Age of mythical princes

Chapter 143 The power of culture and education is beyond compare

big project!
Another big project!

After listening to the conversation between Jiang Hua and King Carp, Feng Qingyang knew that this was another big and amazing project!

Following Jiang Hua's order, the cabinet members began to work.As a cabinet member, you can often get some information at the first time. Therefore, until now, every cabinet member has to sign a Dao Deed before entering the cabinet.But even so, going to the cabinet has become the best choice for many young heroes.

Accompanied by the cabinet's actions, the new issue of the Yancheng Official Daily was released as scheduled three days later.

Today's Yancheng official newspaper has set a release date, and it will be published every three days.Slowly, every day of release, it will attract the attention of many people.In the future, as the literacy rate in Yancheng rises, the frequency of issuance may increase, and once a day is also foreseeable.

Originally, after discussion, the cabinet members felt that the project related to the sea would be the headline of the next issue of the newspaper, the most iconic news, none of them, but they never expected that they would learn about it the next day Big news!

On the second day, Jiang Hua went directly to a certain paper factory.

Previously, the carrier of official newspapers in Yancheng was not paper but silk cloth, and silk cloth of good quality.

The printing method is not the movable type printing as imagined, but the plate printing.

The printing process at that time was like this: the cabinet members personally determined the content of the Yancheng official newspaper, and after deliberation, they made a first draft and showed it to Jiang Hua, and then to Juncheng Yu.

When Jiang Hua and Jun Chengyu have completed the review and feel that there is no problem, they can prepare for large-scale printing.

When printing on a large scale, the Taoists would cast spells directly, and sometimes use earthen spells to transform the stone slabs.They are all high-quality stone slabs that are neatly brushed. There is no unevenness or pockmark on the top, and it feels smooth to the touch.

Using the smooth stone slabs transformed by the Taoist method as raw materials, the earth-moving Taoist method is used again, and the surface of the stone slabs is changed with the aura of the soil, so that one after another inscribed characters appear.

After getting the inscribed slate, he directly splashed special ink on it, and then took the ink-stained inscribed slate and printed it on the silk cloth that had been prepared earlier. Every time it was printed, a Yancheng official newspaper appeared.

With Taoism, making stone slabs becomes very easy, and the cost is not high. Just find a warlock to complete these quickly.As a result, movable type printing has not been spread so far, and plate printing is more popular.

But things like silk cloth are money in this day and age!

In most places, silk cloth is equivalent to money and can be spent directly as money.

Printing on silk occasionally is fine, but printing on silk all the time is a waste of money.Although Yancheng does not lack this amount of money, and the publicity effect is far greater than the cost, such a high cost obviously cannot enter the homes of ordinary people.

As for the more expensive Yancheng official newspaper of Taoist law, the output is less, and the price is ridiculously high. Most people just read the silk version of the official newspaper, and there is no need to force the official newspaper of the legal instrument.

However, the magic version of the official newspaper also has significant advantages. The silk version can only be read, and the magic version can be read automatically after inputting mana, with sound and projection!

Walking and walking, Jiang Hua came to this paper mill.

Looking at this paper mill, Jiang Hua remembered the ins and outs of the paper mill.

Jiang Hua wanted to make paper for a long time, but unfortunately, although Jiang Hua was also a science student and a researcher in his previous life, he was not good at making paper and had no knowledge of it.

His knowledge of papermaking is limited to using fishing nets, rags, and bamboo as raw materials to make paper.

But Jiang Hua doesn't know how to use these raw materials to obtain paper. He just remembers that the ancients could also make paper, which shows that papermaking itself is not so complicated that it cannot be done.

However, the strength of Yancheng at that time was still weak, and only a few interested warlocks and dozens of alchemists could study together.

Later, after the boy Yangsheng became the chief minister, he maintained a tacit understanding with Yancheng, and Yancheng had enough time to develop.

What's more, there were Taoists from all over the world at that time, and there were more Taoists at once, so at that time, Jiang Hua sent another Taoist priest to preside over the matter.

Now, another four months have passed, and finally there are tangible results.

"Dr. Qiuyang has seen the great sacrificial wine!"

Jiang Hua nodded slightly, and the specific information of Dr. Qiuyang immediately appeared in his mind.

