The First Happy King of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 643 Movable Type Printing and the New Press Party

"What is he doing?" Kong Yingda really couldn't tell what the guy who was walking among the shelves was doing, so he asked curiously.

Li Muyun smiled and said nothing, whistled at the busy guy, and called him over.

"Young master!" The man came in front of Li Muyun and the others, held the small box in his arms and saluted Li Muyun.

Li Muyun hummed, pointed to the old Kong beside him and said to that guy: "Show Master Kong the template in your arms."

"No!" The man didn't hesitate, turned around respectfully and handed the box in his arms to Kong Yingda.

Kong Yingda didn't see clearly what was in the box at first, but after a while, he realized that the box contained the individually carved characters he saw in front of him.

I saw these fonts lined up next to each other. After all, Lao Kong is a master of learning. Although the fonts arranged in the box were all reversed, he quickly recognized the characters: The Way of the University, In Ming Mingde, in being close to the people, in stopping at the ultimate good....

Lao Kong's face was confused for a while, but he soon realized something, and his whole body began to twitch like he was suffering from epilepsy, his lips were trembling, he looked up at Li Muyun, pointed at the box in his arms, and couldn't say a word come out.

Li Muyun was taken aback by Lao Kong's appearance, fearing that he would accidentally pull him over, he quickly stepped forward to support him and asked nervously: "Mr. Kong, Mr. Kong, are you alright?"

After a long while, Kong Yingda finally recovered a bit, stared blankly at Li Muyun and asked, "You, what are you doing, what are you doing? No, no, you, how did you think of this? This, such Don't you need to engrave the whole page again?!"

Li Muyun shrugged his shoulders: "This is called movable type printing. As long as there are fonts, it won't take half a day to print a set of books. The reason why I chase after Ouyang Xun and others to write is because the fonts are not complete."

"Then why didn't you say it earlier, you..." Kong Yingda stomped her feet heavily, stared at Li Muyun bitterly, turned around and walked out, before she left, she didn't forget to scold him: "You can't carve rotten wood!"

"Uh...!" Li Muyun was inexplicably scolded, and looked at the back of Lao Kong leaving angrily, and shouted: "Old Kong, what are you doing here!"

From far away, the voice of Old Kong came: "I'm going to remind you to write. If Ouyang and the others don't write all the words within two days, I will sleep at their house."

Li Muyun didn't expect Lao Kong to be so impatient, and when he wanted to chase after him to persuade him, he found that Lao Kong had already run outside and got into the carriage, disappearing in smoke all the way.

Yixin has been following Li Muyun, at this moment she turned her head, looked at him and said, "My lord, is it really okay for you to plot against Mr. Kong like this?"

Li Muyun withdrew his gaze from a distance, looked at Xinxin and said: "Is there anything good, it's not for my own business."

Although time has passed for a long time, but every time he sees this new woman next to him and thinks of her name, Li Muyun feels a little headache. He always feels that this matter is so weird. turned into a woman.

After writing a hundred or so characters, Ouyang Xun stretched a little tiredly, put down the pen in his hand, and planned to go for a walk to relax.

The work of writing large characters is really tiring. It is not a human thing to do. Every word must be meticulous, and it must be written in a normal size, and each word needs to be written on a piece of paper. This is not a problem. people.

If it wasn't for the imperial decree, if it wasn't for the purpose of spreading its own characters all over the world, the ghost would be willing to do this.

However, just as Ouyang Xun sat down in the courtyard, the maid's tea was about to be brought up. Kong Yingda, who was in a hurry, had already rushed in. Before the servant leading the way went up to report, he had already arrived in front of Ouyang Xun : "Old guy, have you finished your writing?"

"Ah? What word?" Ouyang Xun was stunned, and quickly responded: "Oh, I wrote about a hundred of that word today, which must be enough..."

Ouyang Xun and Lao Kong can be said to be close friends. I wanted to take this opportunity to chat with this old friend, but unexpectedly, Kong Yingda had already interrupted him before he finished speaking: "That's enough, hurry up!" Write, immediately, finish writing the rest of the words within two days."

What's the situation?Ouyang Xun was completely stunned. Although he knew that Kong Yingda was impatient, he couldn't be so hasty, right?As the direct descendant of the sage Confucius, he would utter obscenities. Could it be that something extraordinary happened?
But Kong Yingda seemed really in a hurry, and regardless of what his best friend thought, seeing that he couldn't get up, he went up and pulled him up, dragged him into the study, grabbed a pen and stuffed it into the old Ouyang hand: "You should write quickly!"

