Chapter 160: Printing is Born
Lunu City, Artisan Battalion.
Liu Wei looked at the neat carved plate and nodded with satisfaction.
Lu Yin and Lu Qian stood behind them, looking at these neat fonts, their eyes lit up.
"Lord, what is this?"
Hearing Lu Yin's inquiry, Liu Wei said with a smile: "Do you want to see Ben Taishou do tricks?" ”
"Yes." Lu Yin's eyes were full of curiosity, and his desire to learn was undisguised.
After watching Liu Wei tinker for a while, the fonts jumped on the paper one by one, everyone opened their mouths wide, and Lu Yin let out a scream.
"Oh my God! Lord, this is amazing, so that you don't have to write one word at a time. ”
Liu Wei turned around proudly and made a chic gesture, "Think about it, if the school has this thing, can the knowledge imparted by Ben Taishou be bound into a book, and then reviewed from time to time, light and safe." ”
Lu Qian's eyes also widened, "Yes, with the font of the princess, Qian estimates that there will be many people who will copy it crazily, and the sales of this paper are unimaginable!" ”
Liu Wei smiled secretly in his heart, with a wonderful pen, the world will account for eight buckets, and it will definitely be full of peach and plum in the future.
Thinking about it in the future, the bull fork character will stand tall in front of him.
"Headmaster, please instruct."
This picture of beauty is intoxicating!
"Zike, printing is the top priority, many of Feng's ideas, especially the idea of making money, are related to printing, so it must be strictly confidential, except for a few of us, no one can come in here, even if he holds the seal letter of a few emperors, it can't work!"
"Lord, can this make a lot of money?" Lu Yin has been settling accounts in court since one day, and he can't wait to sell himself to help the boss save some money.
"It's more profitable than wine." Liu Wei first gave the two of them confidence in an affirmative tone, if as expected, Feng planned well, this paper would definitely be in short supply, so Zike, your paper mill must increase its progress. “
Although Lu Qian is a stable person, he also hesitated a little when he heard this, "Lord, we already have a lot of paper in stock, and we use it on a small scale by our own people, and the amount of rich people in Zhongshan is not large. ”
"It's enough, it must be insufficient." Liu Wei confidently patted Lu Qian's shoulder, "Zike, no matter how much you can produce, Feng will definitely sell it out." ”
Lu Yin broke his head on the side, and he couldn't think of any magic method for the lord to sell so much paper, and the admiration in his eyes became stronger and stronger.
After Liu Wei finished speaking, he picked up a carved plate and exchanged his experience in printing with the craftsmen.
"Everyone now understands that although engraving printing is much faster than writing, there are also obvious disadvantages: first, engraving is time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly, second, a large number of book plates are inconvenient to store, and third, there are typos that are not easy to correct......"
"But this printing has a huge advantage." A young craftsman whispered.
"Tell me about it."
Liu Wei couldn't help but have more expectations in his heart.
"The advantage of this printing technology is that it is very efficient to print fixed scrolls, such as the leaflets of the Heroes' Association, such as those fixed stories and those beautiful fonts, which can be printed infinitely with the engraving plate, which is very efficient."
After listening to the words of the craftsman, Liu Wei sweated in his heart, he always thought that movable type printing was an all-round transcendence of engraving printing, and people in the industry could see the advantages and disadvantages between the two at a glance, and the master was in the folk!
Liu Wei said to Lu Qian without hesitation: "If you use your brains, there will be more wonderful ideas, this craftsman is a good seedling, cultivate it well." ”
Lu Qian even claimed that it was, and the young craftsman was overjoyed, and the craftsmen around him also congratulated him.
At this time, an old craftsman rushed in from outside, and his mouth kept muttering, "Success, success!" ”
When Liu Wei heard this, he hurriedly ran over and followed him to another workshop.
Several craftsmen also had joy on their faces, and they began to talk about it.
"My lord's movable type printing seems to have succeeded!"
"I don't know how it compares to carved plates? I think the carved plates are incredible. ”
"Just listening to the name, you know that it must be faster than carving plates, and it is more convenient."
Liu Wei walked into the workshop, and the huge workshop was densely packed with wooden frames, and the wooden frames were all grids, and each grid was full of movable types of cement.
This kind of cement movable type is made of cement into a blank with consistent specifications, engraved on one end of the anti-body single word, the height of the protrusion of the word is like the thickness of the edge of the copper coin, burned hard with fire, each commonly used word is equipped with dozens of blanks.
These grids are classified according to rhyme and placed in wooden grids, Liu Wei approached the printing office to observe carefully, the craftsmen used a framed iron plate as a base support, applied a layer of medicine on it, and then picked out the clay movable type and arranged them one by one into the frame.
Fill a frame to become a version, and then bake it with fire, wait for the agent to melt slightly, use a flat plate to flatten the literally, and after the medicine cools and solidifies, it becomes a version.
Brush the ink on the version, cover the paper, and a piece of beautiful printing paper will come out, and the neat font, rich ink fragrance, and cheerful laughter make the atmosphere in the workshop extremely strong.
"Not bad, not bad." Liu Wei took out the printed manuscript and looked at it, was very satisfied, and said to the foreman: "In the future, the remuneration here will be calculated by piecework, as long as you work hard, it is not a problem to buy land and marry a wife." ”
Hearing the promise of the lord himself, a group of craftsmen cheered, and Liu Wei continued: "Later, Ben Taishou will ask people to bring many templates, and you can just print them." ”
Liu Wei was very happy in his heart, he had told so many historical stories and romances, and he could start printing in large quantities now, and the situation of Luoyang paper was expensive would inevitably appear in Wangdu City, and these books printed would definitely make Liu Wei earn a lot of money.
The opening chapter is written with the Analects of Confucius, the divorce of the three Lu doctors, and the book of the sage, and Liu Wei himself has to be intoxicated first.
Thinking that Cheng Yu, Yuan Lian, Zheng Hun, and Zheng Yu were desperately measuring the land, developing taxes, and encouraging land reclamation, a smile rose on the corner of Liu Wei's mouth.
"Zike, all craftsmen only know what they are responsible for, and they are not allowed to communicate with each other, until we sweep the world, these technologies can be spread to the people, and at this stage this is the foundation and guarantee of our victory."
Lu Qian stood up straight and said with a solemn expression: "Qian will treat this place as a military aircraft and ensure that the princess's requirements are fulfilled." ”
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After leaving the craftsman camp with Lu Yin, Liu Wei hummed a little song and was very happy, Lu Yin reached out and pulled the lord's arm, "Lord, can you take a rest?" I've been tired and thin all this time. ”
Liu Wei pinched Lu Yin's thin waist, and said with a grin: "Cao Yu was arguing back then, saying that one drum style, then decline, and three exhaustion, this is a universal truth, whether it is dealing with Yinyin on the couch, or making money, it is the same truth. ”
"Lord, you ...... It's embarrassing. ”