Care about?

What do you care about?

Do you care if the Liu family of Zhuo County and Zhuo County can be thousands of years old?

Liu Bei thought it was funny.

But he didn't laugh.

"Teacher, students don't care about the portal's private plans."

Liu Bei shook his head and said: "Caring too much about the portal's private plans will only make people narrow-minded and selfish, no matter how good a hero is, once he is confined to the portal's private schemes, he will lose his heroism and become ugly, and the disciple will definitely not be like this."

No matter which one it is, no matter what the current family is, in the future, they will become a huge burden, and they must be thrown off, and they must not stay!

As for the Liu family, the disciple doesn't care, it doesn't matter whether it is inherited or not, whether it exists or not, the disciple has a lot to do, and he doesn't have time to think about how a limited number of people will live, that's too narrow, isn't it? ”

Facing Liu Bei's resoluteness, Lu Zhi felt incomprehensible, but he could understand his current situation very well.

When he first took Liu Bei on this road, he never thought that he would have such a day.

Glancing at Zhang Rang, who was standing on the side with low eyebrows, Lu Zhi sighed.

"Xuande, you can be regarded as forcing me into a corner."

"Teacher, this is not the disciple's intention, but the disciple knows very well what he needs, if the teacher feels unhappy, the disciple is willing to apologize, but this matter is imperative."

Liu Bei's face was still soft, but his words were not negotiable at all, and they were not soft at all.

Ma Riyan has already agreed anyway, and Liu Bei's side naturally supports it, so what's the point of leaving him alone to continue to oppose it?

Although his greatest wish is to watch the family pass on as the Valves family while he is famous, but now, this wish is destined to not come true.

"What are you going to do after getting rid of all the Valve Reading Clan?"

Lu Zhi poured himself a cup of tea, then picked up the teacup, blew slowly, sipped, and didn't look at Liu Bei.

Liu Bei knew that it would happen, and Lu Zhi now had resentment in his heart, in order to make the teacher feel better, he decided to draw a big pie and use a brilliant future to resolve the resentment in the teacher's heart.

The disciples plan to follow the Great Road, collect all the Five Classics to the imperial court, and then unify the objections, compile the "Five Classics of Justice" to correct the public, and cut off the door of dissent to the classics from all over the door.

At the same time, the disciples also decided to promulgate the "Five Classics of Justice" to the world, so that everyone in the world can see the classic articles, so that everyone in the world can read the classic articles, and then unify all dissenting opinions, so that the distinction between ancient literature and modern literature can be completely eliminated. ”

"Enactment of the world?"

Lu Zhi put down the teacup: "How do you issue the world?" Just use the same way that you used to carve on stone slabs to proclaim the world? So many people want to read books, even if there is enough paper now, then there need to be enough people to copy by hand, this part of the expenditure, a lot, right? ”

"No, it should be printed all over the world."

Liu Bei said with a smile: "The disciple already has a usable method, and he can print enough books in a very short period of time to publish them all over the world and even sell them all over the country.

The sale price should not be very expensive, and the disciples think that even the common people should be able to afford it, as long as they are a little more diligent and save some money, it is not difficult to buy a few books, so from now on, everyone does not have to copy books by hand. ”

“………………”

Lu Zhi looked at Liu Bei in a daze, and didn't react for a while.

"Teacher?"

"What do you mean by that print?"

"The teacher hasn't seen it, so naturally I don't know, but the disciple has been getting this thing a long time ago, but it has never been successful, and a technical breakthrough has been made recently, which can be realized."

Liu Bei smiled, looked at Zhang Rang, and said: "Lao Zhang, open the way ahead, I want to take the teacher to visit our Gongqiao Research Institute, and let the teacher see the results of printing." ”

"Yui."

Zhang Rang led the order.

Lu Zhi was dragged out of the study by Liu Bei and headed towards the northeast corner of the imperial city.

After Liu Bei became emperor, in order to protect cutting-edge science and technology and put the most important research and development sites under his own control and protection, he secretly moved all the scientific and technological research and development personnel and equipment originally arranged in Ji County, Liangzhou to Luoyang City, and also entered the imperial city, which was only separated by a wall from the palace where Liu Bei lived.

A group of craftsmen who mastered all kinds of top technologies in this era were gathered together by Liu Bei, who redecorated and repaired an abandoned palace building and handed it over to them for use.

Thus was born the Royal Academy of Craftsmanship of the Third Reich.

