Li Ye's manor outside the city also has several places, some large and some small, the manor where tea is made is now basically a workshop, and there are thousands of tea workers in it, plus because it also needs to dry tea and store tea, the area is relatively large, of course, it is also the largest area of Li Ye's manor outside the city.

That manor was naturally not suitable for Li Ye's daily leisure and vacation, so Li Ye asked people to build another manor, which was slightly smaller, only more than 100 acres, and the pond of the manor accounted for one-third of the area.

In a small courtyard next to the manor, it is the place where Li Ye asked people to make the font molds needed for movable type printing.

In the storeroom in this small courtyard, tens of thousands of exquisitely made square clay blocks are neatly stacked in wooden boxes, and each clay block is engraved with an anti-body text. Of course, in addition to the square clay blocks, there are also square copper, lead and wood blocks that are also neatly stacked on the side.

"According to His Royal Highness's requirements, a total of four sets of fonts have been made here, for the commonly used words, there are a few spare words, and dozens of more, so as to ensure that the fonts required for printing are enough." A man wearing a cyan round-necked narrow-sleeved robe stood respectfully in front of Li Ye, carefully introducing several characters in front of him.

This man's name is Pang Cheng, originally a printing craftsman in Chengdu Prefecture, Li Ye wanted to get out movable type printing, so he asked the people below to go to those engraving and printing workshops to dig people, and this person dug it up like this. However, because the other party was familiar with engraving and engraving printing technology, coupled with a flexible brain, he was appointed by Li Ye as a small steward in charge of this workshop.

"What are the advantages and disadvantages of these types of movable type?" Li Ye is not very clear about the situation of movable type printing, only knows that it is more time-saving, lower cost and more efficient than engraving printing books.

Originally, Li Ye just wanted to get out the clay movable type, but he thought that there were other movable types in history, so he had a brain fever and asked people to get a set of lead movable type, wooden movable type and copper movable type. And now these four kinds of movable type, a total of four sets, are all in this storeroom, and there are nearly 200,000 fonts alone.

The character model that Li Ye asked people to make is based on the "Jade Chapter" added by Sun Qiang. The Jade Chapter, the first Chinese character dictionary in history to be classified by radicals, originally had 16,917 characters, but later became 22,561 characters after Sun Qiang's addition. However, because there are many spare words for some commonly used words, Li Ye asked people to make this movable type, a complete set of about 50,000 word molds.

Among them, the clay movable type and the wooden movable type are the simplest, and they have long been made, and the lead movable type and the copper movable type have to be made into the sand mold first, and then poured into the lead liquid and copper liquid to become the word, which is very time-consuming, so the first two days only made the word mold required for the four sets of movable type.

Pang Cheng hurriedly replied, "Your Highness, these four types of movable type have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Wooden movable type can be carved from pear wood and jujube wood, which is convenient to obtain, low in cost, and relatively simple to carve; However, the texture of the wood is sparse and uneven, it is difficult to carve, it is deformed after being wet, and it is not easy to separate from the agent when it sticks together. Therefore, movable type can be used to print common, inexpensive books in large quantities.

Clay type is also less expensive, but it is a little time-consuming to make, which can avoid the problem of wooden type in printing.

The cost of lead type and copper type is high, and it takes more metal to manufacture the typetype, especially the copper type. However, these two kinds of movable type have the best printing effect, and the printed books are more beautiful, and the villain feels that they can use these two kinds of movable type to print better books. ”

"Looks like you've got some brains." Li Ye smiled and praised the other party.

In fact, he also knows a little bit about some things, so he said that this copper movable type, just these 50,000 character molds, cost him thousands of times. It's not that the labor cost is high, it's the problem of copper. Although this copper type is not exactly copper, but bronze with several metals combined, copper was a precious thing during the feudal dynasty. The copper required for 50,000 bronze letterings is also very scary.

"If this king wants to make money from this kind of printing, what do you think is better to print?" Li Ye also wanted to test the Pang Cheng in front of him.

