How much does it cost to publish a book these days?

First of all, what paper is used for the cover and what paper is used for the inside, that is all calculated, because these are nothing compared to other materials and labor costs!

A book, dozens of pages, even hundreds of pages, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of words, is possible, and the words at this moment are engraved with special lead, which is not cheap in itself. In addition to manual labor, the cost of just one page is absolutely indispensable, not to mention a few taels of silver, but a few cents of silver.

In other words, just one page of books, engraving lead characters, and then forming a template, you will get a few cents of silver. Ten pages are a few taels of silver, dozens are just hundreds of taels or even hundreds of taels of silver!

Then, there are printing costs and binding costs, which require manual calculation.

In short, nowadays, if you don’t have to think about publishing books, you don’t have to think about publishing books at all. As for hundreds or even hundreds of masterpieces, if you want to print them, the cost is even more terrifying.

This is also the reason why many people can't afford to print books, just like the famous "The Creation of the Heavenly Mandarin" and "Compendium of Materia Medica". Song Yingxing and Li Shizhen took a lot of effort to compile these two books, but they took more effort to print later because they couldn't afford so much money to print books at all, so they could only ask people everywhere and raise money.

For example, in "Compendium of Materia Medica", Li Shizhen started compiling the book in the 31st year of Jiajing and was written in the sixth year of Wanli. It took a total of twenty-seven years. Until the 21st year of Wanli, Li Shizhen passed away, and the book had not been published.

As for the reason, it's very simple, because he doesn't have that much money.

If he had money, he could print it in one day without saying that it would be enough for a few months. It was precisely because he didn't have so much money that he finally spent more than ten years until his death, and the book was not published.

Of course, Yang Cong didn't have any money at all. The printing cost of more than 100 books is only hundreds of thousands of taels. To him, that's really a little bit, and it's just a small amount of money.

He spent more money on buying paper because he was going to print one million sets at a time!

Even if it is calculated based on the cost of a set of books and a few taels of silver, it is only a few million taels!

By the way, is he crazy? Even if there are millions of scholars in the Ming Dynasty, how many people can afford books? Even if he sells it at a cost price, a few taels of silver per set, not many people can afford it!

Of course he was not crazy. If possible, he would print as many scholars as there were in the Ming Dynasty, and it would be best if everyone could get one!

As for the issue of not many people paying for money, he was not worried at all. It doesn’t matter if not many people can afford it. He didn’t plan to sell it at all!

This time, Yang Cong changed his previous low-key style and made a big fuss.

"Theory of Understanding and Knowing" has more than 100 books, and it costs hundreds of thousands of taels of silver just to make a set of printing templates. Most people dare not think about it, but he ordered two sets at a time, one set in Beijing, North Zhili, and one set in Jinling, South Zhili.

Moreover, he included almost all the printing workshops in Beijing and Jinling in advance, and placed orders with them. The smaller ones were printed one book, tens of thousands of books, the larger ones were printed a few more books, and hundreds of thousands of books. He would place as many as you dare.

Anyway, just say, everyone should not do anything else in the past few months, and do their best to print "Theory of Investigating Things and Achieve Knowledge".

After a little statistics, someone with a lot of money found that he didn't know that there were tens of millions of orders he placed. Is this guy crazy?

When people from the Yangming lineage heard the news, they came to dissuade them because they all knew that there were too few people who could afford to buy such a huge book with hundreds of books each. It would be amazing that the entire Ming Dynasty could sell ten thousand sets.

He just didn't know the orders of tens of millions of books, but the total number was hundreds of thousands or even millions of units. Who would he sell them to?

Yang Cong seemed to be deaf in their persuasion, and even joked that he would give it to them if he couldn't sell it, so he would give it to them as a gift for his relatives and friends!

Well, you can't make such a struggle if you have money. This is millions of taels. Can't you give it to the people who are short of food and clothing? Although millions of taels cannot make all the people rich, at least millions of people can have enough food for a full meal every month.

