At noon the next day, Wang Laohan sent the re-smelted lead back to the courtyard.

Each piece is only the size of a knuckle, and Fang Zheng is reflecting a dazzling light in the sun, which makes Zhang Zheng have to sigh at the dedicated attitude of the ancients.

"Elder Wang has worked hard, Liu Er, lead Elder Wang to the account room to withdraw two pieces of silver." Zhang Zheng checked the lead block, which far exceeded his requirements.

I got these things done in one night, I really don't know how Wang Laohan did it.

However, this is the craft of other people's eating, and it is inconvenient for Zhang Zheng to ask more.

"Shaolangjun, you can't do it, you can't do it, this is what an old man should do, where you have an old man, that's the glory of the old man.

How can I ask for your money, the villagers know that you can't poke the backbone of the old man. Wang Laohan refused again and again, saying that he would not accept the money given by Zhang Zheng.

"This, that's okay, you're old, I'll ask Liu Er to send you something when you go back." Zhang Zheng saw that Wang Laohan was resolutely unacceptable, so he could only say so.

When Wang Laohan heard Zhang Zheng say this, he left the Zhangfu Courtyard with a smile.

People in this era have a hard life, but they have their own persistence in their hearts.

I don't know how much higher the moral literacy is than that of the people of the era of great material abundance in later generations.

Maybe within his ability, he should find a way to help them, and in an instant, Zhang Zheng had an idea in his heart.

But these are all things to come, and the most important thing at the moment is to get movable type printing out.

"Liu Er, is there a craftsman in Zhuangzi who can engrave seals?" Zhang Zheng asked Liu Er beside him.

Liu Er said with a sad look on his face: "Xiao Langjun, most of these seals are things used by the public, and there is no one in Zhuangzi who knows this craft." ”

"You don't have to have a seal, you just need to be able to engrave." Zhang Zheng said.

"The Zhuangzi is full of crop men, otherwise it is Qiu Ba who can only dance knives and guns, how can there be any literate people, let alone lettering." Liu Er said with a bitter face.

"Then you can only go to Chang'an to find it." When Zhang Zheng heard Liu Er say this, he could only sigh that the cultural popularization rate in this era was really low, and there was no one who could read and write in a village.

"Zhang Ergou's family in Taiping Village next door is engaged in tombstone trading, and it is only three miles away from here, and the tombstone is also to be engraved, can it be done Xiao Langjun?" Liu Er suddenly remembered that there seemed to be someone in the village next door.

But the one who carved the tombstone doesn't know if Xiao Langjun dares to use it. So he asked tentatively with a look of apprehension on his face.

"Gravestone? Of course, that's great, get him to bring the guy for dinner, I'll be waiting for him here. ”

Zhang Zheng's face was happy, the tombstone carving, it is really not necessarily worse than the engraved seal.

"Yes!"

……

After a stick of incense, the father and son of the Zhang family stepped into the gate of the courtyard.

The old ones were about fifty years old, their faces were full of traces of time carving, and their eyes were fierce.

The young man is around thirty years old, and his round face shows the image of honesty and honesty.

It's just that his body is fat and bloated, and I don't know how he ate so fat in this era when everyone is so hungry that he can only be a thin person.

"Zhang Ergou has seen Shaolangjun, my father heard that Xiaolangjun is here, not to say that you are his old friend, and he wants to come to see you.

What are you talking about, I haven't seen my husband and you for ten years, and if I don't come to see you, I'm afraid I won't see you in the future, and the villain can't help it, so I have to lead my father to come and ask Xiaolangjun for forgiveness. ”

As soon as the round-faced man entered the door, he helped the old man who came together and confessed to Zhang Zheng with a bitter face, but there was no fear on his face that the lower person saw the superior person.

"You're Brother Sheng'er, have you grown so big?" The old man stared at Zhang Zheng intently when he entered the door, and muttered in his mouth.

"Like, it's too similar to my husband."

"Are you Uncle Zhang Quan?" Zhang Zheng rubbed his eyes and asked uncertainly.

"It's me, Brother Zheng'er still knows the old man?" The old man replied with a smile on his face.

"How could you not recognize that my father often mentions you.

