Straight man of steel

Chapter 247 System Update
Without a big shot by his side, Zhang Yuan will be much more comfortable in the following days.

After cutting all the first batch of paper and sending people to those houses, Zhang's papermaking workshop officially started to make a profit.

Princess Pingyang sent a total of five stewards to Zhang's mansion, and after the second batch of paper reached [-] sheets, the shop that had already been prepared was opened at the same time.

In the entire Inner History area, Princess Pingyang has opened a total of fifteen stores, which also sell pens, ink and inkstones. Only the number of brothels opened by Princess Dachang can compete with this scale.

It's a bit funny to say that the previous eldest princess was engaged in the business of flesh and blood in Chang'an, but the current eldest princess was engaged in the business of the Four Treasures of the Study in Chang'an.

But in fact, they all serve the same kind of people, but they look very different on the outside.

"How Steel Is Tempered: Iron Draws Silver Hook: Transcribing Hundreds of Classics on Paper and Revising It into a Book. (97/100)

Mission Completion Reward: Typography Craft. "

With the steward sent by Princess Pingyang, Zhang Yuan does not have to take care of the paper mill. Anyway, someone will give him the commission in the end.

Now he is staring at the task interface every day, because Zhang Yuan knew that after the first batch of papers were delivered to Jianzhang Palace, the people in the Shaofu revised those papers into volumes, and finally found someone to transcribe the palace Chinese books and classics.

However, the royal family is most concerned about the various documents and files accumulated by the big man over the past few decades, which made it take nearly two months to transcribe such a small number of classics.

They probably didn't use the paper sent to Pingyang Marquis' Mansion and the Prime Minister's Mansion to copy classics.

For those in power, power comes first, and inheriting and disseminating those cultural knowledge is not so important.

However, in recent days, after the opening of the stores opened by Princess Pingyang, the number of transcribed classics has increased in a straight line.

Zhang Yuan has been lying on the chair all afternoon, waiting for the task to be completed.

"Ding."

"Complete the "How Steel Is Made" Iron Painting and Silver Hook task, and receive a reward: a detailed explanation of the printing process."

Hearing the notification that the task was completed, Zhang Yuan immediately chose to give the task reward to the personification.

Immediately, a piece of silk appeared beside Zhang Yuan, and Zhang Yuan couldn't wait any longer.

There are papers for sale outside, and everyone knows that this is the business of Princess Pingyang, so no one came to Zhang Yuan.

It can be said that the Pingyang Hou Mansion resisted all the pressure, but it also deprived Zhang Yuan of the benefits that should have belonged to him.

This benefit is not money, but attraction to the world's literati.

Now that Zhang Yuan has printing skills, he will not worry about his future status in the Han Dynasty.

In any case, in fact, printing has little effect on the royal family, and it is also dispensable to those powerful.

They don't need to print their orders in thousands of copies, and it's not very useful to print them out. It's for tens of millions of people in the world to read. At least 90.00% of the five people can't understand the words on it.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan spread out the silk that recorded the printing technique, and found that it only recorded the movable type printing technique of the Song Dynasty and the engraving printing technique of the Tang Dynasty.

The principle is easy to understand, but the required ink material ratio is the most critical part.

Before Zhang Yuan had this detailed explanation, he knew that movable type printing uses clay movable type, and engraving printing uses wooden boards directly.

After reading this detailed explanation, Zhang Yuan immediately decided that he would mainly use engraving and printing first. For those classics handed down from the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the number of words is actually not many, and it is more convenient to use engraved woodblock printing.

Movable type printing always needs to rearrange the order every time different classics are printed. Although it improves engraving printing, it is not practical at this time.

Think about that guy Dongfang Shuo who can be called erudite after reading only 40 characters, and any online novel in later generations can surpass the reading volume of a few or even a dozen Dongfang Shuo.

And the most important thing is that the ancestor Xu Shen who summed up Chinese characters and wrote "Shuowen Jiezi" was not born at this time.

Not to mention Zhang Yuan, even these living great Confucian writers probably don't know how many words there are.

If Zhang Yuan went to Sima Xiangru and asked him this question, he would probably be confused.

Now that Zhang Yuan has an idea, he plans to start to do it immediately, but now he suddenly feels that a clever woman can't cook without rice.

There are not many books in the house at all, and engraving blocks still have to find someone to borrow books, and after borrowing books, you have to copy them yourself. After copying, you can draw a model on the wooden board.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan was a little embarrassed, because he himself didn't want to waste the time of transcribing books, and the font of the transcribing person had to be very beautiful.

If Zhuo Wenjun still stayed in the mansion, then naturally there would be no problem, and there were not many people in Chang'an who could have better calligraphy than Zhuo Wenjun.

Zhang Yuan, who was in deep distress, had no choice but to put down the piece of silk and close his eyes to see what the next stage of the system's tasks would be.

"The system of how steel is tempered is being upgraded.

Countdown (0/365)

In this year, I hope the host will be self-reliant, develop the resources in hand well, and don't waste them. "

Zhang Yuan was a little confused all of a sudden, and he still had an upgrade. Before his relationship, he used version 1.0.

And finally a piece of advice to myself, is this system despising myself?
Then Zhang Yuan thought about the farming tasks issued by the system before, which lasted for several years, and he was not so worried about gains and losses, so he changed his mood.

But in this sudden depression, Zhang Yuan immediately thought of how to get more transcribed classics for himself.

"Old Zhao!!!"

Zhang Yuan took the silk and shouted loudly to the outside.

The whole person was extremely excited, this time Zhang Yuan wanted to take advantage of the literati in the world.

When Old Zhao heard Zhang Yuan's shout, he ran in immediately.

"Master, what do you want from me?"

Zhang Yuan gestured to Old Zhao, then opened his mouth and said.

"Get me some big boards like this, about two inches thick, a foot long and half a foot wide."

Old Zhao nodded, and immediately went down to do it himself.

As an old carpenter, making a few boards is like playing, Zhang Yuan also thinks so in his heart, so the leader of engraving and engraving in the future must be Lao Zhao.

Lao Zhao went to prepare the wooden boards, while Zhang Yuan himself took out a stack of paper and cut it into a shape that was one foot long and half a foot wide.

Then let Xiaoya prepare the pen and ink, and he started to show calligraphy on it.

Zhang Yuan planned to borrow the poems of an old ancestor with the cheek to engrave them into engravings.

(End of this chapter)