Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 260 Amazing speed
During the rehearsal of Liang Zhu, Zhang Qingfeng discovered that some actors in the drama troupe did not match the personalities of some actors in the plot.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Qingfeng could only recruit actors from outside.

Zhang Qingfeng asked people to write a lot of recruitment advertisements and posted them at the gates of various bars.

The advertisement clearly stated the requirements for recruiting actors and the salary that can be given, such as recruiting a 50-year-old actor, male gender, who has the skills to act in operas and dramas, etc...

After Zhang Qingfeng's advertisement for recruiting actors was published, someone soon found the address marked by Zhang Qingfeng—Liu's house.

After the actors arrived, Zhang Qingfeng met with them one by one to select the best candidates.

In the past, when the Legend of the White Snake was recruiting actors, Zhang Qingfeng almost broke his leg before finding all the actors.

For this rehearsal of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, Zhang Qingfeng only posted dozens of notices, and countless people came to sign up.

It can be seen from this that Zhang Qingfeng's reputation in the Goulan circle is very high at this time.

It can be said now that as long as Zhang Qingfeng lets out the word, any Goulan in Lin'an City will enthusiastically invite Zhang Qingfeng's drama troupe to perform in their own Goulan.

Many people already know that Zhang Qingfeng's drama troupe performed for officials and court ministers in the palace, and was praised and rewarded by officials.

After this recruitment, Zhang Qingfeng's drama troupe suddenly added more than [-] actors, which expanded his team a bit.

After Zhang Qingfeng called the actors of the drama troupe together to rehearse a new play, the performance of Legend of the White Snake was finally over after more than half a year.

Liang Shanbo, Zhu Yingtai, and Zhang Qingfeng divided the play into three scenes, which is two less than The Legend of the White Snake.

The three dramas were the most compact ones arranged by Zhang Qingfeng, and they were just able to show the essence of Butterfly Lovers.

If it is too short, the drama will not be able to express the excitement it should be. If it is too long, it will make people feel procrastinated and make the whole drama dull.

Just when Zhang Qingfeng was rehearsing Liang Zhu with the actors, on this day, he received a piece of good news.

His lead movable type molds, after half a year, were carved and polished by countless craftsmen, and finally all of them were completed.

For this, Zhang Qingfeng spent more than 4000 yuan, almost every time he made a typeface, he would spend more than [-] yuan.

Each craftsman's salary, Zhang Qingfeng has to spend several hundred guan every month, plus the purchase of materials, and renting workshops, the addition of several thousand guan is not too much.

On this day, Zhang Qingfeng left Liang Zhu's rehearsal work, handed over the matter to old man Liu, and came to the printing workshop he rented.

"Master He, have you finished everything?" Old man Liu asked a master sculptor.

"It's done. You can pour the movable lead type directly." A master craftsman said to Zhang Qingfeng.

"Okay, let's start pouring a batch and have a look. If it is unqualified, I will ask all the masters to help me correct it." Zhang Qingfeng said to all the craftsmen.

Then, a furnace was ignited, and under the high temperature of the fire, the lead, antimony, tin and other metals in the crucible began to melt.

Afterwards, holding the tongs, Zhang Qingfeng scooped up a cup of metal liquid from the crucible with a small cup in his hand, and then slowly poured it into the mold.

After one cup, the molten metal did not fill the mold, so Zhang Qingfeng poured another cup until the entire mold was filled.

After the mold was filled with molten metal, Zhang Qingfeng began to cool down the mold, allowing the molten metal inside to gradually cool and condense.

A few minutes later, Zhang Qingfeng opened the mold and took out very beautiful lead type from the mold.

The back of the movable lead type has a lot of tails because it needs to be poured with metal liquid, so Zhang Qingfeng can only ask the craftsmen to grind off all the tails.

One mold can pour hundreds of movable lead types at a time. In less than a few days, Zhang Qingfeng completed pouring the whole set of movable lead type.

After measurements and experiments, these lead type are fully qualified.

Afterwards, Zhang Qingfeng poured several sets of lead type, soaked the copper and steel molds used for casting lead type with tung oil, wrapped them in oiled paper and put them in a dry warehouse for storage.

These molds are worth thousands of guan, so there can be no loss.

After the movable lead type was produced, Zhang Qingfeng began to prepare the ink for printing with the movable lead type.

Fortunately, Zhang Qingfeng knew the formulas of more than a dozen printing inks. After two days of searching in Lin'an City, he successfully prepared several printing inks of different colors.

Afterwards, Zhang Qingfeng began to try printing.

The printing machine he manufactured is a cylinder printing machine, which is a relatively primitive printing machine with a simple structure, human-driven, reciprocating printing, and can print paper quickly.

Under Zhang Qingfeng's control, this printing machine can print one sheet every three seconds at the fastest speed, and it can be accelerated after proficiency.

If this kind of printing machine is driven by mechanical force, it can print one sheet per second at the fastest, and it will not stop for a long time.

Although it is not as fast as modern printing presses that can print hundreds of sheets per second, this printing press can be regarded as a revolutionary invention.

The famous French writer Victor Hugo said: the printing press is the greatest invention in the world.

When Zhang Qingfeng completed the typesetting of the lead type, installed the typesetting, poured the ink, and tried to print a sheet, the onlookers were stunned.

Zhang Qingfeng put in the paper and turned the roller. In less than two seconds, a piece of paper was printed with countless dense Chinese characters.

Zhang Qingfeng stopped the machine, took the paper, and saw that thousands of extremely clear characters had been printed on the paper.

"This, is this too fast?" A master who has been in the printing industry for decades said in surprise.

This master, named Tian Wenyuan, is said to be a descendant of Bi Sheng.

As for why Bi Sheng's descendants were named Tian, ​​it all starts with Bi Sheng's invention of movable type printing.

We all know that Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, but many people don’t know that after he invented the woodwork ten thousand printing, Song Zhenzong ordered him to go to Beijing to help print the "Book of Creation", and invested a lot of manpower, material and financial resources.

In the end, Bi Sheng's wooden movable type was printed with ink and temperature changes, which caused the wooden movable type to deform, and all the manpower, material and financial resources invested by the court were in vain.

Song Zhenzong almost killed Bi Sheng in a rage. Fortunately, a righteous man Yuan Dou Fachang rescued his friend and escaped the death penalty, but he was also convicted of living and sent to Salmonella Island to serve his sentence.

For the rest of his life, Bi Sheng devoted his energy to the promotion of movable type printing.

After Bi Sheng's death, his descendants were implicated in the nine clans because of their participation in a counterfeit banknote case.

The descendants of Bi Sheng who escaped by chance also changed their surnames to Tian and Wan.

As a descendant of Bi Sheng, Tian Wenyuan was stunned by the speed when Zhang Qingfeng printed a piece of paper in a few seconds.

(End of this chapter)