Taking the initiative to remarry! The crazy prince is obsessed with me

Everyone is still wondering how Sheng'an Bookstore can print such a good book?

Facing everyone's doubts, Shen Xiyue chuckled slowly:

“The paper in this book is made from more tree bark when it was made.

As for the words on the book, it was because His Highness liked to meditate on wood carving in his spare time, and accidentally came up with some ideas about engraving printing. Later, he studied it together with the prince consort of our third princess, and finally improved the original printing technique, thus reducing the cost of printing books.

You said, three taels of silver is enough for this book, how can I sell it for thirty taels? That's why I have to burn these books in the street!"

In order to improve the papermaking technique, they took the paper made by Gu Zhilan, asked several craftsmen to study it again and again, and then made another paper in the same way.

As for the printing template...Murong Xuan does know how to do wood engraving, but Mao Ping learned all of this from him while hiding on the beam of Gu Zhilan's newspaper office.

It is nothing more than dividing the font originally engraved on a whole piece of wood into reverse text molds of individual words, then selecting the individual words according to the text, arranging them in the character plate, applying ink and printing them, and then removing the font molds after printing. What is the difficulty of such a technology?

Even after Murong Xuan got the hang of it, he went to find Chen Yi, who was compiling the book all day, and discussed with him, and they improved it into a better version... Well, how can it not be counted as their contribution?

So Shen Xiyue calmly attributed the credit to Murong Xuan and Chen Yi.

The crowd immediately shouted, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince truly cares about the people, the Crown Princess is kind, and Prince Consort Chen is knowledgeable and talented!"

Shen Xiyue smiled like a bodhisattva, but she was very modest: "Thank you for your praise, I just opened a bookstore, I hope everyone can read more books, learn to read, and understand reason and morality."

Gu Zhilan just felt her heart tighten.

Prince Duan had been glancing at Shen Xiyue who was asking and answering questions with the crowd. When he heard everyone loudly praising the prince, his face unconsciously darkened.

He stretched out his hand to pull Gu Zhilan away, and urged her, "Lan'er, why are you still here watching the fun? The newspaper's opening has been delayed!"

Gu Zhilan seemed to be stuck in the same place, unable to even move her feet.

In ancient times, books were like "paper gold" that the poor could not afford. Only rich people could collect books.

The reason is what Shen Xiyue said, papermaking and printing are expensive.

And today, taking advantage of the announcement of the imperial examination results, Shen Xiyue, on such a day when scholars gathered, used the trick of "burning books in the downtown area to protest against the high price of paper" to show everyone that she has mastered the improved papermaking technology and movable type printing.

......She learned both of these techniques from the time traveler. As the Crown Princess, she has no shortage of sources of information. Would she not print them in the newspaper?

How could it be Gu Zhilan's turn to open a newspaper?

For the first time, Gu Zhilan had an extremely absurd and terrifying feeling. Could it be that she had been wrong before... In fact, the time traveler next to Shen Xiyue was the real son/daughter of destiny?

And she, Gu Zhilan, traveled through time to this dynasty and suffered one failure after another, just to highlight the success of another time traveler who had never even shown his face?

She closed her eyes exhaustedly, and shed two lines of tears unconsciously: "Your Highness, please go back home first."

Prince Duan looked at Gu Zhilan, who looked exhausted and even had an unspeakable look of confusion and fear, and asked in confusion, "Why?"

Gu Zhilan opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say.

Did she have to tell Prince Duan that she was a time traveler and had just discovered that she might be a failed counterpart to another time traveler?

Even if she really wanted to say it, her pride would support her and she would never admit that she was a waste who had wisdom and skills but could only fail.

So Gu Zhilan took a deep breath and quickly found an excuse: "The Crown Princess's shop is so busy today, everyone's attention is here, so today is not a good time to open the newspaper office."

When Prince Duan heard this, he felt that it made some sense. He did not ask any more questions, but just nodded reluctantly, with a somewhat sullen tone and uncontrollable dissatisfaction.

The moment Gu Zhilan turned around, she felt that all the sounds in the world had become quieter, and she couldn't wait to leave.

Shen Xiyue looked at Gu Zhilan's fleeing back and smiled silently.

Gu Zhilan just made up another time traveler and showed some "unique" skills of time travelers, but she scared herself like this... It seems that papermaking and printing were not invented by her, Gu Zhilan.

In that case, she would feel more at ease using it.

However, it can be seen from this that the advanced technology of the future generations must be more than this. Murong Xuan must be reminded that he should also make great efforts to develop the craftsmanship and skills.

Just as I was thinking about it, someone in the crowd asked again:

"Crown Princess, although we already know that you and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have great kindness, it is still a pity to burn such a good book! Why not give it to us instead!"

After all, he was a person whose wallets had been squeezed by these books that were as expensive as gold in the past. Even though he knew that buying books would be cheaper in the future, he still couldn't bear it. He immediately agreed when he heard this.

Shen Xiyue knew that this was someone Murong Xuan had arranged in advance, so she let out a calm apology and apologized to everyone:

"Look at me, I only thought about the future when books would be cheaper, but I neglected these things. However, I still have many old books in my warehouse... How about this, when you buy a new book in my shop, you can pick out an old book at will until the old books are sold out. How about it?"

The crowd immediately became excited: "Good! Good! Good!"

"Also, I didn't open this shop to make money. Since the results of the imperial examination are announced today, I will give you a bonus. All items are half price. Okay?"

Everyone became even more excited: "Good! Good! Good!"

"This shop is my dowry, please support it, okay?"

"Good! Good! Good!"

There was a cheer from the crowd. The incense shop opened by the princess in the past was all the rage in the capital, and now that she had opened a bookstore, she was also so approachable. Immediately, everyone had a better impression of Shen Xiyue, the future queen mother.

After Shen Xiyue finished speaking, she asked someone to raise the torch and said with a smile: "Then these books can be regarded as our farewell to the past!"

Now everyone had nothing to say. Although they still felt it was a pity, what the Crown Princess said made sense. So, just burn it!

Shen Xiyue looked at the piles of books being licked by the flames and burned to ashes in an instant, and the smile on her face became even more intense.

Oh no, now no one knows that what was burned were not books at all!

After all, she grew up reading books of sages, so how could she dare to do something so rebellious?

The crowd watching all spoke words of praise for the Crown Prince and Crown Princess, and some were even moved to tears.

At this time, a child with ragged clothes and patched cloth shoes, sniffed his nose, looked at Shen Xiyue and asked cautiously:

"Then, Madam Crown Princess, I don't even have three taels of silver, and I also want to read books, what should I do?"