The next day, Shen Mingjun still did not go to work in the Wang family, but continued to accompany the old lady to find the elder brother. Shen Mingwen ran away from home and was extremely determined, and there was no news after leaving the city.

Although the old lady cursed fiercely, she was more worried than anyone else. She thought that her son might have returned to the countryside, so she specially sent someone to Taohua Village to ask.

Chen Xi didn't care about these things at all. Every day after school, he went directly to the new drug shop. Hui Niang put down her work and took him to find someone who knew how to print this business.

According to Chen Xi's knowledge, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, due to the prosperity of commerce, handicrafts and social culture, the demand for books among the people increased greatly, which promoted the development of the printing industry. Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, and Jianyang, northern Fujian and other places were filled with a large number of printing workshops.

At this time, the woodblock printing technology had developed to the pinnacle. Wood movable type and copper movable type were also widely used. At the same time, fonts with horizontal and vertical, horizontal and vertical, horizontal and heavy, and square characters were widely used for printing. This is what later generations called Song style characters.

Ninghua is located in a remote place and is extremely rare for people who are proficient in printing books. However, since they decide to get involved in this industry, they cannot find others to print. The printing workshop needs to be handled by experts, and the tools need to be bought immediately, mainly movable type and ink, and some simple shelves, and paper. All finished books in this era are wire-bound, and after printing, people must arrange the page numbers for binding.

Last time when Chen Xi and Shen Mingjun opened a tea shop, Chen Xi often needed to come forward to make peace. But this time, when he opened a printing workshop, Hui Niang, who was good at speaking, came forward, and Chen Xi just needed to follow behind him as a small follower.

Because Hui Niang is the head of Ninghua Pharmacy Chamber of Commerce and is considered a person with status and status in the city. I heard that it was a "ghost doctor" who came forward, even if he didn't know how to do it, he would recommend someone to come and try it.

Hui Niang Yiyi met her, and finally chose several experienced artists who had worked in the printing industry in Jianyang, who had been in the "Paper Palace" and "Master of Neo-Confucianism", but returned home for various reasons.

If you have a good candidate, the next step is to select the location of the workshop and discuss purchasing tools.

In just three days, the matter was almost done. On this day, Hui Niang and Shen Xi returned to the pharmacy and told Zhou that Zhou was very surprised and did not expect that the new business was prepared so quickly.

"It's still my sister who has the ability. If my family is unscrupulous, it may not be possible to do this for ten days or half a month." Zhou praised sincerely.

"Sister made fun of me. After all, there is no need to open a shop with a store. The rented place only needs to be clean and tidy. It's a small workshop, and the scale will not be too large for the time being. According to my sister's wishes, I will print some comments first and try to sell them. If the business is good, I will add it."

Chen Xixin said that Hui Niang could do business. Even if she felt that the business was profitable, she would not blindly invest too much. She first printed some information to see the market's reactions so that she could determine how big the demand was and that even if she lost money, she would not lose too much money.

Shen Mingjun never returned home in the next few days. After all, his brother was missing, and he was worried and he had to comfort me.

Because Li lost his eldest son, he had to temporarily put aside the matter of taking over the tea shop. Zhou felt that the business had already returned to her home, so she had no reason to take care of it. There was no one to take care of the tea shop.

In the end, Mr. Han Wu felt that things were inappropriate, so he went to the pharmacy to ask about the boss Zhou's meaning.

"I said, Madam, no matter what you say, you are the shopkeeper of the tea shop. How can you make us live like this? These days, no one cares about the shop's input, there are many customers and a bunch of messy groups, which is really hard to be awesome."

Master Han Wu looked helpless. Even if he had a share of the tea shop, he still worked.

Although Shen Mingjun delegated power in the past, he got up early and opened the shop and closed the door at night. Shen Mingjun personally did it himself. He collected money every day to settle the accounts, and paid wages and paid dividends. Shen Mingjun also did it well. Now Shen Mingjun and Zhou did not go, so Han Wuye had to do everything. Han Wuye finished the account and was worried that the shopkeeper suspected that he had deducted it privately and did not even dare to take the dividends of his own.

Although the guys below earn a lot of wages every day, Shen Mingjun used to think that the guy was tired and would always give some comforting "working awards". This is also the method proposed by Chen Xi to make the guy motivated to do things.

No one is making the decision now, and Master Han Wu dare not give money casually. Song Xiaocheng and the new friends all said something very slander.

"Master Han Wu, it's not that I don't want to go there. You have seen it too. This pharmacy is busy, so I have to take care of the children. Why don't you do this? You have to calculate the items every day and send them here. I'll calculate it myself. If there is no problem, the tea shop will be temporarily handed over to Master Wu for your care."

Master Han Wu was a little anxious when he heard this and quickly said, "Mrs. Chen, you not only want to make me difficult, but also want to make me ruin. I am just a storyteller, but I can't do anything about this tea shop. What about the little shopkeeper? Why don't you see him? The little shopkeeper has the most ideas on weekdays."

When encountering a difficult situation, Mr. Han Wu finally remembered that Chen Xi was the "Zhiduoxing". He watched around and finally heard the sound of reading from the backyard. It turned out that Chen Xi was teaching Lin Dai and Lu Xier to read.

Mr. Han Wu invited Chen Xi to the front, wanting to hear what Chen Xi means.

In the tea shop, Chen Xi, the little shopkeeper, is very popular. Even a person like Han Wuye admires Chen Xi's wisdom.

