Chapter 175 Li Shimin was very happy at the moment, saying that he wanted to reward Qin Huaidao, Li Lizhi heard it, and he also smiled, and Li Chengqian also nodded and said: "It's to be rewarded, during this time, he stayed in the house and didn't come out." ”

"Well, the training of the officer you and the slave lane is very good, very forward-looking! I guess it was Pepin's idea, right? Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian with a smile and asked.

"Yes, Erchen was very worried that day, and he didn't know how to choose an official, so he went to Peping's Mansion to sit for a while, and Peping gave Erchen the advice he provided, and Erchen did what he said, which is indeed good,

Those officials from humble backgrounds are now growing rapidly in knowledge, and Erchen will invite those officials to give them lessons every night, but it is still difficult to invite officials from the family. Li Chengqian said with a smile,

Later, Li Chengqian could only go to the training himself, and sometimes, he could only invite those children of the poor family who had been in the court for more than ten years to attend the class, but such people were limited after all.

"Well, the slave is doing a good job over there, and he can invite many children of the family to go to class." Li Shimin looked at Li Chengqian with a smile and said,

When Li Chengqian heard it, he could only smile bitterly, now the family has surrounded Li Tai and Li Zhi, he knows this, but there is no better way.

"Hmmm! It's okay, what they cultivated is also the courtiers of the court, which is helpful to the court. Li Shimin said with a smile.

"Now that we're talking about Peping, why are we discussing the politics of the court again?" Li Lizhi said with a hiccup.

"Ha, yes, now on the issue of Pepin's reward." Li Shimin was also happy at the moment.

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In the afternoon, Li Tai had already gone to Li Shimin to report, saying that the printing house would start printing the day after tomorrow, and Li Shimin was even happier when he heard it.

Early the next morning, Qin Huaidao asked Fang Yiai to drag a bucket of ink to the printing house, at this moment, Li Tai, Cheng Zhi, Fang Zhizhi, and the second son of the eldest grandson Wuji, Changsun Lian, also arrived.

Originally, Changsun Chong was in charge of this, but now Changsun Chong has been deprived of his title and official position, and he can no longer be here.

"Okay, let's start typography, I'll add ink to these machines, what about the printing workers?" Qin Huaidao stood there and began to carry the ink, injecting ink into those machines,

Some of the people who were responsible for operating the ink were all around Qin Huaidao, and Qin Huaidao also taught them how to add oil and ink.

Qin Huaidao added one himself, and began to ask those workers to add it, Qin Huaidao was pointing beside him,

And the low-level officials before the printing house are now also typesetting, and they not only have to typeset, but also proofread to ensure that there are no problems with the printed words.

About a quarter of an hour, those officials finished their school team and brought it to Qin Huaidao.

Qin Huaidao checked it and made sure that there was no problem, so he took the layout to Li Tai's side: "Your Highness, please check if there is any problem with this layout, if there is no problem, we will start trying to print it!" ”

"Eh, look at this king!" When Li Tai heard it, he immediately took the layout and looked at it, although those fonts were all reversed, but he could still see it.

"Well, it doesn't seem to be in order!" Li Tai checked it and asked.

"Oh, that's right, because we're printing on both sides of the paper, and there's a plate here, you look at it, the first side is on your board, and the second side is on this board!" As he spoke, Qin Huaidao took a board next to him and showed it to Li Tai.

"Oh, that's right, no problem!" Li Tai heard it and nodded.

"Prepare the third and fourth pages, and today, print all the Analects!" Qin Huaidao stood there and said to those officials.

"Eh, wait, wait, isn't it going to start printing tomorrow?" When Li Tai heard it, he immediately stopped Qin Huaidao, what he had notified before was to say that tomorrow, and early in the morning, Li Shimin informed the officials above the third rank of the current dynasty, as long as they were in Chang'an City, they would come here to watch.

"Today is a trial production, to make sure that there are no problems with all the procedures, tomorrow they come, on the real comprehensive large-scale printing, you see how many lifting machines are here?" Qin Huaidao stood there and said to Li Tai.

"There are more than fifty machines!" Li Tai looked at the neatly arranged machines in this house and said to Qin Huaidao.

"With so many machines, we can print many books at the same time in a day, and they are all printed on large open paper, and at one time, it is eight sides, and a book of Analects is only more than 80 sides and 40 pages, and 10 machines are enough, so tomorrow, we may have to print other books!" Qin Huaidao stood there and said to Li Tai.

"Today, all the machines have to be turned on again?" Li Tai pointed to those machines and said to Qin Huaidao.

"Of course, if you don't open it again, how can you make sure that all the machines are fine?" Qin Huaidao smiled and said.

