The sun is shining and the spring breeze is getting warmer. The people of Yangzhou who have been holding back all the winter have walked out of their homes to enjoy the good weather in early spring. Ruizhifang is located on the side of Guanhe River that passes through the city. It is actually the best place in the city, so it is becoming more and more bustling and bustling.

Just as the people were basking in the sun, looking around, the sound of firecrackers suddenly sounded in the center of the main street in Ruizhifang. This sound continued a lot of confrontation. At the end, there was a strong smell of gunpowder above half of the street. [The latest updates are all in search.]

"What happened?"

"If anything happens, a merchant company must be opened again..."

"Why did this firecracker be released for so long? I don't have money and it seems that this merchant is a small business..."

"If you have to put your own flower whip on a business shop, you must not grow..."

"Why is this?"

Seeing these rural relatives confused, the Yangzhou people who were talking before naturally felt a sense of superiority surged in their hearts. "The opening of a business business should always be a gift to send whips. What does it look like if they put out the flowers and whips?"

His explanation was equivalent to saying nothing, and the relatives in the countryside did not ask any more questions, and nodded to show their understanding. In fact, they were still confused. If someone started a business with them, wouldn’t it be enough to just put a bunch of flowers and whips to blow up the joy and wealth?

Then the few people didn't say anything more. They were all out strolling around and went wherever they went, so they simply followed the sound and smelling smell of the flower whip toward the center of Fang Street.

The weather is good today, and it seems that everyone in Yangzhou City has come out, and they are all thinking about watching the fun. Therefore, it is already crowded before these people can get to where the sound comes from.

In the end, relying on the big and round waists of relatives in the countryside, several people finally squeezed to the forefront of the crowd. When it was still cold, a layer of white hair and sweat appeared on their foreheads.

The Yangzhou people looked forward and saw a very generous merchant business. Ruizhifang, where they are located, is located in the upper territory of Luocheng, Yangzhou, and the land price is extremely high. It is impossible for any merchant business to have three doors here, but the newly opened merchant business line in front of them is China Unicom's five doors.

Five bad things!

Seeing this scene, Yangzhou people who took their relatives to the city were shocked. My dear mother, let’s not talk about anything else. What kind of business does this have to be done and how much money is enough to earn to rent a house?

At this moment, the flower whip was finally put out. As a middle-aged man wearing new clothes shouted, "The auspicious time has come." The eight guys standing behind him suddenly stepped forward and removed the partition on the door.

Yangzhou people were thinking that these guys wearing new clothes were a little different from other merchants. The smell on their bodies seemed to have been studied. Whether the partitions were removed from the front were removed, the Yangzhou people stretched their necks and looked inside like other people watching the fun.

He was stunned at this time.

The merchants, who seem to be extremely bright because they are connected by five rooms, have clear windows inside. There are clearly several three-legged incense burners that can be seen scented here. There are also pots of extremely beautiful pruned pot trees at the intervals. There are either flutes or harp zithers hanging on the back of the pot village. It seems that it is really elegant.

Under the flute, rows of lattice cabinets with heights that are only reaching the chest are neatly placed in the room. These lattice cabinets are painted with oil and shiny. I don’t know how strict tung oil was used, but it looks like it is actually glowing with jade.

But the one that was in the lattice cabinet was actually... a book

This is actually a bookstore in a printing club!

After seeing it clearly, this Yangzhou man who claims to be knowledgeable was completely stunned. He was the best in Luocheng's territory. It was a huge land in Ruizhifang, where every inch of land was valuable. A merchant business that was so thoughtful in the interior was actually a book seller.

These days, it’s really evil. Could it be that the sales of books can make greater profits than those of the merchants?

The Tuozhou people were still stunned, and their bodies suddenly tilted, but a scholar in Confucian uniform squeezed past him and went straight into the bookstore.

With this leader, the scholars in the crowd immediately followed. In just a moment, the Hongwen Bookstore was already extremely lively.

The scholar who ran in first was named Yueqing. He was originally accompanied by his newly married wife to the street to express his feelings, but he was really a nerd. He only walked on the street for a short while and became frustrated. But as soon as he entered the bookstore, he smelled the familiar fragrance of paper and ink, and immediately became energetic.

When he walked to the lattice cabinet, he reached out to take out a book, but it was the "Wenxin Diaolong" that he had figured out many times. However, this book was different from the one he purchased at Wanfang Seal Club. In addition to the title of the book, there are four eye-catching red waters and water sky essences in the lower right corner on the seal.

