Thinking beautifully in her heart, Zhang Yi's saliva was about to flow out.

Although I can't eat it because of my identity, I can see more beautiful women... That's also very eye-catching!

"Twenty taels of silver, a thousand copies?" Li Kexin couldn't help but be surprised.

You must know that according to Zhang Yi's plan, there is a half sheet of rice paper in two pages of a newspaper.

And a knife (100 sheets) of rice paper costs two taels of silver, and twenty taels of silver is not enough for paper money.

"Well, it's twenty taels of silver!" Looking at Seventeen Niang's shocked appearance, Zhang Yi was very proud in his heart, and explained: "Seventeen Niang, I understand your thoughts, in your opinion, twenty taels of silver is estimated to be not enough for paper, not to mention the need for ink and artificial silver."

But what I'm saying is that we need to change our mindset. If you think about it, this newspaper is different from books, because books have a higher value of disseminating knowledge, so they need to use rice paper or other better paper.

However, our newspapers are just instant reading, and the requirements for this paper are naturally much lower, as long as the ink can be printed, even the worst straw paper is feasible.

Therefore, in the use of paper, a thousand newspapers are less than five taels of silver at most, plus other expenses, twenty taels of silver are too much! ”

"Ah, how can it be!" Li Kexin's face was slightly red, and he was shocked again.

She grew up in an official family since she was a child, and even if her family was in great trouble, all the people she came into contact with were people with relatively high social status, such as scholars and merchants.

Therefore, there is certainly a feeling of drifting with the flow in this aspect of thinking, but now when I hear Zhang Yi's words, I suddenly feel that my previous books have been read in vain.

Obviously, I couldn't think of such a simple thing.

"Of course it does!" Zhang Yi smiled and continued: "And we don't have to spend a lot of money to make engravings!" ”

As he spoke, Zhang Yi flipped over his hand, and a ball of cement appeared in his hand.

This clay was still when I saw the fat man at night, and I happened to think that the newspaper was randomly obtained in front of the door, but I didn't expect it to be useful now.

"This... This is? ”

Seeing Zhang Yi take out a ball of cement in his hand, Li Kexin frowned.

knew that this was a lump of cement, but because of the matter just now, she didn't dare to speak casually.

"This is the mastic! Don't you even know the mastic? ”

Looking at Li Kexin's appearance of being cautious for fear of saying the wrong thing, Zhang Yi was even more embarrassed.

can make Seventeen Niang look like this, and there is really a sense of accomplishment.

However, Zhang Yi didn't continue to think about embarrassing Li Kexin, after all, she was a little beauty, although Zhang Yi also liked her shy appearance very much, but it was not good to make it difficult for a beauty.

The cement in his hand was made into a square, and the candlelight of this firefly was very satisfying.

"Seventeen Niang, what do you look like now?" Holding a mud block in his hand, Zhang Yi handed it to Li Kexin and asked.

"This is a mud block, if you say it looks like something..."Li Kexin turned over and over with the mud block in his hand, and only after a long time did he ask worriedly: "I look a little like an official seal!" ”

Not to mention, just now Zhang Yi simply made the mud a little bigger just now.

However, the official seal and seal have the same reason, as long as they can be used,

Zhang Yi nodded and said, "Yes, it's like Fang Guanyin. As long as you engrave the words on it, you can print the handwriting on the paper, I don't know if I understand what I mean? ”

Seals can be printed, and this is the most primitive use of movable type.

In Zhang Yi's memory, there are many varieties of movable type, from the very beginning of metal movable type, to wooden movable type, and even ceramic movable type.

But there are so many versions, and when it comes to the cheapest, we have to talk about ceramic movable type.

"Engrave the words on this clay? And then print?" Li Kexin's mind suddenly flashed with inspiration, and he muttered softly in his mouth according to Zhang Yi's prompts, turning over and over the mud made of clay as if he had seen a peerless treasure, trying to find the key and thinking about it carefully, but he had no clue.

"Seventeen Niang, look at me!" Zhang Yi was happy, and without waiting for Li Kexin to speak, his salty pig hands were already placed between Seventeen Niang's soft little hands, and suddenly a slippery feeling instantly spread to his brain.

It's so slippery!

Zhang Yi felt comfortable for a while, but he didn't dare to stay in his hands, his big hand held his small hand, and soon divided the mud into several small mud blocks, all of which were half an inch square cuboid, and then he stopped with nostalgia.

"You mean to engrave words on this clay block and line them up?" Li Kexin immediately understood Zhang Yi's thoughts, and couldn't help but snort, and said, "This method is really good, Xiao Yi, I didn't see that you actually know so much!" ”

"That's natural, but it's not enough to just engrave the words, my idea is that after the words are engraved, we will fire them and make them into ceramics! As long as there is such a set of ceramic movable type, you can print whatever you want when the time comes! Three editions are not enough, we can also print four or five editions! ”

Looking at the little stars in her eyes and the very excited Seventeen Niang, Zhang Yi couldn't wait to hug her and hug her, but just when the idea arose, he saw that Li Kexin had already taken a needle instead of a carving knife with anticipation and carved words on the clay block.

Small, Yi, Li, Ke, Xin.....

Looking at Seventeen Niang's serious appearance, Zhang Yi's heart moved slightly.

If a person like her is put into the next generation, she may be spoiled to heaven!

After the seventeenth mother finished carving the words, and then took the ink to smear the surface of the cement seal evenly, then arranged it word by word, and immediately appeared on the paper, Xiao Yi and Li Kexin five small characters.

After that, Seventeen Niang rearranged, be careful, Li Keyi... Xiao Kexin.. Li Yi... It's a lot of fun to arrange them in groups.

"Xiao Yi, how did you come up with this method?" After playing, Li Kexin noticed Zhang Yi who was looking at him with a smile on his face.

"Of course I came up with it! Hey! Seventeen Niang, with this movable type printing, our cost can be reduced to a minimum, but I don't understand this fired ceramics, it's still a trouble! ”

Although the technical content of movable type printing is not large, the principle is also simple.

However, it is not easy to make movable type with the same specifications, and the middle lettering is clear.

Among them, ceramic craftsmen are involved, and the so-called professional things are done by professional people, otherwise if Zhang Yi is allowed to make his own tinkering, it is estimated that the cabbage will be made into meat.

"Huh! I didn't expect my Xiaoyi to be smart, but he was confused for a while! ”

Li Kexin pursed his lips and smiled, and asked Zhang Yi lightly: "This method was originally thought of by you, could it be that you haven't thought about its biggest effect?" Are there any people who are still profitable? ”