Dao fruit.

"This engraving and engraving is part of the enlightenment of the sage, and there must be some truth hidden!"

Thinking of this, the depression in Hua She's heart eased a little, and he cheered up again. Following this train of thought, he slowly recalled the hardships of engraving books in the past, and recalled the experience of using different engraving blocks.

Most of the engraving blocks that are popular in the world today are wood blocks, because wood is easy to ink. In addition, there are also metal plates, most of which are copper plates and tin plates. Costs will also increase.

However, this also reflects the development of printing technology from the side.

Correspondingly, the development of this printing technology has also led to the emergence of many new things, one of which is banknotes.

The banknote "Jiaozi" originated in Jiannan Pass, which is printed with a metal plate, which is beautiful and neat.

This is a natural thing. It is inevitable that merchants will be inconvenient to carry too much money when they go out. When the technology matures, more convenient things will naturally be born, not to mention the enlightenment of the "flying money" of the previous dynasty.

However, the engraving library run by the Meng Mansion does not print banknotes, so this metal engraving block is quite rare in the bookstore, and most of them are wooden engraving blocks, but this does not prevent the absorption of technology derived from the metal plate—— Color overprint.

Using red and black overprinting to make two colors appear on a piece of paper is a very simple matter in the eyes of people in Qiu Yan's previous life. It is so simple that few people regard it as technology and innovation, but as It is a matter of course, but in the process of development, it has gone through a long process.

For a small worker like Hua She, it is difficult to master this kind of technology. Of course, he has a deep memory, and this is what he is most familiar with.

The development of humanity, in fact, is like this. Few people deliberately promote and guide it, and it takes a long time to accumulate.During this period, it is easy to go astray.

Hua She, who is well versed in engraving, has long been aware of these things.

He looks dull and stupid, but there is one thing that Meng Wei and Meng Ting deeply admire, that is, he will be completely immersed in what he wants to do, and he will never give up until he achieves his goal.Have been studying.

Like this engraving and engraving, ordinary craftsmen only need to take the words on the book and carve them out, but Hua She has to figure out the principles and processes inside, even related anecdotes and strange things, not to mention the origin and history.As long as he has free time, he will pester several master masters and tell him something he knows.

"Engraving is not easy, and it requires the joint efforts of all parties to facilitate it. There are also rules and squares. The engraving method was promulgated by the imperial court..." Looking at the engraving at hand.Hua She felt that his thoughts were flowing like a spring, and his thinking became clearer.

The "style of engraving a book" is a set of standards promulgated by the government.

With the development of printing technology, private engraving libraries appeared one after another and spread all over the people. Although this promoted technology, it also brought many problems, such as messy specifications and pirated printing.Prompted the official introduction of countermeasures and enacted statutory laws.

"Statutory law, isn't it just a set of laws and regulations summed up by the imperial court after undergoing constant changes in engraving libraries? From this point of view, isn't it also considered to be knowledge through practice?"

Slowly, Hua She became more and more comfortable.I just feel that in my life, my thoughts have never been so smooth as today.

Although he was eager to learn in the past, he was dragged down by his qualifications, no matter what books or articles he read.It is very difficult to understand, and it is difficult to think smoothly. Only by repeated pondering and circumstantial evidence can he gain something. This is the reason why he immediately writes down when he encounters problems and gains insights.

After writing it down, he pondered over and over again, and then borrowed the convenience of the engraving library to consult books to solve doubts. Often, it would take him ten days and a half months to solve a problem. The progress was really slow, and it was not like the current level of writing. Ruquan, relying on a little essence taught by Qiu Yan, can draw inferences by analogy. While clarifying the logic, he can faintly introduce the follow-up development, and summarize a set of laws from it.

"...In this way, the saying that reprints are not allowed is like treating books as academies, each with its own theories, and they must not easily cross the boundaries between each other. The performance of 'Set at One'?" Thinking of this, Hua She glanced at the boxes in the corner of the room.

Those boxes also contained a few printing plates, but they were all forbidden by the imperial court to be printed and sold privately, and they were all marked in the imperial court as "applied to the superior, and shall not be reproduced".

In the words of Qiu Yan's previous life, piracy is prohibited, and there are copyrights.

Looking at it and thinking about it, Hua She felt more and more happy. It wasn't that he had found the truth around him, but through this matter, he found that he could think smoothly and found the trick.

However, in the end, he was not satisfied with this, and he felt anxious again, with a sense of urgency.

"Mr. Qiu said that in addition to self-cultivation, the purpose of knowledge and practice should also be to promote humanity. What is the use of such a trivial thing I discovered for humanity? At most, it can only comfort myself."

