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Wu Tang Flourishing Age - Chapter 125

Published at 26th of November 2021 05:22:32 AM


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Movable type printing is not a relatively low profit margin thing such as energy-saving stove and heater. It is not a small thing that involves ideology and culture. In some dynasties and periods in Chinese history, even ideology and culture are imprisoned objects. If you are not careful, you will kill your head.

The dissemination of thought and culture is inseparable from the carrier. Books should be the most original carrier, and in the later generations where Li Luoyang once lived, books are still one of the most important carriers. Movable type printing can greatly reduce the cost of printing books. In other words, it can greatly promote the exchange of ideas and culture. From a positive standpoint, this is indeed a good thing and worth promoting, but Li Luoyang doesn't think so simple.

He could not guarantee that the rulers of this era would be happy to see the collision of ideas and cultures. He even worried that the publication of movable type printing would bring death to himself.

But he wants to do it, not only because it can bring benefits to him, but also because once it succeeds, it will bring him unimaginable reputation, as well as other things, some things that Li Luoyang wants to test the world.

So how to publish this thing needs to be weighed repeatedly by Li Luoyang. Why not let Zhou Lin's ink workshop join the bureau? Li Luoyang also has this consideration. The so-called group division. If you invite a tiger to the table, but there is a mouse, what would the tiger think?

There's no problem with the ink workshop. The only problem is that it's too small to be seen by the real bosses. Similarly, Li Luoyang cannot be satisfied with Wu Cheng, a county leader. The blood of the emperor's relatives and relatives to the county Lord is already very thin. Although the blood is thin, it also has the advantages of thin, it can not become a big umbrella that can shelter the wind and rain for "movable type printing".

Therefore, Li Luoyang bluntly put forward to Wu Cheng that a more important person needs to take shares, and then the matter can be officially opened. Of course, it's best to find more. After all, the broader the relationship, the more flexible the protection network is and the more able it can withstand the pressure from all directions.

"I'll try, but I don't guarantee the time."

Time is a strange thing. According to the theory of relativity, time may be an illusion of human beings, so it makes people feel that sometimes time passes quickly and sometimes time passes slowly.

For example, after Wu Cheng promised, there was no following for half a year, and a lot of things happened in this half a year.

First, Liu Ting was rotated. Local officials in the Wu and Zhou dynasties were also not lifelong, but limited by years. In general, they had a term of office of three years. If they could make achievements within their term of office, they could certainly be promoted at the expiration of three years. Even if they were just ordinary, they could continue to work in another place after three years. However, if the evaluation for three consecutive years was not very good, they must be demoted, Maybe we have to deal with it or even go to jail.

Liu Ting was lucky. He had made some political achievements in the position of county magistrate of Anning county. Later, Li Luoyang founded Liaozhai interesting talk in Anning county. This interesting periodical soon became a great help to Liu Ting. He then visited many superiors by sending periodicals, and this form of sending periodicals is also easy to be loved by those readers, Therefore, Liu Ting gained a lot of points in the hearts of his superiors. Finally, an appointment and removal order from the Ministry of officials came down, and Liu Ting was promoted to Shaoyin in Zhangzhou Prefecture. Basically, even if he was directly promoted from a county Party Secretary to the level of vice mayor, he could not skip the level, but it was a promotion and appointment after all, which made Liu Ting happy and inspired for a long time. If he was not worried about the bad impact, he might have a big banquet in Anning County for three days.

For Liu Ting's departure, Li Luoyang is still very sorry. After all, everyone gets along well. Liu Ting is a very good person. He not only has his own bottom line but also knows how to be flexible. Only such a person can really be a good official and be really useful to the society. It's not the luck of the people to be a complete nerd or an official oil man.

After Liu Ting left, the county magistrate's position would be vacant. However, the country cannot be without a king for a day. Since the Ministry of officials has ordered Liu Ting to fill the position of Shaoyin in Zhangzhou Prefecture, it should arrange someone to take over the post of Anning county magistrate. However, no one expected that the original natural situation has been delayed again and again. An insignificant official position of Anning county magistrate, But he never could wait for the notice from the official department. There was no news about who took this position and when to come.

In this way, Liu Ting really couldn't leave. After all, according to the rules of Wu Zhou, officials must hand over their work before leaving, otherwise they will not be allowed to take the next step. In other words, Liu Ting must wait until he has handed over his work with the new county magistrate unless he is approved by the imperial court.

Liu Ting, who had been appointed as Shaoyin of Zhangzhou Prefecture in February, was still in Anning County in April, waiting for his successor while presiding over the work. Don't mention the taste in his heart. Fortunately, there was no big banquet at that time. Otherwise, it would still stand on the third mu of land in Anning county. Wouldn't that be a joke?

Since Liu Ting has not left, everything is still the same. Naturally, some people are happy and others are worried, not to mention the things in the Yamen. In the past two or three months, Zhou Lin has not thought about tea and rice, probably because the sales volume of Liaozhai anecdotes has finally been saturated, fluctuated in about 10000 copies per issue, and there is no increase.

On the one hand, the reason why there is no increase is limited and transportation capacity. The transportation cost directly affects the final sales price of journals, and the sales price will affect people's purchase desire. Therefore, when the transportation distance exceeds a certain limit, it will inevitably lead to the decline of sales.

Another reason is the emergence of Shanzhai.

Even Li Luoyang underestimated the heroes in the world. The Shanzhai editions on the market today can be roughly divided into two categories. One is the resumption of the Liaozhai anecdotes of Moxiang bookstore, which just changes the cover and takes advantage of the local low price to seize the market, while the other is the strange novels created by imitating the story of Liaozhai. This type of Periodical can not be regarded as piracy. There are not no literati in Wu Zhou Dynasty. As long as we devote ourselves to studying it, The story conceived may not be worse than Liaozhai written by Li Luoyang.

Under the attack of both sides, the sales volume of each issue of Moxiang bookstore is basically locked in the scale of 10000 copies, which makes Zhou Lin feel difficult to accept. His goal was very big some time ago. He wanted to be the first printing firm in Wuzhou. This is Zhou Lin's promise in front of the memorial tablet of his ancestors.

Li Luoyang's promise hasn't been fulfilled for a long time, which makes Zhou Lin very worried. He went to Wu Cheng several times. He originally hoped to ask Li Luoyang to do it earlier through his "book friend", but Wu Cheng has also appeared and disappeared in recent days.





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