Almighty System Great Master Qin

Chapter 28: Movable Type Printing

"Your Majesty, the national teacher is asking for an audience." There was nothing to do at noon today, so Qin Shihuang asked Fusu, Hu Hai and Ying Shiman to play mahjong with him in the harem.

Since Qin Shihuang brought mahjong back to the palace, he would go to Xuanyi Hall to let Fusu, Hu Hai, and Ying Shiman play mahjong with him when he had nothing to do. Concubine Xuan also learned it over time.

Other concubines in the harem also learned that Qin Shihuang had brought back an object called mahjong from Nanyang Houhou's Mansion. It was said to be very interesting, but no one had ever seen it.

"Three cakes" Qin Shihuang took out a piece of three cakes and said, "Let the national teacher come in."

"Here"

"I have seen Your Majesty, and I have seen the son and princess." Xiao Hong bowed and saluted.

"Master, this is not a court, there is no need to be polite." Qin Shihuang played a card.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Xiao Hong stepped forward and took out the white paper in his hand.

"Your Majesty, please look, this is the blank paper that I have made in the past few days."

Qin Shihuang looked at the white paper in Xiao Hong's hand, and said, "Master, what is this paper?"

"Return to Your Majesty, this paper can replace silk and bamboo slips, and it is very convenient to write, and it is also very light."

Xiao Hong spread the white paper on the mahjong table and said: "Your Majesty, you can try it with pen and ink."

"When someone comes, I will serve you with pen and ink."

Soon several attendants came over with pens and ink.

Qin Shihuang picked up the brush and started writing on the paper.

Sure enough, his characters are like his own characters. Qin Shihuang's characters are vigorous and powerful, opening and closing, exuding a kind of kingly domineering all the time.

"This paper is so smooth to write on." Qin Shihuang wrote a few words casually, and found that this kind of object called paper was very smooth without the resistance of silk and satin.

"National Teacher, is this paper extremely expensive?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the cost of this kind of paper is not high. It can be made from wood. The cost is very low. It costs less than five cents to make a thousand sheets."

"So cheap?" Qin Shihuang looked at the paper in his hand and said in surprise.

"Your Majesty, it can actually be cheaper, but now I plan to continue to study to see if I can make paper with higher quality."

"The national teacher is worthy of being a disciple of the fairy family. Every time such a whimsical idea can give people a feeling of turning decay into magic."

"Your Majesty is absurd. In fact, what I want to show His Majesty today is not paper, but a small way. What I want to say is that with this piece of paper, I can find a way to keep the Confucian scholars from a hundred schools of thought gathered in Xianyang from causing trouble. For my Daqin's use"

"Oh, tell me"

Seeing that Qin Shihuang wanted to discuss business with the national teacher, Fusu and others planned to leave.

But Qin Shihuang waved his hands for the first time, and said: "The three of you should listen carefully, especially Fusu. As an elder brother, you should learn more from Li Si and other brawny ministers, instead of mixing with those Confucian scholars."

In fact, Qin Shihuang has always been dissatisfied with Fusu's excessive praise of Confucianism. Didn't he know that the Qin Dynasty was based on law.

"I obey." Fusu looked at Xiao Hong with a bitter face.

Xiao Hong rolled his eyes, it can't be my fault.

"Your Majesty, I plan to establish a newspaper office."

"Newspaper?"

"Your Majesty, the newspaper office is an institution that reports major events in the world. I plan to start the Daqin Newspaper, and this newspaper will be divided into four sections. The first one is for free speech. All disciples of hundreds of schools can publish their own articles, and the second is for Daqin Records, which will announce what national policies the imperial court has launched and what major events have happened in the country. The third is the military section. Every time Daqin goes to war abroad, it will record the situation of the battle in detail and use newspapers to spread the world. The fourth For the people's livelihood section, some reports about people's livelihood will be released."

"Master, these four sections all have far-reaching significance, right?" Qin Shihuang knew after hearing this that Xiao Hong obviously did not design the sections on a whim.

