I write novels in the East Palace

Zhou Chengyi's eyes were attracted by the cover of the sample book. It wasn't the ink painting of the first issue of "Chang'an" magazine, and it was also different from the simple and unpretentious solid color printed on a beautiful blackboard like the finished book of "Fox Dream". Colored engravings.

In the painting, a scholar in a blue gown is gnawing on noodles while looking down at a book called "Handbook of Emergency Medicine". Behind him is a bit of setting sun reflecting the green mountains and green waters, white grass, red leaves and yellow flowers forming a late autumn scene.

The tone of the whole picture is warm, the lines are not sharp, even the autumn landscape is not desolate, but it makes people feel a feeling of "winter is coming soon, spring is not far away", the style of painting is full of Be positive.

If it weren't for the ink smudged in one place, and the back of the cover could feel the unevenness left over from the reprinting, Zhou Chengyi really couldn't tell that it was a print, not a fine brushwork.

This shows the superb craftsmanship of the engraving master.

Speaking of which, this is the first time Zhou Chengyi has seen prints, and he held them in his hand and looked at them for a long time in a strange way. He flipped through a few pages at random, and found that the prints and illustrations in the 20-word book were actually There are dozens of them.

Printmaking is the predecessor of comic strips. Its origin cannot be tested for the time being. Zhou Chengyi has never specifically understood this aspect. Combining his weak historical knowledge and the memory of the original owner, he learned that it was circulated among the people as early as the Tang Dynasty, and was mostly used in Buddhism. .

Nowadays, the uses of prints have become more extensive, and there are many genres, and they are also used for illustrations such as operas and story books.

But a book like "Poor Scholar Farming" uses more than a dozen sheets, and they are all in color version. This is a luxury that the most popular comic strip "Thirteen Niangs" can't even imagine.

After all, printmaking is costly and labor-intensive, and the coloring process for color plates is even more complicated, and the overprinting process is even more complicated. If you are not careful, the plate will be destroyed or the ink will be printed out as waste due to excessive use or improper operation.

This virtually increases the cost of printing.

"Fox Dream" is priced far above the market price because two volumes are printed in one volume; and "Poor Scholar Farming" originally had a word count of 20 in the first volume, which is more than double the number of words in the first volume of "Fox Dream". Higher than the former, and now a lot of color engraving has been invested...

Zhou Chengyi now seriously doubts whether Fu Qian can recover the cost price.

But it's useless to think too much, the manuscript has already been given, and Fu Qian has to bear the profit or loss.

Zhou Chengyi put the sample letter aside, and opened the letter first.

Sure enough, the beginning is another rainbow fart throughout the article.

He has become accustomed to blocking it, and extracted two important messages in the letter at a glance:

One is that the finished book "Poor Scholar Farming" is scheduled to be released around mid-April, and it will be sold simultaneously in hundreds of bookstores in Xiao Country's jurisdiction. I don't know where he found so many colleagues to cooperate with; the other is about his manuscript fee. The account details have been made into an account book together with bills and the like and sent over.

Although Zhou Chengyi was surprised that Fu Qian did not wait for the serialization of "Chang'an Supplement" to be published as a book, but his attention was still focused on the latter content.

He opened the ledger and looked through it, and found that he clearly remembered the expenditures accurate to one copper coin. As he said, they were all used in education. excellent student.

Fu Qian wrote this in his letter: "According to Mr. Xu's wish, I hope that the world can only hope that the river and sea tides that are foreign objects will not be buried. Although it is not as magical as the blue face, it can also be used as a stepping step to help the eagle. Spread your wings and soar through the nine heavens."

Speaking of this, I have to mention Du Bingruo. This impoverished Taixue student came from a remote and impoverished county. thing.

It wasn't until Grand Master Shen valued him and worshiped him that he wouldn't be like a fellow countryman who couldn't even read books. The whole family can jump the moat.

But Grand Master Shen is full of peaches and plums, and there are seven or eight of them who are impoverished. The education expenses of these people are a huge expenditure, and it is naturally impossible to guarantee their basic necessities of life.

Du Bingruo is very motivated, but luck is not good.

He wrote the suspenseful work under Du Kang's pseudonym at the beginning, but later Zhao Jialou tightened up on this kind of subject matter. Fengshi lives on his own, and is also helped by Ye Shulang, a fellow apprentice.

After Grand Master Shen found out about the funding plan, he came to ask Fu Qian whether he had age requirements for the funded persons.

Fu Qian said, "It's hard to get a noble son from a poor family. As long as he is really good, no matter what his background, I think the fourth son is willing to give him this opportunity. He doesn't ask for anything in return. If he is willing, he can just come to a kindergarten and teach for two years. "

However, Du Bingruo flatly refused, "Du Sheng's clothes can cover his body, his house does not leak, he has no parents to support, and he has no wife or children. Although he lives in poverty, he is not considered a poor family."

