Li Shimin

Li Shimin, Li Xiaogong and others were shocked again.

"Xuanba, why are you delivering seafood to them?"

"Your Majesty, instead of delivering seafood to the aristocratic families, deliver seafood to me and myself!"

Li Xuan continued: "How many rich households are there in Chang'an City, or even the entire Guanzhong, Guannei, Henan and other places?"

"And we can only open two seafood restaurants in one city at most, but there are so many wealthy households, just two seafood restaurants can't satisfy them!"

"Your Majesty, how much does such a dish of grilled fish cost?"

"Five hundred words!"

"This plate of oysters is consistent!"

"This plate of sea cucumber is also [-] Wen..."

"hiss……"

Li Shimin just took a deep breath, "Such a table of dishes is at least ten!"

"Exactly!"

Li Xuan nodded lightly, "The food in the seafood restaurant is so expensive, but if I open a seafood shop and sell these seafood, the price can be reduced by half. In this way, the business of the seafood shop will also Very hot!"

"good!"

Hearing this, Li Shimin understood Li Xuan's intention.

Anyway, no matter what, the transportation team will make money, and the seafood restaurant and seafood shop can also make money.

This kind of making money and making a living must be done!

Immediately, sitting at the dining table again, discussing with Fang Xuanling and others, and eating again!

As for Li Xuan, he was almost listening, so he took Li Chengqian, Cheng Chusi and others back to Zhuangzi.

On the other side, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling and others also quickly returned to the palace after eating.

And called two painters to compare the four paintings drawn by Li Xuan, each of which drew more than 20 pictures.

Immediately, several edicts were issued to Jiaozhou, Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Dengzhou and other states.

……

In a blink of an eye, the seafood restaurant has been open for more than ten days.

The seafood restaurant is well-known in Chang'an City, and even the surrounding counties.

Every day, there are different dignitaries from aristocratic families, or wealthy businessmen who come to eat in carriages.

In particular, under the secret propaganda of some people, eating sea cucumbers, oysters and other sea treasures is of great benefit to older people.

Not to mention, there are really a few dignitaries who are about to know their destiny. After eating a seafood meal, when they return home, they feel a hot current growing under their abdomen that night.

Immediately, the whole person felt that the strength that had dissipated for many years had returned, and he looked for his young and beautiful concubine's room with great joy on his face, and began to turn upside down!

Therefore, although the seafood restaurant has returned to its original price, it is still overcrowded every day, and even needs to be booked in advance.

Otherwise, even if you wait in line for a whole day, you won't be able to eat.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."

Li Xuan was accompanying Cui Mi on the second floor, when the hurried voice of the old butler Li Chang came up.

Hearing this, Li Xuan couldn't help but sighed softly.

If anyone calls him, he can ignore it.

But the housekeeper Li Chang, he couldn't ignore it.

Li Chang knew his character well, unless it was necessary, he would never disturb him at this time.

"Mi'er wait a moment, the housekeeper's voice is so anxious, something must have happened!"

"Sanlang, let's go, don't worry about my concubine!"

Cui Mi said quickly.

Afterwards, Li Xuan got up and came downstairs with a face of reluctance.

However, the expression on the housekeeper Li Chang's face was not as anxious as Li Xuan imagined, but rather happy.

"What made the butler call me so anxiously?" Li Xuan asked angrily.

Li Chang was startled, and quickly laughed, and said, "Your Majesty, the writing blocks you ordered those ink masters to make have already been made!"

"Text printing plate..."

Hearing this, Li Xuan couldn't help being startled.

Immediately, he hurriedly went around a lot, and he was relieved when he saw that there were only two of them on the first floor and no one else.

"This matter must be kept secret!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Li Chang looked serious and nodded quickly.

He also knew that if these things were to be known to those aristocratic families, it would definitely cause another disturbance.

"Let's go, follow me to have a look!" Li Xuan said.

"Yes!"

Li Chang nodded quickly.

Soon, the two came to a separate small house next to the brewery.

Build a bookstore!

A small workshop with four houses, surrounded by more than 20 personal guards, can be said to be the most heavily guarded place in Lijiazhuang!

"See Your Majesty!"

