Yuan Feng respectfully said, "Please enlighten me, Your Majesty!"
"I think we can have the characters engraved separately, and then arrange them according to the records in books...!"
Liu Hong then explained the matter of "movable type printing" to Yuan Feng in detail.
"Your Majesty's method is ingenious! In this way, even if some text is damaged or lost, it can be quickly replenished, and all kinds of books in the world can be freely copied! Your Majesty's brilliant idea truly fills me with the utmost admiration!!"
Yuan Feng's eyes lit up. He greatly approved of the idea of movable type printing for the emperor and looked at Liu Hong with admiration.
Everyone in the hall looked at Liu Hong with the same expression, truly astonished by the emperor's extraordinary way of thinking.
Finally, when Cai Yong heard that Mo Shang had delivered two large cartloads of paper to the palace, even he couldn't help but ask Liu Hong for them.
In the end, Chen Fan, Hu Guang, Yuan Feng, and Cai Yong each left Deyang Palace with a large stack of papers, totaling hundreds of sheets.
Mo Shang and Cao Song were kept behind by Liu Hong to discuss papermaking and its promotion.
"What did you say??? These four pages only cost one cent??"
When Cao Song learned the true cost of papermaking, he stared wide-eyed at Mo Shang.
The cost was one qian for four pages of paper, but the selling price was fifty qian for one page, a profit of two hundred times. This made Cao Song so excited that he almost fainted.
Liu Hong, on the other hand, didn't take it seriously. He had actually guessed the cost of paper from the beginning.
While paper is a valuable resource and indeed facilitates the dissemination of cultural knowledge, it also risks breaking the monopoly of aristocratic families over culture.
Therefore, Liu Hongcai and Mo Shang worked together to set the price of paper at fifty coins per sheet, making money while also deceiving the powerful and wealthy families.
After all, fifty coins for a single sheet of paper was not something an ordinary family could afford.
Liu Hong's real purpose was to use printing technology to promote books!
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