noffsinger Chapter 678 Printing Shop Opening Salary
Chapter 678 Printing Shop Opening Salary
Every moment.
Printing house.
The firecrackers were set off at the gate of the printing house, and before the firecrackers were finished, Yu Shizhang ordered people to close the gate.
In addition to the people from the county government and the county school, Wang Guangjin, the president of the Chamber of Commerce and a "shareholder" of the printing house, also came to the printing house early.
After the sound of firecrackers completely stopped, Shen Zheng, who was standing at the front, smiled and looked at the excited students and said, "We are still a little embarrassed now, I'm sure you understand. We have to talk about these things behind closed doors."
The students who were called "shameful" were not sad at all. Instead, they all laughed.
"Master Shen, you said before that those who achieve great things do not care about trivial matters! I don't care about these things at all!"
Compared with all the educated people in the world who can afford to read and everyone in the Great Zhou Dynasty, young and old, can read, what does this mean to them?
The sun was rising, and rays of sunlight passed through the clouds and shone into the printing house, making Shen Zheng squint her eyes and making everyone's backs feel warm.
Looking at those energetic faces, Shen Zheng sighed and laughed: "I won't say more. The future of most scholars in the world is in your hands. I would like to thank you on behalf of everyone and thank you for your efforts."
The students stared when they heard this.
The printing house is clearly the result of the hard work of the adults and the uncle. How can I thank them?
They were about to say something, but Shen Zheng shook her head again, "You have to balance your studies with typeset printing. Although it's voluntary, the time you put in is real."
There were not many students in the county school, but as long as everyone was willing to spare an hour every day to arrange the movable type, the printing speed of the printing house in the early days was still considerable.
After all, the person who cuts paper, applies ink and prints does not need to be literate at all. It only needs to be someone trustworthy to do it.
Once the printing house has become famous, they can start recruiting outsiders.
Shen Zheng continued, "So after discussing with Lord Bo, I have decided on your wages."
"Wages?!" The students started to make a fuss when they heard this: "Sir, Master, I have already agreed with the dean that we don't want wages! It's enough for us to just be able to borrow the newly printed books in the bookstore!"
In fact, for them, the most extravagant dream is to have endless books to read.
And it just so happens that in printing houses and bookstores that collect books from all over the world, they can easily fulfill this "most extravagant" dream.
This is a great benefit that many people would love to have.
So what else are they dissatisfied with?
"Reading is reading, and wages are wages." Shen Zheng looked at them seriously and said, "I have discussed this with Lord Bo and Principal Li, and your wages are as follows--"
Under the rejection gazes of the students, Shen Zheng said, "One page of typesetting costs five cents. After you have typed a book, you will be billed all at once..."
The page of the book at this time did not have hundreds or thousands of words like the ones in Shen Zheng's previous life, but only one to three hundred words.
According to the students' current speed, with the help of Shen Zheng's pinyin annotations, it only takes them about half an hour to type a page of the book. After they become more proficient in the future, it is not impossible for them to finish a page in a quarter of an hour or two.
Before she finished her words, the students gasped.
"Five coins per page? After you type a hundred-page book, wouldn't it cost several hundred coins?"
"It's even more than a few hundred coins! The Book of Songs has hundreds of pages, which is equivalent to three or four taels of silver! No, no, sir, this is really too much, we really can't take it!"
The huge sum of money of several taels of silver made all the students dizzy.
They know how many books are collected in the printing house now. It is not just a few or dozens of books, but hundreds!
I also heard that the printing house's collection of books is constantly increasing, and one day it will exceed a thousand books.
Shen Zheng listened to their refusal and winked at Li Hongmao.
Li Hongmao nodded, walked to her side and signaled the students to be quiet.
Then he said, "You calculated correctly. After typesetting one volume of the Book of Songs, you will get three taels and three cents. But have you ever thought about how long it will take you to typeset one volume of the Book of Songs while taking care of your schoolwork?"
The students calculated in their minds and kept silent.
Even if they typeset a few pages a day, they would need half a year to complete one volume of the Book of Songs...
It's not that they think that making a few taels in half a year is too little, but it's that they can only publish a book in half a year. They are too useless. Those readers who are waiting to read the book must be waiting foolishly...
When they were silent, Li Hongmao looked at Shen Zheng and said, "So in order to quickly finish a book, Lord Shen and I have an arrangement that sounds...not very fair."
Not quite fair?
Everyone looked over together.
"Group system." Li Hongmao glanced at them, "You arrange your own arrangements and decide the number of people. The books that need typesetting are applied for according to the groups, and I will review them and distribute them to you. You can apply for one, two, or even three books, and the wages will be divided equally among the people."
Before the students had time to think about it, Li Hongmao mentioned the threshold: "But the books you apply for must be typeset within one month. If not, the printing house will take the books back and you won't get paid. And the typeset templates must also be handed in to the printing house."
"Oh, yes. Groups can collaborate to typeset a book, but the wages are also divided equally on a head-to-head basis."
"hiss--"
Recycling books, no wages.
At first glance, it sounded a bit harsh and was an unfair clause, but a few students with quick thinking immediately understood the intentions of Shen Zheng and Li Hongmao.
First, the wages are divided equally per person.
The adults and the headmaster are training the cohesion and collaboration capabilities of their groups.
Whether it is students forming a team or a team forming a team, if they want to cooperate, the prerequisite is mutual trust.
But who can guarantee that they won’t have a headache or a fever, or that they won’t have personal problems at home? Therefore, after the book is typed, the number of pages typed by each member of the team may not be equal, but they will all receive the same salary.
It sounds like "collective punishment", but in fact it is to make them work together - it is a blessing not to suffer a loss, but these are the teammates you chose, so don't care too much.
The second is the penalty for incomplete typesetting.
"Books will be taken back and no wages will be paid." This rule seems to be a more severe punishment, but what is the reality?
As long as they apply for books reasonably and are good at cooperating with other groups, even a book of thousands of pages can be typeset within a month.
The adults and the headmaster made such rules because they wanted them to learn to make reasonable arrangements and not be too ambitious.
Below, the students were whispering, analyzing the intentions of Shen Zheng and the other person word by word. After a moment, they looked as if they had suddenly realized something.
Upstairs, Shen Zheng and the others smiled at each other.
Shen Zheng asked, "Have you come to a conclusion? If there is no objection to this rule, then we will do so in the early stages of our printing house."