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"Xiaocui, do you know where Li Tianshang has gone?"

"Uncle, he went out early in the morning, saying that it was important for us not to wait for him to have lunch."

Chen Yun'er nodded.

"I see."

It was one of the largest building materials markets in the Yuan Dynasty, and the amount of building materials traded here accounted for 30% of the Yuan Dynasty's income, so there was direct management by the royal family.

"I said, Brother Li, you called us over early in the morning just to let us carry the mud, shouldn't we just call a few people for this trivial matter?"

Each of the Taixuan Sijie carried a bag of mud on his shoulder, while Li Tian carried three bags by himself.

Li Tianyang shook his head: "Only the five of us brothers can know before this matter is completed, so we can only work hard for you." ”

After hearing this, the four of them were very moved in their hearts, Li Tian really regarded them as his own.

"Brother Li, just say this to you, we will help you."

Li Tian walked to a model-making workshop, and there was a model that an old man was making.

Li Tian walked over: "Lao Zhang, I don't know if I borrowed your workshop for a few months, can I?" ”

"Huh?" The old man looked up.

Li Tian smiled: "Uncle, I want to borrow your workshop to use it." ”

The old man looked at Li Tian, what they were wearing, and found that they were either rich or expensive.

"I wonder what you're going to do with my workshop?"

Li Tian took out a bag of silver from his arms: "We want to see you in this workshop to do some things, here is a hundred taels, just let us rent, you are in the workshop for a few months, you see this way." ”

"Okay, of course, you can do it, but you're welcome?"

With this money, he himself can marry a big girl with yellow flowers, of course he is happy, one hundred taels is not a small amount for their family, and it can only be earned in a year or two.

There were only five of them left in the workshop.

Li Tian took off his coat and put it aside: "You follow me to sit on the handle, and the cement on your hands is kneaded to the same size as my hands." ”

The four of them watched carefully, and they were not stupid people who could pinch it after a few times.

On the first day, after the efforts of five people, more than 200 were pinched, and after a month of hard work, thousands of commonly used Chinese character modules were born in their hands.

"Brother Li, we've been working for so long, and you haven't told us what these models are for?"

Li Tian smiled mysteriously: "You'll know in a while, and it's guaranteed to make you proud." ”

At this moment, Xiao Cui came over with food, and Xiao Bai ran towards him happily when he saw Li Tian, licking his face with his tongue.

Li Tian held the little guy in his hand: "Okay, don't make trouble." ”

I haven't paid much attention to it for a month, and now Xiaobai has grown to be as big as an ordinary feline.

"Uncle, let's eat!"

"I said, Brother Li, when did you raise this little white cat."

Li Tian looked at Han Dong with a smile: "You said it's a cat!" ”

Xiao Bai also seemed to hear that it was a cat, and yelled at Han Dong.

All four of them were frightened by this roar.

"It's not a cat, it's a tiger!"

Xiaobai put on an expression that you only know, lay in Li Tian's arms, closed his eyes, and enjoyed.

The four of them glanced at each other and gave a thumbs up at the same time: "Brother Li, since the first time we met you, you have shocked us too much, I didn't expect even pets to be so good." ”

Li Tian was a little embarrassed by what they said: "Generally speaking, the third in the world." ”

Cut, the four of them rolled their eyes at the same time.

After eating, it and Xiaocui went home in Xiaobai's reluctant eyes.

Li Tian stood up and clapped his hands: "Keep working, the next step is to put these modules in the furnace and bake it hard." ”

Li Tian and the others put the finished models one by one, put the iron plates, and then put the iron plates on the stove until the original modules were roasted hard, and then took it down.

The iron plate is limited, and they have carried out this project for more than half a month.

"Brother Li, it's almost two months, what are you going to do?"

Li Tian arranged the squares neatly one by one: "Can't you see this?" Of course, it's ready for typesetting and printing. ”

"Typography and printing, what are you kidding, just these squares, and the models I usually see, how can they be used for typography and printing?"

Li Tian clapped his hands: "Just wait and see, the effect will not disappoint you, if the current printing technology must be named after it, I would like to make it movable type printing." ”

The four of them looked at each other, their eyes were confused, movable type printing, they had never heard of it.

"Brother Li, what is the fundamental difference between movable type printing and the current printing technology?"

Li Tian patted Xiang Tian on the shoulder: "Xiaotian, let me ask, if I use the current printing technology, how long will it take to prepare if I want to print a book?" ”

"It will take about a few years, because the production of the model is so laborious, and to tell you the truth, I don't even have a few books at home, and most of them are copied by hand."

Li Tian smiled slightly: "That's right, the current printing technology is too time-consuming, too labor-intensive, and as long as you print a wrong word, then the whole template is equivalent to waste, and my movable type printing can avoid this shortcoming, because he is composed of a square, can be deployed at any time, when you want to use it, as long as you put the words together, you can put it away when you don't use it, which avoids the template taking up space." ”

Listening to Li Tian's explanation, everyone's eyes lit up unconsciously, they are not stupid Once this movable type printing technique is successful, then the profits can hit them.

As soon as they thought of this, the four of them were full of energy, and they carved words on it in the same way as Li Tian, and time passed unconsciously.

Li Tian stood up and stretched: "Okay, let's stop here today, go back and have a good rest, and finish tomorrow." ”

Only then did they notice that the sun had set.

"Time flies so fast, I want to have a little longer."

Li Tian smiled: "Okay, we still have a lot of work, and you will be busy in the future." ”

"Don't worry, I'll be the first to come tomorrow."

They didn't feel that they had undergone earth-shaking changes through their work for more than two months, and the lazy atmosphere they had before was no longer visible in them, which was another purpose for Li Tian to find them!

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Soon more than a month passed, and on this day there were cheers in the workshop, and the five big men hugged each other and shed tears of excitement.

Can you not shed tears, after more than three months of hard work, movable type printing was finally born under their hands.