So he only agreed to teach in a primary school, and passed the opportunity to Xu Kai, a fellow villager who worked as an accountant in order to support his family.

Coincidentally, that Xu Kai turned out to be the accountant of Chang'an Bookstore.

Fu Qian was amused by this coincidence.

He knew that the former owner of the bookstore was a bastard, and he was called the shopkeeper and the accountant's subsidy if he lost his money. Before he took over, the two of them had nowhere to ask for help, and they desperately planned to commit suicide in front of the former owner's door in order to seek justice.

Xu Kai had already given up the idea of ​​studying again, but was stunned by this good thing, he pinched his thigh hard, and immediately jumped three feet high.

"Is this true? I'm not dreaming?" His eyes were red with excitement.

"Of course it's true. I swore an oath to the Fourth Young Master." Fu Qian purposely recounted the original letter he wrote to the Fourth Young Master, and handed him the funding form, pointing to it to be stamped. With his own private seal, he jokingly said, "Take a closer look, is there any fake?"

Xu Kai held that thin piece of paper as if holding some peerless treasure, opened his mouth to speak but couldn't make a sound.

"Xu Kai will never forget the blue-faced help of the two benefactors, the young master and the fourth son, in this life, and he can only serve as a dog and a horse to repay it!" He choked up and bowed, his excitement beyond words.

Later generations used "the help of the blue face" to describe meeting noble people, and the idiom "glass jade bone" to describe a person's backbone has been widely spread.

Zhou Chengyi didn't have supernatural powers enough to find out how the future generations would be. He was looking at the account book and sighed in his heart, "Fu Qian often makes people call him a profiteer in order to make money, but Shang De really has nothing to say."

At the very least, the goods that come out of his hands will not make people feel worthless, and they will definitely not make unconscionable money.

He really deserves to be rich.

Thinking of this, Zhou Chengyi reluctantly picked up the reminder words in the letter that he deliberately ignored, opened the drawer and took out the manuscript inside.

Although he mainly writes "The Rivers and Lakes Are My Legend" these days, he has not neglected "The Poor Scholar Farming". He writes [-] to [-] words every day. From the first batch of manuscripts to the present, nearly three It has been a month, and the number of manuscripts deposited can be said to be quite impressive.

Zhou Chengyi couldn't take it all at once, so he piled it up and looked through it, and finally split it from the plot of the exchange platform's launch.

Combining the two parts of breeding and planting, the number of words is [-] less than that of the first volume. Whether it is sold in one volume or divided into two volumes, the number of words is allowed.

The entire plot of "Poor Scholar Farming" is also announced to be half finished.

Zhou Chengyi not only packed the manuscripts that Fu Qian wanted, but also packed all the manuscripts of the first volume of "The Rivers and Lakes Are My Legends".

Zhaojialou is different from Chang'an Bookstore. Before Chang'an Chaobao was revised, they rarely published famous articles, let alone popular novels. The manuscripts in their hands were directly made into books for sale. It will not engage in publicity and marketing like Chang'an Bookstore.

However, after it was made into a volume, "Chang'an Chaobao" also expanded the width of its content. The analysis article by Zigu was just a test of the water, and the effect was really good, so it added other columns accordingly.

Zhou Chengyi's Majiawen will be the first popular novel to be serialized on it.

Because it was published every seven days, the editor-in-chief of Zhao Jialou was probably afraid that he would delay the manuscript, so he asked him to submit manuscripts for more than four issues first.

Zhou Chengyi counted the number of words in the Jiaolong Digong chapter, and it was just enough to be published for a month.

Zhou Chengyi, who was used to the abundance of manuscripts in the box, was suddenly squeezed dry, and he cheered up in an instant. He put the remaining manuscripts of the Changtian Wen back in the drawer, picked up the outline of the Vest, and began to ponder the second volume of Jinlin Villa.

After Xie Chunfeng came to the Central Plains, he assumed the name of witty little monk, and a group of people came to Jinlin Villa to attend the wedding ceremony of the young master, but something happened that night.

First, a ghostly wind blew out of nowhere, and the candles of the wedding banquet were blown out. Then, the groom toasted frequently, and some people fell into the water. But I saw two bloody corpses lying on the red bed in the new house...

Zhou Chengyi couldn't think about writing suspense here, and scratched his head, deleted, deleted, and revised for the plot. It took several days to grind out a usable beginning, and the book "Poor Scholar Farming" over there was put on sale in Chang'an Bookstore!

As Zhou Chengyi guessed, the price of this finished book is very expensive, and it caused a sensation after it was put on the shelves, but this time it is not in a good direction. Many people accused Chang'an Bookstore of wanting money. .

Fu Qian was neither surprised nor cared, his idea was actually very simple.

