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Chapter 338 The Golden Body
Lin Xuan is confident that with the deterrence of explosives, the aristocratic family will not do anything to him in a short time.

Focus on printed books.

After the printing craftsmen were recruited, Lin Xuan put the printing place in the academy.

There is still more than half of the space in the academy that is not used, and it is just right for printing books now.

"Master Liu, how are you preparing?" Lin Xuan asked.

Liu Shilun said in a respectful voice: "Back to Lord Hou, after yesterday's test, there is no problem, and it can be officially printed today."

There is not much difference in printing between movable type printing and block printing.

It's just that before printing, the typeface needs to be arranged and fixed according to the book.

Lin Xuan nodded and said, "Then start printing today. Remember, words and punctuation marks must not be mistaken."

"Yes!" Liu Shilun replied, and began to direct the craftsmen to work.

The content of the first few pages of the Analects of Confucius had already been typesetting and fixed. The bottom of the typeface was brushed with ink, and printed on the cut paper, one side was printed.

The craftsman waiting by the side quickly and carefully took the printed paper, put it on the shelf, and waited for it to dry before printing the other side on the back.

Lin Xuan walked to the shelf and looked at it. It was no different from the engraving and printing, and the handwriting was very clear.

……

"Your Majesty, Baiqi contacted the servants brought by the family that day, and learned from them that the Hou of Jingyang County and the people of the family were on the hillside that day. They didn't know exactly what happened, but the loud noise was indeed from Jingyang County. Hou made it." Li Mu said.

Li Shimin's face darkened, a little displeased, it has been three days since Lin Xuan met with the people from the aristocratic family.

How the loud noise was made has not been found out until now.

But he knew that Baiqi was not to blame, after all, those who knew the truth couldn't move for the time being.

"What is Lin Xuan doing these days?" Li Shimin asked.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the Marquis of Jingyang County has been busy recruiting craftsmen and printing books these days," Li Mu said.

"He is very laid back." Li Shimin said angrily.

I have been thinking about the loud noise for the past few days, but Lin Xuan is unrestrained. Li Shimin feels unhappy when he thinks of this.

As an emperor, if he is unhappy, he will naturally not let others be happy.

"Call him to me." Li Shimin ordered.

Since the investigation can't find out, then ask directly. If this matter is not clarified, Li Shimin will feel a little uncomfortable.

"Yes!" Li Mu replied, and hurried to find Lin Xuan.

……

Busy until noon, the first batch of ten Analects of Confucius was finally bound.

Xu Geng asked suspiciously: "Master Hou, this movable type printing technique only prints ten copies in one morning, which is slower than woodblock printing. It seems that it is not as easy to use as Lord Hou said."

Lin Xuan shook his head and said: "Now it's because of the fonts. When there are more fonts in the future, it will be faster. Movable type printing will not be faster than woodblock printing. Do you know why I still value it so much? "

If you don't start the comparison from engraving, but printing, movable type printing and engraving printing are all ink printing, there is no difference.

But things don't count that way.

The previous engravings had to be re-engraved because of the need for punctuation.

Calculated according to "The Analects of Confucius", a set of engraving blocks of the Analects of Confucius requires several master engravers to carve for several months.

The number of words in "The Analects of Confucius" is relatively small in books, and those with many words even take more than a year to carve out.

There are so many kinds of books, how long will it take to engrave them all?
Engraving and engraving is not only time-consuming, but also very expensive.

However, movable type printing is different. As long as there is enough lead, it only takes one year to accomplish things that woodblock printing cannot do in a few years.

In the past few years, a large number of books can be printed.

Xu Geng shook his head.

Lin Xuan said with a smile: "Do you know how much this Analects of Confucius costs? It's not worth fifty renminbi. This is because there are not enough fonts, and only a few pages can be combined at a time. After printing, it needs to be retypeset, wasting a lot of money. Time. When the fonts are enough, the entire Analects of Confucius can be typeset at one time, and the cost of an Analects of Confucius should only need to be about [-] Wen."

"What!" Xu Geng stared at the boss, breathing a little short of breath.

How much is the previous Analects?

Did he remember four hundred or five hundred?

That's a tenfold difference.

He is also a child of a poor family, if it was not for a coincidence, he worshiped Kong Yingda as his teacher, he would not be able to read books.

Even so, because of his background, he couldn't get an official position, so he could only work as a husband for a wealthy family.

Lin Xuan smiled and said, "Do you still think movable type printing is of little significance?"

Xu Geng asked: "Master Hou, how many copies of this Analects are you going to sell?"

Lin Xuan said: "It will not exceed one hundred Wen at most."

If the Cui family is willing to help sell it, then according to the agreement, they need to reserve a profit for them, and then it will be almost enough to sell it for one hundred yuan plus the cost.

Lin Xuan didn't intend to send money to the Cui family, what he wanted was the sales channels of the Cui family all over the world.

It takes a lot of time and energy for him to build his own sales channels.

There are some aristocratic families everywhere, and they will jump out to add obstacles to him at that time.

If they can borrow the Cui family's sales channels, it will undoubtedly save a lot of trouble.

However, it is unlikely that the Cui family will help him sell, and it is estimated that he will still have to face these.

"I'll take the children from poor families all over the world, thank you, Lord Hou." Xu Geng bowed.

He didn't feel dissatisfied because Lin Xuan doubled his money.

No matter what, Lin Xuan made the books so much cheaper, and the poor families all over the world should thank him.

Lin Xuan waved his hand and said, "I'll take these books away first."

He didn't think he deserved the thanks.

Although he wants to do something for this era, he is not completely selfless.

With movable type printing, it is equivalent to having an extra golden body.

As long as his descendants do not participate in the struggle for power in the future, regardless of the change of dynasties, whoever becomes the emperor, the Lin family can prosper forever.

Why can the Confucian family be prosperous for so long?In every dynasty, emperors chased after Confucius and conferred titles on the Confucius family.

It is because Confucius is respected as the most holy teacher by scholars all over the world, and he can win the hearts of scholars all over the world by treating Confucius well.

Of course, he never thought of standing shoulder to shoulder with Confucius with movable type printing alone, but it is still no problem to add a golden body to himself and the Lin family.

Many people must want to ask, Bi Sheng invented movable type printing in history, but Bi Sheng is not famous, why can you add a golden body to yourself when you invented movable type printing?
In fact, when Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, the imperial examination was popular, and it was not that the poor in the world had no chance to stand out.

In addition, when Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, it was not widely used due to technical reasons.

After many generations of improvement, movable type printing has been widely used.

But Lin Xuan is different. Now that the imperial examination has just been reformed, there is a shortage of books in the world. The complete movable type printing technology can allow a large number of children from poor families to have books to read.

And Lin Xuan, who invented movable type printing, will naturally be respected by scholars all over the world.

Lin Xuan brought the printed books and returned home. Just as he was about to eat, his servants came to report that someone had come from the palace.

Lin Xuan put down the bowls and chopsticks, came to the front hall, and saw Li Mu drinking tea in the front hall.

(End of this chapter)