Zhenguan Han-in-law

Chapter 586 Big Profit

Chapter 582

Li Shimin was surprised to see so many books printed, so he looked at Wei Hao.

"Father, I don't know either. I basically haven't taken care of this place, it's all managed by my righteous brother!" Wei Hao immediately said to Li Shimin.

"Your righteous brother?" Li Shimin asked a little confused.

"Well, my father adopted him back then, and has been helping my family manage the business since then, here we come!" Wei Hao said and saw Wei Chenhe coming over.

"I've seen His Majesty, I've seen Duke Xia!" Of course Wei Chenhe knew Li Shimin, after all, he had met Li Shimin before in the Wei Mansion, but at that time he was not qualified to speak in front of Li Shimin.

"You are Shenyong's brother-in-law? Well, you don't want to persuade him? It will cost a lot of money for him to make so many engravings!" Li Shimin stood there and said to Wei Chenhe.

"Ah?" Wei Chenhe froze for a moment, obviously unhappy.

"Father, you misunderstood, it's not engraving, I wouldn't do such a stupid thing!" Wei Hao quickly explained.

"Yes, Your Majesty, no engraving, of course engraving is expensive. If engraving is used, it is better to have someone transcribe the book. It will be faster!" Wei Chenhe also reacted and said quickly.

"It's not engraving, how do you print it?" Li Shimin became even more confused when he heard it, not knowing how Wei Hao did it.

"Brother Yi, take your father to see the printing workshop, explain it!" Wei Hao said to Wei Chenhe.

"Yes, Your Majesty, this way please!" Wei Chenhe hastily made a gesture of please!
"Well, okay, let's go!" Li Shimin nodded, and then Li Shimin followed Wei Chenhe to the printing workshop. As soon as he entered, he found that there were hundreds of people working here, which was very lively.

"Your Majesty, look, this is our printing workshop. These machines are printing machines, made by Shen Yong. This workshop can print about 10 books at the same time, and each book can print about 1 copies per day. !" Wei Chenhe reported.

"It can print 10 books a day, so much?" Li Shimin looked at Wei Chenhe in shock and said.

"You can tell by looking at this speed, and, Your Majesty, we don't do engraving and printing. Your Majesty, please, this is the font frame. We have made about 20 pairs of characters here, and basically each version has [-] characters. Left and right, if we encounter characters that we don’t have, we will make them now!” Wei Chenhe said and brought Li Shimin to those movable types, all of which were typed.

"This, how to do this?" Li Shimin was very surprised, but he knew that it was a good thing, but he didn't know the cost?

"Look, Your Majesty, he is picking the fonts on this page now, Your Majesty, look, we are picking here now, and then putting them into this basket, and after the selection is done, fix it, and then take it to the machine, Start fixed printing,
After printing, if we need to change the next page, we put the font back in place, and there is a number on the back, just put it in place according to the number, and then continue to select the next page to be printed, but now we have to print about 10 pages per page. 5 pages, one machine takes 10 days to print, you see, we need to typeset [-] identical pages at the same time for each edition, and the two machines print at the same time! "Wei Chenhe explained to Li Shimin while showing Li Shimin a look.

"So fast?" Li Shimin said in shock.

"Your Majesty, these are printed, but they haven't been sorted and bound yet. Over here, they are being sorted and bound!" Wei Chenhe continued to lead Li Shimin to look,

At this moment, Li Shimin was shocked, even ecstatic. He knew that these machines meant that the aristocratic family would never want to stand up again, and that in the future, the scholars of the Tang Dynasty would never be short of books.

Wei Chenhe led Li Shimin around, Li Shimin was also holding a few printed books, very excited, Wei Hao just followed behind, let Wei Chenhe talk.

"Your Majesty, I've read everything here. Every day, we can produce about 2 books here, and now we have printed almost 6 books. According to Xia Guogong's order, we need to store 500 million books here, that is, Said, you need to print all the books selected by Her Royal Highness last time." Wei Chenhe said.

"How much?" Li Shimin heard it, and looked at Wei Hao in shock.

