Early in the morning at the college, students in the enlightenment class were doing morning exercises. The shouts of the children, big and small, were extremely loud, as if they were trying to breathe out all the air in their chests. Everyone trained themselves like clay monkeys, dripping with sweat, and filled with hot steam.
Afterwards, they will go into the newly built large bathroom and give themselves a good scrub before facing a full day of classes. This is a bathroom equipment designed by someone, which brings great benefits to everyone. Otherwise, these children would have to endure the stench of sweat and be squeezed into a small classroom with teachers on a hot day, which would be all kinds of unpleasant.
This is also because the magicians in Lost Land all follow a wild style of painting. The magicians have to compete with muscles and size, but they may not necessarily lose to the warriors. Therefore, in the enlightenment stage, most colleges, like the Chengguo Eton College founded by Lin, attach great importance to children's physical training.
If you have time, someone would like to get back into the habit of morning exercise. After all, your body is your own. If something happens to you, whether it's illness or a knife, no one else can do it for you.
But there was no time for that today. As soon as Lin entered the academy, he was immediately greeted by the apprentices of the great magician Kabamba and led to the mathematics building. Although he is old, he is usually a energetic dean, but today there is something different. With a hint of apology and maybe some anger, he looked at the person who appeared with a little disappointment and said:
"Sir, I'm sorry, I can only find ten qualified scribes. If it's really urgent, my students and I can help. But I haven't done this kind of thing for a long time, maybe the speed is not Young people, hurry up. I really want to find more people, but those magic apprentices who are good at copying seem to have disappeared. These people are still the disciples of us old guys, which is really embarrassing. "
"Ten, that's more, that's more." Lin comforted the old man. He also heard hints from the words of the great magician Kabambai that someone was stumbling in this regard.
But everyone except Lin looked annoyed. They were quite dissatisfied with a certain magician who overestimated his abilities, and old grudges were rekindled.
As long as you are a scribe, it is impossible not to have a grudge against the creator of the forum. Before the forum, their main source of income was copying books on magic knowledge for magicians and magician associations.
With the forum, many magicians choose to use forum files to store magic knowledge. Immediately, the work of scribes was reduced by more than 90%, and many people were forced to choose other dangerous or high-risk jobs. So this time the great magician Kaban Bai temporarily recruited scribes. Not only were there people obstructing the recruitment from behind, but people with scribe experience were also holding back their resentment and refused to come.
These few are here because the great magician Kabambai or several other magicians from the academy are his teachers, or teachers’ teachers. The teacher has spoken, I have to come. Otherwise, there would be no way to redress his injustice.
However, based on past experience, it is very common for books like this to be sold to the public, to be prepared a year or two in advance, and only after a certain number of copies have been accumulated, can they be put on store shelves. There are even situations where one copy is copied and one copy is sold as soon as it is completed. There are only seven days left! What can be done? It takes more than this to make a book cover.
Ignoring the disgust on everyone's faces, Lin still followed the example of a leader and shouted to everyone first. Said: "Thank you for coming to help me make a mathematical journal. There are still seven days left, and there is not much margin. But I don't use ordinary copying methods, so the time is not as urgent as you think. The next work will of course make use of your talents, but it will also require some strength. For all of you here, you have no problem with basic apprentice-level magic. Such as giant power and light object magic. Can I ask you first? Please introduce yourselves and let me get to know you. We still have some time before my things arrive. Once they arrive, we will start to get busy."
Is there printing in Midland? Yes, of course there is, but the printing technique of Midi is still a very simple engraving printing method. However, the main reason why printing in Midland was not popular was because it could not be used for magic-related texts.
When transcribing magic incantations or magic circles, even if they are just simple notes rather than magic scrolls, the carrier and ink must not be careless. Use ordinary ink to write words that can carry power. After a period of time, the words will disappear and no trace will be left. Sometimes ordinary paper cannot bear it and becomes brittle and breaks when touched.