"Your Majesty, this first section can stabilize the hundreds of Confucian scholars who gather in Xianyang with nothing to do all day long, and the useful parts of their published articles can also be used by Da Qin."

"The second section can announce to the world the major events that have happened in the imperial court, so that the people all over the world have a sense of participation and enhance cohesion."

"The third section is to let the people know how the Qin army is fighting abroad, so that they can empathize with it, and it can also scare the remnants of the six countries in the country, so that they dare not make any changes."

"And the fourth section is simply to increase the entertainment of the newspaper and increase the viewing rate. A newspaper cannot be all serious things, it must be close to the lives of the people. If you leave Xianyang Palace, you can control the effect of public opinion in the world."

"But this newspaper needs so much content. I'm afraid a Confucian scholar can't finish writing a newspaper in a day." Although Xiao Hong's proposal really moved Qin Shihuang's heart, the actual situation did not allow Xiao Hong to operate like this.

"Your Majesty, this is the third thing I plan to report today. I have found a solution to the mass production of newspapers, movable type printing."

"Movable type printing?" Not only Qin Shihuang was puzzled, but Fusu and the others looked at Xiao Hong in bewilderment.

Why every time the national teacher speaks, I know all the words, but when these words are combined, I can't understand it! .

"In this way, please see, Your Majesty" Xiao Hong squatted on the ground and wrote and drew on the ground with stones, said.

"Your Majesty, each of these squares represents a word, and there are hundreds of small squares in this big box. After combining, an article can be formed. You only need to brush a layer of graphite to print the article on paper."

Pointing to a square, Xiao Hong said: "And you can continue to combine new articles just by replacing the small squares inside."

"Your Majesty, it takes a long time to copy an article, even for the fastest writing Confucian scholar, but with this thing, you only need to use cubes to combine the contents of the article, and you can print countless identical articles in a short time."

Xiao Hong looked at Qin Shihuang's bewildered expressions and smiled.

Movable type printing is a technology that is more than 1000 years ahead of schedule.

Xiao Hong wanted to run a newspaper, not just to control the disciples of Xianyang and stabilize Daqin, but more importantly, to open up the wisdom of the people.

And when newspapers become a necessity in people's lives, then Daqin can use newspapers to control public opinion.

At that time, the influence of the remnants of the Six Nations among the people will be completely disintegrated by the newspapers.

"National Master, is the movable type printing technology you mentioned really possible?"

"Your Majesty, give me a few days, and then I will give you a surprise."

"well"

Qin Shihuang was very excited, and he felt more and more that it was the right decision for him to go to Songshan to invite Xiao Hong.

"Come here, keep this piece of paper and take good care of it so that it will not be damaged." Qin Shihuang put the first piece of white paper brought by Xiao Hong into the warehouse and sent someone to take care of it.

For Qin Shihuang, the value of this piece is not only to replace the bamboo slips and silk satin, but more importantly, it can stabilize the hundreds of disciples in Xianyang and stabilize the hearts of the Qin people.

After finishing all this, Qin Shihuang turned his head to look at Fusu and Hu Hai, and said, "What do you two think?"

Fusu bowed and said: "My son feels that the power of this newspaper should not be underestimated and should be controlled by the imperial court, preferably by my father himself."

"Well, it's not bad that you can think of this." Qin Shihuang was quite satisfied with Fusu's answer.

"Come on, I have nothing to do today, why don't I play a few games of mahjong with the imperial master?" After talking about business, Qin Shihuang couldn't wait to drag Xiao Hong to play mahjong. The main reason was that Fusu and the others had never dared to beat Qin Shihuang.

But playing mahjong is fun only when you win and lose. If you keep winning, the fun will be reduced by more than half.

"I obey the order, but your Majesty will lose when the time comes, so don't be angry."

"Hahaha, how can I be such a stingy person?"

Qin Shihuang, Xiao Hong, Fu Su and Hu Hai sat down to play mahjong, and Charmaine Ying sat next to Xiao Hong. She looked at Xiao Hong with her eyebrows, her face flushed, and she didn't know what she was thinking.

(End of this chapter)