Daqin: At the beginning, the father-in-law was invited to rebel, but the father-in-law turned out to

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"Aqiu!"

Song Yuan was walking on the road, and the autumn wind made him sneezed.

After tightening his fur coat, Song Yuan went straight into the workshop.

Now the workshop in the village has completely turned into a blacksmith shop, and all the previous furnaces and other things have been moved to the steel factory.

It is only responsible for turning steel blocks into finished ironware.

Song Yuan beckoned, making the craftsmen stop what they were doing.

He said: "At present, the ironware in the village is enough, and today I will give you a new task! A great task!"

The craftsmen were all taken aback.

They all knew that Songjiazhuang was going to rebel.

Is rebellion still great?

But no one dared to say.

Song Yuan also said directly: "The task is very simple. You can make an iron engraving according to the layout I gave you. I have a detailed instruction manual here. Let's make an engraving to practice your hands today!"

As he spoke, Song Yuan took out the information on "engraving and printing" and began to explain it to the craftsmen.

At this moment, the four great inventions spread from Great Qin!

A great event called universal education begins here! .

Chapter 66

"Is this what you call printing?"

Brother Zheng took the iron engraving from Song Yuan and said curiously.

Song Yuan nodded.

Brother Zheng observed the engraving with great interest. Song Yuan said the day before yesterday that he wanted to print a dictionary. He was still shocked by the dictionary and didn't care about printing at all.

However, Song Yuan's actions in the workshop these two days were too big.

Brother Zheng's interest was quickly aroused.

After some questioning, Brother Zheng learned about it from Song Yuan.

There is an invention called printing, which can copy a book on paper without the trouble of writing.

Immediately, Brother Zheng became interested.

Printing and papermaking are simply a perfect match.

The combination of the two can greatly reduce the production cost of books, and is the strongest weapon for popularizing education.

Today, Song Yuan made the first printing block.

Brother Zheng immediately came to the house to find Song Yuan to look at the engraving.

Brother Zheng looked at the engraving in front of him, and couldn't help feeling Song Yuan's intelligence again.

The engraving board is also an iron plate, and on the iron plate, there are raised iron squares, and the front of each iron square is engraved with reversed "characters".

After thinking about it for a while, Brother Zheng can figure out how to use the engraving block. As long as these iron squares are stained with ink, and then stamped on the paper, the "character" will appear on the paper.

"This is much more convenient than bamboo slips. Even the silk scripts that emerged in Xianyang during this period are incomparable with paper!"

Brother Zheng said in admiration.

Of course he knew that the block printing in front of him could be described as a printing method tailored for paper.

Whether it is bamboo slips or silk scripts that have appeared recently, it is difficult to use block printing.

Li Si on the side also echoed: "The cost of paper is so low. With the printing technology, books can also be batched into volumes. Song Yuan and your two inventions, the realization of universal education is not empty talk!"

Song Yuan smiled lightly and said, "It's not bad. In fact, compared with woodblock printing, there is a printing method that is more cost-effective."

Brother Zheng and Li Si were taken aback.

Is there a more cost-effective printing method?

Brother Zheng said in astonishment: "Isn't this enough for you to save costs? That printing technique is as good as this engraving?"

Song Yuan nodded and said, "That's natural. Think about it, if the woodblock printing technique can only print one page of a dictionary, if a dictionary has hundreds of pages, I need to make hundreds of woodblocks!"

Brother Zheng and Li Si nodded, and they both realized something.

Song Yuan was right, if it was just to make a few books, it would cost a lot to use block printing.

Only when volumes are produced in batches, woodblock printing can take advantage of it.

"And if you want to make other books, you need to make new engravings, right?"

Brother Zheng asked.

Snapped!

Song Yuan snapped his fingers and said, "That's right, it will cost a lot, but as long as the cube can move, a movable type engraving block can print all the books!"

Brother Zheng and Li Si were both stunned.

They subconsciously and involuntarily think about the living engraving that Song Yuan said.

If a block of movable type could print all the books, then all the people in Daqin could bear the cost of learning.

Brother Zheng said excitedly: "Why didn't you invent it? Don't you have an idea yet?"

Song Yuan smiled lightly and said, "That's not true, it's just that dictionaries don't need living engravings, and ordinary engravings are more suitable for mass production."

After all, as a reference book, Song Yuan will print a lot of dictionaries in the future. The lifespan of ordinary engraving blocks is far longer than that of living engraving blocks, so it is naturally more suitable for printing engraving blocks for dictionaries.

