Quick travel to save a miserable life

The Lin family now runs eight shops of their own, operating different projects, including restaurants, silver shops, bookstores, rice shops, teahouses, grocery stores, carriage shops, and even a blacksmith shop.

These shops are of various types, among which the most profitable ones are restaurants and silver shops, which account for the majority of the profits of all shops. The other shops are not large in scale, and the money they earn is acceptable, but they cannot compete with restaurants and silver shops. In comparison, the grocery store is even worse. It is just because it has been passed down from ancestors, so it has been running. In fact, the income is really limited.

The Lin family has five or six small and large farms in total. The land in them was bought at different times. The land is good and bad. The total land is more than 50 acres. One land is 100 acres, which means that the Lin family has more than 5000 acres. acres of land.

With so much land, half of it is fertile land and half is dry land, and the Lin family's rent is low, so the annual income is only a few hundred taels, which is less than the two months' profit of the restaurant.

However, Mr. Lin believes that land is the foundation. In times of famine, no matter how much money you have, you cannot buy food. Therefore, even if there is not much profit from the land, Mr. Lin still insists on continuing to buy land. If it were not for the surrounding areas of Yongning County, There is really no more land to buy. It is impossible to say that the Lin family will have more land than it does now.

Lin Hui thought to herself that she had no special talents. The only advantage she had more than the ancients was her vision and knowledge. The Lin family's businesses were actually in good condition. What Lin Hui could do was extremely limited, and she couldn't change too much rashly. I plan to start with the bookstore first.

In fact, Lin Hui wanted to start with the farm, because she learned that there were no crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn in this time and space, but these things were abundant in her space.

Yongning is located in the west-central part of the country, and a large number of wheat, millet, and beans are grown, with extremely low yields.

Good land close to rivers and canals for easy irrigation can produce more than 300 kilograms of wheat per acre, while dry land far away from water sources can produce even less, only more than 200 kilograms. Therefore, ordinary farmers who work hard for a year and have some surplus grain at home are considered to be wealthy. Don't expect anything else.

But now that the sowing season has passed, planting will have to wait until next year, and although there is a lot of inventory in the space, it may not be enough to make seeds for so many fields. She still needs to work harder and plant more.

Lin Hui analyzed it for a long time, and what she could do now was to start with bookstores. Because this era was still block printing and there was no movable type printing, so the price of books was extremely expensive.

An ordinary "Thousand Character Classic" for children's enlightenment costs several hundred words. If it is the Four Books and Five Classics, it will cost several taels of silver. Moreover, there are pens, inks, paper and inkstones, so ordinary people cannot afford it. Starting children to read has also led to the fact that not one in a hundred people today is literate.

There are still many books in the Lin family's bookstore that are hand-copied by some readers. The fonts are different and prone to errors. Therefore, Lin Hui plans to bring movable type printing to the market, which can be regarded as making some contributions to the cultural dissemination of this era.

The Lin family's bookstore is called Hua Shuzhai. It not only sells books, but also some cultural supplies such as pens, inks, papers and inkstones. Although Mr. Lin himself cannot read, he really admires scholars. The reason for opening this bookstore is probably this.

The shop is in the form of a front shop and a back shop. There are four open shops in the front, a huge yard in the back, and more than a dozen buildings. This is the printing workshop.

Lin Hui only knew the principle of movable type printing, but did not know how to operate it specifically, but there must be someone in the workshop who knew.

There were several masters in charge of engraving in the printing workshop. Lin Hui asked the steward and found one of them, Master Hu.

Although Master Hu is only in his forties, he has been working in the Lin family's book printing workshop for more than [-] years. He has been here since the beginning of the Lin family's book printing workshop. He also started as an apprentice and gradually became the master master he is today.

Lin Hui called Master Hu aside and talked about some of her thoughts on movable type printing. The more Master Hu listened, the brighter his eyes became. In the end, he slapped his head hard and suddenly realized: "This method is really wonderful. Why didn't I do it?" I thought of it!"

