Chapter Eighty-Six: Planting a Seed

Eight or nine hundred people were crammed into the Zhang family at once, and the Zhang family, which was originally empty and deserted, suddenly became crowded and lively.

Fortunately, the Zhang family's house is large enough to accommodate a few hundred people is not a problem, and if there are eight or nine hundred more people, it can be stuffed if you squeeze it.

Of course, this is also because those orphans are relatively small, and there is no problem with three or four children in one bed.

The next day, Zhang Junping came to the bookstore, and Bi Sheng, who had already settled down, was already waiting in the bookstore.

"Master Bi, have you settled down in the place where you live?" Zhang Junping took Bi Sheng's hand and asked kindly.

"Thank you for your concern! We're all settled! Bi Sheng replied respectfully.

Zhang Junping smiled again and said: "Master Bi can write a letter to take over all the family members when he turns around, household registration or something, don't worry, Steward Lu will do it for you!" ”

"Thank you, the owner, there is no hurry to pick up the family, let's start working!

I don't know what kind of books Lang Jun wants to print? ”

"Don't worry about what kind of books to print for the time being, Master Bi, come and see ......" Zhang Junping took out more than a dozen seals he had carved himself.

Glued to Indonesia, one by one printed on rice paper, through different combinations, a small poem appeared on the rice paper.

The spring water and spring pond are full, and the spring grass grows in spring.

Spring people drink spring wine, and spring birds make spring sounds.

"Good poetry, really good poetry! In just 20 words, the fun of spring is vividly described! One of Bi Sheng's junior disciples praised loudly beside him.

Bi Sheng stared thoughtfully at Zhang Junping's quatrain printed on rice paper.

"Master Bi, what did you think of?" Zhang Junping looked at Bi Sheng and asked with a smile.

"Boss, this is ...... Ransom the little old man is stupid, and the owner wants to print the book in this way? Bi Sheng really deserves to be the big guy who invented movable type printing, and he can understand it at one point and grasp Zhang Junping's meaning.

At the beginning, Bi Sheng saw his children and grandchildren playing at home, using clay to make pots, bowls, tables, chairs, pigs, and people, and arrange them as they wanted. After some dedicated research, he finally invented the clay movable type printing technique.

"Yes!" Zhang Junping high-fived and said: "Our current engraving printing books, too laborious, too costly, and the engraving is not easy to preserve, if you use wood, iron, tin, or lead, copper and other items to carve into Chinese characters, what books and articles do you want to print, as long as these words are arranged in order, will it be much simpler?" Zhang Junping continued to inspire.

"The owner is so good! What a coincidence!

In the past, we printed more than 5,000 volumes of the Tripitaka and carved 130,000 wooden boards, which could not fit in a single room, and it took me an unknown number of years to complete it! If you use the owner's method, it will only take a few months to complete. Bi Sheng's eyes brightened, and he high-fived and praised.

"Master Bi, I just put forward a small suggestion, specifically to turn this method into reality, to achieve this kind of movable type printing, but also rely on Master Bi and the craftsmen to study carefully!"

"Owner, with this idea, the next work is not difficult, there are always more ways than difficulties!

More than a dozen of our brothers and sisters have learned engraving since childhood, and they have been working in this industry for decades, so they still have some experience!

But rest assured, this matter will be left to us, and we will definitely work out movable type printing! Bi Sheng confidently patted his chest and reassured.

"In this way, I will be tired of the master craftsman, and as soon as I need it, I will go directly to the housekeeper Lu!

Uncle Lu, here Uncle Lu is more troublesome, no matter what Master Bi needs, whether it is in life, or in the study of movable type printing needs, we must try our best to meet it! ”

"Whoa!" Zhang Lu agreed loudly.

"Don't worry, the little old man will definitely do his best to get this movable type printing out one day earlier!" Bi Sheng reassured.

"I'm tired of the master!" Zhang Junping bowed.

"Don't dare, don't dare, the owner has a life-saving grace for us, and so kind to me, and now it is to put forward such a wonderful idea, once the movable type printing research out, it will be the blessing of the world's readers, but also the blessing of our engraving craftsmen!" Bi Sheng hurriedly returned the salute.

There is a sentence that Bi Sheng said wrongly, movable type printing is the gospel of readers, but not the gospel of engraving craftsmen.

Nowadays, the status of engraving craftsmen is relatively high, because cultural inheritance is inseparable from these engraving craftsmen.

However, once movable type printing was invented, the status of the engraving craftsman was bound to be greatly reduced.

This is also the last time and space, Bi Sheng invented movable type printing technology and did not be promoted, not that the government and the imperial court did not have the knowledge of things, but the yamen responsible for managing craftsmen saw the benefits of movable type printing, and also saw the adverse effects of movable type printing on engraving craftsmen, so it was not promoted.

It was only recorded by Shen Kuo in "Mengxi Writings", and it was not until the Yuan and Ming dynasties that it gradually became popular.

Handed over the research and development of movable type printing to the original inventor Bi Sheng, Zhang Junping no longer worries and is busy with his own affairs every day.

In the following days, Zhang Junping's life became very fulfilling.

Go to Qingning Palace every day on the fifth watch, accompany Zhao Zhen to run, do aerobics, practice Taizu Changquan, and after breakfast, go home to teach 300 Dings to practice three-body piles, and then go to the academy to teach the children martial arts and swordsmanship.

This is still the two housekeepers who are reliable and powerful, otherwise Zhang Junping would have to be busy and dizzy.

The two housekeepers, one inside and one outside, managed the house inside and out in an orderly manner, which saved Zhang Junping a lot of heart.

Outside, Zhang Lu supervised the construction of the winery, the construction of the barracks for 300 families and 500 orphans, and the research and development of movable type printing at the bookstore.

At home, Zhang Fu managed the affairs of the house, and asked Lang Zhong to check the health of five hundred orphans and regulate their bodies.

These orphans have some injuries and illnesses on their bodies, and even if they have no injuries, they are all thin and weak, and they are not able to accept the next rigorous military training without recuperation.

In the eyes of the housekeeper Zhang Fu, the three hundred family members can only be regarded as a transition, and these five hundred orphans are the basis for the Zhang family in the next few decades.

He himself is an orphan adopted by the Zhang family, and has experience in how to cultivate orphans, and raises them with good food and drink every day, but every morning and evening, when eating, the old man Ding and the old woman who take care of them will whisper in their ears that it was the Zhang family who adopted them, gave them clothes to wear, gave them food, and gave them treatment, and they will teach them skills in the future, they must be grateful, and they will repay the Zhang family when they grow up.

There is a saying that lies will become truth if they are repeated 10,000 times, not to mention that these are true.

In the young hearts of these 500 orphans, a seed was slowly planted, everything they had was given by the Zhang family, and they would repay the Zhang family when they grew up in the future, and for the Zhang family, even if they lost their lives, it was worth it.