However, this is a very private place, ordinary people are not allowed to enter, even approach, and non-related people are resolutely not allowed to enter and exit at will, no matter who it is.

There are only a few people in the upper echelons of the empire who know what this Gongqiao Research Institute does, and people outside the Gongqiao Research Institute still have the right to enter and exit freely, and they can count on both hands.

Craftsmen who master different techniques have their own work areas, and different courtyards inside are listed on the "printing office", "forging office", "smelting office", "trebuchet office", and so on.

Some of these research and inventions were proposed by Liu Bei, and they were responsible for restoration, and some of them spontaneously explored higher-level technologies after the restoration was successful according to the points proposed by Liu Bei.

For example, the improvement of papermaking, the improvement of fire oil refining and attack technology, the improvement of trebuchets, the improvement of crossbow arrows, the improvement of iron smelting and forging technology, the improvement of coal making technology, and so on.

Even how to forge a stronger and more durable iron pot with better thermal conductivity is within the scope of research.

In the military field, the civilian field, and some chemical fields, Liu Bei has been given funds, allowed research, and tried to make breakthroughs.

And they did achieve a lot.

For example, iron-smelting technology and forging technology have now developed to the fifth generation, and the blades forged with the fifth-generation technology are enough to crush the previous four generations in terms of performance.

There is also papermaking, they have improved some details, and now the paper produced is not only whiter and more durable, but also the production efficiency has also improved a lot, much better than the original.

In addition to these things, the most important thing is naturally printing, which is engraving printing and movable type printing, printing itself is not difficult, but the requirements for ink are relatively high, and adhesive ink is required.

From the beginning of the experiment to the success of the experiment, the craftsmen tried more than 50 kinds of materials, most of which could not make qualified ink, they persevered, kept searching, continued to experiment, and finally succeeded in manufacturing usable ink at the end of November of the fifth year of Jian'an.

Then on the same day, a copy of "The Art of War" was printed for Liu Bei to celebrate.

Liu Bei was also very happy, and then on a whim, he decided to use the italic characters written by himself as the font for printing.

He wrote more than 1,000 large characters and handed them over to craftsmen to make engravings and movable type, preparing to make his fonts popular throughout the country.

This kind of little vanity, he thinks, should not affect the overall situation of history, and it is nothing to be a little willful.

Today, the technological breakthrough has only been half a month, and the situation has not yet reached the point where it can be mass-produced, and more engravings and movable type are being made, but it is still possible to print a few copies of a sample.

When Liu Bei took Lu Zhi to arrive at the Gongqiao Research Institute where the printing office was located, Lu Zhi was still a little surprised.

He didn't expect that there was such a place in the corner of the palace, and it looked very secret, the entrance door was very inconspicuous, small, black, and there was a sign next to it - Gongqiao Research Institute.

Lu Zhi didn't know what was here, but there were twenty Praetorian Guards guarding it.

After Liu Bei's guards came here, most of them automatically stopped and stopped moving forward, only Dian Wei and Zhang Rang continued to follow forward.

Coming to the door of the Gongqiao Research Institute, Zhang Rang took the emperor's talisman to the Praetorian Guard officer, and the officer personally recorded something after reading it, and then opened the door of the Gongqiao Research Institute and invited Liu Bei and others to enter.

The door opened, and the group walked in, bypassing a front yard, and after passing another door, Lu Zhi found that there was a feeling of sudden enlightenment here.

The craftsmen who walked around, all kinds of utensils that he had never seen before, and mountains of all kinds of iron, wood, and the like, as far as the eye could see, were in full swing and full of life.

The printing office was directly opposite them when they entered, a large courtyard, with a sign hanging on the main entrance, which read three large characters of the printing office, and five Praetorian guards guarded by the door.

Seeing Liu Bei, the officer stepped forward, first saluted Liu Bei, and then asked Liu Bei to show the emperor's talisman.

"This is mine, and it can be registered with Situ Gong and the two of them."

Liu Bei asked Zhang Rang to go to register, and after the registration was over, the Praetorian Guard officer let open the door of the printing office and invited the two to enter.

Lu Zhi was a little curious about this.

"What the hell is this Gongqiao Research Institute for? You, the emperor, came here in person and have to register twice in a row? ”

"Of course you have to abide by the rules you set, otherwise others will not abide by them, and the rules will be meaningless."