"Shuitian?" When you first saw these four words, Zhou Qing thought came to his mind, "Is this a printed version of the original version of the Shuitian Pavilion collection?"

I don’t know which scholars in Jiangnan know about Shuitian Pavilion, the first library in Jiangnan? Zhou Qing opened the book in confusion and felt pleasing to the eye as soon as he saw it. Because each of the six pages of books he was reading was the same size, which made it look integrated and neatly and comfortable.

With just this moment, Zhou Qing has concluded that the price of this book must be high. The engraving and printing requires a whole page of the book's content on a whole wooden board. The complex and simple style of the book and the strokes are different, which will inevitably lead to the carved spaces that are often different in size, and after printing them into the book, it will appear less neat. For example, the book "Wen. Diaolong" he bought at Wanfang Seal Club is like this.

If you want to achieve the level of this book in your hand, it means that when making plates, each character on a whole wooden board is exactly the same size. As long as the size of a single body is not consistent, the whole body will be discarded and cannot be used anymore. After all, the paper is a whole. This is easy to say, but it is difficult to make. People make mistakes and horses make hoofs. If carvers want to make such a plate that is not wrong with each body, I don’t know how much it will be scrapped in front.

After so much effort, can this book be cheap? As this thought flashed through my mind, Zhou Qing couldn't help but sigh that the book that Hongwen Seal Club has spent so much effort on printing is so comfortable to read.

After turning a few more pages, each page was described in the same size and was refreshing and neat. Zhou Qingshang couldn't sigh again before he looked at the contents carefully.

"Wenxin Diaolong" was originally a must-have book on a scholar's desk. Zhou Qing, a nerd, worked hard and the content was already familiar with it. Comparing what he wrote in his heart with the water and the essence of water and sky in his hand, he immediately realized the interest in asking.

There are some words different from the one he bought at the Hongwen Seal Society. Although this situation is not too many, there are always three or four between three or five pages. Yucha, who is inconsistent with these two books, is also his doubts when reading books in daily life.

After careful comparison, Zhou Qing sighed again. This is the difference between the version, proofreading and the printing club's carefulness.

The seal script of carving boards appeared in the former Sui Dynasty. For example, the "Wenxin Diaolong" from the Six Dynasties could only be passed down by handwritten copies. Different people copying and different backgrounds based on different books will lead to different books copied. Therefore, handwritten copies often have errors, which is also the most troublesome thing for scholars.

For example, when there are differences in a sentence or some words in this sentence, it is absolutely not an easy thing to confirm that it is correct in different manuscripts. In addition to requiring the proofreader to be careful enough, he also requires him to have sufficient knowledge and knowledge so that he can accurately understand the author's original intention and then eliminate the false and retain the truth.

With Zhou Qing's nerd character, Shui Tiannao naturally had been there. He also knew that there were five different versions of "Wenxin Diaolong" in the more than 20,000 volumes of the Pavilion, including a woodblock printing version from the former Sui Dynasty, and three were handwritten copies left by different people. As for the last one, it was the preparatory version collected on the third floor of Shui Tian Pavilion.

The scholars in Jiangnan all knew that the Shuitian Pavilion not only had a rich collection of books, but also had the proofreading of Ye Mengfu, a well-educated scholar in Yangzhou, who specialized in collecting books. Only the books he had personally proofreaded could be entered into the bookcase on the third floor. Unfortunately, it was not borrowed from the public to prepare the books, so Zhou Qing had never seen them.

Unexpectedly, this regret was replenished today. After reading the book "Wenxin Diaolong" published by Hongwen Printing Club for a few more pages, Yue Qing has completely confirmed that this book is a collection of the preparatory books in Shuitian Pavilion that Ye Mengfu personally proofreaded by Ye Mengfu.

Good book!

What a good book!

I already have a "Wenxin Diaolong" bought by Wanfang Printing Club at home. Zhou Qing had only thought of reading this book casually, but after reading it, I could no longer throw it away. Not to mention the exquisiteness of printing and binding, just saying that this book is a water Tiannao Skull Preparation Book proofread by Ye Mengfu, it is worth buying.

This is a good book worth buying and collecting!

With "Wenxin Diaolong" interspersed, Zhou Qing took out another book "Zhaoming Wenxuan" from the lattice cabinet, which is also a must-have book for scholars. The pages still contain the four words "Shuitian Jingshu" on them. When you open it, you can't throw it away again.

