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Chapter 32 - The Lord's Prayer

"Mom..." Fu Xuechen opened his mouth and wanted to speak.

Xie clapped the printing press in his hand and said, "I know what you want to say, and I came here for this. Since you two have created such a good thing, my bookstore thought that it could use this thing to significantly reduce costs, and then profits would be expected..."

"I don't want your printing machine either, so do this! I will call the shopkeeper over tomorrow and hand it over to Xuechen first. In the future, Xuechen will nominally handle the shop's management. Whether it is a loss or a profit depends on you!"

Fu Xuechen agreed immediately: "Thank you, mom! Don't worry! With me here, the bookstore business will only flourish."

However, Xie glanced at her with a smile: "The book shop is yours! But tomorrow, you will still go to your school! I want the new owner of the book shop shop manager to meet is not you, but Yuchen. In the past few months, Yuchen must let you take charge of your hands in your name."

Oh yes! Now the identities of brothers and sisters are exchanged!

Fu Xuechen and Fu Yuchen looked at each other and then realized why Xie had to explain this to both of them at the same time.

"That's it! Yuchen gets off early and dresses up tomorrow, and wait for me to call you." After Xie said that, she stood up and left. She did not stay and listened to the two siblings explaining to each other the daily details that both of them needed to know.

If it involves the royal family and the prince, she should not know. She will not inquire about gossip or care. She comes from a noble family and knows too much about what she can't know too much. Some secrets and small details can only be limited to two children who have exchanged identities.

The two brothers and sisters looked at each other, and Fu Xuechen happily said: "I will take time to go to the east of the city tomorrow and see with my own eyes what the shop looks like."

Fu Yuchen had only envious: "Tsk! Using my identity to run your own book shop is quite convenient for you. Now, you can read enough books in the book shop?!"

"I don't like reading scripts as much as you do." Fu Xuechen said. In fact, she also liked reading online novels in her previous life, which were new style scripts in the new era. Unfortunately, when she came to this time and space, many novels that had not yet been finished in her previous life could not see the ending. This is really a pity!

After traveling for more than half a year, she actually read the script of this time and space in order to understand her.

Unfortunately, the narratives in this era were all traditional Chinese characters with half-text and half-white texts. She also liked to add many poems and titles, which made people very tired, let alone slow pace and outdated content. People who really dozed off and only read half of the books, she completely lost interest.

Fu Yuchen really wanted her sister to get some books he hadn't read from the book shop, but then she thought about it and let it go, so she can mention this matter later.

The current situation is that he is more interested in the stories about Stories from a Chinese Studio that his sister tells every day, so that all the essay books he had read in the past have become boring in comparison, and has changed from reading essay books to writing essay books by himself. This experience is more strange and more fulfilling. He is immersed in it and has temporarily lost interest in other essay books.

The next day, Fu Xuechen really wanted to see her brother Fu Yuchen dressed as a woman. Her expression must be very interesting! Unfortunately, she was going to the palace school early in the morning, and she couldn't wait for the shopkeeper to come to see her mother Xie, and even more so for Fu Yuchen to come out to see people as she dressed as she came to see people.

When she arrived at Mingde Hall, Yoongzuo asked her about new stories. Unfortunately, she had just obtained a book shop last night, and she was excitedly discussing with Fu Yuchen how to improve the business. She did not come up with the new story of Stories from a Chinese Studio, so she could only delay it.

Fu Xuechen calculated it. Before she knew it, she actually owed Fu Yuchen a bunch of new stories and several new stories from Yoonzuo. It seems that she has to find some gunmen to write stories for herself.

Because she was concerned about the business planning of the bookstore, Fu Xuechen was distracted from time to time. Fortunately, the course was not difficult for her and was enough to deal with it.

What she didn't know was that the printing press was placed in front of Emperor Yuan'an on the morning court on that day, following the memorial of the Minister of Works.

In fact, there is no need to carry this printing machine to the palace, but the Sixth Prince privately recruited the Palace Craftsmanship Bureau to build a printing machine. Emperor An of Yuan had heard of it for a long time. He was unable to see it because of the busy state affairs. Seeing the memorial of the Ministry of Works, he asked the Ministry of Works to take the opportunity to see it.

Except for the Ministry of Works, the cabinet ministers in the palace had seen it in advance because of their position. Most of the others, like the emperor, saw the real thing for the first time. As the Minister of Works personally demonstrated, there was no need for craftsmen to carve the plates, they printed dozens of documents on the spot. Each handed over one copy, and the court was in an uproar.

Among them, Ji Ze, a senior secretary of Dongge, was even more excited. He held one of the printed documents in his hand and looked at him repeatedly. He couldn't help but exclaimed at Emperor Yuan'an: "Congratulations to Your Majesty! Congratulations to Your Majesty! Your Majesty has received a great auspicious day!"

"That's right!" Another Grand Secretary of the same cabinet also rushed to speak: "This thing saves the work of craftsmen carvings, and from now on, many official documents that need to be copied in time will no longer consume a lot of manpower. Time can save the treasury silver above and the work of unnecessary documents below. This is a good thing!"

"Yes, yes! This is a blessing for the country!"

...

The civil officials sang hymns to the emperor.

There are not many stupid people who can stand in this court. After a little change of mind, the effect this printing machine can easily think of is different from other things. The printing machine is an office utensil. It is a good thing that can save them a lot of effort. Who doesn’t want it?

There are even more clever people who made suggestions in court, hoping that the court would come forward and purchase a large number of them from the Ministry of Works and send them to various departments. It is necessary to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to use them. Everyone cannot have one, but they must prepare one for every room and every office.

Emperor An of Yuan Dynasty read the memorials of the Ministry of Works and knew that this set of printing press was cheap. Even if the wishes of these officials were met, it would not cost a lot of money. So he waved his money and was accurate! He also ordered the Ministry of Works to count how many departments there were in the court, from the capital to the prefectures, and then to the counties, and used this printing press as office supplies like paper, ink, pen and inkstone, and from now on, it will become the standard equipment for the yamen.

The Minister of Works was naturally very happy. The Minister of Works asked about the cost of construction and felt that the money was worth it. It was rare that he did not cry and was poor. Instead, he happily got a very advanced order from the Minister of Works, and he could get such new office utensils a batch earlier than most departments.
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