Farming Happiness: Husband, Come and Plough the Fields

Selling books involves printing, and a special printing workshop needs to be established.

The reason why books are expensive is not only because the paper is expensive, but also because the printing system of this era is backward, which is the original woodblock printing.

The words are engraved on the engraving block as a template, and every book has a fixed template.

For example, "Three Character Classics" and "Thousand Character Classics" are in great demand, and tens of thousands of copies are printed each time. If this is shared, the cost will be reduced. If the demand is small for obscure books, they can only be copied by hand.

However, the quality of manuscripts cannot be guaranteed sometimes. If there are typos in them, it will affect the reading experience, and it is not as beautiful as printing.

What Xiao Lingchuan said, Li Haitang agreed with it. She thought carefully, too much money was consumed in the early stage, and there was also the related printing industry.

Woodblock printing is not flexible, so it must be made into movable type printing, but the whole is separated, and each word has its own seal, which saves cost, manpower and material resources.

"Husband, where it is open, the books must be more hardcover, and take the high-end route."

The book is divided into several editions, and the hardcover is made of the best paper, which smells like ink as soon as it is opened, making it easy to give as a gift.

I use moveable type printing instead of hand-written copies. It looks beautiful and well-made, and I don’t worry about the flamboyant handwriting that people don’t know.

"not necessarily."

The shop is open to the masses, for unmarried ladies and idle concubines and aunts.

Mrs. Gaomen, as the head of the family, manages the back house, and is so busy that she has no time to entertain herself. The concubine and aunt are different. They eat, drink, and have nothing to do.

A young lady who has not left the court has limited money on hand. After reading one book, she will buy the next one. It is useless if she wants to be tall.

The shop is my own, there is no rent and other expenses, and there is no need to hire too many buddies.

Compared with other shops, such as jewelry silver shop and gouache medicine shop, the construction cost is the lowest.

Invest in the early stage, build some bookshelves, and then set up a private room, so that all the ladies can apply for a borrowing card and come to the store to borrow books.

Li Haitang was dumbfounded, she didn't expect the savage husband to be so business-minded, she looked at Xiao Lingchuan adoringly, and said happily, "Husband, I will listen to you..."

Xiao Lingchuan: ...

He just came up with a random idea to minimize the burden on the lady. To open a bookstore, Li Haitang himself does not have to show up, and everything is left to his subordinates to take care of, and he is not afraid of being ignorant of money.

There are plenty of people who can write in the book, and the bookstore can cultivate a large number of literati who are too poor to afford a full meal.

Li Haitang found a way to make money and solved two major issues in one day, feeling much relieved.

The couple sat in the shop for a while and were about to go home together. As soon as they left the private room, they saw that the shop was full of people.

It's already past the meal time, so many people are here, it's not normal.

Li Haitang took a glance, and found that the people who came were all wives and young ladies. Everyone's eyes circled around the counter, while Wu Qi was lowering his head and making calculations with a serious expression.

"Wu Shusheng's words are justified and well-founded, and we businessmen have not complained!"

"That's right, much better than those pedantic scholars!"

Everyone whispered, they were very optimistic about Wu Qi, and wished they could come forward immediately and discuss my marriage with Wu Qi.

Mrs. Xu, who owns a jewelry shop at home, saw Li Haitang going out, greeted her warmly, asked her politely where she lived, and wanted to bring her daughter to visit.

Li Haitang glanced at Wu Fu, Wu Fu rolled his eyes, wishing that Wu Qi would marry a wife quickly and stop pestering her.

"Mrs. Xu, you are welcome, but I am pregnant now and my energy is low."

Li Haitang's refusal was obvious, she didn't want anyone to come and disturb her, and one more thing, she had no control over Wu Qi's marriage.

Leaving the shop in a hurry, it was almost like fighting a war, and when she went out to the carriage, she felt that the air around her was much fresher.

On the way, I saw a craftsman selling kites again. Wu Fu got out of the car and bought a kite, and took it back to play with the bean buns.

The days in the capital were as ordinary as running water. Ever since Li Haitang rejected the Chen family and did not hand over Yaohuazhai, the Chen family never sent anyone to the door.

During the period, she went to the first floor to order clothes, and walked face to face with Mrs. Chen. The other party just gave her an indifferent glance, and left with the maidservant, without any intention of saying hello.

This is the case for all the high gates in Kyoto, stepping on the highs and stepping on the lows, and they don't bother to pay attention to a person who is of no use value.

Chen pretended not to know her, and Li Haitang didn't care. Anyway, with her identity, once it was daylight, only others would come to hug her thigh.

In a blink of an eye, it was already the twelfth lunar month.

After coming to the capital for less than half a year, Li Haitang made friends with three good friends, Fang Shaoyao, Lin Wan, and another hearty lady, who was the Zhen family who once fought for Zhang Ruyue.

Zhen Shi speaks frankly, is often hot-headed and fights against injustices, has no heart, and is easy to get along with.

Lin Wan's shop opened, the rouge and gouache are fine and fine, not inferior to Yaohuazhai's, and the price is cheap, not long after opening, she has already become famous.

Many ladies of the high family sent maids to buy and try them out, and the experience was very good.

Li Haitang was a little fortunate that Yaohuazhai was converted into a bookshop by her. If she continued to do the rouge and gouache business, she would have to compete with Lin Wan. The shop's reputation was brought down by Zhang Ruyue, and it would suffer wave after wave of shocks.

After two months of preparation, I handed everything over to the big shopkeeper, Mo Ruhai. Mo Ruhai is also capable, and the benefits of having a wide network came out. He opened a printing workshop with almost no effort.

The food shop reduces costs and enriches the dishes. Hot pots, health pots, nourishing pots, red oil pots, and mushroom soup pots have been opened on the second floor, and they are overcrowded every day.

The business is booming, no one is picking on faults, there are less worries, Doubao is sensible, and Li Haitang doesn't need to worry. In the past two months, she has put on a lot of weight and looks better.

In the blink of an eye, the end of the year, this year the family will stay in Kyoto for the New Year.

In a part of Zhuangzi, a small ice cellar was dug, so the family can follow the custom of the North without any scruples, steamed buns, steamed bean buns, and frozen tofu, and store them in the ice cellar without worrying about spoilage.

Songhe Academy will be taking a rest in the next few days, and the business of the restaurant at home is still booming.

Money is endless, Li Haitang is grateful for the hard work of the guys, and wants to close up after the 20th of the twelfth lunar month, distribute benefits, and let everyone celebrate the new year happily.

"Ma'am, if you close for one day, you will lose a lot of money."

Cui Niang feels distressed, this is all silver, real gold and silver.

The child's father didn't know who he heard it from. He said that she was prosperous now, so he took people to the shop to make a fuss, saying that he could leave her alone and let her be a concubine. I will continue to work here in the future, but the money will go home.