Wang Chengen asked in confusion: "Why buy Wanshufang?
Doesn't the inner court also have a book printing factory?
Aren't newspapers and textbooks printed there?"
Sun Yuanhua said: "The inner court's book factory is still far behind Wanshufang in terms of subtle graphics.
They should be better than the inner court in terms of ink and printing technology.
Your Majesty means that since they want to build a printing press, of course the requirements are higher.
So we want to learn their technology.”
Wang Chengen and Sun Yuanhua came to the British Duke's Mansion to ask for an audience.
Only after Zhang Weixian took them in did he find out what was going on.
He said with some embarrassment: "This Wanshufang is the property of Gongzhong.
I can't keep my word."
Sun Yuanhua said: "Actually, we don't need the entire bookstore, we only need the technology for printing books.
If the British company can sell us the technology for printing books, we will be very grateful."
Zhang Weixian said with a smile: "No matter whether I can sell it or not, the emperor wants what belongs to me, but I have to pay for it."
Sun Yuanhua shook his head and said: "Last time, His Majesty told us that in the future, there will be a rule to protect private property.
Even the emperor cannot take away the property of his ministers casually.
Your Majesty set up the Patent Inquiry Office to let people know about the technology.
It’s valuable, we can only buy this technology, and the price must not be too low, otherwise it will be a steal.”
Zhang Weixian rubbed his hands and asked carefully: "How about one hundred yuan?"
Sun Yuanhua shook his head and said: "It's far from enough."
Zhang Weixian said again: "That thousand" Wang Chengen was impatient and slowly added to him, and said directly: "Let's do it this way.
For twenty thousand yuan, the British government will provide a printing room, and our people will stay there for ten days, and your people will teach them how to use it.
Then We will take away the contents and everyone will be clean."
Zhang Weixian is naturally very satisfied.
His Wanshufang is good at making money in the long run, but it will definitely not make 20,000 yuan a year.
Moreover, the inner court originally had a printing office, so I don’t know why they asked to come to Wanshufang.
He nodded and said: "I'm really sorry, so thank you to the Royal Superintendent."
Wang Chengen nodded and said: "We have all paid out, you can't hide anything."
Zhang Weixian nodded repeatedly and said: "How dare you?
Please rest assured, Supervisor, we will definitely tell you everything we know."
The next day, Sun Yuanhua came to Wanshufang with the note issued by the bank.
After handing the note to Zhang Weixian, he said: "Master Guo, I have brought ten apprentices.
Please take care of them these days."
These ten people were all students in the equipment department.
It only took them five days to understand everything they should know, and then transported all the equipment and ink back to the weapons bureau.
The students in the Inner Printing Factory also transported the Inner Equipment back.
The two groups communicated and soon discovered that the reason for Wanshufang's better quality was the difference in ink.
Then everyone began to experiment with printing presses powered by water and steam engines.
After experiments, everyone found that using a steam engine to drive the printing press would be much better, so Fang Yizhi, who developed the steam engine, was transferred to the printing press development team.
Fang Yizhi was young.
Although the emperor personally arranged for him to be an intern in the steam engine department of the Ordnance Bureau, no one paid much attention to him.
However, he did have a few skills.
Not long after his internship, he put forward some very useful suggestions on the miniaturization of steam engines, which attracted the attention of the three bosses of the Ordnance Bureau.
This time the development of the printing press was urgently urged by Riyuetang, so he was sent as the backbone.
Fang Yizhi first carefully observed the printing press model made by the craftsmen of the Ordnance Bureau, and then began to improve it.
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He added a control wheel between the printing press and the steam engine, which could disconnect the two at any time.
It can be stopped in time when there is a problem.
Then a speed regulator was added in the middle, which could change the running speed of the printing press without changing the speed of the steam engine.
He even conducted many experiments by adding different proportions of various substances to the ink, and the result was a better ink than Wanshufang.
Not only is it highly adhesive, it also won't penetrate the edges of the paper.
When the Ordnance Bureau delivered the built printing press to Riyuetang, Fang Yizhi deliberately kept one because he thought it could be modified even better.
Sun Yuanhua gave him the task of transforming the printing press, and then took away his control wheel and speed regulator and used them on the steam locomotive.
Riyuetang built a new printing factory next to the Capital University Hall, which will be used to print the selected works after the printing machine arrives.
After Wang Chengen saw the efficiency of the printing press, he asked that newspapers be printed in printing plants.
Firstly, it could improve the quality of newspapers, and secondly, it could save costs.
The original engraving printing was too expensive.
A large number of unique ancient books were printed by printing plants, and a large number of novels were also published one by one.
Zhu Youxiao established a Riyuetang Bookstore and opened ten bookstores in the capital at one time, selling only Riyuetang books and new papers.
Because of its good quality and cheap price, it became a must-go place for scholars in the capital, and Wanshufang's business was greatly affected.
Zhang Weixian listened to the report from the shopkeeper of Wanshufang.
According to the price of Riyuetang Bookstore, even if Wanshufang only sells it at the same price, it will still be a loss.
Moreover, the books of Riyuetang are in terms of printing clarity and paper quality. , are much stronger than those from Wanshufang.
Zhang Weixian asked: "Don't we still have many books that they don't have?
These books can still make money."
The shopkeeper complained: "Sir, the only books they haven't printed yet are books with a lot of illustrations.
I heard it's because they don't have enough people to typeset them.
But after they print all the commonly used books, we can't even print these books."
You can’t make any money either.”
Zhang Weixian said: "Then what do you want me to do?"
The shopkeeper smiled and said: "My father-in-law, they used our technology back then.
If my father-in-law comes forward and asks them to sell us a few printing machines, we can also print books like theirs.
If the price is put together, it will be fine." ” Zhang Weixian thought of this, so he ran to Sun Yuanhua and said: "Sun Binbin, sell us ten printing presses you made."
Sun Yuanhua smiled and said: "Of course, it costs 10,000 yuan."
Zhang Weixian complained: "No way, a machine costs 10,000 yuan."
Sun Yuanhua said: "Sir, that's really the price.
The manufacturing cost of a machine is 5,500 yuan, but each machine has to pay a patent fee of 3,000 yuan.
We also have to manually manage the warehousing expenses. , so it costs 10,000 yuan per unit, and the cost of installation and debugging is not included.”
Zhang Weixian asked: "What is this patent fee?
Why does it cost so much?"
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