Chapter 159: Movable Type Printing

The reason why Gao Feng did this was for consideration. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info he originally wanted to make Xiao Daya proud for two more years, and then look for him to take revenge when Hu Bao brothers and sisters grew up, but he didn't want Xiao Daya to be uneasy, so he actually set fire to his house, which made him unbearable.

Originally, he could have asked the Baojia Army to pull Xiao Daya secretly with another real force, but this would inevitably attract the attention of the government, often walking by the river, how could he not get his shoes wet, in case there were any clues left, the entire Gao family manor would be unlucky.

Besides, Hu Niu and Hu Bao's father was indeed forced to death by Xiao Daya in a casino, and it is better for them to take revenge in person for this kind of thing.

It was expressly forbidden to open casinos privately and kill people in the Great Song Dynasty, although this law was not really implemented, but the matter was not too big, and if someone complained, the government would naturally come forward to take charge.

As long as the government comes forward, it will be enough for Xiao Daya to drink a pot, no matter how he is punished, the result is that Gao Feng will accept it, and he really can't do it, he still has a backhand.

Since he can use this righteous and bright method, Gao Feng is naturally reluctant to take any more risks, if Xiao Daya is sentenced to capital punishment because of this, it will be a good thing for the Hu family brothers and sisters and him, and it will be hellish not to use this method of both worlds.

"Feng'er, why did you mention this?" Gao Youcai asked puzzled.

At the critical moment when the Gao family's workshop is developing, as an old man, he naturally does not want to make extraneous branches, and according to his understanding of Gao Feng, he will not do those useless things, but looking at his solemn appearance, there must be something wrong with it.

"Dad, our house was burned, and someone proved that Xiao Daya sent someone to do it." Gao Feng had no choice but to tell the story.

Even if the elderly are nostalgic and feel uncomfortable, they have to let him know, and besides, he will know sooner or later, so it is better to take advantage of the fact that everyone is here now, and someone will be able to persuade him.

Sure enough, hearing Gao Feng's words, Gao Youcai lowered his head dullly. That's where he's lived all his life, and now it's gone if he says no, and it's definitely false to say that he's not sad. However, he was only sad and did not show much abnormality. There was only an empty house, not to mention no one, not even decent furniture, and although this kind of thing happened, it was unfortunate, but it was also a blessing.

Of course, the discomfort still exists, there are memories of his life, and now they are all burned, where will he go to miss the old in the future? Fortunately, now that his life is rich and fulfilling, he can't spare too much time to reminisce about the past, otherwise it would be really sad and sad.

"Feng'er, if you don't burn, it's gone, don't worry too much." Gao Youcai was in a bad mood and had a low voice, but he turned his head to persuade Gao Feng.

He knew that there was not much change in Gao Feng's mood, but he could tell from the matter of letting Hu Niu sue that Gao Feng cared very much.

Gao Feng smiled bitterly and said, "I'm fine, Dad, Xiao Daya has been harming for many years, and it's time to get rid of this bully." ”

There were some things he couldn't say, so he could only hold them in his stomach. Gao Youcai's lifelong memory is there, and he is the deepest memory of his life, no matter what, he cares about it very much.

"Yes, Xiao Daya has done a lifetime of lack of morality, it's time to clean him up, I think Hu Niu should be suered. But before that, do you want to say hello to Lord Gu? Gao Youxian interjected at this time.

He also hated Xiao Daya, not to mention anything else, just by virtue of the bastard temperament before the peak, Xiao Daya was bad, if he could get rid of him by taking the opportunity, he would have done a good thing for his neighbors.

However, after working in the Gao family's workshop for so long, he has already seen through the world, and ordinary people who dare to go to court will not be stripped of a layer of skin by the government, but there are people in the yamen who are different, which will make things much smoother.

"I'll mention it to Master Gu when I have time, but I won't influence his judgment, no matter what the outcome of Hu Niu's lawsuit is, we will accept it, and we'll talk about it later." Gao Feng can only say this, in fact, he also planned it this way, but the plan is not convenient to talk to his family.

The family chattered about this matter for a while, comforted each other for a while, and then went back to rest.

After returning to the room, Takashi began to think about making a printing press.

Although the movable type printing technology invented by Bi Sheng has appeared, it has not been popularized and applied at all, and it should still lie in Shen Kuo's "Dream Creek Pen Talk". Nowadays, the most popular and widely used is engraving printing.

The principle of engraving printing is relatively simple. First, choose a piece of wood with a fine grain to make an engraving plate, and then paste the written paper manuscript on the engraving plate, transfer the text to the engraving plate in reverse, and then manually carve the engraving plate into a reverse convex text, and then brush the ink on it, cover the white paper on the engraving plate, and gently brush the text on the paper with a brush.

Although this method is simple, it is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and labor-intensive to make stereotypes, inconvenient to store a large number of book plates, and it is not easy to correct any typos.

Gao Feng was considering a simpler method, and the first thing he considered was the method of transcribing and printing on wax paper ink.

This method is also very simple, and in elementary school in previous lives, teachers often used this method to engrave test papers. All it takes is a piece of wax paper, an iron pen, a stereotype, and a mimeographer. The principle is: put the wax paper on the stereotype, write on the wax paper with an iron pen, so that the wax paper bottom plate is made, and then use the mimeograph machine to push the ink to print.

Although this method is simple, the printing quality is poor, and the efficiency is low, for a large number of printing, it is difficult to ensure that the bottom plate made of wax paper is not damaged, which will increase the workload of repeated production.

Gao Feng thought about it and decided to design a movable type printing machine. This printing technique is flexible, reusable, and the quality of the prints is good enough for mass printing.

The printing press itself in the movable type printing machine is not a problem for Gao Feng, but it is a problem of power transmission and distribution. The power can be realized manually, although the transmission of power due to technical limitations, the transmission of gears and chains cannot be realized, but it can be transmitted by cams, levers or ropes, which is just a design skill.

The most important amount of work is still in the production of fonts. Lettering is generally divided into metal, wood and mastic. To say that the easiest nature is the cement system, it is simple to depict, and can be used with the system, so it is easy to achieve, Bi Sheng's movable type printing technology is used to make the clay typemold.

Wooden lettering is also widely used, but the general wood is easy to deform when wet, so it needs some process treatment.

The best is of course the metal typemold. In later generations, some people used copper and tin to make word molds, but the most widely used is lead. Nowadays there is already lead, the cost is still secondary, the main thing is that the lead is too soft, it is not suitable to be used as a font, so it is not the best option.

Gao Feng thought about it for a long time or decided to use cement to fire the word mold first, and then switch to wooden word mold, and then switch to lead mold after the workshop developed to a certain stage to produce lead alloy.