In addition to Luoyang, Xiping and Chen County and other places with bookstores and schools were also ordered to hold examinations, and students who passed the exams had to go to the bookstore to study for half a month.

The masters of the bookstore taught them typesetting, inking, paper, printing and other work, and would also pick out good seedlings to learn lettering and casting.

During the half month of study, each school and bookstore collected their wishes, discussed them together, and then assigned each person.

These students have a common name - apprentices, and they have a six-month internship period, which they can only become full-fledged craftsmen.

The status of craftsmen is not low now, Zhao Hanzhang values craftsmen, in addition to giving preferential treatment to craftsmen among the displaced people and giving them more favorable treatment, he also sent people to find the successors of the Mo school with a lot of money, and wants to carry forward the Mo family.

In addition, Zhao Hanzhang strictly ordered children over the age of eight to enroll in school, regardless of status, even the children of slaves could enter the school to study together, which diluted the boundaries between classes to a certain extent.

And the craftsmen, from the beginning of the acceptance of the exiles, were treated preferentially, in the same way as literate literati, which also made their status soar.

Who wouldn't want to become a skilled craftsman among the disaster victims and displaced people who have settled down today?

They even privately spread that literate people are also craftsmen, and one of their skills is literacy and counting.

So the students are very proud to be craftsmen.

In addition to assigning new apprentices to new bookstores in various places, bookstores and schools will also select one or two masters to take them.

It is said that they are masters, but in fact, they have only been in the bookstore for one to three years, and now the masters in the bookstore, no matter what they do, as long as they are full of one year, they are all masters.

There is no way, the bookstore is too young, the workers are limited, and the talented craftsmen found are basically going to take on more important jobs.

In addition to people, each bookstore will also send a lot of burned and cast character molds to the new bookstore.

Only then did the managers of each bookstore understand why the character molds of the bookstores were already sufficient, but Zhao Hanzhang has always strictly ordered the craftsmen of the bookstores not to stop carving and burning the word molds, and also stipulated the number of character molds that must be completed every month.

The commonly used words of each bookstore are 1,000 words, all according to the "Thousand Words" to engrave, in addition to some rare words, will also be spared, but basically each word is only prepared with three character molds, and some rare words are not prepared, need to be used when the time is engraved, so the lettering craftsman must have in each bookstore.

Commonly used word patterns, each word has at least ten.

Generally, bookstores also need to engrave some from time to time in case of emergency. No matter what, you don't have to engrave the mold every day.

However, there have always been specific requirements above, and each letterer needs to complete a certain amount of work every month to burn and cast qualified fonts, and the bookstores are not allowed to encroach on this part of his working time.

In fact, when they were busy, especially when they were printing textbooks and newspapers, the managers of the bookstore complained, feeling that what they were doing was useless.

At this time, Zhao Hanzhang ordered them to take out the stored fonts, and when one bookstore benchmarked three new bookstores, they had to send enough fonts to pass, and they realized that Zhao Hanzhang had already laid them out.

The bookstore that had completed the task was naturally fearless, and immediately sent people to the warehouse to take out the collected character molds, and began to appoint people from the yamen to send them to the new bookstore they had targeted.

The bookstore that was not completed, hurriedly took advantage of the apprentices to study in the bookstore, and immediately ordered the lettering workers to hurry up and engrave and burn the casting, and said upwards that the word molds would be sent together with the master apprentices.

All localities immediately began to choose land to build bookstores, and also went to the paper mill to buy paper and purchase various materials, waiting for the masters to be in place.

In addition to the bookstore, Zhao Hanzhang also allowed the construction of paper mills in various places, but the basic requirements for workers in paper mills are not so high, and there is no need to recruit workers in the school.

To make paper, the first thing is to have great strength, and then to move smartly, so you can recruit workers from the people.

Paper mills around the country are also training workers to send to the new paper mill, and those who are close to the county order that grabs the quota of the paper mill can also select workers and send them to the old paper mill to study.

In this way, there is no need for the relocation of craftsmen and so on.

Generally speaking, it is best to place the bookstore and the paper mill in one place, but in practice, in order to balance the power of each county, the assassins will separate the two counties.

It's not such an important or prosperous state as Sizhou and Yuzhou, other states, with few people and a sluggish economy, can separate the two counties and make the two counties more vibrant, only in one county, isn't it all the benefits to this county?

In the long run, it's not appropriate.

Sizhou, in addition to Luoyang has a bookstore and a paper mill, Zhao Hanzhang also set up a bookstore and a paper mill in three other counties and counties, not to mention Yuzhou.

Yuzhou's Xiping Book Company and Paper Mill have become famous all over the world, I heard that the books from Xiping Book Company are sold all over the country, and the Jiangnan and Jiangdong areas are also very sought after, and the paper mill is also.

Hmph, there are 28 kinds of paper in Xiping Paper Workshop, but there will only be five kinds of craftsmen who are separated, all of which are ordinary paper, better quality, and more valuable.

After all, isn't it afraid that they will rob the business, and those kinds of paper can only be bought from them in the future?

I heard that the paper in Luoyang Paper Mill does not have so many types and valuables.

In addition, there are three other bookstores and paper mills in other counties, which is the state with the most bookstores and paper mills.

In other states, there is at most a bookstore and a paper mill, and there are many states that do not.

Just thinking about it, I couldn't help but be jealous of Zhao Ming.

Liu Kun also took advantage of the scuffle to grab a bookstore and a paper mill, and after deliberation, he decided to put the bookstore in Pengcheng, which is a good thing and easy to manage under his nose.

He also wanted to put it in the paper mill, but what his subordinates said also made sense, he couldn't give all the meat to Pengcheng and drink soup to another county, so that other counties would not make trouble if they had hope.

So he chose the election, and finally settled on the county of Xiapi country.

Zhao Hanzhang asked people to send the construction drawings of bookstores and paper mills to various states, so the bookstores and paper mills in the world are really like branches, and they dare not say that they are exactly the same inside, but they are also seven or eight points similar.

The difference is only in a few details.

Bookstores and paper mills were set up as quickly as possible, and then materials were procured according to the list.

The craftsmen of the paper mill were the first to arrive, but the bark and grass stems used to make the paper needed to be soaked for a while, so the bookstore had to purchase paper from other paper mills first.

As soon as the craftsmen of the character mold and the bookstore arrived, they could start work, and the state thorn history, the county guard, and the county order all attached great importance to this, and went to the bookstore in person to see them print the first edition, well, the trial printing was this month's Di Bao.

Of course, there were all sorts of glitches in the printing process, but overall it was a success.

So they waved their hands and immediately said: "Print more "Thousand Character Text" and "New Arithmetic", from now on, the textbooks of our state school will be released from this book bureau, and there is no need to go to other bookstores to queue up to buy them, and they will also spend travel expenses!" ”

(End of chapter)