Seeing Li Xuan, all the guards hurriedly saluted.

"This place must be closely guarded, no one is allowed to enter except by the king's order!"

Li Xuan said.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

All the guards looked solemn again, and responded again and again.

Then, Li Xuan walked in.

"See Your Majesty!"

After Li Xuan walked in, several ink masters who were concentrating on carving on wooden blocks with carving knives greeted Li Xuan slightly, and then continued to work on the affairs in hand.

There was only one ink curer, who walked over quickly.

"Ji Wen, where are the printing plates?"

"Also invite the king to come with the villain!"

Ji Wen hurriedly said to Li Xuan.

Immediately, he led Li Xuan to the innermost room.

As soon as he entered, Li Xuan saw thousands of small iron blocks inside a large wooden box against the wall.

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Chapter 436 Print a thousand copies first

Each iron block is engraved with a neat small character.

On the side, there are a few ink curers, holding a book in one hand, and picking out small iron pieces at the same time, and quickly arranging them.

"My lord, these character printing plates, each character has been printed a hundred times. In this way, dozens of pages can be printed repeatedly at a time!"

Ji Wen quickly introduced.

"Very good!"

Li Xuan nodded in satisfaction.

"Is there an assembled book page printing plate, print it once and have a look!"

Hearing this, Ji Wen was taken aback, and subconsciously shivered.

I was really fascinated by these printing plates, so I only cared about the introduction and didn't show it to the king!

"My lord, wait a moment, the villain will go get it now!"

As he spoke, he ran directly to one side, raised a page-sized iron plate composed of a pile of printing plates with both hands, and walked over.

Then, he took a brush, dipped it in ink, and painted ink on the pile of printing plates.

Then, take a piece of white paper the size of the printing plate, cover it on the printing plate, and take a clean brush and brush it lightly on the back of the paper.

Picking up the paper and sticking it to the side of the printing plate, a page of neat handwriting suddenly appeared.

Seeing this, Li Chang's eyes widened instantly.

"My lord, this kind of printing is so simple?"

On the other hand, Ji Wen and the Mohists were also overjoyed. They seemed to see neatly printed books from them.

"As it should be!"

Li Xuan also nodded lightly, "Printing in this way, as long as one printing plate is selected, one person can print hundreds of pages in an hour. And if there are more people, printing hundreds of books a day is also easy. !"

With that said, Li Xuan turned his head again, and told Ji Wen and the others, "Don't throw away the templates for making this printing plate. In the future, there may be more printing plates to be made!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Ji Wen responded quickly.

"Ok!"

Li Xuan nodded in satisfaction again, "I'm waiting for a great achievement on this thing, five hundred guan rewards!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Li Chang replied.

"Thank you king!"

Ji Wen and all the Mohists also expressed their thanks again and again.

"Now that these printing plates have been made, hurry up and print the books. Winter is the time for those little monkeys to learn. Even the guards and farmers in the village have to learn to read and write. Each book is printed out first. Qianben come out!"

"A thousand copies?"

Li Chang, Ji Wen and others were all shocked.

"But not enough?"

Li Xuan was puzzled.

"Go back to the king, enough, enough!"

Li Chang repeatedly replied.

The expressions of Li Chang, Ji Wen and other ink rulers were because they were shocked by Li Xuan's generous writing.

At this time, woodblock printing had not yet been invented, and the books in people's hands were all hand-copied, not to mention expensive, and extremely precious.

In some centuries-old families, there may not necessarily be thousands of books.

As for Dawang, it is just a kind of book, and a thousand copies need to be printed.

"Enough is enough!"

Li Xuan didn't know what they were thinking.

After experiencing later generations, even beginners have dozens of books in their hands, and they have to be eliminated and replaced once a year; even a small bookstore has thousands of books in stock.

Li Xuan had no concept of the number of books.

"It's just that there are thousands of personal guards in the palace. There are also nearly 1000 servants and households..."

Thinking about it, Li Xuan just walked to the door, but he couldn't help but stop, and turned to look at Li Chang who was beside him.

"Housekeeper, I did the math. There are 2000 people in the village who need to read and write. Is one thousand books not enough?"