"Chang'an Supplement" is a semi-monthly magazine like the main magazine, and "Poor Scholar Farming" is a long article. If only [-] characters are serialized in the supplement, it will take three or four years to complete the serial!

Although there will definitely be people chasing it, more people will show fatigue and choose to abandon the article, and it will take up the largest page for a long time. This is not a good thing for the "Chang'an Supplement", which has just started.

If you have money, you can buy the book and if you don’t have money, you can wait to read the magazine. The first volume will definitely be serialized in the magazine until the end, and you can almost recoup the cost if you buy [-] issues.

As for the second book... Fu Qian believes that those who have read the first book early and those who have experienced the more painful pursuit will definitely support the completion of the book.

"Chang'an Supplement" will no longer need drainage, and the two will achieve each other, which is really a win-win situation.

Fu Qian has always been talented in business.

Besides, there are not only voices scolding him in the market.

For example, in Taixue, Jiang Yusheng and Chu Tian are crazily sharing "Poor Scholar Farming" to their classmates.

Someone plausibly said, "I've heard of this book before, isn't it the golden lump of Chang'an Bookstore! It is said to be the foundation of people's livelihood, but in fact it is just a misnomer, and the price is so high. I really want to go crazy!"

He kept belittling "The Poor Scholar Farming" and the fourth son.

Jiang Yusheng couldn't bear to refute and went back, "Go and find out what the price is for the prints. There are dozens of copies in this book, and I see that the price is still set low! Besides, he sold it as a book, and he didn't ask the magazine to continue to serialize it. You I can’t afford to read magazines!”

Chu Tian also said, "Why don't you scold the young man? Do you know that you can't offend me? It's as simple as you said, why not write such a famous book yourself?"

The man blushed and ran away.

"Tch, who am I to be so clamorous?" Chu Tian said mockingly.

Jiang Yusheng also snorted, "But I only dare to yell behind my back, and I don't even dare to claim the name of Young Master Fu, just pinch the persimmon."

The two talked and laughed, looked at each other, paused, and hummed again, both turned their heads away.

Obviously, although both of them admired the Fourth Young Master, they looked down upon each other very much.

Luo Yi kept his eyes on the book, but he also heard the movement, and said without raising his head, "This is probably the same-sex repulsion mentioned by the Fourth Young Master in the book."

Jiang Yusheng was dissatisfied, "My temper is so bad."

Chu Tian also sneered, "Don't compare me with this person, it's an insult to me."

The two of them separated as they said, and the distance was as long as a school, and they both wished they could be further away.

Du Bingruo couldn't laugh or cry at this.

"By the way, didn't you work as an editor in Chang'an Bookstore before? Do you know who Zhi Ge and the fourth son are?" Du Bingruo asked Luo Yi in a low voice.

Luo Yi looked up at him, "What?"

Du Bingruo said, "I showed the "Glass and Jade Bone" to the teacher earlier, and the teacher hurried into the palace that day, and later I asked my brother, it is said that His Majesty just sent an envoy to the West, such a coincidence must have cause and effect. I guessed that Mr. Zhi Ge should be an important official in the court, so I wanted to ask the teacher for a recommendation, but the teacher just stroked his long beard and smiled without answering."

"I remembered that you have been editing in Chang'an Bookstore, so I came to ask. As for the fourth son..." Du Bingruo said that he immediately changed his tone of admiration, "You can write such a wonderful article as "Poor Scholar Farming" The person must be a strange person."

"I see Jiang Haichao, the main character in his novel, is a poor and depressed scholar who spends all his manuscript money on education to subsidize poor students. He must have experienced it before to be able to do this."

Du Bingruo said, "If such talents cannot be reused, it will be a loss for Xiao Guo!"

Luo Yi was deeply convinced, and he thought it over before answering, "I do have a guess about Zhi Ge, he is probably a member of the court, but his identity is important, I can't tell, hope Brother Du Haihan."

Luo Yi looked apologetic, and Du Bingruo quickly waved his hands, "It's already a great favor for you to tell me this."

"But fourth son, I don't know anything about it." Luo Yi said what he knew, "It's a post station to communicate with him, and it seems to be three or four days away from Chang'an."

"So that's how it is." Du Bingruo was thoughtful.

In fact, Du Bingruo was not the only one who saw that the fourth son was talented and wanted to find him, and Prime Minister Fang also found his son Fang Guanyan.

The author has something to say: There is another chapter about adding more than a thousand nutrient solutions, code after eating, and post immediately after code, but my hand speed may be a little slow (this is not a good hand).

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Jiang Yusheng: Looking for Mr. Zhige!

Chu Tian: Looking for an ordinary little genius!

Du Bingruo: Looking for the Fourth Young Master!

Zhaojialou: Make an appointment to find Chang'an real estate!

Fang Guanyan: ... (drinking plain water)

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