Sima Hui and Xu Shu are the new benchmark for Liu Bei to tap Jingzhou talents, and they should naturally be treated ceremoniously.

Similar to Guo Kui to King Yan Zhao back then, he needed a thousand gold bones to encourage the rest. Sima Hui's disciples and friends were all over the counties of Jingzhou, and any advanced thing they saw in Wuchang, as long as it was not available on Liu Biao's side, could be used as propaganda material.

In the end, the people of insight in the hinterland of Jingzhou more intuitively realized the superiority of Liu Bei's rule, and prompted them to give birth to the idea of investing.

Therefore, before assigning them specific work to take office, Liu Bei specially asked Zhuge Liang to personally arrange a visit and let them see the new achievements of Wuchang's farming in the past few months.

And Zhuge Liang has also been prepared for a long time, from September and October when they first arrived in Wuchang, began to carry out construction in a big way, and it has been two or three months now, and many places have achieved initial results. Zhuge Liang customized a plan to suit his liking.

For Sima Hui's scholars who have been virtuous in these years, it is necessary to let them see the importance and achievements of the lord in literature and education.

For Xu Shu, who likes military affairs, let them visit the newly opened iron ore and iron factory more often to show the potential of strengthening the country and the army.

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On the sixteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Sima Hui and his entourage arrived in Wuchang on the third day.

It is estimated that the guests from afar have almost rested enough, and the fatigue of the boat and car has been eliminated. Zhuge Liang carefully arranged to take Sima Hui and others to visit a newly built school palace in the east of Wuchang City and on the shore of Liangzi Lake.

Coincidentally, because the East Lake of Wuhan in later generations is still connected with Liangzi Lake, stretching for more than 100 miles.

The location of the Wuchang School Palace chosen by Zhuge Liang happened to be in about the same place as Wuhan University on the shore of East Lake in later generations.

The school palace was built at the end of September, and it has only been under construction for less than three months. It is also part of the "Plan for Attracting Jingzhou Talents" that Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang brothers discussed before they separated.

When Zhuge Liang arrived with Sima Hui and Xu Shu, only two main buildings of the school palace had been capped, and the rest were still large construction sites.

Although most of the houses have not been built, judging from the scale and prototype of the land area, Sima Hui and Xu Shu are enough to feel Liu Bei's emphasis on education.

In addition, there are several large buildings, just looking at their structure, you can see that they are quite different from the traditional school palace buildings, and the functions should be different, which is refreshing.

Xu Shu carried a sword, walked to a building with a relatively high floor and almost shaped like a palace, stopped and watched, only to feel that this hall was spacious and very magnificent, but the area was not large, and there was an indescribable weirdness.

After staring at it for a while, Xu Shu couldn't tell what was wrong, so he had to poke Shi Tao next to him with his elbow and express his doubts.

Shi Tao was relatively wealthy, and he was richer than Xu Shu in terms of travel and experience, so he thought about it for a long time and said:

"This hall is like a palace, tall and spacious. But since ancient times, palaces have no windows, only many portals. This hall has fewer doors and many windows, and the windows are wide, so it is always strange. ”

Xu Shu suddenly realized that he still suffered from the loss of his family's poverty, and he had never had the opportunity to go to Luoyang to see what the palace looked like, so he obviously felt awkward but couldn't say why.

In this era, there are not even architectural albums, and things that you have not seen with your own eyes, even if you read a lot, it is difficult to understand.

After Xu Shu realized his short-sightedness, he asked with emotion: "Dare to ask sir, I don't know what this hall is for?" Why is it so formed? ”

Zhuge Liang waved his feather fan lightly and said with an indifferent smile: "This place should follow the example of Luoyang Lantai, and in the future it will be used as a library for students from all over the world who come to Wuchang to study to read and copy, and the general of Che Cai said that at least 10,000 volumes will be prepared for the first issue." Frequently used books can be repeated and prepared.

