Chapter 193 Papermaking and Movable Type Printing

After Lin Bei formulated a general development policy, Wanghai City began to enter a period of great development.

The ground building of Wanghai City is the first to be completed, compared with the original Lurong County, the area of Wanghai City has expanded at least four times, Lin Bei imitates the structure of the Huaxia Emperor in later generations, takes the city lord's mansion as the center, and divides it into several rings outward, starting with the main street as the ring, the dwellings are built on both sides of the street, the farther away from the city lord's mansion, the larger the ring, and finally becomes the three circular long streets of Wanghai City.

In addition, there are two straight streets due east and west of Chengfang Mansion, one leads directly to the wharf and the other leads to the outside of the city, these two streets are the largest long streets in Wanghai City, and they are called Wanghai West Street and Wanghai East Street respectively.

Among these two streets, there is a road designed for Lin Bei, the road is located in the middle of the two streets, the whole body is made of pure white sea stone, one and a half zhang wide, called Dawei Longwang Road, this road can only be walked by Lin Bei, if there is an emergency report in wartime, the sergeant can also ride a horse to step in, otherwise only during the festival by Lin Bei to speak, the common people can enter, Lin Bei feels very luxurious, but An Zhongzhi and Bian Ji both insist, the dignity of the leader needs to be reflected all the time, Lin Bei can not be convinced, so Lin Bei can only let it be so.

But then Lin Bei felt that it was okay, a road built for himself, and Lin Bei didn't have to worry about being able to press the flowers and plants when he climbed in the future

In addition, the sewer is under construction, this project is also very huge, because it is necessary to dig a tunnel under Wanghai City that can communicate the whole city, it is not an easy task, the craftsmen are working day and night, Rao is so, to complete the sewer completely, An Zhongzhi roughly estimated, even if it is a qiē shun lì, it will take at least three months later, which is a long time. But everyone can afford to wait.

And the second project has also begun to be built, this is the Nanyue Academy that Lin Bei wanted to get out before, because of this matter, Lin Bei has been thinking about papermaking all these days.

Originally, when I was in Xishan Township, the place of the township was the toe of the school, but unfortunately the toe came out but there was a war, and at that time Xishan Township itself was difficult to protect. The matter of the academy was naturally put on hold, and now that Wanghai City is fine, the war will not occur until at least a year later, so the academy will naturally have to be restarted.

Reading and literacy is still a very luxurious thing in this era, everything is inferior only to read high, in addition, there are very few people who can read and write, the reason for this is in addition to the deliberate suppression of the family gate, there is also a reason that the transmission of knowledge in this era is very rare.

What are the ways in which knowledge is transmitted in this era? I think everyone knows. All kinds of wooden tablets are the main tools for recording books, paper silk and the like are too few and too few, and as we all know, wooden tablets are quite heavy, there is a story about Cai Yong, it is said that Cai Yong resigned and went home, he was a great Confucian in the world, and there were many books. It weighed thousands of pounds, so much so that several carriages had to be used.

Other than that. In order to maintain the wooden tablet, the cost is also quite expensive, and it is quite difficult to learn knowledge for all these reasons, so the status of the scholar will be so high.

Since Lin Bei said that he should take a long-term view. Then it is inevitable to transform papermaking, and only when books are widely disseminated and people's wisdom is opened, can society progress faster.

As one of the four great inventions of our China, Cai Lun is considered to be the creator of papermaking. In fact, he is just a reformer, and Cai Lun also had papermaking skills before, but the cost is very high, and Cai Lun greatly reduced the cost of papermaking.

"Master, are you Cai Lun's papermaking skills?" Lin Bei asked Bian Ji.

Bian Ji nodded: "Naturally, I know." But then he said, "Do you want to make paper?" ”

"What? Isn't it possible? ”

"It's natural for adults to make paper, but because this paper is made by the government, Bian Ji didn't think of it for a while."

"This papermaking technique is also under the control of the imperial court?"

"Naturally, except for some big families with the permission of the imperial court, if others want to make paper, they will catch and kill their heads."

"There's no court here, Master, you specially organize craftsmen to take care of this paper-making business."

Bian Ji nodded, and then said, "Then my lord, this paper-making technique?" ”

"What?"

"The adults have to tell their subordinates what to use to make paper."

"Didn't you just say you knew?"

"Yes, I know Cai Lun's papermaking technique, but I only know about this matter, but the imperial court has always kept this technique secret, and students naturally don't know how to make paper."

Only then did Lin Bei understand what Bian Ji meant, and recalled Cai Lun's papermaking skills in his mind, and Lin Bei really knew something.

This papermaking technique is actually really simple, even ordinary people can do it, of course, special tools must be there, the most basic raw materials are bark and plants two, of which the bark is better with pine, because pine trees are easy to find, plants are best to find reeds, if there are these two materials, soak them first, soak them with alkaline water, and then mash them into pulp, then into pulp, and finally get the pulp to a kind of top called a paper fisher, forming a paper-like thickness, and then become paper after drying, of course, this kind of paper is certainly not good, At most, it can be about the same as straw paper, but it can also be written.

