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"That's right, there are only four months left before the promotion of compulsory education. Time is running out, and there can be no further delay." Cao Can and Zhang Cang said anxiously.

In the opinion of the three of them, it is actually difficult to complete the transcription of textbooks in four months.

Because Li Si sent the latest population of children, there are more than 30 children between the ages of six and ten, and the total number of textbooks for the three subjects is [-].

Although this is already several times less than the total number of textbooks expected at the beginning, three to 40 is an astronomical figure.

To complete the arduous task of transcribing 40 million textbooks, how many transcribers need to be recruited?

1 people? 5 people? 10 people?

The state of Qin does not lack warriors, but it only lacks literati who can read and write.

Taking Xianyang City as an example, it is not bad to recruit a thousand literati.This is also because wealthy merchants of the gentry gathered in Xianyang. If it were replaced by other counties, it would be difficult to find a hundred literati.

Moreover, even if [-] literati can be recruited from all over the country, how long will it take to get all these people in place?

From the issuance of the collection order to the arrival of these literati in Xianyang, it took at least more than a month.

In other words, there are only three months left for transcription.

With 1 people, it is impossible to copy three to four million textbooks.

Thinking of these situations, to be honest, Xiao He and the others are not very hopeful that each student will be given one textbook by the beginning of next spring.

however……

What made the three of them even more speechless was that at this time, Li Yang had a calm expression on his face when he heard this, as if he was a normal person.This made the three of them even more anxious.

Could it be that Prime Minister Zhong gave up?

Or did he just not care?

"Don't worry, it's just some textbooks, small things." Li Yang smiled and comforted him.

The three of Xiao He looked at each other, and suddenly felt like they were playing the piano with a cow.

The transcription work of 40 million textbooks, he actually said it was a trivial matter?

Xiao Hesheng was afraid that Li Yang didn't know the huge number of books to be transcribed, so he stretched out four fingers and said: "My lord, I have to transcribe nearly 40 books, 40 books, there are only four months left, my lord." Are you really not in a hurry?"

Li Yang smiled: "Who said that these books must be transcribed?"

"..." Xiao He, Cao Can, and Zhang Cang were all taken aback.

Hundreds of thousands of books, if you don’t transcribe, will you change?

Blow one breath, and hundreds of thousands of identical books will come out?

Zhang Cang said: "My lord, what do you mean by that?"

Li Yang smiled: "Textbooks are so important. Copying by hand is time-consuming and troublesome, and it is easy to make mistakes and omissions. It not only hinders the development of culture, but also brings undue losses to the spread of culture. Therefore, the truth is the same. At the beginning, I never thought of transcribing manually.”

"Ah? No... What should I do if I don't rely on manual transcription?" The three looked confused.

Even Li You and Fu Su were puzzled, with question marks all over their faces.

Li Yang said: "Books can be printed!"

"print?"

Everyone couldn't understand it at all.

"Yes, the truth is going to invent a printing press."

Li Yang nodded, but he didn't bother to explain, and said directly: "Let's go, since you are in such a hurry, then I will take you to Jiang Zuo Shao's residence, and you will understand the printing technique that I said what."

"Print?"

Everyone looked at each other and were very curious in their hearts. What kind of magical invention is printing? Prime Minister Zhong confidently believes that he can complete the task of transcribing hundreds of thousands of textbooks in four months?

Curious, really curious.

At the moment, everyone quickly followed Li Yang and rushed towards General Zuo Shaofu...

1 Sixty Chapters on Typography

"Teacher, you asked your students to search for engravers, isn't it just for printing?"

Hearing that Li Yang said that printing was going to be invented, Fusu was very excited. Having benefited from the benefits of papermaking, Fusu had long been obsessed with the invention.

Li Yang nodded: "Exactly."

Hearing this, Fusu was overjoyed. In this way, he has contributed to the printing technique this time!

So, he hurriedly asked: "Teacher, can the achievements of printing be compared with that of papermaking?"

Before Li Yang could answer, Li You on the side said, "Papermaking has been around for thousands of years. I'm afraid there is no more important invention in this world!"

Xiao He and the others also nodded and felt the same way: "Your Majesty said that papermaking is the number one invention in the world, so it is impossible for other inventions to surpass it."

Fusu smiled, although he was somewhat proud, but also somewhat disappointed, which meant that his contribution to the printing technique this time would not be too great.

However, Li Yang nodded at this time: "Actually, the printing technology that I want to invent this time does not say that its contribution to human civilization surpasses that of papermaking, but that it has the same status as papermaking. No exaggeration."

Just kidding, papermaking is one of the four great inventions of China, and printing is actually one of the four great inventions of China.How could it be inferior to papermaking?

"Huh? On the same level as... and papermaking!"

Hearing this, everyone was really taken aback.

Everyone looked at Li Yang as if they had seen a ghost, and couldn't believe that this was a mortal.

You know, papermaking is a supreme existence.

The invention of papermaking shocked the entire state of Qin and completely ended the history of people writing on bamboo slips.

Take the Chinese textbooks compiled by the Education Department today. If they were written on bamboo slips, it would take several carts of bamboo slips to hold a single Chinese textbook.

Let me ask, how can the contents of several carts of bamboo slips be used to promote compulsory education?It can't be promoted at all, because it is difficult to make bamboo slips to achieve this number. How many carts of bamboo slips are needed for one book, and how many carts of bamboo slips are needed for hundreds of thousands of books?It's simply astronomical.

But now, it is because Li Yang invented paper that he can condense a lot of knowledge into a booklet bound by paper. Li Yang named it "book" at the beginning.

It can be seen that the profound significance of papermaking to the spread of culture and knowledge.

For this reason, the emperor issued a summons, saying that papermaking is the greatest invention in the world, as evidenced by this.

But now, Li Yang actually said that his next invention will have the same status as papermaking. Isn't this shocking?