The corners of Chen Siye's mouth twitched, Xiao Tao, you are relaxed, do you know what the hell you have to be tired of writing a book?

Mr. Zeng laughed and said: "It turned out that it had been given to the little peach girl, and the old man didn't dare to take the love of others, so the matter was stopped." After saying that, I couldn't put it down.

Xiao Tao blushed and didn't dare to look up. Le Xuan also looked back at Xiao Tao with some amusement, and then said, "Xiao Yezi, do these two books still need to be revised?" If there is no need to revise it, it will have to be handed over to Mr. Zeng to print. ”

Chen Siye shook his head and said, "There is no need to modify it, but I have one thing." Le Xuan said, "What's the matter? You just say. ”

Chen Siye looked at Mr. Zeng and asked, "Mr. Zeng, I am ignorant, can I ask Mr. Zeng to tell me how this book was printed?" "You have to ask them what kind of printing technology they use, and if you use engraving printing, it's easy, just teach them movable type printing, but if you already use movable type printing, it's not very easy to do.

Mr. Zeng stroked his eight-character nonsense and said: "This printing book, you need to make an engraving plate first." Hearing this, Chen Siye was overjoyed, but he didn't interrupt, but listened patiently.

"However, the engraving is not easy to make, and it is necessary to copy it on paper as thin as a cicada's wing, and then attach the front of the manuscript to a smooth wooden board, so that the board has an anti-script on it."

Mr. Zeng took a sip of tea, moistened his throat and continued: "Then, according to this anti-character character, let the carver use a carving knife to cut off the unwritten part of the wooden board, and it becomes the yang script with the font protruding, and then stained with ink, and the book can be printed." ”

Chen Siye suddenly realized that this was how the engraving came, and he always thought that it was carved directly by the carvers, and it turned out that there was one more process.

"It turns out that this engraving is made of wood, so I wonder what are the disadvantages of this engraving?" Chen Siye asked quietly.

Mr. Zeng frowned and thought for a while, and said: "First of all, this engraving is not very strong, if one word is touched, it will be considered invalid." Moreover, this engraving is also easy to deform, easy to be eaten by insects, and is not easy to preserve. ”

Chen Siye pretended to think, and said after a while: "If you use cement to make small squares of the same size, and then burn them into anti-body Yang characters after engraving, more commonly used words are fired, and rare words are less fired. ”

After saying this, no one answered, Mr. Zeng's eyes widened, as if he had seen a ghost, and Le Xuan's delicate face was also full of shock. However, Xiao Tao and Yan'er didn't understand very well, and looked at each other without knowing what was going on.

I only heard Mr. Zeng exclaim: "Chen Gongzi, you are really brilliant, you can come up with such a method!" This is not only less manpower and material resources, this is simply to open up another way, if it is feasible, then no longer afraid of damage to the engraving, is the loss of movable type, and only need to do a few again. ”

Le Xuan also continued: "Xiao Yezi, you always surprise me and come up with these whimsical ideas, are you born to know?" ”

Chen Siye was a little ashamed, this was not something he came up with, but it was created by his ancestor Bi Sheng, he just borrowed a light.

"It was also a flash of inspiration that I came up with this solution, and I can try to see if it works." Mentally ashamed, but not modest at all.

Mr. Zeng said excitedly: "County Lord, this method is completely feasible!" It can be implemented in our paper mill first. ”

Le Xuan still has a paper mill under her name? Papermaking and book printing, a one-stop industry, not bad.

Le Xuan thought for a moment and said, "Well, yes, Mr. Zeng, you can supervise this matter and try how effective this method is." However, the two books of Xiaoyezi should be carved first, otherwise if there is any problem, it will be too time-consuming. ”

Mr. Zeng replied, "Yes." Then he began to praise Chen Siye, "Chen Gongzi is really a genius, if he creates this method, he will definitely be able to live for generations!" ”

Chen Siye was a little fluttering when he heard the praise, and said happily: "Mr. Zeng, I don't know how long it will take to make this engraving?" How long will it take to see the book finished? ”

"Dozens of craftsmen are summoned, and the engraving can be made in ten days, and the book can be printed for three days, and then bound into a book, a total of 15 days is enough."

Chen Siye was a little staggered, dozens of people could only make engravings in ten days, which was really laborious.

