This was expected by Li Feibai!

It's hard to get started!

Daming Daily is a new thing! Sun Zhitong didn't know how to run a newspaper, and Hao Laoshi and others also had no experience in printing Daming Daily!

You can't become a fat person by eating in one bite, it takes a skilled process! It will naturally be slow before you get started, and it will be fast once you get started!

Li Fei Baile said: "Then according to you, how long will it take to print 50,000 copies of Daming Daily!" If there are not enough people, it doesn't matter, you see how many more people you need to recruit, and recruit them yourself. ”

Hao said honestly: "The lack of manpower is a small problem, but Li Ye wants too much, and this matter may not be something that can be done in a day or two, and I am afraid that it will not be able to be done in ten days and a half months." ”

Li Feibai's face was still smiling, but his heart couldn't help sinking. A newspaper that is very time-sensitive, but it takes ten days and a half to be printed, how can you run a newspaper for what?

He said, "Tell me about your difficulties! ”

Hao honestly said: "First of all, engraving is quite time-consuming! The content should be written on the woodblock and carefully compared before it can be engraved. Waiting for the engraving to be completed, a day or two will pass. After the plate is completed, it has to be fixed with a splint, because it is not carved by the same master, so the depth of the carving is deep and shallow, and there will be high and low when it is fixed, and it has to be debugged and leveled, and it is another day. ”

Anyway, in the end, it does take about ten days, and there is no guarantee that the engraved plate can be enough to print 50,000 copies, and if there is some wear and tear that causes the printing to be unclear, it will have to be remade.

Li Feibai said: "Why do you want to use engraving printing? Why not use movable type printing? ”

Hao was stunned, but still answered honestly, "Because we are the engraving craftsmen!" ”

Some of his subordinates are smart and clever, but I'm afraid that Li Feibai won't use them when he hears this, wouldn't it be a loss of weight? He immediately added: "In the capital, most of them are engraving printing, and even if there is movable type printing in the bookstore, it is all invited by the bookstore to carve a batch of clay blanks in the ceramic workshop, and then calcined." ”

Another person added: "Moreover, the movable type existing in the bookstore is all of the same size, and it is impossible to have such a font of different sizes on the sample magazine you brought." If you want to calcinate so many fonts from the new one, I'm afraid it will take half a year or even longer! ”

There are also humanitarians: "The movable type is all clay, it is a little wet and soft before calcination, and the smallest can only be carved to the size of a fingernail, and no matter how small, the carved characters have collapsed without waiting for calcination, and it is impossible to achieve it at all." ”

Someone came up with an idea: "It's not okay to use clay movable type for small characters, so it's better to try wooden movable type." Why don't we cut the wood into small pieces and carve the lettering? ”

Immediately, someone retorted: "No! The wood will be deformed when it is wet, and it will be destroyed if it is used once or twice, and it is not as convenient as the engraving. ”

Li Feibai and the others gradually thinned out their voices, and said: "Then don't use wooden type or clay type, let's use lead type!" ”

Everyone was stunned! What is lead type, they really don't know.

Li Feibai said: "You can carve words on wood, you can also carve words on clay, and it should be no problem to carve words on soft copper!" ”

Hao honestly pondered carefully, and said: "The truth of carving in the world is the same, although I have not tried to carve words on soft copper, there should be no problem." ”

Li Feibai said: "Okay, you go and find me a craftsman who is good at burning and casting, and then purchase some copper and lead in large quantities, how to make lead movable type, and when you find someone, let's discuss it together!" ”

After that, let him go to Sun Zhitong to withdraw the silver, and take a few young and strong people to procure it! He sat in the room with Qiao Yi and chatted. In this chat, seeing that it was lunch time, Hao Laoshi should have come back but didn't come back.

Li Feibai didn't pay attention to it, Xu is Hao Laoshi has some trouble finding a craftsman who is good at casting, and is looking for a craftsman!

Peng Erhu came to report that the meal had been prepared, and invited Li Feibai to come over for dinner.

Li Feibai invited Qiao Yi to eat casually, but Qiao Yi was not polite and followed.

Halfway through the meal, a person suddenly broke in at the door, and the door couldn't stop him, so he was pushed and staggered by the man and sat on the ground.

As soon as the man was admitted to the hospital, he shouted everywhere: "Daming Daily? The name is scaring people, and it's all about selling dog meat on the head of a sheep! Whoever is in charge, come out to me! Don't hide in Tibet and don't dare to come out, since you have committed something, you have to find a way to calm things down! If you don't come out again, believe it or not, Lao Tzu will burn down your thief's nest, and then arrest all of you and go to jail! ”

Li Feibai and Qiao Yi ate in the same room, and Sun Zhitong ate in the other room, although the dining room was different, the meals they ate were exactly the same.

This is the rule that Li Feibai set up when he was about to ask the cook to cook in the Daming Daily.

Those who work in the Daming Daily office only have different positions, but they will not be divided into three, six, nine and so on. How to embody equality, first of all, is to eat!

The loud shouts of the people who came had already alarmed the people who were eating in the house, and they came out to see the excitement.

Judging from the clothes of the person who came, he was a servant, but he couldn't tell which one was from the yamen!

Sun Zhitong listened to him more and more unspeakable, and scolded sharply: "The daily report is heavy, and Hugh is noisy!" ”

The visitor squinted at it and said, "Are you in charge here?" ”

Sun Zhitong said: "No! ”

The person who came scolded and said: "Damn, what are you talking about if you're not in charge, you're looking for a fight!" ”

Sun Zhitong originally wanted to reveal a little bit to this person, the background of the stewardship here is all over the sky, don't break ground on Tai Sui's head, provoke people who shouldn't be provoked, and you won't be able to cry when you cry.

Hearing this person open his mouth and scold, there is no meaning in dialing. Seeing Li Feibai and Qiao Yi walking out, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Master Li, this person is simply unreasonable!" If you open your mouth, you will scold, and if you stretch out your hand, we who are scholars really have no way to meet this kind of person, but you will be so tired that you will come out to deal with it yourself! ”

Seeing Sun Zhitong speaking respectfully to Li Feibai, the man stepped forward in three steps and two steps, and said, "You are in charge here!" ”

If Qiao Yi is dressed as luxuriously as before today, she is not a mortal at first glance. The man would have weighed before he spoke. It's a pity that Qiao Yi saw that Li Feibai's background was so big and he was still dressed ordinary, so he also changed into an ordinary set of clothes today.

The man saw that the two of them were dressed ordinarily, not even a rich man, and he didn't take the two of them in his eyes at all, and said that the two of them were ordinary people who trembled when they saw the officials.

He glanced into the house, spat on the ground, and said, "You guys live well, you eat big fish and meat, and your grandfather hasn't eaten yet!" ”

Qiao Yi said angrily: "Bold! ”

The man said, "I'm bold, why do you want to fight with me?" Damn, if you dare to touch Lao Tzu's hair, Lao Tzu will condemn you to a big crime against the government! ”

Li Feibai frowned and said, "Don't talk about those useless things!" Say, what are you doing here? ”

The man said, "You don't know what I'm doing here?" Boy, if you are fat enough, you dare to commit such a big case as privately minting coins! Come with me! ”

Li Feibai was stunned, and then he understood what was going on! It is estimated that Hao Laoshi and they are buying copper and looking for a forger, so that some self-righteous mediocre officials come across him, or want to make meritorious service or make a fortune, and come to arrest him for interrogation.

He sneered and said, "If you let me go with you, I'll leave?" Can there be a ticket to catch someone? ”