In front of a house, Lin Yi looked up and saw several security personnel installing various anti-theft systems and security measures for this ancient house that had never been paid attention to before.

Needless to say, this house is Professor Jiang Qingping's former residence. Lin Yi has bought it and placed all the rare ancient books and rare books inherited by Professor Jiang to him here, fully fulfilling his original promise that the collection belongs to Jinling and will not leave Jinling.

Therefore, Lin Yi designed this place as a private ancient museum and will be opened to the public in the future.

As the largest private ancient museum in Jinling, Lin Yi's move was immediately taken seriously by the municipal government, the collection and cultural circles. They all came to congratulate and provide help.

However, it is not possible to maintain and operate such a huge ancient museum without financial support. Although Lin Yi has some money on hand, he is not yet at the point where he can spend millions a year. Fortunately, this problem of worrying about money was quickly solved.

First, sales of tickets. Ticket income is the main source of income for many museums, and there is nothing to criticize. Moreover, Lin Yi thinks that doing this can distinguish between books and idle people who like to go shopping. Those who like to use air conditioners and heating should not come in. Those who like to do knowledge and knowledge will spend money to buy tickets to visit. According to preliminary estimates, the ticket price is not too high, and the annual income can reach about 300,000 yuan. For the operation of museums, although it is a drop in the bucket, it is better than nothing.

Second, Lin Yi did not expect that the four major ancient book publishing communities in China would take the initiative to contact him. The four publishing houses are "Zhonghua Bookstore", "Shanghai Ancient Books", as well as "China Bookstore" and "Qilu Bookstore". According to the proposals of these four publishing houses, Lin Yi agreed to their requirements for borrowing collections and photocopying. To this end, the four publishing houses will give the museum a commission of each book published. For example, if a book sells for 100 yuan, the museum will receive a commission of 6-8 yuan. Don't underestimate these dollars. According to the number and type of published books, Lin Yi estimated that he would earn five or six million in this area every year. In addition to being able to fully cope with the museum's expenses, he can also obtain a valuable additional profit.

Of course, Lin Yi did not care about that little money. For Lin Yi, he wanted to place these ancient books here to open a museum in order to preserve these books and use them out while allowing them to exert their remaining energy, rather than hiding them as antiques.

Books are for reading, reading, and learning. Lin Yi’s idea is very simple. Since the four major publishing houses have the intention to copy and publish, why not be a human beauty? Let these peerless solitary ones be able to be photocopied and displayed to the world.

In fact, photocopying of ancient books has been a long time. In the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, due to long-term wars and social turmoil, ancient books in China suffered unprecedented loss and destruction. People with insight began to use photocopying technology to copy ancient Chinese books, allowing these rare cultural heritages to remain as original as possible.

The original photocopying ancient books was dominated by the Colotype technology. The Colotype is a transliteration of English collotype, also known as glass plate, which is a type of photographic lithography technology. The biggest difference between Colotype and modern offset printing is that the latter is flat printing, and the layers of the printed image are composed of dots of different densities; the former is dotless printing, and the layers of the image are "stacked" by inks of different thicknesses, which are richer and more delicate and have a stronger texture. Of course, this photocopying technology has relatively high initial investment and operation costs. In the early 20th century, the Colotype was used.

Technical photocopying of ancient books is quite "luxury". Because there are many pages of ancient books, the cost of photocopying naturally increases. Some famous book collectors once used the Colo-print technology to photocopy extremely rare ancient books, and the price of finished books often exceeds that of woodcuts of the same period. These photocopying of ancient books is now rare, with a hundred times worth of money. The actual market value can even surpass the engraved ancient books of the Ming and Qing dynasties. In addition, because the original version of some ancient books has been completely damaged or lost, the photocopying has become an extremely rare "full version", and its market value, research value and historical value are even more immeasurable.

For example, in the early years of the Republic of China, Dong Kang, a famous copycatologist and publisher, traveled to Japan four times in ten years from 1926 to 1936, and searched for rare ancient Chinese books at a large amount of money. However, the part of the ancient Chinese books that were regarded as a "national treasure" or "important cultural wealth" in Japan could not be repurchased back to China, and some even had a difficult time borrowing them once. In this situation, he copied these ancient books by colo version photocopy. Because the ancient books are rare and well-printed, the price of these ancient books was basically the same as the "Songfen Room Chengcheng" that was also hosted by Dong Kang himself, and some were even more than that. Due to the rare printing volume and high price, these photocopying made many domestic readers and collectors sigh at the book and were not easy to buy.

