Kong Yingda heard Xiao Yu say this, and then turned to look, but saw that among the people who came in, the first one was a young man, dressed in civilian clothes but with a stinging eye, a pair of eyes blazing, a middle-aged man next to him, and the followers should be all entourage. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"It's Xin'an, are you reading with your classmates?"

The young man asked, Kong Yingda knew that Xiao Yu was the king of Xin'an of Liang who came to Huangzhou to study, and guessed that this person should be Xiao Yu's brother-in-law and Huangzhou governor Yu Wenwen, and the middle-aged man should be Xiao Yu's uncle.

"Yes, brother-in-law, I'm reading the book list with my classmates."

Xiao Yu hurriedly introduced her state classmate Kong Yingda to her brother-in-law, and they hit it off at first sight, Xiao Yu admired Kong Yingda's knowledge.

"The grass people believe in Kong Yingda, and I have seen the Duke of Yi." Kong Yingda is a commoner, and the other party is the governor of Huangzhou, but now it is not an official occasion, so he is called a knight.

"My father has heard Xin'an say that Kong Langjun traveled thousands of miles to study in Huangzhou without fear of hardships and dangers, which is really admirable."

What Yu Wenwen said was not polite, this year's long journey has to risk a certain amount of life, and the caravan is even better, if it is an ordinary traveler who is alone, it is easy to evaporate from the world.

After a few conversations, Yuwen Wen waved his hand and explained that the bookstore shopkeeper gave Kong Langjun a 20% discount today, as the behind-the-scenes owner of the school, he is in a good mood now.

Kong Yingda, the top student among the future scholars, is still a teenager studying now, Yu Wenwen not only heard Xiao Yu mention it a few days ago, but also heard another person mention it.

Kong Langjun entered Huangzhou State School, studying in Yuzhou Doctor Liu Zhuo, this scholar among the top students came to a dismount as usual, he didn't think that this stinky kid was qualified to discuss with him, and Liu Zhuo was taken aback by the result of a "pk".

This is no small thing!

This is the original words of Liu Zhuo and Yu Wenwen, of course, Yu Wenwen also deeply agrees, Kong Yingda in history is Liu Zhuo's student, at first Liu Zhuo despised him, and later saw Kong Yingda answer the difficult question, which can be unprecedented, so he was impressed.

Turning to the backyard of the bookstore, the warehouse was full of people, boxes of books were being moved through the back door, seeing that the business was so prosperous, Yu Wenwen nodded, and Zhang Ke came to the side room.

There were boxes of books in the room, exuding the fragrance of books and ink, and when several men saw Yu Wenwen, they saluted and said, "Guogong, this is a newly printed complete set of the "Xiuwen Palace Imperial Review", and Dr. Liu has proofread it twice. ”

"Then there will be editor-in-chief Lao Zhang to re-proofread."

Yu Wenwen said with a smile, seeing Zhang Ke leading people to check the books in the box with great interest, his wishful thinking crackled: "I have developed a new product again!" ’

"Xiuwen Palace Yulan", is a kind of book of Qi official cultivation in the time of Gao Wei, the queen of Qi, a total of 360 volumes, 55 departments, is based on the "Hualin Strategy" compiled by Liang of the Southern Dynasty, and is used in a large way.

It's just a supplement to the books that are not included in "Hualin Quanlu", most of which are the literature and history of the Northern Dynasties, and the books that have not been seen in the South.

At this time, in the literary world, there were "southern studies" and "northern studies", and Yu Wenwen recruited Liu Zhuo, who was proficient in southern and northern studies, and as a publisher, he naturally wanted to make all the books in the north and south as much as possible.

For readers, it is a great thing to have a full set of "Hualin Wandering" at home, and if there is another set of "Xiuwen Palace Yulan" as a supplement, it will be live!

Just like the arrogant rich second-generation pickle girl must at least open the sister king, the arrogant and domineering president has to take a Rolls-Royce when he travels, and there is no book of the town house at home for the well-read people these years, and the scholars have no face when they get together!

Yu Wenwen is here to see the "products" that are about to sell today, and Zhang Ke is here to see the book, thanks to the blessing of his nephew and son-in-law, he can now read to his heart's content.

"Editor-in-Chief Zhang, don't worry, read these books slowly, read them carefully, and after confirming that they are correct, they can be published."

Of course, he didn't say another word: 'Then you can sell and make a fortune!' ’

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In a corner of Xiyang City, a large courtyard is full of all kinds of sounds, this is the printing workshop of the school, a piece of white paper is printed with various contents, and then according to the page number punching, assembly into a book.

In a small courtyard room, Yuwen Wen and Zhang Hua, the president of the school, were talking, and in front of them, several people were fiddling with a flat plate with many small square lead blocks stacked on it.

The specifications of the small lead block are the same, but the yang characters engraved on it are different, of course, these yang characters are anti-fonts, just like the engraving plate shown to the guests by the school club.

After the lead blocks were arranged, one person took a brush dipped in ink and brushed it on the flat plate with lead blocks, covered a piece of white paper after brushing it a few times, and then pressed it with a flat wooden board, and after a while, the wooden board was removed, and the paper was removed and sent to Yuwenwen and Zhang Hua with a tray.

"The handwriting is legible... Guogong, this ink has succeeded! ”

"President Zhang, this has to be called ink, and ordinary ink can't be stained with lead movable type."

"Yes, yes, it's called ink, it's called ink." Zhang Hua said with joy that the ink that had taken a long time was finally successfully modulated, so movable type printing was really possible, which was much more flexible than engraving printing.

