The hammer was pulled up by the force of the water, and then fell heavily, with a thud along the path of the plank. Liu Ru stood far away, seeing this scene, there was confusion and joy in his eyes.

Since learning that Yu Guozhen and Fang Yizhi had set up a marriage, Liu Ru was very melancholy. In fact, she knows her identity, and at this time, she has never experienced the tempering in the dust, let alone had direct contact with Chen Zilong and others, and she has not yet been arrogant to the point where she is not a big woman. Therefore, she was only melancholy, and after the melancholy was over, she was vaguely happy: after the petty officials got married, they could take concubines.

However, what really interested her and made her come to the ironmaking workshop was because of the lettering mold to be cast today.

Even with the help of Ji Xun, a blacksmith in the army, the manufacturing process of movable metal type is still full of twists and turns, and it took eight months to explore before and after, and now it is November of Chongzhen's fifth year, and it will be the New Year in a blink of an eye, which can be regarded as a great achievement.

The casting process was actually completed two months ago, but the poured iron movable type was still unsatisfactory, so Yu Guozhen used the hydraulic stamping method to make the lead movable type.

Yu Guozhen used Fang Ziyi, Liu Rushi and his own handwriting as the standard, and turned out more than 12,000 iron molds, which was the most boring process.

"Little official, is it really powerful?" Xiaolian saw Yu Guozhen's satisfied smile and asked beside her.

"Look." Yu Guozhen handed her a long strip of lead, and Xiaolian turned it over to take a look, which was similar to the movable type of a seal, smooth and flat, and it felt very good to the touch.

"Since Bi Sheng's invention of movable type printing, although the service life of movable type is longer than that of engraving, it is not easy to engraving, and the manpower and material resources consumed by movable type are no less than that of engraving, and iron movable type and lead movable type are even more difficult." Liu Ru has read more books than Xiaolian, such as Shen Kuo's "Mengxi Writings" by Shen Kuo of the Song Dynasty, she is very clear about the origin of movable type, and it is precisely because of this that she can praise the idea:

"The little official makes this stamping movable type, which is convenient and labor-saving, and it can be reused with only one mold!"

Yu Guozhen nodded with a smile, and then waved his hand: "The next thing is for the two of you." ”

"Petty officials, rest assured, we will definitely do this thing properly!"

Xiaolian hurriedly said, there are now nearly 50 boys and girls in the home school, they read every morning and help in various workshops in the afternoon.

"Xiaolian does things, I am naturally relieved." Yu Guozhen smiled slightly.

Perhaps because of Liu Ru is competitor, Xiaolian's enthusiasm for doing things is unprecedentedly high, she is now Yu Guozhen's internal housekeeper, and all matters related to accounts are handled by her.

Liu Rushi is more of a secretary, with the expansion of the scale of the Hosoyanagi Annex, the number of personnel has increased, and Yu Guozhen began to refine it in management. Especially after discovering Ji Xun, a hidden military household, the Hosoyanagi Courtyard conducted a thorough investigation and registration of everyone.

To a certain extent, today's Hosoyanagi Bein is managed in the manner of a formal enterprise in later generations. "The little officials are very happy, huh?" Liu Ru said softly:

"Is this movable type really so useful?"

"That's nature...... If so, you have always been smart, let me test you, what are the benefits of mastering this lead typewriting technique? ”

Liu Ru frowned slightly, subconsciously biting her lower lip, her appearance was even more pitiful. Yu Guozhen saw that his heart was slightly fluctuating, and he reached out and grabbed her hand and held it gently.

Liu Ru struggled, but did not break free.

"Little official!"

Feeling Yu Guozhen's fingers gently scratching her palm, Liu Ru's face was dizzy, and she glanced at Yu Guozhen with disgust. "Little official!" When Xiaolian saw him listening to Liu Rus, she immediately pursed her pink mouth, and her bright eyes flashed with dissatisfaction.

Yu Guozhen laughed, grabbed Xiaolian with the other hand, and pulled the two of them out of the blacksmith workshop.

Now the Hosoyanagi Courtyard may have to change its name, and it would be more suitable to call it Hosoliu Town. There are more than 80,000 taels from the sale of pearls, and more than 100,000 taels copied from Wen Quanwei, with the support of this sufficient fund, the scale of the fine willow courtyard has expanded several times, covering an area from less than 20 acres at the beginning, to more than 140 acres now. On both sides of the West River, leaning on the hills and hills, a large area of arable land was bought by Yu Guozhen at a high price.

Along the West River is the workshop area, the largest is the cotton weaving workshop, eight waterwheels drive the entire workshop, each continuous weaving of cotton cloth. Most of these cotton cloths were sold by Xu Lin to various places, and Xu Lin deliberately avoided Songjiang when selling, and instead chose Beizhili and Sichuan.

Yu Ji cotton cloth has been quite influential in the cotton weaving market in Daming today, the price is lower than ordinary cotton cloth, but the quality is better than the cotton cloth woven by ordinary weavers, and the output is equivalent to a large machine household employing 300 weavers. Cloth merchants in the Songjiang area have already begun to inquire around Xiang'an, wondering where such good cloth came from.

"Little official, what are you doing in a daze?" Liu Ru was thinking about the topic that Yu Guozhen had just made, but Xiaolian was reluctant to use that brain, and when she saw Yu Guozhen looking at the cotton weaving workshop in a daze, she asked curiously.