Mr. Zeng asked again: "I wonder how many books Chen Gongzi needs to print?" What are the requirements for this book? ”

Chen Siye thought for a while and said, "Each book is printed in 1,000 copies, of which 400 are beautifully made, and the other 600 are ordinary." "At this time, people don't have much awareness of copyright, and if others see the fire of his bookstore, they will definitely print it and sell it, so it is better to prepare for both, and catch it in the high-end market and low-end market to minimize the loss of pirated copies.

Mr. Zeng silently wrote it down and said, "Don't worry, Gongzi Chen, I'll leave these to me." But how to settle the printing fee? Cash silver or? ”

Chen Siye was stunned for a moment, the printing fee? Why do you have to pay for it? Isn't it free?

Le Xuan coughed lightly, and her face seemed a little unbearable, "Mr. Zeng, I have promised Xiao Yezi about this matter, it is a reward for him, you see..."

Chen Siye was a little confused, why do you still have to discuss with Mr. Zeng? Doesn't talking work?

Mr. Zeng said with a straight face: "The county lord must not do this matter. If it is at the will of the county lord, when will it be profitable? I counted the accounts for the lord of the county, and carved the engravings, and used fifty workers, each of whom had five hundred wen per day, twenty-five taels of silver for one day, and two hundred and fifty taels for ten days, and thirty workers for printing and binding, and two hundred taels of silver for five days. The wages will cost two hundred and eighty taels of silver, which is still less. ”

Le Xuan's face was a little unsightly, but he didn't interrupt him, only to hear Mr. Zeng continue: "Ordinary large paper costs eight pennies, just one hundred pages of this book, one book is eighty wen, six hundred books and forty-eight taels of silver. A book costs 600 yuan, and 400 books cost 240 taels, so that each of the two books will be printed in 1,000 copies, and a total of 576 taels of paper money will be required. This is only an approximate estimate, and if you count other losses and wages, I am afraid it will cost nearly a thousand taels of silver. And this thousand taels of silver, I don't know how long it will take for the paper mill to earn it back. County Lord, after hearing this, do you still want to reward? ”

Chen Siye was also a little stunned, he himself was a little confused, and he didn't understand it after calculating it in his mind for a long time, but this Mr. Zeng was like a treasure, and he easily calculated it, it was simply a humanoid computer.

Although Le Xuan couldn't hold it on her face, she still had a smile, but her smile was a little stiff, "I have promised Xiao Yezi, how can you let me regret it?" ”

Chen Siye was afraid that Le Xuan would be too embarrassed, so he relieved himself and said, "Mr. Zeng, isn't my movable type printing technique worth a thousand taels of silver?" ”

Mr. Zeng said: "This technique is priceless and cannot be measured in silver." Chen Gongzi rest assured, you will definitely leave a name for yourself because of this technique in the future. ”

Chen Siye said in his heart that I don't want to be famous for a hundred generations, I just want silver.

But he didn't have any money, thinking of the task sent by the system and saying that he would help Le Xuan improve the glass process, Chen Siye was busy communicating with the system and spent two points to exchange for the glass making process, and suddenly understood in his heart, and then said tentatively: "Did Mr. Zeng encounter a bottleneck in the trial production of glass?" "Since the system says that the process should be improved, it must be that Daji can now make ordinary glass, but not transparent glass.

However, people can make it from Wuguo, and it is called crystal.

As soon as they heard this, Mr. Zeng and Le Xuan's faces changed, and Le Xuan asked, "Where did you learn about this?" ”

Chen Siye sighed in his heart, he didn't expect this matter to be kept secret, he glanced at Xiao Tao and said, "I heard Xiao Tao say it unintentionally." ”

Xiao Tao was a little puzzled, when did I say it? Fortunately, Xiao Tao didn't demolish him and silently took the blame for him.

"You ask, but what is the way? It is not a secret, the glass making method has existed since ancient times, but the color is always blue and green, and the colorless glass cannot be made, but the martial arts can not be made for some reason. I've tried a lot of things, but it didn't work. Mr. Zeng said after looking at Le Xuan.

This glass is mainly made of sand as a raw material, and the color is green and blue because the iron content in the sand is too high. The modern process is to neutralize the color and become transparent after adding manganese dioxide, but at this time, there is naturally no such thing as manganese dioxide, and it is estimated that manganese ore is not easy to find.