Nan Ye cried when he saw that he told a story, and hurriedly comforted him again and asked about Cai Yan's recent situation. Since Nan Ye left, Cai Yan moved out of his mansion. Originally, Qingfeng and Mingyue, a pair of sisters, also wanted to take care of Cai Yan, but Cai Yan politely declined, but Zhang Ning often came to be her companion.

Cai Yong went home before Cai Yan, and the old man was not idle in these days when he lived in the arsenal to avoid the plague, and he kept wandering around the factory where he printed cards, thinking about printing. After returning home, he began to organize his collection of books, wanting to see which books should be published first, so he waited for Nan Ye to come back to discuss with him.

In addition to taking care of Cai Yong, Cai Yan usually helps his father organize books together, and when he thinks of Nan Ye, he reads books and strokes the piano to distract himself.

As soon as printing was mentioned, Cai Yong suddenly came to his senses and said a bunch of classics he wanted to print, what "Book of Songs" and "Analects"...... Nan Ye's head was bigger when he listened. Cai Yong didn't have any other requirements, he just wanted Nan Ye to give him a workshop so that he could start printing early.

Nan Ye scratched his head and said to Cai Yong: "Sir, I also want to set up a printing house as soon as possible to benefit the people." It's just that this paper printed book is completely different from a book bound in bamboo slips. Sir, do you know what is the length of the bamboo slips in this book? ”

Cai Yong didn't even think about it, so he said: "The edict is three feet long, the scriptures and classics are two feet and four inches long, and the folk letters are one foot long." ”

Nan Ye flattered: "Mr. is really knowledgeable!" The paper book also had to be dimensioned. And the way this book is read and written is probably different from that of a book. ”

Cai Yongqi said: "Isn't this printing technique just rubbing the text on the bamboo slips onto paper, and what does it have to do with reading and writing? ”

Nan Ye said to Cai Yan: "Please also ask Zhao Ji to bring me a book and a stack of papers, so that it can be explained." If there is pen and ink, I will also bother Zhao Ji to take it together. ”

Cai Yan was also curious about the difference between this volume, and after a while, he took a book and a stack of papers from Cai Yong's study. The pen and ink are available in the hall, but there is no need to go out of their way to get them, Cai Yan just studied the ink and waited for Nan Ye to follow.

Nan Ye thanked Cai Yan and pointed to the booklet: "Sir, please see, this book is made of bamboo slips, and everyone is used to rolling up the bamboo slips from the left, and unfolding them from right to left when reading the book." In this way, our reading habits are from top to bottom, right to left, right? ”

Cai Yong nodded and said, "It's been like this since ancient times, what's so strange?" ”

Nan Ye picked up another stack of papers and said, "Let's assume that these papers have already been printed into books, how can it be convenient for Mr. to flip through and read them in his hand?" Or should we bind the top, bottom, left, and right sides of the book to make it easier to read? ”

Cai Yong took the paper and fiddled with it for a while and said: "Ordinary people naturally hold the book in their left hand, and it is more convenient to read it with their right hand, so it should be bound on the left side." ”

Nan Ye nodded and said, "That's exactly the reason!" It can be seen that the binding method of books and volumes is completely different, and if you write in the way of books, it will inevitably make reading inconvenient. So I wanted the words in this book to be printed from left to right, and to change the reading from vertical to horizontal. That's it......" Nan Ye said, took a piece of paper and wrote a few numbers horizontally from left to right, and drew a few horizontal lines to represent the direction of writing.

Cai Yong had also played cards, so he could naturally recognize the numbers, and after reading it according to what Nan Ye said, he felt that it was not much more convenient, frowning and unable to understand why Nan Ye did this more.

Cai Yan's eyes lit up, and he took the piece of paper and wrote down a mathematical formula like 1+1=2, and then said to Nan Ye: "If it is printed mathematics, it is indeed a lot more convenient." "It turns out that Nan Ye has always written horizontally when he popularized Arabic numerals, so Cai Yan feels that this is a lot more convenient.

Seeing Cai Yan's support for him, Nan Ye smiled slightly and said, "It's really difficult to change a reading habit, but once you change it, you will find its convenience." This printed book not only has to change the way it is written, but also has to add numeric page numbers in the corners, so that half of the book needs to remember the page numbers, and the next time you look at it, you can easily find the middle paragraph you want to read, and add punctuation marks between the sentences, so that people can know where to stop at a glance, and save paper. ”

Cai Yong could understand the page number that Nan Ye said, but he didn't know what punctuation was, so he asked, "What is the punctuation that Guanghua is talking about?" The old man didn't know. ”

Nan Ye saw that Cai Yan was also looking at him with a curious baby's look, so he began to write and draw on the paper to play the role of punctuation, and this talk was talked about until dark. Zuihou Nanye copied two pages of the book in the modern way of writing, and added punctuation marks at the same time.

