Natural disaster at the beginning: I will lead the system to build a safe zone

When we arrived at Li Changsheng's house, Li Changsheng was concentrating on practicing carving on a wood sculpture with a serious expression.

The arrival of Shi An'an and Aunt Li startled him. He looked up and saw the two of them. He said in surprise, "Aunt, and Miss Shi, why are you here?"

"We came to see you about something. Where is your wife?" asked Li.

"She went with the reclamation team to prepare for spring plowing." Li Changsheng replied.

He was in poor health, but his wife was very strong, and she had taken care of him since he was a child. In other families, men would go out to work on important tasks such as spring ploughing, but their family was an exception. In the past, some people in the village said that he was useless and his wife was a tomboy, but his wife still worked hard and never complained and never despised him.

Sometimes he hated his own uselessness, but he was also grateful to his daughter-in-law for sticking with him.

"Oh." Li knew his family's situation, so she was not surprised to hear that Li Changsheng's wife had gone out to open up wasteland.

"Changsheng, I came to you this time because Miss Shi has something important that she needs your help with." After the greetings, Li got back to the point.

"I'm just a useless person. How can I help Miss Shi?" Li Changsheng smiled self-deprecatingly.

Shi Anan looked at what he was carving. Although it had not yet taken shape, she could see the carver's intentions. She nodded silently in her heart. Just as Li said, he was a focused and careful person.

"It's like this. I heard from Aunt Li that you have learned engraving, and you are pretty good at it. I plan to ask you to help me engrave a set of words. I will use these words for printing later, so there must be no mistakes. Can you do this job? Of course, I will give you the wages you deserve. If you do a good job, I will give you priority when I need engraving in the future." Shi Anan stated her purpose.

Li Changsheng did not agree immediately after hearing this. Instead, he asked in surprise, "Carving? Do you mean carving? Although I know how to carve, I don't know many words now, so I'm not sure if it will work."

"It's not a woodblock, it's a mold for another type of printing. It's okay if you don't know many characters. I'll have someone write the words on the mold, and you just need to carve it according to the characters and make sure you don't make any mistakes."

"How about this, you try it first. If the finished product is qualified, I will ask you to do the follow-up." There is no rush after all. He is the only one with free time now, so he can study it slowly.

"Okay, I'll try." Li Changsheng nodded and agreed. If he could get this done, he would be of some use.

After Li Changsheng agreed, Shi Anan immediately took action. She first selected some wood that was not easy to deform as a mold, and then asked Li Zimu to write mirror images on each square block of wood, and then sent it to Li Changsheng for carving.

Because it was a test and not many were sent for the first time, Li Changsheng took about two days to send the carved wooden blocks over. Shi Anan arranged them one by one in the order of retrieval, and then applied ink on them. He repeated this several times, and finally a piece of printed characters with clear handwriting and neat arrangement appeared on the paper.

"Done!" Shi Anan checked carefully and found that there were no typos. She happily expressed her praise to Li Changsheng.

There was no need for him to keep an eye on the subsequent matters. Li Zimu sent the molds with the written words directly to Li Changsheng, who then carved them and sent them to her.

Once the movable type is carved, her books can be printed in batches, and she no longer needs to be so stingy that they can only be borrowed but not sold.

And her independent research and development of movable type printing was also recognized by the system:

[Congratulations to the host for developing movable type printing. Reward: one set of printed editions of the Four Great Classics *1, system currency +5000 silver coins]

Wow! The silver coin reward for self-developed products has doubled!

When Xiao Yi made the paper before, the system still only gave her a mediocre 2000 silver coins. The only thing worth praising was that it rewarded her with toilet paper, so that she didn't have to keep making scraps of cloth.

She really didn't expect that this time her own research and development would give her 5000 silver coins. Her system currency suddenly became more than 7000, not far from breaking ten thousand!

There are also four great masterpieces, which are all works that demonstrate the brilliant achievements of ancient literature. They not only have profound ideological connotations, rich cultural values, but also have broad social influence.

As far as Shi Anan knows, there has never been such a dynasty in which wonderful stories and vivid characters are used to prompt readers to think about their values ​​and behaviors.

She had also read novels of this era in the Shi Mansion before. How should she put it? They were exactly the kind of things that scholars talked about, which were not worthy of being published. Every day they were about some scholar eloping with some lady, and then the scholar becoming Chen Shimei or something like that.

Liu didn't want her to read this kind of book at the time, for fear that she would be led by the values ​​in the book and elope with a wild man one day.

However, Shi Anan thought that Liu was really worrying too much. She was just reading these books to kill time.

In any case, a movable type printing machine earned 5000 silver coins plus a set of four great classics, it was worth it!

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As expected by Shi Anan, the sensation caused by the four famous books after they were put into the bookstore was phenomenal. You should know that when these four books were given to Xiao Yi and Li Zimu, the two of them were fascinated by them. Xiao Yi, who was born in a family of military generals, preferred the loyalty and righteousness, wisdom and strategy of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and was deeply moved by the heroic spirit of the characters in the book.

Li Zimu, on the other hand, prefers the sense of justice in stories like Water Margin. Watching those little people relying on their own justice and loyalty, not fearing power, pursuing and resisting, he feels as if he sees himself.

In addition to them, there are also female relatives such as Liu and Ruan, who also sighed over the story of Dream of the Red Chamber, as if they saw the soul that wanted to break free from the shackles in the feudal harem, but was hit by the cruelty of reality and eventually fell into tragedy. This also made them put themselves in the shoes of the story.

People like Shi Chengze and Xiao Yuan prefer works with mythological colors such as Journey to the West. They may not be able to understand the deep meaning of this work, but they definitely worship Sun Wukong deeply. From the fact that they chase and fight in the yard every day and say "Hey! Monster!", talk about the seventy-two transformations, and talk about the somersault cloud, it is known that they are deeply addicted to it.

Even these educated people are fascinated by it, let alone the villagers.

The villagers who already knew quite a few words bought a newly printed book from the bookstore and went back to read it quietly. The villagers who could not read very well were getting very anxious. It would be fine if they didn't know the plot because they couldn't read, but you still wanted to tell them about the book because they had read it themselves. It would be fine if you just told them about it, but they would be so engrossed in listening that you only told them halfway. What exactly is the plot after that?

In short, those villagers who previously thought that learning to read was unnecessary are now regretting their decision so much that they have started to take the initiative to go to class.

Although learning was a bit difficult because they couldn't keep up with the previous progress, this did not dampen their enthusiasm. They tried their best to know the subsequent plot!

Shi Anan had never expected that these four great masterpieces would actually set off a strong wave of learning.