I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With
Chapter 869 - Chapter 869 Cooperation

Chapter 869: Cooperation Chapter 869: Cooperation Editor: Atlas Studios Mu Yangling sent the publishing house manager to look for the butlers of the Hanlin scholars’ family, and both parties signed a contract.

Mu Yangling offered to help the Hanlin officials publish any books written by them, without them having to pay a copper coin in advance.

The manager even hinted that not only could their publishing house publish their books of annotations, but they could also publish their poems, essays, travel memoirs, various insights about studying in general, and even the scripts for story-telling written in their spare time.

Such a thoughtful service made the scholars feel flattered.

“They’re even publishing our poems, writings, and travel memoirs?” A Hanlin official looked at his butler suspiciously and asked, “It’s rather costly and time-consuming.

Is Prince Rong’s estate willing to invest so much?” The butler lowered his head and said, “The publishing house manager personally told us that.

I feel that the dignified Prince’s estate wouldn’t lie to us.

This matter will only be beneficial to Master, so I signed the contract.

LookaEUR|” “It’s good that you signed it.” The Hanlin official stroked his beard and smiled.

“The annotations need to be worked on slowly, but I have plenty of poems, essays, and notes in my study right now.

Later, I’ll sort out a stack and let you bring it to them to see if they’ll publish it.

If they do, it means that what they said is true.” The other Hanlin officials obviously thought so too, so the publishing house manager sent many manuscripts to Mu Yangling the next day.

Mu Yangling flipped through them and nodded.

“As expected of someone from Hanlin.

Even the quality and quantity of the manuscripts they casually took out are all top-notch.

Since they’re willing to give it a shot, quickly get our workers to print them.

Print 500 copies of each and send one copy to the author.

The rest will be distributed to various branches at a discounted price.” Over the years, the publishing house had accumulated quite a number of type matrices.

It could be said that other than a few especially rare words, there were 20 to 30 different matrices for each character.

For the more commonly used words, the number was as high as 50 to 60.

They were placed on the shelf according to the number of strokes of the character, making it very convenient to be used.

These days, printing a book does not require carving the words of an entire book before printing it like before, in which case a single mistake would destroy the whole book.

In addition to having sufficient manpower, the publishing house also sent the manuscripts to the other branches in Jiangnan to print them.

Under everyone’s cooperation, all the books created from the manuscripts were printed in less than three days.

Mu Yangling got someone to send the books to the various Hanlin officials.

Everyone thought that the Prince’s estate’s publishing house had printed their own books first, so they were naturally smug.

In the end, they only found out the next day that all the Hanlin officials had received the books together.

When they returned home and heard from their steward that their books could now be purchased at the bookstores, they couldn’t help but be shocked.

“How much manpower has the Prince’s estate invested in?

How can it be so fast?” The butler said, “I heard that they use a different printing method.

It’s called movable type printing which gained popularity in the north a few years ago.

It’s just that all the publishing houses are unwilling to change their existing printing method.

Therefore, other than the Princess Consort’s publishing house, only some small publishing houses in the north use this method.” But there was no helping it.

Block printing had been perfected by now, and every publishing house had an extensive collection of printing blocks.

Even without needing to carve new words, they were sufficiently competitive.

Even if they made a mistake and had to carve a new copy, there was more than enough time for them to do so.

But this meant that there were very few new books on the market, and most of them were old content that kept being printed.

And the minority of the new books being printed were also sold at a high price.

When the Hanlin officials received the brand-new books, they sighed.

“Princess Consort Rong is smart.

No wonder Prince Rong dotes on her alone.” At this moment, Fang Zhiyuan also marveled at Princess Consort Rong’s wisdom and means.

It was no wonder she could gain the sole favor of Prince Rong as well as the Emperor’s respect.

Today, the Crown Prince and Prince had compiled the investigation they had done and handed the report to him.

On it was a comparison of two diagrams clearly showing the income and farming situation of families with cows, versus the income and farming situation of those without cows.

There were also some analysis and conjectures below.

Fang Zhiyuan had never known that questions could be answered like this.

After pondering for a while, he couldn’t help but write down Little Bear’s question on a piece of paper.

When his youngest son came to hand in his homework, he took a glance at it.

That kid did not dare to ask him, so he asked his mother, “Why are the farmers still unable to provide for themselves even after working hard for a year?” Of course, it wouldn’t occur to Mrs.

Fang to ask the child to find the answer himself.

Instead, she told him about the class division of scholars, farmers and merchants.

She told him that as long as one studied hard, a child born in a farming family could become a scholarly farmer.

In fact, by achieving honors in the Imperial Examination, one could even break away from their status as a farmer and advance further, allowing their family to escape poverty and become richaEUR| Fang Zhiyuan thought about the Princess Consort, who kept a low profile and rarely appeared in social events, and realized just how wise she was.

Looking at his wife’s sullen expression, Fang Zhiyuan sighed and said, “Alright, I’m not blaming you.

It’s just that you shouldn’t have said this to the child.” “What’s wrong with me saying this?” Mrs.

Fang said angrily, “Is it wrong for me to motivate our child to study hard?” “It’s not wrong for you to motivate our child to study hard, but you’re not actually answering the child’s question.

By giving him such an answer, you’re not helping the child understand why.

Do you want him to answer the questions in the Imperial Examination like this?” Mrs.

Fang blushed.

She didn’t think that her answer was irrelevant, but her husband was the Crown Prince’s Junior Tutor and was knowledgeable.

If he said that the answer didn’t match the question, that was naturally the case.

She said anxiously, “Would that really affect the child?

Then why didn’t you say so earlier?

If I had known, I wouldn’t have spouted nonsense.” Fang Zhiyuan waved his hand and said, “Alright, I’ll handle this matter.

Don’t worry.” He held his youngest son’s hand and returned to the study.

After checking his homework, he stroked his head.

“When you’re free, follow the steward to our farmstead and ask the farmers about the crop harvesting.

Perhaps you can gain something from it.” The youngest son lowered his head and agreed dejectedly.

At this moment, Little Treasure and Little Bear happily rolled around on the bed and shouted, “We’re finally free!” Li Jinghua had just stepped through the threshold when she heard this excited shout.

She walked in with her eyebrows raised, then tapped the two children’s foreheads and said, “If your teachers find out you’re just rolling around in bed during your break, let’s see if they’ll still agree to give you a break.” Little Treasure immediately rolled into his mother’s arms and wheedled.

“Mother, you can’t tell the teachers that.

I was just too happy and got carried away for a moment.

We’re going to do our homework later.” Little Bear also got up and nodded repeatedly.

“The teachers gave us a lot of homework.” Afraid that Li Jinghua wouldn’t believe it, Little Bear even jumped off the bed and showed her his homework.

He said dejectedly, “Last night, the homework took me at least a day.

Half of our two-day vacation was gone just like that.” Little Treasure also nodded sadly.

“So, Mother, we’re not free at all.

We were just horsing around just now.” Li Jinghua was amused by them.

“Alright, I was just scaring you kids.

Little Bear, quickly pack up.

Your father will come and fetch you out of the palace later.

Bao’er, go with your Fourth Uncle and stay at their place today.

Aren’t you going to the farmstead tomorrow?

It’s more convenient to go there from their house.” Little Treasure cheered.

After he asked the palace maids to pack his books and homework, he whispered into Little Bear’s ear, “Let’s set off early tomorrow.

We can even go to the farmstead to hunt rabbits.”

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