When the Yan Song party heard the news, they were so big that they laughed. Yang Cong, this young man, probably thought everyone was as rich as him.

What a joke about hundreds of thousands or even millions of sets?

To put it bluntly, all the "Four Books and Five Classics" in the entire Ming Dynasty may not have hundreds of thousands of sets, because many scholars borrowed or even copied books. If you really have to spend money to buy them, how many people can afford the entire set of "Four Books and Five Classics".

Of course, they just regarded it as a joke and did not stop it, because Yang Cong was so arrogant this time, but it had nothing to do with them. If you print the book and let others print it, the more you print it, the less good it will be for this kid.

After all, the cost of this book is there, hundreds of thousands of sets will cost millions of taels of silver. Wouldn't the emperor doubt where the money comes from?

So, what did Jiajing think?

Jiajing was not thinking about money, because he didn't have to spend money when studying, or he had never bought a book, so where could he know how much a book cost?

What he cares about is fame and influence.

To put it bluntly, he was "very happy with merits". Yang Cong's hard work and hard print "Theory of Investigating Things and Knowing" was exactly his temperament. He naturally praised and praised it vigorously.

Anyway, he doesn't have to pay for it, so naturally the more printed it, the better, and the greater the impact, the better. After all, this was the "Rule of Understanding of Investigation of Things" written by Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Cong's actions not only caused a sensation in the entire court, but also caused a sensation among the people.

The top scholar of the Department of the Imperial Department, former Minister of War, Right Deputy Chief Envoy of the Censorate, Governor of the Five Southeastern provinces, Governor of the Five Southwest provinces, and Governor of the Five Southwest provinces, is about to publish a book, which is a matter of sensation in itself. In addition, Yang Cong's crazy tossing and making a seal of hundreds of thousands or even millions of sets, which made all scholars even more shocked.

This Lord Yang is indeed a godly person, extraordinary!

As for the book itself, of course, there are also things I want to buy, but they are very few people with a lot of money and fever. Most scholars have never thought of buying one to read, because this one is more than one hundred books. Even if calculated at the lowest price, it is only a dozen taels, and a few people can afford it.

Yang Cong made a big fuss for several months, and the "Theory of Investigating Things and Knowing Knowledge" was finally published one after another and bound into a book. Those who had a lot of money and had fever also began to inquire where they could buy it.

To be honest, even if he can only sell ten thousand sets, with the decoration of his book and the quality of his own, it is no problem to sell dozens of taels of taels per set. Ten thousand sets are still hundreds of thousands of taels, and he can recover some of the costs.

But he didn't sell it at all!

After the publication of "Theory of Understanding and Knowing the Investigation", he first gave Jiajing a large cart and a hundred sets. As for holding, watching, and playing, he ignored it.

In addition, he also gave Jiajing more than ten carts of folk versions, which were given to Jiajing for people. Anyway, there were many royal relatives, one thousand sets, which were just a little bit. If it wasn't enough, he could ask him again. No matter how much he wanted, he would take care of it.

Immediately afterwards, he gave each Yangming boss a car, one hundred sets, and the folk version. As for whether they saw it themselves or gave it to their relatives and friends, he didn't care.

Immediately afterwards, students from the School of Physics and disciples of Yangming's ranks gave each of them ten sets. As for whether they saw it themselves or gave it to their relatives and friends, he didn't care.

Anyway, he was like a lunatic, showing off everywhere and giving away everything, and was so arrogant that he seemed to be afraid that others would not know that he had published a book.

He gave away whatever he knew, and even Yan Song and Xia Yan gave away a hundred sets. If he didn't know him, he would give away as well. As long as there was a reason, he would give away whatever he could give away!

At this moment, everyone thought that he was a little hot and burned out, but he didn't know that in this way, his "Theory of Investigating Things and Knowing" suddenly entered the vision of all scholars in the Ming Dynasty.
Chapter completed!