Where there are many books, they are still stored on wooden shelves, so it is necessary to avoid burning candles. It is also necessary to prevent the light from dimming, so the stone is specially used as a pillar, the height of the floor is increased, and more large windows are set up to ventilate and light, which is convenient for scholars to read. In the future, when the top is completed, there will be multiple large skylights on the top, running through the north and south of the whole hall. ”

Zhuge Liang explained halfway, and then pointed to the ground with a feather fan, signaling Xu Shu, Shi Tao and the others to pay attention to their feet. Only then did the people see that white lines were drawn on the ground with lime. Zhuge Liang pointed to the white line and explained:

"The reason why this school palace is located on the shore of Liangzi Lake is to prevent fire. After the completion of these libraries, deep trenches will be dug around them to bring in the living water flowing from the Yangtze River to Liangzi Lake, and bridges will be built over them. Thus, even if a fire broke out in one of the libraries, and a living ditch was around it, it would not spread to the rest.

All these plans were also discussed in Hefei before I separated from my brother, and when I arrived in Wuchang, I followed the plan. ”

Zhuge Liang's last half sentence did not take credit, and he clearly explained the credit of these plans, which was out of Zhuge Jin's thoughts.

After all, Zhuge Jin has more than a thousand years of knowledge, and a lot of common-sense optimizations are just casually mentioned when chatting for him, but they can be a great inspiration to the ancients.

For example, how to build a library to design fire prevention is better, and it can also take into account the landscape. At that time, he said casually, Zhuge Liang felt very incisive and quickly wrote it down.

Zhuge Jin didn't think there was anything wrong with this, there was no need for Ah Liang to exercise his brain again for this kind of trivial matter, it was not advisable to "rebuild the wheel", just report the answer directly, and think of a little is a little bit. Ah Liang's brain should be spent on more difficult things.

When the visitors saw these details, they immediately felt that Liu Bei's emphasis on culture and education was far from being comparable to other princes.

To build a library, you can also think of diversifying risks and diverting water to prevent fire, which is a lot of thought.

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General Fubo is indeed a genius in the world, omniscient, sometimes just one or two sentences, to outsiders is a stroke of genius, those craftsmen themselves may have to ponder for half a lifetime.

Sima Hui, who had not spoken all this time and was just quietly watching, finally couldn't help but ask a question: "Kong Ming, you said that the general of the Che Cai ordered to collect tens of thousands of books?" If there are so many books, it will naturally attract countless studious people to come and join them. But with all due respect, in a hurry, I'm afraid it's not easy to collect. ”

Zhuge Liang Zhizhu smiled as he shook the ground: "Since we dare to make this plan, we are naturally prepared. Please move to the workshop in the back and visit with me. ”

After that, Zhuge Liang led the way slowly, and the rest were all curious, and they all followed closely.

The crowd soon moved to a workshop that had just been completed, and there was a wall outside the workshop that was completely enclosed, like a city wall, and there were female wall buttresses. It was closely guarded by soldiers, and there were stone turrets at the four corners, and bed crossbows were deployed.

When Sima Hui and Xu Shu saw this battle, they knew that the workshop inside must be doing something very remarkable. After seeing the inside story today, I am afraid that I will continue to do things for Liu Bei, and I will not let people go easily.

Zhuge Liang led everyone to one of the workshops, and then everyone saw a strange scene:

Rows of carpenters are turning over the scrolls with neat handwriting on them, placing them on wooden boards with their backs facing up, and then tracing the outlines of the strokes with gray pens.

There were more carpenters nearby, already with carving tools, and little by little they were carving off the superfluous parts of the planks, revealing the handwriting completely.

Sima Hui and Xu Shu were all smart people, and after a few glances, they realized what these craftsmen wanted to do. Xu Shu couldn't help but ask:

"If these craftsmen want to carve the handwriting on the wooden board, why not just have people write on the wooden board and then engrave it directly?"

Zhuge Liang: "Write directly on the wooden board, carve out the wordless part, and the handwriting that is reprinted in the end is reversed." Only in this way do you first put the paper on it and draw it, and although the engraved handwriting is reversed, it is printed positively. ”

As he spoke, Zhuge Liang led a few people to another room next to him, where the engraving workshop was just now, and this was the printing workshop.

A group of craftsmen took the carved wooden engravings, dipped them with ordinary ink, and then drained them a little, and then printed them on mulberry paper, which was better than Zuobo paper, like stamping.

