Chapter 207: Zuo Bo's Paper
What Liu Bei said just now is basically the truth. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info he did associate printing from the Xiping Stone Scripture. Moreover, rubbings only appeared after the stone scriptures.
In the Han Dynasty and after the Han Dynasty, in order to observe the stone scriptures, they had an idea and invented the method of rubbing. Then, hundreds of years later, it gradually developed into printing. It has become one of the four world-renowned inventions in China.
Before the advent of printing and rubbing, the spread of culture and the inheritance of civilization mainly relied on hand-copied books. Before the paper appeared, it was carved on wood chips and bamboo slips. This method is laborious and time-consuming, and it is easy to make mistakes. It not only hindered the development of the hundred schools of thought, but also brought huge losses to the spread of culture. Why is there a lot of controversy and many schools of Confucianism, and it is not because in the process of learning separately, the versions of the books that they have seen and learned are different? If a word or number is omitted, the meaning may be completely different.
It can be said that the act of rubbing the Xiping Stone Scripture directly pointed out the direction for printing. Liu Bei even doubted that someone had already thought of printing before him, but it was just a matter of manpower and material resources. When Liu Bei thought of printing, he always wanted to take out this process. Because he really can't stand the fact that when he reads, his handwriting is big or small, neat or messy, beautiful or ugly...... It's awkward.
However, it is true that as he said, there has never been a stable and comfortable environment for him to concentrate on this. In fact, with the idea of printing, it is not difficult to implement it at all. Now Liu Bei has land, people and money, so after several improvements, he directly crossed the engraving printing, and movable type printing was born.
In the hundreds of years since the appearance of paper, after Cai Lun's reform of the new papermaking method, and then some people continue to improve it, the birth of printing technology represents another leap forward in Han civilization. This leap, because of Liu Bei, is hundreds of years earlier than the original history.
After the Confucians were overjoyed and excited, they all saluted Liu Bei and bowed to the ground. Liu Bei was smug, but he was messed up by everyone, and hurriedly got up to help each other, joking, the teacher and father-in-law were among them, which was simply rude.
Zheng Xuangu said: "Xuande, with the merit of your printing technology, you deserve my worship." ”
The crowd even claimed that it was. After Lu Zhi got up, he lived on Zheng Xuan's side, and the more he looked at this son-in-law, the more satisfied he was. Under the agitation of the mood, he said loudly: "Xuande, hurry up and drink, the old man today, I want to get drunk with all the sages and not return!" ”
Everyone praised in unison: "Wonderful! If you don't drink it, you can't comfort this heart! ”
The old men pushed the cups and changed the lamps, and got drunk.
On the second day, Liu Bei led Xun Yu and others to accompany Zheng Xuan and his party to visit the printing workshop. The workshop was customarily housed in the barracks. Zheng Xuan and others watched with great interest the craftsmen methodically cutting, typesetting, printing, and binding...... After turning around a lot, Zheng Xuan looked at the printing paper, his eyes lit up, and said, "Xuande, your paper seems to be a little different?" ”
When everyone heard this, they all gathered around and took the paper in Zheng Xuan's hand, everyone present was a big consumer of paper, and as soon as they got started, they felt the difference. This paper is as white as snow, soft and delicate, uniform thickness, and the quality is good at first glance. Compared with the paper that was popular on the market before, it has made a lot of progress.
Everyone looked at Liu Bei again, and they couldn't imagine that this young state pastor not only made up an incredible printing technique, but also improved the quality of the paper, and the art of Gewu was so powerful?
Liu Bei saw everyone looking at him, and couldn't help laughing: "Princess, this paper is not my credit. There are other heroes. After speaking, he whispered to Xun Yu, and saw Xun Yu arrive at the busy craftsman room and call someone over.
When they got closer, everyone looked and saw the person who came with Xun Yu, about fifty years old, with gray hair and beard, his beard was not raised, he was dressed in a coarse cloth short coat, his hair was scattered, and there were bits and pieces on the placket, all of which were wet marks. ”
The implication is that if you have something to say, I'm going to leave if it's okay.
Everyone looked at it interestingly, it was really strange that a mere craftsman dared to speak to the Lord of Qingzhou like this. Liu Bei is not annoyed, he has not seen a technical house, most of them are this virtue.
So Liu Bei smiled and introduced to everyone: "Princes, this person is Zuo Bo Zuo Ziyi, my Qingzhou Donglai people. He devoted his life to improving the quality of paper, and after countless experiments and modifications, he finally developed a new paper. This paper is white, soft and smooth, and the writing does not leave ink, and it is beautiful and bright, and it is the best product. I will name this paper as Zuobo paper, and after the workshop is expanded and the production is stable, it will be put into the market and supplied to tens of millions of scholars! ”
Zuo Bo can not only make paper, but also write very expressively. Although he read poetry and books, he was obsessed with improving paper, and his career became extinct. Zuo Bogang had just studied the technology of paper improvement, and when he was ecstatic, Gongsun Du of Liaodong called. In desperation, he had to flee with his wife and children under the escort of his domestic servants. On the way, he was rescued by Liu Kejun. Since then, he has settled in Qingzhou.
When Liu Ke was talking with Uncle Zuo's family, he knew Uncle Zuo's ability, so he reported to Liu Bei. Liu Bei was overjoyed, so he hurriedly asked Liu Ke to visit him, wanting to hire him as the chief technology officer of his paper workshop. As a result, Uncle Zuo was very arrogant, he was also a scholar, and he had nothing to do at home to play around, which was called Wenya. What's it called to go to the workshop to help people? If you don't have to humiliate your identity, you can't do it!
