"You two, I am looking for you two to come today because there is indeed something important."
"May I ask you two, do you want fame?"
Cai Laoliu and Na Tong Zhisheng, who had just sat down and picked up their chopsticks, but had not had time to attack the delicacies on the table, both turned to look at Gao Zhang.
Cai Laoliu slapped his chopsticks directly on the counter. As soon as he uttered the word "nonsense", he saw the look in his senior brother's eyes that suddenly turned vicious, and he was instantly frightened.
"Nonsense, who doesn't want to...well, junior brother, I also want to gain a good reputation."
Tong Zhisheng glanced at Cai Laoliu with disgust and asked Gao Zhang eagerly.
"Reputation, for the Sa family, the more the better, of course. Brother Guizhang, do you have any more outstanding ideas? Please tell me quickly."
Gao Zhang laughed and laughed. He raised his neck and drained the juice in the cup in one gulp, as if drinking nectar. Then he said to the two Crouching Dragon and Phoenix chicks with black lines on their faces.
"For example, would you be willing to spend thousands of dollars to get a good reputation from scholars all over the world who give you thumbs up and praise you all the time?"
"Thousands of dollars?!" Cai Laoliu exclaimed, startling Gao Zhang.
I saw Cai Laoliu moving his head frequently and squeezing closer, looking at Gao Zhang with bright eyes.
"real?"
"Nonsense, if you don't believe me, go back to where you came from."
When Cai Laoliu heard these threatening words, instead of feeling insulted, he was greatly encouraged. After all, this ruthless senior brother really got everything done.
He immediately reached out and took Gao Zhang's arm and asked sincerely.
"Senior brother, just tell me directly. How many dollars does it cost? Who should I give the money to?"
"Yes, not to mention a few thousand, even tens of thousands, the Sa family can afford it now."
"Since you two also think that reputation is more important than money, then there is really someone who can spend money..."
Before Gao Zhang finished his sarcastic remarks, he was interrupted by the impatient Tong Zhisheng, a vulgar martial artist.
"But brother Guizhang, don't try to sell yourself off. Tell me quickly, how do you buy your reputation?"
Seeing that these two bastards were becoming more and more superstitious about him, and even failed to use the bunch of words he had prepared to seduce and induce, Gao Zhang felt quite boring as if there was not enough foreplay.
But facing the attitude of these two sleeping dragons and phoenixes who wanted to strangle him, Gao Zhang could only speed up his pace.
"It's very simple. We have almost finished printing the books for the Imperial Academy.
I just thought that I might as well give these hundreds of thousands of books to the imperial court for free..."
"Senior brother, wait a minute, there are over a hundred thousand books, only a few thousand strings?!"
Cai Laoliu immediately bulged his eyes and shouted in disbelief.
"I bought a book before and it cost me five guan. There were hundreds of thousands of copies. How could it only be a few thousand guan?"
Gao Zhang was also shocked when he heard Cai Laoliu's words.
"Wait a minute, what kind of book did you buy that actually costs five guan?"
Seeing the eyes of Gao Zhang and Tong Zhisheng all falling on him, Cai Laoliu, who wished he could slap his mouth faster than his brain, could only squeak.
"Uh...it's just a very serious book. I picked it up for study."
"Your Lao Cai family has so many books, and you go to the Secret Pavilion to study all the time. What other books do you need to buy with your own money? Are you buying serious books?"
Gao Zhang directly exposed Cai Laoliu's lies without mercy.
"An only copy, really an only copy, a serious kind of solitary copy..."
"Then let me ask you, do you know how much a book on the market usually sells for?"
"..." Cai Laoliu shook his head with a face of shame. I have only bought the unscrupulous ones. Who knows how much the serious ones cost?
How could Qilinzi of the Cai family ask such low-level questions to those booksellers?
As for Tong Zhisheng, when he raised his chin, the last stubbornness of the vulgar martial artist was etched on his face.
"The Sa family really doesn't know. Anyway, the Sa family has books to read. If there are no books, they won't read."
Gao Zhang had a dark look on his face, and he patiently explained to these two people.
A book on the market requires expensive materials such as paper, brown, ink, paste, craftsmen, and engravings. A set of engravings can only be used by the craftsmen in turn, printing one by one.
Therefore, the cost is really not low. A book of about 3,000 to 5,000 words costs about 165 words.
But sorry, the prices in bookstores are generally around the same.
But the problem is that the Kaifeng Commercial Press adopted movable type printing, and the very important cost of engraving has almost disappeared.
In addition, the use of hydraulic mechanical printing greatly accelerated the printing speed, coupled with the use of Song fonts.
Reduce the thickness of the strokes, but still maintain the advantages of clear strokes and strong font stability.
So even if the font is made smaller, it will not affect the reader's reading experience.
As a result, the number of words that can be printed in each book is almost three-fifths more.
Another advantage is that it saves ink. In short, both labor costs and material costs have been extremely optimized.
"...after cost accounting, a book with a word count of 6,000 to 8,000 words, plus one yuan for labor and material costs, is less than fifty yuan."
