Seeing everyone's faces of worry, Cui Yonghui continued: "Yang Fan is extremely hateful. He always goes against us and must be removed as soon as possible."

Zheng Kai sighed, "We can imagine that the emperor could not have imagined it? The emperor acquiesced to the boy to recruit so many guards, which obviously also means protecting the bastard."

"If we act rashly, we may fall into the trap of that boy Yang Fan."

"What's more, that kid's martial arts are very good. Last time the kid was assassinated, the bow and crossbow only hurt him. Obviously, he had to think of a perfect solution."

Wang Lun analyzed worriedly: "No matter how high Yang Fan's martial arts skills are, they are not the most terrifying thing. As long as they are physically mortal, they have a way to deal with it."

"Our aristocratic families have been passed down for hundreds or even thousands of years without falling. Who doesn't have some dead soldiers with high martial arts skills?"

"We used to say that a family of a hundred-year-old dynasty and a thousand-year-old dynasty may now cause variables."

"Once His Majesty Li Er continues to implement the measures for the imperial examination reform and the court frees from the shackles of our aristocratic family, then we can only gradually disappear into the long river of history."

Hearing this, Cui Yonghui was a little worried, but he still said confidently: "Don't worry, it's probably not that easy to implement these measures."

Zheng Kai asked in confusion: "What does Brother Cui mean? Is there any good way to do this?"

Cui Yongjian smiled coldly and said, "Now, whether it is the business of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, or the printing and rubbing of books, the most advanced craftsmanship is concentrated in the workshops of several of our companies."

"If the imperial court wants to produce large quantities of imperial examination books, it will definitely buy paper from the market. As long as we cover the paper in our hands and do not flow into the market, the imperial court can only purchase goods from other channels at a high price."

"A good woman can't cook without rice. The court has no paper. If you want to produce books, it's just a mirror."

"Besides, whether it is paper, pen, ink, ink, ink, or printing paper and books, the various crafts of the imperial court may not be able to surpass us."

"As long as we secretly obstruct every link between production and sales, the court's expenses will inevitably be extremely high at that time. With the current taxes of the court, it will not last long."

"In addition, we can also jamm them from the raw materials, and even the price cost of paper, pen, ink and inkstone and books used by the court will be far more than that of us."

"If there is no money to support it, these policies will be destroyed without conquering them. The court can only delegate these rights to us obediently. How much price should we set at that time besides us?"

After listening to Cui Yonghui's analysis, everyone's eyes lit up!

Lu Shanchen even complimented: "Brother Cui's analysis is reasonable. The production process of the imperial court is already poor, and the cost is much higher than that of us."

"As long as we stuck them in every link, the production cost of the court will be too high, and it depends on how long they can last."

"When the court has no money, we will still beg for us. What we want to do is not just a matter of our words."

When Zheng Kai heard their words sounded firm, he asked in confusion: "Brother Cui, why are you sure that the production cost of the imperial court must be very high? Is there any insider information?"

Cui Yonghui smiled indifferently and said confidently: "Don't worry, everyone, the news is absolutely accurate."

"According to the news revealed by the Wu brothers, Yang Fan's family has been emptied for his reputation."

"Also, His Majesty Li Er sold books at half price and was rejected by Wei Zheng on the grounds that the treasury tax was insufficient. However, the emperor was blinded by his achievements and insisted on his own."

Wang Lun even laughed and clapped his hands and said, "Then let's put together the emperor to know that our aristocratic family is not so easy to bully..."

So, several major families discussed how to act.

But what these aristocratic people don’t know is that the court not only has cheap papermaking techniques.

The raw materials only require some grass, bamboo and wood. These things can be said to be everywhere in the Tang Dynasty.

What's more, movable type printing

The cost of books has been minimized, but they were all confused by the illusion created by Yang Fan.

Even the brushes and inkstones have been continuously transported to Junyangfang under Yang Fan's deliberate explanation.

While Yang Fan was determined and unintentional, several major families were ignorant.

After several major families discussed, the families began to purchase a large number of raw materials, paper, pen, ink and inkstones around Chang'an City and even throughout the Tang Dynasty.

So the acquisition price is more than half a century higher than the original ones sold.

In order to ensure that these things are not acquired by the imperial court, major families even used many shameless means.

He did not hesitate to threaten and intimidate some aristocratic families and merchants to cooperate with them.

