More than half a month has passed since the chaos done by the Qianghu tribesmen. And the people living in the city are still apprehensive about this. Although the county government allocated special funds to repair their houses and provide some financial subsidies to those households whose belongings and surplus food were burned in the chaos, the psychological shadow caused by this incident still haunts their minds for a long time.

Now the people of Lingju County in the inner city have changed their color when they hear it. Even if you want to go out of the city on weekdays, you mostly go in groups. After the turmoil, the Qianghu people in the outer city were also forcibly concentrated in the northwest corner of the outer city by the county government. On these two walls, there are battalions of warriors guarding day and night to prevent further chaos.

The governor of the state, Zhang Zhijun, also reacted quickly afterwards. In the reply, it was said that the state governance and the preparations among the scholars had not yet been sufficient, so the planned conquest of Longxi was naturally postponed. As for the resettlement of the Qianghu refugees in Lingju, Li Yanzhi was authorized to act cheaply.

Half a month later, the Qianghu refugees concentrated in the northwest corner of the city moved under the orders of the county government. Only some military dependents remained in the outer city. Li Yanzhi stood at the head of the city, watching Wang Cheng escorting the Qianghu refugees who dragged their families and helped the old and the young, and couldn't help but feel a trace of bitterness in his heart. Although the two goals he wanted to achieve this time have now been achieved, most of the complaints and curses of those who have gone away are directed at him.

Xin Yan and the county officials had already arranged a plan for the resettlement of the displaced people. According to statistics, there are currently more than 2,300 Qianghu displaced people living in other cities. Except for more than 1,000 military families who were placed in neighboring townships outside the city and county, the remaining 1,000 or so Qianghu families were scattered and disorganized and arranged in more than 10 miles away from the county seat. Seven or eight miles near the backwater, either a field was set aside, terraced fields were carved up and down the hills, or pastures were set aside near the left side of the valley for these Qianghu people to cultivate and graze. The county government prepared bean seeds, corn seeds, and shared farming cattle for them without discrimination, and arranged for them to be used by the officials.

This re-planning and resettlement has made the county government also hurtful. In addition, the money that Li Yanzhi had sold in the previous years when he was defending against Qianghu also gave Xin Yan nearly 200,000 yuan to use for the establishment of the county government school and the trial production of movable type printing.

Xin Yan didn't have much money, and he also posted a lot of it this time, and he was worried that the school could not continue, and after getting this fund, he began to prepare and trial produce printing with great fanfare. He listened to Li Yanzhi's suggestion and hired about 100 people from the military households of the county government to prepare to serve as workers in the soon-to-be-opened printing workshop.

Xin Yan now spends almost his days in the newly established printing workshop in the north of the city. He tried to produce several batches of clay movable type according to Li Yanzhi's practice. However, there are still many defective products that are burned to the point of drying and cracking, and cannot be used. Li Yanzhi believes that the sealing of the kiln for firing movable type is not good enough. After that, he asked the craftsman to seal the kiln with green bricks and clay again, and then fired it, although there was an improvement, but it was still difficult to satisfy.

Xin Yan took a framed iron plate, applied beeswax to the bottom of the iron plate, and roasted it. He took the clay type one by one and discharged them into the iron plate. After arranging the plates, he took a wooden board and vigorously flattened the movable type in the iron plate frame. Then take the ink that has already been ground and carefully brush it over and over again on the typeset plate.

Li Yanzhi heard that Xin Yan had been in the printing workshop every day recently, and he usually returned to the county government in the afternoon before he began to approve various official documents. Anyway, the city has basically been under military control recently, and the law and order situation is acceptable, and there are no difficult cases. Li Yanzhixin walked into the printing workshop, which was earlier the warehouse of a merchant's family, and that day the Qianghu people entered the city to cause chaos, and the merchant family was so frightened that he hurriedly sold his property and moved his family to another place.

The walls and roofs of the workshop are made of blue bricks and tiles, which is in stark contrast to the adobe houses that are inhabited by a series of households in the surrounding area. The gate is also a vermilion lacquer gate inlaid with copper nails. Li Yanzhi gently pushed open the gate, and immediately saw that inside the gate, there were two soldiers of the Jianrui battalion on duty. Nowadays, this printing technology can be said to be the top priority of the county government, so soldiers are also sent to protect it, and all idle people are turned away.

There is a rockery carved from strange stones in the courtyard, and under the rockery is a pond made of bricks and stones, about a square circle. There are a few red carp swimming around in the pond. In addition, there are some green duckweed floating in the pond, and the water in the pond is also a little muddy, apparently because it has not been cleaned for a long time.

