Wen Yuanjie paid for it from his own pocket and kept the two of them through the night.
I copied this book over and over in one night.
The two of them were in high spirits all night, and they didn't even yawn...for no other reason than because the book was really good.
The stories told are truly unprecedented! So novel!
However, the story is told as if it is true! There is indeed such a place and so many countries!
This also makes them more convinced that this must not be fabricated by someone - after all, fabrications are not so real!
The Dragon King must have seen this with his own eyes! How can you tell it so vividly!
Another reason is...more than a dozen people were watching them copying books!
Fu Yin, Chief Secretary, Jurisdiction, Head Catcher...
So many people stared at the two of them - the book in front of them.
How confident do you have to be to doze off under the pressure of such gaze?
The next morning, it was just dawn.
The two men said they had finished copying.
Everyone was shocked.
The most obvious one is Wen Yuanjie.
As soon as his eyelids closed, hearing "copying finished" was like a shot in the arm.
He jumped up from his seat.
I picked up the book and ran to the examination room of the provincial examination.
"Don't worry, don't worry! It's not the appointed time yet, they might not have arrived yet..." Before the chief clerk could finish his words, Wen Yuanjie ran away and disappeared.
The book copied by these two people has more than a hundred pages.
Yesterday plus today, there were about a hundred people recruited who could copy books.
"One page per person, copy only this page! Repeated copying will not only increase proficiency, reduce the error rate, but also improve efficiency!" Wen Yuanjie distributed only one page in each grid in the examination room.
The sorting numbers given to these recruited literati yesterday were to arrange those with similar handwriting next to each other.
Otherwise, when the books are put together, the fonts on the first page and the second page will be too different... Although it may not affect reading, it will definitely look awkward!
But coupled with his deliberate ordering, the fonts on the first page and the last page may be very different.
But there are so many transitions in the middle, at least when reading, it won't be too obvious.
"Hey! I thought that if I copied the book once, I could understand the story clearly!
"Unexpectedly, I only copied one page of this story?!
"This makes me anxious!"
These scholars who came to copy the book never expected that...even though they came to copy the book, they still couldn't know the full content of the story.
When Lord Fu Yin saw that Wen Yuanjie was very enthusiastic and conscientious about this matter. Then he left it to Wen Yuanjie and the chief clerk.
Wen Yuanjie made arrangements for copying books in the examination room.
He handed another book to the chief bookkeeper and said, "Find a movable type printing house. Ask them to typeset and print this book."
The chief clerk frowned, "We have organized so many people to copy. I think with your method, you can copy out a lot of books in one day. Do you still need to typeset and print them again?"
Wen Yuanjie remembered what the Queen had said to him.
He nodded heavily and said, "You want to print it! If the Yamen is not willing to pay for it, I will pay for it!"
"But let's make an agreement first. If I pay for the printing, then all the money from the sales of this book will also belong to me, and the Yamen can no longer get involved!"
When the chief clerk heard this, his expression was shocked.
Listening to Wen Yuanjie's tone, why did he feel that this matter seemed to be very profitable?
"This... I can't make the decision. I have to ask Mr. Fu Yin for instructions."
As soon as the chief clerk finished speaking, Mr. Fu Yin came to inspect.
"What are you asking for?
"How did they copy it?"
Fu Yin raised his head and looked into the examination room, and couldn't help but say "Huh" in surprise.
Because he found that the literati students sitting in the cubicle were copying books with their heads down and writing very fast.
They don’t have to turn pages or think, they just write with divine help...
And they seem to be competing with each other?
A book is only five cents, why do they work so hard?
Moreover, in the aisle outside the cubicle, people kept walking back and forth, collecting the papers that everyone had copied.
In order, one on top of the other.
This person collected it and gave it to the person on the side for proofreading.
After the man proofread it, he handed it over to the... woman on the side? !
Why are there still women here?
Oh...that's the one in charge of string editing.
The book was punched and bound with thread. The woman moved quickly and bound the book firmly and neatly with thick thread.
The entire examination room was very quiet!
Everyone performs their duties in an orderly, focused and prompt manner...
Mr. Fu Yin was slightly shocked.
"This...why is it so organized?"
They have also had the experience of organizing book copying before.
But even though there were police officers from the yamen watching, there was no such an efficient scene where everyone was focused and engaged!
Wen Yuanjie smiled slightly, "Empress said, this is called... called... flowing water...
"Assembly line work!"
Both the governor and the chief clerk looked at him suspiciously, "What line?"
"Assembly line means that each person is only responsible for a small part of the entire process. This breaks a large and complex job into small units!
"In this way, each person is only responsible for a small part of it, which not only makes 'practice makes perfect', but also reduces the difficulty, making it easier for them to enter a focused 'flow' state!"
Although it was the first time for Fu Yin and Chief Secretary to come into contact with these new words.
But they quickly understood the principle, and it was not complicated.
“And, all of them, invisibly, formed a team.
“Copying books by yourself, whether you copy quickly or slowly, does not affect others.
"But it's different now. A person only copies one page. If he copies slowly, it affects the binding of the entire book.
“So, no one will slack off, for fear that they will get distracted and drag down the entire team!
"So, sir, you see, everyone is fully engaged!" Wen Yuanjie said proudly.
Mr. Fu Yin nodded repeatedly, "Wonderful! This principle is not complicated... but it must be an idea that someone who understands human nature can come up with!"
After he finished speaking, he looked at the chief clerk... Was this the Queen's idea?
No wonder Empress Daliang is so famous...she is indeed a powerful woman.
"What did you just say? What do you want to ask for?" Fu Yin asked.
Wen Yuanjie talked about typesetting and printing again.
"Is this what the Queen meant?" Fu Yin asked.
Wen Yuanjie said, "Exactly, the empress said, although the population of Dagu is not large, there are not many people who are literate. Maybe the books copied by our organization will be enough."
"But this book may not be limited to Dagu in the future. People in other places will also rush to buy it. We print it in advance so that we will not worry about sales in the future..."
"Seal!" Hearing that it was the Queen's idea, the governor waved his hand before he could finish, "Master Secretary, take my handwriting to a nearby printing house and ask them to prepare high, high, low, and different qualities. of paper, printed at different costs!
"In addition, we must keep it secret. We have to seize the opportunity. Printing plants in other places may follow suit in the future! Let's strike first to gain the upper hand!"
