Chapter 46 Books
This issue is also known as the topic of menstruation when the Senate meets. No matter how many times the "Majia Proceedings" have been implemented, marriage with indigenous people and the ensuing issues of children's inheritance, indigenous rights, education, etc. are called enduring old topic. [No pop-up novel website] Not only do all parties advocate opposition, but they are also tit for tat.
"That's it -" Xun Suji began to think about it. It didn't matter anything else. If he was not included in the "alternative" list because he was married to an indigenous woman, it would be a bit more gain than loss.
"You should think about it again. To be honest, you are not busy with this matter. Besides, don't you have a secretary?" Mo Xiao'an said, "I think you are not busy for the time being. The Senate is about to hold a plenary meeting. You are responsible for this matter." Proposal, and then everyone will argue in the Senate. There will definitely be a conclusion in the end."
"What if the conclusion is no?" Xun Suji was a little worried. He already liked Liu Meilan.
"I think most people are definitely willing." Mo Xiao'an said, "Why? You should judge yourself and others. Do you think everyone will prevent themselves from marrying a beautiful girl as their wife?"
No matter how many people say that they are not very interested in indigenous women, a girl from a landowner family is certainly more attractive than a girl from an ordinary poor family. In addition, she also has a sense of face satisfaction.
"I thought that after the maid's death, everyone would do this by themselves." Xun Suji expressed dissatisfaction when he heard that marriage would have to be discussed in the Senate.
Mo Xiao'an smiled: "I think the Senate has discussed it better. No one has anything to say in the future." He probably felt that this was not appropriate and coughed: "Let's get down to business, let's talk about new export commodities."
"To export goods, we still have to focus on cheap bulk products." Zhou Dongtian said, "Most of the industrial products in Lingao now have no economies of scale, and it is difficult to impact the market with prices."
There is no price impact, just relying on "magic skills", and ultimately it just becomes a new luxury product. As a result of the various industrial products they sell to the mainland, the only products that can be exported in large quantities and form a consumer market are needles and paper. These two factors completely overturned the old market structure due to low price and quantity.
"What kind of commodities destroyed the small peasant economy in the primary stage of capitalism?" Xun Suji thought hard about the political economics courses he had studied. "It seems to be textiles? Mass-made machine cloth destroyed hand-made cloth..."
"Is this valuable to us? Songjiang cloth is already cheap enough. Besides, even if we start a mechanized textile factory immediately, it will take a long time to reach the level of dumping. There is also the issue of cotton." Mo Xiaoan said, "The executive committee's intention now is to build an export scale in a short period of time."
"I have something that can be effective in a short time." Zhou Dongtian said, "Books. I mentioned this suggestion last time. The price of books in this time and space is too high. There is a lot of room for price reduction, and the market demand It’s also huge.”
"What literacy rate can the indigenous people have? Thirty percent would be amazing."
"I don't know about this, but scholars in ancient times seemed to regard buying and collecting books as a big deal, which shows that books are rare. The market potential is huge." Zhou Dongtian said, "Last year, I helped Little Bear print some books and give them to the county. The old boy regarded his teachings as treasures. Later, he bought some books for Moli Xuan to use as a library, and Liu Dalin was extremely grateful."
The library of Molixuan contains less than 300 books in total. In modern times, it is not even on the level of a street library, but in ancient times, this was considered a great cultural wealth.
"But I always don't have time to do it - there are too many part-time tasks. This time I will completely settle the matter of the movable type printing factory. But Lao Mo, you have to help me deal with the people in the machinery factory who want to do movable type printing. The factory requires a complete set of equipment. There is also the Planning Institute, which consumes a lot of resources."
"Didn't you already have a printing house? You printed a lot of textbooks and books. Where's the Lingao newspaper? I don't think it's made by hand-engraving steel plates?"
"That was printed with a mimeograph machine." Zhou Dongtian smiled, "Some of them were printed with lithographs."
