Every time Li Shimin came to Baiqi's house, it was like going to his own home, holding the hand of his ancestor and chatting about the recent weather and crops, and the two of them picked fault with the kid Baiqi by the way, and then began to pace in the house with satisfaction, and when he saw any new furniture or good things, he said to Lu Zheng who was following behind: "Remember this thing, and ask Bai Fengqu to get a set for the palace!" ”

As soon as the sleepy-eyed Bai Qi saw the purple gauze pot in Li Shimin's hand, the whole person immediately woke up, and his face turned black. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Your Majesty, you have already taken one last time......" It is necessary for Bai Qi to remind Li Shimin that he can't let him become a robber as soon as he enters his house, which will damage his image!

Li Shimin turned his head, glanced at Bai Qi coldly, and stared at his face for a long time: "Of course I remember, I don't need you to remind me." It's you, who didn't get up until this time, and you still have eye droppings in the corners of your eyes, believe it or not, I punished you for a crime of disrespecting me! ”

Bai Qi pursed his lips, reluctantly lowered his head and said yes, and ran to the side to wash.

At White's insistence, the kitchen finally served light porridge and pickles for breakfast.

Li Shimin's eyes glanced at the white chess, and his mood seemed very happy, so he drank three bowls of white porridge in a row with pickles.

After breakfast, Li Shimin rested for a while, then got up and said to Bai Qi, "Boy, take me to your printing house to have a look." You're not going to hide all the bad stuff in advance because of my arrival, are you? ”

"It's just that I stopped the night shift of three shifts and cleaned it up, is this considered hiding the bad ones, Your Majesty?" Bai Qi took Li Shimin to the printing house.

The printing house is located in a corner of the north of the village, a house the size of an ordinary courtyard, in front of which there is a small open space, on which there are several long stone chairs, and occasionally workers come out of the house and sit on the stone chairs to rest.

When entering the workshop, you must first put on special clothes and masks, and when you enter the workshop, dozens of workers stand up according to the space of the assembly line, each person is responsible for a part of the book, and print the arranged words on the white paper page by page, and finally connect the pages on a production line, so that you can make a book of more than 100 pages in less than half an hour.

Bai Qi took Li Shimin and Lu Zheng into the workshop, and the strong smell of ink permeated the entire workshop. Workers in overalls are busy printing words and patterns on white paper.

Since all three of them covered their faces like workers and only showed a pair of eyes, the workers only recognized the white chess, but did not recognize Li Shimin and Lu Zheng.

Bai Qi took Li Shimin to a small room at the back of the workshop, only to see that the walls around the small room were densely placed with one clay character after another, neatly arranged in a certain order. On the table in the room, there are more than a dozen wooden planks printed with patterns. In the room, two workers are comparing the words and patterns on the sample book, and arranging the clay characters according to the sample book.

Bai Qi motioned for the two people in the room to continue working, and he picked up a clay character and explained to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, this is made of a special kind of soil, and the text on it is made by the minister according to the content of "Shuowen Jie Zi", and there are more than a dozen sets of them. The biggest advantage of this movable type printing is that it can be reused without causing necessary waste. Those patterns have to wait until the text is printed, and then add the patterns back according to the previous layout. ”

After Li Shimin finished reading the things in the room, Bai Qi took him back to a printing worker on the production line.

The worker applied ink to the movable type that had been arranged in advance, and then carefully printed it on a piece of white paper and set it aside to dry naturally. Someone has been following the assembly line, collecting the pages that had been dried before, aligning and stacking the pages in the order of page numbers in the last step of the assembly line, and finally binding them into a book, stacking them aside, and then continuing the previous work.

Li Shimin took out a few books from the shelf, and saw that in addition to the common books including "Analects", "Mencius", "Tao Te Ching", "Book of Songs" and so on, there were also some books such as "Elementary Arithmetic", "Elementary Physics" and "Statistics" written by Bai Qi himself.

"These books are all used by Tang Yuan for teaching?" Li Shimin pointed to dozens of different sample books on the bookshelf and asked Baiqi.