So the prices of various school supplies circulating on the market reached the peak, which made all scholars complain.

Just as the aristocratic family was making various obstructions, the court also began to take action.

Yang Fan was responsible for all the tasks of printing the Four Books and Five Classics, Yang's Enlightenment and Yang's Calculation.

Yang Fan was handed over these tasks to Wang Xuance in secret.

After all, Yang Fan still thinks Junyangfang is the safest because there is very little flow of people there.

In particular, key steps, such as movable type printing font molds, and finished printing products.

Yang Fan directly asked the workers to eat and live in the workshop to prevent leakage.

Therefore, under the unspoken printing technology of movable type printing, the speed of printing various books takes off directly.

According to Yang Fan's instructions, Wang Xuance divided the workers into three shifts and printed them day and night.

Nearly 5,000 books were printed in one day, and as the proficiency grew, the output became larger and larger.

In just a few days, nearly 50,000 undergraduate books were printed.

If people from the aristocratic family knew about it, they would definitely be shocked.

Now it is the 12th year of Zhenguan. The entire Tang Dynasty has more than 3 million households, with a total population of about 30 million, which is registered by the government.

Although there are many who are not registered and are black households, the total population is only more than 40 million.

Among these people, few people are literate, even fewer are scholars!

According to the proportion of one scholar among a hundred people, there are only about 400,000 scholars in the entire Tang Dynasty.

There are only tens of thousands of people who have not won the exam, and some enlightenment children can reach a maximum of 300,000.

Calculated based on the number of sets per person, only 300,000 sets of books are required to be enough for the early demand.

Nowadays, the number of printing in Junyangfang can be met in just one month.

Of course, Yang Fan calculated that one and a half months could definitely meet the needs of the world.

Moreover, the number of 300,000 sets is calculated based on the largest demand for scholars in the Tang Dynasty. In fact, the demand should be far lower than this number.

So, half a month later, the first batch of imperial examination books and school supplies were sold in Chang'an City and around.

If the normal situation is normal, everyone can buy books at sales points in various places.

Of course, this is theoretically speaking.

If you don’t study or buy it with ulterior motives, you will be a little nervous.

In order to ensure that poor students can buy imperial examination books, the News Department has issued regulations.

Anyone who buys books needs to register. After purchasing one set, the second set cannot be purchased within three months.

This is also the solution that the News Department has come up with fear that someone will buy books maliciously.

After all, these books were printed by the imperial court "subsidized".

Moreover, for the sake of fairness, the books printed from Junyangfang were distributed every day according to the population ratio of the states of the Tang Dynasty.

Every day, the imperial examination books and school supplies will be distributed from Junyangfang to all the world's various quotas until the daily share is used up.

It has to be said that the News Department has taken into account very thoroughly, fully considering fairness and justice, and also eliminated the possibility of artificial interference as much as possible.

Of course, what shocked all students the world the most was that the prices of imperial examination books and school supplies were much lower than that of some time ago.

The price of a whole set is only 60 stakes of copper coins.

You should know that this set includes the Four Books and Five Classics, as well as more than a dozen books such as Yang's enlightenment and mathematics.

On average, the price of a book is less than five cents.

You should know that the Four Books and Five Classics and other imperial examination books sold by aristocratic families were priced at more than ten cents of yuan.

Recently, the price has been soaring continuously, and the price has increased by six times. A book has reached dozens of cents, which is also the reason why all students in the world complain.

Because many people feel desperate about this price.

Nowadays, the prices of imperial examination books and school supplies sold by the News Department are even lower than the original normal price of the Aristocratic Family.

It is only about 1/3 of the original price, and less than 1/10 of the price increase.

For scholars, it is simply a blessing, it is really too cheap!

According to the court, this price is probably not even enough.

As expected, His Majesty the Emperor did what he said, and the court was paying for money to print and sell various imperial examination books and school supplies.

With this discovery, countless poor students were moved to tears.

I vowed to study hard, serve the court, and live up to the emperor's expectations of them.

In fact, His Majesty Li Er felt that the prices of these books and school supplies were already ridiculously high.

Because His Majesty Li Er knows how cheap these books are.

It was only after Yang Fan's tough persuasion that it sold so expensively.

In order to cause heavy bleeding from the aristocratic family, the scholars who bought books in the early stage could only lose some money.

Of course, Yang Fan also knew that these things were a bit expensive.
To be continued...