Zhuge Jin can't make oily ink, so Zhuge Liang uses ordinary water-based ink, which is the same as daily writing, and has not been modified in the formula. But because it's printed on a wooden board, it's not a big problem.

If you want to engage in pottery type, or even lead type and copper type, then ordinary ink can't be touched, and you must use viscous ink.

Fortunately, Zhuge Jin didn't plan to do movable type printing in his life, and before he broke up with his second brother, he wanted to think of a strategy to help Liu Bei show his attributes of "attaching importance to learning", and he first thought of printing.

Historically, it was not until the middle and late Tang Dynasty that engraving and printing technology matured, and if I could get the engraving out, it had been six or seven hundred years better than the end of the Han Dynasty, which was very good.

Eat the rice one bite at a time.

And the engraving thing, from the perspective of the market, is not eliminated until the Ming Dynasty, which shows its tenacious vitality and good adaptability. Don't look at the history of this thing in the late Tang Dynasty, but in the last hundred years of the Tang Dynasty, it has never been practically promoted.

On the one hand, after the Anshi Rebellion, the control of the imperial court declined extremely. On the other hand, the power of the family in the Sui and Tang dynasties was still strong, and they did not think that hand-copied books were expensive and could afford to use them, and they did not need to engrave and print the Five Classics to make money in business.

It was not until the last ten years of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms that repeated wars killed the family, Feng Daobai suggested that the emperor carve the "Five Classics" and "Nine Classics" with the power of the imperial court, and it was the first time in Chinese history that the full text of the Confucian Five Classics was engraved and printed.

But those emperors of the five dynasties were used by Zhao Kuangyin in a few years, so the Song Dynasty was the first outbreak of civilians participating in the imperial examination.

If Zhuge Jin engages in movable type printing now, not only is the technical difficulty too great, but there is no need for this, and the family will definitely hate them even more, it is better to eat the rice one bite at a time, and the engraving is at least enough for several generations.

Books are not suitable for things like books to plummet too low at once, and the resistance of the monopoly intellectual class will be very strong, pushing too many people to the opposite side at once.

Of course, Sima Hui, Xu Shu, Shi Tao, and Yin Mo all know the power of this thing, especially when they see with their own eyes that a volume of thousands of words of "Mao's Poems" can be printed in a few clicks, how can this speed not be amazing.

Sima Hui showed admiration and reverence, and couldn't help but sigh: "Who thinks of this immortal method?" Kong Ming, it can't be what you think about on your own, right? Or did it work together with General Fubo, Brother Ling?

With this thing, who would dare to claim that other princes in the world attach importance to culture and education...... Liu Jingsheng lost unjustly. If this news comes out, not only the exiled scholars in Jingzhou will be attracted, but after a year and a half, I am afraid that the scholars stranded in the north will also be attracted. The temptation of this thing to the literati is no less than the right to confer officials in the Xudu Imperial Court! ”

Xu Shu and Shi Tao also knew the value of this thing, but they couldn't help but be surprised when they heard what their teacher said.

How could the appeal of a printing press, a technology for obtaining books cheaply, be comparable to the power of the orthodox imperial court? Or do many people expect to come here to study first, and then go to Xudu to seek official positions after they have achieved something?

Zhuge Liang listened to these praises, but he was still modest: "This is too much, why is it so!" We just want to do our best for the people of the world who want to learn! The original idea of this method was all from my own brother. I'm just willing to cling to the tail and supervise the creation of specific things.

The words of these volumes of "Mao's Poems" were also written by me first, and then asked the craftsman to reverse print and trace the carving, which is not enough to worry about. ”

Zhuge Liang's calligraphy level is still very high, at least the handwriting is very neat, although there is no real handwriting of him in history, but there are many comments and praises at the time, which are recorded in the history books.

In this life, since Zhuge Liang made the first generation of engraving printing according to the ideas of his eldest brother, he did not bother the two masters, and directly used Zhuge Liang's own font as the later standard "Hanti" printing characters. There is no need to look for calligraphers such as Cai Yong and Zhong Xuan.

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