Thinking of this, the joy in Hua She's heart quickly subsided, and as soon as the thought changed, he began to think about how to "promote humanity".

But how could such a thing be thought of by him all of a sudden?Originally, this humane development cannot be achieved overnight. Without accumulation, it is difficult to produce any transformation out of thin air.

After listening to Qiu Yan's one-day lecture, Hua She is well aware of this truth, but he also knows that the lecture period set by Qiu Yan is only two days in total, and one day has passed today, and the lecture will be finished tomorrow Afterwards, Qiu Yan will leave Daizhou and continue west. It's hard to say when we can meet again.

"Mr. Qiu is approachable. At the end of today, he also said that if he had any questions, he could ask him directly tomorrow. It might not be so easy to talk to other great Confucians. Besides, I have gained such a harvest from what he taught. , Ask other people, there may not be any results, so it's best to find out some explanations, so that you can seize this last chance tomorrow and ask for advice in person!"

Thinking of this, Hua She gradually calmed down, took out a booklet from his arms, opened it, and spread it out on the table. The pages of the book were filled with dense small letters, all of which were problems encountered while reading. The last few pages are the doubts and thoughts that arose after listening to Qiu Yan's speech for a day.

Hua She watched word by word, recalling what Qiu Yan said, trying to grasp the main points from it...

Time passed slowly, the night was already deep, and there was silence inside and outside the library, only the room where Hua She was located, and the porter were still bright, but the old porter was already familiar with it.

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"...humanity always obtains rules from tediousness and turns to simplicity; gains experience from difficulties and slowly benefits the world..."

Looking at it, Hua She's eyes were attracted by a sentence in it. This is a vernacular sentence, but it clearly explained a concept.

"Complicated and concise, this is easy to understand. It is complicated at the beginning, just like when I first started learning lettering and printing. I have no experience, let alone craftsmanship, and I am in a hurry. After getting familiar with it, I found the law. , I gradually became familiar with it, and it will be handy when I start working!"

Originally, engraving is a craft that can be passed down to the family. If Hua She hadn't followed the path of the Meng family, he would never have learned it. Of course, he has a deep understanding.

Looking at the engraving and recalling the experience, the thoughts in his heart poured out one after another, but they were not scattered, strung together by a line, with distinct layers.

"As for the difficulties and benefits, Mr. Qiu cited paper as an example. Papermaking is complicated and the techniques are secret. At the beginning, it was difficult for ordinary people to know, and the output was very limited. Rare things are expensive. Ordinary people could not afford to use them at the earliest time. , Wait until the technique is passed on, and then enter the homes of ordinary people."

Thinking of this, he followed the method of "knowledge and action" to bring this principle into the things around him.

"From this point of view, the art of engraving is the same. At the beginning, only wealthy families could afford it, and gradually became popular, and then it became popular among ordinary people. However, the engraving books that were precious at the beginning are now looked down upon by high-ranking people. , I don’t know why.”

These allusions are usually collected by himself, or known from the mouths of craftsmen, but they have been kept in memory, and they have long been treasured.

This way of thinking became clearer, and Hua She couldn't help but marvel at the ingenuity of this set of "knowledge and action" methods again. Combining obscure texts with things around him, not only can be understood at a glance, but also can deepen the understanding of the sentences in the text.

"The method of thinking taught by Mr. is really astonishing. It must be very precious. If it were replaced by other people, nine out of ten would not be willing to teach it. The people who attended the meeting had never met Mr., but they were all confused. He taught that even people like me can learn it. This kind of mind alone is far beyond ordinary people. narrow..."

Shaking his head and putting his thoughts back, Hua She's gaze fell on the engraving again, but this time, the thoughts in his heart were already different.

"The engraving method can be described as complicated. I have heard that the government once organized and rubbed the book into a canon, which was divided into several editions, divided into imperial palaces and book pavilions in several cities. The "Dadian" used more than 13 editions. For engraving, hundreds of trees were cut down, and after the engraving was completed, it became waste. Although it is grand, it consumes a lot of manpower. The version is discarded..."

He picked up the engraving at hand, looked up and down, and a thought emerged——

"If there is a way to stop this situation, maybe it is to promote humanity..."

Boom!

Before this thought came to an end, a thunderbolt suddenly flashed in the night sky outside the house!

In an instant, the thunder and light scattered, making the earth as bright as day!

Amidst the flickering thunder, a streak of luck appeared vaguely around him, extending to an unknown place in the void.

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