Chapter 514 - Papermaking, Movable Type Printing
Zhao Mu raised his head and looked at the portrait of Confucius hanging on it.
Confucius is worthy of being one of the most famous enlightenment thinkers in China, who founded Confucianism, and even influenced China for thousands of years, and even these famous words he said in later generations are also teaching future generations!
There are many people who say that this Confucianism is wrong for me in Daxia for a hundred years and a thousand years.
In fact, what is said is a bit too wrongful.
Including the words that everyone heard in later generations say in Confucianism, in fact, many of them were not what Confucius said.
Rather, it is the castrated version of what is said to have been castrated by later generations.
For example, if you want people to feel criticized, repay your grievances with virtue.
In fact, according to what Master Confucius really said, the so-called repaying grievances with virtue is only the forefront of what people say.
There are corresponding words that follow, but no one mentions them.
As everyone knows, what Confucius approves, how can he repay virtue? Repay grievances with straightforwardness and repay virtue with virtue.
You can treat others as they treat you, and you don't need to wronged yourself to be kind to those who hurt you.
However, these words will be put into future generations and castrated from generation to generation.
Originally, many of them were well-intentioned, but even in later generations, they were very useful, but in the end they all became demonized.
Including Cheng Zhu Lixue of the Song and Ming dynasties, after being castrated from generation to generation, it has just become a ruling class and an ideological prison used to rule the people.
So this also led to the decline of Great Xia, and even had to go for a while, hoping to remove the wave of Confucianism.
If you don't believe it, look at today's Tang Dynasty and today's Confucianism.
This woman can lead soldiers to fight, and the whole social atmosphere is very enlightened.
At the end of the day, it's man-made.
"Come to my grandson-in-law, look here, look here, these are all kinds of books in my collection."
While speaking, Confucius stepped forward, took all these books, and put them in front of Zhao Mu.
took the book in his hand and introduced it to him complacently.
These books were won by competing with other old fellows at the time.
These are the ones I earned by attending the academy before.
And these, and these, are obtained through this and that way.
I remember each one clearly.
Thinking of this, the whole person couldn't help but laugh.
Not to mention the large number of books here, Zhao Mu felt praised again and again.
It's because I have a system, there is a buff, and I can check in non-stop every day, so I got so many things.
And this is the real heritage, but it is completely different from themselves.
"Son-in-law, I won't introduce you to the rest of the books.
These books were all obtained from you, and after my manual copying, they were all arranged on my side.
It's just a pity that I would like to arrange more people to transcribe these books.
However, this paper is limited after all, and the manpower is also limited, so it is necessary to arrange for people to write.
I also wanted to print it directly, but there was no way, and before the engraving, two copies were printed, and who knew that there were bad words when the third book was printed.
In the end, it has to be stopped.
Speaking of these, Confucius was also very helpless.
"Confucius, what is your greatest ideal?"
"Hahaha, of course, my biggest ideal is to be able to spread this knowledge all over my Datang and my entire Central Plains.
Let more and more people learn this.
In this way, I can realize the true teaching of my ancestors. ”
In his eyes, there are no impurities.
It is the kind of true hope that more and more students can learn the most simple feelings.
Hearing what he said, Zhao Mu thought for a moment.
"Master, when I heard you say this today, I can give you two good things.
It allows you to make this wish come true. ”
He is for the people of the world, and he really wants to fill the world with his knowledge.
Hearing this, Zhao Mu did not hide it, and said this sentence directly.
Hearing his son-in-law's words, Confucius's eyes widened, and he asked with a look of disbelief.
"Son-in-law, what do you mean by that?
What good things are you going to give me? ”
When I heard it, my face burst into laughter.
Because he believed that what his grandson-in-law gave him must be a good thing.
"I decided to give you the Kong family, a set of papermaking, plus a set of printing."
Amount.
After hearing this, Confucius smiled awkwardly in his heart.
This time, I thought wrongly, thinking that my grandson-in-law was going to give something good, but it turned out to be this.
