Chapter 81: Printing
"Well, taking advantage of the construction of the workshop area, the Bowen Hall will also be built at this time, so that the common people of the fiefdom will have a place to go to school. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
Xiao Ming said.
As more and more people join the erudite class, there is now less and less place for the erudite hall.
So Xiao Ming decided to build a formal school, which was also the first comprehensive school close to a modern school.
The area of this school will be large, and it will integrate all kinds of professional disciplines, and the textbooks he has been writing day and night are prepared for the erudition hall.
Given that Qingzhou's education is basically poor and white, and he can't conjure up countless clones like a ninja, he can only adopt the method of senior students teaching junior students.
And he only needs to teach the oldest students, and so on.
In a closed island civilization, people are always comfortable with their current lives and have little interest in change, but this is extremely dangerous.
In modern times, it was not until the artillery of the great powers blasted open the closed doors of civilization that the whole civilization woke up and sought change, but by that time it was already too late.
So now Xiao Ming has to spread different ideas in his fiefdom, so as to break the long-term cultural confinement and wake up the sleeping people of Dayu and make corresponding changes.
He wants to let an era of a hundred schools of thought contend come back to the land of China and end the era of one family's words covering the world.
Of course, he will not raise the banner of opposing Confucian culture, because he will definitely attract the attack of the whole world, which will not be conducive to his recruitment of talents, he only needs to depose the article of exclusive respect for Confucianism and encourage other academics.
He believed that the people would be able to distinguish between what was right and what was wrong, what needed to be kept and what needed to be discarded.
At this time, the 100,000 slaves were only partially put into production, and until there were no new workshops, they could only work as construction workers.
That's why Xiao Ming asked Pang Yukun to take advantage of this to establish the Bowen Hall.
Pang Yukun nodded, and then said something else to Xiao Ming: "Your Highness, the tragedy of the seventy-two people in Dengzhou has been investigated, congratulations to Your Highness for winning another state, and the Wang family has also suffered heavy losses." ā
A smile surged into the corner of Xiao Ming's mouth, "Qingzhou, Cangzhou, Dengzhou, we have already mastered half of the military and politics, let them continue to fight, we just need to fight steadily, from top to bottom, the power is in our own hands, Pang Changshi, your task is not light." ā
Pang Yukun said with a smile, "The lower officials are not afraid of hard work, but they are afraid that His Royal Highness will not support them, and now that His Royal Highness supports the lower officials, the lower officials will naturally do their best and die." ā
Xiao Ming is very glad that his predecessor is a bastard, but there are still some talents around him, otherwise he really can't come alone.
"Also, I see that His Highness looks tired, and His Highness should also ensure his health, I heard Aster said that His Highness has written a lot of things, and he has to copy a lot of copies, just find a few scholars to do these things." Pang Yukun persuaded that his habit of speaking as an official had not been changed, and he advised from time to time.
Xiao Ming laughed, he was tired from writing textbooks overnight, but he wasn't ready to copy many copies by himself, he said: "Pang Changshi, I'm not stupid, this king has his own clever plan." ā
Speaking of this, Pang Yukun is interested, the most important thing for readers is books, and now the books in Dayu are basically copied and disseminated, and it is precisely because of this that the price of books is very expensive, and many children of the poor family look down on books at all, he said: "Your Highness seems to be going to give me a surprise again." ā
Xiao Ming beckoned to Pang Yukun and said, "Come, this king will take you there." ā
Saying that, Xiao Ming took Pang Yukun to the Equipment Division, and now the Equipment Division is no longer a production department in Xiao Ming's positioning, but a research and development department.
Xiao Ming's new craftsmanship will be born here, because there are the best technical talents in Qingzhou.
In the equipment department, Chen Qi is leading craftsmen to produce metal squares, and these metal squares are engraved with standard Chinese characters, which are the character molds in movable type printing.
Now Xiao Ming is preparing to establish a new workshop, which is the printing workshop, and the printing workshop uses lead printing.
This is a printing technique similar to movable type printing, but more advanced than movable type printing, and these types are not made of clay, but of metal.
In this way, you can extend the life of the font without having to use it once and throw away a batch.
This method is from the modern 15th century lead movable type printing, and it is also the easiest printing technology to achieve under Xiao Ming's measurement.
If there are no accidents, this printing technique can allow a printing press to print three hundred sheets of paper a day, which is enough for Xiao Ming.
After all, as long as there are enough workers, enough fonts, he can produce them on a large scale.
When he saw the movable type, Pang Yukun's mouth was wide enough to swallow an egg, and the current use of engraving printing in Dayu was still used, and this backward printing method was slow and very rigid, and it could not be changed.
And now what he sees is a different scene, Chen Qi has different sizes of fonts in hand, which can be typeset according to the size of the requirements, which is very flexible.
"It's... This is simply a big event for the future! If Pang Yukun despised Xiao Ming's goods that made money before, now he admires Xiao Ming from the bottom of his heart, from the perspective of a scholar.
Xiao Ming was not surprised by Pang Yukun's reaction, this time the lead printing technology used the metal casting mold of lead, and Xiao Ming set the size of the font according to modern standards, what is small four, small five.
It is precisely because of this that the fonts made by Chen Qi are also of different sizes.
"Pang Changshi, there will be no shortage of books in Qingzhou in the future, and of course there is one more, paper." Xiao Ming said.
Printing also needs qualified paper, Xiao Ming established the printing industry this time, of course, did not ignore the construction of paper mills, since ancient times, papermaking is basically the same, the difference is equipment and artificial.
Xiao Ming can only use water conservancy and ox power in power machinery, so the equipment department is still producing the ox power refiner he explained to improve the efficiency of pulping, because the steps of papermaking are basically degumming, beating, copying, drying, shortening one of them, you can improve productivity.
Among them, degumming is the use of steaming, soaking to make the material fibrous in the lye, beating is to beat these fibers into paste, copying is to use a sieve to pick up the pulp, this is the wet paper, the rest can be dried.
For Xiao Ming, there is not much paper used at present, so the paper produced by a purely manpower and animal-powered paper mill is enough for Qingzhou, after all, this is still an era of illiteracy on the streets.
He can't think of any compulsory education or anything like that, he has no money, no teaching.
Now he can only concentrate on cultivating a group of talents, and then take his time in the future.
Overall, the most important thing for him this time is to bring the lead printing technology, which has been used in modern times until the emergence of laser printing.