Liu Ke was about to persuade him, but Uncle Zuo's wife came out and cried and scolded Uncle Zuo. Donglai's dialect, Liu Ke didn't understand it very well, and Mrs. Zuo spoke quickly. However, Liu Ke even guessed, and he also understood a seven, seven, eighty, eight. Probably Zuo Bo has been at home for decades, specializing in this shabby research, sitting on empty mountains, and then fleeing to Qingzhou, and the fields in his hometown are gone. Now living in Qingzhou, if you don't work, how can a big family live? It's rare to have a chance to do things, or General Liu of the State Pastoral Mansion personally came to invite you, don't you think about the family, you should also think about saving your life, right? Really let the family drink the northwest wind?
In the end, Uncle Zuo followed Liu Ke to Liu Bei's in a gloomy way, along the way, Liu Ke's face turned red, he really wanted to laugh, and he was afraid that Uncle Zuo would be annoyed and angry.
Uncle Zuo met Liu Bei, and Liu Bei didn't think much about it when he saw Uncle Zuo's face was not good, but just chatted with Uncle Zuo about the development of paper with great interest, and then talked about his printing technology. Liu Bei didn't know the specific manufacturing process, but after all, he had seen so many things. He stopped Zuo Bo on the spot. People who are obsessed with technology are relatively simple-minded, Liu Bei just briefly chatted about the process and direction of the development of paper, specific use subdivisions, etc., and couldn't sit still at the moment. yelling to go to the workshop immediately. So Liu Bei smiled in his heart and ordered Uncle Zuo to be the worker Cao Peng, and the Gong Cao was in charge of Bingyuan. Then he sent someone to take Zuo Bo to settle in the barracks......
Zuo Bo is obsessed with technology, but he is not a fool. Liu Bei first appointed him as the worker Cao Peng, and then arranged another house for his family to live in, and sent countless money and food. In addition, it also provided a generous contract, which was written on the silk and made it clear that he could get 30% of the income from papermaking in the future. Now, in front of many officials and Confucians, he bluntly named the paper he made Zuobo paper...... The scholar is light on profit and fame, and Uncle Zuo didn't put the thirty percent of the benefits at ease, of course, he himself may not know how much it is worth. But as soon as the three words of Zuo Bo's paper came out, Zuo Bo's heart was excited.
What does this mean, it means that his Zuo Bo will spread with the spread of the paper he made, and his name will be spread to all over the world, and from then on, people in the world will know the name of his Zuo Bo as long as they use the paper he made! What a glory this is! From now on, his left uncle will remain in history and be immortal!
Zuo Bo's face was red, his eyes narrowed into a slit, and he was so excited that even the wrinkles on his face were stretched. He bowed his hand to Liu Bei again and again, wanting to say something, but he was reluctant: "Lord, lord, this, this ......" wanted to refuse this honor, but he was reluctant.
This and that, Uncle Zuo didn't say one, two, three, four, Liu Bei also knew Uncle Zuo's temperament, he was addicted to his own world, but he was unsociable. So he smiled and said: "Ziyi, don't say much, you can fully afford this glory!" ”
Zheng Xuan was on the side, looking at Liu Bei's warm laughter and peaceful words, and couldn't help but nod secretly. This disciple is humble and upright, and attaches great importance to talents, so he really can't make mistakes.
Everyone walked around, and Liu Bei was afraid that Zheng Xuan was too old to hold on, so he took a break in the camp. However, the others were still in high spirits and excited.
Song Zhen said: "Although the Mo family has no monarch and no father, the tricks are still very good. ”
Liu Bei glanced at Song Zhen and said in his heart, you are right. The Mo family has no merit, so what does Sikong and the master do? However, Liu Bei had no intention of involving the Mo family, and said with a smile: "This has nothing to do with the Mo family, I am a Confucianist who knows the way of heaven and everything." At the time of the pre-Qin period, hundreds of schools of thought contended, and the Mohists and my Confucianism were not known to have the same end. However, the Mohist is close to the arts, and my Confucianism is the way to the end, which is based on the fact that the Mohist is declining and my Confucianism is prosperous. ”
The crowd was deep in thought. Lu Zhi said: "Xuande's words are very true, the Tao and the art, the Tao is in the art first, if you forget the Tao and only know the art, it is fallacious." The Tao is the spirit of art, and the art is the body of the Tao. Only by using the Tao to unify the arts, can we achieve the Tao with the arts......"
Everyone talked about sexuality, and they talked about the concept of Tao and art in the barracks for a while, which made Liu Bei's head dizzy.
However, with printing and Zuo Bo paper, Liu Bei knew that even now he wanted to drive these people away, but he was afraid that they would not leave.
As soon as he returned to the pastoral mansion after leaving the barracks, a scout came to report. Yuan Shao invited Gongsun Zan to fight, winning first and then losing. Gongsun Zhan's young general Changshan Zhao Yun Zhao Zilong, one person and one gun, turned the tide alone, first stabbed the brave general Chun Yuqiong under the horse, and defeated several generals in a row, Yuan Shao's command, no generals were available, the army was in turmoil, Gongsun Chan took the opportunity to make trouble, Yuan Shao's army was defeated, retreated for dozens of miles, and stabilized his position.
Liu Bei's eyes flashed, Zilong, Zilong, I didn't expect you to go to Bo Jue quietly, so that I could find it. It's just how to seduce Zhao Yun from Senior Brother Gongsun? Liu Bei began to worry again.