"Mimeograph machine? This is impossible. Your printed textbooks and newspapers... are all printed very delicately, just like those produced by regular printing factories."
Zhou Dongtian shook his finger: "Printing, you know?" He explained that the machine he brought was a commercial mimeograph machine. It was not the hand-engraved stencil paper that is then coated with ink and then printed by hand. A crude device that printed things that were blurry and easily faded—that kind of thing was also called a mimeograph machine, but it was two different things from the equipment he brought.
"The printing effect of the equipment we make ourselves cannot be compared with this fast mimeograph machine." He said, "However, modern equipment cannot escape the issue of lifespan. Although I have brought a lot of spare parts, but if I continue to use it like this Sooner or later it will be finished - there are too many things to be printed. So this time I propose that we must build a new printing house."
“I am very supportive”
"Support is support, this matter is not that easy to handle." Zhou Dongtian explained that the printing factory needs to manufacture special equipment, as well as a large amount of metals such as lead, copper, steel, and many workers - workers Special training is required.
"It takes about three to four months for a printing factory to build production capacity."
"It still took a long time." Mo Xiao'an thought this was something that could only be handled by a single leader.
"It's fast enough." Zhou Dongtian said, "This is based on the fact that we have a complete set of industrial systems and material support. If a few of us travel naked, it will take at least two or three years."
"I'll make a report right away," Mo Xiao'an said excitedly, "I don't know if there are any typesetters in Guangzhou."
"It should be true. Although China's movable type printing has never been common, it still exists in some low-end applications. Guangzhou's Di newspaper and the like are just movable type - to be honest, it's pretty bad. No wonder many foreigners don't recognize the Chinese Understand movable type printing. It’s not on the same level at all.”
"The foreign devils still don't admit that we invented gunpowder."
"Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese. It is now the mainstream view. Except for a very small number of historians with white supremacy tendencies, they still claim that Bacon invented it. But when it comes to the concept of printing, I am a little embarrassed to be honest. Modern Printing technology basically has nothing to do with China. If anything, the concepts of block printing and the use of movable type were invented by the Chinese." Zhou Dongtian said, "Let's not worry about this. Let's talk about what books to print first. Okay. To start movable type printing, we must first make movable type. The amount of movable type is very large. I need to have a basic concept."
"I just don't know what kind of books to print that will sell well," Mo Xiao'an thought for a moment, "Confucian classics like the Four Books and Five Classics should be the best sellers, right?"
Xun Suji said: "It is definitely the best seller, but the competition must be fierce. There are too many people printing."
"Competition is the best - we just dump it at low prices..." Zhou Dongtian said, "Once we reach a large scale, the cost advantage of our books will not be comparable to traditional woodblock printing."
"In fact, it is better to print "Journey to the West", "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin". These three books were published in the Ming Dynasty, and they will definitely sell well. As for the version, I will use the electronic manuscript of the People's Literature Edition as the manuscript. The People's Literature Edition is an elite version. The proofreading is good and there are few typos. It will definitely be a sensation when printed." The late Ming Dynasty was an era of active publishing. There were many kinds of books, and recreational books began to account for the bulk of booksellers' publishing sales.
"'Dream of Red Mansions' should also be popular." Mo Xiao'an said, "And it doesn't violate taboos. Anyway, there is no dynasty to test."
"It's better to forget about "Dream of Red Mansions", otherwise there will be many people rushing to be the author. Everyone wants to sign." Zhou Dongtian said, "Last time I printed the "Thirteen Classics Qing Dynasty Annotations Series", there were Several of them want to become authors of books and become contemporary great Confucians."
"This is naked piracy."
"I don't think we should publish the works of later generations for the time being. We should first publish the works of the Ming Dynasty and before the Ming Dynasty. Some of the works compiled and compiled by the Qing Dynasty can also be published. For example, "Three Hundred Tang Poems" and so on."
