Chapter 108: Movable Type Printing

This core technology is, of course, paper.

She wants to set off a revolution, whose life is it? Nature is the life of the family.

The high-ranking family relies on monopolizing knowledge, so it monopolizes wealth, and uses hundreds of people as stepping stones, sucking blood from them, and providing them with a prosperous life of poverty and luxury.

If Gu Lan wants to get to that position, she must make the current people realize that this is not the life they want.

The people of Jingguo have long been accustomed to oppression, and they have been the oppressed side for thousands of years, no matter who is in power above.

Repeated taxation, poor livelihood, and mourning are all daily in their lives, and no one has ever thought of trying to resist.

But even if they want to resist, how can they resist?

The court is turbulent, and the change of power is just a change of family to sit in that position.

Just like Aji and Old Man Shao, aren't they also part of the family? Now he is being taken away from his position and deprived of the right to enjoy the rights and interests of the family.

Aggie and the others want to return to that position, but they just want to expel the current family and then sit on it themselves.

Gu Lan could almost imagine that after many years, Aji would return to that position, and there would be no change in this world.

The family is still a family, and the people are still oppressed.

What else does this mean?

Such a world is very different from the peach blossom source that Gu Lan wants.

She wanted a more hopeful, more dynamic world where people could learn to rebel.

I'm really embarrassed, Gu Lan silently apologized to the family in her heart, those high-ranking magnates should still be enjoying their effortless life, and they would never have thought that in such a remote small village, there would be an inconspicuous girl who tried to plot and drive them off the throne.

And paper is one of the levers that Gu Lan leverages to leverage the power of the family.

She called this plan the "Spark Project".

At the moment, only Aggie knows.

He is her best keeper of secrets, knowing her ambitions and keeping his mouth shut for her, Aji is very smart, and he almost contributed his brain in order to do what Gu Lan wanted to do.

Making paper, of course, is not enough, what Gu Lan really wants is ideology and culture.

If the paper is only disseminated, it will only be passed on to the family, how can the people who do not read spend money to buy paper?

Over time, paper became the enjoyment of the children of the family.

If she wants to change this situation, Gu Lan must make paper accessible to ordinary people, or in other words, be able to profit from paper.

She wants to do printing, and after she has paper, she only needs to get it out and use paper to spread the story, so that she can subtly change everything.

Of course, in this way, it will definitely not be possible to rely on Xiaolongkan alone.

Gu Lan knows the production process of movable type printing, first of all, it is to make the cement movable type, make the cement into small cubes, harden it with fire, make these words into cement movable type, and store them in a wooden box for later use.

This is a very tedious and energy-intensive process, which cannot rely on the scattered cooperation of the villagers, and because it must be kept secret, Gu Lan has always struggled to find suitable candidates.

There are too few talents in the village, and Gu Lan has been stepping up her time to train these children, but after all, they are still young and do not have enough comprehension and patience.

Eventually, Aggie was ordered to take on the task.

He wrote the simplified text one by one, and then carved it with cement himself, and slowly experimented with fire, during which he didn't know how many times he failed, but every time he failed, Aji was light and light, never discouraged, he would always record the process of the experiment, and then change the variables, and try again.

Sometimes he can only experiment five or six times a day, and he keeps failing, Gu Lan only accompanies Aji for one day, and he feels that it is really hard.

But at the same time, I was also moved by Aji's perseverance and perseverance.

If Aggie had been born in modern times, he would have been the best scholar, he was naturally inquisitive and tireless.

Gu Lan only has ideas, but she doesn't know the specific process, just like solving a math problem, she can only give the answer, and the whole process can only be calculated by others.

She's not a genius after all, and she can't do it all.

But Aggie believes that her answer is correct, and she will study tirelessly.

Gu Lan has accumulated a lot of points during this time, but she also wants to exchange a lot of things.

There are many points away from the production method of exchanging movable type printing, so she simply gritted her teeth, exchanged for a simple math book, and gave it to Li Ergou.

Li Ergou is the second genius she has seen in addition to Aji, and Aji's hands-on ability is different, Li Ergou is an arithmetic genius, he followed the children to teach himself Arabic numerals, and found Gu Lan to ask math-related questions.

Gu Lan told him everything he knew, he was like a sponge, absorbing the knowledge taught by Gu Lan, but it was not enough.

As mentioned earlier, Gu Lan is like a defective product, sometimes she can only say the answer, but she can't tell the process.

The process of going from 0 to 1 can only be left to these people to comprehend alone.

Gu Landa can exchange those high-level techniques, but even if they are exchanged, what can they do?

She redeems a tutorial on how to make airplanes, but where can she find the talents who make airplanes?

It is because Gu Lan never wastes her mind on paying attention to things that are too far away, she has a lot of time, enough time to slowly cultivate talents.

Aggie was methodically researching movable type printing, experimenting with many methods, building his own kiln for burning characters, studying the use of different plant juices to make potions, and eventually asking him to figure out how to make ink.

Whether it's studying these or building villages, it takes a lot of money.

Gu Lan brought the caravan out during this time, and some of the people from outside turned into merchants and sold Xiaolongkan's things, making her make a lot of money, on the other hand, Xiaolongkan's own caravan was also constantly exploring outward.

Gongsun You and his party did not rest in the village for long, and once again left with a wheelbarrow and a kang craft, this time to a place even farther away.

People are like water, they are born to flow, Gu Lan only needs to make a little unbalanced posture, and the people will know where they should go.

In such a slow change, Gu Lan finally bound the world's first book.

The title of the book is "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

The book was copied entirely by hand by Liang Er, and finally by the women of the village, who were skilled in needlework, page by page, carefully sewn together, and the outer shell was wrapped in cowhide and written in charcoal.

Such a book made everyone in the village love it.

And this time, Gu Lan plans to let the story of the Three Kingdoms, which belongs to the villagers of Xiaolongkan, go out with the paper!