"Everything is ready only to owe the east wind, now that the east wind has risen, President Zhang can ride the wind and waves, and the usage rate statistics of the word have come out?"

"The statistics are out, according to the frequency of use... Rate, divided into high, medium, low and rare words, etc., the word list has been written. ”

"Very good, the workshop has prepared the lead material, it will not be delayed for too long, the ink formula has been finalized, and its output will come up in more than a month."

Yuwen Wen and Zhang Hua talked, and turned to the plate-making workshop outside, the two were still talking while walking, Zhang Hua, who was depressed in the past, now has a ruddy face like dead wood and meets spring again.

Two years ago, he was disheartened, saying that he was ill and resigned from the post of Jiankang City Commander, and then thought about what "Yu Langjun" said, Liu Zhuo, a famous scholar, opened his school in Bazhou, Zhouguo, Jiangbei, and waited for a long time to ease the war between the two countries, and finally made up his mind to leave for Xiyang City.

It was easy to find Liu Zhuo, and the two sides had a very happy conversation after a few verbal arguments, which made Zhang Hua feel that the trip was worthwhile, and what surprised him even more was that Yu Langjun Yu Wen, who was outstanding in writing, turned out to be the Bazhou Thorn Shi of Zhou and Gongyu Wenwen of the State of Zhou.

In the face of this person's warm invitation, Zhang Hua refused at first, even if he was down, he would not serve the enemy court, but what Yu Wenwen invited him to do was unexpected: to be the "president" of the school club to preside over the printing of books.

Looking at the magical engraving printing, Zhang Hua realized that this would effectively reduce the price of books, and countless people in the world who were suffering from the cold finally had a little more possibility to afford books.

Zhang Hua was born in a peasant family and has been farming for generations, and he knows how difficult it is for poor families to study, and it would be a great good thing to "publish" a large number of books at low prices.

According to Yu Wenwen's statement, if he becomes the "president" of the study club, he can be regarded as a scholar, not a service for the enemy country, at best, he is a private person, and he is the school book of Yu Wenwen, the owner of the bookstore, and he has no loss in the big festival.

"Guogong, since you want to implement movable type printing, why should you continue to use engraving?"

"Engraving printing, how many carvers in Xiyang City have been fed?"

Zhang Hua was stunned when he heard this, in fact, he wanted to say that engraving printing and movable type printing would also make many domestic helpers unemployed in the future, but Yuwenwen had always only spoken half of what he said, so he listened attentively.

"Engraving printing, although much faster than hand-copying, is not without its drawbacks..."

Yu Wenwen began to "endorse", telling the pros and cons of engraving printing that he knew from that era: engraving printing is to engrave reverse characters on a wooden board, and then brush ink and print it on paper, which is "printing".

The advantage is naturally speed, with the carved "plate", you can print many books in large quantities and in a short time, which can greatly reduce the price of books, after all, the labor required to copy books by hand will not be less.

The disadvantage lies in the "plate making", the principle of engraving is simply to write the content on a piece of paper with anti-script characters, and then paste it on a flat wooden board of the same size, and the carver carver carves the content.

Cut down the wood other than the handwriting, so that those anti-Chinese characters become yang characters, so that the "edition" is completed, and a book needs a lot of "editions", so it is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Engraving printing is suitable for large-scale printing, if it is a small range of printed books, the cost of plate making is not as cheap as hiring someone to help the book, and the engraving is wooden, and its storage is also a problem.

Engraving to be fireproof, moth-proof, moisture-proof, deformed after a long time, the wooden characters on it will be damaged, and you have to cut off and make up for the new one, in summary, the advantages of movable type printing are much better.

Movable type plate making just avoids the lack of engraving, as long as enough single movable type is prepared in advance, it can be imposed at any time, which greatly accelerates the plate making time.

After the movable type plate is printed, it can be disassembled, the movable type can be reused, and the movable type occupies less space than the engraving plate, which is easy to store and keep. In this way, the superiority of movable type is manifested.

However, the material of movable type is a problem, it is easy to be damaged by mud and has to be baked, while metal material such as movable type made of lead is much more durable, but the problem is that lead type cannot be used with ordinary ink.

Metal is not easy to get wet, so we have to find a way to develop an ink that can also be wetted by metal, and now the school society has developed it, which is an oily ink, referred to as ink.

But even so, movable type printing compared with engraving printing, there is still a deficiency under the conditions at this time, which is also a problem that Yuwenwen wants to explain.

"Engraving printing, the carver only needs to carve according to the handwriting, he himself does not have to be literate, and movable type printing, typesetting craftsmen need to be literate, but also have to know the anti-font."

"That is to say, engraving printing, when making plates, only need a person who can write anti-script characters to write the content on paper, and movable type printing requires many people to be literate, especially typesetters."

Zhang Hua nodded, Yu Wenwen was reasonable, literacy is indeed a problem, but he felt that with Yu Wenwen's human resources, it was not difficult to equip the school club with literate craftsmen, not to mention that it was really not possible to teach.

"What President Zhang said is not unreasonable, but my father has to consider other factors."

"The other factors?"

"Yes, the so-called 'it is better to be happy alone than to be happy with all', so that the printing industry can feed more people, why not?"

Yu Wenwen said this, and began to throw suspense again.

"President Zhang, can you know why Bengong passed on the art of engraving printing to others, and why there are booksellers in Jiankang who engraving and printing, but the price is still not competitive with the books published by Xiyang?" (To be continued.) )