Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 471 Woodblock Printing Li Er Asks for Help
"It's finally a holiday!" Wang San laughed, happily jumped out of the suet candle workshop, then looked back at Chang Gui and asked, "Chang Gui, tell me who the Huben army is against Tang Guogong this time." will win?"

"You want to buy lottery tickets again?" Chang Gui walked out of the workshop with a smile, holding a lunch box in his hand.

"Nonsense. Of course I have to buy it. His Royal Highness Qi said that buying lottery tickets is for those poor children who have no books to study. For two pennies at a time, you can give the children a piece of paper. I am doing a good deed." Wang San hee hee smile.

"Cut." Chang Gui said with contempt: "This is an excuse for you to get high bonuses."

"Oh, don't teach me a lesson, quickly give me an analysis, how should I buy it, how many goals can the Huben Army score in Tang Guogong's football team this time?
If the analysis is correct, I invite you to eat roast duck. "

"Roast duck...?" Chang Gui smiled, then shook his head and said, "One roast duck is not enough, at least two, and there must be Coke."

"What. Coke?" Wang San frowned and looked at Chang Gui speechlessly: "Now a bottle of Coke has been fired for a lot, you are trying to squeeze my money dry, but Chang Gui, you must Help me pass high school once."

After speaking, Wang San and Chang Gui came to the kiosk where the football lottery was sold. It was a very small kiosk with a staff member sitting in it. The lottery tickets were printed by woodblock printing.

What I want to explain here is that there was no engraving and printing in the Tang Dynasty at this time.

The so-called engraving printing is the technology of engraving pictures and texts on the plate materials for printing. Its development in China has gone through several stages from seals, ink rubbing stone tablets to engraving blocks, and then to movable type plates.

Block printing materials generally use fine and solid wood, such as jujube wood and pear wood.Then saw the wood into wooden boards, write the characters to be printed on thin paper, and paste them on the wooden boards, and then according to the strokes of each character, use a knife to carve them into positive characters one by one, so that the characters of each character The strokes stand out on the board.After the board is carved, the book can be printed.

Block printing was invented in the Tang Dynasty and began to be widely used in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.

Even though movable type printing was invented in the Song Dynasty, woodblock printing was still commonly used.

It is mainly movable type printing. There are problems with movable type, so it is not as good as woodblock printing. After the problem of movable type is solved later, movable type printing will be used.

Engraving printing, when printing a book, first dip a brush in the ink and brush it on the carved board, then cover the board with white paper, and take a clean brush and lightly brush it on the back of the paper. Just swipe it, take the paper off, and a page is printed.After each page is printed, it is bound into a volume, and a book is successfully printed.This printing method is called "engraving printing" because characters are carved on a wooden board and then printed.

Li You now wants to develop engraving and printing, but because this time is the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, which belongs to the early Tang Dynasty, books are precious at this time, and it is also because there is no good printing technique.

The current circulation of books mainly relies on hand copying. In the Tang Dynasty, bookstores were set up, and there were copyists who specialized in related work, but the work efficiency was still very low, and it was not possible to promote a large number of books. Since Li You wants to engage in education, then Typography cannot be avoided.

If Li You was in other dynasties, he would be able to engage in printing, especially movable type printing, but Li You in the Tang Dynasty, the movable type printed by movable type, the best is lead type, other types, wood type, clay type although It can be printed, but not much can be printed, it is not as good as woodblock printing.

Li You is now using printing lottery tickets to provide practice for future book printing. Li You is also very helpless. He has no skills at the moment, but he can't find a craftsman, so he can only take it step by step.

"How much to buy, how much to buy?" When he came to the door of Zucai kiosk, Wang San looked at Chang Gui nervously and asked.

Chang Gui is very good. His understanding of football surpasses many people. Of course, I don't know whether it is his understanding of football or Chang Gui's IQ.

Anyway, Chang Gui guessed all the games correctly, and Chang Gui's guess is not the kind of who wins and loses. Chang Gui accurately stated the number of goals in the game, which is how many.

If you say it once, then Wang San can still think that the other party is guessing blindly, but this guy Chang Gui has guessed correctly seven times in a row, which makes Wang San terrified. , held on to the altar, and tried his best to give Changgui benefits every day.

Chang Gui wanted to take care of his younger brothers and sisters at home, so Wang San helped Chang Gui take over the shift. Chang Gui didn’t have time to cook, so Wang San helped Chang Gui line up for cooking. , just so that Chang Gui can help himself at a critical moment.

Today's critical moment has finally come. Today's game is the opening game of the Chang'an League. The strongest Huben Army will face the strongest Guogong Mansion. This time there will be a lottery prize in the football lottery. One lucky person will be selected among the 100 most accurate people, and this lucky person will get an additional bonus of [-] guan.

