My husband Zhuge Kongming

Chapter 21 21. The Art of Printing

The contents of the Celestial Clan Meeting on the first day of the first lunar month spread quickly.

Not only everyone in Huang's family was happy, but the tenants in Huang's village were even more happy. Although their children needed to get enough money to go to school, this gave them more hope.

After the clan meeting, Huang Yueying went to inspect the expanded workshop. The workshop for each process was as she had imagined before. Even if it could not meet the standards of later generations, it was the best in this era.

For the final drying, sandwich walls are also used, and firewood can be burned inside to heat up the walls painted with lime powder on both sides. Therefore, even in cloudy and rainy days, the production will not be affected.

In the original history, bamboo paper was improved by the Jin Dynasty after Cao Wei, and then gradually replaced bamboo slips.

There was the Jin Dynasty, and after that came the Wuhuluanhua.Huang Yueying narrowed her eyes, her thoughts diverged.

There is one thing to say, in the Three Kingdoms, no matter whether Cao Cao or Liu Bei took the world in the end, they would not allow foreigners to go south to make trouble.

It's a pity that Cao Cao's descendants are not capable, and the heirs of the Sima family... are not good either. In addition, it is difficult for her to intervene in Cao Wei's affairs, so she has never considered Cao Wei's side.

As for Liu Bei's descendants, their abilities are even worse, but she still has a chance to intervene!
Besides Soochow, it is only four years in Jian'an (AD 199), Sun Quan is still a kid about her age, and Sun Ce, who is known as the little overlord, is still killing and killing. It will take more than a year to fight.

There are many things she can do.

Whether or not to remind Xiaobawang is also a question.

If it is reminded, Soochow may be much stronger than in history, and it can cause more troubles for Cao Cao, and of course, it will cause more troubles for Liu Biao; if it is not reminded, she feels that Sun Ce's death is really a pity A little bit, and Sun Quan, compared to his brother, is much weaker after all.

Who is the agent in Yangzhou...

……

The second day of the first lunar month.

"Uncle Song, you were asked to pay attention to the carpenter last year, any news?"

Early in the morning, Huang Yueying wore the clothes that Aunt Li had improved, with a high ponytail, holding about twenty Han Jin of corn in her left hand, and two pieces of bacon in her right hand, and arrived at Song Bo's home.

"Ouch, little lady, hurry up and take the things back!" Looking at the things in Huang Yueying's hands, Song Bo hurriedly said.

Now the situation in his family is much better than last year, and he has a lot of food in reserve.

Before the beginning of the year, the host family gave them a piece of rough cloth, and he had been eating at the workshop during this time, which not only saved his own rations, but also made him stronger.

Seeing Song Bo's nervous expression, Huang Yueying waved her hands, put the things in the yard, and smiled, "Uncle Song, my father asked me to bring them. We have all the tenants in our family, and Uncle Zhou sent them to others." , you don't have to be polite."

"No, no, Mrs. Qian Shiqian gave each of us a piece of coarse cloth!" Song Bo still refused.

It is their blessing that the Lord's family treats them well, but they must have self-knowledge.

"Uncle Song, you don't have to accept it. Give it back to my mother and tell me it's useless. I'm just an errand runner."

Song Bo: ... What else can he do?
"Okay, Uncle Song, so how is the carpenter doing?" Huang Yueying said, she just wanted to get to the point as soon as possible.Before going to Xiangyang, she told Song Bo.

"Six of the helpers recruited during the expansion of the workshop were carpenters. When the workshop was completed, I asked the remaining people to recommend carpenters they knew, so I found seven more, among whom eight were able to carve. There is only one person who engraved the seal."

After hearing these numbers, Huang Yueying just nodded, "Gather them together tomorrow, I have something for them to do."

"No." Song Bo nodded in response, he was fine, and neither were those people.

"In addition, Uncle Song, since the workshop has been expanded to a new one, every process in the new workshop needs you and a few others to take care of it more. Let you take care of things and get paid. This is the detailed rules of the restructuring." Huang Yueying took out a piece of paper folded in a square shape and handed it to Song Bo.

Song Bo took it, opened it, and found that it contained the rules of the workshop, and his little lady wanted to pay wages to this group of people!
Not only is food provided, but money is also paid. Ordinary helpers pay five dollars a day, and a year is... a lot of money!

And the few of them... the daily salary is ten dollars!

"Little lady, isn't this treatment...too generous?"

"Five qian can only buy two catties of corn..." Huang Yueying's eyes widened. One catty in Han Dynasty was only half a catty in later generations!

A day's wages are only enough to buy so much food, and she already feels that she is not human!
Based on their original [-] mu of land, the current yield per mu is only three shi, and the annual output is only [-] shi. At this time, a shi of corn costs about [-] yuan.

That is to say, if it is purely based on grain, her family can collect about [-] shi of grain a year, but tax has to be paid, and half of the share is given to the tenants, so they cannot starve to death.

If it is converted into money, excluding taxes and grain for the tenants, the annual income is about [-] to [-] yuan.

As for the tenants, it is equivalent to cultivating dozens of acres of land every year, and each family can only get more than 1 Han Jin of grain. If calculated according to the unit of later generations, it is equivalent to more than 5000 Jin. About [-] yuan, and this is the annual income of the whole family.

Of course, this is due to the fact that Huang's family village collects less rent, which is why they have such an income.

