For the later expansion of Beiping City, Luo Cheng is now increasing the inventory of cement in advance.

It is certain that with the emergence of cement, the expansion of Beiping City will inevitably be much faster than imagined. This is an undoubted and long-established fact.

In addition, Luo Cheng's shipbuilding workshop set up near the Bohai Sea earlier also brought the news. It took more than a year for them to finally build a hundred ships according to Luo Cheng's requirements.

Speaking of which, Luo Cheng has invested a lot in this, and now he has finally gained something, which is really a good thing. With these ships, Luo Chengcheng can do a lot of things.

In this feudal era, the importance of the navy was not explored, and even many people did not value coastal defense. But Luo Cheng knows very well that there are many resources in the ocean, and coastal defense is even more crucial.

It is Luo Cheng's first purpose, which is to build a professional navy, not the usual river navy, but a navy that can cross the ocean and prepare for the future.

The manufacture of ships continues unstoppable, as there are still many places where seagoing vessels are used. Previously, Luo Chengcheng and Hu's father discussed to start trade from the sea, but in fact, to this day, there is still no construction.

After all, the conditions are limited, and it is impossible for Hu's father to build a sea ship to trade south out of thin air. And he also needs the protection of the armed forces in order to carry out various activities safely.

The seas are unstable today, and even if there is no plague like the Wakos, there must be other pirates running rampant. Therefore, an independent armed force is necessary.

But Father Hu obviously wouldn't train soldiers and horses privately, and if he wanted to carry out maritime trade, he could only wait for Luo Cheng to train the navy. If there is no basic guarantee, where is the next thing?

But as the time approached, Luo Cheng naturally wouldn't go all the way to the beach to train the navy. Now he has other things to keep busy, and before Luo Yi is officially crowned emperor, building momentum is an essential link.

The rise of the Luo family obviously has nothing to do with the family. It was completely based on Yan Yun's original foundation, plus the large amount of material supply after Luo Cheng opened the hanging, and pushed it all the way over.

Therefore, the power of the family is very weak in Yanyun, and it can even be said that it has no effect. But as a family that has been in the Chinese government for hundreds of years, how could it be easy to give up power?

Even if they really promised, Luo Cheng didn't believe it.

The human heart is the most difficult to guess, especially in the face of power, there is too much uncertainty. Those families are obviously unstable factors, how can Luo Cheng make them feel better?

The reason why Luo Cheng accepted the surrender of the eldest grandson Wuji was because he did have extremely high political talent, and on the other hand, because he had given up the right of the family to join Luo Cheng.

In this era of rampant families, it is extremely difficult for the children of the poor family to get on the throne. Not to mention that there are not many real readers in the poor family, and the gap between the two sides is huge.

Of course, Luo Cheng couldn't let such a situation happen, if the children of the family were not willing to serve him, it was better to find a way to suppress the family, so as to support the children of the poor family to take the position.

There is no doubt that the Maison is most proud of books, and even though paper is now widespread, there are still very few books in the home that can really have a large collection.

Nowadays, books represent education, knowledge, and fame. Mastering these resources is equivalent to taking a large number of urban people into your own hands, which is the foundation of the family.

In the absence of a suitable replacement, normal rulers will naturally not tear their faces with the family. Because without the support of the family, I am afraid that the operation of the entire court will be affected.

There is no doubt that what Luo Cheng is now tinkering with is not anything else, but movable type printing, which will promote the redevelopment of civilization in the next few hundred years.

Nowadays, there is an engraving printing technique, but it takes a long time and is not very efficient. Such a thing obviously cannot meet Luo Cheng's needs, and he must innovate on this basis.

During the Song Dynasty, Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, but he did not get half of the benefits, and even was framed by others, and finally suffered a lot of unjustified disasters.

Although the story is tragic, it is true, and movable type printing has a great effect on the spread of culture. This is also an important reason why Luo Cheng wants to get it out.

In fact, movable type printing is not difficult, as long as the commonly used characters are burned into models, arranged into words and sentences, and then inked, they can be printed on paper.

Under Luo Cheng's arrangement, all kinds of clay characters were made as quickly as possible. It is conceivable that with the popularization of movable type printing, it is not a dream that the number of readers will increase day by day.

It wasn't a hard time to come up with it, after all, there was no technology ahead of its time, it was just a clever idea.

Movable type printing soon came to fruition, and Luo Chengxian had a batch of revised editions of the "Three Character Classics" printed, deleting some content that did not fit the times, and everything else was in order.

Then Father Hu saw this, and his face was full of surprise, although he was not a scholar, he knew what it meant. In addition to the terrifying business opportunities, it will also greatly reduce the cost of reading.

Because the cost of movable type printing is in the movable type, which can then be recycled many times. The more the number of prints, the less the cost is apportioned, how can the impact not be great?

This coincides with Luo Cheng's idea, while exercising the plan, he can also make a lot of money, why not do it. Anyway, as long as it doesn't go against his interests, Luo Cheng has no opinion.

After that, Luo Cheng took the "Three Character Classic" to find Xu Maogong, don't look at Xu Maogong is now a Taoist, but he was also a scholar before, and it was only because of the trend that he would transform to this point.

When Xu Maogong saw the almost identical prints that Luo Cheng took out, he was a little uneasy. His expression was not much different from Father Hu's, and they were all a little incredulous.

You must know that engraving printing is time-consuming and laborious, and there are still problems in quality, and the gap is not half a star compared to movable type printing. If this thing enters the WTO, I am afraid that the pattern of the world will change for it.

The so-called scholars will no longer be an extremely rare group, but an overflowing and unattractive existence. Because of the limitations of their professions, they can only go so far.

Turning the pages of the book, Xu Maogong couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "This movable type printing technique is really magical, and it is really incredible to print these handwritings exactly the same."

Luo Cheng looked very calm, shrugged his shoulders and said: "The military advisor must know Luo Cheng's intentions, in my Yanyun land, how can I let the family dominate, and some things have to start from here."

Xu Maogong was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly realized that Luo Cheng was Chiguoguo's conspiracy. With the addition of books, isn't the status of the family very embarrassing, this is going to break the roots.