Other? Ma Zhou was slightly stunned, and couldn't help but focus on the books in his hand again.

The text is neat, the size is almost uniform, the layout is clear and orderly, and there are occasional traces of ink on the paper, but the number is not much, it is within the acceptable range, and it does not affect the reading.

Wait a minute......

Ma Zhou subconsciously seemed to really see a little greasy, literally neat, uniform in size, if you don't look carefully, you may not be able to see the problem.

"It's printed!" Ma Zhou scratched his head with a tangled face, the problem was obvious, but in the end, he was also printed.

"This king didn't say that it wasn't printed, look at it again! I can see that this king has a lot of rewards! Li Yuanji smiled slightly, this Ma Zhou, smart is smart, but he was limited by pedantic thinking, and he didn't dare to let go of his arms and do a big job, if he continued like this, it wouldn't work, wouldn't he have to die of exhaustion in the future?

With full of doubts, Ma Zhou once again set his eyes on a few books, deliberately found a few pages, and took a few books to carefully compare, stroke by stroke, the same words, and strokes are exactly the same, completely carved out of a mold, but shouldn't the printing be like this? A master with a level, as long as he can write exactly the same word, he can copy this character little by little, so that people can't see the problem at all.

Scratching his head hard, Ma Zhou couldn't help but scratch his head and said: "But it's printed, but the same words are basically the same, as if they were printed from a mold, there is no other difference!" ”

"It's not happy to say that you are pedantic, let's go, this king will take you to open your eyes!" He gently chiseled a fist into Ma Zhou's head, and the smug smile on his face continued to spread.

Ma Zhou, who was trapped in this problem and couldn't extricate himself, couldn't even bother to cry out for pain when he was hit on the door of his head, and now he only had one thought, to find out what kind of medicine was sold in King Qi's gourd?

Isn't it just printed? Who doesn't know? Now, almost half of the books in the world are printed, and the rest are all solitary books, and I don't know whose house they are hidden.

After all, there are so many students, but the cost is too high, and they don't have so many books, where can they print? Is it all about the current compilation?

Left the north city of Zhenbei in a twist and turn, and the design was neat and tidy, but now, in order to take two steps less, it is still necessary to see the stitches.

The large camp on the south bank of the Yellow River is still where Li Yuanji lives every day, and many troops are also stationed here, and they have to stay here to protect them until the wharf on the other side of the river is built.

Inside a small tent, it was at least much smaller than the big tent where Li Yuanji lived.

There weren't many people inside, only ten people were busy non-stop, and the outside of the tent was invisibly wrapped by hundreds of soldiers for a week, and even the people in these tents were made up of soldiers.

From the outside, this is an ordinary barracks, and the scattered and lazy soldiers outside are not on guard, but resting.

Entering the tent, everything inside was put into the eyes one by one, cutting, smearing ink, printing, arranging, binding, no different from the printing I had seen before, maybe some improvements were made in some processes, I haven't had time to see it, but when I look at it, Ma Zhou really can't see any difference, and it is not as mysterious as Li Yuanji said.

"Your Highness! A set of templates that have just been made, Xia Guan is typesetting, and this set is printed with mathematics! Liu Da, who had been facing the door, discovered Li Yuanji's arrival, and hurriedly stopped what he was doing and reported his work.

"Go on!" Li Yuanji nodded slightly and motioned for him to continue.

And Li Yuanji took Ma Zhou directly to Liu Da's side, and as he went deeper into the tent, Ma Zhou saw more and more things, and the mystery in his heart began to gradually unravel.

When Ma Zhou saw the so-called template in Liu Da's hand, the whole person instantly closed his mouth in surprise, and pointed to the template in his hand that was thinner than his little thumb with a frightened face: "This...... Is this a template? ”

"Of course, don't look at this thing as small, it's really convenient to use, as long as you don't drop him, be careful when using it, this thing won't break for a few years." Liu Da proudly picked up a template that he couldn't use for the time being and handed it to Ma Zhou, who could come here, his head was not good.

