Liu Hongji left, with Li Xiang's ideas and the money that Li Xiang took from Master Li, Wei Zheng stayed, and lived in Li Xiang's small courtyard, talking to Li Xiang about the past and the present every day, and playing backgammon.

The repair of the book workshop was nearing completion, and Yan Mu also sent many craftsmen to Li Xiang, and the person who led the team heard that he had carved books for several generations of Confucian saints, and his craftsmanship was exquisite. Li Xiang was very satisfied, so after thanking Yan Mu, he brought these people into the Li Mansion and opened a separate courtyard for them, and Li Xiang went over every day to teach them how to engrave. Of course, Li Xiang himself will not know, and everything that will be taught to him by the X chip.

During this time, Li Xiang has been busy making engravings for synthetic ink and movable type printing.

It's good to say some synthetic ink, just adjust the proportion of the configuration slowly, and the engraving is a little difficult, first of all, the material. The Sui Dynasty already had small-scale engraving printing, but it was very rough, all the characters were made of wood, and the carved characters had to be re-engraved once or twice. Li Xiang wanted to make clay characters, so he had to burn the clay first.

In fact, Li Xiang thinks that things are too complicated, the cement is actually a sticky clod of soil dug out of the wetland by the river, and when it has not dried, it can be shaped into various shapes, and after drying, it will not be deformed.

He frowned and pondered there, Wei Zheng asked him when he saw it on the side, but as soon as he said it, Wei Zheng told him that there was glue everywhere by the river. This made Li Xiang very happy, and praised Wei Zheng as a god. Wei Zheng was very embarrassed, he knew that there was cement by the river, but this person who seemed to be the smartest didn't know, and he really didn't know what to say about him.

Solve the problem of cement, and the rest of the things will be natural. After all the preliminary preparations were completed, Li Xiang gathered all the people he could find and mobilized everyone to dig the cement by the river. People didn't know what was going on, but they knew that the young master was going to do something today, so they all carried the frame to the river to dig for mud.

The reason why people say that Li Xiang is going to make something again is because when the carpenters repaired the book workshop, Li Xiang also asked them to make a set of furniture that was only used in later generations, including tables, chairs, benches, bookcases and wardrobes, and even built a wooden bed with bunk beds. As soon as these things came out, the old and young of the Li family were shocked, because these things were not only easy to use, but also beautifully styled. Li Yaozu immediately waved his sleeves and bought all these carpenters back as servants in his own family, and then each of them was assigned a small courtyard, and even the family members took over, and they were given only one task, to build a few more sets of furniture as quickly as possible, he was going to give them away, and then quickly opened a furniture shop in the east market of Jinyang City.

Seeing Li Yaozu move quickly to make furniture as an industry, Li Xiang is ashamed of himself, this vision, this speed, is really a lifetime of business. Li Yaozu also looked at Li Xiang more and more happily, this kid's head was full of good ideas to make money.

So this time Li Xiang asked someone to dig the river mud, everyone went in a swarm, and there was not even a miscellaneous person at home, Li Yaozu came to ask Li Xiang what he was doing, Li Xiang had to tell Li Yaozu truthfully, but he didn't expect Li Yaozu to say that these skills are also money, and they can't be passed on until they have to. Li Xiangdu despised this old man a little, since he came back, he seemed to like silver money more, and he liked to arrange himself to earn money for him. In desperation, Li Xiang had no choice but to nod and agree to Li Yaozu, and Li Yaozu happily hummed an unknown song and disappeared in front of Li Xiang.

It took about half a day for Li Xiang's dredging army to bring back five carts of cement, because this kind of thing was too dry to use, so Li Xiang had to rush to work overnight to make these cements into rectangular strips of the same size. He also arranged for the carvers to cut the clay blocks with iron plates of the same height, and then went to rest, and when they looked at the sky again, they were a little cloudy.

Anyway, it was almost dawn, so Li Xiang simply returned to the yard where he made movable type, and simply told them how to do movable type again and then went to sleep.

When I arrived in the yard, I found that the workers had not rested at all, and were still there comparing the height of each clay block. Li Xiang suddenly felt that he was very selfish, what a simple people, they would give everyone who could give them food everything they could, they were the promoters of the country's development and progress. At this time, Li Xiang felt that the things he had been thinking about were wrong in itself, could it be that they would be happy if they lived under the rule of Yang Guang? Will he really end up following the same path that his predecessors have taken? Li Xiang was at a loss, he knew that he still didn't know the answer, so he could only look at it slowly and go slowly.

