Chapter 97: Movable Type Printing
After arranging Laifu's accommodation, it was the dead of night.
After Li Sicong and Chen Tai returned to the room, they went directly to the bed and fell asleep.
However, compared with Chen Tai's snoring that resounded throughout the room, how Li Sicong went to sleep, he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.
Now Li Sicong, as long as he closes his eyes, the face of Li Yan'er will appear in his mind, and his expression seems to be eagerly looking forward to it, full of hope.
"Yan'er, don't worry, I can definitely do it."
Li Sicong muttered a sentence in his mouth, and closed his eyes.
......
The night was muddy, and Li Sicong didn't know when he fell asleep.
Maybe there was something on his mind, Li Sicong woke up early the next morning, and after a simple freshening up, he went directly to Chen Tai's side and kicked him off the bed.
"Oops!"
Chen Tai shouted bitterly, and a wave of anger followed: "Which turtle grandson ......?"
As soon as the words came out, Chen Tai's voice stopped abruptly, and his eyes looked ahead, it was Li Sicong, whose eyes were a little dark.
"Little, little marquis."
Chen Tai showed an embarrassed smile, and his original sleepiness was suddenly gone.
"Hurry up and get up for Lao Tzu!" Li Sicong shouted.
Chen Tai looked at the window that had just been lit, and said a little strangely: "Little Marquis, why did you get up so early?" ”
"Get dressed, wash your face, and follow me to the printing shop." Li Sicong said.
"Printing line?"
Chen Tai was slightly stunned, but then he guessed something: "Little Hou Ye, are you going to print leaflets?" ”
Li Sicong said lightly: "You'll know when you go, hurry up." ”
"Oh."
Chen Tai responded, then hurriedly got up and began to put on his clothes.
After the two of them left the door of the Sicong Department Store, a cold wind blew, which made Li Sicong and Chen Tai shiver.
"Time flies, and the weather is starting to get cooler." Chen Tai muttered.
Li Sicong looked up at the sky, and for some reason, he sighed.
"Why is the little marquis sighing?" Chen Tai asked.
Li Sicong shook his head: "It's nothing, it's just that I think of a world that has nothing to do with me for a long time." ”
"The world? What is the world? Chen Tai wondered.
"I told you something you didn't understand."
Li Sicong glanced at Chen Tai, and then walked to the street.
"Don't you tell me how I understand...... Little Hou Ye wait for me! ”
Chen Tai pursed his lips and hurriedly followed.
The two came to the printing shop and went directly to the second floor to find Kong Mingjie, the owner of the printing shop.
Kong Mingjie was originally scolding a handyman, but when he saw Li Sicong at the door, the original anger on his face suddenly disappeared.
Kong Mingjie hurriedly sent his subordinates away, and greeted Li Sicong with a happy face: "Boss Li! Long time no see! ”
Li Sicong's face didn't change, but he said lightly: "Boss Kong, I want some special orders this time." ”
"Oh? What kind of order? ”
Kong Mingjie was puzzled at first, and then stretched out his hand and asked, "Come, Boss Li, let's sit down and talk." ”
Li Sicong nodded, and sat down with Kong Mingjie.
"Someone! Look at the tea ......"
As soon as Kong Mingjie's voice came out, he was interrupted by Li Sicong stretching out his hand: "Don't bother, I'm a little short of time, so I'll just talk to you roughly." ”
After speaking, Li Sicong made it clear to Kong Mingjie what he wanted.
However, when Li Mingjie listened to it, he was a little surprised: "Every list has a number? Do you still have to be anti-counterfeiting? ”
"Well, can you do it?" Li Sicong asked.
Kong Mingjie was a little embarrassed: "It's not that I don't do it, it's too troublesome, I can't always engrave a version every time I make a list, right?" ”
Hearing this, Li Sicong was stunned at first, and then came to his senses, thinking, and forgetting that this was in the Tang Dynasty, and the printing technology of this era was still very backward, and it was impossible to do random switching.
According to the existing process standards, as Kong Mingjie said, every list has to be engraved with a new engraving.
In this way, the cost is dozens or hundreds of times higher than that of ordinary batch printing.
"If I can solve the technical problems of printing, can you guarantee to print me 500,000 sheets in three days?" Li Sicong asked.
"How much? 500,000!? ”
Kong Mingjie's eyes stretched slightly, such a list can be said to be a super big order.
Even if it is calculated according to a single order of five cents, 500,000 lists will be made, and more than 200 gold will have to be credited to the account.
"Yes, half a million sheets." Li Sicong confirmed again.
Kong Mingjie swallowed a mouthful of spit: "Since Boss Li has a way to solve the printing problem, then I will take this order, but this method ......"
Seeing this, Li Sicong raised his palm and said to Kong Mingjie: "Boss Kong, can I borrow your pen and ink to use it?" ”
"Naturally."
After Kong Mingjie finished speaking, he then sent the pen, ink and paper on the copywriting table to Li Sicong.
After Li Sicong took the pen, he hesitated a little and began to write and sketch.
About a quarter of an hour later, a caption with words and pictures appeared on the paper, while the narration outlined a few large characters, movable type printing.
Kong Mingjie looked at these big words, and his originally puzzled face became a little excited: "This, this ......"
Looking at Kong Mingjie's appearance, Li Sicong was a little surprised, because in his opinion, these are just common sense.
"Boss Kong, if you follow the picture above, it shouldn't be a problem to make a publishing surface."
Li Sicong said this, and then took out a bag from his arms and put it on the table: "Here are five coins, for you to use as a deposit." ”
Kong Mingjie looked at the list in his hand, and then looked at the deposit on the desk, showing a look of shame: "Boss Li, I can't ask for this deposit." ”
"Oh? Are you too little? Li Sicong asked.
Kong Mingjie shook his head: "No, I just have a request, if Boss Li agrees, I will make this 500,000 list with you for free." ”
Hearing this, Chen Tai on one side pricked up his ears, thinking that he had heard it wrong.
And even Li Sicong was a little strange: "Boss Kong can just say to me if he has any request, as long as it is not a crime, I will not refuse." ”
"I didn't mean that, I mean, can Boss Li sell me this drawing?" Kong Mingjie asked.
Li Sicong said without thinking: "Of course you can, but you can deliver the work within three days, and you can take this drawing." ”
"Hehe, thank you Boss Li." Kong Mingjie's face was full of joy.