"You guys are so uncreative." Xun Suji was not very interested in this, and suddenly thought of a good idea, "I don't think there is any need to print anything else. Let's print a few thousand erotic/emotional/magazines or the like first. Japanese or From Hong Kong. I also print some of the white and black girls, and I can sell them to Europe in the future..." He swallowed, "If you think the scale is too big, just print a photo album of Japanese girls. Even if it's not ** The portraits made even the great Ming Dynasty scholars make their noses bleed after looking at them."
The more he felt that his creativity was astonishingly good: "There must be a lot of this kind of reserve in the hands of veterans. Besides, we have digital cameras, computers, and professionals who understand p. We can make our own "Penthouse" or something like that. Magazine. Don’t we like women with small feet in this era? We might as well create a magazine called "Step by Step Lotus", which will publish close-up photos of various models with small feet..."
Mo Xiao'an was still laughing at first, but when she heard that she was going to publish a magazine about women with small feet, she couldn't help frowning: "It's so disgusting, I want to vomit when I hear it. You might as well wear black stockings. Why do you cater to this bad habit? We are already here. You want to revolutionize society. Besides, ancient society was very feudal and conservative. How big of a market will you have if you do this?"
"The market is not a problem. You must know that most of the classical erotic/erotic/novel came from the Ming Dynasty - it can be seen that there was a great demand for this kind of consumption during this period. Xiaoxun, your creativity is very good - but there is a fatal problem. "Zhou Dongtian said, "We can't handle the technical paper and ink for printing color pictures. Now I can use a scanner and a laser/inkjet printer to make a few copies for you. It can't be done in large quantities."
Xun Suji was a little disappointed, and suddenly his eyes lit up: "How about H-comics? Just use lines to express black and white lines, and good engravers can do engravings. Japanese H-comics should be more in line with the aesthetic taste of the Chinese people. Beautiful The manga is too crude, and the drawings depict ghosts and ghosts, so Akito probably won’t be interested.”
He continued to talk about his plans for publishing H-comics, with the same interest as when he was talking about H-magazine: "As for the selection of materials, I can only look at the general ones - the style of painting should be more beautiful. As for tentacles, human beings, ghosts and animals, and ** I'm afraid the taste is too strong, and Ming Dynasty people may not be interested in it."
"Not necessarily. There are still some perverted things in porn. I think there should be a market for porn, just soft ones." Mo Xiao'an was also aroused to talk, "Actually, there should be a huge market for BL's H-comics. big."
"Are there many rotten girls in the Ming Dynasty?"
I heard that men are generally masculine in this era, and they generally like beautiful boys who look like women. In BL's H-comics, Xiao Shou is drawn to be more feminine than a woman, which will definitely appeal to the wealthy people of the Ming Dynasty. "
"How do you know so many BL things?" Zhou Dongtian suddenly asked.
"Well, well, well, actually, I dated a fujoshi..." Mo Xiao'an quickly defended her innocence and there was absolutely no orientation issue.
"Of course it is possible to publish comics, but it is very time-consuming." Zhou Dongtian did not pursue the question further, "Actually, there is a simpler way, just lithographic printing. This depends on how well we can train plate-making workers. It can only be considered in the long term. "
This proposal to establish a movable type printing plant and engage in large-scale book printing did not attract much attention from the industrial sector after it was submitted to the Planning Institute - for the industrial sector, this is just a matter of manufacturing a few simple machines, and it is not considered to be very difficult - -On the contrary, it attracted the attention of the big library and the cultural department.
The focus is nothing more than the types of books printed. Of course, what they care about is more than just "signature".
Thanks to cheap paper and printing costs, once Lingao's books are published on a large scale and hit the market, they are bound to have a cultural impact no less than the use of Gutenberg's printing press in medieval Europe. Not only will various books in the field of traditional thought be popularized on a large scale, but also various practical books and literary and artistic works will flood into thousands of households.