"But our family will provide food! It's me, who has grown stronger in the past month or so!" Song Bo also stared at Huang Yueying.

He felt that this was really too rich!
"But once they come to work, the livelihood in the field will be put down."

"Little lady, not everyone has land! The helpers we hired are still willing to stay. Most of them don't have their own land. Those who have their own land will definitely ask for leave when it comes to spring plowing!"

"This is what it should be. No matter what kind of work you do, farming is the most important thing."

Song Bo heard it, yes, yes, but soon he said, "Lao Zhang, Lao Li and I, ten dollars a day is too much!"

"Uncle Song, you are the group of people who know how to make paper best. You are the most familiar with the whole paper-making process. After a while, I have to send you to several other places to build more workshops. At that time, Your family is missing a strong laborer!"

Huang Yueying said that she is about to reuse them and make them absent from spring plowing and autumn harvest.

"This..." Song Bo felt that he couldn't refuse.

"So, I still need you, Uncle Song, to do the ideological work of several other people."

"Ideological work?"

"Uh, for example, if Uncle Zhang and the others don't want to leave Zhuangzi to work, then I need Uncle Song to help me persuade him."

"Oh." Song Bo understood, and then he could only agree.

When encountering such a master, he can only work hard to repay him.

……

On the third day of the first lunar month, since the workshop started work yesterday, the Huang Family Village was busy again.

New Chu papers are constantly being put into the built warehouses, just waiting for the agents to pull them away.

Huang Yueying looked at the thirteen carpenters in front of her. The oldest had gray hair, and the youngest was in her 20s, but none of them were strong.

"This is the young lady of the master, and she taught us to make new paper." Song Bo stood behind Huang Yueying and introduced the dozen or so carpenters.

"I've seen the little lady."

"I've seen the owner!"

Huang Yueying nodded slightly, "I have seen you all."

"This time, the young lady is looking for you because you have something extremely confidential to do, so you have to sign a confidential contract first, and if anyone speaks out, they will be taken directly to the county government according to the contract." Song Bo explained again After a while, he took out a contract, "Of course, this confidential contract only requires you not to tell what happened today, and it will have no impact on your life."

A group of people look at me and I look at you. Most of them are illiterate.

As a result, the youngest carpenter was the first to put his fingerprints on the deed, and the others followed suit.

Seeing this, Huang Yueying asked the young carpenter, "What's your name? How long have you been working as a carpenter?"

"My little lady, my surname is Li Mingmu, my father is a carpenter, and I have been doing it since I was a child. But when I was fleeing, my father died of illness. Now I am alone, but I have been working for more than a year." Li Mu replied respectfully.

"Were you there when the workshop expanded?"

"Here I am."

"Can the hydraulic mortar bed designed by my father be built?"

Li Mu nodded, "If the materials are sufficient and the drawings are complete, it will take me five days to complete the construction."

"Yes, by the way, who among you can engrave a seal?"

"Old people will." At this moment, the gray-haired carpenter nodded slightly.

"Which ones can carve?"

A few more people took a step forward, including Li Mu.

Huang Yueying was a little surprised, but it wasn't a surprise. It's not surprising that Li Mu had been in contact with her since she was a child.

"What's the old gentleman's name?"

"I can't be a gentleman, Sun Sui is an old man, he is thirty-three this year." Sun Sui introduced himself, "I have been a carpenter for 30 years, and I have been engraving seals for 15 years, and I can also do some masonry work. "

"Mr. Sun is a skilled craftsman!" Huang Yueying then directly determined the status of this old gentleman, "What I am going to do this time is similar to engraving a seal, but it is bigger than a seal."

"Eh? Bigger than a seal?"

"That's right, it is to engrave a book, and then print it on paper just like using a seal, so you don't need to copy it by hand."

Sun Sui was taken aback for a moment, and after a while to understand, he looked at Huang Yueying in surprise, sighed, and felt ashamed, bowed his hands and said, "Little lady is really a genius. I have carved seals for so many years, and I have never I've thought about it. I'm sorry, I didn't believe what Guanshi Song said just now, but now, I believe it, I'm really old."

Huang Yueying is also ashamed, hey... her ideas come from later generations, and she stands on the shoulders of giants, "Don't don't don't, although the idea is simple, it is difficult to implement it."

Sun Sui thought for a while and nodded, "That's true. If it's seal cutting, there are also requirements for wood."

"Also, the engraved words must be consistent in font, size, and style."

"indeed."

"In addition, printing has two directions. One is engraving, which is to use a whole piece of wood to engrave the content. The error tolerance rate is low, but the font size and style of the engraving can be better controlled."

"The second type is movable type. Different characters are carved on wooden blocks of the same shape. When you need to use them, you can just assemble them together. Although it looks convenient and has a high error tolerance rate, it is difficult because of the different skills of each master. Carve all the characters in the same style."

"Hiss... How can this be so?"

"It makes sense!"

"Little lady is talented!"

"I see you next time!"

"admire!"

　Chapter 2.

　　Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and today I won't be home until around 9 pm.

　　I couldn't go home during the Chinese New Year last year. Thinking about it this time, I feel very lucky to be able to go home this time.

　　I don’t know since when, it’s a luxury to go home for the New Year.

　　Therefore, I still hope that everyone will have a good New Year, be happy, and have a happy family reunion.

　　In the coming year, everything will be smooth and healthy.

　　everything will get better.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)