Steel Dynasty - Chapter 81

[Chapter 81 Printing]

“Well, let’s take advantage of the construction of the workshop area and build the Bowen Hall at this time. In this way, the common people in the fiefdom will have a place to go to school.”

Xiao Ming said.

As people continue to join Bowen Hall for classes, the space in Bowen Hall is becoming increasingly insufficient.

So Xiao Ming decided to build a formal school, which was also the first comprehensive school close to a modern university.

This school will be very large and will integrate various professional disciplines. The teaching materials he has been writing day and night are for Bowen Hall.

Since Qingzhou’s education was basically poor, and he couldn’t create countless clones like a ninja, he could only use the method of teaching senior students to junior students.

And he only needs to teach the oldest students, and pass it on level by level.

In a closed island civilization, people are always comfortable with their current life and have little interest in change, but this is indeed extremely dangerous.

In modern times, it was not until the artillery of the great powers opened the closed door of civilization that the entire 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 restrictions and wake up the sleeping people of Dayu and make corresponding changes.

He wants to bring an era of contention among a hundred schools of thought to the land of China again, and end the era in which one family’s words obscure the world.

Of course, he will not raise the banner of opposing Confucian culture, because it will definitely lead to attacks from literati all over the world, which will be detrimental to his recruitment of talents and tribute. He only needs to abandon the exclusive respect for Confucianism and encourage other academics.

He believed that the people could distinguish what was right and what was wrong, what needed to be retained and what needed to be abandoned.

At this time, only part of the 100,000 slaves were put into production. Before there were new workshops, they could only work as construction workers.

That’s why Xiao Ming asked Pang Yukun to take advantage of this opportunity to establish Bowen Hall.

Pang Yukun nodded, and then told Xiao Ming another matter: “Your Highness, the massacre of seventy-two families in Dengzhou has been found out. Congratulations to Your Highness for winning another state. The Wang family also suffered heavy losses.”

Xiao Ming’s mouth had a trace of emotion.

With a smile, “Qingzhou, Cangzhou, and Dengzhou, we have already controlled half of the military and political affairs. Now let them continue to fight. We just need to fight steadily. The power from top to bottom is in the hands of our own people. Pang Changshi, your The task is not easy.”

Pang Yukun said with a smile, “I am not afraid of hard work, but I am afraid that His Highness will not support me. Now that His Highness supports me, I will naturally work hard and die.”

Xiao Ming was very lucky. His predecessor was a bastard, but. There are still some talents around him, otherwise he really wouldn’t be able to come alone.

“Also, I see that His Highness looks tired, so His Highness should take care of his health. I heard from Ziyuan that His Highness has written a lot of things and has to make many copies. Just find a few scholars to do these things.” Pang Yukun advised. , he has not gotten rid of his habit of speaking to officials, and he gives advice from time to time.

Xiao Ming laughed. He was tired from writing textbooks all night long, but he was not going to copy many copies himself. He said, “Pang Changshi, I’m not stupid. I have my own clever plan.”

Speaking of this, Pang Yukun When I became interested, the most important thing for scholars was books. Nowadays, books in Dayu are basically copied and spread. It is precisely because of this that the price of books is very expensive, and many children from poor families cannot afford to read books at all. He said: “Your Highness seems to be giving me another surprise.”

Xiao Ming waved to Pang Yukun and said, “Come, I will take you there.”

After saying that, Xiao Ming took Pang Yukun to the Equipment Department. The Equipment Department is now there. Xiao Ming’s positioning is no longer a production department, but a research and development department.

Xiao Ming’s new craftsmanship will be born here, because here are the best technical talents in Qingzhou.

In the Equipment Department, Chen Qi is leading the craftsmen to produce metal squares one by one. These metal squares are engraved with standard Chinese characters, which are the fonts used in movable type printing.

Now Xiao Ming is preparing to build a new workshop, which is a printing workshop, and the printing workshop uses type printing.

This is a printing technology similar to movable type printing, but it is more advanced than movable type printing. These typefaces are not made of clay, but made of metal.

In this way, the service life of the fonts can be extended without having to use them once and throw away a batch.

This method comes from the modern movable lead printing technology of the 15th century, and it is also the printing technology that is easiest to implement according to Xiao Ming’s measurement.

If there are no accidents, this printing technology can allow a printing press to print three hundred sheets of paper every day, which is enough for Xiao Ming.

After all, as long as there are enough workers and enough fonts, he can produce them on a large scale.

When he saw the movable type, Pang Yukun’s mouth opened wide enough to swallow an egg. The country of Chongqing currently still uses engraving printing. This backward printing method is slow in efficiency, very rigid, and cannot be modified.

But what he saw now was a different scene. The fonts at Chen Qi’s hand were of different sizes and could be typeset according to the requirements, which was very flexible.

“This… this is simply a great event that will benefit the future!” If Pang Yukun despised Xiao Ming’s profitable products in the past, 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. The type printing this time used metal molds such as lead, and Xiao Ming set the font size according to modern standards, ranging from small four to small five.

It is precisely because of this that the typefaces produced by Chen Qi are also of different sizes.

“Pang Changshi, Qingzhou will not be short of books in the future, and of course there is one more thing, paper.” Xiao Ming said.

Printing also requires qualified paper. When Xiao Ming established the printing industry this time, he certainly did not ignore the construction of paper mills. Papermaking has been basically the same since ancient times, with the difference being equipment and labor.

Power machinery Xiao Ming can only use water and cattle power, so the equipment department is still producing the cattle power refiner he explained to improve the efficiency of pulping, because the steps of papermaking are basically degumming, pulping, paper making, drying, and shortening one of them. , can improve productivity.

Among them, degumming uses cooking and soaking to fiberize the material in alkali solution; beating involves beating these fibers into paste; papermaking involves using a screen to scoop up the pulp. This is wet paper, and the rest can be dried.

For Xiao Ming, not much paper is currently used, so the paper produced by a purely human-powered paper mill with animal power is enough for Qingzhou. After all, this is still an era when the streets are full of illiterates.

He can’t even think about compulsory education at the moment. He has no money and no teacher.

Now he can only concentrate on cultivating a group of talents and take his time in the future.

Generally speaking, the most important thing he did this time was to bring the type printing technology. This technology has been used in modern times until the emergence of laser printing. It was definitely a printing revolution for Dayu. change.

(End of chapter)