Chapter 41                                                             �

After leaving Yong'an Store, leaving the city, and came to Zhongguan Village.

The Zhou family’s printing workshop is located in Zhongguan Village and is adjacent to the hospital.

There is a reason why I chose this place.

The first thing is the cost issue. Zhou Mengchen admitted that he could find a place in Beijing, but the price could not be suppressed. Unless he took advantage of it. When choosing a place outside the city, in Zhou Mengchen's opinion, there is no place better than Zhongguan Village.

The biggest advantage is that this is Zhou Mengchen's territory.

Since the hospital established itself here, the places around the hospital have gradually become prosperous. Although this place is not as good as that in Beijing, it is no longer a wasteland.

The Zhou family printing workshop is placed here, and many problems are easy to solve. The Zhou family’s village is not far from the north, so it is more convenient to mobilize manpower.

The printing workshop is actually very simple, just a large yard with several rooms.

Cheng Guangde brought Zhou Mengchen and Yin Zhengmao here, introduced the situation here to Zhou Mengchen, and said, "It has been spent in total about 5,000 taels. The family's money has been spent almost the same. However, most of the designs of the master's family have been created."

"This machine was built according to the owner's intention and was supervised by Xu Gao."

Zhou Mengchen looked around a few times and it looked not too different from his design.

In fact, Zhou Mengchen did not make any fresh designs or even innovations, but saved some workflows. However, it improved some efficiency overall. However, there was no fundamental change. However, even so, this kind of efficiency straightening still lowered a lot of costs.

Zhou Mengchen said: "How many copper movable types have been created?"

Cheng Guangde said: "There are more than 10,000 characters in total, and all commonly used characters are used. Generally, printing can support it. Moreover, our copper movable type is used as a template in the palace, which saves costs, and for some uncommon characters, you can directly borrow movable type in the palace."

Cheng Guangde borrowed a chicken to lay eggs, and he played very well.

Zhou Mengchen said: "In this way, can we print here?"

Cheng Guangde said: "There are still some problems. After all, many adults have new requirements and many details are not handled. Now the paper has just been printed, and there are various problems, such as de-inking, de-gumming, different ink colors, etc. These problems may not be solved in a short time."

Zhou Mengchen also knew that this was a very normal problem. Many technological progress actually did not rely on a genius, but many technical workers polished some details.

Overall, copper movable type is not yet mature today. Even many private copper movable type and printed books in Jiangnan have many problems. This is also the reason why copper movable type in the palace often does not eat dust.

Zhou Mengchen said: "Print some 300,000 first. Find the problem and sell it at a cheap price. Don't want to make money, just figure it out."

Cheng Guangde said: "Yes."

Seeing that Yin Zhengmao seemed to be a little confused, Zhou Mengchen took Yin Zhengmao by the crucifixion of copper movable characters. Zhou Mengchen said, "To be honest, I am actually a little strange. It is said that people die for money and birds die for food. The world is so big that it is bustling for profit. But why no one really studies how to make money."

When Zhou Mengchen mentioned this, Yin Zhengmao immediately raised his ears. Zhou Mengchen estimated that when he was studying the eight-legged essay, he had never been so serious and said, "Please give me advice from Brother Zhou."

Zhou Mengchen said: "The world is so big that the output on the farmland is limited. In fact, it only accounts for a stable position. If you really want to make money, you should do business. As for traveling around the world, it is just a business of peddlers. If you don't say that there are frequent accidents, how much money can you make? Even if you send servants to operate it, can you feel at ease about money?"

Zhou Mengchen said while taking out a copper movable type from the crucifix on one side. But he saw that it was a "money in the style of the Pavilion." Zhou Mengchen said, "Money is touching." He put it back casually. "The caravan business is completely handed over to one person, and it is inevitable that he will be uneasy. He will hand it over to several people separately. He also needs talents. Moreover, even so, if you really have one, you are not strong enough. Therefore, if you want to do business, don't do any business. Just start a business, which is the best strategy."

Zhou Mengchen's words were an exclamation of the Ming Dynasty's business environment. They were all told the truth.

There were many car bandits and road tyrants in later generations, let alone this era. The business of Xingshang is really too risky. Although the profit is not low, if you are not good, you will go but not return. If you don’t believe it, please read the novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the novels, those Xingshangs were killed by partners, by bandits, and temporarily killed by local people. Lubai died and was framed by officials. A comprehensive demonstration of the 108 ways to die about Xingshang.

Zhou Mengchen said: "The way to make money is to produce something, in Jiangnan, cloth, silk, in Jiangxi, Fujian, porcelain, tea, etc. These commodities are the most profitable. They are difficult for non-powered people to contact. And we small businesses can only find a unique way and think of other ways. But no matter what, in general, the profit of the venue is the total price of the commodity minus the cost. This cost has various costs. In fact, as long as we straighten out, there are some ways to reduce costs."

"It's like my printing shop now. You probably haven't seen a copper-board book. I can tell you that it's still above the Song version of the book. Although I have invested a lot now, as long as I get it done, the cost of a set of Four Books and Five Classics is less than one or two hundred yuan. You are also a scholar. How much does it cost to get a good version of the Five Classics? Do you have an impression?"

A green light flashed in Yin Zhengmao's eyes and said, "It's probably a tael of silver."

Zhou Mengchen said: "Indeed, this is not just printing. Even the cost of printing is quite high. It's just that I buy products for my descendants and always want a little bit of bookish flavor."

Zhou Mengchen walked while looking at some powder, which seemed to be various medicines. In fact, these things would be added to the ink, and Zhou Mengchen vaguely smelled the unique fragrance of books on his nose. But he was not sure which can it was.

Yin Zhengmao said: "Is this really feasible?"

Zhou Mengchen said: "Why don't Brother Yin try it? In Brother Yin's hometown, I will imitate the new workshop of the Ministry of Works and create a wooden workshop. I will pay for Brother Yin. If I don't make money, I will give this money to Brother Yin."

In fact, Zhou Mengchen did not take any penny for the money in the Ministry of Works to compensate Yin Zhengmao for his work.

Yin Zhengmao was so smart that he immediately understood. He did not refuse and said, "Then I'll thank you."

Zhou Mengchen said, "There are only two things, and I have to talk about it first. One is that I have no one to help me. This thing needs to be handled by Brother Yin himself. The second thing is that cutting off people's money is like killing parents. I cannot bear this for Brother Yin."

Yin Zhengmao immediately understood that Zhou Mengchen was reminding him.

Yin Zhengmao knew that as long as he was an official, no one would dare to bully the Yin family. But once he was no longer in power, he would vomit even if he had eaten. Don’t lose the big picture because of the small.

Although Yin Zhengmao felt that he was rich and had no share of the pie, he felt a little uncomfortable. But it was not unacceptable, assuming that Zhou Mengchen was right. Although Yin Zhengmao believed most of Zhou Mengchen, he was still somewhat skeptical about many things.

Yin Zhengmao said, "This matter is easy to talk about. I have two sons, the second son is still young and cannot live without my mother, but the eldest son is fifteen or sixteen years old. I want him to worship under Brother Zhou. I wonder if it is possible?"

Zhou Mengchen smiled slightly after hearing this and said, "Of course there is no problem."

When Yin Zhengmao said this, Zhou Mengchen knew that Yin Zhengmao had become a believer in science. Of course, Yin Zhengmao may not care whether science is scientific or not, but if science can bring him money, he must believe in science.

This is enough.

Zhou Mengchen absolutely believes in this. Science can bring benefits to people.
Chapter completed!