Doomsday: Start with the strongest talent

Chapter 428 Tsing Yi Building!
In the bookstore on the third floor, there are a variety of books in various colors.

Chen Guo took a look and found that although these books were all printed with woodblock printing technology, they were all very beautifully made. Many of the books even had illustrations of great artistic value.

Chen Guo reckoned that the woodblock printing in this world should be much better than that of the ancient times on Blue Star. After all, what limits the woodblock printing is the craftsman's hand speed.

In this world, there are martial arts, and if you practice some external skills, you can have a pair of strong and stable hands, and the efficiency of making engravings must be very high.

Block printing is a very reliable printing technology.

Long after the invention of movable type printing, woodblock printing was still the mainstream, and movable type printing was rarely used. It was not until the birth of type printing that woodblock printing was eliminated.

Each character of hieroglyphs is different, so it is actually not suitable for movable type printing. Early movable type printing is more suitable for printing letters. Twenty or thirty letters are very easy to arrange.

Complex pictographs are more suitable for woodblock printing when the technology is immature.After all, tens of thousands of characters have to be prepared for movable type, and they have to be rearranged after printing, unlike engraving, which can be printed repeatedly according to the engraving after the engraving is completed.

"However, the efficiency of engraving is still not high. If I can make type printing, maybe I can greatly reduce the cost. Let's talk..."

Chen Guo thought to herself.

He is more interested in making money. In fact, he has no idea of ​​climbing the technology tree, but if he needs to climb the technology tree, there is no problem.Ask him to make a reactor with his hands. He doesn't have the ability, but if he can't even design a type printing press, how can he be worthy of his own technical geek character?

The reason why Chen Guo paid attention to printing technology was to calculate the cost of books silently. The cost of engraving is very high. A bestseller with hundreds of thousands of words looks expensive, but the price is actually quite reasonable.

However, once the engraving is completed, the more copies are printed, the higher the cost, so the status of a best-selling author in this world should not be low.

Then Chen Guo began to pay attention to the types of books that were more popular. After reading it for a long time, she knew the general idea.

In this world, three kinds of books are popular.

One is wit and beauty, romance.

This kind should be sold to those demented literary women in deep boudoirs. The style is similar to "The Romance of the West Chamber" on Blue Star, but most of the levels cannot be compared with "The Romance of the West Chamber".

The other is imperial examination books.

In this world, one can still become an official through imperial examinations. As long as it is profitable, such books will always be popular.

The last one is martial arts.

After all, this is a world of martial arts, if literary and artistic works do not involve this field, it is really outrageous.

But after reading two books, Chen Guo lost interest.Because the martial arts in this world are basically a template. They are all stories about the protagonist's relatives and friends being killed by the big devil, the protagonist being rescued by the righteous knight, practicing martial arts hard, and finally revenge.

Very old-fashioned martial arts, reading one book is equivalent to reading ten books, lacking new ideas.

As for the author Yu Zhengchao, the reason why he is so famous and popular is that he is a rare and innovative author who combines the romance of a gifted scholar and a beautiful woman with revenge-style martial arts to create something that is half romance and half martial arts. I can't say how well written it is, but it is always new.

After reading the types of these books, Chen Guo strode out of Spring Breeze Bookstore without buying a single book. This kind of broken book is too bad and not worth buying.

"Now it's time to inquire about the situation of the publishing industry in this world. If authors in this world are very profitable, it doesn't mean that they can't be copycats. Anyway, my soul is strong and my past memories are very clear. It is not difficult to reproduce classics. of."

Chen Guo decided to inquire about the inside story of the publishing industry in this world, to see if these famous authors make money or not. If they do, he can temporarily get involved in this industry, and he can also find a reasonable explanation for his future financial resources.

Of course, if the authors in this world are like Blue Star Ancient Times, then it’s for nothing. Chen Guo has no interest in becoming Cao Xueqin, fattening a bunch of booksellers, and dying of poverty and illness.

It's hard to get inside information about this kind of industry, but Chen Guo knows where to inquire.In this world, any business that can make money is done by someone. Selling all kinds of information is also a part of the business, so there are naturally people who do it.

For example, in Rongcheng, there is an organization that sells information called Tsing Yi Lou. As long as you are willing to spend money, Tsing Yi Lou can provide you with all the information you want to know. In most cases, you will be satisfied, but the price Not low either.

When Chen Guo was in the Beggar Gang, Elder Xu had bought information from Tsing Yi Building, so Chen Guo knew the contact method of Tsing Yi Building, but 20 years have passed, Tsing Yi Building should not be destroyed yet, right?
The next day, Chen Guo contacted Tsing Yi Lou, and it was the Tsing Yi Lou of this generation, named Wang Banzhi.

I made an appointment for an hour and spent 200 taels of silver, one word, expensive!

The two agreed to meet at Wangjiang Restaurant, and Chen Guo would naturally pay the bill.

This cost more than ten taels of silver to go out.

But if you want to know the inside story of the industry, you still have to spend a little money, I hope it is worth it!If it's not worth the money, Chen Guo will have to spit out his own money from the Tsing Yi Building when the force becomes stronger in the future.

The reason why Wangjiang Restaurant is called Wangjiang Restaurant is because it is built on the bank of the river. Not only can you see the surging river at a glance, but even when the weather is better, you can see the Giant Buddha of Rongcheng by the river in the distance.

The weather is good today. The majestic and compassionate Rongcheng Giant Buddha can be clearly seen in the distance. The surging river stretches at the feet of the Giant Buddha. The Giant Buddha lowers his head and looks at the passing ships. He looks compassionate and tall. Under the rays of the morning sun, he actually has a sacred feeling.

Chen Guo ordered a table of good food and a few bottles of Dongjun wine in the second floor wing of Wangjiang Restaurant, and waited silently for Wang Banzhi's arrival.Wang Banzhi is a very punctual person, not long after, he walked into the wing wearing a green suit, cupped his hands and said, "Nice to meet you, glad to meet you."

This generation of landlord Wang Banzhi in Qingyi is still very young, only in his early 20s, and even a little immature.I don't know the depth of martial arts, but I have a good bearing.

"Welcome, welcome. I heard from the elders that the Qingyi host 20 years ago was also called Wang Banzhi, and you are also called Wang Banzhi. This is really interesting!" Chen Guo stood up and said politely.

Wang Banzhi smiled and said: "The Wang Banzhi 20 years ago was my father, but my father retired five years ago, and now I am the landlord of Qingyi."

Chen Guo was surprised: "Father and son have the same name?"

Wang Banzhi said without hesitation: "The name Wang Banzhi is a kind of inheritance, not a name in the true sense. All the landlords in Tsingyi are called Wang Banzhi. Half-knowledge, half-knowledge, means things in the world, just half-knowledge Half-understood, you must not claim to be a hundred-born, so as not to invite disasters."

(End of this chapter)