The prince does not fight for the heir

Chapter 25 Industry Disruption
this……?Yang Qian was stunned, and hurried back to the workshop, found the carpenter just now, and ordered him to immediately remake several sets of wooden boxes, wooden frames, rollers and stylus just like before, one is not too little, nine is not too many, these Things need to be made in a big way, the more the better!

There are also stylus and smooth metal plates. Fu Xuechen used blunted awls and copper mirrors to modify the set. In fact, it doesn't need to be so troublesome. You can find a blacksmith workshop to customize it!By the way, there is also wax paper, and a large batch of wax paper must be newly produced, and the outer frame lines and ruled lines drawn on it in advance, as Fu Xuechen said, must be added to the wax paper, and all the frame lines must be of the same size...

Seeing that the sky was getting dark and it was already past the time to be on duty, Yang Qian had no intention of going back home. Excitedly, he urged and ordered his craftsmen to work, wishing to give the new printing equipment invented by Fu Xuechen to him. Get a big batch out.

Fortunately, when the work needs to be rushed, the craftsmen did not have to fight at night, and whenever this happened, the workshop was in charge of food. Since the chief officer had an order, they just followed it, and no one protested , no one has the idea that they can't work overtime for nothing these days.

Yang Qian asked the kitchen of the workshop to bring him a dinner, then went straight into the office where the workshop was located, spread out a pen and paper, and began to write a statement, this matter is too big!You must immediately tell Shangguan to know!

It would be best to make one or two more sets tomorrow, and report to the Ministry of Industry together with the report, and then the chief officer of the Ministry of Industry will report to the Holy Master. , the Ministry of Industry will benefit endlessly.

Of course, Yang Qian is not the kind of person who would take credit from others. The equipment was invented by a kid from the Fu family. Even if the other party is young and underage, he will still praise the kid solidly in his report. Report his credit truthfully.

The paper was written in a short while, and the dinner just happened to be delivered. Yang Qian ate in a happy mood, and then hurriedly left the office and entered the workshop. He wanted to take a look. Everyone's How is the progress? Has the equipment been produced yet?

At the other end of the workshop, a separate space was set up, and several craftsmen were busy.

In addition to the original carpenter, there are two more carpenters here. They all followed the old carpenter and learned to make cylinders and matching new-style wooden framed wooden boxes for printing.In addition, the blacksmith workshop is also starting to manufacture stylus refills and iron plates at the same time, and the paper workshop has also been ordered to trial-produce a new type of wax paper with grids.

The refills are the best. At this moment, some people from the blacksmith workshop have sent a few over here. The carpenters will put the pre-drilled pen holders that have been prepared on the refills, and then modify them. After gluing them together, several more stylus pens were made.

Yang Qian followed Fu Xuechen's example, and personally held an iron pen to write on the wax paper. He was not used to these things, and scratched several sheets of wax paper before he could barely master the strength of the pen. Words, about a hundred characters, only occupy a small piece in the middle of the wax paper.

The font is only about the size of a thumb's finger. Yang Qian also wanted to write big characters, but unfortunately the stylus has such a small nib that he can't write big characters.

I took the newly made wooden box, put the white paper in place, then hooped the waxed paper, closed the frame, dipped the roller with loose ink, and pressed the waxed paper in the wooden frame back and forth twice, and opened the wooden frame. Frame, on the white paper at the top of the box, the poem just written was successfully printed.

Yang Qian is such a big man, his beard is almost graying, holding the newly-acquired printed paper and staring at the poems engraved by himself on it, looking left and right, grinning like a child, he couldn't find the direction.

As a literati, he likes to deal with words the most. Together with his classmates and friends, he has also published a few collections of poetry, but these collections of poems are handed over to the bookstore for printing. Poems and words are neatly carved on lead or pottery boards, which is very different from the calligraphy written by literati like them, and it is not the art of calligraphy at all.

But this stencil printing is different. Although writing with an iron pen can't fully reflect the unique stroke changes of the calligraphy, but after all, it can completely rub the structure and style of Yang Qian's own writing, which is amazing!

Think about it, with such convenient stencil printing, literati who did not know how to engrave reverse characters can easily print as many books as they want as long as they can write, and even want to reproduce their own paintings. It seems easy, what kind of earth-shaking changes are these? !

There are also government offices in various prefectures and counties. There are always many notices, circulars, sea-captured documents and the like, which need to be copied and distributed in large quantities, and there are always new demands for such texts, so it is not worth engraving them every time. Printing, so that officials from top to bottom of the government office are often busy copying official documents.

If there is this stencil printing equipment, all official documents only need to be engraved in one copy, and then you can print as many copies as you want. Even if you need to print hundreds of copies, it will only take half an hour. How much can this save everyone? time and energy!

Yang Qian was thinking about it happily, when suddenly out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the trembling Master Liu, who was hesitant to speak behind him.

"Huh? Old Liu, what do you want to say? Just say it." Yang Qian asked in a good mood.

Mr. Liu looked hesitant, opened and closed his mouth a few times, finally gritted his teeth, and looked up at Yang Qian: "My lord, I just want to ask, do we still need engraving in the future? We all know how to It's just a carving, isn't it...is it..."

He was a little afraid to ask further questions, but Yang Qian was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what he meant.

Indeed, with such a convenient printing process, it seems that printing does not need so many engraving blocks. From this point of view, the printing workshop that originally required hundreds of people may have to cut down many craftsmen. A subversive blow has come, and many craftsmen are facing unemployment...

Yang Qian's mind turned rapidly, and it took him a long time to ponder and answer: "You can rest assured for now, the printing workshop of the Ministry of Industry, after all, also has the job of printing the historical records edited by Guochao, and the text must be unified. Yes, woodblock printing still has to continue, and it will not be invalidated.”

"Yes, yes!" Teacher Liu was very happy when he heard that.

Yang Qian fell silent, and his previous happiness was also a little bit less. The craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry need not worry. I am afraid that other printing workshops in the world will not keep the time-consuming and costly engraving printing. It is profit. How can it be possible to use the convenient and low-cost stencil printing method to make engravings and raise so many engraving craftsmen? !
It is conceivable that once the new printing method spreads across the world, the printing industry will immediately be shaken. Countless artisans will lose their jobs, and countless people who rely on woodblock printing to make a living will have to change their homes to find another way of life...

However, Yang Qian did not want to stop the progress of this matter. After all, compared with the social problem of a large number of people being unemployed, the development benefits and positive impact that convenient printing technology can bring to the world are far more profound in the long run. !He knows what to choose.

(End of this chapter)