Great Qin Shi Empress

== Lu Pheasant ==

After Liu Ji returned home, he told his parents that Lu Gong intended to marry his daughter to him, and wanted his parents to come forward to propose marriage for him.Unexpectedly, when the parents heard who Lu Gong was, they didn't believe it at all, they just thought he was bragging like in the past, and didn't even give him a look.

Liu Ji was so angry that he was half dead, and he wanted to go to Xiao He to testify early the next morning.

Xiao He was hesitant to speak after hearing his intentions: "It's not that I don't want to testify to you, it's just that Lu Gong was too enthusiastic towards you yesterday, it's not like meeting you for the first time. The county magistrate actually said, Lu You have the ability to read one's hand, so in the past, you were very respected in Dang County. But you ask yourself, although you are a little clever, but this little cleverness is really worthy of Lu Gong marrying his talented daughter to you?"

Liu Ji frowned: "The girl Lu we saw yesterday is definitely not a fake."

Xiao He sighed: "It is precisely because Miss Lu is not a fake that I am particularly worried. When I saw Miss Lu yesterday, I could easily see that she must have read books all the year round, and his talent may not be inferior to mine."

Liu Ji immediately took a deep breath: "She is better educated than you?"

Xiao He said frankly: "My family is not as good as the Lu family. The Lu family is far away from me just because of the collection of books at home. But you know what our state of Chu was like before. Although it is not difficult for women to read and write, it is necessary Learning to the same level as me must have been cultivated equally with my brothers in the family."

"A daughter raised in this way, to put it bluntly, even marrying those nobles in Xianyang will make it difficult." Xiao He looked at Liu Bang, "How capable do you think you are, and can you compare with those nobles in Xianyang?"

Liu Ji was dumbfounded. Although he was confident, he was not conceited. He knew that he was far inferior to nobles in terms of wealth, appearance, talent and ability.

Xiao He saw that he was moved, and thought that he had finally given up on marrying the Lu family.

But he didn't want to, Liu Ji chuckled: "I don't know how much better that young and beautiful lady is than Widow Cao. No matter what Lu Gong is thinking, I will benefit from marrying his daughter home. As for His plan..."

Liu Ji rascally said, "I'll let him die!"

Xiao He: "..."

He always knew that Liu Ji was shameless, but he never expected him to be so shameless——

You married your daughter, but you don't want to reciprocate at all?

Liu Ji didn't feel that his thinking was wrong: since he wanted to make calculations, he had to prepare for the consequences of stealing chickens and losing money, right?

Liu Ji has already made up his mind to marry Lu Zhi back home.

Xiao He had no choice but to pull out another person: "What about Widow Cao? She has been with you for so long without a name and gave birth to a son for you. You just married the Lu family girl back home without any consideration, and their mother and child What should we do after two days? If Lu Zhi doesn't like them, so what if he wants to punish them?"

Liu Ji didn't care at all: "Let's talk about it after marrying someone back home. I don't want to miss such a good opportunity."

Seeing the disapproval on Xiao He's face, Liu Ji smiled, "Beauty is the second most important thing. I am greedy for the wealth of the Lu family. Mr. Lu begged me to marry his daughter with a shy face, so he must give me some favors, right?"

Xiao He was speechless, and could only mourn in silence for the girl from the Lu family——

Pity her for meeting such a deceitful father, and sympathize with him for meeting such a shameless husband.

But he didn't want to deal with it anymore.

It's useless to take care of it.

Xiao He naturally cares more about his friends than Lu Zhi, whom he only met once.

Seeing that Liu Jitie was determined to marry a girl from the Lu family, he filed a leave with the county magistrate and accompanied Liu Ji home to testify for her.

Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived at Lu's house, they saw Cao Shen running over in panic: "Liu Ji is not well. As soon as you left, the Lu family sent someone to look for the county magistrate, saying that it was your wife who hadn't got it yet. Already!"

Liu Ji turned his head abruptly: "What did you say?"

