Chapter 250: Printing (3)
Mimeograph, some people oppose it is true, but it is also true that it is convenient and practical, Yang Heng made full use of the convenience of mimeographing, and printed a lot of exercise handouts for some students who took the imperial examination, and the result turned out to be a big sell, so that the students took advantage of it.
However, this so-called student is naturally not a student in Yang Heng's academy, because his academy has only been officially open for a few months, and no one has reached the level of the imperial examination, even if they have reached it, they are not willing to take the exam, what they expect is to be an official directly, to say that they have the ambition to participate in the imperial examination, there are also, but they have not yet reached the level of being able to take the imperial examination, although this era does not particularly value grades, but values connections, but they still have to ask for face.
Even the students in the academy, it is also very happy to use mimeographed handouts, why, they can have a lot of time to exchange knowledge with the teacher, as well as exchange knowledge with classmates, that is, calligraphy, you can also calm down and concentrate on writing, and even they are used to the paper that Yang Heng provides them, and they feel that on this kind of paper, whether it is writing and painting, it is a first-class good, that is, the writing is slightly poor, and it will also make the ink of the paper cover up some deficiencies for them, which mainly depends on the ink and the paper, the result, even Yang Heng's home, and even the princess's mansion are full of people who come to beg for paper all day long, that Luoyang paper is expensive, it's just that.
And what is Yang Heng doing at this time, he is not satisfied with the status quo, but has begun to study the real printing technology. To say that there is no printing technology at this time, it is not nothing, because Yang Heng has seen some Buddhist scriptures on the market. And also. This is the time I asked the students for books. There are some obviously printed scrolls in it, but the ink used is not too qualified, resulting in light and thick ink, some of the handwriting is not clear, and some of the handwriting is actually a puddle of ink, it is estimated that the parents of these students asked them to use it to fool Yang Heng, but Yang Heng is not angry, if these books are left. It may be worth more than the original handwriting, but this is an important evidence for the study and even the existence of the printing press, because each volume of the book will have Li Gang's handwritten notes and his spare seals.
What is Li Gang's idle chapter, it is engraved with Beishan idlers, what is Beishan, this place where Yang Hengjian Academy is built is called Beishan, because this place is a small hill, there is a local name that is not famous, and the people of Chang'an City call this place Beishan. Therefore, Li Gang engraved his idle chapter as an idler in Beishan, a great Confucian at this time. As well as doctors, as well as teachers and other literati, they all like to carve some of their own idle chapters, there are woodcuts, bamboo carvings, naturally there are jade carvings, and some are carved with some strange stones, no way, since there is paper, some of the ancestors carved bamboo slips can not be used, so they are changed to engrave idle chapters, especially these idle chapters are engraved with reverse fonts, which shows their kung fu more, especially some particularly complicated fonts.
Yang Heng is naturally no exception, he carved a god-given idler, this, it is difficult for people to understand, but when someone asked him, he just smiled and said nothing, how to say, is it to commemorate my identity as a crosser.
Since there is printing, but Yang Heng can see from the paper, these are some engraving printing things, that is, the engraving is not very good, since this is the case, then start with the engraving, this Yang Heng is very familiar, in his previous life, some books in order to imitate antiquity, are made of a carved printing appearance, are vertical, from right to left written, and also use some grids to divide a vertical row of vertical rows, then according to this look to do a good job, In this way, the layout also looks much better, and even looks a little refreshing, although there is no punctuation at this time, but this is difficult Yang Heng, as long as the space is not it, it is still a little early to invent punctuation at this time, and punctuation is still used here for students first.
Engraving printing, this is Yang Heng's second-generation products here, but these products are naturally not for students to use, but high-end products for sale, and even good things for gifts, that is, those second-generation students, will also send a copy each, the purpose is not to let them learn, but to let them show off, neat fonts, neat thread-bound books, and neat left pages of books, holding it looks very high-end, especially when students are on vacation, three or five students, one for each person, Holding it in his hand and pretending, shaking his head, sometimes I feel that this is more pretending than a folding fan.
Naturally, Yang Heng printed these books not for the students to pretend to use, but only this method can be sold, isn't it, and those poor students have to hold mimeographed books to pretend, if no one looks closely, they are also holding a book, isn't it, but these mimeographed books are much thicker than these engraving and printed books, because there are many contents inside, the mimeographed handwriting is small, and there are many things naturally loaded, and there are also for poor students, so the content in it is quite a lot, even the original text, with paraphrasing, and some controversy are engraved in it.
Most of the books for engraving are original books, and there are few books with more content, that is, there are things like interpretations, which are printed out of brochures one by one, so that Yang Heng's income is even more, Yang Heng's trading principle is to take care of the high-end and low-end, and the middle-end customers, there are those who buy mimeographs, and there are also those who are forced to buy engravings.
This kind of thing will naturally attract the disgust of some literati, but so what, anyway, fans are no longer popular on the streets of Chang'an, but a popular book with an open hand, and even sometimes shake their heads, so the merchants who robbed Yang Heng to buy and sell fans were unlucky, they used good silk and satin, and there were not many people who bought folding fans made of good wood. There are no celebrity calligraphy and paintings on it, how can I be embarrassed to take it out, but how to write and paint on this satin, although it is strong, so Yang Heng once again took advantage of it, that is, he bought a lot of folding fans made of fine wood and silk at a low price, which only needs to let the embroiderer embroider some landscape calligraphy and painting, but it is a very good collection, but he will not do it in the near future, collect it first, shoot these plagiarists to death, and then say, you play with a traverser, don't play you to death, that is still called a traverser. To tell the truth, Yang Heng does not object to their improvement, but to their plagiarism, this plagiarism is the most unlevel thing, and it will also lower the IQ of the whole nation, you said that you eat farts behind others all day long, and you are complacent, I am about to surpass the other party, and there is still one step to catch up, but when you are about to catch up, people don't do it, you still follow plagiarism, the result is not a one-step distance, but becomes a two-step step, you will not turn a corner, urgent, just can't catch up, it also proves that you have worked hard, There's even a new way to be found, isn't it?
And the value of Yang Heng's research engraving is also like this, I can imitate you, but it is by no means a simple imitation, but to make some improvements, so that this technique will become popular, and when it begins to go to the trough, it will either continue to improve, or it will be directly discarded to create newer things.
However, for Yang Heng, this is still plagiarism, but in the eyes of the world, he is not plagiarism, who knows that Lu Dao is a traverser, in their eyes Yang Heng is the leader of the trend, in this way, there may be many people who learn from him, or the family, you must know that the family at this time is fully capable of paying for people to make something new, but it requires a change in the brain, Yang Heng can't help but be complacent about his decision.
But Yang Heng was wrong, some families were not learning from him, but were thinking about how to deal with Yang Heng, because Yang Heng was in the way of them, especially the emergence of the mimeograph technique, so that some mud legs had the opportunity to learn, how could they be happy. (To be continued......)