"Oh, well, listen to you!" Li Tai nodded, and did not stop Qin Huaidao,

And Qin Huaidao took the layout and loaded it on the machine at the moment, because the number of pages on the layout had already been marked.

After Qin Huaidao installed it, he kicked his feet downward, pulled his hand, and then put the lever on the top, and the mechanical arm linked next to it had already moved the printed paper to the side, Qin Huaidao put down the machine, went to the side, took the printed paper and looked at it carefully, to see the ink.

"Well, the ink is a bit too much, and I need to adjust it!" Qin Huaidao said and put down the paper,

And the other officials all gathered around.

"Oh my God, this, this, this piece of paper, it's eight-sided, two-sided printing, that's sixteen-sided!"

"Just now, just now, just pulled it!"

"This, is it so fast?"

"This, these eight pages, I need to copy for half a day!" Those low-level officials, looking at the piece of paper at the moment, were very shocked, this speed was too fast.

And Li Tai on the side was also shocked to look at this scene, just now, all of a sudden, one side of the page was all printed.

Qin Huaidao ignored them, but adjusted the ink, and then continued to start printing, took a piece of paper and put it in, basically throwing it away, because there is a bayonet, it can be aligned by stuffing it inside.

"Click!" Another one, Qin Huaidao took it and looked at it carefully, the ink was not so thick, it was already very good.

"Okay, who's going to operate this machine?" Qin Huaidao stood there, very satisfied, and then asked.

"Young Master, I!" At this moment, a young man stood up and asked with a smile, as soon as Qin Huaidao heard him call him so, he knew that it was his own food,

Qin Huaidao immediately looked at him with a smile: "Come, try, if there is anything wrong, tell me!" ”

"Eh, young master!" The young man came right away, and he had been trained in this way before, so he knew how to do it, but it was the first time he had printed.

"Click~"

"Click~" The young man operated several times in a row, and Qin Huaidao picked it up and looked at it.

"That's too fast, isn't it?"

"It's estimated that hundreds of sheets will be printed in such a quarter of an hour!"

"This? How many books can be printed in a day? ”...

The men asked.

And when Qin Huaidao was inspecting, he heard what they said, and said lightly: "They are not very familiar now, and when they are familiar, they can print four or five hundred sheets in a quarter of an hour, and more than three thousand sheets in an hour.

At the end of a day, according to the calculation of two shifts a day, working for eight to ten hours, 20,000 or 30,000 books a day is no problem.

Of course, it takes a lot of machines, for example, the current Analects requires 10 machines to print 20,000 or 30,000 copies, while we have 50 machines, and if we only print the Analects a day, we can print 100,000 copies. Qin Huaidao finished speaking,

Those officials are stupid, they have all copied books, a book of Analects, they have to copy at least four or five days to copy, and there are some mistakes in the middle, but now, the workers here, all plus 500 people, can print 50,000 books a day. I don't know how many times this efficiency has increased.

"Alright, the second page, get it!" Qin Huaidao ignored the surprised expressions of those officials, but ordered those people to bring the second page,

Those officials came to their senses and sent the second page one after another, Qin Huaidao continued to debug, and after the debugging was completed, it was handed over to the workers.

In this way, a page of paper is all printed, and it is necessary to start cutting, and there are workers who are specifically responsible for cutting.

There are also special machines for binding those books, and by the time all the machines are fully adjusted, it is already afternoon.

On the other side of the printing house, many of the Analects have already been bound, and many officials are just standing there looking at the Analects, and the brand-new white paper and the ink with a little ink fragrance make them like this book very much!

"Tut, I want to buy a few copies to give away, tell them that this is a book printed by our printing house, but it is many times better than copying it myself, look at it, how clean and concise it is!"

"It's so fragrant, it's so good, and the reader is blessed!"

"I don't know how the book is priced?" An official asked.

"Huh? It doesn't cost much, the ink money is a penny, the paper money just looked at it, and I used less than four large pieces of paper, not four pennies, plus the artificial money on our side, the pricing is set at about eight cents! Qin Huaidao smiled and said to the official.

"So cheap?"

"Eight cents, so cheap?" ...

When those officials heard this, they were very shocked, in fact, eight cents is not cheap, and many people do a day's wages, which is only five to ten cents, such a book is equivalent to a day's wages of the people.

But compared with the previous cost, there is also the fact that those books are in the hands of the families who are in control, and ordinary people can't buy them if they have money.

"It's all done, then tomorrow, it's time to ask Your Majesty to come and take a look!" Li Tai said to Qin Huaidao with a smile, he was worried in his heart, he was really worried after seeing the efficiency of this printing plant.