A loud shout startled everyone.
"Who are you?"
The craftsman pointed the whip at Zhu Yunwen with an angry look on his face.
The boss was so frightened that he quickly stood in front of Zhu Yunzhen and shouted to the head craftsman: "Kneel down! Kneel down! Your Majesty, I am guilty and did not manage the factory well."
The craftsman trembled all over, immediately dropped his whip and knelt down. When other craftsmen saw this, they also knelt down.
With a gloomy face, Zhu Yunwen walked straight to the craftsman who had been whipped, and asked, "What mistake did you make that led to you being whipped?"
Liang Datou did not dare to raise his head and said: "Back to the emperor, the villain made a mistake in engraving a word, which caused the entire page to be invalid and delayed the progress. He deserves to be whipped."
"Oh, now that you are still speaking for the craftsman, won't the whip hurt?"
Zhu Yunwen's original anger was mostly subsided by Liang Datou's words.
Liang Datou raised his head slightly and caught a glimpse of Zhu Yunwen's shoes. He quickly lowered his head and said, "I don't dare to deceive the emperor. It hurts."
Zhu Yunwen pointed to the whip on the ground and said, "Pick up the whip and whip it back."
Liang Datou raised his head in surprise, looked at Zhu Yunwen, his mouth was a little dry, shook his head, and said: "Your Majesty, the villain will make mistakes first, and the craftsman will punish him later. It is a matter of course..."
"First Evolution"
"Are you that afraid of him?"
Zhu Yunwen became serious.
Liang Datou struggled for a moment, picked up the whip on the side, looked at the craftsman kneeling beside him, threw the whip on the ground, knelt in front of Zhu Yunzhen, and shouted: "Your Majesty, the craftsman is right."
Zhu Yunwen sighed. This guy was probably a weakling. He resisted a whip without even making a sound. He was said to be a hard-nosed guy who wouldn't dare to hit anyone.
"Give me the whip."
Zhu Yunwen took the whip, nodded Jiangtou's shoulder, and said, "Do you know where I went wrong?"
The craftsman trembled and said quickly: "Your Majesty, it's all the common people's fault. I shouldn't have whipped Liang Datou. I'm guilty..."
Zhu Yunwen shook off the whip and hit it directly on the floor. The sound of the whip resounded through the room, accompanied by a cold voice: "One wrong word, one page will be ruined, and the next thing will happen again! Why use the whip? You injured him, he Are you hurting the engraving? That’s all, please explain why I’m the one taking the blame?”
"ah?"
The craftsman was puzzled.
The emperor takes the blame?
Where to start.
"I heard it clearly from outside. If you blame him for slowing down the progress, you are sorry for me. So, are you teaching him a lesson on my behalf?"
Zhu Yunwen asked sharply.
The craftsman trembled.
This matter, to say the least, is loyalty to the emperor.
To put it more seriously, it was to whip the craftsmen under the banner of the emperor.
Zhu Yunwen knew very well that countless treacherous and rebellious ministers in history had done things this way.
I am requisitioning your house to find a place for the emperor to live.
I am recruiting your daughter to have fun for the emperor.
I will use your head to get rid of the disobedient people for the emperor.
All in all, everything is for the emperor.
If you don't obey, you will be sorry for the emperor and disrespectful of the emperor. I will give you one last chance. Choose from three options:
Live on your knees.
Die by yourself.
The whole family died.
In history, many eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty did things this way, such as Liu Jin, Qian Ning, Shang Ming, um, and the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian.
Of course, this is not the exclusive domain of the eunuchs. There are a lot of officials with sound bodies, weak minds, and mental problems who often use the emperor's name to suppress and exploit places.
The most typical one is the clever establishment of tax items.
The emperor said he would collect...
All right.
People at the bottom, people in pain, may not necessarily blame these officials, but most of them blame the emperor.
In the end, it was the emperor who took the blame.
Zhu Yunwen knew that the craftsman might have no other thoughts and simply hoped that the engraving would be completed as soon as possible, but his unconsciousness was exactly the consciousness of many people.
These people can never discuss matters seriously.
