Fei Siye checked the notes and found them correct. He checked the title again and thought the book was ready to be published. Ryan Cui offered a fee and sent 50 sets of the first batch to Fei Siye, leaving a few piles for the Hanlin scholars. He tied up the remaining dozens of sets and took them to the Imperial College to distribute to the classmates who had asked him to print the notes.
The Sizhu was the author, and there were a bunch of Hanlin scholars whose titles were dizzying enough to set the questions... Not to mention the students of the Imperial Academy, even the Hanlin scholars who studied with famous teachers in the academy would have reached out to grab the questions if they knew about it.
Ryan Cui first counted out eight copies and gave them to Fei Jieyuan, asking him to distribute them to the other seven people who were accompanying the prince to take the exam - the extra copy was given to his uncle, and the rest was distributed to his classmates in the order of their appointments.
The color-printed notebook was a set of four books, with thick, snow-white paper, printed in seven or eight colors, and with clear and neat handwriting. The author was a famous teacher, so it would be no problem to sell it for two or three taels of silver. The students did not expect him to be able to produce such an exquisite set of notebooks, and they were too embarrassed to ask for it for free as they had done when they borrowed his notebooks to copy.
Those who were rich had to pay, while those who were short of money had to wave their hands and say no, and wait for others to buy it before borrowing it to copy.
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