Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

Seven days later, the Sanhe land had been rammed to the gate of the county government office.

Every day before dawn, the sound of ding-dong could be heard from outside. Even if Shen Zheng wanted to sleep a little longer, her sleepiness would be scared away.

Recently, the first thing she does when she opens her eyes in the morning is to open the system to check the update progress.

Today - the update progress is 63%, which is about 1% a day, so the system is not cheating her.

I just don't know if it will get stuck at 99%...

After getting dressed and having breakfast, Shen Zheng went to the printing house alone.

It’s not that she didn’t wait for Liang Fu, but at this moment, Liang Fu was probably already warming up the furnace in the printing house.

Spring is about to arrive, and the mornings in Tongan County are a little warmer than before. Wu Quan and others greeted her with a smile and patted their chests to assure her of progress.

Shen Zheng walked and talked with the county residents all the way. By the time she reached the printing house, she inevitably had a few more food in her hands.

Save it for lunch.

She put the food in the food box, and seeing that Liang Fu was still heating the stove, she walked into the printing room.

Li Hongmao, Bai Song and others were all inside. Li Hongmao drank the hot soy milk in his hand while looking through the recent printing progress.

The first printed books consisted of twelve volumes.

Eight of the classics were used for the imperial examinations, and their target audience was students. Of the remaining four, two were the most basic enlightenment books, one was an agricultural technology book, and one was the most basic medical book.

This set of books was selected by everyone. Although it does not cover all the knowledge in the world, it is an excellent start.

Although it is just a newly opened bookstore with only a dozen books, it may look a bit shaky, but what they want to engage in is a price war!

"The master is here?" When Li Hongmao saw Shen Zheng coming, he drank the soy milk in two gulps and brought a stool for her.

Shen Zheng rolled up her robe and sat down, "What's the matter?"

Li Hongmao was a little excited. He placed the account book in front of Shen Zheng and said seriously, "Sir, I have been calculating the cost of printing books these days. As of yesterday, we have printed a total of five books, one thousand copies each, a total of five thousand copies."

"But because different books have different numbers of pages, I calculated the cost of printing one page for each book separately."

Shen Zheng took the account book and looked at it carefully. "What you are calculating now is only the production cost. It does not include the cost of transportation, the bookstore, the bookstore labor, etc."

This account book was designed by her and the numbers on it were also counted in Arabic numerals. Only at the end of each page did Shen Zheng ask everyone to count in words to avoid mistakes.

Li Hongmao knew better than anyone that if the adults had not taught them how to do multiplication and division, it would have been very difficult to calculate the cost of a "single page" in the account book.

——One cent and two cents per page, this is the cost he calculated.

He looked at the red words specially marked on the account book, nodded with a smile and said, "That's right, I only calculated the cost of the printing house when publishing the book. Sir, according to this, we only need 120 coins to print a 100-page book! Sir, that's 120 coins, not one or two coins!"

At this point, he could no longer hide his excitement.

Even though one hundred and twenty wen is only the cost in silver and not the price when the books reach the buyer, how much higher can the cost of transportation, shops and employees be?

It's impossible to raise the price directly to nine hundred wen, so that the cost of the book becomes only one tael of silver, right?

That's simply impossible!

What does that mean?

This means that no matter how valuable a book was in the past, it could only be sold for one or two hundred, or two or three hundred coins in Tongan Bookstore!

But how much money did a scholar have to spend to buy a book in a bookstore?

One or two taels is considered a small amount, three or four taels is the norm, and five or six taels is not a small amount.

And who designed the movable type for their printing house?

——Yu Shizhang, the Earl of Yongning!

How could the inscription by Earl Yongning make their calligraphy inferior to that of other famous calligraphers?

It has to be said that Li Hongmao now wanted to run out with the books in the warehouse to let everyone who wanted to read know this good news.

Li Hongmao, who was in his twenties, was laughing like a child at this moment.

Shen Zheng also smiled and picked up the pen, and asked him: "Then I have another good news, do you want to hear it?"

"listen!"

Shen Zheng circled the word "paper" in the account book.

Li Hongmao stared at it for a while, and suddenly looked up, "Master, have you found cheaper paper?!"

Then it would be possible with just one article or one page!

The next moment, Li Hongmao became a little worried again: "Sir, the paper we are using now is already good quality and cheap... If it is cheaper paper, will the ink seepage be more serious?"

"Do you think I can do this thankless task?" Shen Zheng said with a smile, "I forgot that you were not there that day. I thought the uncle and the others wanted to talk to you..."

A feeling suddenly arose in Li Hongmao's heart, and this feeling was called "being isolated".

Then, Shen Zheng explained to him in detail the "gypsum papermaking method" and the "circular papermaking method". Li Hongmao just blinked and could not speak anymore.

This is the real bargain!

Shen Zheng laughed again and returned the account book to him. "You will have to calculate the cost again when the time comes. But you have been working faster recently. Print the twelve books as soon as possible. Then Lord Yu will negotiate with the counties on our behalf and open the bookstore in the mansion as soon as possible."

The bookstore that I have been looking forward to for months is finally opening.

Li Hongmao felt a sense of nervousness for no reason.

I hope there will be less trouble then...

......

At noon, after meal.

Everyone in the printing workshop took a break at noon, but Shen Zheng and Liang Fu could not.

How long they can rest is determined by the stove.

At three quarters after noon, a bell rang in the blast furnace room. Liang Fu put on his fire-proof protective gear and prepared to go inside. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Shen Zheng sitting there motionless.

He stopped and took off his hood: "What's going on?"

Shen Zheng placed one hand on his chest and rubbed his fingers with the other hand and said, "Wait a moment longer. I feel like this time it will work."

Liang Fu pursed his lips.

"Don't feel that way again. You have this feeling every day. Which of these times do you really count?"

He believed him the first few times, but later on he realized that Shen Zheng was just playing tricks on the old man!

"This time is different!" Shen Zheng said righteously, pointing at the table.

A small stone plate with a thick needle standing in the middle.

That was the small corona she had made temporarily, which was an ancient version of a clock. When there was sunlight, one could tell the time at a glance.

"Why is it different?" Seeing that she refused to move, Liang Fu had no choice but to sit back.

Shen Zheng took out a booklet from her arms and threw it on the table.

There are a few big words on the book cover - "Glass Melting Test Data".