Rebecca was a little apprehensive when she first got home dirty - because she didn't even notice the stains on her hands and face, so she walked all the way back from the Magic Technology Research Institute with the oil stains on it, until she was reminded by the servant to realize that she hadn't washed her face, which in the past would have been knocked on the head......

But after seeing what was on Gao Shu's desk, all her worries and skull-pains vanished.

"New machine blueprints!" When the girl saw the drawings on the table, she jumped up excitedly, and reached out to grab it, "I'll take a look......

Gawain slapped the girl's dirty paws back: "Look at your hand! ”

"Oooh!" Rebecca hurriedly withdrew her hand and rubbed it twice on her body (just this action, knocking her head in front of Herty at least five times), and then cautiously leaned over to the desk, looking at the strange-looking machine, "What is this for...... Hey, do you mean to put the paper under this roller? Printing something? ”

Rebecca often deals with all kinds of machinery and equipment on weekdays, and has a certain understanding of Gawain's thinking habits, and roughly guessed its function the moment she saw the printing press, which also saved Gawain a lot of trouble to explain, the latter nodded: "This is a printing press." ”

"Printing, I know that," Rebecca nodded, "the textbooks used in the school, the plaid and printed paper in the office, and the labels used in the alchemy factory are all printed...... Have you improved your printing equipment? But this thing...... It looks completely different from what is used in the territory. ”

Rebecca knew what the printing technology was now used in the territory - in fact, it was a technique that Ansu had already had, using a wax board, carving words and patterns on it, forming Yin script, and then pouring a mud mixed with bitter root vine powder evenly on the wax board, and then heating, the bitter root vine powder mud would become a hard clay tablet after heating, and the wax would melt, so that the engraving of Yang script was obtained, which could be used to print things.

But this plate-making method has great limitations, first of all, you can't make a mistake when carving, once you make a mistake, the whole wax plate will be scrapped, and secondly, the bitter root vine mud needs to stand for several hours to eliminate bubbles after covering the wax plate, preliminary curing, and then it can be heated and hardened, and finally the hardened Yang Wen board has the problem of brittle and brittle, so you should be extra careful when using it.

Even so, this printing technique was quite advanced - the aristocracy used it to print a large number of letterheads and official letters with family patterns, which was also its main application.

The use of this printing technique for the printing of books was a precedent set by Cecil for the simple reason that only here were there a large number of people who could read, and a large number of people who needed to read......

In fact, Cecil's practice of printing cheap books in large quantities, printing the text on cheap paper, and not decorating the covers of the books with any metal or precious stones, and not using leather sleeves or ties to fix the spine, was considered "an insult to sacred knowledge" by the traditional scholars of this world.

Many scholars came to Cecil's territory and complained about the cheap, "shoddy" books, which were traditionally made of fine parchment, or at worst, hoarfrost paper, copied by hand or shorthand, signed by famous scholars, and finally decorated with a large number of ornate, intricate, and expensive decorations.

However, Gawain ignored these pedantic voices - anyway, he was a founding ancestor who spoke more prestigiously than anyone else, and he was not afraid of any challenge in the word "right to speak".

Rebecca studied Gawain's blueprints with curiosity, and at first she thought it was an "improvement" of the existing printing technology in the territory, but soon realized that the machine was far from working and efficient than traditional printing technology.

The basic concept of "plate making-transfer" is still there, but the way this machine works is so advanced - the words "continuous printing" appeared in this girl's mind for the first time.

Sometimes, all a technician lacks is a direction.

"What needs to be solved now is 'plate making', or how to quickly and conveniently convert the text to this printing cylinder," Gao Wen pointed to the core part of the machine, talking about the problems he is currently encountering, "I have three requirements, first, fast and convenient, the process of converting words into impressions on the cylinder must be faster than the current plate-making technology; Second, it is easy to edit, and it cannot destroy the whole page like traditional engraving, so it requires that the process of transferring the text to the cylinder is reversible, or that the text can be modified and reset before the transfer; Third, in fact, it is also related to the second article, that is, the drum is required to be used many times, and the marks on it can be erased, which is not only to reduce costs, but also to improve the efficiency of this set of devices. ”

"Wow...... Rebecara said, "Sounds like ...... It's very challenging. ”

"Yes, it's a bit of a challenge," Gawain looked at Rebecca with a serious expression, "That's why I'm going to leave it to you—or rather, your Wizard Technology Research Institute to solve this problem." ”

Rebecca doesn't seem to understand: "Magic Technology Research Institute......"

