First Minister of Ming Dynasty

First Minister Section 490

Another example is that Song Jiang's nickname is Hu Baoyi, his loyalty is eternal, Guan Yu rides thousands of miles alone, and he is righteous with benevolence and righteousness!

In this way, a character, a characteristic, is connected with an ancient person, or a phenomenon, and finally falls into an idiom, common saying, or allusion.

Being able to read and understand some common cultural knowledge is like turning things like the Three Character Classic into pictures and putting them together with popular books like Water Margin.

It is definitely a very advanced idea to combine education with entertainment in the Ming Dynasty.The reason why Zhang Shuning could think of this is that he vaguely remembered that when he was a child, his father would hug him, tell him stories, and teach him how to read... From the sun, the moon, the stars, to eating, drinking, and having fun, everything was covered. so happy.

It's a pity that when I grow up, I can't cling to my father like my second brother, so I have to do something serious.

Hu Yan and the others nodded immediately after hearing Zhang Shuning's thoughts.

"That's a good idea. Xu Guan and I will draw pictures, and let Jing Qing...Xia, miss Xia, look for characters and allusions together. Then you come to review and approve." Hu Yan was two years older, and the arrangements were well-organized, and Zhang Shuning also agreed.

The next few guys got busy.

They go to Zhang Shuning's house every day, and sometimes they don't even miss their lunch break... Making cards is second, the key is that the collection of books is so fragrant.

These books are all-encompassing, and you can even find things like Qi Min Yao Shu, Mengxi Bi Tan, etc.That's not to mention, every few days, a batch of newspapers will be delivered, and the dates listed above are all within ten days.

From Yingtian to Jiangxi, even if it takes water, it will take several days to buy newspapers there and then send them over. How much money and skill will it take?

In order not to surprise them, Zhang Shuning could only tell them that his uncle was a businessman, and he was running a business on the Ganjiang River, transporting some supplies casually, and he had a boat, so he brought some things for himself along the way, without any trouble.

It really didn't take much trouble, after all, Zhu Ying sent [-] tons of sucrose to the capital, not to mention other brass and wood.

Hu Yan and the others are also numb, a bookseller father with all-hands and eyes, and an uncle with great powers, do you want to say that your uncle is very capable, and your whole family is very capable?

Anyway, Hu Yan also thought about it. They are very happy to make cards and read books. They shouldn't know it by themselves, so don't inquire about it.

He even sternly warned Jing Qing and Xu Guan not to divulge the affairs of the Zhang family, and not to tell anyone!You can't even bring people over.

Two people think we are stupid?

There are so many good books, at least we can’t reveal them to others until we finish them!

What if you come over and grab us?

They were a bit careful, but they still overlooked one thing. They worked so fast, and within ten days, they finished the card. If there was nothing to do, what should they do next?

As a worker, I can't even fish at work, so I'm still unqualified!

Zhang Shuning collected all the cards, a total of 110 cards, in addition to [-] generals, two people were added, one was Chao Gai, the Heavenly King of Tota, and the other was Qiongying, the female general.

After double-checking, everything is perfect.

The next task is to print.

Zhang Shuning looked at them and said seriously: "Do you want to build a bookstore?"

Xu Guan immediately shook his head, "The bookstore doesn't make money. I heard that the bookstore next to our school has a very difficult life. All students buy it. If it sells for a high price, someone will buy a copy, and then everyone will buy it together. Copying books... By the way, Brother Hu likes to do this, and he even sells manuscripts!"

Hu Yan blushed, "I, I can't help it, it's just a subsidy, a subsidy!"

But Zhang Shuning said: "I don't think so. The imperial court promulgated the compulsory education decree, and the number of people enrolled in various places will definitely increase... Our Jimin School is a step ahead. Literacy cards are only the first item. If we can print some Exercise set, do some explanations, it will definitely sell well.”

Hu Yan was startled, "You are right, but it costs money!"

Zhang Shuning said: "I do have a sum of money, about a few thousand! Can you find a way to buy the bookstore?"

Hu Yan thought about it seriously, "We can't come forward in this matter, and the children will suffer. I will find a way to get someone to help me take it down... Don't worry, it won't exceed three thousand coins... Can you get it out?" ?”

"Ok!"

Zhang Shuning nodded, "It's not too much, but the lower the better, after all, you have a part in it!"

While speaking, Zhang Shuning handed the four letters of appointment to the four people.

Each person gets [-]%, Zhang Shuning monopolizes [-]%.

As the son of the first Shangshu of the Ministry of Commerce, Zhang Shuning wrote this thing with ease.

Undoubtedly, his ability made several people sigh again.

This classmate Zhang, how many secrets do you have?

Hu Yan went to work without saying anything, and three days later, he sent back the news that the bookstore was successfully acquired, and with the bookstore, Hu Yan also hired two senior classmates.

