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Kong Yingda heard Xiao Yu say this and then turned around and saw that among the people coming in, one of the first one was a young man, wearing casual clothes but majestic, with bright eyes, and a middle-aged man next to him, and the followers should be followed by followers.

"Is it Xin'an, are you reading books with your classmates?"

The young man asked, Kong Yingda knew that Xiao Yu was the King of Xin'an, who came to Huangzhou to study, and guessed that this person should be Xiao Yu's brother-in-law, Huangzhou general manager Yuwen Wen, and the middle-aged man should be Xiao Yu's uncle.

"Yes, my brother-in-law, I'm reading a book list with my classmates."

Xiao Yu quickly introduced his state classmate Kong Yingda to his brother-in-law. They hit it off at first sight. Xiao Yu admired Kong Yingda's knowledge very much.

"Kong Yingda, the capital of Caomin, has met Duke Zhu." Kong Yingda is a civilian, and the other party is the chief supervisor of Huangzhou, but now it is not an official occasion, so he is called a title.

"I heard from Xin'an that Mr. Kong came to Huangzhou to study for thousands of miles without fear of hardships and dangers. It is really admirable."

Yuwen Wen is not polite. These days, long journeys have to risk their lives. The caravan is better. If it is a single and lonely ordinary passenger, it will easily evaporate.

After a few conversations, Yuwen Wen waved his hand and told the shopkeeper that the bookstore gave Kong Langjun a 20% discount today. As the backstage owner of the study club, he is now in a good mood.

Kong Yingda, the future top student, is still a young man studying. Yuwen Wen not only heard Xiao Yu mention it, but also heard another person mention it.

Kong Langjun entered Huangzhou Prefecture School and studied for Yuzhou Ph.D. Liu Zhuo, the top student among the top students, made a move as usual. He didn't think this young boy was qualified to discuss learning with him. As a result, Liu Zhuo was shocked.

This boy is awesome!

This is what Liu Zhuo and Yu Wen Wen said. Of course, Yu Wen Wen also expressed his deep feelings. Kong Yingda in history was Liu Zhuo's student. He was despised by Liu Zhuo at first, but later he saw Kong Yingda answering questions and answering questions that could not be revealed, so he looked at him with admiration.

When I turned to the backyard of the bookstore, the warehouse was filled with people. Boxes of books were moving through the back door. Seeing that the business was so prosperous, Yuwen Wen nodded and came to the side room with Zhang Ke.

There were boxes of books in the room, emitting the aroma of ink. Several men bowed to Yuwen Wen and said, "Duke, this is a newly printed complete set of Xiuwen Palace Imperial Views. Dr. Liu has already studied it twice."

"Then it's time for Editor Zhang to resume the school."

Yuwen Wen said with a smile. Seeing Zhang Ke leading the people to read the books in the box with great enthusiasm, his wishful thinking was crackling: I have developed a new product!

Xiuwen Palace Yulan is a genre written by the Qi State during the reign of Emperor Gao Wei of Qi. It has a total of 360 volumes and fifty-five sections. It is based on Hualin Ping compiled by the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty and is specially used.

It only adds to the books that were not included in Hualin. Most of them were literature and history of the Northern Dynasties and books that were not seen in the south.

At this time, there were "Southern Learning" and "Northern Learning". Yu Wenwen recruited Liu Zhuo, who was proficient in South and North Learning. As a publisher, he naturally had to try his best to get all the books from North and South.

For scholars, it is a great thing to have a complete set of Hualin Painting at home. If there is another set of Xiuwen Palace Imperial Views as a supplement, then you will live together!

Just like the arrogant and rich second generation who pick up girls, they must at least be the best-selling girl. The cold and arrogant president has to take a Rolls-Royce when traveling. These days, the well-read scholars have no book on housekeeping at home, and the scholars are embarrassed to talk about the gatherings!

Yuwen Wen is here to see the "products" that will be sold soon, while Zhang Ke is here to read books, entrusting his niece-in-law with the blessing of his niece-in-law. Now he can read books with his heart's content. Just like a long drought, Zhang Ke is the editor-in-chief of the study club, proofreading books and reading books.

"Editor Zhang, don't worry, read these books slowly, carefully, and confirm that they can be published."

Of course he had another sentence: Then he could make a fortune!

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In a corner of Xiyang City, there are all kinds of sounds in a courtyard. This is the printing workshop of the school club. Various contents are printed on white paper, and then holes are drilled according to the page number and lines are loaded into books.

In a small courtyard room, Yuwen Wen talked with Zhang Hua, the president of the School Society. In front of them, several people were fiddling with a flat plate with many square small lead blocks on it.

The specifications of the small lead blocks are the same, but the positive texts engraved on them are different. Of course, these positive texts are all anti-font characters, just like the carved papers displayed by the school club to guests.

After the lead blocks were arranged, one of them took a brush and dipped ink to brush it on the flat plate with the lead blocks. After brushing it several times, a piece of white paper was covered, and then pressed it on a flat wooden board. After a while, the board was removed, the paper was removed and sent it to Yuwen Wen and Zhang Hua in a tray.

"The Duke of the Kingdom is clear in handwriting, this ink is successful!"

"President Zhang, this must be called ink. Ordinary ink cannot be stained with lead type."

"Yes, it's called ink, it's called ink." Zhang Hua said happily. The ink that took a long time to finally be prepared successfully, so movable type printing is really possible, which is much more flexible than woodblock printing.