Li Yanzhi stood by the pool, quietly watching the fish swimming in the pool. After a long while, Fang retracted his gaze and followed the guidance of the Jianrui battalion soldiers on duty on the side, and walked towards the main hall.

As soon as he pushed open the door of the main hall, Li Yanzhi saw Xin Yan concentrate on laying a piece of vertical paper on the template that had just been made, and when the paper began to absorb the ink attached to the clay type, he took the wooden board again, covered it with the paper, and then carefully pressed it.

Seeing this, Li Yanzhi didn't bother with anything, so he stood aside and quietly watched the movements of Xin Yan's hands. This son of a family is not good at profligate, he has been walking straight since he was an official, and he can also be called a model and example for the younger generation of scholars in Liangzhou. It's just that since Li Yanzhi taught him this movable type printing technique, he has shown an extraordinary obsession with this kind of technology, but Li Yanzhi feels a little confused and incomprehensible.

Xin Yan pushed a little harder to make the paper and movable type under the wooden board stick as long as possible, so that the handwriting could be clearly printed on the paper. It took a long time for Li Yanzhi to see him remove the wooden plank, and then carefully remove the vertical grid paper covering the movable type as if he were a treasure. Xin Yan carefully looked at the paper in front of him for a while, then put it aside and sighed, "It's crooked again!" ”

"Brother Fuliang, what a lot of interest!" Li Yanzhi suddenly spoke behind Xin Yan, which made Xin Yan stunned for a moment, and then turned around in surprise, but saw Li Yanzhi's indifferent smiling face.

"Brother Dingdong, please sit down ......" Xin Yan said as he took a stool next to him, and then placed it beside Li Yanzhi: "Fang Caiyan is pondering this method of printing, but he doesn't know that Brother Tai has quietly arrived, forgive your sins!" ”

"Haha, Fu Liang's words are wrong, he said that he came here quietly, for fear that his subordinates would disturb his brother's interest, so he didn't report it and went straight to here. But he didn't expect to be shocked by Fuliang, and he was worried about it, so he should make amends to Fuliang. ”

Xin Yan said that he didn't dare to dare, but his eyes glanced at the page that had just been printed on the side. He picked it up, presented it to Li Yanzhi, and asked Li Yanzhi: "Dingdong let's take a look, is it possible to print books like this?" ”

Li Yanzhi looked at the piece of paper intently, and saw that although the words printed were a little crooked, they were still basically within the vertical grid. The books of this era do not have punctuation marks to break sentences, it seems that you have to master the broken sentences by yourself, Li Yanzhi read it for a long time, and suddenly felt troubled, so he handed the paper back to Xin Yan, but he still did not forget to praise Xin Yan two sentences: "Fu Liang mastered the printing method so quickly, but Li Mouton was impressed." ”

"Where, the method taught by Dingdong is easy to use." Xin Yan smiled, and when he heard Li Yanzhi praise him, he said a little shyly: "If there is no such method, if you want to write a book, I don't know how many Confucian students you have to copy it for a long time." Dingdong's plan was really a great achievement, and Yan then reported this law to the state and asked the envoy to give a reward......"

Li Yanzhi didn't expect Xin Yan's words to change, and he wanted to report this method to Zhang Jun, and when he landed, he waved his hand again and again: "Fuliang, no!" ”

"Why not?" Xin Yan wondered: "This method is popular, and in the future, it can be imitated everywhere in the state, and three or five houses can be found, and a batch of clay movable type will be fired, and the plates can be used to print hundreds of books." The reason why the first prince opened a academy in the state was because of the lack of books. When Yan was in the countryside before, he saw many sons of shakudo, who were talented and intelligent, and could read and write after teaching one or two, but because of their poor family background, they couldn't afford to read, so they could only follow their fathers to farm......"

"It is really not suitable for this legal commission to be used on a large scale, because there is still a lack of people in the state to cultivate and weave herds." Li Yanzhi had long thought about what method to use to break the monopoly of knowledge on the scholars of this era. In the end, he tried to cultivate talents who could be used for their own use and govern the local area by cultivating the children of loyal martyrs to learn literature. And this layer is something that can never be said to Xin Yan.

"What is lacking in the state is all grain production. And although reading can make people reasonable, it cannot make them produce food and goods. Fu Liang thought about it, if this law is implemented, whether it is a high gate or a poor child in the state, they will all go to study, who will go to plough the land and who will go to herd in the future? Where will food and clothing come from? ”

"That being the case, why does Dingdong insist on recruiting the sons of loyal martyrs to study?" When Xin Yan heard this, he pondered for a moment, and was even more puzzled, so he continued to ask Li Yanzhi.