Lin Bei said the papermaking technique again, and said to Bian Ji: "This method should be able to make paper, if it can't be made, let the craftsmen think about it carefully, and strive to make a large amount of paper, and then Master, contribute all your wooden tablets, and let the craftsmen print the knowledge on the wooden tablets, uh, no, you shouldn't know about movable type printing, right?" ”

Lin Bei saw Bian Ji's confused appearance and knew that Bian Ji didn't know movable type printing, he had committed two crimes just now, and movable type printing seemed to have only appeared in the Song Dynasty.

"Then I'll tell you about movable type printing."

Bian Ji could only look at Lin Bei stupidly.

Lin Bei's previous life really did not specifically understand movable type printing, but not to understand does not mean that Lin Bei does not know, on the contrary, he is quite clear, and modern people as long as the IQ is normal should also be able to know, the seal knows it, the seal is engraved with the reverse word, when you need a little ink or red clay you can print it, the principle of movable type printing is the same, get some mud to engrave the words and bake them dry, when you need to pick out the words you want, arrange them in a row, and put ink on the paper on the OK.

Movable type printing is not at all technical in the eyes of modern people. But it is still one of the four great inventions in Chinese history.

"Got it?" Lin Bei described movable type printing and asked Bian Ji.

Bian Ji nodded: "My lord, this method is very simple, why did the subordinates never think of it?" ”

Lin Beixin said that you didn't expect it, if he didn't say it, it would be hundreds of years before a comrade named Bi Sheng thought of this method. Since he said it in advance now, it is estimated that this Comrade Bi Sheng will have to be unknown in the future.

"My lord, this is the immortal method called 'science' of my lordship?" Bian Ji still remembers this term.

Lin Bei could only nod his head, and said in his heart: Not only science, but also the crystallization of the wisdom of various great figures in later generations, for the misappropriation of their achievements, Lin Bei has to say sorry and thank you.

Bian Ji pondered for a long time, and finally sighed and bowed deeply to Lin Bei: "My lord." As long as this papermaking and movable type printing technology are popular, it is not only the luck of all the scholars in the world, but also the luck of the people of the world. ”

Bian Ji himself is a reader, so he understands the great role of these two things in society, and once it is popularized, country children will be able to have a book in their hands. There is an adjective called Luoyang paper expensive, but it is estimated that this word will be gone in the future. Paper will even be used to wipe ass/strands

Then Bian Ji said: "But in this way, those big families will hate adults to the core, and I'm afraid that adults will not be able to recruit talents in the future." ”

Cai Lun had already figured out the papermaking technique, but the imperial court and the family kept it a secret, apparently in order to monopolize the transmission channels of knowledge, and now it was made out by Lin Bei. and made a movable type printing, so that everyone in the world can read and write, and the source of talents is not only the door valve of the world, breaking the monopoly, the family gate valve will naturally hate Lin Bei.

Lin Bei smiled: "Let them go." It's good to hate me, even if they don't hate me, I'll have to shoot them when I meet these people in the future. ”

The disadvantages of the family's gate valve have been clearly stated in later generations, Lin Bei does not have the slightest good impression of them, and he has said it before, Lin Bei is not ready to compete for the world, what is the use of those talents? Besides, can't talents also be cultivated? He felt that Bian Ji was no worse than Kong Ming, at least now Bian Ji is much more powerful than Kong Ming, Bian Ji is in charge of more than 50,000 people in Wanghai, and Brother Kong Ming is still a single commander.

Since the incident in Hepu County, Bian Ji has known Lin Bei's attitude towards those families, so Lin Bei is not surprised at all by Bian Ji, if you don't recruit those family talents, you won't recruit them, but the dragon god is mortal, maybe in the eyes of adults, ordinary people are the same, there is no talent and no talent.

After Lin Bei finished speaking, Bian Ji hurriedly went to gather the craftsmen, papermaking and movable type printing are extremely simple, now the Wanghai people are cutting down trees, and there is no shortage of bark and the like, Bian Ji immediately organized the people to soak the bark in alkaline water, and then pounded it into wood pulp.

The wood pulp that was pounded out was yellow, Lin Bei looked at this kind of wood pulp, and estimated the quality of the paper, which should be worse than straw paper, but Lin Bei felt that it was still possible, it was better than it, as long as the speed of the paper was fast and the amount was large, it could be accepted.

The difference between having a method and not having a method is quite big, if Lin Bei didn't say papermaking, Bian Ji and they would have to spend countless hours studying, but as soon as Lin Bei said the method, the first piece of paper was made that night.

This is a three-foot square piece of straw paper, the surface is rough and rough, and there is a strong woody fragrance, and the thickness is terrible, about a finger thick, so that Lin Bei, who uses snow-white toilet paper to go to the toilet, is a little unbearable, this kind of paper is not qualified to wipe the fart / stock for modern people, but Bian Ji and the craftsmen are ecstatic, Bian Ji shouted several times Long live the adult

Then came the movable type printing, Bian Ji just asked the craftsman to get a word out first, and dried the square font behind it, Bian Ji painted the surface of the clay character with ink, and covered it on the paper, and a word appeared clearly.

Papermaking and printing were made. (To be continued......)

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