"Father, what's the problem here?" Wei Hao looked at Li Shimin incomprehensibly, why did he look at himself like this.

"You boy, are you stupid? Have you calculated the cost of 500 million books? If you can't sell them all, wouldn't you be at a loss? You child!" Li Shimin pointed at Wei Hao and cursed.

"Father, you won't lose money. Think about it. There are only 10 books per book. Who doesn't want to buy books? Right? You won't lose money. If books are cheap, I believe many people will buy them. Ordinary people will also sell books for their children at home!" Wei Hao said with a smile immediately.

"Well, that's right, each book is 10 books, not much!" Li Shimin nodded when he heard this, then looked up at Wei Hao and asked, "By the way, how much does each book cost? "

"Oh, this is not cost-effective, but you can do the math, Father. There are about 1000 workers employed here. Among them, the wages of the printing workers are cheap, about 5 cents a day, while those who pick the characters and proofread the edition are paid high wages." One point, I guess 8 guan is enough for a day's wages here,

As for 10 books per day, the cost of the workers is spread into the books, so it can be ignored. The ink is more expensive, and it is almost a penny without a book, and the paper depends on the number of words in the book. However, I guess The cost of each book will not exceed 8 Wen, and it will be sold for 20 Wen. Father, do you think anyone will buy it? "Wei Hao thought about it roughly, and said to Li Shimin.

"This, is it so cheap?" Li Shimin looked at Wei Hao even more shocked when he heard it. He thought that it would be very cheap. Even if it was 50 Wen for a book, many people would buy it. The cost of this book is estimated to be 200 Wen, but now it costs 50 Wen a book, who would not buy it?

"Father, the profit of each book is ten cents. For 10 books, the profit per day is 1000 cents. That's a lot! Besides, I don't want to earn money from scholars. You reminded me before, don't be fooled." Scholar scolded!" Wei Hao immediately said to Li Shimin.

"No, no, no, 20 cents is too little, this is too little, it costs 30 cents, 20 cents to buy a book, it's too cheap, that's it, the average price can't be lower than 30 cents !" Li Shimin thought about it and said to Wei Hao.

"Ah? Father?" Wei Hao looked at Li Shimin incomprehensibly.

"That's it. We need to let those scholars know that although books are cheap, they are so cheap that they can waste them at any time. What you just counted are the visible expenses and the money for this factory building. What about the money for those machines, my father also saw those machines just now, the design is very ingenious, this one doesn’t need money? That’s it.” Li Shimin said to Wei Hao.

"This, it's not allowed to be so much. The plant and machines are a one-time investment, and the cost can still be recovered slowly!" Wei Hao said a little embarrassed when he heard it,

If this is the case, the monthly profit of this workshop will exceed 6 yuan. After a year, it will be amazing. Moreover, there are still some machines that have not been completed. If they are completed, they can print 20 yuan a day This book is worth 4000 coins a day!

"That's it. Let's go. There is an office room and a tea set. I know Shenyong. Shenyong asked you to manage this workshop. It must be important to this place. It is impossible not to keep the tea set." Li Shimin said. Then he looked at Wei Chenhe and asked.

"Yes, there is, Your Majesty, Xia Guogong, please!" Wei Chenhe immediately led the way, and soon, he arrived at the office room. Wang De also brought tea and water, and Wei Hao sat there to make tea.

"Shen Yong, the royal workshop is also a [-]% stake?" Li Shimin asked suddenly.

"Yes, Father, but this workshop Erchen does not intend to sell shares at will, mainly for the children of the royal family, Father, you see, these are some of Erchen's views on this printing workshop, this workshop The workshop still needs to be strictly controlled and cannot be used by those who are interested. The books printed here need to be submitted for approval! This needs to be reviewed by people!" Wei Hao said and handed the memorial to Li Shimin,

Li Shimin nodded, took it over and looked at it carefully. After reading it, Li Shimin was sweating behind his back. The printing machine is a good thing, but if it is used by someone to print some remarks against the court, it will be troublesome, and if It is also possible for someone with a heart to use this as a weapon to deal with the court, to tarnish the reputation of the court, and to set off a civil uprising.

