Chapter 5 Knowledge is Money [No. 5, Fourth Update]
It turned out that while Wang Tianjie was preparing everything for the education reform, an increasingly prominent problem was placed in front of the two, that is, the "Tiancheng Book", which should be accurately said to be the number of "Tiancheng Book".
Because the "Tiancheng Book" was compiled by Shi Qingcheng himself, and the "Tiancheng Book" in Guo Jia's hands was also copied by Shi Qingcheng himself day and night, therefore, the "Tiancheng Book" was cherished as a "treasure" by Guo Jia.
The reason why this reform did not dare to be in a hurry was because the knowledge involved in the "Tiancheng Book" was too shocking to the world, and I was afraid that it would be difficult for people to accept it for a while. Moreover, in order to implement educational reform, it is necessary to cultivate a group of gentlemen who have accepted new knowledge, and the difficult situation when Guo Jia and others first came into contact with these new knowledge, the two of them can be said to be vivid, with Guo Jia and their talents are still like this, so what will be the acceptance of those gentlemen, if there are no textbooks, you can imagine what the result will be.
And in the face of tens of thousands of students, can it be said that they are also allowed to copy day and night?
It can be said that the serious shortage of textbooks has directly affected the key to the success or failure of this educational reform.
Therefore, the most urgent task now is to solve the problem of teachers and students without textbooks.
In private, Wang Tianjie and Shi Qingcheng were also discussing how to solve this extremely difficult problem in front of them as soon as possible. Again, there is the question of what kind of materials should be used to make textbooks?
If bamboo slips are used, it is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also not easy to carry; However, if silk is used, the cost is too high to be squandered even if the current financial resources are very abundant.
Then, the only thing left is to use paper as the best solution.
However, fortunately, in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, Cai Lun had already understood papermaking, but the technology of papermaking at this time was not very mature, and the texture of the paper produced was relatively rough. So, it didn't catch on in this era.
For the technical improvement of paper, it is very difficult for others, but for Wang Tianjie and Shi Qingcheng from the future, it is not a problem at all, and under Wang Tianjie, there are geniuses like Ma Jun and Zheng Hun who improve and understand technology. Sure enough, after some guidance from the two, Ma Jun and his craftsmen finally succeeded in improving the immature papermaking technique.
Although papermaking technology has been greatly improved, it is limited by the level of scientific and technological production. Therefore, the paper made is far less good than the paper produced in the future, both in terms of texture and brightness, but it is far better than the previous rough paper, which can basically meet the requirements of writing on it.
After solving the paper problem, now in front of the two of them, there is only how to solve the problem of how to solve the textbook that is about to become a book.
If the same manual copying, not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also bound to have a large number of typos in the process of copying, missing words, etc., so that after the completion of the correction over and over again, both in terms of quantity and time is basically impossible.
In order to solve this thorny problem, it has been bothering Wang Tianjie.
"If there is a printing press at this time, won't this problem be solved?" Wang Tianjie suddenly flashed this thing in his mind, and couldn't help muttering.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, Wang Tianjie immediately realized that this was simply a fantasy, how could there be a printing press in this era? Wang Tianjie was even a little amused by his unrealistic ideas.
"Printing press?" But as the saying goes, "what you say is unintentionally listened to intentionally". When Shi Qingcheng heard what Wang Tianjie said about the printing press, he suddenly seemed to grasp something in his mind.
"Tianjie, you just said the printing press?" Shi Qingcheng immediately asked.
"yes, but where are we going to get this thing in this day and age? It's about to blow up. No, it's actually cranky. Wang Tianjie said with some self-esteem.
"By the way, I thought about it, it's not too difficult for us to have a printing press now." Slowly, Shi Qingcheng said with a smile.
"Huh?" Wang Tianjie didn't turn around for a while, puzzled.
"Tianjie, what do you say is the most influential thing about our Huaxia land to us and even the world?" Shi Qingcheng asked.
"Not only for us, but for the world? Well, let me think about it,......, I remember that the old man seemed to say ...... in class, by the way, it's the 'Four Great Ming'! Wang Tianjie finally remembered.