Cai Yong read the sentence according to the punctuation marks and exclaimed: "Wonderful! With this punctuation, there is a lot less ambiguity in reading and writing the article. And it is true that as Nan Ye said, adding punctuation marks can save paper. It turns out that in ancient times, it was not that there was no punctuation, but punctuation was very simple, and it was common to use space, capitalization, and segmentation to indicate pauses, which was a bit like using spaces, capitalization, and carriage enter to replace punctuation when typing on a computer. If there are more spaces and carriage returns, it will naturally take up a lot of space, and it is a waste of paper.

Seeing that Cai Yong recognized his concept, Nan Ye agreed to Cai Yong to open a small book printing workshop in the arsenal and give Cai Yong as a shiyan first. When can the handwriting be clear, the quality is higher than haode books and then scaled.

Cai Yong admired Nan Ye's rigorous style of study, and did not feel unhappy because he only gave him a small workshop, but was very excited, and praised Nan Ye before sending Nan Ye out of the door.

Nan Ye came to his senses when he went out, he obviously came to Cai Yan to solve the pain of lovesickness, but he didn't expect Zuihou to be pulled by Cai Yong to discuss academic issues for a day. Helpless, Nan Ye had no choice but to smile bitterly and shake his head and walk towards the mansion, thinking that it would be better to ask Cai Yan out tomorrow, so as not to let the two of them be disturbed by Cai Yong's super light bulb.

Before Nan Ye, who returned to the mansion, entered the gate, he saw the two sisters Qingfeng and Mingyue standing at the door, looking anxiously left and right. As soon as the two girls saw Nan Ye coming back, they ran over quickly, and Mingyue tripped and almost fell on her heels.

Nan Ye didn't know what was urgent about them, so he quickly turned over and dismounted to support a pair of sisters and asked, "What happened in the house?" Why the alarm? ”

Sister Qingfeng is calmer than sister, and after seeing Nan Ye, she has the backbone again, and she breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The mage is back, an angel has come to deliver the decree, and he has been waiting for the mage for a day." ”

When Nan Ye heard that there was Emperor Ling's will and asked the eunuch to wait for a day, he chuckled in his heart. Because Cai Yong is a guilty body, Nan Ye did not disclose his residence when he went to visit Cai Yong and Cai Yan, but only said that he went out to visit friends, and Qingfeng and Mingyue didn't know where they went, and they couldn't pass on the news if they wanted to. Nan Ye was afraid that the two sisters would be wronged at home, so he asked, "But the angel is embarrassing you two?" ”

Qingfeng and Mingyue shook their heads at the same time and said, "That's not true, it's just that the two of us are anxious to wait, so we came out to greet the mage." ”

As soon as Nan Ye heard that his people were fine, his heart was half relieved, and the rest was blamed by the eunuch who was worried about the decree. He didn't dare to delay, so he let Qingfeng and Mingyue lead the way three steps and two steps into the hall.

As soon as he entered the house, a shrill voice sounded: "The mage is really hardworking, and he just went out to visit friends when he returned to Luoyang today, but our family has been waiting here for a day." ”

As soon as Nan Ye heard the voice, he knew that it was his old acquaintance Duan Jue who was coming, so he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed his hand and confessed: "I don't know that it is really rude for Father-in-law Duan to come here today to pass the decree!" I also ask my father-in-law to forgive my sins. I wonder if my father-in-law eats? I will send them ready. ”

Duan Jue waved his hand and said, "Mage doesn't have to be polite. The people in the house have already entertained it, isn't it that the tea hasn't been cold yet! The mage is in such a hurry to go out to visit his friends, but to meet his confidante? ”

Nan Ye frowned and said, "Why did Grandpa Duan say this? ”

Duan Jue smiled: "It's nothing! It's nothing! It still matters first. Bixia has an edict, Master Xuan Nanye will bring his disciple Xiyuan tomorrow to see the driver and discuss the meritorious deeds. ”

Nan Ye was specially approved by Emperor Ling to see the emperor without kneeling, and to see the hundred officials, so he just bowed and saluted: "Minister Nan Ye takes the order." ”

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