Yan Weiming is a curious person, and after he rarely and boldly sticks to the door panel to eavesdrop, he will take advantage of the courage to move to the emperor's side and stretch his neck to peek.

Just by looking at it, he couldn't help but peek at the emperor, and once he found out that something was wrong, he immediately ran away.

Yan squeaked at the father and son curiously, and simply leaned over and put his furry head on the paper.

"Isn't that something powerful?"

Yan Xiaofeng couldn't push her away, so he could only raise the stack of papers higher.

"This dynasty uses block printing."

Engraving printing is to write the words to be printed on thin paper, paste them on the wooden board, and then use a knife to carve them into yang characters, so that the handwriting is convex. When you need to print, you can use a brush dipped in ink on the wooden board, then cover the board with white paper, and brush it on the back of the paper with a brush to print a page.

This printing method has advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that for those books and five classics that will not be changed, it is extremely convenient to print. The disadvantage is that if the imperial court changes the law once a year, it has to re-engrave and print, which is time-consuming, laborious and costly. And once you carve a wrong word, you waste a piece of sheet.

In addition, this restriction makes it difficult for those literati who are shy to publish poetry collections, anthologies, and even some books.

As a result, most of the people who were able to publish anthologies and poetry collections were the children of the family, and their fame was growing among the literati, but they were not necessarily really talented.

Conversely, this letterpress ...... Yan Xiaofeng intended to test the prince, and asked lightly, "What do you think of this letterpress printing?" ”

Yan Weiming said without hesitation: "If it can really be successfully made, it will definitely be of great benefit." ”

He said several advantages, "If you print 1,000 copies, the time it will take will be much less than that of engraving printing, and a lot of manpower and material resources will be saved." In addition, it can be flexibly changed, which contributes to the imperial court laws that are revised every year, and also contributes to cultural prosperity. ”

Yan squeaked his head and looked confused, "Is there so much benefit?" ”

The books she reads are basically written by Doctor Yan herself, and she doesn't know the situation of Dacheng today.

However, she showed a bright smile, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and her small meat paws were clapped together, "It's great to be able to help!" ”

Yan Xiaofeng couldn't hold back, pinched her fleshy face, "Great achievement." ”

When he found that the prince had seen it, he withdrew his hand, "If we can greatly save the time and cost of printing, there will be more people willing to publish it in the future." ”

When he said this, he couldn't help but reveal a little coldness.

What he wants to see is a hundred cultures in full bloom, and various theories competing with each other, rather than the words of those families.

It is difficult to achieve this with letterpress printing alone, but if he cultivates a group of skilled hands, he can make a large number of white papers. After the new products enter the major bookstores, the price of hemp paper will inevitably decrease, and the price of some books will also be reduced.

First of all, you have to be able to afford it, so that you can talk about studying, and you can talk about participating in scientific examinations and competing with the sons of those families and officials.

Yan Weiming, under his ears and eyes, under the reminder of his brother, and under his own secret observation, he actually saw the internal and external troubles of Dacheng today.

He couldn't help but say: "If you can make this white bamboo paper, don't rush to promote it first, but sell it to those ministers and families at a high price." After all, no matter how elegant this snow-like paper is, it must be in line with their preferences. They have a lot of money, so let's set the price higher. ”

The emperor and the little divine doctor looked at him at the same time, as if they were a little surprised.

The prince touched his nose embarrassedly.

Erchen took a closer look, and some of the processing methods of this bamboo paper can also be used for hemp paper. In the future, the production of hemp paper will also rise, and the price will go down, so that the poor can afford it. In this case, it is better to make a sum of money with bamboo paper first, after all, the treasury is empty. ”

The words 'the treasury is empty' hit Yan Xiaofeng's heart.

His ancestors and fathers were mediocre and extravagant, and they squandered most of the treasury during their reign.

Under their mediocre governance, many officials were greedy for ink, local officials even deceived their superiors and subordinates to swallow taxes, and the state treasury was much smaller.

In the summer of last year, when there was no one available, he drove the expedition in person, but the household department said that the treasury could not support the northern expedition of the army. As a last resort, he opened the emperor's private treasury, spent more than half, and raided the homes of several corrupt officials to support the military expenses to resist the calendar.

With so many spies planted in the Great Calendar, it is impossible not to make another mistake because of this failure. Other countries are also eyeing each other, and with natural and man-made disasters requiring food and silver for disaster relief, he must fill the treasury before the disaster strikes.

What's more, if you really want the people to live and work in peace and contentment, you have to spend a lot of money to build roads and bridges.

"Okay, I'll take care of this."

Yan Xiaofeng took a deep look at the somewhat shy prince.

Before this, he was a little dissatisfied with the prince's cowardice, and was worried that the prince would be played around by those ministers after he ascended the throne. However, at present, it seems that Prince Xiao is like a brother, white on the outside and black on the inside.

Soon the Shaofu Supervisor's Shaofu Order was called.

Shaofu Ling saw the method of letterpress printing and bamboo paper production successively, and his face was flushed with excitement and he was short of breath.

Yan squeaked and looked at him nervously, for fear that he would faint, her little fleshy claws were already ready to move, once this Shaofu Ling fainted, she would prick him with a needle!

"Your Majesty, it is possible! It's all possible! ”

The methods produced by the system are all adapted to this era, or the tools that are needed can be manufactured in this era, Shaofu Ling does not feel that he has received a troublesome task at all.

"The letterpress molder immediately asked people to fire, but this papermaking method is ......"

Shaofu Ling looked at the method of making bamboo paper and frowned slightly.

In order to improve efficiency, the papermaking method provided by the system is no longer just using pond water immersion method, but also adding some pulping tools. The raw materials of pulping tools are basically wood or copper and iron, which are all large materials.

In this way, it does not take four or five months for a piece of paper to be made from the material to the finished product.

"These tools need to go back and study them."

Yan Xiaofeng said lightly: "However, this matter must be kept secret, you carefully select some people." ”

Shaofu Ling nodded hurriedly, and when he was about to leave, Yu Guang caught a glimpse of the waterwheel model, and couldn't help but widen his eyes, "This, this ......"

Yan Squeak hurriedly lifted the model of the waterwheel, "Squeak bought it from a powerful brother, but it's amazing......"

She operated in front of Shaofu Ling again, and also mentioned wind and water.

Shaofu Ling looked at it stupidly, "Your Majesty, this waterwheel seems to be able to be used for field irrigation." ”

Yan Xiaofeng, who didn't care so much about the waterwheel, sat up straight.

Yan Squeak, who was trying to lift the model of the waterwheel, tilted his head again.