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Chapter 221 Feng Taishi, who can write regular script

Fu San really wanted to help Ye Hua, but she didn't give it away, so she went to buy land. After selling it, Fu San found that not only did her assets not decrease, but also increased a lot.

She still couldn't understand what wealth appreciation meant. She just took out 500,000 guan, and now she still had 260,000 guan, and the land price was almost 500,000 guan. Fu San believed that at least half of Ye Hua's land was not considered as not taking advantage.

Ye Hua's idea is different. He doesn't help the poor, but he doesn't help the poor. He can't turn into cash and has no value. Fu San helped him a lot and it's the best he earns.

What's more, if a big man wants the money of a little girl, wouldn't he be a soft-hearted person? We, the champion, can't do it!

"You don't have to worry about me." Ye Huahao said angrily: "I have great power now. I have so much land. I want to increase the price of the price. I want to sell as much as the house I want! Those people's lifelines are in my hands. If I can't make any money, I'm a pig's head!"

Fu San couldn't understand what Ye Hua meant very much, but she felt that Ye Hua, who was full of confidence, looked very good. Even if she was a pig's head, she was still a beautiful pig's head!

"Then will you be short of money in the future?" she asked with concern.

Ye Hua shrugged and replied helplessly, "This is hard to say, it depends mainly on Your Majesty, and your brother-in-law. As long as I don't ask for trouble and cause trouble, I can live a good life!"

"oh!"

Fu San nodded seriously. She felt that she wanted to talk to her elder sister, and that she could not bully honest people!

Perhaps the pillow wind was useful, and Ye Hua's life was really much easier. Chai Rong did not cause him trouble, but asked him to concentrate on disaster relief and rebuild Kaifeng.

As the saying goes, everything is difficult at the beginning. Ye Hua has already made rules of the rules, so there are naturally people who will do the rest. The Great Zhou is still not short of capable officials.

Zhao Pu, deputy envoy of the Third Division, and Dou Wei, judge of Kaifeng Prefecture, two assisted Ye Hua. In addition, Shen Yilun also returned to the capital from Huainan, where he was responsible for supervising the construction of the school.

With these people here, Ye Hua was happy to hide from his leisure time.

In fact, he was not much freer. So he had to compile textbooks a few days ago. Ye Hua put a lot of effort into compiling two books, one for calculation and the other for common sense.

In mathematics, he referred to ancient books such as "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", but these ancient books are mostly aimed at practical problems, and are almost all booklets of application questions, lacking rigorous and systematic logical reasoning. Ye Hua did a lot of sorting out, and then combined the experience of later generations, he used a gradual approach to compile textbooks before the third grade.

The common sense part seems to be very rich, including astronomy, geography, ancient stories, physics and chemistry, life experience, medical first aid, plant and animals... Ye Hua believes that if you want to truly replace Confucianism and classics, you must first open your horizons and let students care about more things. Don’t always revolve around these mysterious concepts of benevolence, righteousness, mind, Tao, and qi... If you have more knowledge, you will naturally think.

If you think too much, the general moralized Confucian proposition will naturally be affected.

This is a process of accumulating strength and not being impatient.

Ye Hua gave the textbook he compiled 70 points and was able to pass the exam.

The following is to print out the textbooks. After all, the school has started to operate, so it is not possible to have no textbooks.

Ye Hua asked several bookstores in Kaifeng, and they gave the price of 1 guan for each book. Ye Hua was very annoyed when he found out! One guan for a book, and elementary school students used three books per semester, six books a year, which was six coins.

Including pen, ink, paper, ink, clothes, shoes, food, accommodation and extracurricular activities, it is probably 10 cents a year. If there are a few children at home, how can ordinary people bear it?

Ye Hua found the bookstore, and the boss looked bitter. They really didn't want it much. If the Marquis wanted to buy Mencius of the Analects of Confucius, they could sell it to the Marquis for 100 entries, but they just printed a new set of books, which was so expensive!

They need to re-carve, page by page, and the material alone consumes a lot. This is a meticulous job. If you make a little mistake, you have to start over.

Ye Hua had to hurry and printed two books again. They needed to find all the skilled craftsmen to work day and night. After all, they did not take advantage of each book.

This is the problem with woodblock printing, and they also told Ye Hua that if you want to see a book, you have to wait 5 months. There are only so many carving craftsmen, and you can't be anxious.

Ye Hua was patient and after listening to the boss's complaints, he said nothing and turned around and left... He had made up his mind to make movable type printing as soon as possible.

Print your own book!

Ye Hua was going to build a bookstore, and Fu San soon found it. He had a place to use it again. He came here happily, "Do you want me to help?"

She was holding the baby box in her arms, and her eyes were crescent-shaped, like a little rich woman.

Ye Hua also smiled. It’s really good to say that when it comes to cash, he really doesn’t have Fu Sanduo.

"Let's count the investment, get 30,000 guan first, and I'll give you 50% of the shares!"

