Chapter Ninety-Four: The Great Invention (II)

"Brother Jiu, I'm the one who specializes in cleaning up the horse pen"

He listened to Qiao Ba's words but was stunned, okay, no wonder this Qiao Ba said that he was a little inferior to that Yang Jian, although Yang Jian was still serving people when he dug up dung, this Qiao Ba was serving livestock. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Just as he was about to speak, seeing a trace of indifference and embarrassment flashing in Qiao Ba's eyes, the two sentences he wanted to joke about quickly retracted, and then patted the latter's shoulder and said

"Qiao Ba, don't look down on yourself, face is given by others, but dignity is earned by yourself, what's wrong with pouring horse manure, if you don't dig out horse manure, where do you go to ride a horse and a car, remember that labor is glorious, as long as you don't laugh at yourself, no one will laugh at you!"

Qiao Ba thought that Li Muran would laugh at himself, after all, he would get used to it after a long time, but he didn't expect to look up and see Li Muran's encouraging eyes, and the words were also full of friendship, and in an instant his eyes were clouded with mist, how many white eyes he had caused by pouring horse manure in Qiao's mansion, and now he finally got affirmation, how difficult it is at this time.

"Ninth Brother ......"

Seeing that Qiao Ba's broken thoughts were beginning again, he quickly interrupted the latter's words, jokingly asked Qiao Ba to talk about sycophants, which would definitely make goosebumps fall all over the ground, and then picked up the account book he had just inspected and said

"There are so many account books, it is estimated that the three of us will not be able to end it in a few months, Qiao Ba, Yang Jian, don't you have any good way?"

Qiao Ba Wen Yan took the account book, opened it casually all night, his face became unpleasant, there were hundreds of words on any page of this account book, if he really copied these account books, the three of them would indeed take too long,.

Yang Jian also looked sideways, although he was an authentic reader, and it stands to reason that copying books was his strength, but he also frowned.

Look at people by words, this is a sentence that people often say, and in this era of cultural peak, this is particularly important, of course, beautiful words have to consume a long time, but if you don't write patiently, then what is the point of transcribing this account book?

When he asked this, the two fell into silence at the same time, and Li Muran, who was on the side, looked at the two.

After a long time, seeing that the two of them still did not move, Li Muran asked directly

"Do you know about printing?"

When the two of them heard this, their eyes lit up instantly, and Qiao Ba took the lead in speaking

"Brother Jiu, you mean it's printed?"

Li Muran nodded, but Yang Jian, who had always been silent, spoke at this time

Li ...... Brother Jiu, I don't think printing will work? ”

It seems that this Yang Jian also admitted himself in his heart, he kept shouting his name at first, and now he also shouted his ninth brother with Qiao Ba, but he never noticed that Yang Jian's eyes shook intentionally or unintentionally.

However, he doesn't care much about the title, on the contrary, he is more concerned about the printing technology in Yang Jian's mouth now.

Seeing that he was waiting for his answer, Yang Jian said bluntly

"It's fast, but it's not practical"

Not practical? Moham!

"Isn't there movable type printing?"

"Movable type printing? What is it? ”

Although Yang Jian is a scholar, Li Muran was a little surprised to have some understanding of the work done by these poor people, after all, this is an era when only reading is high.

Hearing this unfamiliar term, Yang Jian was also a little curious.

At the same time, after Li Muran got the answer, he had a result in his heart, it seems that this dynasty has not yet said movable type printing, but after thinking about it, it is almost the same, he is now in the time period of the Song Dynasty, but he can't figure out the specific time, and it was Bi Sheng of the Song Dynasty who invented movable type printing.

It seems that I want to be an inventor again, but Uncle Bi hopes that you don't blame me, I am also a Han Chinese, as long as I can contribute to Chinese civilization, everyone will be the same.

Looking at the two people waiting for his answer, he said slowly

"The so-called movable type printing is to turn the template used in printing into a single word module, and when you use it, you only need to use the single word module to pave it in the mold, smear it with ink, and print it conveniently and quickly!"

Qiao Ba didn't do too much rough work, although Li Muran had already said it in detail, but he was still confused, but Yang Jian looked enlightened, his eyes were shining, and then he looked at him in disbelief

"Brother Jiu, can this template really be used like this? Wouldn't that be the more books in the world that could circulate?"

A reader is a reader, and now he is thinking about how to solve the problem of account books, but he talks about copying books......

Li Muran waved his hand, he is not so great, maybe movable type printing will become a great invention in the future, but now he only wants to solve this thorny problem in front of him.

"Qiao Ba, today you will go to the bazaar to find a blacksmith shop to make some molds and come out."

Although Qiao Ba didn't understand what movable type printing was, he knew that Brother Jiu's words were orders, and then left quickly, but Yang Jian, who was on the side, asked a little unclearly

"Brother Jiu, why do you use iron as a mold, the printing is generally cast with cement"

Li Muran listened to his inquiry and asked rhetorically

"Oh, and did you know that the cement has a fatal flaw?"

"Flawed?"

Seeing Yang Jian's confused face, he patiently explained

"Printed stencils are good, but they are prone to breakage, while metal can be used for a long time."

"Then why use iron?"

Li Muran slapped his hand on the latter's head in an instant when he heard it, indeed Yang Jian was right, iron is not the best metal choice.

The most perfect printing mold in history is in 1454, the German Johann Gutenberg improved on the basis of Bi Sheng's invention They used lead, antimony, tin alloy materials to make movable type, the combination of this composition has been used until later, but now we don't have it, and even if there is, I am not a geographer, some metals it knows itself, but it does not know it.

In addition, as I said just now, iron is indeed not the best choice, and the effect of copper will be much better than iron, but the current currency is a copper plate, unless he feels tired of being alive, or the money is no longer used up, otherwise he is not ready to melt copper money to play.

"I'd like to use copper!"

When Yang Jian heard this, he didn't know how to answer......

Before I knew it, it was already evening, and Qiao Ba had already come back with a dozen rough molds that had been made, and Li Muran immediately found ink, smeared it on the mold, and then brought paper.

I thought it would succeed, but I didn't expect that after he got the printed paper, he was stunned, only to see that the ink on the rough paper had all melted, and the handwriting that was still very clear when it was printed was now a black circle, which was unrecognizable at all.

Failed, but he felt that his movable type printing should be no problem, then the problem is likely to appear on the paper, although this era has bid farewell to bamboo slips, but the paper is the earliest paper made of bark, hemp and cloth, fish nets and other plant raw materials, through frustration, pounding, copying, drying and other processes, and the paper improved in later generations has not yet appeared.

It seems that he has to contribute 50% of his strength to these four major inventions......