These six "primary school mathematics", in fact, Li Yuanjia doesn't care much about it.

Although the engraving is relatively slow to make, it can be used for a long time after a carving, as long as Li Zhong does a good job, there is nothing to worry about, and the probability of error is not large.

What he really cares about is the movable type printing of the future.

"So far, we've made 3,940 movable type."

When he walked into the workshop, Li Zhong said proudly: "Although it is still far from the goal of 100,000 words, it can now do more than 100 movable words a day, and it will definitely be faster in the future!" ”

"Well, that's good!"

After listening to his words, Li Yuanjia nodded with satisfaction.

The speed of more than 100 movable words a day, and it must be the kind where many words have to be copied, this speed is definitely a representative of a snail in the industrial age. But in this era, if it weren't for Li Yuanjia's guidance to come up with the technique of yin and yang inverted mold, I'm afraid that six or seven would be made in a day!

Chinese characters are not English letters, especially now they are still used in traditional Chinese characters, so the speed is ......

Gee!

So for Li Zhong's work results, Li Yuanjia is really very satisfied. And he also knew that Li Zhong and his team still have more than a dozen primary school apprentices who are studying seriously, and they should be about to leave the school after the New Year, and there should be no problem with the speed of making movable type skyrocketing several times by that time!

The goal of making 10,000 movable words a year is probably not a dream?

It's a pity......

"This speed, it can't be faster!"

Thinking of the cost estimate that Li Zhong gave him at the beginning, Li Yuanjia was inexplicably a little sad - if they could really make 10,000 movable types every year, they would have to smash at least 5,000 yuan, which means that a movable type costs 500 yuan, a number that even Li Yuanjia can't afford!

In fact, if he knew that a Qing Dynasty merchant used 200,000 taels of silver to create more than 400,000 copper movable characters in later generations, he would probably be glad to be happy.

Li Zhong: The cost of making movable type is really not high.

After all, there is a difference of thousands of years before and after, even if Li Zhong and the others have mastered the Yin and Yang inverted mold, and they are not using strategic materials like copper, they can compress the cost of a movable type to five hundred yuan, which can definitely be regarded as a miracle in the Tang Dynasty.

It only takes 100,000 pieces to create 200,000 movable type......

"Sizzle......"

Thinking about it, Li Yuanjia suddenly gasped and shook his head busily: "It's inflated!" It's inflated! 100,000 is starting to take things seriously? Tsk, calm down, calm down Li Yuanjia! ”

After admonishing himself, Li Yuanjia suppressed the tumbling in his heart.

The movable type is slowly made, and Han Wangfu can still withstand this cost, if he really finds a hundred craftsmen to create alloy movable type for Li Yuanjia in one go, he will go bankrupt after three or four years of hard work! Don't forget, he still has a lot of workshops and craftsmen to support, and at the same time, he still has a big palace and countless subordinates and guards in Chang'an City, which of these doesn't need money?

Just rely on his annual salary, as well as land, vocational land or something?

Don't look at the previous years, Li Yuanjia made so much money with thirteen incense in one go, but don't forget, spices themselves are very expensive in this era, and they are even used as currency by many big families to reserve! So when making that money, Han Wangfu also paid a huge price, although compared to these costs, Li Yuanjia did earn a little more......

"What the hell! It's not easy to be a prince! ”

While complaining shamelessly in his heart, Li Yuanjia asked casually: "The movable types you made are all made according to that dictionary, right?" ”

"Yes, my lord, it's all from that dictionary!"

Without any hesitation, Li Zhong immediately nodded: "According to how many words they use, we have made a hundred of them, some of the more commonly used ones have been made of fifty, and most of the others have made twenty for spare." ”

Previously, the king once asked them to count the characters in a hundred books, and selected 1,000 of the most commonly used Chinese characters and compiled them into a dictionary. Later, with the passage of time, the capacity of this dictionary gradually increased to more than 1,400 characters, which became the basis for Li Zhong and his work to create movable type.

Twenty of each word are made, which is nearly 30,000 movable words!

Fifteen thousand!

After calculating the account in an instant, Li Yuanjia felt a pain in his heart again, and then quickly shook his head vigorously: "Damn, I can't think about it anymore, if I think too much, I just want to find trouble for myself......"

Li Yuanjia felt sorry for the money here, but seeing that he was frowning and shaking his head, Li Zhong thought that he was dissatisfied with his work, and panicked: "Wang, isn't it...... Too little? If less, we'll build more! ”

"No, no need!"

Li Yuanjia's head immediately shook even more violently, and he said continuously: "The current one is fine, you don't need to build more, you don't need to ...... There is no need to rush the production of movable type, the key is how you use them well! How have you solved the problem of storing and picking up movable type? ”

The more you build, the more money you spend, Li Yuanjia is really distressed!

And is there a use for just making movable type? If you don't solve the problem of use, these things are just a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron, and they will never be able to do other people's engraving printing!

And the first step of use is the storage and picking up of movable type!

Now alone, Li Zhong and the others have created nearly 4,000 movable characters! If the 4,000 movable type is only required not to be damaged, it is of course easy to store it simply, but if it is to be used in movable type printing in the future, it must be stored in different categories, and it is necessary to be able to quickly find the one required for printing from the 4,000 words!

Without a systematic and effective approach, you must not even think about it.

So after hearing Li Yuanjia's question, Li Zhong hurriedly replied: "Back to the king's words, according to your order, we have made six hundred wooden frames to store these movable types!" In addition, we first sorted by the number of strokes, and then sorted by stroke order, although the speed is still not as good as it should be, but it is barely enough, but it is ......"

"But what? Say! ”

Frowning, Li Yuanjia shouted a little impatiently.

"Yes!"

His heart trembled again, and Li Zhong hurriedly replied in a low voice: "It's just that the simpler words are fine, and the craftsmen can basically pick them out, but the slightly more complex words are a little unrecognizable!" In this case, if we wait until next year to do more and more movable type, I am afraid they will really not be able to do it. ”

"Hmm......"

Hearing him say this, Li Yuanjia's brows furrowed more and more.

He had really thought about this question before, that is, the engraving workers in these years actually couldn't recognize a few words, and most of them were just depicting according to the words that had already been written. But this is not the case with movable type, and if a craftsman wants to pick out the words he wants to use from hundreds or thousands of words, he must know them, learn to count strokes, and recognize radicals or stroke order......

"Therefore, it is difficult to print movable type in ancient times!"