Zhu Youxiao, male, 31 years old, ancestral home of Jinling, born in the sixth year of Xusheng......

Yu Zhiqian looked at Zhu Youxiao's information, and couldn't help sighing, this product is really a natural carpenter, he can improve his own farming tools at the age of twelve, and at the age of sixteen, he was recommended by the state official to come to the Ministry of Industry as a small official, and it has been fifteen years.

In the past fifteen years, this product has invented a lot of things, such as the chair that Yu Zhiqian is sitting on, this thing was made by this guy, it can be said that with the credit of this guy, don't be a secretary of the Ministry of Industry, at least it's okay to be a waiter or something.

But this product doesn't like to be an official, so he likes to ponder blindly, he can't stay, and he was once promoted to a six-grade official, but this product didn't show up for half a month when he studied something, which coincided with the assessment of the officials, so he was pushed to the end.

Later, he was promoted again, but this thing did not change, he liked to mix with craftsmen and ponder, and over time, everyone got used to it, no one was specifically promoting him, but many people took advantage of his reform to get promoted and raised, married Bai Fumei, and embarked on the peak of life.

Zhu Youxiao followed behind Yu Zhiqian, and there were nine other craftsmen, to be honest, it has always been said in the novel that the status of craftsmen is relatively low, but in fact, it is simply nonsense, which of these craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry looks like a poor person?

Craftsman status? Compared with farmers, craftsmen are richer, because they have craftsmanship, not to mention these craftsmen who eat the imperial court in the Ministry of Industry, they will have a little extra income, and a family of three may have a lot of wealth.

In addition, some craftsmen in the folk farm, when they are busy farming, go out to work for others in their spare time, make a chair, and make iron, and their income is much higher than that of farmers chopping firewood.

And go out to work for people, or take care of food, all kinds of things, a craftsman, basically can feed a large family and have a surplus, so there may be workers who can't eat, can't wear warm, etc., but it's definitely not all, there is nothing wrong with the phrase "starving craftsmen".

"Your Highness, what are we going to do?"

"You'll know when you get to the East Palace!"

Yu Zhiqian's mind kept thinking about what should be engraved first, as if there was a book called Shuowen Jiezi in ancient times, which had most common characters on it.

More than ten minutes later, back to the East Palace, Yu Zhiqian took this group of craftsmen to the front hall, and Shen Wansan, a dog-legged man, also appeared in front of Yu Zhiqian, looking at the group of craftsmen in front of him with some curiosity.

"Wansan, let people prepare some wood!"

"Your Highness, what kind of wood do you want?"

"First find everything you can find, by the way, I'm looking for a few books that explain Chinese characters!"

"Yes, Your Highness!"

At this time, Zhu Youxiao had already guessed what Yu Zhiqian was going to do, and his brows furrowed slightly: "Your Highness, do you want to prepare an engraving and printing version?" ”

The so-called printing plate is the current printing version.

But this thing needs to engrave a page of the book, and then print it according to the number of pages, after the book is printed, this board is almost useless, this group of people did not think at all, the words on this board one by one, rearranged.

"Well, it's a little different from the traditional one, it's new!"

Yu Zhiqian has asked before, but there is no movable type printing yet, and he can be regarded as mastering the core technology, and sure enough, only by mastering the core technology can he make money.

"Oh?"

Zhu Youxiao looked at His Royal Highness the Prince, his eyes were full of disbelief, as a carpenter, Zhu Youxiao felt that he was successful, he enjoyed the sense of accomplishment of making a thing, Zhu Youxiao felt that even if he was made an emperor, he was not as comfortable as a carpenter.

As a professional carpenter, he did not believe that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince could improve the printing technique, after all, this thing seemed to him to have nothing to improve, and it was already considered perfect.

Soon, Shen Wansan handed over a dusty explanatory text: "Your Highness, that's it, I've already sent someone to buy it!" ”

"Don't, chase it back, one is enough, what about that Lu Bu, let him come over, you can't raise an idler, go, let him come over!"

"Whoa!"

"By the way, is the wood ready?"

"It's ready!"

"Okay, Zhu Youxiao, you come with me, I'll tell you what to do!"

"Yes! Your Highness! ”

Yu Zhiqian took Zhu Youxiao and a few people to the courtyard, Yu Zhiqian pointed to the wood, and then opened the book: "Do you know how to read?" ”

The carpenters looked at each other, and finally shook their heads, they really didn't know a word.

"Well, that's okay, you look at the words on it, can you carve it?"

Several carpenters looked at it and immediately nodded, as carpenters, engraving the printed version, I don't know how many times they have carved it, as long as they see the number of words, they can carve it out without any difficulty.

"That's fine, I need you to carve such a big letter!"

After finishing speaking, Yu Zhiqian drew a small square on a piece of wood: "I asked you to divide these pieces of wood into such small pieces and carve words on them!" ”

"Your Highness, we haven't been able to understand what you mean!"

"Zhu Youxiao, you first divide these woods into such a big shape, a little thicker!"

"Yes, Your Highness!"

Zhu Youxiao took out his own tools, and the carpenter tools of this era were very comprehensive, with saws, planers and other things.

