Zishou met the angry Longji on the road, and asked in every possible way but didn't know the reason, so he simply used other happy things to divert Longji's anger.

I haven't seen him for nearly a year, and I miss it.

Approaching Chaoge, Zishou planned to inquire about the news in the bazaar, and there was no one in Chaoge Wenwu who did not carry a dagger, which was really unreassuring.

After sending Yang Guifei back to the camp with soldiers and horses, Zishou asked Long Ji to use a small spell to change his appearance, but whether Yang Guifei's concubine could drive the general Li Lie and the regular army of Dashang was in line with the regulations, naturally it was not within his consideration.

"Sell newspapers!"

"Sell newspapers!"

Zishou looked around, and saw an old woman in good spirits shouting loudly.

Shouldn't this old woman be selling cabbage?

Zishou took Long Ji forward and asked, "Old man, why don't you sell vegetables today?"

The old woman was stunned for a moment, took out a bundle of heartless vegetables, and asked, "A bundle of heartless cabbage, buy three bundles and get a newspaper." ”

This old woman is very shrewd, she is a profiteer, and she knows how to play bundling, but she doesn't know where this newspaper came from.

Zishou sighed twice, only felt a little strange, the price of vegetables actually dropped, could it be a loss to make money?

The old woman saw that her son did not respond for a long time, so she secretly rolled her eyes, it was because there were too many people who asked the price and did not buy it, so she did not shout to sell heartless vegetables, but instead shouted at more novel newspapers.

But she didn't show too much, since there was a caravan, nobles from all over the world came and went to trade, Chaoge is the center of the world, and some people are really normal.

The man in front of him is gorgeously dressed, obviously a rich person, although the woman around him is not suitable for having children, but she is beautiful, I heard that many dignitaries and nobles are good at this.

Zishou didn't notice the old woman's mental activity, and asked himself: "I heard that this newspaper is only circulated among ministers and nobles, why did it appear on the market?"

The old woman was speechless, this person hadn't been to Chaoge for a few months, and she didn't know anything about it?

She said patiently: "It is said that Uncle Wang Meibo invented printing, using copper to make a blank with the same specifications, and engraved the reverse single word at one end to become movable type. ”

Stamp... Typography?

Zishou was very calm, and he had thought about it when he had led to the burning of books with newspapers.

It's no surprise that you skip the engraving to the movable type printing.

In his opinion, papermaking and printing, although they are great inventions, are not difficult, and with the wisdom of their ancestors, as long as they think of it and have inspiration, it is easy to make it.

Jizi can inexplicably invent yellow paper, and Mei Bo, who is also Uncle Wang, can naturally make a matching printing technique.

Of course, this Chao Ge Meibo couldn't stay any longer, and he had to accompany Jizi to the south of Guzhu Country to develop North Korea.

However, although it can be accepted, it is also necessary to ask the reason, and Zishou decided to get to the bottom of it: "Old man, I don't know how Uncle Wang Meibo invented printing?"

The old woman felt that the rich and noble man in front of her would definitely be embarrassed after asking so much, and then in order to express her apology, she would definitely buy some heartless vegetables, and she could go home early today and go to bet on horses.

The philanthropic Taoist who fed countless poor people in Chaoge came to scatter money and coins again, if it weren't for the fact that this batch of heartless vegetables would be easy to spoil if she put it down again, she would have sold it today.

The old woman still said patiently: "It is said that the palace added commercial taxes, and many noble merchants could not get the money, so they saved the process of casting money and handed over the bronze directly. ”

Zishou suddenly understood that the method of printing inscriptions on bronze ritual vessels was similar to that of movable type, and it can be said that the dynasty of Dashang, which attached great importance to bronze ritual vessels, was the best age to give birth to printing.

If paper appeared in the Shang Dynasty in the history of the Eight Classics, most of them would also have a matching printing technique, which has nothing to do with who backstabbed themselves, but is purely a series of causal relationships.

Zishou comforted himself in his heart, in fact, he knew that if according to the old woman, he didn't melt bronze to mint money at the beginning, Mabel's inspiration would not be so easy to flash, and the invention of printing would probably have to drag on for several years.

However, despite this, Zishou felt that the emergence of movable type printing did not have much impact on him.

The invention of movable type printing has the greatest effect of promoting the dissemination of writing and the activity of culture, and the culture is colorful, so that the scholar class has grown, so that China's traditional culture can be spread and preserved, and the knowledge and culture can be popularized to the bottom society on a large scale.

But the problem is really not big, it is not advanced or good.

The use of movable type printing, the need for typesetting craftsmen to read, this requirement is a bit high, but it is a troublesome engraving printing, you can directly see the block as a pattern.

In addition, before the advent of oil-based ink, the printing quality was worrisome.

What's more, the font is not uniform now.

This is the most reassuring place for Zishou, since the appearance of yellow paper, the ministers' music is more dragon and phoenix dance, everyone's words have their own style, the writing style is not the same, forget it, the same word, even the strokes are different.

You have to guess to see the music, so you can roughly understand the meaning, and you don't have to worry about the government when you are a faint king, so from now on, if you don't have to, you don't have to watch the music at all, let alone others.

In this way, what kind of font should be used for movable type printing?

At that time, the uneven font size, the different thickness of the strokes, and the skewed and untidy line spacing of the typesetting are all trivial matters, and the same word is written differently than others, and it is not recognizable at all!

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the "Concise Catalogue of the Revised Four Libraries" recorded 7,748 kinds of books from all dynasties, totaling about 20,000 different editions, of which only 220 were printed with movable type, accounting for only 1 percent of the total.

At that time, movable type printing was not widely used, let alone now!

In the past, newspapers were only circulated in Chaoge, and it was good that a small number of ministers and nobles circulated among them, and the problem was not obvious, but now they want to use printing to popularize it, but they are thinking too much.

The fonts are not the same everywhere at all!

Zishou is very relieved, the newspaper, print it as you like, you can print it, who will it be printed for?

How many of the ordinary people are literate and still expect them to buy newspapers?

Why don't you print a comic book!

Looking at the old woman's appearance, most of the newspapers can't be sold, so they have to be bundled with heartless vegetables.

Zishou felt that it was not easy for the old woman to explain so much for herself: "Then bring me a newspaper." ”

The old woman suddenly lowered her face, I will accompany you for so long a day, just buy a newspaper?

There weren't a few teeth left in her mouth, but she also gritted and gurgled and thought, "One copy, one article." ”

So cheap? Zi was suspicious, and he didn't pay for a long time, so he had to look at Long Ji as if asking for help.

Long Ji understood, took out the usual money and handed it over.

She still has no concept of Yiwen, even if there are more, the old woman is so pitiful, just give more.

Just as the old woman was excitedly taking the money, Zishou snatched it away, took out a small copper plate from it, and handed it to the old woman.

The normal operation of the faint gentleman should be to grab it directly, and it would be good to give it a penny, and it should be returned consistently?

The bad effects of buying tiger bones are not over!

Zishou stuffed the rest of the money into his arms, took a newspaper, and looked at it casually.

The copper coin in his arms instantly fell to the ground and rolled all over the street.

Q: When did China unify the written language?

A. Shang Dynasty B. Han Dynasty C. Tang Dynasty D. Qin Dynasty

According to the principle of choosing A for the same length and short, A is selected for this question.

Undoubtedly, A is the correct answer.

(End of chapter)