Typography is obviously an unfamiliar word to everyone.

The word "plate", whether it is engraving printing in the Tang Dynasty, or intaglio printing in the 15th century, or letterpress printing later, or even stencil printing, although it has undergone various formal changes, has not escaped its generalization.

Even if information technology developed later, people could only partially eliminate the "version" in the flesh, but in many word processing software, the process of typesetting is still indispensable. Because his soul has penetrated into human civilization.

However, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Ma Yi and Leng Zheng obviously could not understand the impact of this thing on civilization. They only noticed that Bi Sheng was reading aloud the above account, and then the craftsmen took various clay movable types and put them together. From time to time, someone shouted: "The word 'also' here is not enough." "Who has the word 'robbery' there? Give me one! ”

At this time, Jiang Jian frowned. Seeing this, Suning asked him why. Jiang Jian replied: "These records are all the accumulated crimes of the Song family, I didn't know that they were such bastards before, but now I have learned their shamelessness!" ”

Suning didn't pay much attention to the content. He believed that Ma Yi had seen his strength and knew which side was best for them. But since Jiang Jian said it, he simply pricked up his ears and listened to the accusation of feudalism.

"In the third year of Xiping, a tenant borrowed money during the spring famine, and promised to repay the grain from the autumn harvest. In the autumn, Song Jian saw his daughter's beauty, so he secretly caused people to burn his wheat field, so that he had to repay his debts with his daughter. ”

"In the fifth year of Xiping, the Yi people in Shu rebelled, and the Song family lied that the imperial court raised taxes, levied and extorted violently, and the people's resentment boiled."

"In the second year of Guanghe, a certain tribe of the Qiang nationality competed with people for herdification, but was defeated, and turned to seek protection from the Song family. The Song family set up a banquet to entertain, and during the banquet, they smashed the cup as a number, killed 15 large and small leaders, and collected all their subordinates, and never reported it to the government. ”

Suning patiently listened to a few more and found that the Song family's crimes ranged from robbing people's daughters to the dead of yin animals.

"This is the way to self-destruction." Suning dropped this comment and returned to his tent with Wei Qi, he also had a similar secret weapon to show the curious cat.

Leng Zheng and Ma Yi also left soon after, one of them returned home, and the other went straight to the barracks to gather his subordinates, disguised themselves and then marched to Caohan overnight.

Only Jiang Xu and Jiang Jian brothers stood in place, the latter praising Suning's evaluation of the Song family in his heart, and the former intently observing the printing craftsman's every move.

Once the typesetting is finished, the craftsmen begin printing.

The advantage of movable type is that it saves time in engraving and does not optimize the printing process. The rotary typesetting frame optimizes the link of finding movable type, and there is no improvement in the printing process. But for the two Eastern Han people, printing itself was a shock. It is important to know that the main way to spread the written word in this era is rote memorization and manual transcription.

After a long time, Jiang Xuhu sighed with emotion: "In this way, it won't take long to make a book." Compared with the handwritten silk book carved by knife, bamboo slips, it is much faster. It's a good idea to have friends. It won't be long before the Song family's crimes will be known to the world. ”

Suning wants everyone in the world to know, not only the crimes of the Song family, but also his ideas.

At the moment, he was introducing Wei to a publication called "Newspaper".

This kind of thing is not unfamiliar to the people of the Eastern Han Dynasty, after all, the "Di Bao" of this period enjoyed the evaluation of "the earliest newspaper in China" in later generations. However, the current newspaper has not yet entered the printing age, from 60 B.C. when Caesar wrote important news on the whiteboard, to more than 1,000 years during the Song and Song dynasties, Di Bao has not gotten rid of the limitations of handwriting. It wasn't until Gutenberg invented the metal movable type printing technology that the newspaper entered the era of movable type printing. And the ancestors of this technology, the Chinese, did not appear until the eleventh year of Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty.

But now, this record is going to be advanced by Suning.

He had already prepared the manuscript of the inaugural issue and was describing the contents to Wei Qi.

"This newspaper doesn't have much content about government politics." Huaxia has a fine tradition of supervising newspapers and periodicals, at least since the two Song Dynasty, the newspapers sent to various places will be strictly supervised by the central court, so Suning is not prepared to touch the mold in this regard, not to mention that he has also prepared another newspaper called "North Wind", which specializes in publishing content related to military and political affairs. As for the newspaper in front of him, which has not yet been named, his layout is like this, "Look here, this is the headline news, here is the academic discussion section, and there is also the agricultural section, engineering science and technology, business news, articles and poems." In this way, Shinong Industry and Commerce will be able to gather all the information, and the number of readers will be basically guaranteed. ”

Wei Qi is a very knowledgeable young man, which may have something to do with his perennial curiosity. The desire to learn made him seriously pick up the newspaper and read it, only to see that the academic section was discussing hot topics such as the distinction between righteousness and benefit, and there were fierce debates about the Hun Tian Theory, the Gaitian Theory and the Xuanye Theory. This is a topic about the understanding of the universe, and it has been a hot topic for some time in the past.

