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It gives them a sense of wonder.

Moreover, once the number of books increases, their descendants may not be unable to read!

Thinking of this, their enthusiasm for work is naturally extremely high!

Li Ke took 10 copies of "The Analects of Confucius" and 10 sheets of paper at random, and entered the palace in a carriage.

In the past few days, Chang'an City has been raining for a while, and the road has become muddy.

It was quite difficult for the carriage to walk on the muddy road.

Sitting in the carriage, Li Ke felt that the wheels of the carriage were slipping, as if he was on a boat.

At this time, in the Manna Hall.

Li Shimin is discussing matters with the ministers.

"Report to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Wu seeks an audience."

At this time, a young eunuch reported to Li Shimin.

Originally, Li Shimin had already explained not to disturb during the discussion.

But Li Shimin also explained at the same time that if Wu Wang Li Ke asks to see him, he can interrupt him.

That's right, our old Li is such a double standard.

"Let him in."

Li Shimin nodded upon hearing this.

Afterwards, Li Ke walked in carrying a cloth bag.

"My son attends the royal father!"

Li Ke first greeted Li Shimin.

"What is the purpose of coming to Ganlu Hall? 5.8"

Li Shimin saw that he was carrying a cloth bag, but he didn't know what was in it.

"What you explained a few days ago, Erchen made it out."

Li Ke looked at Li Shimin and smiled slightly.

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin's eyes lit up immediately: "Is that what you have in your hand? Take it out and have a look!"

He also didn't care about the ongoing discussion. Compared with what Li Ke said, what was being discussed now was nothing worth mentioning!

Seeing that Li Shimin and Li Ke's father and son were talking secretly, the ministers in Ganlu Palace couldn't help but look puzzled and bewildered.

Are they speaking official language?

Why can't we understand!

Changsun Wuji, who was sitting in the first place on Li Shimin's left, saw this scene, and his face suddenly sank.

Although he couldn't understand the encrypted call between the father and son, but looking at Li Shimin's expression, it was obvious that Li Ke had come up with something good again!

This is obviously not good news for him and Li Chengqian!

Li Ke took out 10 copies of "The Analects of Confucius" and 10 sheets of snow-white paper from the bag without haste.

When he took out the paper, he immediately attracted the attention of everyone in Ganlu Palace!

"Is this paper in your hand?"

After Li Shimin saw the snow-white paper, he couldn't help but exclaimed!

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Chapter 108 Table of Contents and Page Numbers!Li Shimin and the minister were shocked!

"Isn't that what you see in front of you?"

Li Ke chatted with the craftsmen in a good mood.

Although he has a wealth of theoretical knowledge in his mind, he is still very happy to actually make such a good paper.

"Amazing!"

The craftsmen's eyes were still full of shock.

"That's chemistry."

Li Ke smiled slightly and briefly told them.

Although you don't understand it, it sounds amazing!

Once the paper is made, the next step is printing.

In the past three days, lead characters have been carved out one by one.

And according to the size of the book, an engraving was made one by one.

According to the content to be printed, the lead characters carved into characters were put into the engraving block one by one.

After all the text is arranged according to the content of the book, a tight printing plate is formed!

Because these typefaces are tightly placed in the engraving block, they will exert a force on each other, so that these typefaces will not move during printing.

So as to ensure the standardization of printing!

The reason why lead is chosen as the movable type material is mainly because lead has good ink transferability and is very wear-resistant.

This perfectly fits the printing needs.

After all, there are two requirements for printing, one is ink transfer and the other is durability.

Moreover, although lead is poisonous, lead is not easy to volatilize, so unless lead is put directly in the mouth, it will not be poisoned.

Security is also very good.

"Start printing!"

Following Li Ke's order, the craftsmen began to brush ink on the movable type engraving block.

Then each piece of paper touched lightly on the arranged movable type engraving block, and each character clearly appeared on the snow-white paper!

