Chapter 248: Printing (1)
"Xuewen, don't you feel like there's something missing here?" When the tent academy slowly entered the formality, Lao Li Gang came to Yang Heng and asked such a question.
"What's missing, why don't I feel it, Professor Li, are you talking about houses, but the houses are under construction, and there is still a lack of manpower, but now the teachers and a few of you professors are supporting it, which is enough?" Yang Heng was a little confused, he was too busy these days, he really couldn't think of what was missing.
"Think about the name of our academy, academy, academy." "Yes, Academy, Academy, ah, I see, Professor Li, you said that there is a lack of books." Yang Heng suddenly realized.
"Yes, your academy, since it is called a academy, it is indispensable to have a large number of books, but what do you have here, a few manuscripts, and then, and then there is nothing, that is, the teacher's teaching materials, except for the thousand-character text, they are all brought by themselves, it can be said that only the books in the academy are the least in your academy, and the other teachers are better than your books, not to mention the old man's collection of books, but you don't want to fight the old man's idea of collecting books, the old man wants to pass on those books."
"I thought it was something, it's books, it's easy to say, in fact, I was going to collect some books, but I just didn't have time, since you said it, Master Li, then I'll leave it to you next, I'll go collect books and come back, by the way, the students should also give them a holiday, so let's go, Master Li, you see, how about we give them a day off every five days." "Vacation, students still have vacation?" "Why don't you have a holiday, just do it, they take one day off every five days. It's better than learning all the time. And also. Master Li, I found that you all go to class for one or two hours at a time, which is also not possible, or take two breaks in one hour, and take a quarter of an hour each time? "Is this good for students?" "Yes, Master Li, you can try. If it's not good, you can change it. "Okay, take this opportunity to carry out some educational reforms, let's start with the class time, and then talk about it when the academy is really completed, when Yang Heng was in his house, the students had a break, but those bells and other things were not brought, which shows how busy Yang Heng is.
"That's right. There is one more thing. It is the problem of students' bonds, how much they should pay, and how to arrange the teacher's salary. Yang Heng actually forgot about such an important matter, and asked Lao Li Gang to bring it up.
"This, it's easy to say, the teacher's salary, don't decide for the time being, it's not good to have more or less, first withdraw it from the account room and use it well, you can withdraw up to ten times a month, and then follow it after the money is settled, you professors are the same, but you can withdraw twenty yuan a month, and the problem of students' bonds, so let's do it, if the family is too poor, bring a pound of food every month, or a few eggs, and our Zhuangzi's households, my father's Zhuangzi's Zhuangzi's households, and the Princess's Mansion Zhuang's households, And the children of our three families, as well as the children of our three families, let's be free, and the children of the rich, as well as the children of officials, should be handed over according to the size of their official positions in their families, but now these can be exempted this year, because they have already come out with a lot of tents and some items, and I am embarrassed to ask for their things again, and Master Li, you should give them a holiday now, and let them go back, each of them bring two volumes, one of which is a manuscript, and the other must be an ancient bookIf they don't, I'm going to punish them. "Okay, Yang Heng actually took the opportunity to ask these official children for books.
"Is that good?" "Why is it not good, ah, by the way, you can't say these Li Shi, so, I'll let Yuan Tiangang say it." But if you think about it carefully, Li Gang is really not the one who said this, so leave it to Yuan Tiangang, he, a mysterious Taoist priest, may be able to make people afraid.
Sure enough, Yang Heng's choice was right, after the students went back, they actually brought some rare books at home, and even the children on Yang Heng Zhuangzi went back to collect a lot of books without a task, why, they just went back to tell their parents that Xiao Langjun was worried that there were no books, so the people who had books at home turned out all the books and picture scrolls, and let the children bring, they didn't have two restrictions, that is, there were a few poor relatives who didn't have them at home, so it was good to go to the relatives' house, Anyway, they don't know that the books are useful.
If you want to say where the books in their homes come from, they have fought for many years, and a few of them who can survive are honest people, and naturally some of them have been soldiers and bandits.
Where are some other Yang Heng going to get it from, then it is naturally a soldier in Daddy's army, this, a book can give them some money to buy, you must know that there are more things in these people's homes, and even some utensils will be available, then Yang Heng is even more unrestricted, even some utensils are also guarded, is it okay to build a small museum in the academy, and let the housekeeper take people to some nearby markets to collect, whether it is good or bad, you can buy it back.
And what Yang Heng wants to do, he entered the mountain, because he has another idea, that is, printing, he wants the craftsmen to develop some lead characters, and directly print them on movable type.
This printing is a relatively large project, not only to study the lead type, but also to study the selection of words, the arrangement of words, and most importantly, the problem of ink and paper.
"Ink, ink, why can't I remember an important thing, you think about it for me, what will it be, ah, by the way, how can you know what I think."
Yang Heng suddenly scratched his ears and cheeks, there was one thing in his mind, but it seemed to be locked, but it couldn't be opened, this was in a hurry, and he wanted the craftsmen to think about what he wanted.
"Xiao Langjun, you are talking about ink, paper, and printing, and you said that if you can print something quickly, it doesn't matter if the words are poor." The craftsman said tentatively.
"Ah, ink, printing, ink printing, mimeographing, there you have it, it's him, come on, find a piece of oil paper." What is oil paper, naturally it is not the so-called polyethylene film and other things in later generations, but real oil paper, which is used to wrap snacks, that is, the paper is coated with some wax and other things, so that wrapping some snacks will not make the paper on the snacks soak through, but Yang Heng is still a little ahead, although he saw some introductions about oil paper in his previous life, it is all things of later generations, at this time paper is still expensive, how can there be oil paper, even if someone will do it, he doesn't dare to take it out and use it, has not been scolded to death by some Confucians.
"Xiao Langjun, what is oil paper, paper made of oil?" "Why, there's no oiled paper, so you go find some paper, and then find some wax, and then evenly coat this paper with wax, and this paper can be folded and wrapped."
"Xiao Langjun, what are you doing here, do you want to make paper to wrap things, this is too wasteful, how to use very expensive paper to wrap it, the small family will weave baskets, or not a small basket for you to use."
"Let you do it, you will do it, by the way, also call your family, let her make a basket, make a basket and let me see what it is for."
Since your family can weave baskets, it's also a craft, isn't it, it just so happens that there are some rattans in these Zhuangzi, and Yang Heng has been thinking about what to do, so it's just a good thing to do together, you can make some very beautiful baskets, let the students carry them in class, put some things like paper and pencils, and then there will be books, test papers, things will gradually increase, and it is convenient to carry a basket, isn't it.
"Yes, yes, the small ones will do it, but Xiao Langjun, the little ones will go to the house first, or make the oil paper you want first?" "Stupid, I still have to say, go down." Yang Heng kicked this craftsman, but he didn't expect him to have the potential for humor, and he was going to hand him over to Huzi after reading it. (To be continued......)