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In addition to Luoyang, places with bookstores and schools such as Xiping and Chenxian were also ordered to hold exams. Students who passed the exam had to go to bookstores to study for half a month.

The masters of the bookstore taught them typeset, ink, paper, printing and other tasks, and also selected good ones to learn lettering and casting.

During the half month of study, each school and bookstore collected their wishes, discussed them together, and then assigned them to each student.

These students have a unified name - apprentices. They have a half-year internship period, and only after passing can they become formal craftsmen.

The status of craftsmen was not low now. Zhao Hanzhang valued craftsmen. In addition to giving preferential treatment to craftsmen among the refugees and giving them more generous treatment, he also sent people to spend a lot of money to find successors of the Mohist school in order to promote Mohism.

In addition, Zhao Hanzhang strictly ordered children over eight years old to enter school. Regardless of their status, even the sons of slaves could enter the school and study together, which to a certain extent diluted the boundaries between classes.

Craftsmen, on the other hand, have received preferential treatment since the time they took in the refugees, the same as literate literati, which has also made their status soar.

Among the disaster victims and refugees who have settled down now, who doesn’t want to become a skilled craftsman?

They even rumored privately that literate people were also considered craftsmen, and their one skill was being able to read and count.

So students are very proud to be craftsmen.

In addition to allocating new apprentices to new bookstores in various places, bookstores and schools will also select one or two masters to lead them.

They are said to be masters, but in fact they have only been in the bookstore for one to three years. Now, no matter what kind of work they do, masters in the bookstore are considered masters as long as they have completed one year.

There is no other way. The bookstore is too young and has limited workers. The talented craftsmen it found have basically gone to take on more important jobs.

In addition to people, each bookstore will also give the new bookstore a lot of cast characters.

Only then did the managers of each bookstore understand why the bookstores already had enough calligraphy models, but Zhao Hanzhang had been strictly ordering the craftsmen of each bookstore not to stop carving and firing the calligraphy models, and also stipulated the number of calligraphy models that they must complete each month.

The commonly used characters in each bookstore are all 1,000 characters, all of which are engraved according to the "Thousand Character Classic". In addition, some rare characters will also be spared, but basically only three character models are prepared for each character, and some rare characters are not. They are prepared and ready when needed, so every bookstore must have engraving craftsmen.

There are at least ten commonly used fonts for each character.

Generally, bookstores will print some from time to time in case of emergency needs. But no matter what, you won’t have to engrave lettering stencils every day.

But there have always been specific requirements from above. Each engraver needs to complete a certain amount of work every month and cast qualified character molds, and each bookstore is not allowed to encroach on this part of his working time.

In fact, when they were busy, especially when printing textbooks and newspapers, the bookstore stewards complained, feeling that what they were doing was useless. Even though the bookstore was so busy that they still had to make unnecessary typefaces.

At this moment, Zhao Hanzhang ordered them to take out the stored fonts. When one bookstore competed with three new bookstores and had to send enough fonts, they realized that Zhao Hanzhang had already laid out the plan.

The bookstore that had completed the task was naturally unafraid, and immediately sent people to the warehouse to take out the stored typefaces, and began to appoint people from the yamen to deliver them to their target new bookstore.

As for the unfinished bookstore, he quickly ordered the engravers to hurry up and carve and cast while the apprentices were still studying in the bookstore. Shang Shang said that the calligraphy molds would be delivered together with the masters and apprentices.

Various places immediately began to select sites to build bookstores, and even went to paper mills to buy paper and various materials, waiting for the masters to be in place.

In addition to bookstores, Zhao Hanzhang also allowed various places to start building paper mills, but the basic requirements for workers in paper mills were not that high, and there was no need to recruit workers in schools.

To make paper, you first need to be strong, and then you need to be dexterous, so you can recruit workers from the private sector.

Paper mills in various places are also training workers to send to new paper mills. If they are nearby, county magistrates who have grabbed the quota for paper mills can also select workers and send them to old paper mills to learn.

In this way, the relocation expenses of the craftsmen will be reduced.

Generally speaking, it is best to place the bookstore and paper mill in one place, but in actual operation, in order to balance the power of each county, the governors would separate them into two counties.

It is not important or prosperous big states like Sizhou and Yuzhou. Other states have few people and sluggish economy. If they are separated into two counties, they can make the two counties more dynamic. If they are placed in only one county, wouldn't all the benefits be given? This county?

In terms of long-term development, it is not appropriate.

In Sizhou, in addition to bookstores and paper mills in Luoyang, Zhao Hanzhang also set up bookstores and paper mills in three other counties and counties, not to mention Yuzhou.

Xiping Bookstore and Paper Factory in Yuzhou have become world-famous. I heard that the books published by Xiping Bookstore are sold all over the country. They are also popular in Jiangnan and Jiangdong areas, and so are the paper shops.

Huh, there are twenty-eight kinds of paper in Xiping Paper Factory, but the craftsmen who are divided into them can only use five kinds of paper. They are all ordinary papers, with better quality and more expensive ones. The craftsmen have only been in the workshop for a short time and cannot learn how to make paper. Sent by.

After all, aren't you afraid that they will steal business and that you can only buy those types of paper from them in the future?

I heard that the paper produced by Luoyang Paper Factory is not so diverse and valuable.

The Chen County Bookstore and paper mill in Yuzhou is also good. In addition, there are three other bookstores and paper mills in other counties. It is the state with the most bookstores and paper mills at present.

In other states, there is at most one bookstore and one paper mill, and many states do not.

Just thinking about it makes me jealous of Zhao Ming.

Liu Kun also took advantage of the melee to grab a spot in a bookstore and a paper mill. After careful consideration, he decided to place the bookstore in Pengcheng. The bookstore is a good thing and can be easily managed under his nose.

As for the paper mill, he also wanted to release it, but what his subordinates said made sense. He couldn't give all the meat to Pengcheng and give soup to another county, so that other counties wouldn't cause trouble if they had hope.

So he made a choice and finally settled on Ling County in Xiapi State.

Zhao Hanzhang asked people to send construction drawings of bookstores and paper mills to various states, so bookstores and paper mills all over the world are really like branches. I dare not say that they are exactly the same internally, but they are 70-80% similar.

The difference is only in some details.

Bookstores and paper mills were built in various places as quickly as possible, and then materials were purchased according to the orders.

The craftsmen from the paper mill arrived first, but the bark, grass stems, etc. needed to make paper need soaking time, so the bookstore can only purchase paper from other paper mills first.

The calligraphy and bookstore craftsmen can start work as soon as they arrive. The governors, county governors and county magistrates of various states attach great importance to this. They go to the bookstore in person to see them printing the first edition. Well, the trial printing is this month's Di newspaper.

Of course, there are still various unsatisfactory minor problems in the printing process, but overall it is a success.

So they waved their hands and said immediately: "Print more copies of "The Thousand-Character Classic" and "New Arithmetic Science". From now on, the textbooks for our state schools will be issued from this bookstore. We no longer have to queue up and spend money in other bookstores to buy them." Sales expenses!”