Not only that, but in the lower right corner of the white paper, a page number was also printed.

Indicate what page this is in the book!

Since there are so many contents in a book, the contents of each page are different.

It is difficult to say that every page is formatted according to the content at the same time.

So the way Li Ke asked everyone to print is to select a book and print the first page first!

Don't rush to change the engraving after printing, but continue to print this page!

For example, if you plan to print [-] copies of this book, then print [-] copies first!

One page has two sides, the front side is printed first, and then dried quickly with heated air.

Immediately afterwards, the reverse side was printed again!

After printing both sides of the first page a thousand times, it is time to switch to the second page.

At this time, someone had already arranged the engraving on the second page according to the content.

In this way, the process just now is repeated, and another thousand sheets of front and back pages are printed!

Because all the content is the same, and the engraving is also the same standard.

So any paper can be part of any book, it doesn't make a difference.

In addition, the number of pages is printed on the lower right corner of each sheet of paper at the same time, so sorting out one by one, finishing all the pages in order, can be bound!

Binding is complete, a brand new book comes out!

Moreover, the printed book is not a single book.

But exactly the same one thousand copies!

Li Ke has formulated a printing process for everyone. If the printing process is completely followed, it may take longer to print a book.

But the time to print a thousand books is definitely greatly reduced!

This process is used in large-scale printing of books, and the efficiency has been improved by many times!

"The next step is to expand the printing workshop and prepare more typefaces and engraving blocks, so that many pages can be printed at the same time!"

Li Ke explained to the craftsmen.

If there is one, the size of the printing workshop is enlarged.

There are so many engraving blocks and types, it might be possible to print the entire book together!

For example, if a book has [-] pages, plus the front and back sides, there are [-] printing plates.

Assemble two hundred printing plates with different content at the same time, and start printing at the same time!

One printing is one hundred printing plates, quickly dry the ink, and then turn it over and print again.

In this way, a book is complete!

That is to maximize the efficiency of printing books.

It's just that there are not enough manpower at present, and now we can only write one page at a time.

But it was certainly imperative to increase the size of the printing workshop.

"Yes!"

The craftsmen nodded in unison.

Everyone looked at Li Ke as if they were looking at a craftsman!

In everyone's opinion, the God of Craftsman is nothing more than that!

It is already incredible to make snow-white paper.

As a result, the movable type printing and the printing process have completely overturned everyone's worldview!

But they know that from then on, books and paper are no longer exclusive to scholars!

Because the number of books and paper will be unimaginable!

Next, artisans still print books here.

This "The Analects of Confucius" has a total of 292 titles, counting the front and back is 584 printing plates.

Add a cover, that is 585 printing plates.

The amount of work is still quite large, but if it is printed according to the process he formulated.

Not only will the speed be fast, but it will also be less prone to errors.

This page is about to be printed, and the two printing plates for the next page have been prepared in advance, and they can be seamlessly connected.

As long as the paper and ink are continuous, it can be printed continuously.

They printed in the backyard, and Li Ke sent people to the suburbs to build paper and printing workshops.

Many of his industries are now being transferred outside, and they are basically in the same place.

In this way, centralized management can be done very well, and guards can also be centrally guarded.

Then Li Ke was dealing with some things in the study.

The previous tea, flower wine, and cloth businesses were all going well, and everything was on the right track.

The glass, perfume lipstick and other businesses in the back are also going smoothly.

After the first batch sold out, the second batch is now on the way.

The steelmaking progress of the Ministry of Industry is also very smooth. With the blast furnace and coke, coupled with the top craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry, the steel output is stable every day.

And with the increasing number of blast furnaces, the daily steel production is also increasing rapidly!

The mining of coal mines is also proceeding smoothly, more and more coal mines have begun to be mined, and the amount of coal dug and washed every day is also rising rapidly!

"After a while, when the daily coal output stabilizes at a high level, we will start the next step."