Afterwards, Zhou Qing's feelings became extremely complicated. The excitement was mixed with pain and reluctance. The Hongwen Seal Club, which was excited about the killing of the sky, was all "Shuitian Jingcai". It was really good, I wanted all the books, and I wanted them all, and I was worth buying them back and sacrificing them. The pain was how much money these books cost! How could I buy them all? But when I made the choice, how did I make him choose?

I don't want to lose every book!

As he walked and watched, Zhou Qing found that the other scholars in the bookstore who were reading clearly encountered the same difficulties as him. They were clamped under their arms, held in their hands, and still looked at them. They were all greedy and reluctant to leave them all, and they wanted them all, and they didn't want to lose them either.

When he looked up, Zhou Qing couldn't help laughing when he saw this scene. The four words "Hongwen Seal Society" were imprinted into his mind and even if he wanted to forget it, he couldn't forget it.

After studying for many years, he also traveled through more than a hundred bookshelf. He has visited, and no one of the thirteen largest seal clubs in Jiangnan has been missing. But when you think about it carefully, if you talk about the best book publishing, no one can compare to the newly opened Hongwen seal club.

Everything that comes out must be "Shuitian Jingcai" and there are no Buddhist scriptures and Taoist scriptures in the bookstore. The Hongwen Seal Society is well-known and truly Hongwen!

Just when Zhou Qing was struggling to make choices, the light on the book Sheng Jue was looking at dimmed. When he turned his head to read, a large group of people walked in with an old man with a beard in his head.

"Zheweng is here too." The scholars in Yangzhou didn't know that Chen Yizhe was rare. Zhou Qing was full of admiration for the old man. He wanted to come forward to greet him when he saw that he was coming. However, after walking a few steps, Zhou suddenly stopped after hearing some greetings.

In just a few short steps, there was not even a stranger to the names and nicknames mentioned in the greetings, and they were all famous scholars from various states in Jiangnan.

"Why have so many famous scholars arrived in Yangzhou?" Zhou Qing was hesitating to meet. Chen Yizhe, who was greeting others, saw him and then waved with a smile.

Seeing this, Zhou Yao hurried forward with a graceful look and respectfully saluted Chen Yizhe.

"Why haven't I seen you at Shuitian Pavilion these days?" After hearing about the wedding, Chen Yizhe smiled and said a few congratulations, he pointed at him and said to the famous scholars around him: "This son is named Zhou Qing, his family background is innocent, and he is inspiring to study. He is really the best among the younger generation of Shilin, Yangzhou. When the literary club held a poetry meeting, I think he will have a great work..."

With Zheweng introduced this, the famous scholars couldn't help but give Zhou Qing a few words of kindness. Seeing that many famous scholars in Jiangnan who had only heard of his name but not his person before treated him like this, Zhou Qing's face gradually showed an excited and excited red apple.

After arriving at the ceremony, Zhou Qingcai suddenly asked: "I don't know which literary club is the literary club that Zheweng said? When will the poetry and prose meet?"

After hearing his question, everyone laughed. Chen Yizhe smiled and waved his hand, "I will tell the story of the literary club later, so I won't talk about it today. Zhou Qing, let me ask you, how about this Hongwen Seal Club?" After hearing the question, Zhou Qing blurted out... "Okay, the exquisiteness of the books here is only seen by students..."

"Oh" When Chen Yizhe was about to ask again, Zhou Qing took a step back and bowed to him, Ye Mengfu, and Yuan Sanshan, and gave a big gift.

His actions made Chen Yizhe and the famous scholars unconscious, and Ye Mengfu asked even more curiously.

Zhou Qing didn't say anything, but presented the book in his hand to Ye Mengfu. Seeing this, the famous scholars took the book to see what it was.

When Ye Mengfu took the book, he first saw the four words "Shuitian Jingcai" on the page. When he opened the page, he saw that the first page of the book recorded the incident of him and Yuan Sanshan assisting Chen Yizhe in establishing the Shuitian Pavilion. In this case, it not only recorded the origin of the establishment of the Shuitian Pavilion, but also the incident of his proofreading the collection.

Looking at these words, Ye Mengfu was first surprised, and then a warm current surged involuntarily in his heart. At the end, even his eyes couldn't help but a layer of water floated a little.

After reading this book, Ye Mengfu picked up seven or eight books in a row, and all he saw was the same scene. At this point, the layer of water in his eyes became stronger and stronger, and he could only calm down his excitement by putting a book.
Chapter completed!