Datang romantic little landlord

264 two hundred and five is two hundred and five

Fangzhu Sun's mental arithmetic skills are still good, and his estimated price is not wrong.

In ancient China, the cost of printing a book was frighteningly high.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, a book called "Da Yi Cui Yan" was engraved and printed, which recorded the expenses in detail.

"...today there is a copy of "Da Yi Cui Yan", a total of [-] volumes. The number of papers used, the printing process, and ink money are listed below: a total of [-] sheets of paper consumption; [-] sheets of Raoqing paper for backing ; three dozen pieces of blue and white paper on the back; a total of [-] cash for brown, ink, plaster, printed back artisan food, etc.; [-] cash for rent boards..."

Experts of later generations made calculations and came to the conclusion that each volume of "Da Yi Cui Yan" in the Southern Song Dynasty cost 3 Wen per volume, with an average of 290 Wen per volume.

The purchasing power of one penny is equivalent to about four yuan in later generations. That is to say, the cost of printing a book is 640 yuan, which is simply astronomical.

However, compared with manual transcribed books, its price is at least one-tenth cheaper.

Li Wangyou naturally knows that the cost of printing books is not low, but he is not short of money now, so he can afford to print a few hundred pens.

Besides, he was going to sell this book, so maybe he could make some money back.

He waved his hand vigorously: "How much it will cost, Master Sun just asks for the price, I only have one request, that is, the sooner the better."

"It's natural, but Huxian man, your manuscript has too many words, and it will take some time for a craftsman to carve more than 100 engravings. The old man estimates that it will take about five days to carve all these manuscripts, and it will be finished in seven days." It can be fully printed and bound.”

In Fangzhu Sun's bookshop, there are only two or three skilled engraving craftsmen. After all, these craftsmen are all seal carving seals or stele carvings, and his bookshop can't afford too many craftsmen.

"Okay, Master Sun, please hurry up. By the way, there are still five illustrations, which must be engraved and printed together. Each chapter needs to add an illustration. Is there any problem?"

Fangzhu Sun nodded: "No problem, leave it to the old man."

Li Wangyou said: "It's so good."

He took out two five-liang gold ingots from his pocket and handed them to Fangzhu Sun.

"These twelve taels of gold are regarded as a deposit. I will pick up the books in seven days and pay you the rest."

Fangzhu Sun naturally had no reason not to agree. After accepting the gold, he repeatedly said yes: "Yes, yes, please don't worry, Mr. Huxian. After seven days, I will guarantee that the book will be printed. If you can't finish it, Mr. Huxian, you will take off the old man's head." Go be a chamber pot!"

Li Wangyou scolded with a smile: "What do I want your head to do? You help me print it with your heart. When I pick up the book, I still have the manuscript for you to print."

"Yes, I understand." Fangzhu Sun smiled even more happily, there is no merchant who would not like such a big client.

Seeing that Li Wangyou was about to leave, Fangzhu Sun quickly asked, "May I ask Mr. Huxian, after your "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is printed, are you going to sell it?"

Li Wangyou nodded: "Naturally, otherwise why would I print so many?"

Fangzhu Sun said: "I don't know if the Huxian man is willing to give this book to the old man for sale?"

"Leave it to you?" Li Wangyou shook his head again and again: "Hu County is too small to sell so many books. Besides, I plan to print another [-] copies if they sell well. How can your bookstore sell?" Got it?"

Fangzhu Sun said with a smile: "Hu County Men's University can rest assured, I actually run a bookstore in Chengdong City, Chang'an, and the business is still good, Hu County Men's University can rest assured about sales."

The old man's words made Li Wangyou interested. He was thinking about how to sell the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" after it was printed. Since Fangzhu Sun has a bookstore in Chang'an East City, it saves him a lot of trouble.

Without waiting for Li Wangyou to nod his head in agreement, Fangzhu Sun continued: "Mr. Huxian, based on my old experience, your copy of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" should be able to sell for about [-] to [-] yuan. The old bookstore only charges two dollars. The cost of consignment, and the cost of printing the book, the old man only needs to charge the capital, Hu County male, do you think it is okay?"

