Da Qin: At the age of six, I beat Qin Shihuang at the beginning

Chapter 25 Live Demonstration, Movable Type Printing!

The guards didn't know that he was in a hurry, which caused a huge shock in the Great Qin Dynasty Hall.

All he knew was that he delivered the book in time, almost out of strength.

Qin Mu opened the book and recognized it as "The Analects" with his limited knowledge.

Zulong hates Confucianism, and everyone in Daqin knows it.

He looked at the little guard with pity.

"Who gave you this book?"

"Eunuch Zhao specially instructed me to take it."

Qin Mu stood on the stone pier next to him, gestured, um, it was within reach.

Then he reached out and patted the little guard on the shoulder.

"Think about it, how did you offend Eunuch Zhao?"

Of course, Zulong hated Confucianism more because of Fusu's pedantry.

It will not suppress everyone in Confucianism.

For example, Chun Yuyue, the representative of contemporary Confucianism, is a doctor in the Great Qin Dynasty Hall.

After sending the guards to guard in the distance, Zu Long turned his expectant eyes to Qin Mu.

Qin Mu weighed the small bronze seal in his hand, thinking about how he should engrave it.

There are two kinds of engraving techniques in movable type printing, one is Yin engraving and the other is Yang engraving.

The so-called Yin engraving refers to retaining the plane of the seal and engraving grooves for characters on the plane.

The advantage of such engraving is that the time consumption and production cost are relatively low.

The disadvantage is that it cannot better reflect the beauty of the text.

Moreover, when the engraved text is printed, black squares will appear one by one.

The blank part without ink in the middle is the text.

In this way, the consumption of ink is large.

That is to say, the preparation time for engraved characters is relatively short, but the actual cost of printing is relatively high.

Yang Ke is just the opposite.

The so-called Yang engraving is to remove the plane of the movable type, leaving only the text part.

Make the entire text stand out.

Such movable type is more troublesome to make.

Craftsmen must carve carefully, in case the carving knife shovels too much, the entire text will be abolished.

If the shovel is less, the font of the text will become fat and ugly.

But after the movable type is done, it can be printed beautifully and saves ink.

Only part of the text is inked.

The main disadvantage of Yang engraving is production and preservation.

With a slight bump, the glyph of the text may change.

But the advantage is that printing is convenient, fast, and the effect is good.

Yin engraving is easy to smudge into a ball on the paper due to the excessive use of ink.

But Yang Ke can avoid this very well.

Considering that the popularity of Daqin's books is very small now.

Once printing starts in the future, there will inevitably be a massive demand.

Therefore, Qin Mu decided to use Yang engraving.

Anyway, I will do a demonstration myself, how to do the follow-up movable type, which will cause headaches for craftsmen.

"Dian Wei, go and guard the door, no one is allowed to come near."

This serious manner made Zulong even more curious.

"Mu'er, what are you going to do?"

"Start right away, just watch."

Qin Mu opened the volume of "The Analects of Confucius", flipped through a few words casually.

Xiaozhuan script was really hard to decipher, so he just looked at the font.

He took a smooth wooden board, dipped the brush into ink, and wrote on it imitating the first character.

This word alone made Zu Long's eyes brighten.

Wow, it's so beautifully written!
As the top scorer in the college entrance examination in his previous life, Qin Mu had specially practiced calligraphy.

Although it is not as good as a professional calligrapher, it integrates the ideas of Wang Xizhi, Liu Gongquan, and Yan Zhenqing.

In the era of Daqin, when calligraphy has not yet entered the classroom, it must be extremely eye-catching.

After that, Qin Mu's operation made him a little confused.

While the ink was still wet, Qin Mu directly pressed the small bronze seal onto it.

After picking it up, a mirrored text appeared on the small seal.

Then, Qin Mu picked up the carving knife and carefully shoveled off the places where there was no ink stain.

After engraving for half an hour, Qin Mu finally finished the first character.

Qin Mu didn't recognize it, but Zu Long did.

"son".

With almost no pause, Qin Mu began to write another word on the wooden board.

"say".

Then copy the original operation.

Qin Mu became more and more proficient, and finally, after two hours passed, he finally finished engraving the first sentence on the bamboo slips.

Zu Long's brows became tighter and tighter.

Qin Mu is clearly engraving a seal!

Moreover, it took only two hours to engrave such a point, which is far inferior to professional craftsmen.

Could it be that he plans to engrave all the words in this book into seals?

But in this way, not to mention the weight of the seal is much heavier than the bamboo slips.

It's just that the order of these seals is slightly disrupted, and the meaning of the words will change!
Then, Qin Mu took a blank wooden board.

The first engraved movable type was dipped in ink and printed on it.

"son".

Zu Long stared closely, his mind was so focused that he read aloud.

The second prints out.

"Zi said".

until the end.

"Zi said learning and learning from time to time is not the same as saying."

Zu Long looked at Qin Mu with an incredulous expression on his face.

"Is this the solution you said?"

"This this……"

"With this, just carve all the words into a seal, and a book can be made!"

Zulong smiled happily.

With this, books no longer need to be copied word by word by readers.

It only takes a few craftsmen to hold the ordered seals and keep stamping them!
Seals are not a rare thing.

Issuing government orders by myself is used every day.

Why didn't I think of this method before?

He looked at Qin Mu. Was this six-year-old child really not sent by a fairy to help him?
Ok……

Qin Mu said that his master is Lie Yufeng, so he probably still has reservations about me...

Maybe, his surname is not Qin, but Lie!

If he is not a descendant of the gods, how can he be so smart?

Qin Mu didn't speak.

Instead, he picked up the seal, messed up the order and reprinted a sentence.

"Zihu said that he learned from time to time and did not learn from time to time".

"Mu'er, what do you mean? This sentence doesn't make sense at all!"

"It seems that the order of the seals is indeed a big trouble. The craftsman is illiterate, so it is easy to get the order wrong..."

"There are too many stamps to engrave on a book..."

Before he finished speaking, Qin Mu disrupted the order again.

"It's time to learn it, but the sun is not used to it."

"What... what does this mean?"

and many more……

Zu Long only felt a thunder flash in his mind.

The easy change of the order of the seals is not only a disadvantage, but an advantage!

If the seal cannot be switched, it means that for every book, the seal of the entire book must be engraved.

If two craftsmen print at the same time, they need to engrave two copies.

It is too troublesome to make this way!
But if the seal can be changed at will...

Then you only need to engrave the commonly used characters!

When it's time to use it, just pick out the word you need and arrange it in order.

As long as there are enough words, no matter how many books, they can be printed!

Zu Long looked at the calm Qin Mu.

The turmoil in my heart cannot be calmed down!
(End of this chapter)