Liu Bei smiled, led Lu Zhi forward, and said slowly: "The things here are all the best things, the most cutting-edge technology, and they can't be leaked to the outside world until they are fully grasped, otherwise it will be a big deal if they are obtained by outsiders and enemies for many years." ”

"So important? Is that the printing press? ”

"Typography is one of them, and there are many others."

Liu Bei led Lu Zhi to the printing office, and the craftsmen in the printing office obviously didn't expect Liu Bei to come, so they all gathered around to salute Liu Bei.

"Okay, okay, leave me alone, I'll take Situ Gong over for a walk, you do your own, don't delay your work."

Liu Bei waved his hand and asked the craftsmen to return to work, and then he took Lu Zhi around and came to the edge of the printing table.

The craftsman who was working at the printing table saluted Liu Bei.

"Your Majesty."

"Well, get on with the work."

Liu Bei nodded, picked up a book that looked like it had just been printed, and flipped through the sub-volumes of the line-bound book "Zuo's Spring and Autumn", and then handed it to Lu Zhi.

"Teacher, take a look."

Lu Zhi was still looking at the things in the printing office at this time, and he didn't react for a while that Liu Bei was talking to him.

He looked around at the contents of the printing office, and found that he hardly recognized anything except some of the daily utensils, the small squares in the hands of the craftsmen, the black things in the buckets, he did not know what they were.

Just as Liu Bei handed a book in front of him, he subconsciously took it, flipped through it, and then widened his eyes.

This is the content above, it is the content of Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period, each word is a general size, very neat, look at the past carefully, and you can also find that the glyph of each word is almost the same.

The words are not big, a page can have about a few hundred words, both sides of the front and back, turning around, Lu Zhi is a little interested in this binding mode.

"It's ......"

"Thread binding, the way the pages are sewn together with silk threads, is quite durable."

Liu Bei said with a smile: "The pages of the book are printed here, as long as the paper and ink are enough, you can print as much as you want, a thousand pages are also printed, and ten thousand pages are also printed." ”

Lu Zhi looked at the printing table and saw the strange little squares on it.

"It's ......"

"It's wooden type."

Liu Bei picked up a piece and explained: "There is a word engraved on each wooden type, which book you want to print, you can find the corresponding book, arrange the wooden movable type according to this pattern, and then put ink on the picture, put the paper on it, and press it like this." ”

Liu Bei personally operated the printing table to show Lu Zhi, just like that, a page of paper has been printed, Liu Bei took down the paper and handed it to Lu Zhi, Lu Zhi looked at it, and sure enough, it was a page of Zuo's Spring and Autumn Period.

"So fast?"

"It doesn't matter if you want tens of thousands of copies, anyway, it's just printing, typesetting first, and then printing page by page, there are not many such printing stations now, and if books like "Zuo's Spring and Autumn" are to be printed on a large scale, it is better to engraving.

Although the wooden movable type saves money, but it is still a little bad in the material, the number of printing is more, and the wear and tear is also very large, so the craftsmen are looking for other materials to replace the wooden movable type, the engraving is better, it is not easy to be destroyed, how to print how to print, and it doesn't hurt to print hundreds of thousands of copies. ”

Liu Bei led Lu Zhi to another printing table and picked up an engraving for Lu Zhi to see.

Lu Zhi looked at the words on it, and found that these were all reversed words, and after thinking about it carefully, he understood that it was printed on the paper.

"Xuande, is this all your idea?"

"Some of them are put forward by me, but how to implement them, it depends on the play of the craftsmen, I don't understand many details, I put forward some needs and goals, they are responsible for solving them, and it has been tossing and turning for five or six years before and after this printing technology, and the difficulty is really not small."

"Five or six years? That's not when I was in Liangzhou......"

"Yes, this Gongqiao Research Institute had a prototype when I was in Liangzhou, and it has been developing in Liangzhou since then, and it was only a few months ago that it all moved to Luoyang."

Liu Bei said slowly: "In the end, the things here are too important, I don't feel at ease if I don't put them around, and if I have any ideas around, I can come over and discuss with them in time, and then let them advance, and it's quite fast."

Teacher, don't look at them one by one and they haven't read any books, but when it comes to these craftsmanship techniques, as well as the help these technologies can bring to the big man, every craftsman here is my baby bump, I am really reluctant to let go. ”

"This ......"

"In addition to this printing technique, there are also the latest weapons, teacher, go, I'll take you to see it."

As he spoke, Liu Bei couldn't help but pull Lu Zhi to the forging place and show Lu Zhi the situation at the forging office.

(End of chapter)