Li Chengqian returned to the mansion with a smile.
Little Chuzi has been following him.
"Your Highness..."
"Um?"
Li Chengqian looked at him puzzled: "What's wrong? Just tell me if you have anything."
"I wonder why Your Highness said that books can change this era?"
“Don’t they all say that a country is strong when it has strong soldiers and strong horses?”
Little Chuzi asked the question he had been holding in his mind for a long time.
"You must have strong soldiers and strong horses, but you must also have provisos."
Li Chengqian walked in front, and Xiao Chuzi followed behind.
He explained patiently.
"The most obvious characteristic of a country that has a strong army and strong horses is that it wants to make the country rich."
"After all, no matter where the soldiers and horses are, they must be supported by money and food."
"And if you want the country to be rich, you must have talents who are loyal to the country wholeheartedly."
Li Chengqian looked back at Xiao Chuzi: "But do you know how many people are truly loyal to the Tang Dynasty now?"
Hearing this, Xiao Chuzi looked puzzled.
"If the ministers of the Tang Dynasty are not loyal to the Tang Dynasty, who can they be loyal to?"
"Be loyal to your family."
Li Chengqian sighed and said: "In the huge Tang Dynasty, how many of them are not related to the aristocratic family?"
"Fang Xuanling, his wife is the Lu family of Fan Yang, and Du Ruhui is from a noble family."
"Not to mention Su Shichang, Yao Silian and other top bachelors of the Tang Dynasty."
Li Chengqian looked back at Xiao Chuzi and patted him on the shoulder.
"Although you don't understand now, you will understand one day."
"When our book is printed, I will teach you how to read."
Little Chuzi looked at Li Chengqian.
His eyes were full of disbelief.
"Your Highness, are you really willing to teach me?"
"Of course."
Li Chengqian smiled kindly: "Qingci, Qinghe and the others were all taught by my mother, and they are all literate."
"And you have been with me for so many years, it's time for you to learn how to read."
"Otherwise, I won't even have anyone to write letters to me in the future."
In ancient times, classes were strict. It is a kind of praise for subordinates to let them know how to read and write.
And it is the greatest compliment.
Little Chuzi was so excited that tears almost came out of his eyes.
"I said, you kid, are you going to cry?"
Li Chengqian raised his head and smiled: "Okay, okay, don't mess with this, we have to go to the paper mill to make arrangements tomorrow."
"Um……"
Little Chuzi nodded heavily.
Breathing became much heavier.
…
The next day, Li Chengqian built a new factory next to the paper factory and named it a printing factory.
When everything was ready, he ran to the palace and found Li Shimin.
The purpose was the same, simply thinking about Li Shimin's imperial study room.
After clearly explaining the cause and effect.
Li Shimin didn't even have a reason to refuse.
I could only agree with tears.
Seeing that he agreed, Li Chengqian was not polite.
Commanding Long Wujun, Li Shimin's imperial study room was almost emptied.
This was also the first time he experienced the thrill of robbery.
Especially the one who robbed was Tangtangtian Khan.
Look at him holding back his sadness.
Li Chengqian felt extremely happy.
Should.
Let you always steal my things.
This time I also let you experience the feeling of grabbing.
After the books were moved, Li Shimin walked up to Li Chengqian with a dark face.
"I'm warning you, if even one page of these books is damaged, I'll slap you with ten rulers."
"If one copy is lost, I will hit you with a hundred rulers!"
After the threat was over, Li Shimin turned around and left.
Li Chengqian shrugged, what's the big deal about damage?
Can't I give you back a new one?
Li Chengqian rolled his eyes, was too lazy to speak, and followed the team back to the printing factory.
At this moment, the printing factory is ready to go, just waiting for Li Chengqian to come.
After giving the order, printing began.
Li Chengqian didn't hesitate and waved the small colorful flag in his hand.
"Open the seal!"
The workers cheered and immediately started working intensively.
Although there are no machines in this era.
But it also has cheaper labor and working standards than later generations.
Under Li Chengqian's arrangement, the three processes of paper making, book making and printing were completely transformed into a one-stop flow operation.
Not to mention the paper side, let's talk about the printing factory. Fifty craftsmen can produce nearly a thousand books every day.
While he produces the products, Changsun Wuji is responsible for selling them.
On the first day, Changsun Wuji only tried to open a bookshop.
As a result, the business that day was so booming that people lining up from the street to the end of the street to buy books.
Even though all the books were sold out, there were still many people queuing up.
The reason for this hot scene is the same, it's just too cheap.
Take the Analects of Confucius, which everyone knows, as an example.
The Analects of Confucius contains a total of twenty chapters and four hundred and ninety-two chapters, and requires two hundred pages of paper.
And not only the paper, but also the cost of ink and rubbing craftsmen are added together, the cost is by no means less than 2 yuan.
Two ounces of money is a full two thousand copper coins, and this is still the cost price.
Such a finished book would cost at least 5,000 copper coins in an ordinary bookstore.
You must know that in the early Tang Dynasty, the monthly salary of an official like Cheng Yaojin was only eight thousand copper coins.
And his monthly salary was only enough to buy a copy of The Analects of Confucius.
Not to mention those poor children who may not be able to afford a book even if they work hard all their lives.
But it's different now, with Li Chengqian's streamlined approach.
The cost price has been tightly controlled by Li Chengqian.
The price of a book is only a hundred yuan, which has dropped more than two hundred times.
Even the final sale price was only two hundred yuan.
At this price, you couldn't even buy a blank book before.
But now, you can already buy a printed book. r> How can we prevent these poor people from going crazy?
Some people even came all the way from other places after hearing about it.
I started queuing up outside the bookstore at night, waiting to buy books.
In order to cope with this situation, Changsun Wuji opened two more bookstores.
As a result, demand still exceeded supply.
In the end, Li Chengqian's printing factory was even sold out.
Originally, he divided the fifty craftsmen into small teams, and each team printed one type.
But this business is really booming.
When Changsun Wuji opened five bookshops, the supply at his place exceeded the demand.
Of course, Li Chengqian would like to see such a hot scene.
He immediately waved his little hand, hired another hundred people to print books, and more than doubled the size of the printing plant.
This time, the ferocious book buying frenzy was finally provided.
Of course, such a popular scene also gave Li Chengqian the motivation to develop better printing technology.
For example, a printing press...
Li Chengqian still remembers it.
The first printing press in Greater China was the Niuli printing press introduced in the late Qing Dynasty.
Since people at that time had already begun to use mechanical printing.
He didn't believe that he couldn't do it...
Even if you can't do it yourself, don't you still have a system?
Li Chengqian looked through the system store.
In the end, he really found him.
But the price is too beautiful.
A semi-automatic printing machine actually costs 40,000 points...
"Why don't you go grab the money, you damn girl!"
Li Chengqian couldn't help but curse in his heart.
Who would have thought that the system actually responded?
{The prices of system products have their own reasons, please do not talk nonsense...}
"What the hell..."
Li Chengqian was helpless.
He can't just tear the system out of his head and give it a beating, right?
Li Chengqian gritted his teeth: "Don't be too proud, I don't believe that a person like me with an IQ of 180 can't build a printing press."