"If Your Highness wants to make a profit from this, it is most appropriate to print Buddhist books or literary classics such as the Book of Songs. These books are more famous, and many large families also need these, whether it is profitable in a short time, the villain does not dare to guarantee, but with this movable type printing, the villain can ensure that a large number of them will be printed in a short time. Although Pang Cheng has a flexible brain, he has never done business after all, and he is just familiar with printing.

"Zhang Wei, you will tell the people below the palace later, and ask them to give this Wang Li a list of popular books at the moment." Li Ye commanded.

"Yes, Your Highness." After Zhang Wei nodded, he thought of something, "Your Highness, since this printing technique is so important, why don't Your Highness give it a name." ”

"And what do you think of the name?"

Zhang Wei flattered, "Since this printing technique was created by His Royal Highness, why not call it Shouwang Printing?" ”

"Uh, that's too ugly!"

"What about Lee's printing? What does Your Highness think? ”

"Lee's printing? Sounds okay. ”

Li Ye held his chin, looked at the sets of movable type in front of him, and hesitated, or named it after this. Thinking that this may be passed down through the ages, he was also a little moved, but if this was passed on by himself, would it arouse the hostility of those clans? Li Ye was also a little hesitant, but he didn't seem to be able to refuse the temptation of eternity!

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"Brother Qin, you really don't plan to go to Fuxue for class?"

In the West Market, two young men dressed in ordinary clothes are walking together, one of them is wearing a white student gown, and the other is wearing a green shirt, although the fabric of the clothes is good, but the white green shirt proves that the green shirt should have been washed many times, which shows that the family conditions of the man in the green shirt are not very good.

"Brother Chen, it's not that I don't want to go, you know the situation at home. My father passed away not long ago, and I have two younger sisters at home, and if I go to school again, my family can't afford to pay for it. Speaking of this, the man in the green shirt looked slightly depressed.

He naturally wanted to go to Fuxue to attend classes, but the situation at home made it impossible for him to continue attending classes at Fuxue. It costs money to study in the house, and the need is not low, otherwise there would not be so few readers. Previously, when his father was still alive, the family could still support the expenses he needed to study, but as soon as his father died, life in the family became difficult.

"So what are you going to do? Aren't you going to take part in the imperial examinations? The man in the white robe said anxiously.

"Brother Chen, even if I don't go to Fuxue, I can participate in the imperial examination, as long as I pass the examination, I can also participate in the imperial examination as a township tribute." The man in the green shirt comforted.

"It's easy to say, if you don't go to the school or the school, where do you go to read? How do you take the test without reading? Brother Qin, I suggest that you can fight hard, and at the end of the year, the government school will be assessed, and as long as you pass the provincial examination, you can participate in the provincial examination, which will only take more than half a year. You can discuss it with your aunt, as long as you pass the Jinshi examination, won't it be all right? The man in the white shirt persuaded.

"Brother Chen, don't deceive yourself, how can you pass the exam at the age of 20, most people don't pass the exam until they are thirty or forty years old, how can I pass the exam at once." Seeing a bookstore next to him, the man in the green shirt said with a smile, "The problem of books is easy to solve, aren't there books sold here?" I'm going to find something to support my family, and I'm going to buy some books to read for myself. ”

"Buying books?" The man in the white shirt looked at his friend as a fool, "Do you really think those books are cabbage?" In addition to the school and the school hall, there are more books in those big households, and the bookstores outside sell them at a very expensive price, can you afford them? ”

Hearing his friend ruthlessly expose his casual lies, the man in the green shirt couldn't help but be silent. Why are there so few readers? In fact, it's because books are expensive. There are two reasons why books are expensive, one is that paper is expensive, and the other is that printing is expensive. Even now, with block printing, printing is still expensive, and many books are still handwritten. Therefore, if ordinary people want to study, they either go to the school hall or go to the school. If you want to read at home, unless you have a mine at home.

Seeing that his friend still didn't listen to his advice, the man in the white shirt pulled the other party into the bookstore behind him.