Lu's pheasant is gentle, and she never even speaks loudly at home. No matter in the eyes of her parents or in the hearts of her brothers and sisters, she has always been the most gentle of all brothers and sisters, so the Lu family never thought about it. No one has ever guarded against Lu Zhi's possible escape from marriage.

After Lu Gong and Lu Lu had a big fight, all the brothers and sisters in the family were frightened, and they all huddled in their rooms.

Mr. Lu felt that his wife had long hair and short-sightedness, so he didn't understand his thoughts at all, so after quarreling with Mrs. Lu, he went directly to the study, and walked out of the room until dinner time; Being so angry with her husband, she gently comforted her daughter and then went back to the room to rest, and didn't come out for dinner.

Lu Zhi took every family member's reaction into his eyes, and his determination to leave became more and more firm.

That night, she dismissed the maid and packed up the money——

Not long after the Lu family arrived in Pei County, she never opened her luggage, so it is very convenient to pack it now.

Lu Zhi waited at home for two days, and finally one day when his father Lu Gong went out to meet guests, he left a letter to the only mother who cared about him, and then quietly ran out of the house with his luggage.

After that, he went straight to the direction of the city gate, and after a while, he queued up and left Pei County.

Because most of the people I met at the gate of the city glanced at her face, Lu Zhi realized that her appearance was too eye-catching, and worried that she would cause trouble, so she stole some black ash from a nearby village shortly after leaving the gate. on all the skin that was exposed.

After smearing the skin, Lu Zhi was about to leave.

But his eyes fell on the clothes made of silk on his body, and he stopped again: the fabric of this clothes is too good, it doesn't seem to match his current black and smeared image.

Lu Zhi looked at his favorite clothes, hesitated for a long time, and finally grabbed a handful of black ash and smeared them on the clothes.

After the first swipe, follow-ups are much easier.

So soon, apart from the white and miserable eyeballs, Lu Zhi's whole body could not find a clean place.

She walked to the pool and took a look at her current appearance. Amy's nature was on fire, and Lu Zhi couldn't help but shrugged her nose in disgust at herself reflected on the water.But after observing for a while, Lu Zhi held back his displeasure with his current appearance in a daze, and carelessly rubbed his neat and soft hair into a fried chicken coop, and his clothes were messed up and down, because Black and gray, the whole person looks sloppy.

Lu Zhi looked at the surface of the water with his head, and after making sure that even his mother who lived with him day and night would not recognize his current appearance, he walked on the road with excitement and apprehension.

Now still young, Lu Zhi is inexperienced and not thoughtful enough.

So after she left Pei County, she walked all the way towards Dang County in the direction of memory, never thinking of hiding for a period of time to avoid the idea of ​​servants and officers and soldiers sent to chase her after her family found her missing.

Therefore, not long after she left that day, she was overtaken by soldiers sent by Lu Jiading and the county magistrate of Pei County to look for her.

However, Lv Zhi's act of acting ugly to avoid his appearance causing disasters has unexpectedly achieved good results——

When those servants and soldiers were chasing Lu Zhi, they only stopped her and took out a portrait and asked her if she saw "Lu Zhi". After getting a negative answer, they ignored her and continued to chase forward. .

Even Lu Zhi's overly nervous state after discovering his family was ignored because of the fear of the officers and soldiers.

Watching a group of people riding away on horseback, Lu Zhi felt his back belatedly...

Not to mention that the clothes were completely soaked, and the black ash on his hands was wiped off a lot.

She swallowed her saliva, looked around, and hurried back to the small village she passed by before, and softly begged a certain old lady who lived alone to take her in for a few days, and when the news completely passed, the people sent by the Lu family to look for her also came. Gradually, Lu Zhi left a handful of money at dawn and ran away.

Just in case, Lu Zhi even gave up his plan to go to Dang County——

She was worried that her father would go directly to Dang County to arrest people.

