Chapter 159: The Four Great Inventions: Printing

"Father means, Mr. is not from Great Qin?" Gong Yibai asked.

"Mr. is a Chinese, there is no doubt about it." The ram said, "I will tell you when you should know about it, and I will tell you when I shouldn't." You still don't want to know. ”

The male loser wanted to ask something, but was stopped by the male loser.

"Don't inquire about the affairs of the sir, your task is to learn, and you have to do whatever the master tells you to do.

Don't ask about anything else, remember? ”

"No."

The people answered.

"Okay, now that you've eaten the noodles from Mr., let's start making Mr.'s movable type printing."

"No."

……

In the yard.

"Sir, this movable type printing doesn't seem to be complicated at all, and you can do it yourself, so why let Mr. Gongyi do it?" Meng Yi asked.

Qin An said with a smile: "Three hundred and sixty lines are the champions, although we can do it, but it is not as good as a professional one, and the speed is fast."

This has to be said to be productivity. And productivity leads to changes in business models. ”

Ying Zheng and the others shook their heads one after another.

At this time, Li Si came to the courtyard.

"I've seen the village chief, I've seen the gentleman." Li Si said to Ying Zheng and Qin An one by one.

Qin An smiled and said, "Lao Li, I haven't seen you for some days, and I still think about why I didn't come with the village chief this time." ”

Li Si sighed and said: "I've been busy lately, and when I first arrived in the village, I was attracted by the changes in the village, so when my husband and the village chief were flying, I went to appreciate the situation in the village."

This village has really changed dramatically. Village Chief, do you know, I saw that in addition to the golden patch, I also saw a green patch, and even saw that there were already vegetables ripe, as if they were lettuce. ”

"Really?" Ying Zheng asked in surprise.

"That's right, village chief, do you want me to have it picked up?"

"Wait." Qin An said anxiously: "I can't pick it, I'll wait for it to be seeded, after its seeds crack in a few days, we will have time to pick it again, and then invite you to eat barbecue." ”

Ying Zheng immediately said: "Let people take care of those dishes, don't pick them, even if you want to pick them, you have to ask Mr. ”

"No." Li Si and others responded at the same time.

Li Si wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and he almost picked the lettuce.

Fusu said: "Sir, have you already taught the second brother their "Three Character Classic" and "Disciple Rules"? ”

"Sort of." Qin An said, "I need them to translate it into Qin Seal, and then have someone carve it." ”

"I see." Fusu said, "Sir, can you let the students look at these two books?" ”

"Of course there is no problem, there are Qin seals and simplified characters in my room, you can go and see for yourself, no, you can send it out directly, anyway, after the movable type is printed, everyone can have a copy." Qin An said.

"No." Fu Su answered, and then went to Qin An's room.

Meng Yi asked curiously: "Sir, I'm curious, who invented movable type printing?" ”

"Bi Sheng." Qin An said casually, "Who doesn't know the four great inventions of Huaxia now, papermaking, the compass, gunpowder and printing.

Oh, by the way, I forgot that the village has been stuck in the era of Great Qin, and I don't know about the four great inventions.

Let's tell us about the printing technology of these four major inventions."

Ying Zheng and the others pricked up their ears to listen.

Qin An smiled, didn't think they were strange, and said casually: "Speaking of printing, we have to talk about papermaking, because after paper, everyone doesn't use bamboo slips."

After the bulky bamboo slips were eliminated, everyone copied all the contents of the bamboo slips onto paper by hand and then customized them into books.

However, at this time, people did not know about printing at all, so all the books were manuscripts, and they were in the hands of the nobles, and where could ordinary people take out a book.

Therefore, before the printing press came out, there were very few children of the poor family.

But we have never lacked smart people in China, some people got inspiration in seals and stone carvings, and finally in the Tang Dynasty, people invented engraving printing.

It is to write the sample of the manuscript and paste the side with words on the board to engrave the lettering.

This kind of engraving printing is very rigid, once the engraving is wrong, the whole plate is wasted, and the engraved words at the beginning are engraved in vain.

Even if it is engraved, it can only be printed on this page, and after printing enough, the engraving will be useless, and it will be very wasteful.

Until the Northern Song Dynasty, a man named Bi Sheng saw that carvers often wasted a day or even a few days of hard work because of a wrong word, and even had to be fined.

So, as an engraver, Bi Sheng suddenly thought, why can't he carve word by word, and then move it in the template at will.

Bi Sheng is a pragmatist, he will do whatever he wants, because he is poor and can't afford materials, what kind of lettering do you guess he uses? ”

In response to Qin An's question, everyone frowned slightly.

If you can't afford the materials, then make your own, what's the point of asking.

"With wood." Jiang Lu said.

Ying Zheng glanced at him and said, "If you want to say it with wood, Mr. won't mention it." ”

"Sir." Li Si said, "Since this Bi Sheng is very poor, then the things he can use must be something that we can see often, but we don't have to spend money to buy, right?" ”

Qin An nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, I won't let you guess, that thing is dirt."

Bi Sheng made a square long cylinder with cement, engraved with words on one side, and then burned hard with fire, which is a movable type one by one.

When printing the book, prepare an iron plate first, put rosin and wax on the iron plate, and put an iron frame around the iron plate, and fill the iron frame densely with movable type, and the iron frame is full of a plate, and then roast it under the iron plate with fire to melt the rosin and wax.

In addition, use a flat plate to press on top of the arranged movable type, flatten the characters, and a movable type plate is arranged.

It is the same as engraving, as long as the ink is applied to the letter, it can be printed

It's a pity that although Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, this was not valued by the emperor at the time, and even if Bi Sheng died, he was still not concerned by the imperial court. ”

"Bastard." Ying Zheng slapped the table angrily, "There is such a short-sighted emperor in the world. ”

"The Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty made a fuss, and it was okay to write and paint. When the emperor really every feasible. Qin An said, "However, the Song people are still very good at doing business, and they have brought into play the potential of our country's businessmen." ”

"Since the emperor at that time didn't pay attention to it, was the movable type printing lost?" Meng Yi asked nervously.

Qin An shook his head and said, "That's not it, Bi Sheng is not a stingy person, he handed over movable type printing to other engravers, so movable type printing has been handed down." ”