"Shenyong, you're right! Who do you think is best to manage this matter? I said it's the royal side. The specific affairs should be left to him to manage, but who do you think will be in charge of supervision? Appropriate?" Li Shimin looked at Wei Hao and asked.

"It's hard to say, father and son, um, those princes, um, they are also fighting now, it's really impossible, I can only let those old princes manage it!" Wei Hao looked at Li Shimin with a wry smile and said,
Li Shimin thought about it, shook his head, and then said: "I see, no one is more suitable than you. You know the things here best. When the time comes, I will follow your memorial and come up with a regulation. You manage this place. You just said that you plan to give the rest of the shares here to the royal children. Of course I am happy to hear that.
But you can't do this, who should sell it to whom, the royal station is 5%, I guess Gao Ming and Qingque will definitely buy it at that time, plus the shares controlled by you Shenyong, other people , can't make any waves here, that's all! "

Li Shimin said and found that Wei Hao wanted to say something, but was stopped by Li Shimin.

"Father, I'll take care of this, no, Father, you know, I haven't studied for a few days!" Wei Hao looked at Li Shimin in embarrassment and said.

"Ouch!" Li Shimin heard it, yes, this kid hasn't read the book for a few days, and Wei Hao may not be able to understand some obscure content.

"Then you should read more books. Now that you have printed books, you don't know how to read. You say you are surprised. You can't write with a brush after you have produced paper. You have not read a few books after you have produced printing." Book, what do you say about you, what do you want my father to say about you?" Li Shimin pointed at Wei Hao and said helplessly.

"Father, this, it was an accident, it was an accident!" Wei Hao said with a sneer, there was no way, he really didn't want to read.

"That's it. It's up to you. If you don't understand, you can read it a few more times. In the future, no matter what is printed, you need to nod. Leave it to other people. Father is worried." Li Shimin thought about it, and said yes Followed by Wei Hao and said.

"That's fine. After the father finds a suitable candidate, he can replace the minister." Wei Hao nodded and said,
After chatting for a while, Li Shimin left the workshop. Before the weather was hot, Li Shimin had to go back to the palace, and Wei Hao also went to the farmland to see how the crops were growing. past,
Now is the critical time for those crops, at most one month away, and they will start harvesting. Wei Hao looked at it for a while, but returned to the mansion and did not go out.

For the next period of time, Wei Hao still ran in two places, the farmland and the mansion. When he was free, he went to the military camp to watch the training of the soldiers, or he went to the governor's office to deal with some things. However, Most of the government affairs are handed over to Wei Chen to manage.

However, the news about Wei Hao's printing workshop has already spread. The main reason is that Wei Hao consumed a lot of paper. At the beginning, he sent 10 large sheets of paper, and later sent 100 million large sheets of paper, and then ordered a few more. million sheets of paper,

Now there are a large number of horse-drawn carriages from the paper workshop to send paper to Luoyang every day. Every day, nearly 20 large sheets of paper are sent to the printing factory. Such a large amount of paper must have aroused many people’s ideas. Many people are wondering how many books Wei Hao's printing workshop needs to print and why so much paper is needed.

And the family has vaguely understood that Wei Hao has started printing with movable type. Originally, the family has agreed to Wei Hao's printing, but Wei Hao is busy, and now they are moving. They are not surprised, but they are a little scared. I also know very well that the aristocratic family has really come to an end, and there will be no more aristocratic family in the future.

"Did Wei Hao tell you about printing books this time?" At this moment, in the Juxian Building in Chang'an, several patriarchs were sitting there, and the Cui clan patriarch looked at Wei Yuanzhao and asked.

"No, we agreed with him to print this matter before, and now he starts printing, do you think he will notify us?" Wei Yuanzhao shook his head and said.

"Hey!" The head of the Du family sighed, and several people sat there silently, very depressed, but this depression made them not know how to vent.

"At the beginning, Shen Yong said that we would dig up our roots. We didn't believe it. Now look, we really dig up our roots!" The head of the Wang family said with a sigh. The few of them, There is a wry smile in my heart.

(End of this chapter)