Tuntian, the matter of measuring the land was handed over to Lü Yanzhen, and the matter of counting cattle and sheep was handed over to Guo Ming and the Turks, Huo Gang sent a hundred people from Gongsun Lin's cavalry to follow Guo Ming to count all the cattle and sheep.

Amato didn't give a specific number among them at all, because they didn't know exactly how many cattle and sheep there were.

The distribution of cattle, sheep and fields must wait until the number of cattle and sheep is counted.

However, another thing can already be started, these Turks have nothing to do for the time being, Huo Gang simply asked some of the Turks who have already started to help in the industrial area, and the rest of the Turks all go to the two sides of the river near Yangguan to dig alfalfa grass, and then plant them on both sides of the Huo Ci River.

At first, Huo Gang was afraid that alfalfa grass would compete for these weeds with strong vitality, but after transplanting them, Huo Gang found that it seemed that these weeds could not compete with alfalfa grass, mainly because the genes of these weeds would not grow so tall and big.

Because the growth is high, it means that more nutrients are needed, and the place where these wild grasslands live is very poor, so their genes will naturally not grow taller, but alfalfa grass is different.

Alfalfa grass can even grow to a height of about half a meter, and the earliest alfalfa grass planted near Yumen Pass is now almost thirty centimeters tall, so these alfalfa grasses have only survived and started to grow wildly.

The density of alfalfa is very large when it expands, so many of those wild grasses are directly blocked from sunlight, and they can't compete with alfalfa grass at all.

This is a good thing, after all, these wild grasses are not good pastures, but alfalfa grass is different, not only can improve the land, but also excellent pasture, according to the growth method of these alfalfa grasses, Huo Gang felt that these cattle and sheep are estimated to have not waited for them to finish eating, and these alfalfa grasses are already old.

Although these herdsmen have never seen such crazy alfalfa grass, they know what it means, so almost every day, the herdsmen ride their horses straight to Yangguan, and then dig up the alfalfa grass together with the soil, and after returning to the Huoci River, they will plant these alfalfa grasses in the land that has been measured, and then go to the Huoci River to fetch water and water the alfalfa grass.

It can be said that all the herders who have migrated to the vicinity of the Hoch River are involved in these things, because they know very well what this alfalfa grass means to them, it means more cattle and sheep, and it means that even in winter, their cattle, sheep and horses will not have to migrate because of lack of food.

Not having to migrate means that their lives will gradually become stable, which means that they will have more cattle and sheep, and their lives will be better, which is a life they never dared to think of before!

But they would never have imagined that the life they thought they couldn't imagine would not even be the first step in Huo Gang's place!

On the fifth day of the conference, Huo Gang saw Lu Ji's speed, Sun Er and Lu Ji had already studied movable type printing! And as soon as it was studied, there were three ways, which were pottery, wood and iron.

Each of these materials corresponds to three different materials.

Huo Gang has not finished writing Hanyu Pinyin, there are about two days left, Huo Gang can completely write all the letters of the preliminary Hanyu Pinyin, as well as the phonetic annotation.

"Chief, we have tried these three materials, the effect of printing is almost the same, the number of times the pottery word is not as good as the iron word, but the lack is more than the wooden word, although the cost is high, but if the large-scale printing, on average, the cost is almost the same as the wooden word."

"Wooden characters are simple, as long as the wood is hard enough, it can be carved directly, but it is relatively easy to deform, or pottery characters are more convenient. We have found a few people, pottery characters have carved 3,000 commonly used words, in addition to the extremely rare words, some of the most commonly used words we have fired hundreds of them. Lu Ji said with some excitement.

"Chief, look." Lu Ji and the others handed a book sewn out of thread to Huo Gang.

"This was printed with movable type?" Huo Gang took the book and immediately asked.

"Yes! This is a book that we printed with movable type printing, and in addition to the template pottery characters that were first engraved and fired at the beginning, its printing cost is almost ink and paper. And the pottery word can be reused, and there is no problem with using a pottery word thousands of times. Lu Ji said seriously, "But we still need to calculate the specific numbers." ”

This is a thousand-character text, such an enlightenment book, which is also very precious in this era, and when it is put in the homes of ordinary people, this thing is a family heirloom. That's a real thousand words.

The whole book uses standard block letters as the font, and after printing, it is horizontal and vertical, very neat, although it cannot be compared with modern printing, but in this era, this is already a miracle! And Huo Gang noticed that they had printed the punctuation marks they had made.

