Chapter 216: Borrowing Books
This time I returned to Beijing, watching the ceremony was one thing, and more importantly, it was more important to solve the affairs of Wang Cui's two families. Baidu search literature network, more good free reading.
Think about yourself, a five-good young man in later generations, who is helpless, how can he be related to the five surnames of Qiwang in the early Tang Dynasty.
And they are inseparable from three of them, and they are all about to rise to the point of being angry enemies.
However, for some reason, the Zheng family actually started a business with themselves
In the sale of new paper, Ding Yi also gave a condition, that is, the selling price should not be too high.
This is not Ding Yi's pretentiousness or meddling, but the root of the matter is to reduce the price of paper, so that ordinary people can use it, and there are more people who can read books.
Speaking of which, we have to mention another thing.
That was the completion of the Sihei Library.
With a library, then books become an essential thing. Nowadays, the price of books is called expensive
At this time, movable type printing came into being
The price of books is only one aspect of the problem, there is another problem.
Most of the books are solitary, and many of them are collected at home by others, and it is very difficult for others to borrow them.
There is another purpose for returning to Beijing this time, and that is to find someone to borrow books
The first stop was set at Yan Silu's house.
The compilation of the dictionary has reached the most critical time, and it just so happens that Ouyang Xun and others are in the Yan family.
Everyone sat together and talked for a long time, and Ding Yi helped them come up with some ideas.
"Old Yan, why don't you add punctuation marks on this" Ding Yi didn't notice this at first, but now he can't help but be confused.
"What is punctuation?" Yan Silu asked rhetorically.
"Ugh"
Punctuation did not exist in this era, and knowing this, Ding Yi explained punctuation to everyone again. Baidu search literature network, more good free reading.
Commas, periods, quotation marks, question marks, exclamation marks, etc
These people are worthy of great Confucianism, and it is easy to understand the use of this punctuation mark.
"Ding Yi, that's good, it's good" Yan Silu didn't know how to express the admiration in his heart, and nodded again and again.
"Hehe, this is all the credit of the ancestors, the kid is just a porter of knowledge" Ding Yi is very clear about his positioning.
"What kind of ancestor are you kid, why haven't I heard of it, old man," Kong Yingda said angrily.
This kid, every time something new is discovered, it is said that the ancestors discovered it, and these people can be regarded as well-versed in the past, how can they not know these ancestors.
But if you think about it carefully, these things are not something that a teenager can make, pinyin, punctuation, etc
How can this be done by one person
It doesn't take a long time for countless people to make it
"This kid has a matter, I want to ask a few gentlemen" can't explain, and he doesn't explain, just say the purpose of this trip.
"Oh, you kid still have to ask for help, I can help you, I will definitely not shirk" Yan Silu was a little curious, how could this kid still have the time to ask for help, but he also wanted to help him.
The others had the same attitude, and they were happy to help Ding Yi.
"The kid got a library in Siping, so I want to get some books"
"Wait" Before Ding Yi could finish speaking, Kong Yingda interrupted him.
"What is a Library?"
Ding Yi was stunned, this was his negligence.
"A library is all about putting all the books together and putting them on the shelves. For all the people who come to the library to borrow, of course, the kid doesn't want to take away your books, I just hope that I can lend them to the kid to print," Ding Yi explained.
All books
Everyone was shocked, Ding Yi's mind is not small
"You gathered these books just to make it easier for people to borrow them" Ouyang Xun was a little puzzled, even if he printed a lot of unique books and let people borrow them, this would satisfy a few people
"This is only one aspect, it is also to satisfy some people who cannot afford to buy books. For those who can afford the book, of course the price will be priced. ”
After saying this, Ding Yi felt that something was wrong, and added: "Of course, borrowing your book to print will give you some compensation at the end." ”
How can you borrow other people's books to make money, and how can you not compensate others. It's a pity that Ding Yi was wrong.
"What are these words" Yu Shinan was unhappy, so he looked down on them.
Everyone in the audience looked a little unsightly, Ding Yi's words were considered to have offended everyone, it was not that he did it on purpose, but he didn't understand what these people meant.
"The kid lost his words, I hope you will forgive me," Ding Yi hurriedly apologized.
"The kid means that since you have taken out your own collection of books, you are naturally indispensable."
"Kid is stupid"
Kong Yingda interrupted Ding Yi and said: "Ding Yi is also well-intentioned, but since we want to take out the collection of books, we are naturally not rushing for gold and silver." It's just, how can you solve the problem of printing?"
"Yes, the current printing is slow, the engraving procedure is complicated, and it is not easy to print books," Chu Suiliang said on the side.
Ding Yi: "This point, the kid has already solved it, otherwise he wouldn't have told you about it"
"Oh, what a way" Everyone was excited when they heard this, and Yan Silu stood up directly.
"Ugh"
It is another group of men with ill intentions, just like when Cheng Biting Jin and others surrounded Ding Yi. It's just that the man was replaced by an old man.
"This, this"
"If you have anything, you can say it directly, what kind of system will it be" Yu Shinan was unhappy, could it be so difficult to say something
Ding Yi was frightened by the old men, hurriedly straightened his tongue, and said quickly: "In the past, printing was all engraving printing, and the bottom plate must be engraved before each printing, and once the book is changed, it needs to be re-engraved." So the printing speed is also limited."
"The kid said that the method is also very simple, just carve out all the words individually, so that as long as the required words are arranged in order before printing, the problem of printing difficulties can be solved" Clay movable type This has changed the common problem of books, and it is not just as simple as Ding Yi said.
The first is the material of the engraving font, but these things have long been handed over to the research institute to start experiments, and now they have paid off.
"Such"
"I didn't think it would be so simple, it turns out that as long as the engraving is divided into a single plate, so many problems can be solved."
"Are We Old?"
"It's so simple, why hasn't anyone thought of it for so many years"
Ding Yi saw a few old men, coupled with the dejected expression of Chu Suiliang, a young man, and sighed in his heart.
It's easy to say, but it's also a problem in today's system.
It only needs to be a simple adaptation, but why no one has found out for so many years involves the status of today's craftsmen