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Chapter 287 The Prestige Artifact: Lead Movable Type Printing (Part [-])
Chapter 285

Naturally, horse-drawn carriages were not allowed to enter the palace, and everyone in Yihonglou could only get out of the carriage, and the boxes containing costumes and musical instruments had to be opened and inspected one by one.

"This is Mr. Wu Shan, isn't it... What do you mean by bringing two boxes of "The Analects" into the palace?" The leader of the imperial army heard that his men came to report and found a whole box of books, and they were all after "The Analects" , the leader of the Forbidden Army couldn't help being a little confused. Could it be that this Mr. Wu Shan thought that all the people in the Song Palace were illiterate?He is needed to come and distribute "The Analects" to eliminate illiteracy.

"Of course it's dedicated to His Majesty, to celebrate His birthday." Wang Yang saw that the guard's subordinates were unwilling to pull up those books, as if he wanted to see if there were any dangerous and dangerous goods hidden at the bottom of the box, so he couldn't help but He raised his eyes.

"Hey, brother soldier, can you be careful, these are brand new "The Analects of Confucius", and they are all gifts for His Majesty. If it is dirty, can you take responsibility?"

Hearing the words Binggege, the Forbidden Army soldier who was rummaging through the box tightened his chrysanthemum, and the "Analects of Confucius" he picked up in his hand fell back into the box. The title of "Nima" feels so evil.

The people next to them also stood on their heads covered in ashes, but Mr. Wang didn't pay attention, all his mind was focused on those "Analects of Confucius".

"I said Mr. Wu Shan... are you really going to use these things to celebrate His Majesty's birthday?" Eunuch Ma couldn't help being curious, and after seeing these things close up, his expression became quite distressed, and he couldn't laugh or cry. Look at Mr. Wu Shan who is putting away the Analects of Confucius one by one.

"Mr. Wu Shan, you may not know that in the palace, not to mention the beautifully printed Analects, there are also many orphans and transcripts of "The Analects" from the Han and Tang Dynasties..."

"Hey, Eunuch Ma, so what about an isolated copy or a copy? If it comes to the impact on the world's readers, the "Analects" that Wang wants to dedicate to His Majesty, it is definitely this..."

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After checking for a long time, I couldn't find anything, so I opened the palace door naturally, and let this group of performers from Yihonglou enter.

Several security guards from Yihonglou carried the two heavy wooden boxes in with their chest muscles puffed out, while Wang Yang himself went first with the small wooden box containing the engraving and movable type, leaving a group of people behind. The embarrassing forbidden army.

Under the guidance of Little Eunuch Ma, Wang Yang and his group walked through the corridors and alleys and arrived at a small courtyard not far from the main hall to wait.

But Wang Yang followed Eunuch Ma towards the emperor's bedroom.Halfway through, he met Zhao Ji who was coming in a hurry.

"Why did you come? I thought you should have come long ago." Wang Yang stopped and waited for Zhao Ji to rush over.

Zhao Ji glanced at the small box in Wang Yang's hand, was obviously taken aback, and then said to Wang Yang with a suspicious expression on his face. "Let me tell you sir, I heard from the guards outside the palace gate that you actually got two boxes of "The Analects of Confucius" as a birthday present to celebrate His Majesty's birthday?"

"Yes, is there a problem?" Wang Yang asked with a matter of course.

"Sir, are you really kidding?" Seeing Wang Yang's appearance, the expressions of Zhao Ji and Gao Qiu behind him looked very wonderful.

"How can this be a joke? Those books that were just printed were originally meant to be presented to His Majesty." Seeing the changes in the expressions on the faces of Zhao Ji and Gao Qiu, Wang Yang chuckled evilly. "Don't worry, although the printed "Analects" are very common, the printing technology pioneered by Wang is not common at all."

"Printing technology..." Zhao Ji and Gao Qiu looked at each other and saw the confusion in each other's eyes.What the hell is printing technology?

"Of course, this is a printing technology that Wang invented after he bought the printing shop. And the secrets of this printing technology are all in this small box. If you want to know, then Hurry up, you will know the truth in a while."

Zhao Ji hastened his pace to follow Wang Yang closely, but his probing eyes never left the box in Wang Yang's hand.

Soon, they arrived outside the emperor's bedroom. Eunuch Ma went in to report. After a while, a eunuch in charge stepped forward and invited Wang Yang and Zhao Ji inside.

After entering the palace, he saw the well-dressed Emperor Zhao Xu walking towards this side. "Just now I heard that Ma Shang said that when your husband came to the palace this time, he specially sent [-] sets of "The Analects of Confucius". Is this relevant?"

"Yes, but those five hundred sets of "The Analects of Confucius" are not ordinary Analects of Confucius, but were printed using movable type printing, which is many times more convenient than the woodblock printing..." Wang Yang bowed first and then smiled. He nodded, not forgetting to put the small wooden box he had been carrying on the floor and open it.

Zhao Xu craned his neck curiously and looked towards the small wooden box. He saw a set of three "The Analects of Confucius" placed on the top, so he simply copied a copy of "The Analects of Confucius" and took a careless one in his hand. After flipping through, his eyes fell on the inside of the box again.

"Your Majesty, do you know what this is?" Wang Yang picked up a carving and pointed it at everyone present.

"...This should be an engraving block specially used for printing books, right? Huh? You used regular script on this engraving block. Why are all these "Analects" written in official script?" Zhao Xu looked around here Zhao Ji took the carving board, and compared it with the "Analects" in the hands of the emperor, he couldn't help being stunned.

"That engraving block was used when printing books in the past. At least this "Analects" is not using this kind of engraving block, but this kind of lead type..." Wang Yang smiled triumphantly, and found that he had reached into it once. Inside the small wooden box, I took out a very heavy lead type that had been fixed with glue...

"This..." Zhao Xu stretched out his hand in a daze to catch the heavy type plate, and after pairing it with the front page of "The Analects of Confucius", he confirmed that it was used to print this book word version.

And Zhao Ji next to him couldn't help but smash his tongue. "Sir, wouldn't it be too wasteful to do this? Just to print those hundreds of Analects, you actually made such a metal plate..."

Wang Yang almost let Zhao Ji's words make his nose crooked, and almost wanted to press Zhao Ji's pretty face onto the lead type. "... Please see clearly. Each of these movable lead types is independent. In other words, if this movable lead type plate is no longer needed, it can be broken into independent lead movable types. .”

Following Wang Yang's spitting gestures and explanations, when he finally understood the difference between the so-called movable type printing and woodblock printing, the bedroom instantly became dead silent.

Being frightened, especially that Zhao Xu, his lips trembled a little. "A piece of engraving can take as short as one or two days, and as long as four or five days to complete a piece of engraving. The "Analects" alone has more than 400 characters, and each page is about forty words. The engraving that needs to be prepared will cost about [-] yuan..."

Zhao Ji also continued with his eyes shining. "If you are just a master engraver, it will take a year or two to prepare these engravings... and the wood that needs to be consumed is probably not a small amount. The important thing is that as long as you engrave a wrong character, sometimes even If it is just one stroke, then the whole engraving block will be invalidated..."

(End of this chapter)