With cheap printing technology, there is no need for time-travelers to compile any deviant ideological works - Huang Zongxi's thoughts are enough; there is no need to reshape modern science and technology, the rediscovery of ancient Chinese scientific and technological works that were buried is enough to attract the attention of the entire society. Let a hundred flowers bloom.”
The late Ming Dynasty was originally a period of gradual "liberalization" of social thoughts, and Chuan Chuan Group took this opportunity to add fuel to this trend of thought - disrupting the Ming Dynasty in the ideological field, or rather the social thoughts of traditional society.
Yu Eshui's plan also included the intention of compiling and publishing a large number of vernacular pamphlets for publicity. In the previous stage, he compiled "Records of the Atrocities of Uming", and recently he is compiling "Records of the Atrocities of Zheng Ni" and "Records of the Atrocities of Liu Bandits". If such political pamphlets could be distributed in large numbers in Ming society, the effect would be very significant.
In the long run, the various political opinions of the cross-border group can be disseminated in the form of pamphlets. Pamphlets can explain theories and events in a systematic and detailed manner, which is far more effective than spreading simple rumors. Moreover, pamphlets can be preserved and circulated for a long time, and the effect produced by one dissemination can last for many years.
Tintin is very supportive of this plan. He was no longer satisfied with publishing a few newspapers and internal magazines, and began to intervene in the ideological field. The publishing industry is a piece of fat that he has long been optimistic about. The current publishing industry may only be able to print textbooks, science and technology manuals or political propaganda pamphlets. In ten or twenty years, a new generation of indigenous young people will grow up, and their demand for books will grow explosively. .
So he was very enthusiastic about Zhou Dongtian's plan. At the State Council, he actively advocated and supported the establishment of a large-scale movable type printing factory and requested the establishment of a publishing group under the Ministry of Culture.
However, Yu Eshui of the Grand Library firmly opposed it. He said that in terms of the type and quality of book resources, it is most reasonable for the Grand Library to be responsible for the book publishing business. After all, colleagues in the big library are exposed to various books every day, have in-depth research on the content and versions of books, and have natural advantages in selecting topics, adding, deleting, revising, and editing—and they also have certain experience. Even if the Ministry of Culture establishes a publishing house, it still needs the assistance of the big library in the business field. Rather than having multiple agencies, it is better to directly entrust the big library to publish.
"As for the publisher's signature, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if it's called Sanlian Bookstore or Commercial Press. It's just a name anyway."
Tintin was finally forced to give in - after all, the resources were in the big library. If the other party had a grudge, it would be difficult for him to make a name for himself even if he had a name. Eventually he accepted the proposal to form a "publishing steering group." This non-permanent organization is mainly responsible for the selection of book publishing topics and the demonstration of revised plans. It is composed of Ding Ding, the representative of the Ministry of Culture, Yu Eshui, the representative of the Great Library, and Zhou Dongtian, the director of the printing factory.
With the impetus of all parties, new publishing and printing institutions began to operate. Zhou Dongtian began to set up a new printing company.
Zhou Dongtian's small printing factory is located in Bairen City. Although it is small in scale, the treatment it enjoys is at the same level as Lingao Telecom Company, and it is a first-level key department. In the past, it was even located in the courtyard of the Executive Committee.
Even now it occupies a separate courtyard. The door is locked all day long. Anyone has to ring the bell first, and then a small opening will appear in the door, and visitors must show their ID to enter. The security is so tight not only because this yard is filled with most of the printing equipment and equipment of the Crossing Group, but it is also responsible for printing circulation coupons and various official documents.
As soon as you enter the courtyard gate, there is a large no fireworks sign painted on the screen wall. Black signs read: No Smoking, No Fireworks. There was ink and paper everywhere. If it burned, there would be no time to put out the fire. There is a specially built water storage tank in the brushing station, equipped with a manual water pump, buckets and many sandbags. There are also several fire extinguishers removed from the ship. Zhou Dongtian has been wondering if he can get better water pumping equipment - fire extinguishers have a shelf life. m! ~!
