Chapter 70: Life Is Nothing But Fame And Fortune

"Hiss~" Lu Su took a deep breath, and was directly shocked by the exact same handwriting from these two books, as well as the fact that the book had more than ten thousand words. "How much does it cost?"

"The more there is, the cheaper the average price. If it is just the two books you have it is probably not much cheaper than the original one." Chen Xi rolled his eyes and said.

"Then it can't be promoted," Lu Su said with a sigh.

"But if you have thousand of copies, it will be much cheaper than a bamboo slip" Chen Xi said nonchalantly.

"Hey, why is there a typo in it, why don't you change it?" Lu Su looked at the word on it and didn't understand. As for what Chen Xi said, he hadn't understood it, or it didn't enter his brain.

"It's too much trouble. If it's wrong, it's wrong." Chen Xi rolled his eyes and said, "It's not good to make this thing too quickly, and the craftsman who makes this thing is an illiterate craftsman, so it can only be done like this. If the word is wrong, it is wrong. You must be tolerant to understand, this thing is much better than the simple books."

Chen Xi's understanding tolerates it entirely because the craftsman can only engrave according to what he has written, and because the engraving is done a whole page at a time. If you make a mistake, you can only re-engrave all the errors. So, as long as it is not a key word and the page has no more than one word wrong, Chen Xi will treat it as if he has not seen it.

As for movable type printing, Chen Xi said that he has no such ability. Craftsmanship is the problem, the material is the problem, and it is also a problem for him. There are problems up and down, so how do you do it? It's not as good as engraving. Anyway, it's social progress. Stone carving is not good, wood carving is not good, and wood carving is not gold. Anyway, this kind of technology can be played in the Shang Dynasty, it would be completely stress-free.

"This is also the case when there are errors and omissions in the copy." Lu Su nodded and said, "But if the handwriting and the errors and omissions are the same, it is easy for people to find the problems."

"If you find it, you will find it. Who has used seals since ancient times does not know this, but who has paper to do this kind of thing?" Chen Xi smiled nonchalantly. China has played such things as seals for thousands of years. But don't know how to use it? There is tot enough technology to play movable type printing but if you can't even play engraving, isn't it a joke?

To put it bluntly, if someone can make popular paper in the Shang Dynasty, then someone can make engraving printing within a few days. This can already be said to be an instinct.

"Can you control the source?" Lu Su frowned. "If you can control it, you can use this as an enlightenment book, so you can probably achieve the purpose of mass production of literary ministers. Since ancient times, there have been good talents without any books to read. How many wise men in the world have been lost because of this, it is impossible to count. You give them the opportunity now, then they will definitely return the favor to you. With this thing and as long as ten years pass, Liu Bei's forces alone will win the world and the negative is unknown."

"But I can't do it now." Chen Xi said with a bitter smile, "I don't want to confront the family now. If we really publish the book, it will only make the family fight hard with us. Knowledge and land will never decline. Even if one day the land output is no longer valuable, no country dares to abandon the land. They will only make a castle in the sky. As for knowledge, this is the foundation of the country."

"What about you?" Lu Su also understood this point, the previous question was to only test whether Chen Xi was dazzled by the great merits in front of him, but what made him rest assured was that even if this huge merit was in front of him, Chen Xi still maintained the rationality of a wise man.

"Selling a book for 100 gold coins, and it is a book with a thousand words. Even the price of bamboo slips is worth a thousand gold coins. The price coupled with the portability, even a book of rarity would become not expensive." Chen Xi said casually.

This is a money-robbing industry, and in this era where knowledge is more expensive than life and money is like dirt, as long as you dare to sell, the family will eat as much as you have. I have never heard that knowledge is not enough. When did the aristocratic family sell their knowledge?

Since ancient times, when scholars had no money and encountered good books, they took the land and exchanged it for the books. The Chinese people did not care how much it cost. As long as you have the book and are willing to sell, the land, money, food, servant, singer, and slave can be chosen at will. This is an absolute hard currency.

But since the Spring and Autumn Period, I haven't heard of anyone selling books. Naturally, there are no bookstores. Most of them are pass along as gifts. According to the ancient scholars, if you sell it, it seem to be a little offensive...

"One hundred gold coins?" Lu Su glanced at the book roughly. There are almost a hundred characters in this one page. The back to front has almost nine pages. In a word, there is no falsification, so he nodded and said, "If I saw this book before, I would exchange it for a thousand gold coins. Other people would exchange it for the same price too. Chen Xi's price is fair, and it is also a blessing for me and other scholars."

"Well, in the future, this 9-page book will be sold for one thousand gold coins as Lu Su said, and this 9-page books is for show. Counting nine into one, there is a deficiency in the way of heaven. The takeaway means that we only made money for the last page, which is considered as a travel expense." Chen Xi explained it expressionlessly, and by the way, he added Lu Su name to this book. Some people in the future think that it is too expensive and go talk to Lu Su about it.

"This method is very good, but I am ashamed of receiving such a big gift when I haven't done any work..." Lu Su is worthy of being a benevolent gentleman, feeling that he is just proposing, and accepting a big gift like this is taking too much advantage.

"It's nothing, I'm interested in doing so. You write something, and I will print it for you." Chen Xi said, and by the way he gave Lu Su another gift.

"I am ashamed to do so, I only asked Chen Xi to take it back after the book was written, so I would not be too ashamed." Lu Su said with a wry smile, but the light radiating from his eyes could not conceal his eagerness to try.

Well, Chen Xi laughed, and his heart was overwhelmed with joy. He knew that in this era, absolutely no one could block the human desire for the ultimate goal. Even if he refused, he couldn't let go of it in his heart. Regardless of who wrote the book, as long as it is written, someone will read it if it can be spread.

In this era, those who dare to write are basically a generation of great scholars, and it can be said that they are already famous all over the world. Then writing this book and publishing it basically means that you have reach the top.

But the more miserable thing is that the books of these famous people are used for copying and the number is very small. It is impossible to have a copy machine. Therefore, it is very difficult to publish the book. Let alone the ability to be able to distribute it in quantity. The great scholars have a group of disciples to copy it, do you have one? People's actions will take place for more than ten years, which is to worry about the trouble when others spread and copy it. They try to be as simple as possible.

Now Chen Xi's kind of brainless printing is much better. If he says he will publish the books for you, he will publish the books for you. A thousand copies are not enough? Then 10,000 copies will be sold. Even Zhao Yun can't resist it.

By the way, Chen Xi was bored and told Zhao Yun about it one day. Letting him write down the record of the village, and then he would compile it into a book when he has time. Then follow the steps to distribute it. Zhao Yun was so excited at the time that he didn't know where his hands and feet were moving.

Chen Xi understood in an instant what writing a book and distributing it meant to the celebrities in this era. It was the magical skill for abducting celebrities. He didn't believe it that if barious books of 100,000 words were stuck at the door of Xun's house, plus it was written by Xun Shuang, that the Xun's family would not give it to others.