Lu Zhi asked someone to inquire, and learned that although the sheriff of Sishui County was not a woman, the county magistrate was a woman from Xianyang, and there were many female officials under him.So after some consideration, she walked directly towards the county town of Sishui County.

It was also her luck that she met a lady passing by in a carriage on the road, just heading to Sishui County, and kindly agreed to let her take a ride.

When they arrived at the gate of the city, they found that she did not have a photo ID card on her body. After the other party learned that Lu Zhi had escaped from marriage, they asked her about her identity, and kindly brought her into the city as a maid slave, and took the initiative to find the mansion. Ya made up a photo for her.

Only then did Lu Zhi know that this lady was actually a county historian under the Lieutenant of Sishui County, who also came from Xianyang.

This is what she has heard. How many female officials from Xianyang are there?

Lu Zhi suddenly developed infinite curiosity and longing for Xianyang——

To be able to raise so many girls with temperaments completely different from those of women in Chu State, then Qin State and Xianyang must have a completely different style and appearance from Chu State, right?

Wang Yun stretched out her hand and waved in front of Lu Zhi, and said with a smile, "Don't you want to be an official? Why don't you hurry up and sign up with your photo ID?"

Lu Zhi regained consciousness in an instant, and ran to the registration place in embarrassment.

Wang Yun felt sorry for the little girl, and specially ordered someone to pay attention to her.

As for herself, she naturally went to find Fusu who had come all the way.

Wang Yun also didn't understand. He was in Xianyang for such a long time before, and the time and place were right, but Fusu didn't come to find him. Why did he run over when he just came to Sishui County?With such a long distance, he doesn't think it's troublesome?

And after such a long time in the past, she has calmed down a long time ago, and she has a deeper understanding of the relationship between herself and Fusu——

The quarrel between them is not because of any bad relationship between themselves or Fusu, but simply because of the opposite of each other's thinking and acting styles.This may be because Fusu studied Confucian classics from Chun Yuyue, a doctor from Chu State, since he was a child, so his way of doing things is more inclined to the Confucian mean, and he is also deeply influenced by Confucianism.

As for Wang Yun, because she learned and came into contact with legalists since she was a child, she only cares about right and wrong in everything, and because the elders in her family are soldiers, her thinking has always been simple and rude, and she does not want to suffer.

They live together, and if not this time, they will inevitably quarrel in the future.

If they want to live in harmony, one of them must make a change.

If there is no way to become an official, Wang Yun, who is weaker in all aspects of status, status and gender, will inevitably make changes after a long period of time.

But now, she has other ways out, why should she change for Fusu?

It is Fusu who obviously thinks more out of date, isn't he?

The two broke up again.

But it's not all good--

The little girl Lu Zhi that Wang Yun had picked up from the road before passed the examination in one go, and was selected by Sister Wu Le to be an official beside her.

Sister Wu Le's temperament, tsk...

Wang Yun was relieved, and after saying goodbye to Wu Le and Lu Zhi, she returned to the place where she was stationed again.

== Binding ==

At court that day, Ying Zheng suddenly remembered the woodblock printing that had been proposed a long time ago, so after discussing the business, he turned to look at Wang Wan and Li Si, who were in charge of researching woodblock printing.

He was in a bad mood: "It's been a few years since Marquis Gu Feng proposed woodblock printing. Before, the widows were distracted by the war and didn't ask much, but now I have to ask one more question. Listen to woodblock printing. It's not difficult, have you guys never produced results?"

Wang Wan and Li Si looked at each other, secretly crying in their hearts.

As the main person in charge, Wang Wan had to take the lead in explaining the situation——

They have been tossing for so long, but it is not without any gains.Even just two months ago, the craftsmen made a perfect engraving template. After experimenting, they confirmed that the effect of the engraving and printing was the same as what Lin Qian said before, and the speed of printing into a book was indeed exceptionally fast. swift.Moreover, every copy of the printed books is exactly the same, and the efficiency is much higher than that of hand-copying.

But when they counted the cost of wasted planks after the first perfect formwork was made, the total was astronomical.