"Yes, it's the 'Four Great Mings'!" It included: the compass, papermaking, gunpowder, and printing. Shi Qingcheng nodded.
"Typography. By the way, it's printing, how did I forget it. Wang Tianjie said excitedly.
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"Movable type?" Hearing Wang Tianjie's suggestion, Ma Jun, Zheng Hun and the others all asked incomprehensibly.
"Yes, that's right. If we already have a typeset handwriting template in advance, as long as we put the paper on it and print it again with ink, then the handwriting we want will not appear on the paper.
Movable type printing can also quickly change the handwriting template according to different needs, so as to print a large number of them, so that the problem of textbooks in front of us will not be solved. And, as long as we calibrate the template before printing, we don't have to make text corrections over and over again,......。 Wang Tianjie described in detail and demonstrated at the same time.
Ma Jun and others listened to Wang Tianjie's detailed description, and their eyes became brighter and brighter, once this printing technology was implemented and succeeded, coupled with the fact that papermaking technology has been greatly improved, it would definitely be a great change in the inheritance of Chinese culture.
Next, it's a matter of what to use to make these movable type molds. In the Song Dynasty, Bi Shengming used clay to bake the clay type, but the clay type is basically "disposable", not easy to preserve, once it is broken, it has to be engraved again. Later, wooden type, lead type, and so on appeared.
Although the wooden type is more resistant to preservation, the wooden type is easy to absorb water and deform, which makes the template uneven, which greatly affects the printing quality. Although there are no shortcomings of wooden type, it is said that lead contains a large amount of "mercury" and other heavy metal poisons that are harmful to the human body. If people use a large number of such books, it will accumulate with the accumulation of lead in the body, and eventually form "lead poisoning", and "lead poisoning" is extremely harmful to children and adolescents in the childbearing stage. Not to mention that it is almost impossible to extract lead at current production levels. Therefore, the lead movable type is also directly "passed".
In the end, Wang Tianjie thought about it again and again and decided to take "Tao movable type" as the standard. Because, the movable type made of pottery, not only does not have the shortcomings of the deformation of the wooden movable type, there is no toxin of the lead movable type, and it is also very safe to use, and there is no defect that the clay movable type is easy to damage, and the movable type made of pottery can be said to be the best choice at present.
And the reason why Wang Tianjie used pottery to make movable type. This is because the pottery technology has been mastered by our people as early as ancient times. It's just that at this time, ceramic technology was still far from mature, and the pottery produced now could not be called porcelain. However, it is very easy to manufacture pottery type with the current porcelain-making technology, and there is no technical difficulty in choosing "pottery type".
At the suggestion of Wang Tianjie, Ma Jun and his colleagues successfully barbecued the pottery movable type in less than a week, and with the successful development of the pottery movable type, the "Tiancheng Book" also quickly began to be introduced in large quantities.
This also laid a solid foundation for Wang Tianjie's successful implementation of this education reform.
However, with the advent of "Tiancheng Book", it immediately caused a huge sensation in the land of China!
This is a later story, so let's not mention it for now!
However, what Wang Tianjie did not expect was that with the continuous improvement of the "pottery type" technology and the help of Shi Qingcheng, Ma Jun and the others quickly succeeded in making very fine porcelain.
As the "Minister of Finance and Minister of Commerce", Zhen Yi immediately saw the huge commercial interests contained in this fine porcelain, and immediately launched these exquisite porcelain.
For this reason, Wang Tianjie made a lot of money, and Tian Yu was the boss who listed his mouth all day long. Wang Tianjie really admires Tian Yu's facial muscles, which is really extraordinary!
Unexpectedly, the implementation of educational reform not only led to this series of reforms, but also to the exhibition of ceramic technology, making the ceramic industry quickly become the sixth pillar industry in eastern Liaoning.
Education led to this series of reforms, and these reforms promoted economic development, and the so-called "knowledge is money" is once again perfectly interpreted here.