Chapter 281 (1/2)
Fan county is a little far away, so on the third day of departure, song Yancai returned with the money and food from fan County Treasury.
With the money and food of two counties, there is no need to worry about food and military pay for at least three months.
At the same time, song Yan ordered song Xiu to set up a caravan two days ago. The main products for sale were all kinds of books bound by movable type printing machines and paper that could be used for writing and painting.
The price of ordinary paper is one yuan, while that of good inkstone paper is 100 yuan.
After eight days of trekking, the caravan came to Shangdang County, the state of Chu.
Among the Qi, Chu, Yan, Zhao and Qin States, the Qi state was the most perished, the culture of Chu state was the most prosperous, the cavalry of Yan state was the most powerful, the armor of Zhao state was rich in all kinds of weapons, as for Qin state, the most famous one was a woman who could change her ways.
Jiang Kui, the leader of the caravan, is a very intelligent man.
After entering Shangdang County, instead of selling books and buying paper at the market, he planned to visit the dean of Jixia school Palace first.
Jixia academic palace is the most prosperous place of literary style in Chu state and even in Shenzhou mainland.
Its president, Mr. Mofei, is also known as the first poet in mainland China. Therefore, even the king of Chu should treat him with courtesy.
It's not easy to see Murphy. It took Jiang Kui enough money to get through the relationship before he saw Murphy.
”What is this?”
Looking at the brocade box presented by Jiang Kui, he was very unhappy. He was a man who cherished his reputation and did not like to receive gifts from others.
”Don't misunderstand Mr. Mo,” Jiang kuilen said, ”this brocade box contains a Book of poetry, which records more than 200 poems.”
Smell speech, Mo Fei revealed the color of doubt, how can a small brocade box hold more than 200 poems.
With such a trace of curiosity, I could not but take the brocade box and open it.
Suddenly, it was a book with a light yellow cover, with the words ”book of songs” written in small seal script.
He picked up the thin book of songs and opened it. The white and black characters and the extremely neat typeface were printed into his eyes. He was originally plain, and his expression became extremely excited.
Turning the pages continuously, they are all the same black and white characters, and the recorded content is the book of songs.
”Here, what is it made of?” Asked Murphy in a trembling voice.
Jiang Kui said proudly, ”Mr. Hui, this paper was invented by my general!” While talking, he offered another thing with his hands.
”And what is it?”
Holding the snow white, smooth paper, Murphy asked again.
”It's called inkstone paper. It's specially used for a scholar like Mr. Shi to leave ink treasures.”
Jiang Kui explained.
”Good! Good! Good! ” He could not help but praise loudly: ”how to make this thing.”
”Mr. Hui, the general of my family sent someone to make this thing. I don't know what it was made of!”
He was disappointed and asked, ”how much is it?”
”Mr. Hui, this time I brought two million pieces of white paper, 100000 pieces of inkstone paper, and thousands of books of various kinds bound into volumes.”
”How much is the value?” Could it not be that his eyes brightened and his tone was urgent.
Jiang Kui respectfully said: ”before leaving, my general has an order. If you are a literary magnate like Sir, you can buy one piece of ordinary white paper, one piece of inkstone paper, and one book of books of all the scholars' classics.”
”Good! Very good. I bought the paper and the scriptures from Jixia school! ”
Two million pieces of white paper, one for one, totaling two million yuan, ten thousand pieces of inkstone paper, one for one hundred yuan, totaling one million yuan, a thousand times the amount of money collected by various scholars, totaling one million yuan.
That is to say, the total income this time is 4 million yuan.
All the people who can enter Jixia school are the sons of princes and ministers. Therefore, Jixia school is quite rich. Millions of money is only a drizzle.