Ask for a subscription Pushing open the door of the printing workshop, Zhang Chao smelled an extremely heavy smell of ink.
Two young men stood inside the door, staring vigilantly at the courtyard, which were the guards of the workshop.
The printing workshop has officially begun to put into production, and at the same time is printing several books, and at present, there are more than 600 letterers for engraving and many plate makers.
The workshop has built a lot of houses, and a new earthen wall has been built outside, and this workshop, which has reached nearly 1,000 people, has now become the largest building complex in Zhangjiagou.
It was built outside the village, three miles away, surrounded by a high wall, and inside was not only a place for work, but also a newly built dormitory and canteen, where these workers usually ate and lived.
Without permission, they were not allowed to leave without permission, let alone take out a piece of wood and a piece of paper from inside, and Zhang Chao specially built a new security team of 20 people.
It is not only to prevent outsiders from prying eyes, but also to prevent the workers inside from leaking secrets.
Although Zhang Chao divided the entire printing workshop into several workshops, he adopted the operation method of assembly line.
The whole printing process is divided into writing, engraving, printing, and binding, so there are special writers, engravers, printers, and binders.
Originally, Ma Zhou was responsible for the writing, but now there are many books to be printed, and it is impossible to let Ma Zhou write manuscripts all day long.
Therefore, Zhang Chao also recruited a group of copyists, who originally wrote manuscripts and wrote well.
After recruiting this group of people to come in, Zhang Chao deliberately let them learn Zhang Tizi.
In fact, this font is Song and imitation Song style, later generations often say that Song style is created by Qin Hui, in fact, this is also a kind of false rumor, Song style characters are really popular in the Ming Dynasty.
The printing industry prevailed in the Ming Dynasty, and the publishing line reprinted the Song book, but for convenience, these imitation Song periodicals often only carved out the skin outline, rather than the font of the original Song carved book, and when it came to the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, it was even specially stipulated that after that, the engraved book, where the square character is called the Song font, and the regular script is called the soft character.
Song is not Song, so naturally it is not created by Qin Hui.
Zhang Chao began to want to use the regular script, and felt that the regular script was good-looking, but the regular script was a little dull.
But when the engraving is really engraving, I find that the line is good-looking, but it is not easy to carve.
In the end, Zhang Chao took out the Song style, and then finally set the engraving font as imitation Song style.
It's just that Song has not yet appeared, so in the end, everyone called the font that Zhang Chao took out the old Zhang Ti and the new Zhang Ti.
Accidentally, Zhang Chao created a new font sect of calligraphy.
However, although Zhang Chao's calligraphy is poor, his hard pen is actually okay, and the hard pen made of goose feathers, Zhang Chao's Zhang Ti Fan Wen is still very good.
It took some time for the scribes recruited by the Zhang family to learn Zhang Ti very quickly, and even out of blue, they could write Zhang Ti characters very well with brush characters.
Whether it is the old Zhang or the new Zhang style, it is not worse than what Zhang Chao wrote.
With these writers, the engraving printing of Zhangjia Bookstore has also become faster.
The first apprentices are now semi-skilled workers.
Uncle Ke Ba and Carpenter Zheng, these two masters, have even reached the speed of carving a piece of engraving a day, and can engrave more than 100 words.
His apprentices, the shrewd of the first batch, had reached the speed of a hundred words a day, and could carve an engraving in two days.
Zhang Chao gave these apprentices who learned quickly, and they all rose to the salary of one stone meter a month, as a reward.
Seeing Zhang Chao come in, the people in the workshop bowed to him, almost all of them were teenagers in the workshop, and there were also many girls.
These are the children of the villagers in Gyeonggi, and they can earn a lot of money by sending them here to work.
Especially if there is also learning art, now it is an apprentice, and if you are successful in learning art, you can raise your salary, and you can increase your salary if you are semi-skilled, and you will have to add to the skilled workers, if you have better skills, you will become a class leader and team leader, and your salary will be higher.
The credit of the Zhang family is still very high, so many people still rush to come, and they don't have a chance to come late.
"Let's continue to do things, add dinner in the evening, there is fish and meat," Zhang Chao nodded at them with a smile.
Zhang Chao gave these apprentices a guaranteed minimum plus commission, and he couldn't get started during the initial apprenticeship, only the basic salary.
When they are semi-proficient and can start making boards and lettering, they are guaranteed to add commissions, and their labor costs are priced.
Basically, a block of engraving is more than a hundred words.
Zhang Chao's achievement is a piece of engraving and engraving ten yuan, and after carving a piece, in addition to the basic salary, ten yuan is also added.
The price of writing is much higher, writing a edition, it is twenty essays, which is almost the price of a thousand words per volume, and even a little higher.
Zhang Chao passed through the board making workshop, the engraving workshop, then the printing workshop inside, and finally passed by the binding workshop, pushed open the door, and arrived at the craftsman's room inside.
In the room, Ma Zhou and Steward Zheng, as well as Ke Ba and Carpenter Zheng, were all there.
"San Lang, our printing shop is a little busy right now."
Steward Zheng said with a smile, "The Lotus Sutra of Qinglong Temple has not been printed yet, and the forty-two chapters of the Daxingshan Temple have just begun to be printed, and they plan to print a few more scriptures, especially the Daxingshan Temple, which is very arrogant, they want to print the Huayan Sutra, which is sixty Huayan Sutras." ” The reason why the Huayan Sutra is called the Sixty Huayan Sutra is because this sutra has sixty volumes, which is the translation of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
The number of volumes is large, and the number of words is also large.
"You're still afraid of too much business, and the Sixty Huayan Sutra is better.
