"Certainly." Zhou Tao readily agreed, "but can I have a copy of the book first?"
The books of Yu Yang and others were all copied by themselves.
They really didn't have any extra copies.
"We only have this one and I can't give it to you. How about after the New Year? I can copy another set for the academy?"
Counting the time, it was only a month or so until New Year's.
Zhou Tao obviously had no reason to refuse.
So it was settled.
As the end of the year approached, the academy had many things to attend to, and after having dinner at the Xu Family, Zhou Tao returned to the city.
Zhang Xiaoying pondered that the students had to attend classes and definitely needed to copy their own books, which made her realize the time cost was too great.
The books in Daliang were all printed using woodblock printing, which was not only time-consuming and laborious but also not easily correctable in case of errors.