[Comprehensive] Survival of the Last Emperor

"Oh?" Ying Zheng was startled, quickly lowered his head, and carefully read the book in his hand, but he read several pages in a row, but he didn't find any difference.

"Father, please pay attention to the characters in this book. Is the font different from other books?" Hu Hai leaned over his head and pointed to a word casually.

"Typeface? This word is not... not written by you." Ying Zheng said with some disappointment, then turned his head and glared at Zhao Gao angrily. Zhao Gao shrank his neck in fright and immediately lowered his head.

snort!My cute bear kid gave me a book, and the words on the book were actually written by Zhao Gao!What is the use of Zhao Gao's characters?Tired of watching it every day.

"Hehe, father, don't be angry, my son will write beautifully in the future. I must copy a copy for my father, as long as my father doesn't dislike it." Seeing Ying Zheng's instantly elongated face, he felt Immediately knowing what he was thinking, Hu Hai hurried forward and whispered in Ying Zheng's ear, "Zhao Gao's handwriting is not bad, let's make do with it this time."

"Well..." I like that "we", so I don't care about it this time, "My father doesn't dislike you, no matter how ugly the words are, I don't dislike you!" Ying Zhengyong only has himself, Hu Hai and Zhao Gao. He whispered at a volume that could only be heard.

"Hey...Father, please continue watching." Hu Hai covered his mouth to hide his smile, but from his crescent-shaped eyes, Ying Zheng could tell how good he was.

What a child, it's so happy to be coaxed casually.

Ying Zheng smiled in his heart, lowered his head and continued to read the book in his hand, and carefully identified the characters on it. After flipping through for a while, he couldn't hold back and said, "My father still didn't see any difference. Gao’s characters, right? Although it’s a little strange, but my father confirms that these are Zhao Gao’s characters.”

"Father, look..." Hu Hai pointed to the characters "Wang" and "Gong" that appear frequently in the book, "Father, you didn't realize that although these characters are Zhao Gao's characters, almost every character is Exactly the same, no difference?"

"That's because he didn't dare to fool the widow!" Ying Zheng waved his hand and said confidently.

"Father..." Hu Hai pushed Yingzheng, and said with a resolute look: "Don't tease the child, even if Zhao Gao doesn't dare to fool you." He spent a lot of time fooling you, and finally Daqin's country has been completely fooled by him, "It is technically difficult to make every word so that there is no difference, right? Don't believe me, father and king write one for the child to see?"

Ying Zheng pondered for a while, and then said calmly: "Let's continue talking about this, don't keep it secret, and quickly reveal your answer."

"Zhao Gao!" Hu Hai snapped his fingers at Zhao Gao, pointing his thumb at the entrance of the main hall, "Go let them carry the things up."

"No!" Zhao Gao stepped back, and after a while, he led four black-armored guards and brought two large boxes up.

Ying Zheng stepped forward and ordered the black-armored guards to open the box, only to see that it was filled with densely packed small copper blocks, and where the copper blocks were facing upwards, there were protruding Yang characters engraved one by one, "What is this?"

"This is called a font." Hu Hai stepped forward, picked up a copper font, and handed it to Ying Zheng, "Father, look, does this font look like a seal?"

As Hu Hai said, he picked up another copper font and waved at Zhao Gao.And Zhao Gao, who had been waiting by the side, immediately handed over a tray at the right time, in which were ink pads and a piece of white paper.

Hu Hai pressed the typeface on the ink pad, and then pressed it heavily on the paper, and a clear and clear "Wang" character immediately appeared on the white paper.

"That book...was printed with this typeface?" Ying Zheng looked at the typeface in his hand, then looked back at the book he had placed on the case, and said with a suddenly enlightened expression: "No wonder the widow said "Although Zhao Gao's characters are still the same characters, why did they suddenly become ingenious?"

Majesty, how can you hack me?The servant girl is your most loyal subject, have you been taken away by the Eighteenth Prince?

Zhao Gao was speechless, this father and son are really good, the son enjoys blacking himself, and now the father also enjoys blacking himself.

"It's not that Zhao Gao's lettersmith was angry, but the characters printed by movable type printing, although the font is the same, are printed after all, and are completely different from the characters written by human hands. You read less, but if you read more, you can tell the difference between printed and handwritten characters at a glance." Hu Hai smiled and said solemnly.

"Movable type printing? This is a new thing. Hu Hai, come and explain to me, what is movable type printing?" After all, it is a generation of emperors. Jojo, like paper and punctuation marks, may be another revolution.

"The so-called movable type printing... firstly use copper to make the type model, then find a copper plate with a frame as the base, and apply a layer of potion made of turpentine, wax and paper ash on the base, and then print the type required for printing. Pick them out and put them into the base one by one. A frame is filled to form a plate, and then the base is baked with fire to melt the medicine to glue the font and the base together, and then use another flat plate to flatten the words. After the medicine is completely cooled, it can be used as a pattern. When printing, just brush a layer of ink on the pattern, then cover it with paper, and then apply a certain amount of pressure on the paper, and the words will be printed on it Fearing that Yingzheng would not understand, Hu Hai said with gestures and gestures: "In order to be able to print continuously, you can also use two iron plates, one for printing, the other for typesetting, and use the two alternately. After printing , roast the potion with torch, shake it lightly with your hands, and the typeface will fall off the copper plate, and then put away the typeface for future use.”

