Considering that it would benefit Wan Min, the price of a dictionary would not be very high, and the hard-shell collector's edition with the largest number of words would only cost ten taels of silver.
Why do you say it has the most words?
Because combined with the actual situation of the Ming Dynasty, especially the printing level cannot meet the standards of later generations, especially the size of the characters.
It is impossible to print too small, otherwise it will be a mess, turning into a black piece, completely unreadable, so one size fits all cannot be implemented in terms of specifications and pricing.
The junior version is divided into two versions, namely "Frequently Used 500 Words" and "Frequently Used 1,000 Words".
The premium version also has two versions, namely "Use Three Thousand Words" and "Use Ten Thousand Words".
The first two versions are aimed at children and illiterate people. As long as you learn the 500 commonly used words first, you will basically not be tricked by others with a piece of toilet paper.
In particular, we need to promote simplified Chinese characters, because the main reason that hinders education is that the structure of traditional Chinese characters is too complicated and there are too many strokes. Even if you write the character "Liu", the traditional Chinese character is like "Liu"!
By promoting simplified Chinese characters in the East Palace Guards and Guards Battalion, not only the soldiers below are easy to read and write, but the generals above are also convinced.
After all, no general wants others to say that his men are illiterate. The higher the literacy rate, the higher the quality of the officers and soldiers, and the easier it is for the generals to command.
This will be followed by an increase in loyalty. This is not a deliberate boast, because once you are literate, you will master skills that you did not know before, your income will be more than before, and of course you will not betray easily.
Xu Dingguo's previous surrender to the Qing Dynasty met with strong resistance from the recruits. One of the reasons was that even if he went to the other side, his income would not be much more than here, and he would have to be captured and stigmatized, which was really not worth it.
The more ignorant a person is, the more likely he is to be misled by lies due to his lack of self-analysis and judgment and the inability to distinguish right from wrong. On the contrary, it is difficult to be deceived.
All recruits are required to know 500 words. If they fail the exam, they will learn until they pass. Otherwise, they will be impressed by their promotion and income. They can't even understand military orders, so why are they giving a shit?
"Five Hundred Commonly Used Words" seems to contain very few words. Due to technical limitations, it also includes explanations, phonetic notation, words, sentence examples, and comparison of traditional and simplified characters. In fact, the book is also very thick, with thirty-two pages. Open that wide.
It is not expensive to sell a copy for 500 yuan. At least when you turn to the first page, you can see the name of the editor-in-chief, Prince Zhu Cihong, and the deputy editors are the first assistant Xue Guoguan, the second assistant Wu Zong, and the minister of rites Feng Quan.
The editors-in-chief are Zhang San, Li Si and others. You can list a bunch of them, but compared to having a chance to have your name appear on the first page of the dictionary, the learned people from the Ministry of Rites and the Hanlin Academy have to fight for it. head.
This is definitely an opportunity to be remembered forever. Not to mention not being paid, even if you pay extra money, work overtime, and have no days off, you still have to squeeze in.
"Your Highness is so wise..."
"The Ministry of Rites mainly organizes relevant personnel, with the Ministry of Rites as the main body and the Hanlin Academy as the supplement. If they can be transferred from other departments, after the palace examination next year, except for those sent to the northwest, some additions can be left to join the editing team. In terms of publishing and distribution , I will arrange it myself. If the compilation, printing and distribution of the dictionary go well, the next step will be to compile a 'dictionary', and then a 'sentence dictionary'. A 'dictionary' is a book that collects words, and a 'sentence dictionary' is to teach everyone There are classic books on how to make sentences. By recognizing the words, you can understand the meaning. By recognizing the words, you can connect them coherently. If you know how to form sentences, you can speak them into sentences and write them down. With these three books, it will be much easier to educate Wan Min in the future. It is not only necessary to educate the Ming Dynasty. The people of our country must also educate the barbarians. The whole world is the land of the king, and all the people within the land must be educated!"
When it comes time to expand, whichever native understands the dictionary first will be able to become an official and eat royal food, and his family will have no worries about food and clothing.
If you understand the dictionary, you can completely get rid of the pressure at the bottom and strive for the top. There will be many opportunities for promotion in the future.
He can write as fluently as the literati of the Ming Dynasty. If he doesn't have any rebellious intentions, he can at least get into the position of assistant to the county magistrate.
"Da Ming", as the name suggests, means "a great civilization"!
Therefore, we have an unshirkable responsibility to educate the indigenous people around the world!
From now on, a certain prince will send the Ming Dynasty King to promote civilization and educate the natives!
As long as the common people in the Ming Dynasty can be called indigenous people, they can only be called common people after they have been educated.
There are two types of indigenous people. One is the obedient indigenous people. This kind of indigenous people can live even if they are illiterate.
The other type is the disobedient natives, who will die regardless of whether they are literate or not!
