Shi Yiwen couldn't sleep well all night. He tossed and turned a lot.

He was not thinking about just "family". In fact, he didn't care about the Song family at all. Instead, he thought about what he said to Tang Ziqi.

Since the time travel, Shi Yiwen has not had many plans for the future. Even giving the soap recipe to Tang Ziqi was just a temporary idea. However, when he made the reason so high-sounding, when the hydraulic spinning wheels appeared in his mind why the industrial revolution did not start in ancient times.

Shi Yiwen seemed to have begun to believe that this was his ideal to return to the ancient times.

Just how can this ideal be realized?

Early in the morning, Shi Yiwen got up and did not even go to the Qinhuai River to run as usual. After breakfast, he went directly to Sanshan Street and arrived at Shidetang, which he usually comes to the most.

"Please sit down, Mr. Shi."

Sun Linkai did not expect that as soon as the door was opened, the shop's big customer arrived. He heard that he had something to discuss with him, so he asked him to go to the second floor. When he ordered someone to serve tea, he did not immediately ask the other party's purpose.

He has been in business for many years and knows that since the other party comes here so early in the morning, there must be something important, otherwise he will definitely not be so anxious. The more anxious he is, the easier it is to fall into a bad situation.

"Shopkeeper Sun, I won't say secret words in front of Mingren. I'm here today to discuss a deal with you!"

Looking at Sun Linkai, Shi Yiwen directly expressed his intention.

"I want to buy this Shide Building and ask Manager Sun to offer a price!"

Well!

Sun Linkai opened his eyes wide and looked at Shi Yiwen in surprise.

"Mr. Shi, what are you saying? You want to buy Shide Tower?"

"Yes, that's right!"

Shi Yiwen nodded and said casually.

"Please ask the shopkeeper to offer a price."

How much money did you earn when you went to Songjiang this time? Shi Yiwen knew very well that it was almost 700,000 taels. Even if you deduct 10% of the exchange fee, it was still more than 600,000 taels. You just bought a bookstore and couldn't spend much money.

"This, Mr. Shi, although Shi Delou is not the ancestor of the Sun family, I don't want to sell it?"

Then Sun Linkai said again.

"To be honest, Mr. Shi, Shide Building is a century-old official. The most valuable thing is not the signboard, but the characters and characters in the building. Not to mention anything else, it is the characters and characters that are placed in the seal workshop outside the city. If there is no longer a hundred years, I am afraid that I will not be able to accumulate..."

Otherwise, I wouldn't have come to you. Shi Yiwen thought in his heart that the reason he chose Shide Tower was because Shide Tower is a century-old store with a large number of characters and enough technicians. If you buy such a bookstore, you can put it into use immediately.

"... It was a coincidence that my father bought the Shide Building. How could I sell this building easily?"

"I really don't sell it?"

Shi Yiwen asked back.

"It is necessary not to sell it, but not to sell it. Even if the young master pays 100,000 taels, it cannot be sold. After all, in the future, this Shidelou will be the ancestral property of the Sun family!"

Sun Linkai refused without hesitation, but he said again while refusing.

"Actually, why don't you buy Shide Building? If the young master wants to buy a bookstore, I have a suggestion. As far as I know, there is a bookstore in the city that has been closed for many days. If the young master is interested, you might as well go there and ask the previous question. I wonder what the young master wants?"

When he made this suggestion, a gleam flashed through Sun Linkai's seemingly faint old eyes. He was an enemy and someone wanted to break in. Naturally, he was not happy, but he did not refuse directly, but took the initiative to open his eyes for him, with a sincere smile on his face.

"The shopkeeper has been bothering. I wonder where this bookstore is?"

The bookstore mentioned by Sun Linkai is not far from Sanshan Street, but he also has to go out of the outer city and is close to the Yangtze River. However, just as soon as he arrived at the bookstore, Shi Yiwen liked this place. The owner of the study room was a young man who looked only thirty years old. When the two met, he seemed extremely polite.

"Young Master, you see, although the seal room of this bookstore is not a brick wall, it is also a thick brick-based wooden wall, with extremely strong beams. There are 16 such big houses in this total. Not to mention anything else, just these houses, plus this yard, are worth three thousand taels."

Listening to Zhao Wende's introduction, Shi Yiwen nodded and asked.

"The place is not small, let's go and check out the printing plate first."

The house is not important at all. The most important thing is the printing plate and the font. For Shi Yiwen, who wants to run a bookstore to print newspapers, with these two things, you can print the newspaper immediately.

"Please follow me!"

Zhao Wende led the way in front and entered a room where the room was filled with bookshelves. The wooden carved plates on the bookshelf were arranged neatly like books.

Looking at the carved panels filled with the entire warehouse in front of him, Shi Yiwen was stunned for a while, and he looked up and asked.

"Are these printing plates for us?"

"Go back to my son, although our Hongwen Building has only been built for fifty-seven years, we have engraved more than 600 books over the past fifty-seven years, and the book versions are as many as 09,000. The book carvings printed in these fifty-seven years are all here. There are 3 such warehouses in Hongwen Building. Do you agree with it?"

After saying that, he took an old book from the bookshelf of the two people, and handed it to Shi Yiwen and said.

"Young Master, you see, this book is the carved plate on this shelf. Although some carved plates are inevitably old and deformed after years of use, they can be mostly used. After all, carved plates are made of high-quality wood. To be honest, if I hadn't been interested in running a bookstore, I would never have sold my ancestral property to others easily. After all, just these nearly 110,000 pieces of carved plates are the efforts of the three generations of the Zhao family..."

Well……

Seeing Zhao Wende, who was quite proud of his bookstore, another thought came to Shi Yiwen's mind - I don't care! Why do I want these engravings from your family? I want to print newspapers and books, not old books!

After taking a random look at the engravings, Shi Yiwen first said a few compliments.

"Does our bookstore have movable characters?"

"type?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Wende shook his head and said.

"Young Master doesn't know that although these movable characters are used by all companies, they are extremely limited in their use. After all, printing a book uses at least tens of thousands of characters, and most of them are hundreds of thousands. Not to mention the number of characters required to print a book, even if it is used in the form of a mold, it is time-consuming and laborious to put on the form. Each company's movable characters are used occasionally, that is, when printing some documents, they will only use them when printing some documents, but even so, the size of the characters and the words are different, it is inevitable that they can be printed. If you want to say that printing a book, it is better to engrave it like this, which is durable and not easy to make mistakes when printing a book..."

Zhao Wende's explanation made Shi Yiwen mutter in his heart.

But, I just want to print newspapers!

The reason why newspapers were printed was not to publish advertisements, but to promote new knowledge and new technologies. In ancient times, due to the lack of public opinion tools, technology dissemination was extremely limited. Often, many technologies took hundreds of years to be transmitted to areas thousands of miles away. However, newspapers can use news in the shortest time to let people all over the world see the amazing efficiency of new technologies. Among those who read newspapers, there will naturally be people who are interested in new technologies, and then willing to adopt new technologies, establish factories, and then the changes will unfold silently.
Chapter completed!