Soon, a small piece of wood turned into a small square block in Zhu Youxiao's hands.

"Now on this kind of wooden block, there is no difficulty in carving a word on a wooden block, right?"

This group of carpenters looked at the small wooden block about the thickness of the middle finger and nodded, this group of carpenters are the kings of carpenters, not to mention the size of the index finger, no matter how small they are, they can do it!

"Very good, each of you, be responsible, carve it on different boards, and each of you will carve five words first! With different woods! ”

After finishing speaking, Yu Zhiqian divided the words on the first page of the book,

After hearing this, the carpenter took out his tools one after another and began to prepare to saw wood, while Zhu Youxiao directly prepared to start carving.

"Hey, why are you so stupid, division of labor and cooperation, division of labor and cooperation!"

Yu Zhiqian patted his head, as if the assembly line work system had already been developed in the Qin Dynasty, but it was later lost.

"Well, what do you mean, Your Highness?"

The group of carpenters stared at Yu Zhiqian, a little confused about what Yu Zhiqian was going to do.

"You, you, you, and you, a few of you, come and use Zhu Youxiao's wooden blocks to engrave, you two measure the wooden blocks, you two, cut, you come to separate these woods and peel them!"

"Well, Your Highness, but we, everyone'......"

"Wouldn't it be nice to help them carve a few more? So that someone carves words, someone provides wooden blocks, and you don't have to do all the work alone, understand? ”

"Uh, I don't understand!"

"Assemblies, assemblies! You know, assembly line! ”

"Your Highness, but now there are only five people engraved, and we can engrave ten people at the same time!"

“……”

Yu Zhiqian found that the heads of this group of carpenters were a little wooden, including Zhu Youxiao, they were all the same, and they would not be flexible, so he couldn't help but sigh, he really couldn't convince them, they were right, how could five people engrave words quickly with ten people!

"Forget it, let it be, the words are all given to you, you speed up!"

After Yu Zhiqian finished speaking, he left immediately, and at the same time, he began to think in his mind, how to be able to print movable type!

First of all, only words are definitely not enough, and they also need to be typeset, otherwise, they will be scattered when touched, how can they be put into production?

Moreover, Yu Zhiqian remembered that the large-scale application of movable type printing seemed to be burned words, not carved words on wood!

Now Yu Zhiqian regrets a little, in the summer of that year, when he was in class, he should study hard, write down all the things that the teacher gave him, and after crossing, he should be a great inventor!

But now, Yu Zhiqian has nothing in his mind except for Qinglou and sister, it is empty, and he can't think of anything at all.

"Come on, you can do it, you must remember a lot of things!"

Yu Zhiqian kept touching his head, hoping that in this way, he could remove the obstacles that hindered his memory, but the effect didn't seem to be very good, at least, Yu Zhiqian's brain was still blank.

"There it is!"

Just when Yu Zhiqian was at a loss, a sudden flash of inspiration suddenly opened, just like a person who is constipated, suddenly happy, a person who has been constipated for a long time is suddenly unblocked, and inspiration is constantly born from his mind!

"I'm really a genius!"

Yu Zhiqian praised himself that he only needed to open four card slots around the characters, so that he could use wooden boards to arrange some words, so that he didn't have to worry about these words falling apart when printing.

In addition to this, methods such as tenon clamping can also be used, which are the basic skills of carpenters, and it is impossible not to do so.

"Your Highness!"

Just when Yu Zhiqian's inspiration was like a urine collapse, and even when he thought of how to make ice in the summer, suddenly His Royal Highness pulled Yu Zhiqian back to reality.

I saw Lu Bu looking at Yu Zhiqian sleepily, and he couldn't help but yawn.

Seeing this guy Yu Zhiqian, he was angry, in the East Palace, eating his own, living his own, and living more comfortably than himself! If it weren't for his Diao Chan sister, Yu Zhiqian would have been eager to kick this guy out.

Holding back his anger, Yu Zhiqian kept reminding himself, hold back, hold back, and after he tricked Diao Chan, he would kick this damn guy away!

"Your Highness?"

Lu Bu asked Yu Zhiqian again, some didn't understand that Yu Zhiqian called him over, but he didn't speak.

"Come here!"

After Yu Zhiqian took a few deep breaths, he waved his hand and walked outside with Lu Bu.

"You transcribe ten copies of this book!"

"Your Highness, is this a text interpretation? It's very common in the market, Your Highness, if you need it urgently, you can have someone buy a few copies! Lu Bu picked up the book and looked at it, looking at Yu Zhiqian with some puzzlement.

"If you want to copy it, you will copy it, there is so much nonsense!"

After Yu Zhiqian finished speaking, he left Lu Bu and returned to his study.

"Whoa!"

When Lu Bu was about to take the book away, he was instantly stopped by Zhu Youxiao: "What are you doing?" ”

"Didn't you see that Your Highness asked me to copy the book!"

"Your Highness let us carve according to the words on the book, and you will put the book down for me!"

"Your Highness asked me to copy the book!"

“……”

The two didn't give in to each other, and they were almost about to fight, Lu Bu felt that if it weren't for the fact that he was a scholar, he would have beaten these guys down a long time ago, definitely not because there were ten people on the other side, and he was only one person!