The most important thing is that when the first perfect template is made, they make engraving templates for other books. Much cost.

If they want to pay back their books and reduce the price of books significantly, they need to print at least [-] books.

But whether there are [-] literate people in Qin State today is still unknown.

There was nothing they could do, so they simply took advantage of Ying Zheng's inquiry and raised a question, hoping that everyone could work together to come up with a solution.

After hearing this, Lin Qian was a little dazed: Is it worth selling [-] yuan to get back the money?

Are you kidding me?

Modern printing is almost all done by machines, and woodblock printing has almost completely withdrawn from the stage. She may not know the specific value of the cost of woodblock printing.However, even scholars in the Ming and Qing Dynasties may not buy every book home, right?

And for various novels that were popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it is even more impossible to reach a sales volume of [-].

Moreover, the prices of books in the Ming and Qing Dynasties were not that high——

Otherwise, there would not be so many scholars.

Under such circumstances, are all those printing houses that use woodblock printing doing business at a loss?

Lin Qian subconsciously frowned.

She glanced at the gloomy Ying Zheng, and couldn't help asking, "I wonder if Xiangguo brought a sample book?"

Wang Wan looked at Lin Qian: "Does Marquis Gu Feng have any insight?"

"It's not a good opinion," Lin Qian said with embarrassment, "As far as I know, although woodblock printing may cause a huge cost consumption in the template stage, it certainly won't be a situation where sales of [-] copies can only be paid back... I Guess Xu has neglected something, which caused this result, I hope Xiangguo can give the next official a chance to make amends."

Wang Wan didn't even dare to say, and immediately took out a volume of books from his cuffs: "This is the first volume we printed, which was collected and compiled in cooperation with Tingwei Li Si, a book called "Han Feizi "Legalist books."

Lin Qian looked blankly at the picture-like scroll in Wang Wan's hand: "This is... a book?"

Wang Wan instantly sensed something was wrong from Lin Qian's reaction, and he asked a little cautiously, "Isn't the book in Gu Fenghou's impression like this?"

He and Li Si looked at each other, and their expressions changed drastically: If that's the case, wouldn't they have been working hard for nothing in the past two years?

Lin Qian hesitated for a moment, then asked: "Could it be that you printed the entire book of "Han Feizi" in this... one volume?"

Wang Wan: "...No, not really."

Lin Qian was about to breathe a sigh of relief when Wang Wan said, "Because the book "Han Feizi" has more than [-] words, we purposely divided it into three volumes."

Lin Qian choked: "Up, middle, down?"

A book with a total of [-] words, even if it is divided into three volumes, one volume has [-] words.

The engraving template with a length of [-] characters, if the engraved text is wrong, the font size is different, or scratches are accidentally made, the entire template has to be discarded. The error rate is so high, how can the cost not be high?

Wang Wan looked at Lin Qian, her expression became a little ugly: "Yes, what's wrong?"

What could be wrong?Nowhere is right!

Lin Qian didn't answer this question, but asked directly: "May I know why you chose to bind the books in this way in the first place?"

Wang Wan was puzzled: "Is it always bound like this before?"

Lin Qian finally understood what was going on, she sighed, and explained: "Because the engraving block's error tolerance rate is too low, when engraving the template, the craftsman will try to reduce the length of the engraving block and the number of words that can be carried on it." After artificially reducing the number of characters, the error tolerance rate of the engraving is greatly improved, and even if a small template is wrong, it will not affect the use of other templates."

Wang Wan was taken aback for a moment, but immediately realized the meaning of Lin Qian's words, and immediately widened her eyes.

Lin Qian pulled the book...opened a small half, and then stretched out his hand to draw a line from the middle according to the size of the A5 paper in his impression: "Generally, it is enough to cut the paper to this width. A paper of this size A page can only record a few hundred words, the probability of template errors is low, and it is more convenient for everyone to read."

Li Si frowned: "But if it is cut to such a size, wouldn't it be impossible to bind it in a scroll?"

