Chapter 179 Movable Type Printing

How do you interpret this?

First of all, look at Zhao Yu's requirements, and stand up to the pressure!

Yang Zhun was going to die, but now Zhao Yu rescued him. Even if Zhao Zhun caught Yang Zhun at the beginning, Yang Zhun still had to die for Zhao Zhun. Because his reputation is already stinky, no one will use him except Zhao Yu. In order not to let Zhao Jun give up on him, Yang Zhun will definitely not pay attention to any pressure.

Another requirement, there are means!

This method is naturally a means of planting blame to hide from the world!

And who is Yang Zhun? Big corrupt officials! Familiar with the dark side of human nature, and at the same time, Yang Zhun was able to be discovered after two and a half years, and there are many ways to see the light of day. There is co-optation, there is suppression, there is anti-framing, all in all, Yang Zhun is a person who wants means and means, and is loyal and loyal!

The problem is one, the reputation is too stinky! It's just a matter of going against the big households, if you stink your reputation among the common people, you will lose more than you gain!

Gongsun Xuanxu smiled calmly and said: "Actually, it is not difficult for the prince to use Yang Zhun, as long as the prince uses other things to attract the attention of others, who cares who will use Yang Zhun to be used?" At least ordinary people won't pay attention to it! ”

Zhao Yu's eyes lit up, and he said in his heart: Why didn't he think of this layer?

But what do you use to attract the attention of the people? Sensational things?

Zhao Yu instinctively thought of going to this layer, but immediately, Zhao Yu showed a smile.

Gongsun Xuanxu couldn't help but ask curiously: "What sensational thing did the prince think of using?" ”

Zhao Yu said mysteriously: "I can't say! Ineffable! Ineffable! ”

Gongsun Xuanxu was aroused by Zhao Yu's curiosity, and he was unwilling to give up so easily, half pondering, half tentatively saying: "Now what can cause a sensation on Jingdong Road Dading?" Does the prince want to invite the Son of Heaven to visit Mount Tai? ”

Zhao Yu shook his head and said: "This thing is sensational enough, but the official family will not agree!" Labor and money, but get a false name! ”

Gongsun Xuanxuan just wanted to test it, but Zhao Yu was already smiling and serving tea to the guests.

A helpless look appeared on Gongsun Xuanxu's face, and he could only murmur like an angry little daughter-in-law: "The prince is worthy of being a great Song nobleman, and he is skilled in crossing the bridge and drawing the board!" ”

This bridge draw is about Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's cup of wine to release the military power, and the generals who elected him to become the emperor were relieved of their military power.

Zhao Yu didn't care, waved his hand, and said, "It's not interesting to tell Mr. about this matter!" ”

Gongsun Xuanxuan was helpless and left in a huff.

The next day, Zhao Yu unexpectedly summoned three skilled carvers and three inkmakers, and closed the door.

If the subordinate officials of the pacification envoy were modern, they would definitely say in unison: "I'll wipe it!" What a cheat! ”

But now the mood of the subordinate officials is like this, the only thing that makes them feel a little better is that Zhao Yu has also arranged the person in charge. It's just that Gongsun Xuanxu is dissatisfied that this person is not him, but Chong Shiheng!

Chong Shiheng didn't know why Zhao Yu chose him, but after being stunned, Chong Shiheng still took Zhao Yingwu's gift with an expressionless face, symbolizing the seal of appeasement and power. No one knows what Chong Shiheng thinks, because what happened next, whether Chong Shiheng should do it or how to do it, did not see any tendencies on his part.

And what about Zhao Yu? It's movable type printing!

Movable type printing is easy to say, but in fact it is definitely not simple.

First of all, the question of materials, what kind of clay is this clay print made of? You should know that after ordinary clay prints are stained with ink, although they can be printed, the font will be different shades and appear blurry. What kind of ink is good to use at the same time? All of this needs to be studied, and in order to speed up the research, Zhao Yu joined in.

It took half a month for movable type printing to be considered a preliminary success. The clay printing is made of cement, and at the same time, it is mixed with pine resin, beeswax, and paper ash and covered on the surface of the clay printing, which can barely be used, and the ink is cheap gray ink.

The printed font is a little blurry, so when printing some fonts with more strokes, you need to deliberately increase the font. This will appear to be printed fonts, some will be large and small, not very coordinated, but the printing cost is gratifying.

Because the timeliness of the newspaper is large, and the information in a short period of time is emphasized, Zhao Yu does not need to use precious ink and paper as a newspaper, and the price is very low. A newspaper that Zhao Yu tried to print by himself is about 3,000 words, with no images, and because of a small number of relatively high printing prices, one copy is only 12 words!

If you add pictures and texts, a large number of printing, it is about the cost of about seventeen or eighteen texts!

And what is the price of books now? Because there was no printing press, the books now are all manuscripts, and the scriptures commonly used in a single book are about fifteen or sixteen times, and if it is a large volume such as the commentary on the Analects, it cannot be taken down without eighty runs.

And how many words are there in the Analects? About 160,000 words! According to the calculation of 80 yuan, the average word is half a penny! Of course, with the annotations, the number of words must be a lot more, even if it is doubled, half a penny, plus the reason why the Analects is a bestseller, this is still a very surprising existence.

And Zhao Yu here, the natural paper and ink are of inferior quality, but on average, five or six dollars can print a thousand words!

"It's going to be a big deal!" An old carver couldn't help but sigh.

Who would have thought that one day books would be so cheap? When it was sold, it was estimated that the retail price was twenty wen a copy, but that was enough to make the scholar crazy!

At that moment, Zhao Yu asked people to expand the printing, and as for the manuscript or something, it was already there. Zhao Yu named the newspaper Qingzhou Di Bao and divided it into two editions, the upper and lower grades. There are pictures and texts on the top grades, and most of them are in classical Chinese, which are prepared for those scholars. There are no pictures and texts in the lower grades, but they are all in the vernacular, and compared with the upper grades, the price is so low that it costs ten cents, not to mention, there are enough four large papers!

Each Qingzhou Di newspaper is divided into three pages, which are current affairs, and they are all Zhao Yu's own opinions on current affairs. Of course, none of these insights are in-depth, but for ordinary people who can't often come into contact with the imperial court, it's enough to make them fascinated.

The second edition is purely news, talking about the process of some cases, as well as the murder cases there, the reporting of clues, and so on. The third edition is a vernacular novel, all of which are Zhao Yu's Journey to the West. The top grade is the text of this article, and it is accompanied by pictures, which is wonderful to see. The lower ones are all vernacular, so the number of words is more, and there are some local market myths.