Bai Qi replied: "Your Majesty, Tang Yuan's main study is the study of things, that is, including arithmetic, physics, statistics and other subjects, and the Four Books and Five Classics and the like only belong to one of the subcategories. Therefore, the printing house now mainly prints books written by the ministers themselves. ”

Li Shimin walked back and forth in the printing house several times with his hands behind his back, carefully reading the printing process of a book from beginning to end, and was silent. By the time they came out of the printing house, the three of them had been inside for more than an hour.

White took off his overalls and mask, greedily breathing in the fresh breath outside.

"How do the workers here usually work?"

"On weekdays, they usually work four hours during the day, but recently Tang Yuan has had more orders, and the minister can only arrange for them to come to work in three shifts of twelve hours a day. If you are too tired inside, you can also take a break on the stone chair outside. The workers' meals are also covered here, and there is a late night supper, and the salary is 100 wen for four hours a day. Therefore, there are many people who come to apply, but it is a pity that the printing house is still small now, and when the scale expands in the future, more people can be recruited to work. ”

Li Shimin nodded, and Lu Zheng handed him a good purple gauze pot with tea in the back. Li Shimin poured a sip of tea and exhaled comfortably.

Bai Qi's eyes widened, Li Shimin is clearly here to give himself eye drops, and you Lu Zheng, take out your purple gauze pot and give it to Li Shimin, and look at it with a look of smugness, don't think that high kung fu is great, wait for one day I will make a hot weapon, and I will be the first to blast you into the sky!

Looking at Bai Qi's aggrieved expression, Li Shimin felt that he was in a particularly good mood, laughed, and returned to the Hou Mansion together.

"Boy, your printing house will also help Guozi supervise the printing of some books!" Li Shimin sat in the rocking chair, leaned his head and body comfortably, thought for a moment, and then said to White.

"Your Majesty, you see, now that the printing house is already in a hurry, I'm afraid I don't have time to help Guozijian print books!"

"Then you can finish printing the current book first, and then it's the turn of the country's eunuch." Li Shimin said with his eyes closed.

Bai Qi thought for a moment, then stretched out his hand and spread it out: "Your Majesty, please let the Guozijian give money!" ”

As soon as Bai Qi finished speaking, Li Shimin immediately opened his eyes and stared at Bai Qi fiercely: "Did you kid drop the money bag, this is a good thing, others can't ask for it, you actually have the face to ask me for money!" ”

Bai Qi looked at Li Shimin calmly: "Your Majesty, I ask someone to pay the salary, it costs money to buy raw materials, and management also requires costs, so you can't let the printing house do what you say." This is the rule of doing business, the rules are very important, I hope Your Majesty will not break it. Also, the minister wants the money of the country's eunuch, not your majesty's money! ”

Lu Zheng looked at Bai Qi's face curiously, wondering why the latter would refuse Li Shimin's request. Li Shimin, on the other hand, stood up, circled around the white chess twice, and said with a sigh in his mouth: "Good boy, learn to use the word rules to threaten me!" ”

"Your Majesty, the printing house is a self-financing business, and since it is a business, it must consider the issues of cost and benefit. The minister felt that there was nothing wrong with this. White replied with arched hands.

Li Shimin looked at the white chess for a long time, his eyes became deeper and deeper, and the expression on his face became serious: "You are right, as the Son of Heaven, I really have to abide by the useful rules of this world. It's okay, I'll let someone from the Guozijian come and talk to you in person. ”

"Hehe, Your Majesty, in fact, if you want to be fast, the minister can arrange part of the assembly line to print the books of the Guozijian." Bai Qi's serious face immediately changed at this time, showed a big smile, and then stretched out a finger: "Of course, the price is also a little higher!" ”

Li Shimin looked at the white chess piece like a little money fan with amusement and curiosity, and said coldly: "Boy, you are the first person who dares to ask me for money!" ”

"Your Majesty, there will be more in the future!" White said with a slight smile.

Li Shimin glanced at the white chess pieces meaningfully, and asked Lu Zheng to leave with dozens of books brought back from the printing house.