Lin Qian nodded: "There is another way."

She intended to explain clearly to everyone, but she didn't have the real thing at hand, so she didn't know how to let everyone understand.

Ying Zheng sat on the top, looking at the little person above Lin Qian's head who was running around in a hurry, and the boxy book she was holding in her hand, with the three big characters "Han Feizi" written on the right side...book?I have a count in my heart.

He turned to look at the servant: "Go get some discarded papers."

Nowadays, some paper has appeared on a large scale in Xianyang City, and officials everywhere have begun to use it, and Ying Zheng naturally has a lot of it.

After a while, the servant brought a stack of used waste paper.

Lin Qian glanced at Ying Zheng, and pursed her lips: "Please help this servant to cut these waste papers to the size I just gestured, then overlap them all together, and punch a row of holes at the same distance on one side .”

After a pause, she added, "If possible, please help me find a string that can pass through the hole."

After Lin Qian finished asking, the servant took the paper and left the hall immediately.

The others looked at each other in blank dismay. After recalling what she had said before, they had some inspiration in their hearts, but because they hadn't seen the real thing yet, the images in their minds were still blurry and unclear, so they could only wait for Lin Qian to demonstrate.

Fortunately, not long after, the servant brought the cut and perforated paper to the hall, along with a small hemp rope.

Lin Qian took it and thanked her, and then used the hemp rope to shuttle back and forth in the hole in front of everyone.

But after a while, she fixed all the papers together according to the thread-bound method of ancient books, tied the knots and hid the thread ends in the book, and handed them directly to the servant: "Your Majesty, please preview."

After the servant took the bound book, he handed it directly to Ying Zheng.

Ying Zheng's complexion relaxed, and after taking it, he took a deep look at Lin Qian before raising his hand and turning to the first page: "It is indeed more convenient to read than a scroll, and it is also easier to grasp with one hand, and it will not easily slip on the ground." .”

Wang Wan became excited in an instant: "Your Majesty, can you give the thread-bound book to Wei Chen for inspection?"

Ying Zheng paused, then reached out and handed the thread-bound book to the waiter.

The servant took over and handed it over to Wang Wan.

As soon as Wang Wan got it, Li Si who was behind couldn't help but leaned in Wang Wan's direction.

But at this time, Wang Wan had already immersed himself in the thread-bound book. He seriously recalled Lin Qian's action of threading just now, and simulated how to bind other books along those holes, and after this binding method, the engraving Can printing really reduce costs and bring a different kind of vitality to Daqin's book dissemination?

After thoroughly understanding the thread-bound book, he was completely opened up, and then thought of many other binding methods, but after serious thinking, he felt that it was not as convenient as thread-binding.

Wang Wan was a little ashamed: "I took it for granted before, and I should have asked Gu Fenghou to clarify the situation before engraving the template. After I found out that the error rate of the engraving template was too high, the cost of the engraving template has completely exceeded the cost of hand copying, so it is not suitable for promotion. When buying books, I should stop the loss in time, and think about whether there is something that I have neglected..."

Lin Qian hurriedly waved her hand: "It was my negligence. I hope that Xiangguo will not blame me for taking so much of your time."

Wang Wan laughed: "What does it have to do with Marquis Gu Feng? Since I am in charge of this matter, I should have found other methods when the cost of scroll packaging was too high, instead of insisting on the direction of scroll packaging."

After finishing speaking, he couldn't help sighing.

Lin Qian didn't know how to comfort her for a while.

She didn't think it was Wang Wan and Li Si's fault. One was because they were used to the way of compiling books into volumes like bamboo slips, so it was understandable that they didn't think of it for a while; Some people took it for granted and didn't make it clear at the first time.

In fact, the binding method of books from ancient times to the present has actually undergone several generations of evolution.

From the bamboo weaving method at the beginning, to the scroll packaging, warp folding packaging, butterfly packaging, and back packaging, it was not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties that the thread binding method was finally developed.

