Chapter 84 Treasure Boy
The drama of the master and the virtuous ministers is finished.
Li Shimin suddenly noticed that he had not seen his precious son and asked, "Where is the Qingque Man?"
"Go back to Your Majesty, Qingque is playing with the word model."
"How effective is it? Is it really as you said?" Li Shimin became serious and asked urgently.
Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji also looked at him and looked forward to his answer. They came with him today and must have known about this in advance.
"It's good at the moment, but I need to try it more." Fang Yiai answered truthfully.
"What is the word model?"
Li Gang didn't know what he said, he was the only one here who didn't know about it, but judging from Li Shimin's serious attitude, he was definitely not an ordinary thing.
"Mr. Wenji, let's take a look, I'm curious about what it looks like." As he said that, Li Shimin only heard of his name and had never seen the real thing. He gave Fang Yiai a kick, "lead the way forward."
Fang Yiai led the way, and the group went to a large courtyard, which was a large factory in Fangjiazhuang, with several large chimneys next to it.
The farmers were shirtless and busy working. As if they were still very cool today, they were sweating profusely, and their main job was to burn bricks.
The group entered a room.
There were many square and small pottery pieces in it, and when I got closer, I saw that each of them was covered with words, densely packed, and the room was filled with them.
One side.
On the table.
A wooden frame with the same width as the paper is called the "character plate". Li Tai sat at the table and was placing the characters one by one, focusing and serious.
Fang Wenquan is the head of the village, and he needs to stare at everywhere, the school construction site and the slums running at both ends. He happened to be here at this time.
He did not know Li Shimin, but he knew Fang Xuanling. He was not a blind man. He was obviously the nobles in the middle. How many people could be with the head of the family today?
Guessing Li Shimin's identity, Fang Wenquan was so scared that he fought with two people. He was sweating profusely for a moment and immediately bowed to salute, "Has Caomin met Your Majesty?"
Ordinary people have never seen Tianyan, they are all this kind of virtue. Tao Qi and Diao San were not much better when they heard this, so they almost knelt down.
"My son has met my father!"
The little fat man was very excited and stood up to salute his elders, "I have met uncle! I have met uncle!"
After a greeting, Li Shimin picked up a pottery character and asked, "Is this movable type printing?"
Several big guys also picked up the font model and looked at it. Fang Yiai gestured with the font model and answered.
"Yes, Your Majesty, you see that each word is engraved separately. Any book can be printed by arrangement. There is no need to re-engrave the printed version, nor will it be ruined by mistakes in a word, so that the printing speed can be accelerated."
"You guys, you are good at movable type, hahaha..."
As soon as Fang Yiai finished speaking, Li Gang laughed loudly, his expression was very excited, and even a little crazy.
Although he was old, he was not old and confused. He immediately figured out the benefits and harms of it and understood why Li Shimin attached so much importance to it. "With this method, why worry about not having books in the world? It is really a blessing for scholars all over the world!"
"You have done a great thing to benefit the world! I am the one who is the world, thank you."
Li Gang is worthy of being a great scholar of the world, and his ideological level is high.
In other words, at his age, he has no desires or desires. His biggest wish is to spread knowledge all over the world and see what kind of prosperity it is.
"Sir, you're so stupid, you can't afford it."
Fang Yiai immediately stopped Li Gang, how dare he accept the old man's prayer? He is afraid of losing his life.
His eyes were full of praise when he looked at Fang Yiai. In his opinion, Fang Yiai's invention of movable type printing technology was the first step in the grand blueprint.
Only with books can you impart knowledge.
"Can I let me see what the printing effect is?"
"What's wrong!"
After saying that, Fang Yiai looked at Li Tai beside him and instructed him to do work, "Qingque, you can demonstrate it."
With Li Tai here, it must be Li Tai who is responsible for the work. Old Cheng ordered him, and he ordered Li Tai. The good habits passed down by the older generation cannot be broken by our generation.
Li Tai is very interested in movable type printing and is happy to do this job. "Wait, you guys, print it for you immediately."
Back at the table, Li Tai finished the last line.
Then, pick up a brush, dip it in ink, brush it on the coded font, put a piece of paper, and then use a clean brush to brush it.
Removing the paper, lines of neat black words appear on the paper.
"Father, look." Li Tai respectfully presented the paper.
"Zhao Qian, Sun Li, Zhou, Wu, Zheng Wang... Hahaha, the handwriting is so clear. This movable type is really a magical tool!" Li Shimin took the paper, read the first sentence, and laughed out loud.
Looking at the series of operations, Li Shimin was dumbfounded, "Just a small change can achieve twice the result with half the effort. The world's population is so large that no one wants it!"
Li Shimin praised him without hesitation, "Fang Yiai has great talent, and you have made great contributions!"
Fang Yiai grinned.
How simple is it to be woodblock printing to movable type printing? You just need to separate the characters separately, but it took hundreds of years to take this step forward.
Not only Li Shimin, but several big shots were also amazed. Li Gang smiled and said, "I admire him too, and I don't think of it."
Changsun Wuji nodded in agreement.
Only Fang Xuanling said with a stern face: "This rebellious son cannot praise you, otherwise it will be a problem. Don't be upset and live a peaceful life in the future!"
However, seeing Fang Xuanling's eyes was mostly relieved.
After Li Shimin praised him, he noticed the content on the paper and read it repeatedly: "Zhao Qian, Sun Li, Zhou, Wu, Zheng, Feng Chen, Chu Wei, Jiang, Shen, Han Yang..."
Li Shimin felt novel and read easily and easily remembered. He couldn't help but point to these words and asked curiously: "What is this?"
"Return to Your Majesty, this is called "Hundred Family Surnames", an enlightenment book written by me."
Li Tai was very eyebrowed and had printed several copies. Several bigwigs in the house each had one. When he heard Li and Fang's words, his eyes also turned to the content.
"Zhao Qian, Sun Li, Zhou, Wu, Zheng Wang..." After a while, several people lowered their heads and read them seriously.
"It's amazing!"
Li Gang whispered, "It's simple and easy to remember, and it's most suitable for children's enlightenment. You kid are really talented, I haven't read you wrong, hahaha..."
He felt more and more satisfied. Fang Yiai was a treasure boy and could always surprise people. He thought to himself: "I chose to stay in Fangjiazhuang, I really stayed right!"
Fang Xuanling and Changsun Wuji looked at Fang Yiai with a strange look.
He wrote books at a young age. Although it was just an enlightenment book, it would be circulated more widely. Leaving text in later generations is the pursuit of many scholars, which made this kid do it first.
The key is that Fang Yiai is careless and doesn't care at all.
Chapter completed!