The curator's face gradually became serious, and he stood up and stared at Wei Renshi with two eyes there: "What is movable type printing?" ”

Wei Renshi bowed to the hall owner and said, "The student will explain to the hall owner that the student can borrow paper and pencils." ”

After speaking, Wei Renshi took out a piece of paper from the desk of the hall owner, and took a pen to write some words on it.

Then he tore off the words one by one and lined them aside.

Fu pulled out another piece of paper and wrote a sentence on it.

"The owner of the museum, the so-called engraving printing, is to first engrave the content that needs to be printed into a plate, and then print, let's compare this paper to an engraving." Wei Renshi took the piece of paper on which a sentence was written, and then circled a word on it, and said: "Now that we have changed this sentence, we have changed a few words, if it is printed according to the engraving, this piece of paper will be destroyed and redone." That's a waste of time. ”

"Let's look at that again." Wei Renshi took the paper that was torn into pieces again, and continued while arranging them into sentences: "It's still this sentence, these pieces of paper represent seals, and they have already been prepared, and the students pick out the words needed for this sentence from them, so in a row, okay." If there are a few words that need to be changed, the student only needs to pick out the seal of those words and replace them with the seal of the word that needs to be changed, you see, this is it. ”

The owner of the hall was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly his eyes were shining, and he suddenly stepped over and came to the pile of papers, looked left and right, and suddenly slapped the table: "Wonderful!" Wonderful! ”

Wei Renshi continued: "Pavilion master, the words we often use on weekdays are only thousands in total, and counting those rare words, there are no more than 10,000. If you ask the seal carver to carve out these characters one by one, get ready. If we need to publish any article, we only need the printing craftsman to select the words that need to be used from the movable type that has been prepared, put them together, and they can be arranged into a text immediately, and then printed. In this way, it not only saves the time of engraving, but also can be recycled, so that the efficiency of printing can be greatly improved. If you engrave a few sets of dozens of these common words, wouldn't it be possible to publish different books at the same time? In this way, for example, the disadvantages of books today can be solved? ”

"Truly! Hahahaha...... Indeed! The owner of the pavilion suddenly got up and laughed, he was so excited that he couldn't control himself, and grabbed Wei Renshi's hand, which startled Wei Renshi.

He has been in Chongwen Pavilion for a long time, and he has never seen the owner of the hall excited like this.

Laughing and laughing, tears welled up in his eyes.

"Pavilion owner......" Wei Renshi was a little worried, he didn't seem to be young, and under such ecstasy, it was not good for his health and it was easy to cause emergencies.

The owner of the hall squeezed Wei Renshi's hand tightly, as if he was afraid that Wei Renshi would disappear as soon as he let go of his hand: "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay!" The old man is happy, the old man is happy! If this law is successful, the world will no longer worry about the lack of books, and the world's scholars no longer need to worry about the lack of books to read. Hahahaha...... This move, this move will be able to go down in history, leave a name, the world's scholars, all know our name, by our grace! Let's go and ask to see His Royal Highness the Prince! ”

With that, the hall owner pulled Wei Renshi and walked outside.

The owner of the museum took Wei Renshi all the way to the outside of the Chongwen Pavilion, and the students along the way saluted the owner one after another, but the owner of the museum seemed to be unable to see them, and pulled Wei Renshi and went straight outside, which attracted the attention of the students along the way and talked quietly.

stopped Wei Renshi to walk outside the door and was about to go to the prince's palace. The owner suddenly stopped again, and stood there without moving.

"The curator?" Wei Renshi asked.

But the pavilion owner shook his head and said, "Well, this method is inevitably feasible, but we can't just go there empty-handed." Let's go to the annex first! ”

With that, he turned around again and headed for the annex.

When he arrived at the annex, he went all the way back.

Wei Renshi had already smelled the thick scent of ink, and he knew that this was the place where the engraving was printed.

There were many rooms in the middle, and some doors were open, so Wei Renshi could see that there were many people sitting inside who were seriously copying books.

Before the Sui Dynasty, the main books were still handwritten copies, and hand-copied books were time-consuming, laborious and costly, and non-royal eunuchs could not do it, so the collection of books could only be a "government investment project", and it was not easy for ordinary readers to see it, let alone the collection of books.

Block printing in China originated in the Sui Dynasty and developed in the Tang Dynasty, and it was really used to print a large number of books after the Song Dynasty block printing was improved to movable type printing.

Although there is already engraving printing, unless it must be printed in large quantities, it is relatively faster and easier to copy by hand.

These are the people that the scribe is talking about.

Walking all the way to the end, Wei Renshi really saw a group of craftsmen carving engraving, a small page of paper on a wooden plate as big, to carve a lot of words, and it is also the reverse word, and it is not easy to make a neat and beautiful stroke.

The hall owner walked over with Wei Renshi.

The craftsmen inside hurried over to pay their respects.

"Excuse me, where is Master Mi?" The owner asked.

Immediately someone ran out, and in a short time another old craftsman came with him.

"Meet the Pavilion's Master!" The old craftsman came and saluted.

However, without waiting for him to bend down, the owner pulled him over and said, "The old man needs you to carve some words with your own hands." ”

The old craftsman was stunned for a moment, then nodded and asked, "Although the hall master commands!" ”

However, the hall owner pointed at Wei Renshi and said, "You just listen to him." ”

The old craftsman was even more surprised, but he didn't say anything, looked at Wei Renshi, and waited for him to arrange.

Wei Renshi remembered that the movable type in the later generations should be lead movable type, but for the time being, it is only for demonstration purposes, so he will try it with woodcut first, and he can use clay movable type in the future.

Wei Renshi pointed to the engraving plate next to him and said: "It is the same as the engraving plate, but the words on the engraving plate are disassembled, and a single word is carved into one like an engraved seal, and the size is still the same size as the words on the engraving plate. ”

"At this moment?" The old craftsman had obviously not carved it like this, but it was not difficult for him, so he nodded.

After that, Wei Renshi asked again: "It should be able to make a mold, right?" The size is slightly larger than an engraving, and it can arrange those individual characters into it, and rearrange those individual characters into an engraving plate. ”

The old craftsman thought about it, nodded, and said, "It's not difficult. ”