The little girl took out the money without hesitation, which was so bold.

After taking other people's money, Ye Hua couldn't let the little girl's money go to waste! He quickly found a group of craftsmen and told them about his ideas, asking these people to make movable type with clay.

According to Ye Hua's request, the craftsmen produced movable type in less than three days.

Fu San looked curiously. She held the seal-like movable type in her hand, pressed it hard on her white and tender skin, and dents appeared. When the little girl saw the ink, she simply dripped the ink and ravaged the back of her hand. After a while, it turned black. She was quite happy to play.

But when Ye Hua saw these movable types, he kept frowning. He tried to arrange a few words and printed them on the paper. The result was deep and shallow, and the effect was surprisingly poor!

It’s not a joke. Printing is the four great inventions. Moving type printing is also a feat of genius. Why is it not as good as woodblock printing? What are the problems?

Ye Hua picked up a few movable types and compared them carefully. Gradually, he found the problem... Fu San saw Ye Hua's head was stuffy and seemed very unhappy, so she came over.

"Is there something wrong?"

"Well, I've thought it simple, but in fact, there is nothing wrong with movable type printing and woodblocking."

Ye Hua suddenly felt a little frustrated... The carved version had to be engraved on the wooden board one by one, and each page was not allowed to make any mistakes. But in fact, the printing of movable type also had to be engraved one by one, and the project volume was not small.

Moreover, there are many Chinese characters and there are duplicates, so if you want to use movable type printing, you have to first produce hundreds of thousands of movable types... After movable type printing appeared, a Fujian native Lin Chunqi spent 21 years to spend more than 200,000 taels of silver to carve into more than 400,000 copper movable characters in large and small regular script, which is a huge expense.

Of course, a craftsman cannot complete such a large number, and even requires many batches, several years... Different craftsmen and different batches will inevitably have different fonts and sizes.

It would be strange if you put such movable characters together to print books and can print fine products.

Ye Hua figured it out. No wonder he invented movable type printing since the Northern Song Dynasty, but it has never occupied the mainstream. The problem of movable type printing is indeed too big.

Of course, in the areas where letters are written, the situation is much better. There are only 26 letters and only 52 capitals. The difficulty is countless times less, so it is not surprising that they shine in their hands.

Ye Hua carefully estimated that using movable type can indeed reduce costs, but it cannot reduce too much, and it will also sacrifice quality!

The ancients have already summarized that "if only printing two or three copies is not simple, if printing dozens and hundreds of thousands of copies is extremely fast", the cost will be reduced and the advantages of movable type printing will be highlighted.

Most ancient Chinese books were not printed in large quantities. The four books and five classics and classics, which were in high demand, remained unchanged for thousands of years. It was relatively convenient and fast to use woodblock printing. It was engraved in one go, and the whole page was retained, so it could be copied repeatedly. In order to make profits and strive to reduce costs, the bookstore was unwilling to throw away the original traditional woodblocking technology and adopted the new technology of movable type printing.

Some literati are willing to spend time hand-copying books, which reduces the need for movable type printing.

In short, there are very complicated reasons why movable type printing is coldly accepted.

Is there no way to have the best of both worlds?

have!

That is to promote it nationwide, set up an official bookstore, establish a standardized font library, and then uniformly cast movable characters to ensure that the font size is consistent.

Then there is a large number of prints, such as new textbooks, which are very suitable for this method.

Ye Hua excitedly found Wang Pu, and Wang Xianggong also compiled textbooks with Ye Hua. He was confused. After hearing Ye Hua say that, he nodded frequently, and finally laughed loudly and was very happy!

"Okay, what a good idea!"

How could Wang Pu be so happy?

Didn’t he discuss with Ye Hua about establishing an official school? Do you want to gain the power of public opinion?

The success of knowledge is closely related to the degree of transmission.

After more than a thousand years, those Confucian classics are full of printed versions on the market. Many handwritten copies are hidden in the family of literati, as vast as a sea of ​​smoke. Even if your husband Wang has created new knowledge, how can he compete with others?

Ye Hua mentioned movable type printing, unified font library, unified printing... How could these things not touch Wang Pu's heart! He clearly saw the hope of the publishing power returning to the court.

This is done!

"Champion Marquis, I support you very much. I will write to Your Majesty now. I think Your Majesty will agree." Wang Pu asked again: "Do you have a charter for the production of movable type?"

"Yes, I'm going to make it in the Champions League, and I'm going to show my attitude of making military weapons. I must do the movable type well!"

"That would be great!"

Wang Pu thought about it and said, "There is one thing left, which is this font library. How to do it?"

"Do you need to print? Of course, you need to use fine regular script. Wang Xianggong's calligraphy is so good, so you can write it!" Ye Hua suggested.

Wang Pu quickly waved his hand, "No, no, I am good at running script and cursive script. I really can't write regular script, so I will make a joke! How about I recommend someone to you?"

"who?"
Chapter completed!
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