When Zhang Shuning inquired, these two people actually had a story. As we all know, Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, which was passed down to the Yuan Dynasty. There was a man named Wang Zhen, who made wooden movable type and invented the rotary typesetting tray... Unexpectedly, this is the most advanced printing method in the world.

Even more coincidentally, Wang Zhen is also from Jiangxi. The ancestors of these two students have participated in the printing of [-] Jingde County Chronicles and have rich experience.

Originally, it was difficult for the descendants of artisans to study, but after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the establishment of schools allowed them to enroll.

And Zhang Ximeng advocated invention, so the two boys focused on family inheritance and came up with a whole new set of printing tools...

"The bookstore has [-] guan...it can't be lower. I gave them [-] guan for their printing tools!" Hu Yan reported to Zhang Shuning.

Zhang Shuning nodded without hesitation.

The most critical thing was settled, and the next step was to start printing... After about a month, the first batch of [-] sets of literacy cards was delivered to Zhu Yuanzhang.

That's right, Datian listened to this thing.

It wasn't Zhang Ximeng who did this, he wasn't so boring, it was Zhang Shuning's good uncle Zhu Ying, and he dedicated it to Lao Zhu with pride, what a beauty!

Lao Zhu stared at him for a long time with his eyes wide open, his face couldn't hide his envy, what a good boy!

He's only so old, so he's capable, even better than your father!

"Reward 100 taels of gold, so we bought it." Lao Zhu said again: "Give each prince and princess a set! Let them learn it! Don't embarrass us!"

Chapter 681 The Unavoidable Zhu Yuanzhang

From this moment on, the princes and princesses of Old Zhu's family felt the strong malice from Jimin Academy.Later, when I even heard the word Jimin, my whole body trembled, I was at a loss, and my forehead was covered with cold sweat.

Not only literacy cards, they have also released a lot of exercise sets, supplementary reading materials, intensive lectures on mathematics, and other gadgets to cope with the exam.

As an old Zhu who wants to be strong all his life, how can he bear the heart that his children are not as good as others?

He urged the children like crazy to study hard.

But arithmetic is different from other things. Poetry and poetry, if you work hard, you will go up. As long as you don't let go of the book and are willing to work hard, even a monk like Lao Zhu who has become a monk halfway can make things so-so.

But it's not good at learning. If you say you can't do this thing, you really don't know it, and you won't even think about it.

Then Lao Zhu fell into self-doubt for a long time...

He even thought that his child was a fool, and he himself was a fool, otherwise how could there be so much difference?

You say that Zhang Ximeng is great and his son is unusual, so forget it.

But in fact, Zhang Shuning is far from being the number one in Jimin Academy.

Not to mention the senior Hu Yan, even Xu Guan, who is in the same grade, is absolutely incomparable.

And what Lao Zhu didn't know was that after the promulgation of the Compulsory Education Law, Xia Zhifeng finally got his father's permission to take the exam...the exam to enter Jimin School Primary School.

Not surprisingly, she took No.1, with full marks except for one article.

Faced with this situation, Zhang Shuning secretly called it a fluke. Fortunately, this girl was a year late. Otherwise, she would be in the same class as her. I'm afraid it's the third one.

After all, a god who can control the score level, and a Xia Zhifeng with super arithmetic talent are almost invincible existences.

But when Zhang Shuning was feeling lucky, Xia Zhifeng took the initiative to find him and told Zhang Shuning the good news.

"I estimated that in half a year, I can finish two years of courses, and then I will take the leapfrog exam. Then I will be in the same grade as you. How about it, are you happy?"

The little girl was jumping up and down, why Zhang Shuning and Xu Guan are in the same grade!She can catch up too, just give me half a year!

At this moment, Zhang Shuning tried his best to maintain a smile, and readily agreed...but only he knows how he feels in his heart.This girl is simply too enchanting.

No matter what he thought in his heart, Zhang Shuning still maintained his demeanor, "Congratulations, you passed the exam. You can celebrate. What do you want to eat?"

Xia Zhifeng froze for a moment, "I don't know, the best thing I've ever eaten is the roasted bird eggs made by my father."

Zhang Shuning blinked and said with a smile: "Well, let me make the arrangement, call them all over, and have a celebration dinner together!"

"Celebration banquet?"

"Yes! We succeeded in getting the card, and we can enjoy the dividend." Zhang Shuning said with a smile.

As something that has been approved by the royal family, there is no need to worry about sales. There are [-] orders from Yingtian alone.

Zhang Shuning prepared sumptuous dishes, including roasted leg of lamb, steamed shad, braised lion's head, Wensi tofu... a total of more than a dozen dishes were placed in front of his friends.

Even the most stable Hu Yan was drooling, and Xu Guan even exaggerated, even the imperial banquet was about the same!

Xia Zhifeng was more straightforward, she just asked: "When can I eat?"

Zhang Shuning nodded, and it's time to start now. The big guy rushed forward and quickly divided it up. Hu Yan skillfully picked up the fattest piece of the fish's belly with chopsticks.