"The books we have printed for the imperial court's official schools total more than 176,700 volumes. Do you think you can calculate how much money it costs?"
"It's really not even 10,000 yuan..."
"Do it, do it, then donate it. Remember me, Mr. Cai, after all, I am a scholar, and I am a Jinshi.
If you can just spend a little money, you can benefit countless people in the Song Dynasty who are thirsty for knowledge..."
Seeing Cai Laoliu stand up, his face glowing red, he began to talk, as if he was the spokesman for the combination of Gao Zhang and Quan Huan's sons who stood above the court at this moment.
Gao Zhang's face turned dark and he gave the fat man a tug.
"Can you shut up first and listen to me? Although it is cheap for us to print books, this is our trade secret after all."
"So, our costs must not be leaked."
After hearing what Gao Zhang said, and considering whether his net worth could grow rapidly, Tong Zhisheng nodded in agreement. He aimed his big fist with the word Li at Gao Zhang and his big fist with the word de at Cai Laoliu, with a proud look on his face. typical.
"Don't worry, if anyone dares to leak a word, the Sa family will beat him to death."
"Your hand is in the wrong position, it should be over here."
Gao Zhang raised his hand with a dark look on his face and pulled aside the fist that was almost as big as his face.
He is truly worthy of being a martial artist who never uses his brain when doing things. How vulgar!
"???" Cai Laoliu looked at the two sandbag-sized fists in front of his nose, feeling angry and scared, Nima, can you respect me?
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If you want to donate books to official schools and gain great reputation through this, you must first advertise well, or at least let the students of Bianliang School in Tokyo know about it.
It is even more important for the government and academic circles all over the world to understand that they can obtain free books, all due to the generous student aid provided by the Kaifeng Commercial Press of the Song Dynasty.
How to advertise this will naturally become the next most important issue for the three giants.
The first thing is to let the news spread that Kaifeng Commercial Press has taken over the government books, and also spread the news that Kaifeng Commercial Press wants to help students.
As for how to spread the news, hehe, an informal business place like Fan Building was an important base for the distribution of various high-end rumors in the Song Dynasty.
All in all, Gao Zhang, Cai Laoliu and Tong Zhisheng saw that the poor scholars of the Song Dynasty either borrowed or copied books because of poverty.
In order to allow those young talents to learn more knowledge, the imperial court specially established a large number of official schools.
However, due to insufficient funding, official schools in various places are often unable to make ends meet, and it sometimes even happens that some students and only a few bachelors can only share a set of books.
This made Gao Zhang, Na Cai, and Tong deeply aware of the difficulty of running schools for the imperial court, and they were also deeply touched by the imperial court's willingness to spend huge sums of money to support young talents in learning knowledge and culture.
In the end, the three decided to spend their own money to buy the hundreds of thousands of books printed by the Kaifeng Commercial Press for the Song Dynasty court.
Donate to the imperial court free of charge to support the official schools established by the imperial court, so that countless poor reading seeds can swim freely in the ocean of knowledge.
Yes, the books have not been donated yet, but the news that the three of them jointly spent huge sums of money to buy hundreds of thousands of books and prepare to donate them to the imperial court has begun to spread in Bianliang, Tokyo.
This made the treacherous prime minister Cai Jing stunned in the study for a long time, and then he decided to send people to catch Lao Liu and personally question the culprit of this prodigal family.
For the sake of a mere reputation, I actually spent such a huge amount of money. I am greedy. Bah, did I get my money from prostitution for nothing?
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The tragic incidents of father and son killing each other often happened in Cai Mansion, but that only happened in Cai Mansion.
For example, in Lao Gao's family, it is obvious that the father is kind and the son is filial, and the family is harmonious and united.
When father and son have free time, they play ball. It can be said that Gao Zhang is quite talented when it comes to playing ball.
Of course, no matter what kind of ball it was, Gao Zhang was able to touch and play with it. He didn't dare to say how well he knew it, but he dared to say that he had dabbled in all the hundreds of ways to play the ball in later generations.
However, the Song Dynasty likes to use their feet, which does not mean that they cannot use their hands.
Just like today, Gao Zhang was playing a shooting game with his biological father. Of course, Gao Zhang was the shooter and his biological father, Gao Qiu, was the goalkeeper.
After all, he was still a child. If he stood in front of the door, with his father's ability to hit him wherever he pointed, Gao Zhang would have no choice but to lose.
However, these days, under the guidance of his father, Gao Zhang's footwork has definitely improved by leaps and bounds.
Even Gao Zhang couldn't kick a falling ball or a curved ball before traveling through it.
As long as Gao Zhang can describe it, his biological father Gao Qiu can really achieve similar effects in just a few days.
This made Gao Zhang have to admit that his own father didn't play football, so he was really sorry for his talent.
After more than twenty shots in a row, except for a few that his father deliberately missed and scored, the rest were all rejected by his father.
Gao Zhang, who was sweating all over from kicking, returned to the house with his father, and while he was sitting in front of the stove and wiping his sweat, Gao Qiu finally started talking about serious matters.
PS: Keep working hard tomorrow
(End of chapter)