"Fifth Master, since you say you are always in charge, you are just in charge. The business is originally something that your elderly person can help you manage, and you can afford it."

Chen Xi said with a little compliment, "Besides, if you make more money in the tea shop, you will always get more money. If you make less money, your wallet will be empty. I think my father and my mother don't trust others, but you can still trust you, Wu Ye?"

Chen Xi is quite smart about doing business and is not limited. He can ask others to manage his own business, just like a company hires a professional manager. Not everything needs to be done by behind-the-scenes investors. In his philosophy, daily operations and decision-making can be completely separated.

With Chen Xi's words, Master Han Wu felt that this was the case.

When the tea shop was first opened, there were only four people from Shen’s father and son, and he and Song Xiaocheng. Now the number of people has increased, but he is also a veteran after all, and he will share more money after making more money.

Mr. Han Wu stayed and discussed with Zhou's family. According to Chen Xi's suggestion, he formulated a development strategy for tea shops in the future. In order to avoid the fatigue of both Han Wu's storytelling and management shops, he simply decided that he would only talk about two hours of books every day, and the morning and afternoon are all responsible for the content of the new storytelling. For the rest of the time, other storytellers would like to ask for the rest of the time.

Mr. Han Wu came and looked worried, and his face was full of relaxation and joy when he left. Before the old lady of the Shen family officially sent someone to take over the tea shop, he was the shopkeeper of the tea shop. Even if he gave the work-time award, he only needed to turn around and list it in the account book and tell Shen Mingjun or Zhou.

In the blink of an eye, it was early April, and Shen Mingwen had been missing for seven days.

During these seven days, not only Shen Mingjun was busy looking for his elder brother, but also the Shen family's main house and the people from the side branches in the county were both annoyed by Li's visit.

In the past, when there were any funerals in the Shen family, the Shen family gathered at the Yi family. Li always talked about his eldest son who was determined to be a scholar and had a bright future in the future, which made others unhappy. Now Shen Mingwen is missing, and others like to ignore him. After all, since Grandpa Chen Xi's generation, he has separated from his family, and each family lives his own life and has nothing to do with each other.

Finally, on the afternoon of early April, Shen Mingjun found out that a scholar who was studying abroad had met his elder brother, saying that he was looking at the official road station in Shaowu Mansion. Without saying a word, Li asked Shen Mingjun to hire a carriage and chased the north without any effort. After two days of leaving, there was no news.

Zhou was very angry. In the past, her husband always used to be too busy with work and didn’t have time to come back to accompany her. Now, he doesn’t even do work for others’ affairs, and even throws his home away from him.

Every day, Chen Xi was careful not to order my mother's powder keg. Apart from going to school, he just helped Hui Niang build a printing workshop.

After checking for the shortcomings and filling in the gaps, the tools and materials for publishing the book were finally prepared. What books should be printed nowadays, there is no need to check with any department for review, and even go to the government to report.

The workshop is not large in size. Two masters and two assistants, and a total of four people were a total of them. The ones to print first are Yue Quanzhuan and Tong Linzhuan, which use copper movable characters. The volumes of the two books are printed with 150 pages. Chen Xi has read the sample manuscript, and the font is too large, and there are no punctuation marks between the lines of the sentence, which is quite difficult to read.

Although Chen Xi knew that China had already had punctuation marks since the pre-Qin period, it did not have the standard of generalization and did not have the habit of using them. Most ancient books did not have punctuation marks, and could only break sentences through sense of language, auxiliary tone, grammatical structure, etc.

When he wrote a book for Mr. Han Wu before, in addition to the spaces in the first two words, he also intended to leave blank space between two sentences. When writing, he felt that it was nothing, but when printing a book, he needed a lot of blank movable type, and the printout would appear out of place.

Most of the printed books these days are classics, history, and medical books, etc., after all, they are for people in the market to read. The absence of intervals between the passages will cause dyslexia and affect the readability of the story.

In the end, Chen Xi decided to take a risk, treating it as a change in the printing industry, adding some commonly used punctuation marks to it, mainly including commas, periods, colons and quotes. This basically makes the reading of the book smooth and easy to understand, and there will be no problems in the sentences.

When Chen Xi re-proofreaded the statement that Yue Quanchuan and Tong Linchuan were given to the master who printed the book, they also thought it was good. Although they felt it was a little "alternative", Chen Xi was the head of the printing workshop after all, and even Hui Niang, who invited them, said clearly that if Chen Xi asked them to do it, just do it according to the rules.

On the afternoon of the third day of the April 10th, the first volume of Yue Quan Biography was printed. The total volume of the ten chapters of the book was 42,000 words. Chen Xi took the sample book back for Hui Niang to read.

Hui Niang was overjoyed after reading it. The main reason why she agreed to print books was to make it easier for her to make it easier for her to do it.

After getting the sample book, Hui Niang was a little absent-minded when she had supper. After eating it in a hurry, she asked Ning'er and Xiaoyu to clean up, while she focused on reading in front of the counter.

Because Shen Mingjun did not come back, Zhou took the two young men back almost until the second day of the second day. Originally, Zhou would stay and talk to Hui Niang about women's private conversations, so that each other could relieve their depression, but Hui Niang was only concerned about millions of small people at the moment, saying that even the good sister who talked about everything on weekdays was left by her.

It was late at night when Zhou took two young men back, and Hui Niang had no intention of going out to see her off. When Zhou returned home, she said that Hui Niang was obstructed. Chen Xi laughed but said nothing.

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