Li Wangyou thought to himself, Tang books are really ridiculously expensive. A book with more than 2 words costs so much, which is equivalent to about 2000 yuan for future generations.

The key point is that he plans to publish 24 volumes of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". According to this price, to buy the entire Three Kingdoms, you need 12 copper coins, which is equivalent to 8000 yuan for future generations!

Any profiteer in the future who dares to sell books like this will definitely be beaten to death.

But looking at the hand-copied "Analects of Confucius" volume in the bookstore, the price is actually two copper coins, but Li Wangyou feels that he is too conscientious.

Now that Ma Zhou has become a sixth-rank court official, the monthly salary is only two or four hundred yuan. If he comes to the bookstore to buy books, his monthly salary is only enough to buy one volume of "The Analects of Confucius".

Regarding Fangzhu Sun's proposal, Li Wangyou pondered for a while, then nodded and agreed.Being able to have someone sell books for him would save him a lot of trouble.Moreover, Fangzhu Sun gave Li Wangyou a good feeling, so he was naturally willing to continue to cooperate.

The first volume of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the cost of printing each copy is 150 Wen, and if it is sold at 350 Wen, there will be a profit of [-] Wen.

Give Fangzhu Sun a hundred coins, and he can earn 250 coins, and a thousand copies is 250 coins.If the sales are good and [-] additional copies are printed, it will be a profit of [-] guan.

And this is only the first five chapters of the first volume of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". If the book really sells well, it seems that he can make a small fortune just by selling books.

But earn two hundred and five for a book?

Ma Dan, how awkward is this number... Forget it, it is a good thing to make money, two hundred and five is two hundred and five!

Li Wangyou was not pretentious, and immediately nodded in agreement with Fangzhu Sun's proposal, and was going to hand over "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to the old man.

When Fangzhu Sun heard that Li Wangyou planned to write 24 copies of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he was so happy that his beard started dancing.

After negotiating a cooperation agreement, Li Wangyou returned to Dingzhou Village, ready to continue the work of Wen Chaogong.

Since Ma Zhou was willing to help him transcribe, Li Wangyou was naturally happy to save trouble.When he got home, he began to think about how to save time and effort to complete the "hard" work of copying books.

The most important thing is the pen, and the brush must not be used anymore.

Even though Li Wangyou was forced by his grandfather to practice brush calligraphy from an early age, no matter what, he couldn't write quickly with a brush.

Of course, there is no need to think about fountain pens and ballpoint pens. Li Wangyou plans to try making some quill pens first.

But there were no geese in Dingzhou Village, Li Wangyou thought about it, and simply asked Niu Wu to bring a bow and arrow to help him shoot a few crows and come back.

Crow's feathers can also be used to make quill pens, the effect is no worse than that of quill pens, and it is just suitable for writing small characters.

Niu Wu had long since become numb to Li Wangyou's weird requests, and he didn't bother to ask any more questions, so he went out to look for the bad luck of the crow with his bow and arrows on his back.

With his archery skills, it couldn't be easier to shoot a few crows. It didn't take much effort, and the corpses of a few crows were placed in front of Li Wangyou.

"Ami Tofu, sin, sin." Li Wangyou said this sin, but his hand was unambiguous, and he stretched out his hand directly, and pulled out the longest feathers from the crow's wings...

265 Yaoyaoling, Someone Robbed!

Li Wangyou thought it was fun to make quill pens when he was a child, so he also tried it.

In order to make quills, he even secretly plucked the feathers of several big geese raised at home.For this reason, every time the big goose at home sees Li Wangyou appear, it will immediately enter attack mode, chasing Li Wangyou and fleeing everywhere.

There is a saying in the countryside, "It is better to be bitten by a dog than to be wrung by a goose." This goose does not look fierce, but it is actually a good housekeeper and is extremely fierce.

Big geese not only bite people, but also fly up and slap them, making harsh calls while beating them.

In addition, the adult big white goose is even bigger than a house cat, so Li Wangyou can't resist it, so every time he will be chased by the goose at home, he is very embarrassed.

But even after paying that high price, Li Wangyou failed to make a quill pen when he was a child.

Making a quill is not just about plucking a feather.

In order to make a quill, Li Wangyou specifically asked Afro, a European girl, to get an answer from her.