On the other hand, with the gradual maturity and popularization of photocopying technology, since the 1930s, domestic publishing houses and related institutions have also put the systematic and large-scale photocopy of Chinese ancient books on the agenda. Unlike the personal behaviors of Dong Kang and other book collectors who pursue rare, rare, lonely and unique, providing readers, scholars and researchers with more quantity, better quality but relatively cheap photocopy of ancient books to readers, scholars and researchers is the mainstream demand of publishers during this period.

During this period, large-scale photocopy series of ancient books represented by "Sibu Congqi", "Baiba Version", "Twenty-Four Histories" and "Series Collection" came into being. Taking "Sibu Congqi" as an example, the so-called "Four Documents" are divided into four categories according to the classification method of Chinese classical books. "Sibu Congqi" is a small "Siku Quanshu" that collects must-read books for Chinese classical culture and must-have books. It is the "cultural top-up" of Chinese readers. From 1922 to the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, "Sibu Congqi" was edited by Commercial Press, and a total of 502 types were compiled, sequeled, and three copies, with a total of 502 types, and divided into more than 3,100 volumes. It can be said that it is the largest new series in my country in the 20th century. This is the Commercial Press under the leadership of the famous publisher Zhang Yuanji.

The rare books of the Song and Yuan dynasties, which spent a lot of money to search for various histories, adopted the most advanced photography and platemaking technology at that time, and worked hard for more than ten years to complete a huge publishing project. In order to facilitate readers of different classes and different consumption abilities to purchase, "Sibucongqi" launched a variety of binding methods such as thread-bound, reduced printing, and hardcover, and the selling prices were also different. In terms of sales methods, it is also divided into a combination of reservation and single-line retail. Readers can choose different purchasing methods according to their own situation. At that time, famous scholars Lu Xun, Hu Shi, Chen Yinke, Zhao Yuanren, Lin Yutang, etc., all purchased different versions of "Sibucongqi", which shows how powerful this large-scale collection of ancient books photocopying is. At present, the entire set of "Sibucongqi" is extremely rare, and the auction transaction price has exceeded one million yuan.

Now, Lin Yi agrees that the four major ancient book publishers in China will photocopy all of Professor Jiang Qingping’s collection of books, which is a huge sensation for the collection industry.

Why?

You should know that the collection of books is mainly about collection. What is the collection? It is to keep it at home and hide it at the bottom of the box to prevent others from seeing it. Alone or rare books, the fewer such things, the better. Not to mention photocopying, it is impossible to even take a photo.

The old ideas and traditions of the Chinese book collection industry are there, and the family treasures cannot be exposed, let alone things like collecting books. If they are like Lin Yi, they can take out all the rare books and sell them, yes, those who like to do academic research are good, and they have cheap and cheap materials to investigate, but for collectors, it is undoubtedly a thunderbolt.

With cheap photocopy versions, who still cares about your priceless real book? Especially those ancient book vendors who hold their hands and wait for the price of their collection to rise, they are sad. What is not on the market is treasure, what is flooded in the market is cabbage.

To put it bluntly, Lin Yi is equivalent to reprinting various martial arts secrets in martial arts novels and selling them for big sales--this is so great, isn’t the world still messing around?

Therefore, when Lin Yi made such a move, he was immediately criticized by the Jinling library.

Of course, we cannot speak too bluntly and scold "cut off my way to finance" and "defeat my son and grandson", but instead say in an indignant tone that Lin Yi's actions are arbitrary "destruction" of ancient books. Ancient books are precious, precious, and cannot be easily flipped and copied... In short, Lin Yi's actions are very wrong, it is disrespectful to ancient books, an insult to various book collectors, and a spiritual insult!

Lin Yi, dizzy!

Unexpectedly, my mere scholar actually caused a sensation in Jinling again.

Maybe it's time to leave.

Lin Yi thought silently, especially he didn't dare to think about that person... that woman. It's better to leave, forget everything. He said to himself.

In the hotel, Lao Cao had already prepared his luggage for his return, as well as various "local specialties", "Nanjing duck", "orange cake" and so on that he bought in Jinling, and he arranged a large bag.

Looking at the heartless Lao Cao, Lin Yi envied it. It was so nice.

But at this moment, a phone call came over and looked at it. It was from Professor Kong, the city hospital.

The first sentence on Professor Kong's phone was: "Lin Yi, are you okay?"

Lin Yi smiled bitterly because even he himself didn't know whether it was good or bad for him.

I have insomnia, can't sleep well, and always dream about her... I wake up from time to time in my sleep, holding acupuncture on my own, and "die her to ashes".

She will never come back.

As if he understood Lin Yi’s thoughts, Professor Kong sighed on the other end and said, “Lin Yi, someone wants to see you!”
Chapter completed!