Anyone with even the slightest insight will know how innovations in papermaking and printing have played a role in cultural flourishing.

So a few days ago, when the eldest princess and General Xu were taken to the craftsman's workshop by Zhang Peng, their hearts were both shocked and ecstatic.

The drying shelves of the entire warehouse are filled with white papers, at least a thousand!

The special large-scale heater is linked to the copper drying rack, so that each drying rack is kept hot, and the turbulent remnant Yang River outside the warehouse drives the semi-built-in fan in the warehouse to rotate day and night, driving the fresh breeze in the warehouse.

This makes it possible to produce 1,000 sheets of white and strong paper every day, and there are three more of the same warehouses in the craftsman's workshop.

I thought this was already a very remarkable progress, but Zhang Peng still didn't seem to be satisfied, and reprimanded the kid named Gouda vigorously, saying that the cost control was not done well.

This is already very good, the husband and wife have also seen the production of paper in the royal craftsman workshop in Chang'an City, the process is complex, complex and inefficient, and it is already the hard work of the craftsmen to make a hundred sheets a day. And now it's winter, when the wind and snow are blowing, whose paper mill can still produce paper in this season?

"Peng'er is a little too harsh," the eldest princess was a little worried.

"Let's not ask too much, Peng'er has his own ideas, and he specializes in the art industry, so it's not good for the two of us to interfere," the general decided to ignore Zhang Peng's behavior.

The two then visited the same hot printing room, where they first saw the high-end technique of movable type printing.

According to the order of the article, the movable type mold is arranged neatly, fixed compactly, coated with ink, and then printed on the paper, without the craftsman pushing harder, a clear handwriting page is formed, and it can be bound into a book to dry.

The two were amazed, but Zhang Peng was furious, asking why Gouda's manual printing machine had not been built until now, and now it still relies on manual printing one by one, when will the goal of Beiting Books monopolize the world be realized.

Whether Zhang Peng is striving for perfection or nitpicking, the couple can't care about it, and they don't want to care anymore, they only have one idea now.

Isn't the strength of the craftsman's workshop a little weak, and does it have to send another battalion of troops to protect it......

Recalling Zhang Peng's stern posture that day, General Xu felt more and more that his son-in-law was too good to be a door-to-door son-in-law.

Holding a brand new copy of "The Art of War" in his hand, General Xu sniffed greedily, what a fresh smell of ink, he gently stroked the Art of War, like stroking his own child.

His children have returned, and now they are visiting the workshop.

As the youngest son of the Dadu Protectorate, Xu Kunlun has always been an empty-eyed lord.

His father is the world's number one general with heavy troops, and his mother is the eldest princess of the most powerful dynasty, so he has been unscrupulous in doing things since he was a child, and even learned from his father's style, and fought dragon sons and phoenix grandchildren in Chang'an City.

When he returned to Beiting this time, his father told him: "You kid can come back, thank you brother-in-law, if he hadn't found the treasure grain and golden melon, and made a lot of money for our Beiting, your uncle who slammed the door would have let you come back?" Now that you're back, take care of your out-of-the-box temperament and study hard with your brother-in-law. ”

Fourteen-year-old Xu Kunlun heard his father respect a person so much for the first time, no, the character of the little boy in the rebellious period immediately climbed! Do you want me to learn? I don't want to learn! Zhang peng? What grade? Also with me Xu Kunlun to study?

General Xu also came from a young man, and in the past two days, he has seen that his youngest son has always violated his words, how could he not understand it, so today he called the disobedient Xu Kunlun to the craftsman workshop and asked him to see Zhang Peng's ability with his own eyes.

General Xu walked through the finished library, the books in his hand changed and changed, some he had read, some he had not, and suddenly, he saw a particularly interesting book, the book was called "Three Character Classic".

Curious, he took out a copy, sat down, and prepared to read it, but just at the first sight, he was restless.

"At the beginning of man, nature is good. Sex is similar, Xi is far away. If you don't teach, sex is migration. ”

Oh, my God! What a fairy book this is! It's simply an excellent textbook for children's enlightenment, who is this author, so talented, why has Ben never heard of it? Looking through the book carefully, but not seeing the author column, he was even more surprised.

He fidgeted again, looked carefully at the other books on the shelf, and thought to himself that these books would not all be of the same level as the "Three Character Classic", right?

If so, isn't that too bizarre? Where did Zhang Peng find these masterpieces?

There is only one answer, it must be treasured in the world!

Thinking of this, General Xu's breathing finally calmed down, and the last doubt about Zhang Peng in his heart finally dissipated. If he didn't really want to join Beiting, Zhang Peng, as the descendant of such a hidden giant sect as the World Society, would never have given up such a precious treasure!

By the way, what did Sister Tong say yesterday, to open a bookstore? It's ridiculous that I even laughed at her at the time for being so ambitious, but I didn't know that I was sitting in the well and watching the sky.

What was the name of the book she was holding in her hand at the time, she kept it with her all day and night, and looked at it twice when she had time, even when she was eating.

"Dream of Red Mansions! I want the content behind Dream of Red Mansions! You don't give Young Master Ben a seal, don't you take Young Master Ben in your eyes! At the other end of the warehouse, Xu Kunlun was holding a book and pointing at the nose of the master of the Printing Bureau and scolding.

Yes, it's called "Dream of Red Mansions"! The general finally remembered, he walked forward quickly, and today he must ask clearly, what is the magic of this "Dream of Red Mansions", which actually fascinates Tongmei like that.

"Kunlun! Who told you to speak to the master of the house like that? Did you learn to play the temper of the young master in Chang'an? General Xu's face was full of anger, and he snatched the "Dream of Red Mansions Volume I" from Xu Kunlun's hand, and knocked him on the head with his backhand.

Xu Kunlun was very afraid of his father, and immediately didn't dare to be presumptuous, but just whispered: "Dad, you want me to learn from my brother-in-law, and my son tried to learn, and finally saw a good book, but they said that there was only the first volume, and there was no content behind, which clearly didn't want my son to go to school." ”

The master of the printing bureau was full of grievances, so he had to bow his waist and explain to the general: "The general doesn't know, this "Dream of Red Mansions" was written by my uncle before he set out to recruit university teachers, and he only wrote this first volume, and the content behind it is really not printed." ”

"Cao Xueqin?" The general glanced at the author of this book, and thought to himself that this Mr. Cao is also a great talent in the world, he has not read this book, but he can be fascinated by his wife with tricky tastes and his little son with a beating heart, which shows that this book is definitely not ordinary.

"Stinky boy, this book, I took it first for my husband, and the other books in Curry are also excellent, take this opportunity to read more," Xu Xianzhi said lightly, "If you let your father know that you are making trouble in the Printing Bureau, be careful of your skin!" ”