It's just that the kid really didn't expect you to live in Taiping Village next door to Zhuangzi, I'm afraid I haven't seen you for ten years. ”

Zhang Zheng said with a look of astonishment, he didn't expect that inviting a stonemason would be able to invite a veteran under his father.

"Yes, yes, when the old man retired from the army, you were so tall, but I didn't expect to grow into a big guy now.

The old man had heard that this Liujiazhuang was the old man's property, but he had never been there.

Today, I also heard from Ergou that on Liujiazhuang's side, Xiao Langjun from Zhangfu Courtyard sent someone to ask him to help.

The old man thought that it might be you, so he came and took a look. Zhang Quan even said with a gesture, and the wrinkles on his face turned into chrysanthemums.

"Gua coward, Xiao Langjun asked you to engrave, why are you still standing." Zhang Quan and Zhang Zheng greeted each other, and slapped the back of his son Zhang Ergou's head coldly.

"Xiao Langjun, where is the tombstone to be engraved?" was slapped by his father, Zhang Ergou didn't dare to resist, and asked Zhang Zheng with a smile.

"It's not a tombstone, it's a movable type carved with yang, can it be carved?" Zhang Zheng asked Liu Er to greet Zhang Quan to stay for dinner.

took Zhang Ergou to the lead block and explained what he wanted to carve, and Zhang Ergou quickly understood what Zhang Zheng meant.

It's nothing more than carving the lead block into a common word engraved by yang, there is no difficulty, but it is a waste of time.

"How long will it take?" Seeing that Zhang Ergou understood what he wanted him to do, Zhang Zheng asked.

"If you engrave three sets of each commonly used word, it will take about three days, and the fastest will be three days." Zhang Ergou thought about it and said to Zhang Zheng.

Even if it's three days, it's already a matter of urgency day and night to complete.

"What about carving a set first?" Zhang Zheng lowered the requirements, engraved a set first, and made do with it to print the first edition first.

"If it's just one set, it should be enough for one day." Zhang Ergou said.

……

Three days passed unconsciously, Zhang Zheng was making ice in the yard, and the ice cubes brought from Chang'an were consumed too quickly.

In just three days, it has already entered the stomachs of everyone in the other courtyard.

So Zhang Zheng had to teach Liu Er how to make ice cubes by himself.

As for movable type printing and newspapers, Zhang Zheng was given full authority to Zhang Ergou to be responsible.

Since Zhang Zheng discovered that Zhang Ergou has a very strong talent in movable type printing.

told him all his thoughts and requirements, and Zhang Zheng himself went back to the old days of going to bed early and getting up late.

At this time, Zhang Ergou seemed to have become the number two person in the Guogong Mansion.

Except for Zhang Zheng, everyone had to cooperate with his actions, and even Liu Er, the steward of the other hospital, was also transferred by him.

To put it bluntly, there is nothing difficult about these two things, the most difficult thing is creativity and ideas, Zhang Zheng feels that he can do this step, which is already very good.

……

Zhang Zheng threw a piece of ice into his mouth without taking care of himself, ignoring the adoring eyes of the people in the courtyard and the steward Liu Er.

I was going to get dressed and get some sleep.

In the distance, Zhang Ergou, who had been working hard in the study for three days, was excited.

"Xiao Langjun, it's successful, Xiao Langjun, it's successful." Zhang Ergou shouted as he ran.

The fat on the round body trembled, and he waved a piece of rice paper in his hand, and his face was full of joy.

"It's successful, Xiao Langjun, this and this, it's just amazing, I didn't expect printing to be like this, why didn't anyone think of it before?" Zhang Ergou ran to Zhang Zheng and handed Zhang Zheng a newspaper with trembling hands.

Zhang Zheng stretched out his hand to take it, looking at the big headline on the typesetting, as well as the advertising in the advertising area.

Except that there are no illustrations, it is exactly the same as the newspapers of later generations.

"Hahaha, that's right, that's it, that's it." Zhang Zheng was overjoyed with the newspaper of Datang in his hand, and there was finally another familiar thing in this world.

"Two thousand more copies will be printed tonight, and I want the streets and alleys of Chang'an tomorrow to discuss the contents of this newspaper." Zhang Zheng said to Zhang Ergou.

The wind suddenly blows a pool of spring water. Tomorrow, the gust of wind of Datang Entertainment Weekly will blow the spring water of Chang'an.