Dr. Qiuyang, whose job title is Doctor Xuegong, whose Taoist name is Qiuyang, came from the Liu family of the 170 family. He is 250 and six years old this year. He is an elderly Taoist priest. His qualifications are not high or low among the Taoist priests, but he is better than being practical. reliable.

When I'm older, I don't have so many thoughts, and I don't like fantasy like young Taoist priests. It may be that I have been beaten more, and I am strict to the point of being meticulous when executing orders.

"Thank you, Dr. Qiuyang."

"It's not hard work. I'm not the hardest one. Yu Jiaoxi is the hardest one."

Jiang Yu is Jiang Hua's fellow clan, but she has been out of Wufu for a long time, but she is still a member of the Gong clan.

As a member of the public clan, it is good not to bully others, how could it be possible to be bullied by others.Therefore, Dr. Qiuyang did not have the idea of ​​greedy for Jiang Yu's credit.

"Before the arrival of the minister, Yu Jiaoxi had already produced the original version of the paper."

Jiang Hua nodded slightly, expressing his understanding.

"Indeed, the paper was already produced at that time, but the cost was relatively high, and the quality was poor, and the preservation time was far inferior to that of the bamboo slips, and it would rot within a short time."

Not to mention this kind of original paper, even if it is the textbook of later generations, if you read it repeatedly, from the first year of high school to the third year of high school, you can turn a new book that was originally relatively thin into a thicker book, and there will be obvious swelling.

From a new book to an old book, the book itself has become noticeably thicker.

And the original paper made by Jiang Yu at that time, if it was really made into a book, it would probably be completely rotted after being turned over a hundred or eighty times.

"After the minister came, Yu taught me that he had no reservations about the minister, and the minister just learned more about Taoism and optimized the papermaking process from the perspective of magic."

Speaking of this, Dr. Qiuyang took Jiang Hua and others to visit the current papermaking process.

"In the past, the first step was to chop off the bamboo, put the bamboo in a pond and soak it for more than a hundred days, and wash off the green skin of the bamboo at the same time."

"Now this step is directly replaced by the Taoist method. The water in this pool is prepared with turbid water, and the bamboo is placed in it, and it only takes one day to soak it."

"In the past, the second step was..."

"Finally, directly use the Tao method for drying."

"For the sake of convenience and efficiency, I directly built a drying room. A large number of Dao patterns are used around the entire house. It takes several alchemists to maintain it every day to ensure the operation of the drying room, but the efficiency has also been greatly improved. .”

"Nowadays, after using Taoism, it only takes two days from bamboo to the final product."

"It is also because the time of each test is greatly shortened compared with the past, so Chen can use different raw materials to conduct thousands of tests in just four months. It is precisely because of the data of these thousands of tests that we have today’s papermaking process.”

"Frankly speaking, I didn't actually invent anything on purpose. I just used Taoism to simulate the entire papermaking process, shortening the papermaking time and increasing the frequency of papermaking experiments."

"Then, Chen led his colleagues to conduct experiments again and again. These experiments are actually very boring, but these boring and inconspicuous experimental processes contain many secrets. After understanding these secrets, it is much more convenient to make paper. .”

Jiang Hua was satisfied from the bottom of his heart when he looked at Dr. Qiuyang who had a humble face and didn't think he had any credit.

Although Dr. Qiuyang always said that he actually did nothing and did not do any innovative work, in fact, his thinking mode has already surpassed many stubborn conservative Taoists.If possible, Jiang Hua intends to add more burdens to him in the future.

How can this kind of talent not have many years to live because of his inability to break through?

This kind of talent should quickly find an opportunity to become a Taoist priest, then live for thousands of years, and honestly be the project leader for himself!

As we walked, we reached the finish line. Jiang Hua personally picked up a piece of paper that had just been made, rubbed it with his fingers for a while, and felt that it was okay.

"You all come and see."

Following Jiang Hua's greeting, Feng Yi walked over, picked up a few pieces of paper from the scene, and handed them to other colleagues while observing by himself.

"Dr. Qiuyang, can I ask you a few questions?" After a while, Feng Yi asked directly.

Looking at the meticulous Feng Yi, Dr. Qiuyang thought of many legends about Feng Yi: Well, most of these legends related to Feng Yi are not good.

