Datang all-rounder

Chapter 305

After settling in, Wang Ke just glanced over other projects. As long as he didn't look for himself, he would never ask for an extra word to say. Only when it comes to printing, Wang Ke has a lot of experience, almost every day. Stay at the printing place, guard a few printing craftsmen, and see how they do it.

In the first few days, Wang Ke didn't say a word, but gave the map of Tuyuhun, where the Tang army was going to enter, to several craftsmen, and asked them to make engravings and print them according to the map, while he himself But standing by the side, I want to see what their engraving techniques and printed products look like, and whether I can improve their craftsmanship on the basis of these people's existing ones. If I can, then I will Speed ​​up a lot of progress, and I can relax a lot.

After the engraving was finished, Wang Ke realized that there was really nothing to say. These craftsmen just looked at the map with their eyes, and did not use any professional tools to measure. The things carved out were exactly the same as those drawn on the map. Wang Ke believed that Well, if it were me, I didn’t need to make a grid, but just engraved directly by hand, even if it was a woodcut manuscript drawn by myself, it would be impossible to make the manuscript exactly the same as the carved thing.

What makes Wang Ke even more incredible is that when the engraving blocks carved by these craftsmen are put together, it is almost impossible to distinguish the difference. The difference in skills between them is also very small. Anyone who takes it out alone can also independently complete a piece of engraving for printing. If a map allows them to complete part of the engraving work, and then print together The map that comes out will look fine.

Once Wang Ke had a bottom line in his mind, he became very confident. He fully believed that he could realize his desire to print a color map in a very short period of time.

It's just that Wang Ke still hasn't started this work right now. He also understands that the most urgent task right now is to let the troops stationed in Tuyuhun leave on time, and all other unimportant things must make way for this matter. Then the color of the map produced now cannot be forced. As long as the map with the correct proportion can be printed out before the army leaves, and sent to every commander who needs to be independent after entering Tuyuhun, that is a piece of cake. A thing of boundless merit.

If I want to change from a single-color map to a multi-color map like in later generations, I have to start after this matter is over. Now that I am in a hurry to do this, it would be a little bit of putting the cart before the horse. On the contrary, there is a suspicion of delaying the time set by Comrade Li Er, which will greatly delay the time for the army to travel.

Wang Ke was anxious now, so she could only press down firmly, waiting patiently for these craftsmen to print out the map, and after a few words of praise, she hurried towards Li Jing with a large stack of maps. go.

Li Jing was surprised at Wang Ke's arrival, but in his opinion, Wang Ke is now at his busiest time, so why would he still have the time to come here?After Wang Ke explained his intentions, Li Jing became happy again. After all, Wang Ke's move was a very good one.

Originally, Li Jing hadn't thought of this, but just wanted to hand over the maps drawn by Wang Ke to the commander-in-chief who went to Tuyuhun this time. Find a way to find some local district maps for the use of the garrisons in various places. After everything is on track in the future, I will slowly find Wang Ke to draw the map.

It never occurred to me that now that Wang Ke has brought so many maps, everyone can have a copy, and they are still printed, which is much better than the hand-painted ones before.

Li Jing couldn't help but praise Wang Ke, which made Wang Ke feel flattered to hear it. He must have done what he did this time, but it directly contributed to Datang's military operations. Compared with the previous ones Each time, it is more direct.

At this moment, Li Ji, who was idle on the sidelines, ran out at some point, and called several other veteran killers in. They each held a map and looked at it. There were bursts of exclamation in their mouths, they had never seen such a printed map that looked so neat.

Cheng Zhijie looked at it for a long time, but still couldn't help asking Wang Ke: "Boy, these maps must have taken a lot of time. I guess it will take days and nights to get them out!"

As soon as Cheng Zhijie said this, Wang Ke knew that they still didn't know much about printing. According to their thinking, this printing is probably no different from hand-painting, and they still have to be produced one by one.

Wang Ke smiled and said, "Uncle, this printing doesn't take much time, it can be completed in one morning. Now, if we talk about time-consuming, it should be the process of engraving the plate that takes a little time. Fortunately, Li Jing The craftsmen my uncle found for my nephew are very capable, and the plates they make are fast and good, so my nephew was able to print these maps in such a short time."

Hearing what Wang Ke said, everyone was stunned. This is too fast. It took only half a day to make so many. Now they only know that printing is fast, but they don’t know that the engraving time is not too short. Yes, anyway, they were not clear about these processes, so they only noticed the printing time mentioned by Wang Ke.

Seeing their expressions like this, Wang Ke really didn't know how to explain it to them. If he explained it clearly to them, he didn't know how long it would take to do it. The most important thing was that Wang Ke was worried that even if he If you explain the process clearly, these veteran killers will not understand. After all, this matter is not within the scope of their concern. Now let them change from not knowing at all to knowing everything immediately , Wang Ke reckons that he doesn't have this ability yet, so it's better not to explain it, so as not to slobber himself, if these people still don't understand, then he will be wronged!

Seeing that Wang Ke didn't speak, these old killers recovered after being surprised for a long time. They discussed the significance of this printing for the army map, and used Wang Ke to draw Zhou Heyang's map now. To prove his own point of view, it made Wang Ke feel extraordinarily comfortable.

