I am a child of Daqin Xiong, who supervises the country at the age of eight

Chapter 35 Typography

Although the latter was confused, he still honestly took out the seal and handed it into Ying Changsheng's hands.

I saw Ying Changsheng dipping his seal into the ink pad on the table next to him.

Immediately, it was covered on the paper.

On the paper, the four clear words Wu Zhangcang appeared.

"do you understand?"

After finishing these, Ying Changsheng did not continue to talk, but asked Zhang Liang and Zhang Cang.

The two of them frowned, obviously a little surprised, and they haven't recovered yet.

Seeing this situation, Ying Changsheng couldn't help but sigh.

He also understands.

For people who have never been exposed to printing, it is difficult to use these means to penetrate them and make them realize the simple technology of printing.

For things that have not been touched.

Humans, after all, lack some imagination.

It's like typography.

It's not really a high-tech thing at all.

It's nothing more than engraving and printing, it's nothing more than making the seal larger and then printing it.

And movable type printing is not difficult.

It is nothing more than fixing individual small "stamps" together and then printing them.

What kind of high-tech thing is this stuff?

During the Qin Dynasty, this technical ability was fully available.

But no one thought of it. It wasn't until the Northern Song Dynasty that people thought of it...

I only saw Ying Changsheng’s explanation.

"One word can be printed on the seal, isn't it possible to print hundreds of words at one time?"

"This……"

Zhang Cang and Zhang Liang suddenly felt a buzzing in their minds.

Immediately, it was clearing the clouds and seeing the sun, and Mao Sai suddenly realized.

Without him.

This thing is not difficult at all!

It's nothing more than, I didn't think of it before.

Hearing what Ying Changsheng said, Zhang Cang's eyes lit up instantly.

"This is a good skill. It is too fast to use people to copy. If you use this method, you only need to complete the engraving of a set of books, and you can print as many books as you want..."

"Yup!"

Zhang Liang also nodded, and looked at the paper again.

"However, after all, this thing is still with the paper, so it will be useful just now. If there is no paper, it will not be printed with bamboo slips!"

"That's natural!"

Ying Changsheng nodded.

"These two are two technologies that complement each other and are indispensable!"

Zhang Cang on the side nodded and said with emotion.

"This is really a good thing that benefits the country and the people. I, the Qin Dynasty, often copy official documents. The tired swordsmen and pen officials have sore hands and cannot copy out several copies. Moreover, one copy of this official document contains hundreds of words. , Thousands of words, or even tens of thousands of words, when transcribing, you can't make mistakes, once you make mistakes, in my Great Qin, you will be punished..."

"In the past, bamboo slips were used to write. If you made a mistake in writing a word, you could use a knife to cut off the wrong word and then rewrite it. But now you use paper to write. If you make a mistake in a word, you have to rewrite it. And some This printing is different. You only need to write out a sample and let the craftsmen engrave according to it..."

"Right!"

Zhang Liang nodded.

He sighed.

"Although there were a large collection of books at home when I was young, there were many mistakes in them. There were even some discrepancies in the same article in the two collections. These were the mistakes made when copying, but if it was printed, Probably, there will not be such a mistake..."

"Don't rush to say this. Let me ask you, do you think there is anything that needs improvement in what I just said?"

Ying Changsheng frowned and looked at Zhang Liangdao.

Zhang Liang and Zhang Cang talked a lot, but they focused all their attention on what Ying Changsheng just said, engraving and printing.

In Ying Changsheng's opinion, this thing is behind the times!

The cost is very high.

After all, in woodblock printing, if you make a mistake in a word, you need to make a new template and then engrave it again, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

"Your Highness, is there anything else you want to say?"

Zhang Liang and Zhang Cang looked bewildered. It was already rare for the two of them to think of engraving and printing. How could they continue to think deeply and think of movable type printing?
Seeing the ignorant faces of the two, Ying Changsheng couldn't continue to sell his official position, he pointed to the seal and said.

"It's a big piece of seal with hundreds or thousands of characters. Not to mention time-consuming and labor-intensive. Once a word is wrong, the entire page needs to be re-engraved!"

"But what else can we do if we don't?"

Zhang Liangfa asked.

"Of course there is!"

Ying Changsheng said.

He picked up Zhang Cang's seal and said.

"If you carve out small seals of equal size, each small seal will only have one word written inside!"

"When it is necessary to print, according to the content of the article, select the required words, form the article, fix it, and then print it. In this way, you don't have to print a book every time, but you have to carve it out for him. It's a page..."

"Zhang Cang admires the talent of the Nineteenth Young Master!"

Zhang Cang's eyes were shining, and he said to Ying Changsheng.

Of course he could realize the power of what Ying Changsheng said.

Zhang Liang on the side was also shocked, and he asked immediately.

"Your Highness, are these things complicated to make?"

"Craftsman, can you finish it?"

"Probably, it should be no problem!"

Ying Changsheng and Zhang Cang said at the same time.

Immediately, Ying Changsheng didn't talk nonsense, and immediately went to Yan outside.

"Go to Shaofu and invite Gongshu Shangzao to my son!"

"promise!"

Yan Yi responded, then retreated, and went to invite Gongshu Shangzao.

Not long after, Gongshu Shangzao came in.

"Chen Gong loses to Shangzao, kowtow to meet the nineteenth son!"

Gongshu Shangzao, dressed in black, saluted respectfully.

"Free gift!"

Ying Changsheng waved his hand, and immediately told the latter about movable type printing.

The latter was silent for a moment, then murmured uncontrollably.

"Why didn't I think of such a simple thing?"

Hearing his words, Zhang Liang and Zhang Cang beside him couldn't help laughing.

Well, they thought the same way when they first heard Ying Changsheng mention the printing technique.

The truth is such a truth, which is obviously very simple.

However, they just didn't think through it.

At this time, Ying Changsheng asked.

"What is the difficulty of what I proposed, movable type printing?"

"There should be some difficulty, but not too much!"

Gongshu Shangzao said.

"The difficulty is that this is just an idea. If it is really going to be done, it needs to be tested. After all, this movable type printing, after typesetting, how to fix each movable type, or what material is used to make this movable type. It's also a question..."

(End of this chapter)