Isn't it just a piece of engraving? If you make a mistake, you have to start over again, which wastes time. Isn't it just a matter of working on it for a while another day and making it right?
As for blaming everything on yourself?
"The head craftsman should kneel outside for two hours. The other craftsmen should continue carving. Please get up."
Zhu Yunwen ordered.
Everyone thanked him and went about their business.
The carpenter trotted all the way, and when he reached the entrance of the alley, he knelt down.
The headmaster walked aside, put the whip on the ground, and said fiercely: "You, the emperor will spare you this time. If you do this again next time, the gods will not be able to save you. Please reflect on it."
Zhu Yunwen looked at Liang Datou sitting on the bench, picked up a piece of poster board, put the poster board in place, fastened the two ends with wooden checks, picked up the flat-head shovel in his left hand, placed it on the edge of the writing, and held a small hammer in his right hand. Gently tap the flat blade to shovel out the sawdust, blow it away gently, and the sawdust will fall to the ground. After a rough cut is made, the needle knife is changed to deal with the burrs in the groove.
"Do you have any tips for engraving knife skills?"
Zhu Yunwen asked when he saw that Liang Datou was skillful in carving and quickly became a character carving.
With a smile on his face, Liang Datou replied: "Your Majesty, there are no secrets, but there are some words passed down by the masters."
"Oh? Is it a secret? If it is a secret, I won't ask about it."
Zhu Yunwen
He picked up a flat blade and looked at it carefully.
Liang Datou shook his head repeatedly and said: "It's not a secret. It's just sixteen words. It means: the hanging knife stands steeply, the knife is inserted accurately, the knife is dropped powerfully, and the knife is collected neatly. These words are easy to say, but if you really want to do it, there is no way. It’s difficult to master the skills of more than five years.”
Zhu Yunwen nodded seriously.
This is the same principle as "you will know it once you see it, but you will lose it once you do it".
Engraving is divided into negative engraving and positive engraving.
If the writing is recessed, it is inscribed.
If the writing protrudes, it is a positive engraving.
Inverted engraving is simple, but in terms of printing beauty and effect, it is not as good as positive engraving.
The Sili Jingjing Factory chose the positive engraving version.
The most important thing to avoid when engraving is interruption and distraction. If there are high-standard requirements and one word is wrong, the entire plate will be useless and need to be engraved again.
If the requirements are not high, you can engrave the typo in the gap next to the typo.
Zhu Yunwen had seen the craftsman's engraving and went to the printing room without disturbing him.
Printing is relatively simple. You only need to fix the engraving. The printing craftsman holds a brush, dips in an appropriate amount of ink, and evenly applies it to the engraved raised surface. Then lay it flat with white paper, wipe the back of the paper with a long brush, peel off the paper, and take it away. Let dry.
Then comes the framing.
The binding was originally Jiance decoration. To put it bluntly, it was made of bamboo pieces...
Later, scroll outfits, whirlwind outfits, sutra folding outfits appeared, and later, the thread outfits that everyone is familiar with.
After Zhu Yunwen walked through the printing factory, he finally had an intuitive understanding of printing and admired the wisdom of the ancients even more.
"Your Majesty, the food today is not to your liking?"
Ma Enhui couldn't help but ask when she saw that Zhu Yunwen had not taken two bites, so she put down her chopsticks.
Zhu Yunwen shook his head and sighed: "Queen, the craftsmen have worked hard for countless times. If only one word is ruined or one edition is damaged, they will be whipped. Let's not talk about this, let's talk about their achievements. How many books in the imperial court are not printed by factories? But day after day, year after year, they can only get one, two or five cents of silver a month!"
"I have improved the treatment in the palace. These craftsmen only earn two taels of silver per month, which is not as good as one palace maid. How can I survive? They have paid so much. What has our Ming Dynasty given them? A family of six, total If you spread your four taels of income over one person, you only have more than 20 taels of cash a day!"
"They are carving civilization, but they themselves live in darkness. Queen, you don't know, some craftsmen can't even afford candles at home! Such talents and such treatment, this is not the Ming Dynasty I want!"
PS1: I forgot to mention in the previous article that the sample manuscript is posted on the poster board.
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