Anyway, our rules remain the same, and the scriptures are printed in thousands of volumes.
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Remember to wait for them to pay the deposit, and then go to other temples to talk, to see if they are willing to buy some Huayan Sutra, for other temples, we don't need to ask for a thousand scrolls to print, but if you buy less, you have to add some price. ” Anyway, the key is the first edition, the first edition can be printed after a thousand copies, and a thousand copies can be printed, also to reduce costs.
After all, no matter how many copies are printed, this set of engravings has to be made first, and it is a cost to write, make plates, and engrave.
"You have to take the initiative, not just wait.
For example, some temples don't have the ability to print 1,000 copies at a time, so we can take the lead and find multiple temples to make 1,000 copies together, so that they can spread the cost evenly, isn't it good."
Steward Zheng said, "This is a good way, but we have a lot of printed lists in our hands now, so we can't be busy." ” "I think that after we added punctuation marks, especially our typesetting, the number of words per page has decreased, and the engraving surface has increased a lot, which has made our engraving task a lot heavier, which has affected the speed of printing."
Zhang Chao chuckled, he really doesn't know how to do business.
If you make a dense version, the number of words is too much, but we charge by the edition, the less this edition, the more bad it is for us.
In particular, the more words in the engraving, the more the error rate of engraving, which also causes the cost to rise.
Now with punctuation, and after typesetting, the standard 162-word version is actually only typeset about 100 words.
In particular, the original volume of 10,000 words, but after adding punctuation, the number of words will increase by thousands, or even more.
A 60-volume Huayan Sutra, according to Zhang Chao's typesetting method, with punctuation, and reformatting, reached more than one million words.
There are more than 20,000 words in one volume, and one volume requires 145 editions.
Even if Daxingshan Temple prints one volume or two volumes at a time, it will cost seven or eight hundred yuan for one volume, and from one thousand copies, it will also be seven or eight hundred yuan.
Of course, the current typesetting method is better, adding a set of punctuation marks, not only reduces the cost, but also reduces the difficulty of engraving, and at the same time makes the book more beautiful and beautiful.
As for the increased spending of customers, Zhang Chao doesn't have to think too much about this.
Anyway, compared to their hand-copying, they can still make money, and Zhang Chao also considered that it costs a lot to print a thousand copies of a temple, so you can find various temples to unite and let those who are interested in printing together, so that the cost is reduced a lot.
It can not only reach the standard of 1,000 copies, but also the actual cost is much cheaper than that of hand-copying.
"The bookstore in Chang'an City has received a very good response at present, with many people buying books and more people renting books.
It's just that there are fewer reaction books, so I plan to engrave more books, especially Confucian classics. ” The earliest classics of Confucianism had six classics, but later the Book of Music was lost, and only the Five Classics remained.
During the Han Dynasty, Yi, poetry, calligraphy, rituals, and spring and autumn were the "Five Classics" and stood as scholars.
By the time of the Sui and Tang dynasties, there were already nine classics, and the Spring and Autumn Period were divided into "three passes", namely the left pass, the ram pass, and the Guliang pass; The Book of Rites is divided into "three rites", namely weekly rites, rituals, and rituals.
These six books, together with Yi, Shu, and Poems, are called the "Nine Classics", and they are also established by scholars and used to open a department and take scholars.
Each of these nine Confucian classics has several editions, in addition to many commentaries.
For today's readers, these nine classics are a must-read book, and even the imperial court plans to open a course this year, mainly to test the content of these nine classics.
The last time the bookstore printed a copy of Mao's poems, it received a good response.
In a short period of time, more than a thousand sets were sold, which is quite amazing.
The main thing is that the engraving books of Zhangjia Bookstore are unprecedented, and the quality of the books is very good in terms of binding form and printing, not to mention, after the publicity of the two purchases of Taixue Doctor Kong Yingda and Lu Deming, everyone knows that this edition of the book is quite accurate and almost error-free.
Moreover, this book was printed by Zhang Sanlang, and the font used in it was still a new Zhang style, and the calligraphy was established.
Zhang Chao was jealous and jealous with others some time ago, and he was imprisoned and dismissed from office, but now he has made an engraving printing book, which is full of gimmicks.
Coupled with Kong Yingda's strong recommendation in Guozixue, and to the eighteen scholars of the Qin Palace, soon this engraving and printing book and Mao's poem biography became popular.
Many students from all over the country come to the bookstore, and if they have good conditions at home, they want to buy a set, and the children of the common people also have to rent it back and copy it.
Many of the students of Guozixue are the children of nobles, they are average readers, but they spend money generously.
I heard that this book is good, anyway, whether you read it or not, it is better to buy one or two sets and decorate the bookshelf first.
Later, those nobles and nobles in Chang'an City rushed to buy a set of engraved books to go back, and they had to decorate them even if they didn't look at them.
Even those wealthy businessmen went to buy it.
These merchants have money, and no matter what kind of books they have, they can buy a set of them all if they are sold in the bookstore.
Such sales results made Zhang Chao amazed.
This also strengthened his idea that he was going to print more books, not to mention anything else, these nine classics, first print one set and then talk about it.
In the future, some other editions will be printed, and some annotated editions will also be printed.
However, for the time being, only one set of the most widely circulated version of each classic is printed, and in order to save time and reduce costs, Zhang Chao plans to print only the canon of the other eight classics, and not those annotated versions.
After printing the Eight Classics, I also have to print the Analects, the Book of Filial Piety, and Mencius.
"The bookstore business is so good, I think we should open some branches in Luoyang, Taiyuan and other big cities, both to sell books and rent books, so that it is better."
Steward Zheng proposed.
"Well, that's a good suggestion." t1706231537: