Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 35 The advent of Red Mansion
"This"

Hu Rui looked at the pure white hair ball in his hand. After carefully identifying it, he couldn't help but hesitate, raised his head and looked at Yang Xian and asked.

"May I ask, sir, is this brown velvet made from blue velvet from Lanzhou?"

This middle-aged man named Hu Rui is the tailor master Wang Yuemin mentioned in his letter before. As for the blue cashmere he mentioned, it is the cashmere produced in Lanzhou.

During the Ming Dynasty, the cashmere produced in Lanzhou was quite famous and could be said to be the best cashmere in China at that time.

Of course, the price is also quite expensive, often costing up to a hundred gold per robe, so this thing was also jokingly called soft gold at the time.

Yang Xian did not deny it, and said with a smile: "Miss Wang said in the letter that Master Hu's craftsmanship is well-known in the capital. This time, he invited Master Hu all the way to use this batch of cashmere to make some clothes."

Hu Rui nodded upon hearing this.

If you can use this kind of blue velvet, which is also the best quality, to make clothes, no wonder you would spend a lot of money to come from the capital.

He looked at the amount of cashmere in his hand. It was a little short, but it shouldn't be a problem to make a piece of clothing. Just add some other wool.

In Hu Rui's view, being able to produce so much blue velvet is already remarkable enough.

At this moment, Hu Rui didn't notice the words "this batch of cashmere" and "some clothes" in Yang Xian's words just now. He glanced at a design drawing handed over by Yang Xian and some of the demands written on it. Although this kind of This was the first time he had seen the style of clothing, but it was not difficult.

So Hu Rui said nothing and just responded to the matter by patting his chest. Just like a blacksmith encountering a good piece of iron, the tailors will be equally excited when encountering good materials.

Therefore, in terms of remuneration, Hu Rui even took the initiative to make concessions and quoted a relatively low price.

"It's not that I, Mr. Hu, are talking big. There are only three masters in the entire capital who can make clothes designed by Mr. Yang without wasting such high-quality materials."

"Then there's Master Laohu." Yang Xian raised the corners of his mouth, showed a bright smile, and clapped his hands.

Soon someone brought in bags of fine cashmere.

Don't look at the wool processing workshop, the best cashmere is only the size of a small mound, that's because it contrasts with the mountains of yellowed cashmere threads next to it.

Not to mention Hu Rui, who was locked up in a small dark room and rushed to work in pain and happiness.

On Yang Xian's side, after a period of hard work in "writing", Dream of Red Mansions has been completed in many chapters.

The reason why it has not been released until now is that Yang Xian was waiting.

At present, the ways of publishing books and reading materials in the Ming Dynasty are mainly divided into two types: official engraving and official engraving.

In order to serve the imperial examination and cultivate talents, the imperial court would set up special institutions such as the Imperial College and later the Si Lijian to take charge of the country's book education.

The Imperial College was the highest institution of learning in the Ming Dynasty. It published a large number of official books, which were mostly circulated among officials and government-run schools.

The Chief Secretaries of various places will also be involved in the book industry.

In addition to government-run publishing houses, private and private companies also operate many book factories, and Fang Ke refers to these booksellers.

Yang Xian published Dream of Red Mansions, but he was not prepared to use the two methods mentioned above.

From the engraving printing in the Tang Dynasty to the movable type printing invented by Bi Sheng, a civilian inventor in the Northern Song Dynasty, printing technology has developed until the Ming Dynasty. Its technology has become very advanced and is hundreds of years ahead of the world.

It was not until 400 years later that the German Gutenberg made outstanding improvements after absorbing various printing methods and created the world's first printing press.

Gutenberg created lead movable type printing around AD 1440-1448, although it was 400 years later than Bi Sheng invented clay type printing.However, Gutenberg achieved great success in the improvement of movable type materials, the application of fatty inks, and the manufacturing of printing presses. It can be said that he laid the foundation for modern printing.

Yang Xian directly used the Ming Dynasty's advanced printing technology to deduce and develop within the civilized science and technology system.

Although there was a gap of several hundred years between machine printing and movable type printing, most of that time was wasted in the process of spreading my country's printing technology to Europe, so in fact the technical barriers were not strong.With the foundation of Ming Dynasty's printing technology, Yang Xian used very few merit points to light up the printing press technology.

After lighting up technology.

Yang Xian chose to redeem a lead movable type printing machine directly from the system this time, 7000 lead alloy movable types of commonly used Chinese characters, and the required fatty ink.

Compared to movable type printing.

Machine printing is not only faster and more efficient, but also can achieve higher-precision printing effects, making the layout clearer and more accurate.

But even when everything was ready, Yang Xian still spent several days in a daze before he finally figured out how to use this movable type printing machine to quickly type typefaces.

that's it.

On an ordinary afternoon.

Yang Xian used the world's first printing press to complete his first printed book, Dream of Red Mansions.

If it was just used to publish Dream of Red Mansions, there would be no need to spend so much effort.

Yang Xian held the newly printed manuscript in his hand and glanced at the printing press in the room, like a sleeping tiger.

Beijing.

Wang Yuemin originally thought that his second store in the capital would be a ready-made clothing store.

After all, Yang Xian had specifically asked her to find a tailor.

What she never expected was that Yang Xian was going to open a bookstore, and he would only sell one book.

It’s hard to imagine how a bookstore like this could survive in a capital city where land is at a premium.

"A Dream of Red Mansions?" Wang Yuemin picked up a beautifully bound book and took a look.

This batch of books was shipped together with the desserts from Ming Kee Dessert Shop.

The author of the book was Cao Xueqin, but Wang Yuemin thought about it for a long time and could not remember that there was such a famous scholar in the Ming Dynasty.

However, in Wang Yuemin's opinion, since Yang Xian is willing to sell the book he wrote, then this person named Cao Xueqin must have something special about him.

It's just that Wang Yuemin has never been interested in such recreational novels.

She glanced at it casually for a few times and then put the book down.

As for whether the bookstore has business or not, it is not her concern. Anyway, the loss is not her money.

According to what Zhu Yan said the previous time, she, Wang Yuemin, was the housekeeper who looked after Yang Xian's store.

What she cares more about than this is that Yang Xian hasn't launched a new dessert for a long time.

After Wang Yuemin confessed a few words to the store clerk, he stood up and left.

When I was going out, I happened to meet a girl walking in.

Wang Yuemin nodded slightly towards the girl, who smiled in return, and the two passed by each other.

Wang Yuemin always felt that the girl's appearance was very familiar, as if she had seen her somewhere before, but she couldn't remember it for a while.

(End of this chapter)