My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 62 First Edition Three Kingdoms
After dinner, there is still some time before going to bed.

At times like this, Zhu Zhanhe felt very painful.

There are too many ways to pass the time in the previous life. Watching movies, anime, or playing a game, swiping the phone, it seems that in the blink of an eye, it is the middle of the night.

But in this era, Zhu Zhanhe has no other choice at all, either to play a few games of chess with Sun Ruowei, or to write a few lines with the other party's company.

The so-called "red sleeves add fragrance to reading at night" sounds beautiful, but how can three-dimensional beauties be as cute as two-dimensional girls?

Fortunately, Ma An came back tonight, Zhu Zhanhe finally didn't have to be so boring.

"The son is overjoyed!"

When Ma An saw Zhu Zhanhe, he immediately exaggeratedly yelled, and those who didn't know thought Zhu Zhanhe was pregnant.

"Talk well. During this period of time, you have been in the workshop every day. Is the business very good?"

Zhu Zhanhe reprimanded him before asking with a smile.

"It's not just good, it's very good. Today, a bookseller came to my door and wanted to print five thousand volumes of The Analects."

Ma An replied happily.

"You want so many Analects? Are there so many scholars in the capital?"

Zhu Zhanhe was surprised, the literacy rate in this era is astonishingly low, and the number of scholars can definitely be said to be one in a thousand.

"My son does not know that booksellers like this usually buy in bulk and then transport them to other places for sale. In the past, printed books were mainly concentrated in Fujian. It was not until after the founding of the Ming Dynasty that a large number of printers from Fujian came to the capital. Do workshops."

Ma An obviously put in a lot of effort and has a good understanding of the development and changes of the printing industry.

"No wonder, I remember that the original shopkeeper Wu was from Fujian."

Zhu Zhanhe nodded and said, he also heard people say that Fujian's printing industry was very prosperous in the early Ming Dynasty, and it was the printing center of the whole country.

"Speaking of that shopkeeper Wu, the villain found a good thing in the library of the workshop, and specially sent it to the prince to relieve his boredom."

Ma An said as if offering a treasure, and sent the stack of books in his hand to Zhu Zhanhe's desk.

"Hey, as expected of the shopkeeper of the printing workshop, you only give books as gifts?"

Zhu Zhanhe couldn't help laughing when he saw the stack of books in front of him, he reached out to pick up one, and saw "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written on the cover.

"It wouldn't be..."

Zhu Zhanhe was startled when he saw the title of the book, and hastily opened the book to flip through it. Although there are many discrepancies with the content of later generations, he can be sure that this is the famous "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

"It's really it! It's really it!"

Zhu Zhanhe was so happy that he was about to jump up.

After the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in history was written, it was not taken seriously for a long time. The earliest surviving version was in the Jiajing period. It may have been printed before, but it was not preserved.

"Has your son read this book?"

Seeing Zhu Zhanhe's excited look, Ma An couldn't help asking curiously.

"I've seen it, of course I've seen it, but I didn't see this version!"

Zhu Zhanhe stood up excitedly, walked back and forth in the room twice, and then asked Ma An: "You said you found this book in the workshop's library?"

"That's right, as long as the workshop has printed a book, a few samples will be stored in the library. I hired a few unqualified talents to check the library, and they found two copies of this "Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms", saying that this book is very interesting, villain I also fell in love with it after reading the beginning, so I used it to relieve my boredom."

Ma An immediately recounted the process of discovering the book.

"Is there any printing record of this book, who made it printed, and how many were printed in total before?"

Zhu Zhanhe hurriedly asked again, Luo Guanzhong seemed to have passed away during the Hongwu period, and it didn't take many years to calculate, this is probably the first edition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

"There is no record. I asked the old people in the workshop. They said that when shopkeeper Wu came to the capital from Fujian to set up a workshop, he also brought a lot of sample books. These two books seem to be old. It is likely that shopkeeper Wu brought them from Fujian. came."

Ma An replied again.

"Wait, Fujian!"

At this time, Zhu Zhanhe suddenly remembered that in his later years, Luo Guanzhong wanted to print his works into books, so he went to Fujian, where the printing industry is well-developed, but it seems that he passed away before the books were printed, and his works fell into the hands of his relatives and friends.

"I understand that these books may have been printed by his relatives or friends, and two of them fell into the hands of shopkeeper Wu, who was taken to the capital by him."

Zhu Zhanhe explained the ins and outs of the two books.

Of course, this is just his guess, what is the truth?I'm going to ask that shopkeeper Wu, but it's a pity that the other party has already returned to his hometown in Fujian.

But regardless of the origin of this book, it is now Zhu Zhanhe's.

Zhu Zhanhe counted it and found that there were ten volumes in this book, and the paper was all yellowed. It did look like it was old, but luckily it was well preserved.

As for the printing quality of these books, they are quite average, and there are even typos in some places, which makes Zhu Zhanhe shake his head again and again.

"Ma An, you said there are two parts to this book?"

Zhu Zhanhe raised his head again and asked Ma An.

"Yeah, the other one is in the workshop. The villain plans to use it as a sample book and reprint this book, but I don't know how the market will be in the future?"

Ma An didn't know what to say in the end.

"Print! Make sure to print! Don't worry about sales, even if you lose money!"

Zhu Zhanhe immediately made a decision.

Just kidding, this is one of the four great classics, fans of the Three Kingdoms are everywhere in later generations, and countless TV, movies, and games have been derived from it.

"With the words of the son, the villain will let go and do it!"

Ma An also said very happily that after getting along with him for this period of time, he is also extremely convinced of Zhu Zhanhe, except for the fact that the other party is too prodigal.

"Go, go, don't interfere with my reading!"

Zhu Zhanhe also said impatiently.

It's been a long time since I watched Three Kingdoms. Although it is different from the later versions, it still has a huge appeal to him.

Ma An stepped back immediately, and Zhu Zhanhe sat under the lamp, carefully reading the original version of Three Kingdoms.

"Huh? At the beginning, the song Linjiang Xian is missing!"

Zhu Zhanhe muttered to himself when he saw the opening chapter of The Three Kingdoms.

"Linjiang Immortal" was written by Yang Shen, known as the head of the three great talents in the Ming Dynasty. It was not long before he was born, and this poem was only added to the Three Kingdoms in the Qing Dynasty.

"The rolling waters of the Yangtze River flow eastward, and the waves sweep away the heroes! Without this, the opening chapter will lose momentum."

Zhu Zhanhe said to himself again, and then ordered Sun Ruowei to study ink.

I saw Zhu Zhanhe picked up the brush, dipped it in the ink, and wrote Yang Shen's "Linjiang Immortal" in the blank space of the opening chapter of the Three Kingdoms. At the same time, he made up his mind that when the workshop reprinted the Three Kingdoms, it must take this The first word is added.

Sun Ruowei, who was next to him, saw Zhu Zhanhe write a majestic, generous and tragic poem in one go, and his eyes widened in shock: Is this still His Royal Highness who has no face and skin, and cheats when playing backgammon with himself?

(End of this chapter)