In Xiao Peng's thoughts, the little official is so smart, all things just need to be done according to the little official's orders, and use his own brains...... This kind of thankless work should be left to the guy who thinks he is smart.

"Hmm, I didn't think about anything, I just felt that time passed so fast, and in the blink of an eye, it was more than half a year." Yu Guozhen's eyes turned to the ironware workshop across the river from the cotton weaving workshop, and in the six years since Chongzhen, most of his energy has been focused on this ironwork workshop, where he has gained more than just those lead movable type.

"I thought of it!" Liu Ru suddenly raised her eyebrows:

"I know the real intention of the petty officials to cast lead movable type."

"Well, tell me about it?" "One of them is naturally to disseminate the practical knowledge of petty officials that has been applied by the world." Liu Ru's eyes flashed with admiration: "Cang Liao knows etiquette and etiquette, if there is no practical learning, the fields cannot be increased, the wealth cannot be multiplied, and the people in the world are poor, so naturally there is no peace." The practical learning of petty officials is the knowledge that truly seeks the public for the people and opens up a prosperous world for the world! ”

"What else?"

"The second is to accumulate fame among the petty officials, although the sons of the Fushe have interacted with the petty officials, but except for Mr. Mizhi, most of the rest of the people only admire the petty officials on the surface, and in fact they are quite contemptuous. The petty official Mr. Tuo Mizhi asked them for an article, and among them, only Qian Muzhai owed the petty official a favor, so he had to write one, that is, Zhang Ximing, all perfunctory! ”

When he said this, Liu Ru and Xiaolian both cheeks bulged slightly, revealing an angry appearance, they were just when the girl was cardamom, their pink faces puffed up slightly, and Yu Guozhen was very happy in his heart, and he almost couldn't help but peck left and right.

Yu Guozhen's invitation to Donglin and the sons of the Fushe can only be said to have barely reached the goal, he originally wanted to make an appointment with one or twenty macro articles, and then send them out together, but the result was only the articles of the Fang family's father and son, Qian Qianyi, Chen Zilong and a few other people. "Huh...... The second point is not entirely true. Yu Guozhen smiled: "Is there anything else?" ”

"Not exactly? What does that little official mean? ”

Yu Guozhen smiled and said nothing, Liu Ru tilted his head and guessed for a while, thinking back to the various actions of his petty officials, he still felt confused.

It's not to gain fame in Shilin, so what's it for?

She was limited to this time, and she couldn't jump out of the limitations, so she naturally didn't understand what Yu Guozhen's second purpose was in studying movable type printing.

Competing for the position of public opinion, this is what Yu Guozhen wants to do. Why can Zhang Pu be a scholar in the field, but he is far away in the court of Yanjing', although Wen Tiren is jealous of him in every way, but there is no way to clean him up for a while? The fundamental reason is that he organized the Fushe and occupied the public opinion position after Donglin.

What he denounces as a destroyer is the one who destroys evil, and what he praises as a loyal person is a loyal minister!

In the foreseeable future, Yu Guozhen will part ways with the Fushe, so until then, Yu Guozhen must control a certain amount of discourse.

And the new industry brought about by movable type printing can help him do just that. "Don't think about it if you can't think of it, let's talk about the third point you think of." Seeing that Liu Ru frowned for a long time, Yu Guozhen said with a smile.

The third point is that in the process of developing lead type, petty officials have also accumulated a lot of ...... Well, to use the word that petty officials often say to us, it's called 'technology accumulation'. Liu Ru was a little cunning: "Don't talk about the side, only the hydraulic stamping technique, the slave listened to Ji Xun, if it is used to cast armor knives, it will be cheap and convenient, and the quality of the oracle bone knives made is far better than that made by craftsmen in the army today!" ”

"You're smart...... It's just that in this matter, pay attention to confidentiality, and Ji Xun also told him there that Hugh would go around announcing the award. ”

"The slave naturally understands that this is to the little official and Sister Xiaolian, and the slave will say it." Liu Ru did not forget to show favor to Xiaolian.

Yu Guozhen nodded approvingly to her, this Liu Ru did not say anchor, in the process of developing lead movable type, Yu Guozhen did complete the accumulation of hydraulic punching and forging technology, not only to cultivate Ji Xun, a craftsman who is proficient in hydraulic punching and forging technology, but also to leave a pile of thick information.

With this information, even if Ji Xun had an accident, Yu Guozhen could train a new craftsman in a very short period of time.

"Little official, you haven't said where the second slave is deviant." Liu Ru broke the casserole a little and asked in the end.

"I will learn later that there are some things that are not beneficial to speak out now...... Well, I've got something to do, so go ahead. When Yu Guozhen said this, he saw Gao Erzhu dangling in the distance, and he commanded.

In addition to Gao Erzhu, there was also Jia Taiji, Gao Erzhu's expression was very relaxed, but Jia Taiji's expression was a little panicked.

"Petty officials."

"Master!"

The two saluted Yu Guozhen, and Yu Guozhen saw that Liu Ru and Xiaolian had left, so he asked, "Why did you two come together?" ”

"Mr. Jia has some things to report, and after reading it, I think it's better for him to report to the junior officials in person."

High two pillar road. "Master, over there in Anqing Mansion, there is a friend of the villain, and he sent news that the Tongcheng area doesn't seem to be very peaceful recently."

Yu Guozhen's pupils shrank slightly: "Oh? ”