After selecting a stack of relatively thin and dense paper, Liu Chan asked the owner of the paper mill to cut it to about the same size as the common books of later generations, and then returned to the state pastor's mansion.

Liu Chan returned to the mansion, and it was past noon.

The subordinates were looking forward to it at the door, and when they saw Liu Chan coming back, they hurriedly greeted him: "Son, you are back, the two housewives have been waiting for you to eat for a long time!" ”

For example, although the system of two meals a day is implemented today, this is only relative to ordinary people, rich and noble families, and they already have the habit of lunch. And Liu Chan, as the son of the state pastor's house, naturally eats three meals.

"Got it!" Liu Chan nodded, and said to Zhao Yun and Lin Xiao: "I won't go out in the afternoon, after you two have lunch, go find the carving craftsmen in the city." ”

Zhao Yun was puzzled: "Carving craftsman? Childe, what do you want to do? ”

Liu Chan replied: "Let them carve the character seal, a square wooden block of half an inch in length, width and height, and carve a block of block with block letters, remember, the word must be prominent, and now all the words must be made!" But let them carve the characters in the Analects first, and give them to me as soon as possible when they are ready, and you can take your time with the rest. This kind of work is time-consuming and labor-intensive, so you can find a few more craftsmen! ”

"No!" The two gave up their orders and went down to run errands, while Liu Chan returned to the mansion for dinner.

It was not until dusk that Zhao Yun and Lin Xiao came to the state pastor's mansion.

In Liu Chan's room, the two of them carried the package, spread it out, put it in front of Liu Chan, and said: "Childe, these are all the words in the Analects, and we sent people to find dozens of craftsmen inside and outside the city to make it." As for the number of other characters, there are too many to carve in a short time! ”

"Well, well done!" Liu Chan played with the character seal, and saw that the block letters carved on it were quite standard, and nodded with satisfaction.

Zhao Yun was puzzled: "Young master, what are you doing here?" ”

"Don't go back tonight, stay and help me!" Liu Chan came to the ground in the room with the package, and gave an order to Zhao Yun and Lin Xiao, then poured the seal on the ground and began to tidy it up.

What Liu Chan has to do now is to print books.

Hitting a wall for three consecutive days, Liu Chan knew that visiting Xun Yu every day like him was not a matter of sincerity or insincerity at all. It's that Xun Yu won't see him at all, so he has to think of a way.

And the printed paper book will definitely arouse Xun Yu's interest!

The Analects have a total of more than 15,000 characters, and the different Chinese characters are about 1,350.

If it is a word-by-word search, it will definitely be time-consuming and labor-intensive, so Liu Chan sorted out these characters first.

According to the pronunciation of the 26 letters, the more than 1,000 words are divided into 26 parts.

The two watched Liu Chan pick and choose on the ground, and were puzzled: "Childe, what are you doing here?" ”

Liu Chan said while picking up wooden blocks: "You can't help now, give me the lamp first, and you will be busy later!" ”

After nearly half an hour, Liu Chan finally divided the more than 1,000 characters into 26 parts according to the pronunciation of 26 letters.

Afterwards, Liu Chan took out a few pieces of paper, on which were written numbers from one to twenty-six, and placed them on the sides of the twenty-six wooden blocks.

Liu Chan stretched his waist, sat down on the desk, and said to the two: "You go find twenty-five literate guards, and when I say what words you want, you will give them to me!" ”

When Lin Xiao heard this, he felt that his head was as big as a fight: "Childe, these more than a thousand words, even if you call some guards, you have to look for a long time, it's already dark, you better rest early, and get it tomorrow!" ”

Liu Chan said with a smile: "I have divided these words into twenty-six parts, I remember where they are, a person only needs to find dozens of them and it is not time-consuming, I will directly say the location later, you just take it, you don't need to look for long!" ”

Zhao Yun was quite surprised when he heard Liu Chan say this: "With more than 1,000 words, Gongzi actually wrote down their locations?" ”

Liu Chan waved his hand and said, "If you have a knack, I will explain it to you slowly in the future, and without further ado, you can quickly find someone." ”

"No!" Zhao Yun gave up his hand and left the room to find the guards.

But after a while, Zhao Yun came in with twenty-five literate guards. The guards in the governor's mansion were carefully selected talents, not only skilled in martial arts, but also mostly literate.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, twenty-five guards plus Zhao Yun and Lin Xiao, a total of twenty-seven people, Liu Chan asked Lin Xiao and twenty-five guards, each responsible for a character seal, and Zhao Yun was responsible for collecting the wooden blocks found by the guards and sending them to Liu Chan's case.

"Twenty-six characters, twenty-five are two words, eighteen are ......" Liu Chan kept saying the location of the characters and chapters according to the Analects.

There are more than 1,000 words, divided into twenty-six parts, and there are about fifty on average, even if Liu Chan doesn't need to point out which part the words are, these guards can quickly find out. However, after a while, the square required for the words of the first and second sentences of the Analects was sent to Liu Chan's case by Zhao Yun.

Liu Chan stacked these squares neatly in the table, and took four stone strips to fix them. With a good pen and ink prepared on the side, Liu Chan dipped the brush in ink and carefully applied ink on these squares.

Taking advantage of the fact that the ink was about to dry, Liu Chan hurriedly took a piece of paper, which Liu Chan measured with a ring ruler in the afternoon, drew a grid on it, put the paper on the neatly placed wooden block, took a piece of wood and pressed it gently, and then took off the paper.

I saw that on the paper, block letters were neatly listed in the grid, and they were the first, second and second sentences of the Analects.

Subsequently, Liu Chan left the wooden blocks needed in the next sentence of the Analects on the case, temporarily assigned the unneeded ones back to Zhao Yun, put them back in place, and printed the next sentence.

Here, Zhao Yun also understood Liu Chan's intentions, and he didn't need Liu Chan's reminder, so he took advantage of Liu Chan's printing efforts to collect the words and seals of the next sentence according to the Analects.

Sometimes the guards couldn't find it for a while, and Liu Chan reminded them of their location according to the pronunciation of the letters, and the printing speed became faster and faster.

It was not until the second half of the night that the printing of the Analects finally ended.

After printing, it is time to bind.

The guards were sent back and asked them to keep the secret, and Liu Chan only left Zhao Yun and Lin Xiao to help in the room.

In addition to drawing frames on these papers, Liu Chan also had holes pierced in each piece of paper in the afternoon, just for binding.

As for the cover, it is a piece of paper wrapped in blue cloth, glued together with paste, slightly thicker than the pages of the book, just like a blue book, and Liu Chan also drew a grid on each cover, and personally wrote the words "Analects" in block letters.

Because the paper was a bit thick, too thick to turn the page, a 10,000-word Analect was made into three books.

After the production of the three books was completed, it was already dawn.

Putting the three books into the gift box prepared in advance, Liu Chan got up and said to the two: "If it is clear today, come with me to dinner, and visit Xun Lingjun later!" ”

Zhao Yun frowned when he heard this: "Childe, you didn't rest all night, we are used to it, but you ......"

"I'm not sleepy yet, I'll rest when I come back, let's go!" Liu Chan shook his head and walked out of the room with the gift box.