Some said that Feng Yi is shameless and does nothing but take advantage of it!

Some people say that Feng Yi is not good, he is born in 170 family but he doesn't work for big guys, ever since he became a cabinet member, he feels superior to others, he doesn't even bother you to invite him to dinner!
Others said that Feng Yi has a thick face and a dark heart, he is a guy who can do things on his own, and the city is very deep.

In short, when facing Jiang Hua, the lord, Dr. Qiuyang was not nervous at all, and felt that Jiang Hua's smile was contagious.But looking at Feng Yi with a straight face at this moment, he was suddenly shocked.

There are quite a few Taoists who were caught by Feng Yi and then sent away!

Dr. Qiuyang coughed and nodded after confirming that he was not corrupt or doing anything shady: "No problem, you can ask."

"Dr. Qiuyang, what is the cost of this paper?"

"It depends on how you define the cost itself."

"In the past, almost every Taoist and countryman was good at chopping bamboo, burning bamboo, making bamboo slips, and finally left a bamboo book."

"At that time, almost every Taoist and Chinese who had the experience of studying made a lot of bamboo books by himself."

The bamboo slips made in the market are too expensive, so it is better to go to the bamboo forest to find bamboo, chop bamboo, burn bamboo, make bamboo slips, and write bamboo books when you have nothing to do.

"If the time and energy spent by people in the past are also included in the cost..."

At this point, Dr. Qiuyang began to think, and he was not too nervous.

"For example, an alchemist may only be able to make a thousand-character bamboo slips in a day, but now if he goes to work in a school or goes to a town to help the town cultivate land, it is You can get at least a few hundred dollars. If he is going to draw talismans this day, then maybe he can earn at least a thousand dollars this day."

"Such a thread-bound book has a total thickness of [-] pages. If you use woodblock printing to record text on each page, you can leave at least [-] characters or a picture. Just such a thread-bound book can Pack three copies of the Tao Te Ching written by Li Sheng."

Many people do not have a clear understanding of the number of words in the Tao Te Ching.

They always feel that the Tao Te Ching is only [-] words in total, which is really too few!

However, in the era of bamboo slips and bamboo books, the [-]-character Tao Te Ching and ten volumes of bamboo slips may not be able to be written down.

And ten volumes of bamboo slips can already fill a desk.

Huang Huang's five thousand words, in the era of bamboo slips, is already a real tome-level work!

"Just such a book can record the contents of the three Tao Te Ching!"

"Many Huang-level Daoist methods used to be nothing more than a bamboo slip. In this book, one page can record a Huang-level Daoist method, with pictures and explanations attached to it."

"With the improvement of our engraving technology and the improvement of paper quality, in the future, there may be [-], [-] or even thousands of characters in a page!"

"And once it is produced on a large scale, the price of such a book, from the cost of paper plus the cost of ink plus engraving and everything else, is only a few tens of dollars for a book." Having said that, Dr. Qiuyang's face was full of happiness.

He feels that he has created an unprecedented new era!

"In the past, books were priceless. An old bamboo slip, as long as you are willing to sell it, you can easily sell it for thousands of dollars."

"A bamboo slip used for enlightenment can be sold for at least a thousand dollars."

"As for such a book, there are at least ten or even thirty or fifty bamboo slips in it, but the cost is only thirty or fifty dollars. In the future, the cost may be further reduced to ten or twenty dollars."

"Once the books are rolled out on a large scale, it may be possible to realize that every child can have a book of their own, instead of a set of bamboo slips for each class as it is now. Many times, children can only Hold the bamboo and write and draw on the ground."

"Oh, by the way, fortunately someone invented the blackboard and chalk, otherwise, it would be even more difficult..."

"It won't be long before the children in the academy will have their own books!"

"It won't be long before every household in Yancheng can have their own books!"

"It's all thanks to the Lord!"

"If it wasn't for the lord, where would there be today's paper?"

"Just for this piece of paper, the lord's achievements in culture and education are unmatched by few or even no one!"

"This, in fact, is also the inspiration for Taoism to enter life. On behalf of the people in the world who want to study but can't, I thank you, my lord!"

(End of this chapter)