Chapter 3 New Movable Type

In October of the 11th year of Zhenguan, Li Ke, the king of Wu, was impeached by Yushi Liufan for excessive hunting in Anzhou and damage to crops.

The imperial historians of this year are still very stylish.

Especially when Emperor Li Shimin wanted to protect his son, he put the blame on Shi Quan Wanji, the governor of Anzhou, saying that he did not do his best to assist his son, so he made such a mistake, and when the crime deserved to die, Liu Fan said that Fang Xuanling and His Majesty could not stop Li Shimin, why should he blame Quan Wanji alone?

Li Shimin, who was furious, brushed his sleeves away, and then dismissed Li Ke from the post of assassinating Shi, and at the same time cut 300 households!

Of course, this has nothing to do with Li Yuanjia, not to mention that the news did not spread to Chang'an so quickly, and even if it did, he was not interested in caring about the title of the assassin of a nephew who had not met a few times and the actual seal of the three hundred households. In fact, for Li Ke, the poor nephew, the only thing he knew was that he would be killed by the eldest grandson Wuji in the future......

Li Yuanjia only cares about his new home now.

The last day of October was the day he was going to move.

For this new house in Shengye Fang, Li Yuanjia has really been looking forward to it for a long time.

One of the best geographical areas in the whole Chang'an City, there is only one Chongrenfang between the west and the imperial city, the east is one of the two major cities of Chang'an, and the east is Longqingfang, which is the future Xingqing Palace of Li Longji. Even its lower left corner, which is east of the main workshop where Fang Xuanling's house is located, is the paradise of nightlife in Chang'an City, Pingkangfang, the red light district of Datang......

Shengye Fang, which has an excellent geographical location, Han Wangfu occupies one-eighth of it!

It can't be compared with those big mansions that often occupy one-half or even the entire square, but the area equivalent to one Prince Gong's mansion is enough to satisfy Li Yuanjia very much. What's more, with his own design drawings, after the construction of the "engineering team" in the palace, the Xinhan Wangfu has now become the most comfortable residence in Chang'an City......

There is no one, Li Yuanjia has this confidence!

"Chunyan, you go over first tomorrow and clean my house again!"

When there were two days left before the move, Li Yuanjia instructed his personal maid: "Those people are careless, and they don't know if they are clean or not...... You bring a few people over and clean up for me. ”

"Yes, my lord."

"Gotcha! Get! ”

Just when Chunyan bowed down, there was a knock on the door of Li Yuanjia's study, and the voice of Liu Mei outside the door came: "King, Li Zhong asks to see!" ”

"Li Zhong?"

After hearing this name, Li Yuanjia's expression changed slightly, and he nodded: "Let him in!" ”

"Yes."

Then after the door was pushed open, Liu Mei walked in from outside with a happy Li Zhong.

In Li Zhong's hand, he held a one-foot-square wooden box, as if it contained the most precious treasures in the world.

And seeing the happy look on the kid's face, Li Yuanjia's heart thumped, and he couldn't wait for the other party to say hello; "Li Zhong, but what's the good news?"

"Li Zhong has seen the king...... Yes, King! ”

After paying respectful salutes, Li Zhong said excitedly: "We have created a new movable type, and after using the latest ink and paper, there is almost no ink spreading!" ”

"Oh? It's true? ”

After listening to Li Zhong's words, Li Yuanjia was immediately overjoyed, and stood up from the chair suddenly: "Have you brought real things?" Hurry up! ”

Li Zhong didn't dare to slack off, and quickly brought the box in his hand forward and put it on Li Yuanjia's desk!

After taking a deep breath, Li Yuanjia couldn't wait to open the box on the table, and then saw clearly what was inside at a glance - more than a dozen movable type, a bottle of ink, and a stack of white paper!

There was no need for Li Zhong and Chunyan to do it, Li Yuanjia himself directly took out a blank piece of paper, looked at it, and his face suddenly showed joy.

Really!

More than 100 small characters are densely printed on the white paper about 16 carats, each of which is clear and clean!

After his gaze stayed on the white paper for two or three seconds, Li Yuanjia couldn't help but slap the table and screamed.

"Good!"

In Li Yuanjia's eyes, this is a perfect print!

At least in the Tang Dynasty of Zhenguan for eleven years, it definitely is!

A sixteen-page piece of white paper, with at least two hundred words printed on it, surpassed any attempt Li Yuanjia had seen before!

Don't think it's easy, and don't compare it with thousands of words that can be printed on a piece of paper in the future, because this is the Tang Dynasty, and under normal circumstances, only a few dozen words can be written on a blank piece of paper! Writing with a soft brush is not a skill that anyone can have, let alone printing with movable type.

Nearly 200 words printed on a single piece of paper are by no means so simple to do!

The text on the whole paper is basically a straight line, and the most crooked place should not exceed ten degrees, which means that the blacksmiths in Li Yuanjia's mansion have thoroughly mastered the technology of miniaturization of movable type, and at the same time, they have a lot of experience in using movable type typesetting, so that these characters can be arranged much more neatly than the previous times!

And all the text, very clear.

Only the new ink and the new movable type alloy fit perfectly can achieve such a level, otherwise, let alone such a small movable type, I am afraid that sixty or seventy words printed on a piece of paper will be blurred like before!

Excited in his heart, Li Yuanjia felt that the "Yuanjia body" full of paper was very pleasing to the eye...... That's right, the future Song character has now been named "Yuan Jia Ti".

Of course, the only person who is qualified to do this kind of thing is His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Yuanjia spent a few years to "perfect" little by little, and finally took out the finished version of the Song font, which was repeatedly ridiculed by Li Shimin as "full of ingenuity" and "no beauty", and the emperor never listened to his own persuasion, and despised the practice of writing this font more and more squarely, and once directly blurted out the three words "Yuanjiati".

The emperor's words, that was Chrysostom Yuyan, Yuan Jiati was put on the head of the Song font.

While shouting in his heart that he was wronged, Li Yuanjia couldn't cry or laugh. However, knowing that only by using square, horizontal and vertical Song characters to make movable type can the workload of the craftsmen be greatly reduced, he could only pinch his nose and recognize the emperor's ridicule, and lay flat to prepare for "leaving a stench for ten thousand years......

Excitedly put down the white paper in his hand, picked up the movable type in the wooden box and looked at it again and again, and personally dipped some ink on the white paper After trying it a few times, Li Yuanjia was happy: "Yes, well done!" Li Zhong, I'll go to Han Shan to get a hundred rewards later......"