Brother Zheng and Li Si didn't know the reason.

But the two of them were still very surprised that Song Yuan could actually invent "living engraving"!

Brother Zheng said curiously: "Then why don't you show me the living engraving?"

Song Yuan shook his head and said, "I haven't done it yet."

"Why don't you do it?"

Brother Zheng was a little displeased, Song Yuan whetted my appetite!

Song Yuan looked at the father-in-law who was having a temper tantrum, and smiled again: "Father-in-law, why are you so angry? At present, people in the village don't even know words. I must quickly make dictionary engravings, so that everyone can learn characters as soon as possible!"

Hearing this, Brother Zheng had no choice but to ask, "Then when will you make living engraving?"

Song Yuan pondered for a moment and said: "About twelve days later, when the engraving of the dictionary is ready, I will make a living engraving!"

This statement came out.

Both Brother Zheng and Li Si had a meal.

The two looked at each other and exchanged ideas.

It's this time period again!

The moment when sweet potatoes and potatoes are ripe.

Song Yuan set up dictionaries, living engravings, and even other things at that point in time several times.

This approach has more and more a feeling of trying to cover up.

Are sweet potatoes real estate?

Brother Zheng had this idea in his mind, and asked on the scorpion: "Song Yuan, aren't the sweet potatoes about to ripen that day? Are you not in a hurry to see it? Are you making a dictionary or a living engraving?"

Song Yuan smiled and said, "There's no need to worry about it. Just dig it out when it's ripe. I'm still in a hurry to plant cotton!"

Brother Zheng and Li Si became more determined when they heard this.

Generally speaking, if sweet potatoes are really high-yield.

How can it be planted?

Song Yuan now talks about what kind of "cotton" he wants to grow, which further confirms the fact that the yield of sweet potatoes is low.

A trace of disappointment and regret flashed in the eyes of Brother Zheng and the others.

But it dissipated quickly.

Looking at the engraving in front of them, they felt relieved.

Song Yuan has brought enough surprises, so what if the sweet potatoes are not good enough? .

Chapter 67

Qin Wangzheng was 34 years old.

October [-]th.

The weather has already entered winter, and the villagers of Songjiazhuang walked on the road, and if they breathed out casually, they could turn into white mist.

The icy cold wind even made the faces of the villagers turn red.

Some children's ears were even slightly red and chapped, and frostbite developed from the cold.

But the harsh winter did not stop the villagers from going out of their houses.

Even in the eyes of every villager, there is no resistance to the cold at all, but an expectation for something.

They have been looking forward to this day for a long time!

Today is the official sweet potato harvest day!

All the villagers of Songjiazhuang remember the day when the seedlings were planted.

"This is a sweet potato with a yield of 2000 catties per mu! This is a potato with a yield of 6000 catties per mu! With these two things, all the children in Zhuangzi in the future will be able to eat fat for nothing!"

This sentence was engraved in the hearts of countless villagers.

No one doubted Song Yuan's words.

Although the owner of the young village has been relatively salty in the past five years, he has not done nothing. He has helped with clothes, food and the like.

In addition, Songjiazhuang has a lot of fields, and almost every household is living well.

The master of Shaozhuang has superb medical skills. In the past five years, no villager has died of illness.

In the past two months, they have seen the vigorous development of the village.

For the villagers, the status of the young village owner has gradually surpassed that of the Xianyang Palace.

After all, they saw Song Yunlong and others every day, and the villagers knew that the village was planning something big.

Furthermore, everyone is looking forward to the continuous development of the village!

And the most important thing is food. As long as there is sufficient food, we are not afraid of not being able to develop.

Everything depends on today's harvest!

However, none of the villagers began to cultivate, and they were all waiting for someone.

Zhuangzhu Mansion.

Brother Zheng, Li Si, Brother Meng and Wang Jian were warming up by the fire in the main house.

Today is a big day.

Although after a period of testing, Brother Zheng had already determined that the yield of sweet potatoes was low, but the appearance of the dictionary completely diverted their attention.

Coming here today is to wait for the release of the first volume of "Da Qin Dictionary".

The five sat around the stove, waiting for Song Yuan in the room.

As Ying Shiman's wife, there were so many guests at home, she was supposed to come out to serve tea and water.

But she knew that apart from this matter today, her father had more important things to do.

In order not to cause problems, Ying Shiman took care of the child in the boudoir.