If it is used for printing, the ink has a special formula, which is different from ordinary ink. This kind of ink that can be used for printing is also of a type that cannot carry power. So far, magicians have not found an ink that is suitable for both uses. Therefore, the use of printing in Midi is limited to the circles of nobles and countries, that is, non-magical fields.
However, the powerful rulers of Midland still maintain a rather backward idea of ignorant people, and always believe that the people must be stupid in order to rule easily. After all, due to the dangerous natural environment, the people of Lost Land maintain a certain degree of force even at the lowest level. If the people's wisdom is further expanded, these rulers will no longer be alive. Therefore, unlike on Earth, printing has good room for development in Lost Land.
This is also a misunderstanding among most magicians. They are used to copying books. They always think that magic books can only be copied, but they never thought that mathematics is not magic...
Once they figured out this key point, most people's tangled brows relaxed a little. Although the printing technique known to magicians has very poor handwriting and is not easy to preserve, at least it is a way to get through the current level, so there is nothing to complain about.
Maybe, things are not as bad as imagined.
With a relatively relaxed mood, the magic apprentices present began to introduce themselves. It's nothing more than studying under someone, how many levels, what magic content has been copied, etc.
After everyone finally finished the introduction and Lin talked another round of useless nonsense, Kabanbai had time to ask: "So what you are waiting for now is the engraving for printing? I don't know how many sets of this part have been completed. Already?"
There is a limit to the number of times engraving plates can be used for printing, but anyone who doesn't care about this technology probably won't know about this problem. Therefore, the great magician Kabanbai can ask this, and his knowledge and knowledge can be considered very profound.
But someone still shook his head and said, "Engraving? I didn't do anything like that."
The great magician who had just crawled out of the mire of hell felt as if he had been kicked deeper into the depths and was completely destroyed. Making engravings that can print a set of books would probably take more time than copying. There is nothing now. Is it possible that it can be directly transformed without magic? Could it be that this man has created some new magic, such as calligraphy, reading and writing, etc.
The old man, who had a bad heart, was just about to grab anyone around him, struggle and moan, when news came from his student who had become an official magician. "Teacher, there is a team of carriages and horses at the door. They said they are delivering the goods that Lord Tripwood needs. Do you want to let them in?"
Because of the previous incident in which the inspector team broke in with the intention of arresting people, the president of Kabamba Academy ordered to strengthen the security level of the academy. Intruders will be beaten first and questioned later. If they are not sure of being captured alive, they will be killed on the spot. They are completely guarding the confidential locations according to their levels.
Therefore, when an outsider who is not from the academy wishes to enter, he or she must obtain permission from any of the three academy administrators, including him, the dean, before they can enter.
When Lin next to him heard this, he knew that the printing equipment had been sent, and he quickly said: "That should be the printing equipment and printing paper sent by the Technical Guild. I've been waiting for them for a long time. Please invite them in quickly and directly Come to the Mathematics Building to unload the goods."
In fact, as early as six nights ago, when he learned that there was a magician's banquet about mathematics, Lin roughly speculated on various possible events and changes, and imagined ways to break the situation. The issuance of a mathematics journal was one of the plans set at that time. Regardless of whether it is used to solve a certain problem, running a journal is beneficial but not harmful to a certain transnational public.
I have thought about using the convenience of the forum to publish journal content. However, the convenience of the forum has actually become an obstacle to the plan to establish an academic authority. Because everyone can speak, and it is not easy to review the content. In comparison, a paper physical book can easily achieve things that forum-based electronic books cannot.
Now that we have decided to use physical books, it is absolutely not feasible to use copying methods as in the past under the premise of mass sales. Not to mention how many scribes would have to be hired to achieve the originally envisioned scale if one issue was published every month. At this time, there is no doubt that you need to start clicking on the technology tree of printing.
As a traveler, when talking about printing, what comes to mind is not movable type printing, but the Manroland automatic cylinder printing machine...
When I was a child, in an era when the distinction between factories and homes was not yet clear, there was a small printing shop near my hometown. There is a German-made Manroland small automatic cylinder printing press inside.
Even the antiques left over from the World War II era were rare high-tech products for small and medium-sized enterprises at that time. So it was okay at that time