Xia Zhifeng took two chopsticks, each wearing a delicate and moist lion head, and ate heartily.

Xu Guan called Lian Lian, picked up the leg of lamb that was bigger than his face, and gnawed on it.

Zhang Shuning didn't care about it at all. In fact, let alone a child of an ordinary family, how about being a royal family?Zhu Ying's eating habits are not good, let alone Zhu Di. According to his father, it seems that His Majesty also eats noodles in a big bowl, with a small bowl of garlic, like King Qin sweeping Liuhe.

That picture, specifying it will not be good!

These little friends of mine are just ordinary.

When everyone has eaten almost, we start to talk about the key things.

Dividends!

Zhang Shuning temporarily set the price at Guanbao banknotes, three thousand copies, that is, three thousand Guanbao banknotes.

Although not too high, but also a little money.

Hu Yan has doubts about his pricing strategy.

"We use cardboard, and the price is not cheap. There are also engraved figures of one hundred and eight generals, which are used on the engraving block and printed out. It takes a lot of effort. Now a book, a better one, has three or five Baiwen, our literacy cards are much more troublesome than books, and we don’t have to worry about selling, even if we set two or three times, it’s not impossible!"

Xu Guan also said: "Yes, the higher the price, the higher the price we can sell, and the more we can earn. Why do you have a grudge against money?"

Jing Qing also had similar questions, but Xia Zhifeng was the only one who ate Wensi tofu with her head down, very elegant and fast.

Now that you have something to eat, what else do you want?

What a greed.

Zhang Shuning said patiently: "This kind of card is actually not difficult. We took the first opportunity, and others can make it after seeing it. And the higher our price, the faster the imitation will be! Everyone can't bear the high price. If the price is low, they will buy imitations one after another, there is no way, we can’t make this mistake!”

Hu Yan was startled, as if recalling the failure of the bookstore before, she couldn't help nodding and said: "It really shouldn't be too expensive, I was negligent."

Zhang Shuning said: "We set the price to ensure the basic profit, and we can't lose it. At the same time, we must ensure the quality, so that those inferior imitations will not have much room for profit, and delay their imitation... And the most important thing, we must Use this time to scale up."

"Expand the scale?" Hu Yan was surprised: "Why, isn't it enough?"

Zhang Shuning shook his head, "It's really not enough, do you know what the compulsory education law means this time?"

Several people stared at Zhang Shuning, even if they had ideas, they wanted to hear Zhang Shuning's opinion.

"In fact, there is another more important rule of the imperial court, that is, it will no longer recognize private schools completely. There used to be space in it. Large academies are not allowed to be built by private people, but private schools for literacy, schools for children, the imperial court It’s better to turn a blind eye and close one eye. There’s no other way, it’s out of control. But this time it won’t work, these are not in compliance with the law, and the imperial court will take care of them all. Next, all kinds of textbooks, exercises, interpretation of textbooks Books...the quantity required is very large, and it is definitely not something that ordinary bookstores can undertake. We are now lowering the price, increasing the volume, and then annexing more bookstores to expand printing capacity. As long as we are strong enough, we can borrow more from the bank With the money, we will grow our business rapidly!"

Zhang Shuning talked for a while, and then looked at a few friends, he found that these people were all looking at him stupidly.

Hu Yan stared at Zhang Shuning with a puzzled face, "You, how do you know the court's decrees so well? And how do you do business so well?"

Xu Guan also said: "Yeah, no one has taught it, and there are no books, how can you be familiar with it and say it casually?"

Zhang Shuning was stunned again, should he still give credit to the bookseller's father?

"I, my mother is in business, she, she works as an accountant for others, and I have a strong family background!"

Hu Yan was startled, somewhat suspicious.

To be honest, as a smart person, he has long felt Zhang Shuning's abnormality, but now it's even more intense.

A child is just smart, nothing unusual, smart people are everywhere... But at such a young age, he can grasp the pulse of the court, know how to run a business, how to get the maximum benefit, and even dare to borrow money to develop his own business... This cannot be explained by cleverness.

"Why do you ask so much? Anyway, the big guys all have [-]% of the shares. If you do well, share the profits together, and everyone can get a sum of money... When I have money, I will cook such a big table every day. !" Xia Zhifeng said happily.

Her words quickly ignited the enthusiasm of several people, especially Xu Guan, who has realized that as long as he has enough money to compensate the Xu family, he can change his original surname back and be a son to someone else's family. glorious thing.

Needless to say, just do it!

These little guys are really action-oriented. With the card business, they quickly bought three small bookstores in Xingzi County and hired as many as 30 printing craftsmen.

Get ready to go big.

Compared with Zhang Shuning's prosperity, Zhu Yuanzhang's sons also had some small achievements, such as Zhu Di, who won the victory in the small friction with Gao Li!

That's right, the plan arranged earlier has already been activated.

According to Sapphire's plan, let the Wa country send troops first, and then send Zhang Dingbian to press up.