Datang: At the beginning, Li Er eavesdropped on his heart

Chapter 71 Movable Type Printing Begins!
"His Royal Highness, what next?"

Master Cui couldn't wait to ask, and several other people also looked at Li Yin directly, as if they really wanted to know what happened next.

However, when Li Min heard this, he smiled and said, "This story is too long and I can't finish it at once. I wonder if you are willing to write it out?"

hiss!
The people present gasped.

Is this the story they need to write?

Now, everyone present was ecstatic, their eyes filled with joy. After all, they agreed with this story very much, and at the same time they liked it very much, and were addicted to it.

Therefore, they naturally agreed without hesitation to what Li Yin asked them to write.

"His Royal Highness Liang Wang, this story is so excellent, it is a great honor for me to be able to write it."

"Yes, Your Highness King Liang, I have read so many books, but I have never seen such an excellent story. No matter what, I am willing to help His Highness King Liang write this story."

"His Royal Highness Liang, I also like this story very much. If His Royal Highness Liang is willing, I also want to write for His Royal Highness Liang."

"That's right, that's right, His Royal Highness King Liang doesn't have to worry, this matter will be on our shoulders."

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Everyone talked and said, everyone was full of praise for the Journey to the West they had just heard, and they all wanted to help write it.

The reason why they are willing to write this book is not only because the story is very good, but also an important reason, that is, they also really want to know the ending of this story.

Especially when Li Yin was telling the story, he deliberately stuck on a point and didn't tell it, which made them very curious about the next content of the story.

However, Li Min didn't want to say it, and they had no choice. After all, Li Min was the king of Liang no matter what, and it was impossible for them to force Li Min. This was the following offense.

So the only way is to agree to Li Yin, accept this task and write this story.

Even Lu Ziwang couldn't help but said: "His Royal Highness Liang, I am willing to take on this task of writing."

Seeing the old men in front of him eagerly accepting the task, Li Yin felt happy for a while, but everything was within his expectation.

Immediately Li Yin said with a smile: "Since all the teachers are willing to write, let's start now. I tell you to write."

After Li Yin finished speaking, the butler on the side was very tactful and asked people to prepare pens and inks, and soon the pens and inks were brought up. Immediately after Li Yin's narration, those great Confucian scholars picked up their pens and began to write. up.

Time passed by every minute and every second, even if these great Confucians wrote for a whole day, they still only wrote a small part.

Li Yin is also very dissatisfied with this speed. If it is really released and sold, it will not work at this speed.

After thinking about it, he suddenly came up with a good idea, which is to use workers to print it, and these fonts will be used as a model. Thinking of this, he thought of movable type printing.

Today's Tang Dynasty does not have movable type printing, only woodblock printing.

Block printing is to paste neatly copied manuscripts on a smooth wooden board of a certain thickness. The front of the thin and almost transparent manuscript paper is attached to the board, and the characters become reversed.

Workers use a carving knife to cut off the part of the page that has no writing. When printing, they smear ink on the raised characters, then cover it with paper, gently wipe the back of the paper, and the writing is left on the paper.

Use movable woodcuts, metal or clay blocks to replace traditional transcription, or block printing that cannot be reused.

Compared with engraving printing, movable type printing is a little different. It is a Yangwen reverse type mold that forms a single character, and then selects the individual characters according to the manuscript, arranges them in the type plate, inks and prints them, and then removes the type molds after printing , to be used again in the next typesetting.

Woodblock printing and block engraving are time-consuming and labor-intensive. It usually takes several years to store large books, and it takes up a lot of space to store the plates, and they are often damaged by deformation, insects, and corrosion.

In order to meet the needs of typesetting in movable type printing, several or even dozens of commonly used characters are prepared for repeated use in the same edition.

When encountering rare words that are not commonly used, if there is no preparation in advance, you can use them as you make them.

One edition of woodblock printing can print hundreds or even thousands of books, but the plate making is very slow, and typos are difficult to correct.

Although movable type printing is not faster than woodblock printing, it can print hundreds or thousands of copies, and the work efficiency is extremely impressive. It can not only save a lot of manpower and material resources, but also greatly improve the printing speed and quality.

"Teachers, you've worked hard today, so let's write tomorrow." Li Yin said to these great Confucians. In fact, he just wanted to quickly get people to make typography.

When everyone heard Li Yin's words, and they were indeed a little exhausted, they immediately agreed without hesitation.

"It's not hard, Your Highness Liang Wang, when will we come tomorrow?" Lu Ziwang stood up, suddenly felt sore, unknowingly, he had sat for so long, and thought he had just sat for a while.

However, Lu Ziwang is still very happy and is looking forward to the next development of the story.

After Lu Ziwang and others left, Li Yin immediately asked the housekeeper to find a bunch of engravers, and when everyone had arrived, Li Yin said to these engravers:
"This time, the king comes to you mainly to ask you to engrave the words on these manuscript papers. Each person will engrave one page, and each page must have at least twenty inscriptions."

"Remember, this time it is engraved separately, each character should be engraved one by one, and the size should be the same as the font on the engraving, do you understand?"

Li Min gave orders to everyone.

After hearing these words, everyone was puzzled, and their eyes were full of surprise. They had never taken over this kind of work. After all, what they had done before was engraving and printing. Like this kind of single character, everyone still See you for the first time.

But the other party was His Royal Highness Liang Wang, even if they were puzzled, they would not say anything more. After all, those who are rich are uncles, as long as they are given money, they can do anything.

"Yes, Your Highness King Liang, I will wait for the order." Everyone said one after another, without any objection to Li Yin's request.

In the next few days, the Confucian scholars spent almost every day in Liang Wangfu, and Li Min also enjoyed reading Journey to the West, the workers were also engraving movable type printing, and the construction of the library and academy was also in progress.

(End of this chapter)