Traveling Through Land Reclamation: Farmers' Women Can't Be Dizzled

Chapter 328 Movable Type Printing

  The population of Yuanling County was now several times larger than other counties, Jing Yi also wanted to train some manpower so that it would be convenient for him to use in the future.

  In ancient times, poets were extremely rare, and most of them did not even know the character.

  Jing Yi asked Lu Tingjie to send someone to conduct a survey to see how many people in Yuanling County were literate, and it turned out to be very few in number. Jing Yi decided to run a school to teach school-age children reading and writing.

  In ancient times, the reason why poor people could not afford to read books was because reading was too expensive, not to mention school improvements, even books and papers could not be bought by the poor.

  The technology of ancient papermaking was very backward, and paper was very expensive. Books are generally copied by hand, and they cost more. A few taels of silver for a book are very common.

  Under such circumstances, the poor did not have the ability to let their children read books. An ordinary family needs the strength of an entire family to support a scholar. Therefore, reading in ancient times was done by many rich people.

  After hearing Jing Yi's plan, Lu Tingjie said: "Yiyi, there are so many people in Yuanling County, and there are many children who need to learn. We can't take care of them. It wasn't hard to find a teacher, but it was just books, paper, ink, pens and ink stones. It was a very expensive item, and the average family was probably

  can't afford it. Books and paper were the main expenses, and the prices were also very high. Many families may not even have the money to buy books."

  Jing Yi said: "Isn't it because the papermaking technology is too backward and the productivity is too low? There were also books that were copied manually, so the books were very expensive. I will find ways to increase the productivity of papermaking, and books will be used in the future. Printing technology is much faster than manual copying.

  I need craftsmen who know how to make paper and craftsmen who can carve. Please help me find him. At that time, I will improve the papermaking process and improve the results. And books, I'm ready to print."

  Lu Tingjie had never heard of printing, and asked: "What is printing?"

  Jing Yi said: "I'm talking about movable type printing."

  Speaking of which, Jing Yi took out the font model he was trying to create and said, "Look, I made some blanks with the same specifications as clay, which is what we are trying to make, and engrave one character in reverse at one end. In the same way, it is hardened by fire into one type of movable clay.Then the individual characters are selected according to the script, arranged in a type plate, ink is printed, the, and then the type is removed once printed, and used again in the next letter setting.

  typesetting If necessary, some or even dozens of commonly used characters can be prepared for repeated use in the same edition.When finding a rare character that is not commonly used, the, if there is no preparation in advance, it can be used when it is made. The advantage of this is that it makes

  easy Fonts, fast printing speed, and reusable fonts, and large quantities of books can be printed quickly, so the cost of books is reduced, and books can be sold at low prices." Lu Tingjie noticed Jing Yi using a font engraved with the characters upside down on

  The ink stone was stained with ink and then pressed down on the paper, and a large and clear character was left behind on the type paper.

  Lu Tingjie really did not know how Jing Yi's brain was so long, he was able to find such a good method, "Yiyi, your method is very good. It is easy to carve characters with clay. Once fired, the font will harden. Don't be afraid." Use ink. In this way, in the future, can you print as many books as you want? It also saves time. In this way, books are cheaper, even people who are not rich can afford them. Yiyi, I will give it to the people

  tomorrow you find him. Let me see after you finish it. "

  Jing Yi smiled and said:" I will open a bookstore. In the future, all kinds of papers and books could be sold. We made the paper ourselves, and printed the book ourselves. As long as there's a manuscript."

  It is not difficult to carve on clay, and almost anyone with carving skills can do it. If you only pay attention to fonts that look good, you need better engraving techniques.

  Jing Yi asked people to burn characters engraved with clay, and eventually gain a relatively hard character.

  After firing typography and preparing other printing tools, Jing Yi asked Lu Tingjie to come over.

  "Ajie, I've done it all, and I'll show you today's moving letter printing process,"

  jingyi said, using a framed iron plate as the base, and covering it with a layer of turpentine, wax, and paper, then select the type of clay required and arrange in the frame one by one. After the frame is filled, it becomes a plate, then it is baked with fire, after the medicine melts a little, the surface is flattened with a flat plate, after the medicine is cold and hardened, into a plate.

  Then Jing Yi smeared ink on the pattern, covered it with paper, and exerted a certain pressure, and the words from this version were printed on the paper. Jing Yi had tried it many times, and she was very good at printing, so the paper was very clean except for the printed words.

  Lu Tingjie took out a piece of paper filled with characters and looked at it for a long time and was very excited, "Yiyi, it's not hard to make this typeface. Isn't it easy to print a book in the future? Don't you want to print as many books as you want? It's comparable to humans copying books much faster.

  In the future, we can print more books and sell them at a very cheap price, so those students can make a profit."

  Jing Yi nodded and said: “You are right, we want to print books in the future. Printing any book and how many is easy.You see, in order to print continuously, two iron plates are used, one for printing and the other for the preparation of letters. Both pages are used interchangeably. After printing, the herb is roasted with a torch, and With light hand shake, the movable type can fall off the iron plate, and then can be stored for future use.”

  Jing Yi also improved the papermaking process, which greatly improved the papermaking output.

  Then Jing Yi built a paper-making workshop and opened a bookstore.

  Paper workshop specialized in paper making. Bookstores not only buy books, but also print them. Due to the use of mobile type printing technology, Jing Yi and the others published books very quickly, and the cost of a book was greatly reduced. When Jingyi's bookstore started selling cheap books, everything sold out.

  Usually a book costs a few taels of silver or even more expensive, but now it costs only a few taels of silver or even cheaper.Bachelor who are usually reluctant to buy books should take cheap books and buy them quickly.

  Jingyi's bookstore quickly opened in Yuanling County and several surrounding counties The people of this district, as well as students and scholars from several surrounding counties, were, come to the Yuanda Bookstore of Yuanling County to buy books.

  Some entrepreneurs also see business opportunities in book sales, and will buy some books from the Yuanda Bookstore and take them elsewhere to buy. It is much cheaper than books from elsewhere, so the profits from book sales are very high. Of course, business people will not let go of this good opportunity to make money.

  Some merchants even sold books and other goods from Yuanling County to Jin State. The few shops that Jing Yi opened could be said to be making a lot of money.