While Wang Ke was excited, he didn't keep his mouth shut, and triumphantly expressed what was in his mind that hadn't been realized yet: "Uncles, don't care about such small things. My nephew will give my uncles an even bigger surprise!"

As soon as Wang Ke's words came out, he attracted a few old killers. They all looked at Wang Ke, wanting to hear what kind of surprise Wang Ke would give him.Who knew that after Wang Ke said this, he tightly closed his mouth, and didn't mean to say any more, which made the old killers really anxious.

Li Jing saw that Wang Ke didn't want to say it anymore, so he couldn't help but said: "Nephew, don't be a fool, just tell me what you have, if you don't say it, the old man will feel itchy in his heart, and he can't say it tonight." Can't sleep!"

Hearing Li Jing's words, all the old killers couldn't help laughing, and encouraged Wang Ke to tell him what happened quickly.

As soon as Wang Ke blurted out the words just now, he began to feel a little regretful in his heart. Anyway, this matter has not been done practically, but he feels that there is no problem in theory, and it can be done, but he has not yet agreed with him. The craftsmen were discussing, but they didn't have full confidence in their hearts. If they said it now, it would be embarrassing if they couldn't do it by then.

There is another most important reason, that is, if these old killers heard this, they couldn't help but talk to Comrade Li Er, which aroused Comrade Li Er's interest. Comrade Li Er found himself and asked to see Look, if you can't get it out, you are suspected of deceiving the emperor. At that time, it is difficult for you to end up with it.

Wang Ke shook his head with a smile, and said vaguely to the old killers: "Don't ask uncle, you will know when the time comes, this matter is much better than the current map, wait for my nephew to make it, Just show it to your uncles at once."

As soon as Wang Ke finished speaking, he felt his neck tighten, and a pair of big hands had already pinched his neck, which was so strong that Wang Ke felt sharp pain.

Before Wang Ke had time to call out, he heard a voice behind him: "I'm calling you a fool. If you don't say it today, I will look good on you!"

To be able to say this, Wang Ke doesn't need to look at people, he also knows that it must be Cheng Zhijie, an old killer, and only this old killer can have such a quick temper. Ke didn't make a move until he couldn't make a deal. Only this Cheng Laosha would not care about Sanqi 21 and directly come up to attack himself.

Wang Ke was in pain and wanted to shrink her neck, but found that Cheng Lao Shacai's hand was stuck to her neck like an iron claw, and she had no way to move it.

Wang Ke pretended to be pitiful, and looked at the other old killers, hoping that someone who couldn't stand it would stand up and say something for himself, let Cheng Laosha give up and let go of his neck .

But Wang Ke's eyes turned around for a week, and after scanning every old killer, Wang Ke began to be disappointed. Now all the old killers in the room had gloating smiles in their eyes, and it was obvious that Cheng Lao Shacai's move, these Lao Shacai all acquiesced, maybe all of these Lao Shacai were thinking the same way, but Cheng Laosha just took the lead.

Wang Ke is really desperate now, if I don’t say it today, don’t say it, I guess my neck will hurt and I don’t know how long it will take to get better, Wang Ke has experienced the hand strength of these old killers , even if you didn’t try hard on purpose, just pat yourself on the shoulder, and you can sit on the ground immediately, and your shoulder will still hurt for a long time before it’s good. If no one told Cheng Lao to kill Cai to let go, but encouraged Cheng Lao to kill Cai, then he would be really miserable today.

In order to keep her neck from hurting, Wang Ke could only speak helplessly: "Let's just say it, uncle should let go of my nephew first, so what will my nephew say!"

Only then did Cheng Laosha loosen his fingers, but he didn't take his hand away. Instead, he said, "Hurry up and tell the truth, or don't blame me for tightening your skin!"

After speaking, he moved his hand away, but still stood behind Wang Ke without moving, which meant very clearly, as long as Wang Ke didn't speak honestly, he would greet Wang Ke again immediately.

Wang Ke twisted his neck, and quickly opened his mouth: "It's like this. My nephew has watched several craftsmen engraving printing plates these days, and I have an idea, thinking that if I can make this single-color map, It would be nice to make it colored according to different colors, so that when you change the map, it will be more clear and intuitive than now. My nephew thought about it, and this is still feasible in theory, but now I haven’t tried it with the craftsmen yet, so my nephew is not sure about explaining this to my uncles.”

When Wang Ke said this, he remembered his worry just now, and hurriedly said: "Uncles, please don't tell the emperor in advance, lest the emperor will have a look at the younger nephew before the younger nephew has done it. The younger nephew But it’s really going to be difficult!”

After Wang Ke finished speaking, he couldn't stop thinking about how many veterans would surrender, and let them not know what to say after a while.

What Wang Ke said is really a good thing, but now Wang Ke is not sure, if Cheng Laosha didn't use strong methods, Wang Ke would not explain it clearly today. It can be seen that Wang Ke is really serious. It's not to be deliberately secretive, but because of some concerns.

(End of this chapter)