money and food every month, and they could not support their families without making some extra money. In order to get the official lawsuit, the minor officials pieced together everything, and even pledged and borrowed loans. After taking office, in order to help the bankrupt officials solve this problem, they were allowed to use ministerial money to recharge their accounts.

In the end, the money from the treasury was used to offset the money. In the middle, everyone paid a little. I really don’t know why the salary of the minor officials was so low. It was just to make them greedy and ruthless?

Xu Ping couldn't understand anyway, and he couldn't understand many things in this world.

Gao Chengduan would not have reached this point. Although he dressed simply, his family was actually very rich. His ancestors were all from three companies for many generations, and they were not always honest and inherited family members. They had saved a lot of wealth. Shi Quanbin, as usual, wanted to use ministerial money to make up for his expenses for the official lawsuit, but Gao Chengduan refused. He would rather spend ten times the price to buy an official position. What is this money?

Shi Quanbin mentioned the Regulation Editorial Office, responsible for all errands. Gao Chengduan was the chief clerk of the editorial office, and was in charge of errands. In the words of Xu Ping's previous life, Gao Chengduan was the office director, and Shi Quanbin was the logistics manager. The two of them had different errands from others and were close to each other in daily life.

Seeing Xu Ping come in, Shi Quanbin and Gao Chengduan hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

Xu Ping entered the room, walked to the table, took out a small cloth bag from his arms, carefully placed it on the table, and said to the two: "Come here and see, how about using this to print the charts in the regulations?"

Shi Quanbin has found the charts of craftsmen in the engraving regulations in the past two days, but the carved plates and movable type are different, so the effect is not ideal, and he is also worried. Seeing that Xu Ping proposed a new method, he hurriedly came with Gao Chengduan to take a look.

I saw a thick copper plate on the table with a table drawn on it, but it looked a little crooked. Next to it was a casual picture of pine and cranes, and the tree looked a little bit, so the crane was extremely testing people's association ability.

Shi Quanbin reached out to touch the copper plate and felt that the concave and convex feeling was obvious, not worse than the movable type made, and the fineness was far better than the engraved version. Since they were all metal, I thought this could be used to print ink with movable type.

After touching for a while, Shi Quanbin retracted his hand and said, "There should be no problem for printing this copper plate. It is easy to polish it and can be typed with movable type. However, Yunxing, the charts on this board are too poor. Look at the pine and cranes drawn, and they have to see that they are roosters perched on the tree. Is this because the painter himself has poor skills, or is it because the copper plate is not easy to draw, so he can only draw it like this?"

Xu Ping's face turned slightly red and said, "Don't care about these details, just because the painting skills are a little worse. If a master painter comes over, it will not be unusual to draw like a living person."

"That's good. When will you pass on the method? I'll go to the Hanlin Academy to find a preceptor, draw it carefully, and print it out for everyone to see how?"

Xu Ping nodded repeatedly: "Okay, that's it!"

Although the Hanlin Academy is called Hanlin, it has nothing to do with the Hanlin Academy in the Bachelor's Academy. The ones there are painters, carvings, and they are specially made jade treasures for royal paintings, and they are actually craftsmen. However, craftsmen can also become officials to a certain extent. They have a separate official rank system and do not join civil and military officials, and are called craft officials.

Seriously speaking, the Hanlin Academy is not unrelated to the Hanlin Academy. What is left in the Hanlin Academy is painting and carving jade based on craftsmanship, while the Hanlin Academy's craftsmanship is a scholarly article, all serving the emperor himself. However, the social status of the industry is different, and the identity of practitioners is very different.

Shi Quanbin has been working in the palace for many years, so it is still easy to find a master craftsman from the Hanlin Academy to help.

Xu Ping originally wanted to talk to Shi Quanbin about the method of making copper plates, but after thinking about it, he would just forget it. In terms of specific techniques, Shi Quanbin only had half a bucket of water, so it was okay to take care of it, but he still couldn't count on him when doing it.

After asking Shi Quanbin to put away the copper plate, Xu Ping sat down by the table.

Holding the copper plate in his hand, Shi Quanbin said "ah": "This copper block weighs several pounds, and it is worth a lot of money! After a while, the price was calculated and the money was allocated from the minister Kuli to the Junhou's house."

"You can do it." This is not because Xu Ping is reluctant to let go of the money. Rules are rules. He cannot start by using the money from his family to supplement the treasury, as that will make it difficult for the people below to do.

After the mistress served tea, Xu Ping took a sip, and said to Shi Quanbin and Gao Chengduan: "By the way, copper is just for use in calligraphy and paintings, and it does not require copper to be used all. When you make the plate, you can still make steel parts and put the copper of the calligraphy and painting parts into it. This way, it saves copper and makes it easier to type."

Shi Quanbin thought about the passage and agreed. He had always been in charge of the Sansi Bookstore, and he had already arranged the layout and arrangement. He had already become accustomed to inlaid and inlaid, and it was not very difficult to understand.

After chatting for a while, Xu Ping said to the two: "In a day or two, the public officials of various states near the capital will arrive one after another. The new regulations that have been set must be printed as soon as possible. The first time is - print two thousand volumes. Each official in the Sansi will be one volume. If you leave Sansi, you will be repaid. The losses will be compensated according to the price. If you print less, it will be trivial and will not be sufficient for use."

"So much? But a lot of money!" Books of this era are not cheap. The Sansi Regulations can be thought of as they are extremely large and huge. Xu Ping's courage scared Gao Chengduan.

Xu Ping smiled: "Don't worry about money! Just watch, the three departments will have endless money to spend in the next few months! Also, the public officials from the prefectures and counties below will be transferred to the capital, and the residence must be arranged so that they don't have any worries."

After cleaning up the old public officials, I don’t know how much more income the staff of the three officials alone would be. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the three officials would not spend all their money. They would hand them all over the treasury, which would scare the court officials, and the other would tie their own hands and feet.

Shi Quanbin didn't know where Xu Ping got his confidence, and he was half-doubted: "I have already agreed to the store and housekeepers to live in the empty house that they have not rented out for the time being, and the newly built house will be soon."

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Chapter completed!