"Loyal martyrs fought to the death for the country, and they are all loyal and righteous people in our state. Its descendants can not serve in the army, but can be cultivated, woven and herded. However, I hope that these children must be sensible, and know why their fathers fought and died. Bing also hopes that these children can be loyal to the country, diligent in royal affairs, filial piety to their families, and friendly to their neighbors. As the leader of a county, Fuliang doesn't want to see that after a few years, the children of loyal martyrs will break the law and become chaos, but you want to judge them in court, right? ”

When Xin Yan heard this, he said with a relieved face: "What Dingdong said is not bad, since these children are loyal children, they should be more reasonable than ordinary people, otherwise it will be quite regrettable to face the court in the future." ”

Li Yanzhi nodded: "Since Fu Liang has figured it out, Ji will not say more." I heard that Fu Liang recruited people from the military households in the inner and outer cities and came to help in the workshop? ”

Xin Yan smiled and said, "Yes, although most of these military wives, parents, etc., are unable to do heavy work, they can still help in the workshop." In this way, the families of the generals and soldiers in the army can also settle down, and they can concentrate more on training and going out on the army to fight, isn't it beautiful? ”

Li Yanzhi nodded, then pointed to the page that Xin Yan had just printed, and said, "The page that Fuliang just printed, I don't think it's bad." In the future, there is no need to be too demanding in printing books, and the printing should be more correct, so that people can see and understand it, and it will be okay. He is in the army, busy with military affairs, and he has to rely on Fuliang and axe to be correct. I hope that Fuliang can continue to establish a school and lead the children of Zhonglie to study and reason......"

Xin Yan sighed: "Before, I also visited the homes of several loyal martyrs in the county with several county officials. But seeing that his family is still surrounded by four walls, most of the wives and mothers of loyal martyrs are still diligent weaving. And loyal martyrs, sons, and fathers. Most of them are still farming. There is no intention of relying solely on the county government to get by. ”

When Li Yanzhi heard this, he nodded with a heavy heart: "Dingdong is ashamed, it is said that these households have relatives who died in the battle formation, and they should be exempted from the suffering of farming, weaving and grazing, and the county government will fund and support them." Parents and wives are supported for life, and children are raised to the crown and the crown. It's just that we are incompetent, and the martyrs' homes still have to endure the hardships of labor and hardship every year, which is caused by the incompetence of the martyrs......"

"Dingdong doesn't have to feel guilty. Now we should be in the same boat, you are in charge of military affairs, and Yan is in charge of civil affairs. In the future, we will work together to help the children of the martyrs to study and reason, so that the families of the martyrs can have no worries about food and clothing. ”

"If Fuliang has this intention, it should be a great good." Li Yanzhi sighed: "However, after the books are printed, the academy will be opened, where does Fuliang plan to place the academy?" ”

"Nowadays, the land in the county is tight, and it is difficult to find a clean and safe place for children to study. Otherwise, the academy will be located in the back hall of the county government. When I returned to the county hall, I renovated the back hall, opened a door on the back wall, and then separated the back hall from the front yard. I will live and work in the front hall in the future, and now that the county government is guarded by soldiers, my safety will be safe. What is Dingdong Jue? ”

"It's so self-serving, it's just that it's too aggrieved to respect the ...... county," Li Yanzhi said with a difficult face when he heard this. But Xin Yan waved his hand and said that it was okay.

"After Huiyan returns to the house, he will sign a land deed and divide the backyard of the county government into a school for the children of loyal martyrs to study, and it will belong to the county government." Xin Yan's tone was firm: "I, like Dingdong, are loyal to the king. Why does Dingdong always look down at Yan? Although Yan is from the family of the scholar family, he is not a pampered person, and now he only lives in the front yard of the county government, and he does not sleep on the streets, so why can't he do this, and set up a academy for the children of loyal martyrs? ”

Seeing Xin Yan's eyes wide, he felt a little angry when he saw it, Li Yanzhi hurriedly raised his hand and said: "Okay, it's Li Mou's words, and since the county has decided, he can only support it to the end." If there are still one or two difficulties in this matter in the future, I hope that the county will not hide his secrets and tell him directly. ”

"That's it!" Xin Yan laughed, and then brushed ink on the template for printing books, and continued his part-time job as a printer......