Presumably, you can make a lot of money selling dictionaries to overseas indigenous people.
A dictionary, even if a certain prince could only pocket fifty taels of silver, the copyright income from one million copies would be 50,000 taels of silver.
Compared with the income from special medicines, it is indeed a little less, but you can continue to print it, at most 10 million copies!
"Your Highness is far-sighted, has a sharp eye, considers rigorously, and plans carefully. I am not even one ten thousandth as good as His Highness!"
Feng Quan didn't expect that the prince had a back-up plan. It was really a chain of events!
This dictionary alone is enough to make all the members of the writing team famous. What if three books are published?
Although he is ranked fourth, it is not low. He can't surpass the first and second assistants, right?
Feng Quan is already content in his heart. He doesn't need to take care of specific matters. He only needs to arrange the manpower and enjoy the results.
As for how to arrange manpower, Feng Quan has already thought of the "principle of filling vacancies". This is a very enviable job!
How many people are needed for the writing team?
Let’s decide based on 100 people first!
The Ministry of Rites has a small head, but they are all managers. They only need to guide the people below how to behave.
The main purpose of the Hanlin Academy is to let the scholars find a job to do, instead of looking for trouble, so as not to provoke the prince again.
The remaining gaps can be filled by some newcomers who have passed the palace examination. Feng Quan thought about it briefly and made a calculation in his mind.
It may take time and effort to compile a dictionary and a dictionary, but if you only compile a dictionary in the early stage, it shouldn't be a big problem.
With the example drawn up by the prince himself, just copy it.
If you don’t even know how to do this, then go home and farm.
"Your Highness, the sample of the calendar has been printed. Please accept it from Your Highness!"
"Well! It just so happens that Ai Qing is here. Ai Qing is a senior person in the industry, so I can give you some advice!"
"Jingshi Daily" published a special issue on the "Great Victory in the Capital", with sixty-four pages, which was quite thick.
The specific content is a detailed account of the events and consequences from Braid's siege to Braid's retreat, as well as several battles.
The writing style is excellent, but it is precisely because of this that it is warmly welcomed by everyone. If it were written in classical Chinese, many readers with extremely limited literacy levels would not be able to understand it.
The plan is to print 500,000 copies, and 100,000 copies have been printed in the past two days.
However, depending on how popular it is after being launched, additional printing may be necessary.
A certain uncle, Gong Yonggu, was naturally happy to see the success, because printing newspapers now was like printing money.
In terms of newspaper advertising alone, the prince-in-law has pocketed a fortune worth ten thousand taels just from the net profit after tax and all expenses.
The more you print, the higher the profit, because newspaper advertising is not sold in packages but is published in separate issues.
Despite the news content, the advertising content can be changed.
Under the guidance of a certain prince, advertising pages were sold every 100,000 copies per issue, and all five issues have been sold out.
The aunt and uncle have accumulated enough money to start an entertainment company in partnership with a certain prince. This will be a real money-burning project.
Second only to Gong Yonggu, who directly eats meat, is an unknown person who wrote "The Secret History of the Passengers".
In order to show his determination to fight against the Donglu, the author wrote the latest volume while he was under siege in the capital.
Wu Weiye was very afraid that Donglu would catch him after he broke through the city, especially when he found out what he had written.
The content was very disrespectful to their master and had to be executed by Ling Chi.
Wu Weiye has regarded this book as his last words, but it can be regarded as a small contribution to the Ming Dynasty.
There is no other way. No matter how good my literary talent is, I can't write about Emperor Taiji. I can at most vent my indignation in a book.
Of course, according to the above meaning, Huang Taiji cannot be written off to death. As long as he is alive, he will still have value.
When Wu Weiye was ready to sacrifice his life for righteousness, he planned to give away his own house.
Suddenly I heard that the king's army had repelled the Donglu who entered the city and had won a complete victory.
At this moment, Albert Wu couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, not knowing whether the news was true or false.
It wasn't until someone from above said that his new book had been approved and could be published that he indirectly confirmed it.
Now that it can be published, it means that I can make a fortune again.
Sure enough, he soon received two thousand taels of silver in royalties.
This time there are twice as many as before. On the one hand, it is because Wu Weiye has written a lot this time, which is good for sales.
On the other hand, with the news of the great victory, the whole city celebrated, and the people were happy and willing to spend money, so they could print more and sell them.
A certain prince sent someone to print 20,000 copies directly, even if he couldn't sell them, he could still give them away.
Besides, Yang Wenyue and Sun Chuanting came all the way, and together with Ma Xu, they distributed 5,000 copies to the three departments, and a quarter of them were sold out at once.
In doing this, a certain prince didn't want to make a profit at all, and he would continue to do it even if he was losing money.
The reason is for no other reason than to make Huang Taiji feel disgusted!