"Everything is ready, but the east wind is gone. Now that the east wind has risen, President Zhang wants to ride the wind and waves, has the usage rate statistics come out?"

"The statistics have been made. According to the frequency of use, the characters are divided into four grades: high, medium, low and rare characters. The character table has been written."

"Very good. The workshop has already prepared lead materials and will not delay it for too long. The ink formula has been finalized, and the output will increase in more than a month."

Yuwen Wen and Zhang Hua were talking and turned to the plate making workshop outside. The two were still talking while walking. Zhang Hua, who was depressed and unsuccessful in the past, now his face was as rosy as a dead tree.

Two years ago, he was discouraged and resigned from his post as a ruling in Jiankang City because of illness. Later, thinking about what "Yu Langjun" said that Liu Zhuo, a famous scholar of the Confucian scholar, started teaching in Bazhou, Zhouguo, Jiangbei. He struggled for a long time and waited for the war between the two countries to ease, and finally made up his mind to set off for Xiyang City.

It was easy to find Liu Zhuo. After several verbal battles, they had a great conversation. Zhang Hua felt that the trip was worthy. What surprised him even more was that the outstanding literary talent Yu Langjun Yu Wen was actually the governor of Bazhou of Zhou and Duke of Zhu Yu Wen.

Faced with this person's kind invitation, Zhang Hua refused at first. Even if he was in a down-and-out manner, he would not serve the enemy's court. However, what Yuwen Wen invited him to do was unexpected: he went to the "president" to preside over the printing of the book when he went to the school club.

Looking at the magical woodblock printing, Zhang Hua realized that this would effectively reduce the price of books. Countless people in the world who were suffering and cold finally had a little more likely to be able to read books.

Zhang Hua was born into a farmer and worked for generations to make a living. He knew how difficult it was for poor people to study. If he could "publish" a large number of low-priced books, it would be a great good deed.

According to Yuwen Wen, if he became the "president" of the study club, he would be considered to be a scholar, not a job for the enemy country. At best, he would be a proofreader of the bookkeeper Yuwen Wen, as his personal identity, and would not lose money in the big festival.

"Duke, since you want to promote movable type printing, why do you still need to use the woodblock?"

"How many carvings have been nicknamed in Xiyang City supported?"

Zhang Hua was stunned when he heard this. In fact, he wanted to say that woodblock printing and movable type printing would also cause many servants to be unemployed. However, Yu Wen Wenxiang only spoke halfway, so he said something.

"Although woodblock printing is much faster than hand-copying, it is not without its disadvantages."

Yuwen Wen began to "endorse" and told the pros and cons of the woodblock printing that he knew from that era: woodblock printing is to carve anti-font characters on wooden boards and then print ink on paper, which is for "printing".

The advantage is naturally speed. With the carved "paper", many books can be printed in large quantities and in a short period of time. This can greatly reduce the price of books. After all, the labor costs of hand-copied books will not be less.

The disadvantage lies in the "plaque making". Simply put, the principle of carving is to write the content in reverse form on a piece of paper, then paste it on a flat wooden board of the same size, and carve it against the content by the carving.

Cut down the wood other than the handwriting to make those anti-font characters positive. Even if the "plate" is completed, a book requires a lot of "plate", so it takes time and effort.

Wooden printing is suitable for large-scale printing. If you print books in a small range, the cost of making a plate is not as cheap as hiring someone to get a book. The woodblock is made of wood, and its storage is also a problem.

The carved panels should be fire-proof, moth-proof and moisture-proof. They will deform after being used for a long time. The wooden characters on them will be damaged. You have to pick them up and add new ones. To sum up, the advantages of movable type printing are much better.

The movable type plate making just avoids the shortcomings of carved plates. As long as you prepare enough single movable type in advance, you can imitate the plate at any time, greatly speeding up the plate making time.

After printing the movable type plate, the movable type can be disassembled, and the movable type can be reused, and the movable type can be stored and stored easily than the space occupied by the carved type. In this way, the superiority of movable type is reflected.

But the material of movable type is a problem. It is easy to damage with mud and has to be baked and processed. Metal materials such as lead are much more durable, but the problem comes immediately: lead movable type cannot be used with ordinary ink.

Metals are not easy to get wet, so we have to find a way to develop ink that can also be stained with metal. Now the school has developed it, which is oily ink, referred to as ink for short.

But even so, movable type printing has another disadvantage compared to woodblock printing at this time, which is also a problem that Yu Wen Wen wants to explain.

"When the carvings only need to carve according to the handwriting, he does not have to know literacy, while the craftsmen of movable type printing and typewriting need to know literacy, and they also have to know anti-type characters."

"In other words, when making the woodblock printing, only one person who can write anti-type characters needs to write content on paper, while printing with movable type requires many people to read, especially the typesetting workers."

Zhang Hua nodded. Yuwen Wen said it was reasonable. Literacy is indeed a problem, but he felt that it was not difficult to equip Yuwen Wen's human resources with literacy craftsmen for the school club, not to mention that it is really impossible to teach.

"What President Zhang said is not unreasonable, but I have to consider other factors."

“Another factor?”

"Yes, it is better to have fun than to have fun alone. Why not do it if you can support more people?"

Yuwen Wen started to throw away suspense when he said this.
Chapter completed!