Ouyang Xun looked confused, and stared blankly at Kong Yingda with a pen in his hand, saying, "No, brother Kong, what happened? Can't you explain clearly first?"

"You write first, and talk while you write, so that the old man can catch his breath." Kong Yingda pointed to the paper on the table and urged.

Ouyang Xun had no choice but to glance at Lao Kong, then lowered his head helplessly and began to write again.

After a while, Ouyang Xun shook his hands, and there was a black ink mark on the large characters just written.

But old Ouyang didn't care about these things, he threw away the pen in a hurry, and said excitedly to old Kong: "What did you just say? A copy of "University" or "The Doctrine of the Mean" can be printed in half a day?"

Kong Yingda shook his head and said with emotion: "Not only that, in my opinion, if there are ten people, I am afraid that even the Five Classics can be printed in one day."

Ouyang Xun showed a look of astonishment, and murmured: "How is this possible? Even if it is the thousand-character text with the least number of words, it may take more than a month to print it. How can it be possible to print the Five Classics in one day? It’s amazing, but Brother Kong, your words are too exaggerated, right?!”

"How can it be impossible? That's what I have seen with my own eyes. A manuscript with hundreds of words can be typeset in the blink of an eye. Then it is put on the shelf, and the ink is brushed, and that page of the manuscript comes out." Maybe because he was too excited, Kong Yingda deliberately exaggerated the facts, and even deliberately said that he saw it with his own eyes.

Now Ouyang Xun stopped talking, blinked his eyes, bowed his head again and began to write big characters.

Who doesn't want to publish a book as long as he is a cultural person these days?However, due to the high cost of woodblock printing, cultural people like them simply cannot afford such a high price, and even if they can afford the price, not many people will buy the printed books. Books are not cheap either.

But now that there is movable type printing, the cost is estimated to plummet. Maybe at that time, you can spend a little less money to publish your own books. At that time, it will be the time when you will truly become famous all over the world.

Thinking of the motivation that old Ouyang suddenly felt, old man Kong got up and left when he found that he had no signs of being lazy, and turned around to kill Yu Shinan's house.

After re-enacting the scene in Ouyang Xun's house, old man Kong appeared in Chu Suiliang's house again, and after bragging about it as usual, Chu Suiliang also surrendered.

After Lao Kong urged the three of them, he looked in the direction of the palace thoughtfully, hesitated for a short moment, and entered the palace again.

The next day, Li Muyun's reputation as a copycat reminder faded away and was replaced by Kong Papi.

This old guy insisted on forcing Li Er to write almost all night in the palace, and by the way, he forgot to show the facts and make sense, making the emperor of the Tang Dynasty gnash his teeth and feel helpless at the same time.

It was also this night that Li Er finally understood why Li Muyun had such a weird smile that day. This damned guy should have foreseen this a long time ago, so he proposed to let Kong Yingda be in charge of compiling the "Dictionary of Zhenguan".

However, it was too late for Li Er to understand. Under Kong Yingda's advocacy, Wei Zheng also joined the ranks of urging manuscripts. The two old men supervised His Majesty the Emperor's fulfillment of his promise day and night, and His Majesty Li Er was so tired that he almost vomited blood.

And as the old man Kong worked desperately, the news of movable type printing quickly spread, and for a while, the major bookstores in Chang'an City fell into panic again after the medical center.

With the support of Li Muyun's strong economic strength, Sun Simiao's free clinic had a great impact on the medical clinics in Chang'an City. Almost all medical clinics had to cut prices or carry out free clinic activities every now and then to win customers.

Now, this guy has come up with movable type printing, which will have a big impact on Datang's printing industry.

And what's more interesting is that Li Muyun has rubbing copies of every word written by the top calligrapher in Datang. Under the price, who would not want to buy a better font rubbing.

For a moment, everyone panicked, and the major aristocratic families and noble families urgently negotiated to discuss countermeasures together.

After all, most of the books on the market are printed by their aristocratic families and noble families, and only they have such a large capital to invest in this area.

But now there is a mouse dropping in the pot of good soup, and the originally calm market is suddenly changed by Li Muyun. I believe that it will not be long before the reputation and status of the major families will be strongly impacted by him.

If aristocratic families and gentry want to keep their previous status, there are only two choices right now.

First, win over Li Muyun and turn him into "one of our own". Although Li Da's murder is not as good as a piece of shit in the eyes of these people, but for the influence of the family, they can only accept it with a blind eye. he.

The second option is the opposite of the first option, that is to suppress Li Muyun with all his strength, knock Li Muyun into the dust, and let him never recover from the fall.

Relatively speaking, the aristocratic families and gentry are more inclined to the second option.

(End of this chapter)