But anyway, since it is a piece of Sun Zi's heart, he also replied with a smile.
"I said Master, you don't think that the papermaking technology I am talking about is the papermaking technology of the Tang Dynasty, right?
What I'm talking about is papermaking, which is several times stronger than Datang's papermaking.
What do you think of the paper you used in my Zhuangzi? ”
The paper is as white as snow, and people like it deeply when they look at it.
So in the end, I went to Zhaojiazhuang from time to time to get some for writing.
Of course, every time I take it, I will tell others.
If you don't tell you to take it directly, it's called stealing, and you don't pay attention to it.
"Ah, I said son-in-law, what you just said is true?
You're going to tell me how your Zhuangzi's paper is made? ”
When I think about it, people's paper looks as white as snow, so I guess this price must be very expensive, right?
"That's right, it's the paper of my Zhuangzi.
Although it looks much better than these papers in Datang now.
However, his craft is very simple and not complicated.
As long as I teach, you can make such cheap, high-quality paper.
In this way, with these things, it is also possible to arrange for people to make copies of these books by hand on a large scale.
All students in the world can learn knowledge. ”
Then after Zhao Mu finished speaking, Confucius sighed helplessly.
It's possible with these papers, but they can't be printed on a large scale.
Because this engraving printing is not very practical, otherwise he would not have arranged for people to copy on a large scale.
It can only be regarded as the original.
If it could be printed on a large scale, it would have been arranged to the Confucian family and his own academy a long time ago.
"Hahaha, Master, I'm talking about the second method.
The second thing I'm going to teach is printing, but it's not what you call printing.
It's called movable type printing. ”
Movable type printing, how can this word be said to be alive?
For a while, I didn't know much about it, and I didn't understand what it meant.
The biggest difference between the so-called movable type printing and engraving printing is that this movable type can be vividly displayed.
The reason why engraving printing occurs like this.
It's because when we engrave the whole board, we may be a little careless during the printing process.
If there is a problem with one word, the whole board will be completely wasted.
In addition to this, if it is carved by a craftsman, a whole board of words.
If there is a word that is not careful, it means that the entire board will be wasted.
Hearing this, Confucius nodded.
I know about this situation, but I can't help it, the conditions are like this, which makes it impossible for them to develop further.
Speaking of these, it is both helplessness and helplessness.
So, Master, since this is the case, why don't we stop thinking about how to deal with it?
Since this is the case with his engraving printing, there will be a problem with a certain font, which will lead to the failure of printing.
If you think about it, if it was when it was printed, this situation would have happened.
We can remove the broken font and reinstall the new font.
In this way, it is not possible to use it continuously.
Don't worry about a broken font and the entire section being unusable! ”
"Son-in-law, in fact, we have thought about this thing before, but failed.
Unless the font is removed, printed, and then filled in for him. ”
"If we use porcelain, we can arrange all these fonts.
Burn each word out for him so that it is evenly placed on the board.
In this way, can he replace engraving printing, thus becoming a new printing method?
Each word is an independent individual.
If a character is damaged, you can remove it and replace it with a new font.
Wouldn't that be more convenient?
And these fonts are constantly replaced, and when you want to use them, you can arrange new words through this arrangement and combination.
In this way, we have made all kinds of fonts. ”
Confucius stood directly when he heard this, looking at Zhao Mu with a shocked look.
"Son-in-law, are you telling you true?
Can this movable type printing really have such a skill? ”
I was thinking of bringing him over, thinking of seeing my study.
Who knew that while chatting, people arranged two such large gifts for themselves?
And if these two gifts can be real.
The so-called education of his ancestors may really be realized in Datang.
And my Confucian family, Confucianism, can also be spread throughout the world.
Thinking of this, how could Confucius not be excited?
"Come on, grandson-in-law, sit down, tell me, what is the principle of this movable type printing?
What's going on? How to do it? I'll listen to it. ”