Li Yuanji has never brought others here, even those who participated in it, they were not allowed to leave the barracks without permission, and they were not even allowed to contact other unrelated people, and they were able to bring Ma Zhou to come, Liu Da naturally knew what Li Yuanji meant, and while working, he continued to explain: "Do you see the words on it?" One positive and one negative, the positive is used for typesetting, which word needs to be used, just pick it out and put it in this template, it will be stuck when you use it, and then turn it upside down, and you can print it directly with ink. ”

Watching Liu Da's skillful operation, Ma Zhou carefully looked at the template in his hand, starting with a cold, square, one side is a convex inverted word used for printing, and the other side is not so particular, that is, the words written directly on it with a knife, so that the typesetter can recognize this mold more clearly and intuitively.

"Isn't this the right to swap templates?" Ma Zhou was taken aback, looking at this set of templates, thinking back to the feeling of reading those books just now, if he didn't take a look here, he really didn't know that those books were printed like this.

"Yes, a set of templates can print thousands of books in a day, and if you adjust the templates, it only takes a quarter of an hour." Liu Da continued to explain while working.

The work is not heavy, that is, according to the content of the book, pick out the template and put it in the corresponding position, the line of the line of the line, the line of the blank, it is very simple, after a set is done, just compare it against the other, this work is basically not difficult, it is a person who can do it.

But if you can't read, it's a bit of a hassle to find.

Liu Da has his own work habits, every time before starting work, he always likes to mess up the template according to his own habits, which word needs to be used, he will go to which pile to find, and when he gets off work, he will restore the original state, which is convenient and fast.

"This ......" Ma Zhou no longer knows what he should say, for Mao still has this kind of operation in the world? Why didn't I think of it?

"This king is also from the engraving printing inspiration, engraving can be printed, but that is too complicated, but also consumes too much, each printed page needs to prepare a set of engraving, printing more also need to replace the engraving, this way to print the book in addition to labor and other costs, just the cost of engraving occupies a large part.

Since engraving plates can be printed, why not engrave these words separately? If a word is broken, just re-engrave it, instead of a wrong word like an engraving, and a whole plate will be scrapped and started again. And this can also be reused, a set of boards, you can print all the books in the world.

Life is to constantly explore and innovate, and constantly find ways to make it better and closer to life on the basis of the existing one. This king said that you are pedantic, that is because your mind is limited by the present world, you know, everything is possible, and you don't know, everything is impossible, you lack a kind of innovation and exploration momentum, for that side, he wants stability, and for this king, just stability is not enough.

What this king wants is continuous innovation, in order to ensure the existing foundation, continue to explore, do not worry about getting worse and worse, when you are not sure, you can first test from a small part. Governing and conducting research are the same thing, while studying this set of movable type printing, it does not affect the progress of engraving printing, and now it is successful, and the time-consuming, laborious and expensive engraving printing can be replaced by it. "Li Yuanji's old and upheld education is all about small truths, but it can be applied to everything.

Ma Zhou is like an uncarved piece of jade, Li Shimin wants to let him help him polish, or let him learn his own ideas, and then go back to serve him, but he doesn't think so, since he comes, he is his own person, and he wants to come and go? Hehe!

Do you really think that if you skip the level and promote Ma Zhou to the prime minister of Qi State, you can make him grateful to Dade?

"If we don't succeed, we will only lose some resources and energy, as well as time, but we will gain valuable experience from failure, which will help us improve next time!" Ma Zhou, who has been in the Academy of Sciences for a few months, knows the core of the experiment very well, and he understands the truth of Li Yuanji, and he was just confused by the present world before.

"Not bad! That's it. Next, Benwang plans to start a newspaper! Li Yuanji continued, this was originally an idea when he was in Chang'an, but the purpose at that time was only to make money, as well as some purposes.

"Newspapers?" Ma Zhou was stunned again, but with the previous slap in the face, Ma Zhou didn't plan to refute it directly, but decided after listening to it first.

"Yes, the newspaper is published every seven days, which mainly publishes some official things, and the audience is the government yamen, and there is a lot of content, which can be the experience sharing of a certain work, or other things about the government. After that, you can start a business newspaper, such as advertising, or announcing some policy decrees and so on. "Without restraints, some things are naturally done as you want, Li Yuanji said lightly.

But listening to Ma Zhou's ears is a different sense, after careful analysis, I found that this method is somewhat feasible, except for the seven-day issue, the efficiency will be a little slow.

However, it seems that newspapers were not intended to be used as a means of transmitting government decrees, but more for learning among the various yamen.

"This seems to be a bit tricky, but the minister has a suggestion......