The agriculture section at the back introduces the agricultural overview of the Great Qin Empire in the West, and the horse-drawn plough and other agricultural tools mentioned in it instantly attracted Wei Qi's attention. He didn't know where Suning knew about this, but Suning had too many things here that he hadn't seen before, and it seemed that it was not uncommon to have one or two more. So he just silently wrote it down, preparing to study it slowly when he had the opportunity to do so later.

The next step is to introduce the issue of mineral processing, which seems to be written for miners. Wei Qi hastily skimmed it and saw the business news behind. It records a lot of prices, and indicates the day on which the sampling statistics were taken, followed by some introductions to exotic goods, and blank interviews. The content of the poems and articles in the back has already been determined, but this kind of five-word poem does not seem to be in line with Wei Qi's taste, he hurriedly finished reading, then raised his head and said to Suning: "This newspaper is promoting your knowledge." ”

"That's right." Suning did not make news the focus of the newspaper, but used him as a tool to disseminate new knowledge, and with the concept of later generations, he knew that only innovation could delay the rise and fall of chaos and the curse to take effect.

Wei Qi also saw part of Suning's ambition from it. The usual method of gathering disciples to teach at that time seemed to be no longer sufficient for the young man's ambitions, and on the basis of establishing the school, he even planned to use newspapers to introduce his knowledge to those who could not come to study. This includes not only the reader, but also the stranger who has nothing to do with it.

The stranger was also known as the passerby in later generations, and the newspaper, which was intended to reveal new knowledge to passers-by, was soon named Reuters.

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Reuters actually has another interpretation, Leng Zheng, who was still on the road early the next morning, felt a little breathless. The damn fog not only made the fast-running knights feel breathless, but it also blurred the road ahead.

Leng Zheng could only sigh and raise his right hand to signal the army to stop advancing. He wanted to pull out a map and inspect the terrain around him, but the GIs were already submerged in the fog and had long since become unrecognizable. He had no choice but to order a tent to be set up on the spot and start resting.

The soldiers were already exhausted from the night's journey, and the cries had already been heard as soon as the tents were set up.

Leng Zheng couldn't help frowning because of this, but he didn't say anything. The damp smell brought by the dense fog did not prevent the soldiers from falling asleep quickly, indicating that the operation was too hasty, and the soldiers did not have enough physical reserves. Maybe they had been gambling all night the night before, and yesterday they were just about to rest when they were taken out of the barracks.

Suddenly, a feeling of uneasiness rose in my heart.

Also uneasy was Song Jian's brother Song Yang, who was inspecting his territory, when suddenly a cavalry of the Yue clan attached to the Song family came to report that a cavalry of the Han army had appeared in the northeast of the territory, small in number but very strong, and all of them were disguised.

Song Yang asked them, "Since they were disguised, how did you know that they were Han soldiers?" ”

The leader replied, "They only made a disguise on their attire, but the horses and tents had the emblem of the Han army." ”

Song Yang asked again: "Under the thick fog, how do you see the signs clearly?" ”

They dismounted and went to rest. We took the opportunity to touch it and take a look. ”

"So tired? Could it be that you are in a hurry overnight? So what do they come to do? ”

"Maybe not a good thing? Otherwise, you don't have to disguise yourself. And it must have been hasty, otherwise it would have been possible to prepare a horse tent without signs. Liangzhou is not short of these two things. ”

Song Yang nodded in approval and said, "Disguise means they are acting in secret, and haste means that their action is urgent. What is there that requires them to act covertly urgently? ”

The leader of the Yue clan swallowed his saliva and said slowly: "The villain once heard that some children of the Song family were arrested for rebellion some time ago. This time the Han army suddenly arrived, and it was kept secret, son, you say, will it have something to do with what happened last time? ”

Song Yang gasped: "You mean, they may have come to secretly arrest my brother?" ”

"This ...... The little ones don't dare to jump to conclusions. ”

Song Yang ignored his reply, because he didn't have access to too high a level of confidentiality, so he didn't have much judgment to refer to. He simply thought about it himself, his younger brother Song Jian was still in Ji County at the moment, and he had not returned home, and if he was secretly arrested, he would never come here. Speaking of his younger brother, his father has reached an agreement with Liang Hu. As usual, there should be no more changes.

However, if it wasn't about rebellion or something like that, there was no need to send Han cavalry. And they are right now in front of them, what is the reason for that?

Could it be that Suning still refuses to give up and entrusts others to come and collect ironclad evidence of the Song family's rebellion?

As soon as this thought popped up, Song Yang suddenly felt that many things had been figured out. Suning has a close relationship with Leng Zheng, and Leng Zheng, as a captain of Huqiang, naturally holds the power of the army in his hands, and it is not a problem to dispatch the cavalry of the Han army.

At the same time, the relationship between the Song family and Leng Zheng was also very tense. The former likes to win over the Qiang warriors for their own use, and the latter has always had a tough attitude towards the Qiang tribe.

If Leng Zheng sent someone over to collect evidence of the Song family's rebellion, then I am afraid that a desperate battle would not be avoided.

Because the evidence of their Song family's rebellion is simply all over the mountains.

Song Yang didn't know that his guess was very close to the facts, and the Yue clan marshal on the opposite side didn't know that Song Yang overestimated the threat of Leng Zheng, so a surprise battle inevitably happened.

"Gather the family and get on the horse!"