One thousand strings, Wang San has already thought about it, as long as he really wins this time, he must give half of it to Chang Gui, whether Chang Gui is willing or not, Wang San must give it.

Chang Gui looked at Wang San's anxious look, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly: "Three to three."

"Three to three is a tie?" Wang San immediately looked at Chang Gui and asked, "How do you know?"

But Chang Gui smiled and said, "Buy it if you believe it, don't buy it if you don't believe it, don't ask me how I know."

When Chang Gui said such a sentence, Wang San didn't know what to say, so he said bitterly: "I'll buy it, I'll buy it." However, Wang San who left bitterly didn't know how much Chang Gui liked football. He dreamed of being able to play football, but it was a pity that the burden on Chang Gui was too heavy. If Chang Gui was going to play football, he had to start from scratch.

But there is no other strong labor force in the family, Chang Gui left, who will carry the banner of the family?
This is Chang Gui's helplessness, so Chang Gui can only love football silently, and never dares to show his love. Others don't know how much Chang Gui knows about football, nor do they know that Chang Gui often wakes up at night For ball practice, of course, Chang Gui's ball is not football, but sepak takraw.

Chang Gui can keep bouncing the ball without letting it hit the ground.

It's just that Chang Gui thought that no one would know his skills, but Chang Gui never imagined that his talent for football had already been spotted by a little guy.

And this little guy has already set his sights on Chang Gui.

"Buy it!" Wang San came over, smiled at Chang Gui and shook the football lottery ticket in his hand.

"Then go back..."

Wang San nodded, but when he walked to a stewed meat stall, Wang San took out ten coins and said, "I'll buy some stewed pork, and I'll go to my house tonight, after dinner, let's go to the football field to watch practice together... "

After thinking about it, Chang Gui said 'hmm': "However, I want to go back and talk to my mother."

"Of course, if you bring back half of the braised pork, it will also make the little guys happy. As an older brother, you know how to save money and buy meat two or three times a month. The little guys don't know how to complain secretly. How many times have you been."

Chang Gui smiled slightly and did not refute. You must know that Chang Gui's family is different from Wang San's family. Chang Gui's family has no father, and Chang Gui is responsible for everything. Chang Gui's mother is not in good health, so Chang Gui is very economical. Although life is better now, you still need to save money on food and clothing. Although the money for these stewed meat is not a lot, Chang Gui has never bought it.

Wang San's family is different, Wang San's parents are both here, and his father is still working as a small clerk in Dunhuafang, and his mother works in the cafeteria. The living conditions are much better than Chang Gui's family, basically they cannot be compared.

So Wang San has more money to spend on hand, at least he only needs to pay half of his monthly salary to go home, but the very expensive monthly salary is the whole family's monthly expenses.

Chang Gui and Wang San each carried a portion of stewed meat, smiled and went home with their shoulders draped over their backs.

Just when Chang Gui and Wang San were going home, about 500 meters away, two little girls, one big and one small, were playing with a kite with Yan San. The two girls were Li Mingda and Li Heng.

Li Heng is now Li Mingda's little tail, calling out aunts one by one. Of course, this aunt is not for nothing. Li Mingda said to his niece that he would give him the best things. niece.

The two now eat at the same table and sleep in the same bed, just like a pair of good little sisters.

But when the two were flying the kite happily, the internal officer Yang Qu walked to the side of the two cute people with a smile.

"Old slave Yang Qu pays homage to His Highness the Princess." Yang Qu likes Li Mingda because Li Mingda is sensible, other princesses would cover their noses and leave when they see Yang Qu, only Li Mingda is very close to Yang Qu, sometimes in Yang Qu acted like a baby in his arms.

This internal officer is castrated, so sometimes he can't hold back his urine. In this case, his body will have that unpleasant smell, so the internal officer likes to wear face powder to cover up the smell on his body.

Later, Li You's perfume became the favorite item of the internal officials, but the price was too expensive. However, Li You would give it to Li Shimin's confidant like Yang Qu as soon as possible.

"Yang Neiguan, why are you here? Did you watch me fly the kite?" Li Mingda also grinned when he saw Yang Qu, but the most attention was still on the kite.

"Yes, this old slave thinks that Her Majesty the Princess is really amazing. This kite is flying so high. However, this old slave is here today to help His Majesty call you."

"Father Ha told me not to fly the kite, let's go into the palace." Li Mingda was still very obedient, as soon as he heard Li Shimin calling her, he would go into the palace immediately.

But at this moment, Yang Qu smiled slightly and said, "Your Highness the Princess doesn't need to enter the palace. Your Majesty is right here."

(End of this chapter)