But Lin Qian is already used to thread-bound books, and has never deliberately learned about other binding methods before, so...

She felt that she should apologize to Wang Wan and Li Si: If she had told Wang Wan how to install the thread in the first place, she wouldn't have wasted so much time.

Ying Zheng noticed the change in her demeanor, and suddenly said: "Since we have found a solution, don't waste any more time. Wang Wan, let's see if this method of thread binding is easy to master, and whether it can reduce the cost of the engraving template , making books cheaper and easier to promote?"

Wang Wan nodded firmly: "Taking this "Han Feizi" as an example, if the content of a total of more than [-] characters is divided into a dozen or even dozens of templates and carved out separately, the probability of error and damage will be greatly reduced, and the cost will naturally be reduced. It will be lowered. But how much it can be lowered, I have never made a template, so I can't tell His Majesty with certainty."

After finishing speaking, he added, "But Weichen can guarantee that if the content is divided into smaller parts, the cost will be reduced by at least half."

"That's enough!" Ying Zheng looked at Wang Wan, "I hope this time, Xiangguo won't let me down again."

Wang Wan's hair stood on end in an instant, and she quickly nodded in response.

==·Lishu·==

Lin Qian held the scroll-mounted "Han Feizi" in his hand, and when Ying Zheng and the two were discussing the cost of the book, he lowered his head and looked at it carefully.

Seeing this, she made a remarkable discovery almost immediately——

The writing on this scroll is not the seal script that Lin Qian is very familiar with, but more like the official script that she has seen on the Internet?

Lin Qian was stunned: Wang Wan and Li Si made the official script in advance in order to reduce costs?

Ying Zheng just finished speaking with Wang Wan, and when he turned around, he saw Lin Qian looking at the content on the scroll in a daze, and asked her, "What did Marquis Gu Feng discover?"

Lin Qian was taken aback, and quickly replied: "No... I'm just curious. The words on this scroll don't seem to be seal script."

Ying Zheng looked at Wang Wan: "Isn't it seal script?"

Wang Wan was a little embarrassed, and turned to look at Li Si.

Li Si took the initiative to stand up: "Returning to Your Majesty, when Weichen and Xiangguo saw that the craftsmen were always making mistakes when carving the templates, they wondered if it was because the craftsmen were not many people who could read and write, so they always made mistakes. After the discussion, it is intended to write the text on the wooden board first, and then the craftsman will carve it."

"But after doing it ourselves, we discovered that it is not easy to write seal script on the template with a brush alone."

"That's why I discussed with Xiangguo whether the seal script can be simplified."

The two pondered for a long time with their respective disciples and subordinates, but they were still unable to find a solution.Later, it was Li Si who remembered that there was a jailer named Cheng Miao who wrote a good handwriting, and he always said that it was inconvenient to write in seal script. A font that is more suitable for writing, so he directly called people to him.

Officials in the Qin Dynasty were busy with their affairs. Although Cheng Miao had always had the idea of ​​reforming the writing, he always had no time to spare.Now that he heard that Li Tingwei had called him in front of him precisely for the sake of the text reform, he instantly became excited.

Cheng Miao already had some thoughts in his heart, so when Li Si asked him for a paid collection of various fonts collected in recent years, he recommended himself: "Although the talent and learning of the humble job is not outstanding, but in the research of fonts, the entire Qin State is not good enough. There may be no one else who can compare with Humble Job. If Lieutenant Ting really wants to change the problem that writing is difficult, asking Humble Job for help will definitely get twice the result with half the effort."

Seeing that he was confident, Li Si decided to give him a chance.

In fact, Cheng Miao already had a vague idea of ​​how to reform the writing, and now he had nothing to do, but after a few days of research, he gave a very clear reform direction——

Delete the complex and keep the simple, remove the rough and select the essential [quote Baidu], it is best to change the arc that is difficult to write in the seal script into a square fold.