It is said that the person who stayed behind in Shenyang to look after the house was Jierhalang, who was in charge of the Xilan Banner, so the protagonist of the just-published book is naturally this guy.
Huangtai Chicken will not leave the table, because Jierhalang wants to give this guy a good hat!
Jierharang and Dayuer...
Just reading the title will make readers think a lot!
This is the bait for sale!
Perfect!
Then Daishan took advantage of Emperor Taiji's chariot to go on a personal expedition and sneaked back to meet Da Yu'er...
Jierhalang, Dayuer, Daishan!
The relationship between these three people is intertwined, and adding Huang Taiji's other wives makes it even more interesting.
When Daishan secretly went to the appointment, his youngest son Man Dahai went to put a hat on his biological father!
A certain prince felt that as long as he came up with a summary, Wu Weiye would be able to perform well.
In the future, Albert Wu will be able to stand on his own and become a great master of the generation.
The two thousand taels of silver given away are absolutely worth it!
Among scribes, the income of Wu Weiye, who is idle at home, can now reach an outstanding level.
If you seize the time and write quickly enough, you can publish one book in a month.
The reward for a book is one thousand taels of silver. If you write for ten months a year and leave two months for rest, you will be a person who earns ten thousand taels of silver per year.
There was a huge market for such books in the Ming Dynasty, but there were very few high-quality ones on the market.
This shows that there is a lack of similar competition and huge profit margins.
Wu Weiye was lucky enough to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and make a lot of money.
With this money, Wu Weiye even wanted to buy a "skinny horse".
However, I heard that the city has not yet been opened, and it is necessary to confirm that Donglu has completely withdrawn from the pass.
Then we can hold the currency and wait and see for a while. Maybe we can wait for a batch of new goods to be shipped from Yangzhou, which will be better in all aspects.
"Hiss... this article includes dates throughout the year, making it very convenient to read. I want Wanmin to snap it up when it goes on sale! If it can be printed in batches, can I be brave enough to buy fifty copies first?"
Of course Feng Quan knew who made this thing, but he had already flattered him before, so he had to be careful when shooting again.
Objects that can be brought to the market will not be too expensive.
Even if the price is not low, Feng Quan plans to take part first.
On the one hand, it can be used by your own family, on the other hand, it can also be given as a gift.
As the Minister of Rites, the most common thing to do is to reciprocate with courtesy. It seems very decent to use this gift to express courtesy.
"As long as it's not too much, it's fine, and the price isn't expensive. It's only a hundred dollars a copy, so the people can afford it."
A wall calendar is the same as a newspaper, except that the news is printed on the newspaper, and the date appears on the wall calendar. This is the only difference.
Most importantly, the layout of a wall calendar is exactly the opposite of that of a newspaper.
The wall calendar is mainly about advertising, followed by dates.
The first page is the genuine advertisement. After you open it, it is the first month. 70% of the page is the advertisement, and the bottom 30% is the date.
Even Ming Dynasty doesn’t have this crap!
In order to cater to market demand, there are also ads-free ones, but they are more expensive.
As long as the engraving workers have seen something, they can naturally engrave anything.
Flowers, birds, scenery, and even grand scenes of killing enemies can all be engraved on it.
Not to mention the graceful beauties, a certain prince dared to say that this style is the best-selling one...
Can you make money by selling your time?
certainly!
Isn't this an obvious example?
One hundred dollars is only equivalent to the cost of ten newspapers. Many illiterate people will not buy newspapers, but as long as they have a shabby home, they will probably buy a wall calendar.
Most people are familiar with the figures, the price is not too high, you can watch it for a whole year, and you can even paper the windows after watching it, how great!
Is the window covering also a selling point?
That's right!
You have to consider the actual needs of your customers, even the smallest needs.
If there are children at home who are in school, you can use outdated wall calendars to wrap book covers.
Nothing is wasted, and the time spent looking at it is extremely long. This is the value of the wall calendar!
Don't look down on this thing. As long as this thing is hung in the house, it will be regarded as a serious life.
If you buy the more expensive model, it also comes with a pencil, which can be used to cross out past dates to make it easier to tell the time.
Feng Quan is very rich now, so naturally he buys the highest-grade calendars.
He was thinking about buying more and sending them to Monan. Maybe not only would he not lose money on this trip, but he could also make another fortune.
The ones hanging in the little fat house are bird pictures, because they haven’t reached the age of aesthetics yet.
Birds are prettier than beautiful women, this is the testimony of little friends who have not yet reached the stage of development!
There are all kinds of things in the back house.
In order to ward off evil spirits and control the house, many noble people choose the door god style.
A certain prince didn't have time to understand the thoughts of the young ladies, as long as his own thoughts came to him.
Specifically, it should be distributed by the beautiful mother, so as to win people's hearts.
