Datang: Showdown, your father and I are Li Shimin

Chapter 158 The papermaking technique is completed, and the clues are emerging ([-])
As soon as the village chief, Du Mao, finished speaking, everyone's eyes turned towards him.

Especially those ordinary village names, not to mention the opportunity to see the current emperor, almost even the emperor's royal driver has no chance to have a look.

Everyone immediately cheered up, and many people quickly asked in surprise: "The village chief... what does the emperor look like?"

"What kind of clothes does the emperor wear? Is it made of gold?"

Immediately, some people around him started chattering and asking, the old village head smiled faintly, and looked inside through the imperial city gate.

They all went back to when Li Ergang took the throne a few years ago.

"The emperor... there is murderous intent between his eyebrows, and his expression is very majestic, as if he can kill with his eyes!"

"The voice is very loud. Your Majesty is standing outside the Taiji Hall. His voice can be heard at the gate of the imperial city. He is wearing a dragon robe and is all golden. There are dragons and phoenixes carved on the chest and back. I am standing far away, so I don't know if it is gold silk or not." embroidery."

Du Mao looked at the inside of the imperial city with fascination, and then, everyone led the convoy to gradually leave the gate of the imperial city, all the way to the east, and slowly drove towards the East City.

Before they got to the market, they heard a burst of noise. Obviously, the traffic density near Dongshi was much denser than the streets in other places, which also caused their convoy to drive much slower.

Seeing the crowd, Gong Sunyu and others immediately raised their hands towards Cheng An and others and said, "Brother Cheng, let's go first and ask around for the price of book paper!"

Cheng An nodded slightly, and Gongsun Yu Luoheng and Zhou Song disappeared into the crowd in the blink of an eye.

The boy Xue Li also handed the Mo Dao in his hand to Cheng An's arms, and followed Gongsun Yu and the others towards the depths of the East City.

Gongsunyu and the others looked at Lu's Bookstore not far away, and bad memories suddenly came back to them.

"Brother, I don't want to step into that shit Lu's Bookstore again."

"Let's go somewhere else..."

Zhou Song looked at the golden plaque not far away from unwillingness, and suddenly became furious.

The three of them stared fixedly at Lu's Bookstore, resentment welling up in their hearts.

"Brothers, why don't you let me try it?" Xue Li stood behind Gongsunyu and Gongsunyu, Gongsunyu turned his head suddenly, seeing Xue Li's relatively clean clothes and the appearance of a white-faced scholar, Gongsunyu nodded and said : "Okay! Since little brother Xue is going, there is little brother Lao over there."

"Little brother looks like a scholar. When you enter the bookstore later, you will ask the price of the paper and the price of the whole book "Book of Rites." Luo Heng smiled and nodded, The three of them stayed not far from the bookstore.

Not long after, Xue Li came out from Lu's Bookstore, and the three of them took pens and wrote down all the prices.

Immediately afterwards, the four visited all the bookstores in the entire East City to inquire about prices.

At this time, Cheng An and his group also pushed the carriage to a place with a lot of people and close to the bookstore.

After all, these scholars and talents would only hang out around the bookstore. If it was too far away from the bookstore, no one would care about selling books and paper.

Du Mao, Cheng An and the others grabbed the skirts of their clothes, wiped the sweat off their faces, and sat around the carriage.

Gongsun Yu has not returned, and they are not good at pricing, so they did not lift the tarpaulin.

The people passing by looked at this string of carriages very curiously. Each cart seemed to be loaded with a lot of things, but judging from the actions of Cheng An and the others, it seemed that they were just resting here, not for sale, so they did not Someone came forward to inquire.

Cheng An and the others rested for a long time before seeing Gongsun Yu, Xue Li and the others from behind the crowd.

"Hu'er is back... Let's take off the oilcloth first!"

Cheng An greeted the village chief and others.

Villagers rolled up tarpaulins with sticks and other objects near the bullock carts, and began to set up a simple stall under a wall in Dongshi.

Everyone unhurriedly removed the papers and books from the ox cart one by one, and put them neatly together.

The people who passed by looked at the carts of paper and books brought out by Cheng An and the others, and they were all horrified, but no one came forward to inquire. These ordinary people also knew that the price of paper was very expensive. Many people can't help being envious of the fact that there are more than a dozen carts full of books and papers.

"I don't know how much it will sell for such a cart of paper! Where did these people come from, and how did they get these paper books?" Several villagers passed by the bullock cart and couldn't help but look back.

An older bearded passerby on the side, who was also selling cooking cakes from a cart, couldn't help but feel envious when he looked at this group of villagers whose personalities were almost the same as his own but whose attire looked ordinary.

"This is not a carload of paper, it is a carload of copper coins! The price of this paper is so expensive, it seems that they are going to return with a full load today."

"Let's go! Let's join in the fun, what does this have to do with us... Can you afford it?" Several accompanying people teased each other and left near Cheng An's convoy.

The four of Gongsun Yu were holding a piece of white paper, which recorded the prices of paper and some books from major bookstores.

"Brother Cheng!" Gongsun Yu waved the white paper in his hand, saw the shadows of Cheng An and others in the crowd, and trotted all the way.

"I've asked you all, I'll remember it here!" With that said, Gongsun Yu spread the white paper on the shelf, and Cheng An and the others approached the list.

Several people looked away from this list:

"Lu's Publishing House, six hundred wen paper volumes, one thousand two hundred wen paper volumes..."

"Qinghe Study, a volume of 870 essays on straw paper, and 170 essays on a sheet of Xuanxuan..."

"Tsk tsk..." Cheng An looked at the list and shook his head, "How expensive is this paper?"

Gongsun Yu looked at the list with a wry smile and said, "That's right...otherwise we wouldn't be humiliated by those guys from Lu's Bookstore for polluting a book!"

Zhou Song looked up at the carriage in front of him, then looked at the list and said, "This price...Did Dr. Li tell you to set the price before?"

Cheng An nodded, frowned and said, "Doctor Li originally said that the price should be [-] cash lower than the original price in the bookstore... But our paper is much better than those hemp papers, so we can't price it at [-] cents." A volume of one hundred texts, right?"

"I'm afraid we can only order [-] Wen..." The village chief Du Mao looked at the list with a serious expression on his face.

"If the price is too high, ordinary people can't afford it, and those from rich families will naturally look down on ordinary paper from our small villages, such as Xuanzhou tribute paper, Yizhou hemp paper, etc. If the price is not high or low, no one will be interested in it."

"I think it's [-] Wen per volume. Didn't Dr. Li say that the base price is [-] Wen? We still have to make money."

With a hoarse voice, the village chief looked at the others.

Gongsun Yu also nodded slightly: "A volume of [-] Wen, and these leaflets are only [-] penny a piece? Sigh... If this paper could be published earlier, I would not go to Lu's Bookstore to copy books! "

After laughing at themselves, Gongsunyu and others immediately picked up a pen, wrote the price on a piece of white paper, and hung it up with a bamboo pole.

(End of this chapter)