This book is about the same size as the standard 16 kai of later generations, but because of the pottery character, its words cannot be too small, a line is about 12 words, a total of 20 lines.

In other words, about 240 words were printed on this page, and a whole book of 1,000 characters is actually less than a thin five-page paper.

If it is the size of a book of about 32 pages in later generations, it is estimated by Huo Gang that it can hold 100 words at most, or even less.

"Cut it in half, then print twenty more copies for me, and I'll use it." Huo Gang took a deep breath and said decisively.

"Yes!"

The newly printed book Huo Gang got it in less than a day, but at this moment he had already returned directly to Yumen Pass, and then notified the people of Zheng Ning's caravan as soon as possible, asking him to invite someone who could call the shots from the Li clan in Longxi to come over.

That night, Huo Gang saw Li Yi who came from Dunhuang County, to be honest, Huo Gang thought it was Zheng Ning who rushed over, but he never expected that Li Yi, the future head of the family, would actually go out in person again.

"I've seen Leader Huo!" When Li Yi saw Huo Gang, he directly smiled and arched his hand at Huo Gang.

"Li Lang is polite." Huo Gang also arched his hand at Li Yi, I have to say, people have a heart, a few days after they changed their title, Li Yi remembered it, and changed it directly.

"I don't know if Leader Huo summoned me urgently this time, but what's new?" Li Yi asked with a smile.

"Of course there is a new business, although we have been in the war horse business before, but there is not too much business, right?" Huo Gang said with a smile.

"Of course it's good to have money to make." Li Yi laughed twice and said, "I just don't know what the business the leader is talking about?" ”

"Da Lang, look at this book." Huo Gang also simply handed over the 32-page 1,000-character text he had prepared, and this 1,000-character text counted the cover, a total of 11 pages, 100 words per page.

Li Yi didn't care, he took the book directly, and when he saw the thousand-character text on the cover, he looked at it, and then opened it, and when he saw it, Li Yi commented: "The words are good." ”

Huo Gang nodded, this block letter was written by an old gentleman under Anno, horizontal and vertical standard block letters, very good-looking, as a printing word, for the time being, this standard block is naturally the best, so Huo Gang simply ordered, and in the future, the official printed block letters in their forces will use the font written by this old gentleman as the standard.

The old gentleman knelt down for Huo Gang at that time, because he knew what it meant! It means that Huo Gang's forces will print books later, and all the craftsmen who carve in the future, as well as the readers who write fonts for the craftsmen, will learn the block letters he wrote!

Li Yi quickly finished reading it, and after reading it, he looked at Huo Gang and asked, "What does the leader mean by letting me read this book?" ”

"Da Lang, I want to ask, how much does such a book cost if it is sold in Datang?" Huo Gang asked with a smile.

Selling books? Li Yi was stunned for a moment, to be honest, it is very rare to sell books in this era, which can be said to be equivalent to nothing, because books in this era are the root of life!

"This ......" But Li Yi re-flipped through the book in his hand, and then estimated it, and then he said seriously: "Such a book costs about 10 times, of course, this is only because this book is an enlightenment reading book with a thousand words, so this price, if it is written by some great Confucians, etc., some important classics, the same number of words, at least 20 times!" Even more expensive! ”

"How much?" Hearing this number, Huo Gang took a deep breath and almost thought that he had heard it wrong.

Li Yi restated the price, and then said helplessly: "Actually, this price is almost the lowest price, chief, do you want to buy a book?" To tell the truth, if it is a book, I might as well lend it to the chief, there should be a reader under the leader, just let them copy it, so that you only need to pay for the paper, and you don't have to buy a book, because the book is too expensive. ”

Although Huo Gang knew that books were expensive in this era, he never thought that books would be so expensive! A war horse is only 70 runs, and a stone of rice is only 300 Wen! One stone of grain in Datang is about 120 catties and only 300 Wen, which is equivalent to more than 3 stones!

If calculated according to 20 guan, such a book can buy nearly 70 stone of grain! That's 8,400 pounds! In this era of more than 100 catties per mu, this is equivalent to the output of more than 80 acres of land in a year! A book! It's just a dozen pages!

Huo Gang suddenly felt that this special war horse was a huge profit? Don't make a fuss, this thing is profiteering, okay! No wonder it is so difficult for poor students in this era to get ahead, you can't even afford books, how can you get ahead? Universal education? You can't solve it with books alone! It's also about universal education.