Hu Hai was not afraid that Yingzheng would not be able to understand it, because although engraving and printing were not available until the Sui Dynasty, Yingzheng’s imperial edict was printed with wooden stamps on the pottery measuring vessels of the Qin State at that time. This can be regarded as the beginning of movable type printing. Although it has been invented, it has not been widely used for unknown reasons.

"This really saves time. Hu Hai, you really have a lot of ideas." Ying Zheng patted Hu Hai on the shoulder and said happily.

As a king, after hearing the use of movable type printing, he immediately thought of its impact on cultural transmission.But in today’s society, books are very important and precious, and can be regarded as family heirlooms. Only rich people can own books, and only big families and royal families can have a collection of books. However, the successive inventions of paper and printing, But it is enough to make the original precious books into the price of cabbage, so that more children from poor families who are eager to learn can get the opportunity to learn.

As a visionary king, Ying Zheng can easily see the future prospects from it.

"The time is too hasty, I didn't make it perfect this time. I should change it when I have time..." Hu Hai was not humble this time, but he remembered that when Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, he used clay movable type; 21 People in the [-]th century used movable lead type.As for myself...the bronze wares were the most developed in the Qin Dynasty. In order to make them before Ying Zheng's birthday, I had no choice but to choose copper movable type.Although I don't know why, since people of later generations choose to use clay and lead instead of copper, there is always a reason. I should let the people of the Mohist think again, whether it can be improved or not.

Of course, the material of the movable type is not the most important thing, but the font on it is important, "I implore my father to be considerate of the common people in the world, and work hard for my father to write a set of fonts for this movable type printing, as a special font for printing. People in the world circulate it. But all printed materials that are popular in our Great Qin territory must be molded and printed with your father's imperial brush."

Just like the font used by celebrities to sign fans, it will not be the signature font when he signs contracts and other important documents. All over the world, if someone uses it to make a fake, it will be a lot of fun, but no one stipulates that the emperor can only write in one font.

"Widow... the font of the widow? Can the words of the widow be engraved on this?" Ying Zheng's voice was a little excited, "Is it still used as a special font? This...isn't it good?"

There is a saying in the 21st century that the first-class companies make standards, the second-class companies do patents, the third-class companies do marketing, the fourth-class companies do products, and the fifth-class companies do manufacturing.Although there was no such sentence in the second century BC, and there was no concept of "standards", seeing that Zhou Gong compiled a book "Zhou Li", which made people of later generations abide by it for thousands of years, Ying Zheng can probably imagine that if All the books in the whole world must be printed with his own personal letter from the imperial pen. It is so... so... irresistible.

But modesty is still necessary. Modesty is the virtue of the Chinese nation. It is the duty of every king and every politician. If you promise too much, you will lower your style.

"If you don't engrave your words, should you engrave Zhao Gao's? Or, father, do you think there is anyone greater than you in this world?" Hu Hai pretended to say a few childish words, which made Ying Zheng's face darken. At the same time, he stared at Zhao Gao, who had already shrunk aside, trying to treat himself like a vase.

"It's still... not so good." Ying Zheng played with the font in his hand, engraving Zhao Gao's characters, what joke?That is absolutely impossible!

"What's wrong? Father is not only the king of Great Qin, but also the king of the whole world. As a king who is about to unify the world and complete the great cause of all karma... the epic king, my child thinks there is nothing wrong with it." Look at Ying Zheng who is still silent, but there is unavoidable emotion between his brows and eyes. For his goblin-type father who "says no, but is very honest", think about these ancient political He likes to play the game of three pushes and three passes when doing household affairs. The child Ying Huhai said that his son is under a lot of pressure.

Forget it!Too lazy to persuade!Save some saliva for the second thing, let Zhao Gao and Li Si handle the matter of persuading people, they are very good at persuading people by citing scriptures, and their persuasion is higher than this young master.

"Hey, I'll ask my father to set up a library management bureau to manage book publishing affairs full-time - monitor the content and quality of books, and most importantly, support genuine books and crack down on pirated books." Hu Hai's mouth curled into a smile.

"What is the genuine version? What is the pirated version?" Ying Zheng asked.

"A hundred schools of thought!" Hu Hai calmly spit out a term that gave Yingzheng a headache for a long time, "Among the hundreds of schools, who is genuine and who is pirated, whose books can be circulated in a fair manner, whose books can only Hiding in the corner, of course it is all up to you, the king."

"Hu Hai! Don't do this!"

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We don't do things like burning books and burying scholars... Guess who said the last sentence?I'm hacking everyone's male god again

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