Li Xiang found Wei Zheng, and then told him how to engrave these clay blocks, how to separate those commonly used words, and now Li Xiang thought of these, so it is easy to do, Wei Zheng found out the words, and then looked at them one by one, which one is commonly used to engrave more, which is generally less engraved, which is not commonly used to engrave only one or two words. After explaining this, Li Xiang went back to sleep, and Wei Zheng went to arrange for someone to do it.

The engravers all moved, and several people carved the characters of each group separately. Then Wei Zheng went to find a few blacksmiths, according to Li Xiang's request, made a few rectangular iron boxes, this is the edition, after the engraving of the words, according to the order of the book, the side of the clay block with the words is facing up, one by one in the iron box, and then brush the surface of the words with ink, spread the paper on it again, and brush the surface of the paper with a brush, so that one page of the book is printed.

The workers worked hard, so they carved all the words in three days. Then Wei Zheng rushed to find Li Xiang and told him that he would be able to print the book soon.

Li Xiang was also very excited, this was the first truly meaningful thing he did after coming to this era, and it was also an epoch-making thing. So Li Xiang went to invite Yan Junshou, and called his grandfather, father and others to witness the birth of the first movable type printing book.

Everyone's interest is very high, and when they see those movable characters again, they all know that Li Xiang is about to become famous all over the world, some people cast envious eyes, and some people are jealous and hateful. In any case, Li Xiang made movable type printing, so Li Xiang was very happy, and with his order, several workers began to print the first book Li Xiang designated, "The Analects".

According to Li Xiang's arrangement, the printing adopts the mode of division of labor and cooperation, and there are more than a dozen processes such as word inspection, typesetting, inking, printing, and binding. The students were divided into several groups, each responsible for a different process, which improved the printing efficiency.

I saw that a few students had painted the first page of the Analects with ink, then spread white paper, brushed them with a few brushes, and then peeled off the paper, and the first page of the Analects with the fragrance of ink was successfully printed.

Yan Mu took the piece of paper with trembling hands, looked at each word carefully, and then said happily: "God bless the Great Sui." The students in the back were also excited, they were involved in this whole process, and if nothing else, they would also follow Li Xiang and leave their names in history.

Only Li Xiang felt a little awkward when he looked at it, but he couldn't find it, so he stood there sullenly, without saying a word.

Yan Mu looked at Li Xiang's appearance and asked, "Li Shizhong, is there any problem?" ”

"I can't say it well, I always feel that something is wrong, but I can't see it!" Li Xiang replied honestly.

"Oh, I see, it's you who care too much, look at what a neat, beautiful page of the book it is." Yan Mudu was a little in love.

"Forget it, print some first, and then look at it, I can't think of it now." Li Xiang had no choice but to give up first, and when the book was printed, he might know where the problem was. So Li Xiang arranged for the students to quickly print a copy of the Analects, because this first book was to be dedicated to the emperor.

The student was excited, this was to print a book for the emperor, so he hurriedly looked for the second page of the text block in the room.

Li Xiang didn't pay attention to these at all, but just talked to Yan Mu, Li Yaozu, and the emperor's representative Hu Deqi on the side about how much he was going to print and how to distribute it.

As the minutes ticked by, the students over there still hadn't printed the second page. Yan Mu asked Li Xiang what was going on, and Li Xiang didn't know it, so he said to go over and take a look. Yan Mu and Hu Deqi also followed.

"What's the matter with you guys. Your Majesty and the adults are waiting over there, why is it so slow? Li Xiang got angry when he came in, a bunch of students were lying on the ground looking for their own things, and the messy word blocks were piled up all over the room, not to mention printing books, it would take about half a day to find a page of word blocks. Li Xiang doesn't know what's going on with these people, and he doesn't even understand classified management? Sure enough, it's useless, it's a scholar.

He was angry and talked about the students, but Yan Mu was watching Li Xiang from the side. He felt that Li Xiang might have overlooked one thing, that is, many of these characters were repeated, and each set of words was about 3,000 words, and then Li Xiang also engraved five sets for the book workshop to print a large number of books for backup. However, so many words are mixed together, even the gods have to look for a while, not to mention these students.

"Cough, Li Shizhong, the old man thinks it's okay to classify these characters first!" Yan Mu looked at Li Xiang's gloomy face and said, "If you keep doing this, when will you find it!" ”

Li Xiang didn't look back, looked at these students and said, "Do you still need me to teach you about classification?" After reading books for so many years, don't they know that they are divided according to pinyin? Now that they're all mixed together, when will this be finished? Li Xiang was really angry.

"Well...... Li Shizhong, can you tell me what pinyin is? Yan Mu felt as if he was not suitable for Li Xiang's train of thought.

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