Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 320

Gao Jingzong's "Report to the Subjects of the Xia Kingdom" is written in vernacular with more than a thousand words, but this speech is written by nine divisions, 34 brigades, 120 and five regiments of the Xia Army, totaling more than 22 copies, covering four prefectures and 160 counties [-] A county has a total of [-] copies. The military and government alone need more than [-] copies, plus more than [-] copies from people from all walks of life, totaling more than [-] words.

The 42 clerks in the Academy of Secretarial Affairs were merciless in copying. After three days and three nights of copying, they produced [-] copies, which only met the propaganda needs of the military and political system of Xia State, and there was a big gap between Gao Jingzong's expectations.

After Gao Jingzong's reform, the door of Jin Dynasty was changed to Secretary Academy.Yang Shi is the leader of the secretary academy, while Lu Yonghua is Yang Shi's deputy and acts as the secretary Cheng.Lu Yonghua's ability is very average, he cannot establish a country with strategy, and cannot secure a country with literature.In fact, he can be the prefect of one county at most, but Lu Yonghua is the veteran of Gao Jingzong's original team. Although his ability is not qualified for a higher position, Gao Jingzong did not kick Lu Yonghua away. Lu Yonghua regarded it as a horse bone.

Since Yang Shi is not in Sui County, and Lu Yonghua is acting as the head of the Secretariat, Gao Jingzong is extremely dissatisfied with Lu Yonghua's failure to do such a small matter well, but he saw with his own eyes the small officials in the Secretary's office holding their red and swollen wrists. When complaining endlessly, Gao Jingzong had nowhere to vent his anger.He is not an unreasonable person, and he knows the pain of copying.Including Lu Yonghua himself, there are only 43 people in the entire Secretariat Academy who are responsible for transcribing the "Report to the Subjects of Xia Kingdom", with an average of nearly 1 words per person, and an average of [-] words per person per day.If it is impossible to transcribe with the pen of later generations, but with a brush, it takes Gao Jingzong more than half a day to write a thousand characters. If he writes for three consecutive days, he will collapse.

Engraving woodblock printing is a technology that was formed in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but this kind of woodblock printing in the Sui and Tang Dynasties is not only inefficient, but also requires hard wood for the engraved templates, which is time-consuming and laborious, and the cost is very high.Gao Jingzong naturally thought of the movable type printing technology of later generations.

Gao Jingzong was also very surprised why such a simple thing did not become popular in this era.Could it be that the brains of ancient people were so incomprehensible?With this attitude in mind, Gao Jingzong found out a piece of Shen Lang's iron coin at random, and printed it on paper with ink on it.But the result made Gao Jingzong suddenly realize that the imprint stained with ink and printed on the paper was just a mass of black spots, and the outline of the outer circle and inner square of the iron coin could be vaguely seen. Later Gao Jingzong picked up his private seal, Tested with ink, but also couldn't see the font clearly.Only then did Gao Jingzong discover that the real cause of the problem was the material of the ink, which restricted the technological development of movable type printing.

In fact, in this era, some people have proposed the idea of ​​printing with movable type. However, in fact, the ink and the type are not mature, and Bi Sheng in the Song Dynasty should not only improve the clay type, but the most important thing is the improvement of the ink.Gao Jingzong learned that in this era, the scale of bookstores is very small, and they are basically copied by hand. Besides, there is not enough communication and communication between various bookstores, so it is difficult to support large-scale material screening.

This is precisely the big disadvantage of not showing miscellaneous learning. If there is a country to support systematic material screening, why can't printing be used on a large scale?If there is sufficient communication and communication, future generations can at least avoid many detours on the basis of predecessors. If materials science itself is guided by systematic theories, the direction of screening will be clearer and the time will naturally be shortened.

Gao Jingzong came up with the idea of ​​inventing movable type printing, but he only knew that later generations used movable lead type, and the type molds were made of lead. He didn't know whether it was pure lead or lead alloy, let alone what kind of printing was used for lead movable type. The ink is good, and do you have any special requirements for the paper? He looked at Lu Yonghua and asked, "The Secretariat will need to copy a large number of various documents in the future. Have you noticed that manual copying is too slow and time-consuming?"

"What the king said is very true." Lu Yonghua was slightly taken aback. He raised his wrist like a crystal elbow and said: "Copying books is not slow, and it is easy to make mistakes. If a word is copied wrong, the whole paper will be useless. Especially I stayed up late last night to transcribe, and the scrapped paper cost three knives."

Gao Jingzong knew that the so-called one knife of Xuan paper is one hundred sheets, and three swords is three hundred sheets.Xuan paper is quite expensive in this era. A knife of paper costs about [-] yuan. On average, a piece of paper can almost buy a chicken. This price is unimaginable in later generations.

Gao Jingzong said: "Have you ever thought of making a machine to print out a large number of documents that will need to be issued in the future?"

"Printing?" Lu Yonghua thought for a while and said, "I have heard of engraving printing, but engraving is too expensive, and one engraving costs more than 3 yuan. Take "Shangshu" as an example, the full text is 150 words , the light engraving plate needs to engrave more than [-] pieces, and this set will cost [-] million yuan. The smaller the characters, the more difficult it is to engrave, and the larger the characters, the more paper is required to print them; To engrave, if the engraving board is damaged during the printing process, it needs to be re-engraved. But re-engraving a engraving block will take nearly three months even for a skilled engraver, and the time is too late...so it is better to copy and save trouble."

Gao Jingzong said: "Didn't you think of making movable type? I heard that clay is used to make type..."

Lu Yonghua said: "I have heard that someone used clay characters in a whimsical way, but the clay characters are very damaged, and they are fired into porcelain without ink; I heard that some people used copper blocks to make characters in the past, but copper is difficult to melt. It takes too much time, effort and money to make fonts..."

Gao Jingzong said: "It should be that the materials used to make the typefaces and the choice of ink are not right. Maybe it has a lot to do with the paper used for printing. What's going on? Please help me find some masters who can make ceramics and ink. Let’s see if we can find a more suitable method. We need to issue too many documents in the future. If we rely entirely on copying books, the Secretariat’s manpower will increase by ten times. It will save time and effort by using movable type printing, and we can also open a bookshop make money."

"Then I will look for it first." Lu Yonghua nodded and kept this matter in his heart.

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That night, Xia Jun's naval divisions were all commanding envoys in their tents.The commander of the second division made Hu Guang walk into Zhu Yingting's simple tent in a panic.Hu Guang threw his steel helmet on the table covered with maps and various documents, and made a loud "boom".

The loud noise made Zhu Yingting wake up suddenly from her sleep. Hu Guang didn't seem to see Zhu Yingting's dumbfounded expression. He went to the table and grabbed a Zhu Yingting on the table to drink the remaining herbal tea , and poured the herbal tea inside into his mouth.

"It's hard to imagine that such a rude man is a senior general of our Xia army. Compared with the Xianbei people, you seem to be more barbaric." Zhu Yingting was quite displeased when Hu Guang disturbed her dream. He curled his lips in dissatisfaction Looking at Hu Guang, the uninvited guest.He said lightly, "Can't you be more refined?"

　When I came to Lu Xun Academy of Literature today, all I saw were the great gods in legends. The room on my right is Decadent Dragon, the left is my purity, and the lower floor is Wu Banxian, Zhibai, who joined the army as a recorder.

　　
　
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