Chen Yue sat in Gu Changyang's carriage, accompanied by Guan Luoluo and Guan You.
Zhengyang's Tiangongyuan is located in the west of the city, stretching for several miles. Many daily necessities in Zhengyang Mansion are produced by Tiangongyuan, which also makes Tiangongyuan extremely rich.
Chen Yue got off the carriage. Gu Changyang had been waiting here for a long time. There was another person beside Gu Changyang... To be precise, when Chen Yue saw this person, he felt like a skeleton standing there wearing human skin. , instantly reminded Chen Yue of Ma Ju, who died of dry energy. He was wearing a set of loose black robes, which made him look like a flagpole, with his clothes blowing left and right in the wind.
However, although this person's appearance is strange, Chen Yue already knows the other person's identity, and even simulated it several times in private for today's meeting, just to leave a good impression on this person.
Because this person is Qihai, the dean of Zhengyang Tiangongyuan.
The seventh is a surname.
"The seventh dean..."
Chen Yue addressed the Seventh Sea respectfully.
"The fire in the furnace illuminates the sky and the earth, the red stars are scattered in the purple smoke, the moonlit night is bright, and the song moves the cold river."
The Seventh Sea nodded its skull-like head and said, "This is my favorite poem of yours. It reminds me of the smelting craftsman."
Li Bai wrote this poem, originally depicting the scene of smelting in full swing.
While Qihai was talking, he led Chen Yue, Guan Luoluo and Guan You towards the interior of Tiangongyuan. Among them, Gu Changyang casually mentioned some topics, which also allowed Chen Yue and Qihai to keep talking and make the atmosphere Always warm.
Seventh Sea also took Chen Yue to visit some of the equipment at Tiangongyuan.
Among the various sects of cultivation, the first level of Tiangongyuan is to cultivate [Spiritual Machinery] and understand the properties of matter. Therefore, the instruments built by Tiangongyuan are all good and the quality is guaranteed, and some of them are Tiangongyuan. The weapons and creations here in the hospital are all kinds of strange and can hurt people invisibly. They are also arranged with mechanisms to keep people away.
"I heard from Gu Changyang that you want to come here, presumably to order weapons."
Qihai looked at Chen Yue and said, "If you have any requests, just tell me. If it's interesting, I'll make it for you myself, but in exchange for poetry."
Chen Yue smiled and did not say anything about the compound bow. He came to Tiangongyuan today and did a lot of homework. The main goal was to establish a good relationship with Tiangongyuan and realize free prostitution.
From this, Chen Yue said: "Actually, there are some needs in Donglin Academy, so I came here to take a look. I expected to build the same equipment and change the printing and typesetting and other issues."
When Seventh Sea heard that it was about making equipment, he was obviously interested. He motioned for Chen Yue to continue and wanted to hear what kind of equipment it was.
"Today's Donglin Academy has started a weekly serialization model. This serialization method requires Donglin Academy to engrave too many words every seven days. Another point is that the limitations of the wood board material make the words must be large and occupy a large area. A lot of paper…”
Chen Yuexian told Seventh Sea some of the inconveniences of printing today.
Although there were skilled workers, Chen Yue still wanted to push printing further, so after explaining the inconveniences to Seventh Sea, he mentioned the Gutenberg printing press to him.
The Gutenberg printing press was a German invention. The emergence of the printing press undoubtedly brought printing technology a step further. The high strength of metal characters allowed for small prints and double-sided printing.
Chen Yue wants to be far ahead of various booksellers in terms of hardware and technology.
"That's it."
Chen Yue took out the design drawing he had already drawn in his arms, which took into account all aspects of the printing press.
Seventh Sea looked at Chen Yue's printed pictures, then looked at Chen Yue, with a little wonder in his eyes, but then said: "Isn't this too inconvenient?"
Yes, this kind of printing press is extremely inconvenient today.
Just like movable type printing, it has appeared in today's world, but it is still not widely spread because it is inconvenient.
For example, Wang Qing of Donglin Academy, who got a wooden board and could print out an article at an extremely fast speed. However, using movable type printing would confuse people looking for words.
There are too many Chinese characters. It would be too difficult to place such words densely in front of you and compile them into an article.
"It is indeed inconvenient, but the technology is indeed leading the way."
Chen Yue said: "As long as you are ahead, it is valuable."
Chen Yue was determined to take printing further.
"If you make this thing well and print it beautifully, you can print scrolls specifically for officials."
Guan Luo fell to the side and suddenly said.
The rich woman supported Chen Yue, making Chen Yue feel warm in his stomach.
Soft rice is easy to digest!
Gutenberg's printing press does have many acclimatization problems, but these can be overcome. We can educate our workers about illiteracy, let them select words, and set up a process for selecting words to ensure that there are no errors... Since this is technological progress, something Lin Shutang should take this step forward.
As long as the printed things are exquisite enough, Chen Yue can print all the books of sages and all kinds of books in the world. Regardless of the profits, Chen Yue can also take the opportunity to unify the punctuation marks.
Ancient writing has punctuation marks, but most of them are not uniform. With the help of printing presses, lead characters, and Donglin Academy, Chen Yue was able to make these punctuation marks deeply rooted in people's hearts.
The books of the sages that are read by everyone all have punctuation marks.
Chen Yue doesn't know what this will bring to Chen Yue, but it is always good.
"If you want a simpler copy, you can also use wax seals."
Chen Yue also talked about the wax sealing method. This method is extremely simple. When Chen Yue was taking exams in his previous life, the teacher also used this method to print papers.
Both printing methods are extremely innovative today. After hearing what Chen Yue said, Seventh Sea recorded it all.
"The printing press can indeed produce it quickly, but in terms of fonts..."
Seventh Sea is thinking about font making.
"The font needs..."
Chen Yue proposed using regular script as a font model, with various sizes of characters, bold fonts, etc., and asked Tiangongyuan to cast it.
This thing is not difficult for Tiangongyuan, but it is more troublesome.
To create such a set of things, all the words in the world need to be cast.
Seventh Sea wrote down all these things and said: "It's just that after you have this technology, people will soon come to Tiangongyuan to buy the same equipment. Even if you spend so much effort, you may not be able to It’s good, and once Tiangongyuan has the production process, it will be easy to make it and sell it to others.”
Again, there is no copyright protection in this world, and others can use your inventions without authorization.
"You also said that this thing is very inconvenient, not to mention a simpler wax paper printing..."
Chen Yue said with a smile.
Between the low-cost, easy-to-print wax paper printing press and the high-cost, complex-to-operate type printing press, it is clear which one booksellers will choose.
"And these things were invented to improve today's printing standards. If they want to use it, let them use it. This is a good thing for students, readers, and book lovers."
Chen Yue's mentality is excellent.
"It's just that I want to name these machines. They want to be called Chen Yue Printing Press!"
Chen Yue finally said.
(End of chapter)