"The Magic Technique Research Institute exists to solve these applied technical problems, and the way the large-scale comprehensive laboratory works is designed to solve these problems," Gawain smiled and nodded, "All kinds of craftsmen, mechanics, runemasters, and magicians with creative talents The identity of the magic technician is concentrated in a laboratory, using their own ideas to create one idea after another, discussing with each other, helping each other, realizing together, verifying together, and making the best use of all resources on a project, which is the role of those laboratories. ”

He paused, saw Rebecca's thoughtful appearance, and continued: "One person's creativity is limited after all, but many people together can exert far more creativity than the sum of the people, I will give you a direction, and then you can take your team to play to the fullest - take everyone's ideas out and discuss, don't be afraid of mistakes, and then you will find out how incredible the power of a large laboratory is." ”

Rebecca's eyes widened wider and wider, and at last they even sparkled slightly, and she suddenly grabbed Gawain's arm happily and shook it vigorously: "I understand, I understand!" So that's it...... That's the right way to use it in a large lab! ”

"Don't shake it yet, don't shake it yet...... You said you had such a strong hand as a mage," Gawain said after tapping Rebecca on the head and easily breaking free, "Before you take the project to the lab, tell me what you have in mind - do you have an idea?" ”

"emmmmm......" Rebecca struggled to think with her finger against her lower lip, and after a moment she spoke uncertainly, "Actually, there is a little bit of an idea...... I thought of the mage's shorthand magic. ”

As Gawain had predicted, after encountering this seemingly impossible solution with machinery, Rebecca's first thought was magic—which was the most normal way of thinking as a mage. Although Rebecca's magical talent is a bit subtle, the otherworldly idea of "solving problems with magic" is clearly still working on her.

"Shorthand magic...... Gao Wen nodded slightly, "I know this kind of spell, it is considered a relatively low-level but very useful formal spell, it should be an arcane spell, right?" ”

"Yes," Rebecca nodded as she gestured, "On the enchanted parchment soaked in a special potion, the shorthand magic can directly transfer the clear memory of the mage's mind into words or patterns, and if there is no enchanted parchment, the mage can also use the enchanted quills to perform more inefficient 'shorthand', this spell is also known as transfer magic......"

Gao Wen raised his eyebrows: "Your theoretical knowledge is okay?" ”

Amber stuck out her tongue: "When I was a child, I couldn't memorize it and I was going to be spanked. ...... of shares My aunt said that as a mage, I can't learn other spells because of talent limitations, but if I don't even know the theoretical knowledge, then I really don't work hard, and I have to punish him well. ”

Gawain: "......"

"Shorthand magic is probably an idea, but it still can't solve the problem of quickly converting lines of text into imprints, and shorthand magic, I remember, there is no magic circle - this is a spell that must be cast by a mage," Gawain said while thinking about how difficult it was for Rebecca to live as a child, "So the current rune logic can't deal with it, and it doesn't fit our principle of 'making it available to ordinary people'." But keep that in mind, you can go back and study it. ”

Rebecca left with half-finished printing machine drawings and a head full of half-finished ideas, and Gawain walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of the study, watching the sunset outside and falling into deep thought.

Just as he had thought before - his knowledge and creativity alone were limited after all, and even if he had memory enhancement and insight beyond this time of the world, he himself was just a mortal.

He was able to put forward the idea of a new type of printing press, but after all, he could not put forward a practical and fundamental technical solution.

But he has no regrets about it, because from the very beginning, he recognized it.

This world has its own technical system, and the people of this world also have their own wisdom and creativity, and he does not need to be an all-rounder who can invent all technologies and systems, all he has to do is to gather those talented people in his own territory as much as possible, and then organize them reasonably, and then give them a "direction".

He couldn't think of how to make a printing machine that could work continuously, quickly and conveniently, but he could tell the technicians in the territory that he needed such a machine—and he could also describe the general idea and technical requirements of the equipment, which would have greatly accelerated the speed of technology development.

He didn't know if this was the right way to develop, but he thought it was the best way for him, the best for Cecil Collar, and the best for the world.

He retracted his gaze, returned to his desk, pulled out a piece of paper, and scribbled a new plan.

The technical research of the new printing machine can not be completed in three or two days, but before that, some things cannot appear in advance, and at most the efficiency is a little lower.

In Gao Wen's pen, a line of large characters appeared:

About the concept of newspapers, as well as the distribution plan.

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