Chapter 256: Printing

"Cheap servitude? Can a lowly servant solve this problem? Yang Sixuan couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Li Xian insult him like this, and then smiled contemptuously: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is a bit exaggerated, right?" If what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said is true, Wechen would rather pay homage to the lowly servant disciple and worship him as a teacher. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

"Okay, this is what Yang Saijiu said, then we will make a decision, and this palace wants to see how Yang Saijiu worships him as a teacher after the lowly servant solves this problem." Li Xian also smiled faintly when he heard this, and then ordered the craftsman waiting outside the palace to enter the temple to face the saint.

After a while, I saw a young craftsman with messy hair come to the hall, and saluted to the Empress Wu with a nervous face: "Little, villain Liu, Liu Sili has seen the sky, the queen of heaven, the queen, His Royal Highness the Prince." ā€

"Huh? As an ordinary servant like you, can you solve the problem of insufficient scriptures? Seeing that the person who came was really an ordinary craftsman, Empress Wu couldn't help but be surprised, and hurriedly asked.

"Yes, small, small, villains can, can solve it." Craftsman Liu Sili was covered in cold sweat and stammered as he replied.

But Li Xian said gently: "Liu Sili, you don't have to be nervous, just say it well." ā€

"Yes, yes, Your Highness." Liu Sili saw Li Xian's encouraging eyes, and immediately felt a sense of peace of mind, and his emotions slowly calmed down, although he was still nervous in his heart, he spoke a lot more fluently.

Empress Wu saw that everything was done by the craftsman out of nature, not deliberately, and saw the vicissitudes of the craftsman's face, and both hands were calloused, so he knew that the other party was an authentic craftsman, and he couldn't make a mistake, so he asked: "Liu Sili, you said that you have a way to solve the problem of insufficient scriptures, what is the solution?" Can you give a demonstration of Hongu? ā€

"Yes, the villain obeys the order, I wonder if the queen of heaven can give the villain a book, as well as paper and ink, carving knives and other things?" Liu Sili saluted Empress Wu, and then asked respectfully.

For this small request, Empress Wu naturally agreed, and immediately ordered the other party to give what he wanted.

This time, the book that Empress Wu rewarded was just a poem of several crosses.

I saw that the craftsman Liu Sili looked at the poem carefully, and asked Empress Wu to send an official to help him write this poem, and Empress Wu casually designated Wang Bo to go, only to see Wang Bo come forward, dipped in thick ink, and wrote the poem again.

Liu Sili took out a wooden board and pasted it towards the front of the paper where the ink had not dried. After some time, the ink fell on the board.

Liu Sili took out a chisel, chiseled away the place where there was no ink, lightly brushed the ink on the wooden board, and then took a piece of white paper and pasted it on the wooden board.

Liu Sili continued to pounce on the paper, and then repeated the above action movie, and soon saw the second, third, and fourth ......, and pieces of paper with ink appeared in front of everyone.

All the people present are human spirits, and they can understand at a glance that if the number of words is small and the paper is less, they will not see the advantage, but if it is a lot of chapters, many copies of such paper need to be repeated, the efficiency is not known how many times faster than copying, and there is another advantage here, that is, as long as the first time does not make a mistake, it will never make a mistake, and copying is that every time it is possible to make a mistake.

"Hehe, Queen Mother, Yang Aiqing, I don't know if printing scriptures in this way can solve the problem of lack of scriptures?" Li Xian saw that all the officials had a clear expression, and couldn't help but ask Empress Wu and Yang Sixuan.

"This, this", Yang Sixuan didn't expect that the matter could be solved like this, and he couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, and now he was asked by Li Xian, and suddenly said embarrassedly: "I really didn't expect that there are such geniuses in the world, such an incredible method, and such a method can naturally solve the problem of insufficient scriptures, and the most important point is that such a method can even be done by ordinary craftsmen and miscellaneous servants, and it is not easy to make mistakes. ā€

Although he was very unwilling in his heart, Yang Sixuan also knew that he was completely defeated in this round of confrontation, and he was completely defeated, and there was no room for counterattack.

In this way, not only him, but even the entire rear party behind him felt that his face was gloomy, a small skill, a casual method, and a lowly miscellaneous servant actually helped Li Xian turn the tide and win this confrontation, which I don't know if it was Li Xian's luck or their misfortune.

In fact, how can these people know? In fact, where would an ordinary craftsman come up with this idea? In fact, Li Xian revealed this method to this craftsman according to the historical record of the engraving printing technology invented nearly 200 years later, and although this craftsman seems to be just an ordinary miscellaneous servant, he is actually a talent with a craftsman absorbed by Li Xian's Tangmen Mingtang (in order to avoid Li Xian's secrets, after Li Xian became the prince, Xiantang was changed to Mingtang) A talent with a craftsman's certificate, although this person has a craftsman's name, he is smart and studious, and reads poetry and books with the help of Chen Ziang, the master of Mingtang. However, due to household registration reasons, he has not been able to participate in the imperial examination, resulting in a talent can not be brought into play, Li Xian learned of this situation, so that he passed on his knowledge of printing skills to Liu Sili, so that he can show his skills in this court, so that not only can help Li Xian win in this confrontation, but he can also take advantage of this to free Liu Sili from the craftsman status and confer an official position.

And the fact is that this is the case, Li Xian completely reversed the tide of the battle with just this hole card, and won the victory of this confrontation, and the Empress Wu was forced to agree to Li Xian's letter, agreed to expand the school, recruit talents, and handed over all the matters to Li Xian with full authority, so that Li Xian immediately gained great prestige, especially those who came from a poor background but were quite talented scholars, and they were grateful to Li Xian, because of Li Xian's words, they saw the hope of reading and becoming a scholar. Their lives have been full of brightness since then, of course, the craftsman Liu Sili who showed the printing skills to the Empress Wu, the prince and the courtiers also broke away from the identity of the craftsman, and was awarded the post of the head of the Ministry of Industry, although this official position is only a seventh-class official in the stream, but after all, it also made him one of the many officials, and it can be regarded as changing his fate.

And after Empress Wu retreated from the dynasty and returned to the palace, she was immediately full of anger, she was full of ambition and confidence before, thinking that this time she would definitely be able to stop Li Xian, but she didn't expect to be rewritten by an unexpected craftsman, but now, even if you kill this craftsman, it's useless, because this method is very simple, as long as you think of it, even an ordinary craftsman can do it.

"Hmph, the left and right are just buying people's hearts, and it's useless, this palace wants to see you, how else can you jump?" Empress Wu couldn't stop it, and now she could only wait and see what happened, but she was waiting for the next chance to fight, and when she waited until the next time, she would never let Li Xian win easily. (To be continued.) )