Lin Hui said with a smile: "I just put forward an idea. How to do it specifically depends on you, Master Hu!"

Master Hu was very excited: "Miss, don't worry, leave this matter to me, I will do it for you in ten days at most, no, five days!"

Lin Hui asked a separate room to be set aside in the workshop and prepared the necessary tools and wood. No one else was allowed in except Master Hu. The door was locked from the outside and meals were delivered to the door. Master Hu had been eating and living there these days. in this room.

In the evening, Lin Hui returned to the house and told Mr. Lin what she had done at the bookstore today. Mr. Lin couldn't help but be very interested in what she said about movable type printing. He said that if it could succeed, the cost of printing books would definitely be greatly reduced. , then it will not only be businesses like them that will benefit, but also scholars all over the world. I also hope that this move will benefit more children from poor families and enable them to study.

Although Mr. Lin always said that he was a businessman and was not good at writing, he also studied seriously for seven or eight years. Later, he realized that he really had no talent in this field, so he started to learn business from Lin Hui's grandfather. Therefore, he was very interested in doing business. Learned scholars are highly respected.

Speaking of studying, Mr. Lin has already begun to imagine the bright future of Tuan Tuan, who will study and become an official when he grows up, and bring glory to the Lin family.

It is a pity to say that although the Lin family has gained some wealth through generations of accumulation, they have never produced a scholar with a reputation.

There was no one with any fame in the family, so he fell behind in everything. Not only did he have to pay a lot of taxes on his family's land every year, but he also lost three points in officialdom. It is still a rule to ask for one or two hundred taels. If you encounter a case, you will need extra filial piety.

As long as there is a scholar or a scholar in the family, it will naturally be different.

It's just a matter of being a scholar, but if you promote people, you can save a lot on land taxes every year. If you promote people, you can interact with the county magistrate, and people in the county government will be less exploited. In short, there are countless benefits.

It's a pity that the Lin family was just a grocery store in the early days. To be able to achieve what it is today is considered a good business operation. It can't be helped if the children and grandchildren are not successful in school. Therefore, although the Lin family is rich, they dare not show it for fear of attracting someone's attention. The karma has been taken up by others.

Mr. Lin knew that if the Lin family wanted to keep the current family business and continue to inherit it, no one in the officialdom would be able to do it, especially since he only has a daughter, Lin Hui, and his grandson is still in infancy. It is okay to have him around for a day. They can barely afford it. Once he leaves one day, the Lin family's property may soon be changed to another family name. It is also unknown whether Lin Hui, mother and son will have a way to survive.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye, and Mr. Lin and Lin Hui came to the printing workshop to see what happened.

When the father and daughter came, they saw that there was an extra shelf in the room that they had packed out separately, with some carved wooden characters placed on it, and Master Hu was busy arranging the words.

I saw Master Hu holding a page of book, finding the corresponding words according to the content on it, and putting them into the dial. After a while, they were all found. After checking that they were correct, he started to apply ink and brushed it repeatedly with a brush. Ink, finally cover the page with a piece of paper, brush it lightly with a clean brush, and then peel off a complete piece of writing paper, which is no different from the page in a book.

Seeing that the experiment was indeed successful and Lin Hui's idea became a reality, Mr. Lin was very excited, but after the excitement passed, he began to think about the next thing.

Although the technology of movable type printing seems simple, it is actually very important. Once you master the method, the cost of printing books is reduced by at least [-]%. If you print more, it will be cheaper. According to the current book price, the profit can be It's big now.

With the current wealth and status of the Lin family, it is basically impossible to monopolize this technology. The profits involved are too great. Once someone discovers it, it will definitely attract jealousy and calculations. I am afraid it will bring trouble to the family, and we cannot rashly lower the price of the book. , what to do specifically, Mr. Lin is in trouble.