Datang: In order to be a salted fish, I decided to look forward to my father Jackie Chan

Chapter 35 Books to be printed
When they got to the shed, Cheng Chumo and the others had the same discussion, eating watermelon.

Li Xiao took two pieces of watermelon and shared them with the two younger brothers, and asked again.

"How is the Three Character Classic? I told you to check it, so take out the book!"

"Brother, how can there be any books? There are no books at all. There are very few homework recently. The gentlemen are all busy!"

Li Xiao's head was full of question marks, and it took him a long time to find out that Li Gang called the gentlemen of the Hongwen Museum to work overtime to copy the Three Character Classic.How can there be no control over these students.

"Don't Mrs. Li know it's printed? How long can you copy it by hand?"

"Brother Li, this book was copied." Princess Changle was afraid that Li Xiao would lose face by talking dirty, so she hurriedly educated him.

It turns out that if you want to disseminate a piece of knowledge, you must copy it by hand. As for the slightly primitive engraving and printing, it will take at least a few decades to appear, and the original use is to print Buddha statues.

What they are advocating now is Taoism. With the Taoist philosophy of inaction, they will not invent woodblock printing, and then print the statue of the Taoist Lord and sell it!
"It turns out that this is the case. This old master Li can't write a few books in his lifetime. No wonder the education for all is so difficult!"

Cheng Chumo complained, "That's why I don't like it. I just copy the whole book and copy it several times. People are going crazy. I don't know why copying him!"

Cheng Chumo was thinking about it, but Li Xiao had a flash of light in his mind!
"Wang Gonggong, tell me, if thousands of copies of the Three Character Classic suddenly appear, how much will His Majesty pay for it?"

Wang Gonggong, who was willing to be a tool man, heard Li Xiao ask himself a question that he didn't know how to answer. "Well, I'm afraid it might be expensive!"

"Then please go back and ask, if I produce [-] Three-Character Classics in a month, see what price Your Majesty can offer!"

Li Xiao's words stunned everyone present, even Cheng Chumo, who didn't like reading the most, knew how time-consuming and laborious it was to copy a book, thousands of copies, this is a fairy tale!

After being stunned for a while, Wang Gonggong looked at Li Xiao steadfastly, and examined it for a long time. Li Xiao didn't seem to be joking, so he immediately got up and went back to the palace.

If what Li Xiao said was true, he knew what it would mean!
When the prince left the workshop, he directly ordered his subordinates to unload the carriage, then strode forward, got on the horse, and drove off with a whip!

But don't think that Wang Gonggong is a eunuch and think that he has no power to restrain a chicken. The real situation is that he can write articles with a pen when he is off his horse, and he can wear armor to kill the enemy when he is on a horse!
Otherwise, Li Shimin would think highly of him and make him the boss of the Ministry of Internal Affairs?

In just half an hour, the prince had returned to the workshop with a whip in his hand.

Looking at the sweaty, blushing and thick-necked Wang Gonggong, Li Xiao hurriedly welcomed him in, "Quick, eat a piece of watermelon to relieve the heat!"

"What are you doing in such a hurry, it won't matter if you're late, don't tire you out."

"Little Lord Li, you can't hurry up." The prince took a few breaths and said slowly, "You don't understand the importance of this matter. Your Majesty only has one sentence. If there are [-] books in two months, the condition Drive as you like, but if you cheat, the young master will be in danger."

Li Xiao's complexion is complete, Li Shimin is so big at playing?
"How could I dare to make fun of my head? Also, open the conditions casually? Is this too big a promise?"

Wang Gonggong looked at Li Xiao seriously, and gently put down the watermelon peel in his hand, "You can have a title, and you can marry a princess! The exact words!"

Wo Cao, this condition frightened the few people to stagger, Li Shimin really paid a lot of money, his daughter is willing to give it away!
"Father, what nonsense are you talking about!"

Princess Changle was so shy that her face turned red to her ears, and now the only one in the royal family has reached the age of marriage.

This is too obvious, although Brother Li is a nice person, and he also has intentions, and the emperor also ordered a marriage before, but it is so embarrassing to say it in front of outsiders!

Li Xiao looked at Changle affectionately, the opportunity was right in front of him!A mere [-] volumes of the Three-Character Classic, isn't that easy to grasp?Li Shimin is giving him a beautiful woman!
In the Tang Dynasty, if you want to be a princess, the prerequisite is to have a title!

Li Xiao is now weakening his status as a prince. Besides, there are not many people who know him. To get a title, Princess Shang, in the eyes of outsiders, this is a normal procedure.

But Datang's title is not conferred by military service, so he thought that marrying Changle would have to be planned slowly by himself, but judging by the current appearance, a happy event is approaching!
Li Xiao took Changle's little hand, Changle trembled all over, raised his head stiffly, "Brother Li"

"Changle, for you, even if I don't eat or drink, I have to develop movable type printing equipment as soon as possible!"

Chang Le struggled to pull out his little hand, and glanced at the people around him from the corner of his eye, seeing them booing and laughing at him, "I, I'm ignoring you!"

Xia Fei's cheeks, the shy Chang Le strode away from the scene.

A few days later, Niu Zhong had already hired all the manpower Li Xiao needed. During this period, he also used the power of the princes to find some senior talents who would be in charge of prisons.

Although movable type printing is very simple, a few sentences will explain it clearly, but when it is actually done, you will know that it is difficult. What kind of clay is used for movable type?What do you use for ink? It’s impossible to use good things like pine ink, right?
If the cost is too high, the cost performance is not high!

A formerly idle yard was turned into a printing workshop by Li Xiao yesterday, and then he paid a high price to exchange for a booklet printed with movable type in the system, which contains wooden movable type, clay movable type, and metal movable type.

Li Xiao and several masons were studying the clay used for movable type together.

"That's it, kaolin. I'm adding this kind of clay. Old craftsman Zhang, bring your apprentices and try every formula. My requirements are very simple, no cracking, the lowest cost, and wear resistance, that's all it is!"

"Can it be done in three days?"

Hearing these requests, old craftsman Zhang straightened his teeth, is this simple?Then there is nothing more difficult.

Seeing the embarrassment on Old Craftsman Zhang's face, Li Xiao began to provoke Old Craftsman Zhang, "Old Zhang, I heard that your grandson has just started to learn? How much does it cost to buy a book at a bookstore?"

"That's really expensive. Last month, my grandson turned ten years old, and I wanted to buy him a book. Good guy, the bookstore at the south gate, and all the stores, have no less than five books!"

"Damn it, I can only buy a copy with half a year's wages!"

"It's so fucking black!"

Li Xiao drew a big cake for Old Craftsman Zhang, "You also know what we are doing, so what if a book costs tens or hundreds of pennies in the future?"

Old Craftsman Zhang is short of breath, no one at home reads, so he really doesn't know how expensive pens, inks, papers and inkstones are.

(End of this chapter)