Originally, in history, Cheng Miao was imprisoned after offending Ying Zheng because of his personality. He started to study characters formally because he had nothing to do in prison, and followed all the fonts that survived at that time in a very methodical way—including Li Si who later presided over, Drawing on the advantages of Xiaozhuan improved from Dazhuan, the simpler official script was improved character by character.

And because only Cheng Miao was doing the improvement of official script, it took him a whole ten years to produce results.

But now with the help of hundreds of people including Wang Wan, Li Si, his disciples, and subordinate officials, it only took Cheng Miao and others a year to grow out of the big seal, but the strokes are simpler, thicker and easier to write than the big seal. The carved Xiaozhuan and Lishu have been improved successively.

Wang Wan, Li Si and others witnessed the appearance of official script with their own eyes, and they were so excited that they immediately applied official script to the template carving of woodblock printing.

They originally thought that after correcting the good writing, they would present it to His Majesty with the first printed sample booklet.

At that time, His Majesty will be happy for both the improvement of the characters and the official introduction of the engraving block into printing. Not to mention rewarding them for their merits, at least they will not blame them for spending so long in the practical application of engraving and printing.

Unexpectedly, after the results came out, they found that the cost of engraving was so high that it completely exceeded everyone's expectations. Even if the wasted cost of engraving in seal script was taken out, the rest was still a huge number.

They all thought it might be the text, but who would have guessed that the biggest reason would be the way books were bound that they had never considered?

After explaining everything, Li Si added: "When it was discovered that the official script could not reduce the cost of engraving and printing, then Cheng Miao got into a dead end, and now he is leading a group of Xiangguo and Weichen to study simpler and easier writing and engraving. text."

Lin Qian: "..."

[I'm afraid I still want to study regular script, right? 】

Yingzheng's eyes lit up: "Submit "Han Feizi", I want to see what this clerical script looks like, and it has attracted your compliments."

Lin Qian hurriedly handed over the book to the servant, and then handed it over to Ying Zheng.

Ying Zheng opened the scroll as soon as he got it in his hand. With just one glance, he was attracted by the complicated new fonts that were completely different from seal script. , it seems that I can't wait to try whether this font is really easier to write than seal script.

The servant was very good at observing words and expressions, and immediately went to fetch a pen, ink, paper and inkstone and put them on the table.

Ying Zheng glanced at it, and immediately picked up the brush.

But the servant next to him was not the one who was usually in charge of grinding ink for him. After laying out the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, he didn't think of grinding for Ying Zheng in the first place.

Ying Zheng took ink with a brush, but felt lonely.

He turned his head to look at the servant, and the good mood that he had discovered a treasure fell to the bottom in an instant: "Can't grind ink?"

The servant was startled, and quickly reached for the ink stick.

Ying Zheng frowned: "Pour the water first!"

The waiter panicked, and the ink stick slipped from his hand with a clang.

He was so frightened that he quickly backed away and was about to kowtow immediately.

Ying Zheng didn't want to do anything to him at first, but when the servant touched his head to the ground, Ying Zheng's expression instantly became extremely ugly.

Seeing that Ying Zheng was angry, the servant became more frightened and kowtowed more fiercely.

It's just a vicious circle.

The ministers present held their breath for a moment, not daring to speak for the servant at all.

After hesitating for a moment, Lin Qian stood up quickly: "Your Majesty, I have studied ink for you for a long time before. If you don't mind, why not ask me to study ink for you?"

Ying Zheng paused and turned to look at Lin Qian.

After a while, he nodded slightly.

Lin Qian breathed a sigh of relief, quickly got up and walked to Ying Zheng's side, picked up the teacup and poured some water into the inkstone, then picked up the ink stick and began to grind it seriously.

Ying Zheng glanced sideways at her, and his mood suddenly improved.

He glanced at the waiter: "Forgive me that you were not in charge of widowed writing in the past, but this time I will forgive you. If you are so reckless next time, I will never forgive you! Hurry up and back down!"

The servant let out a sigh of relief, and quickly got up and retreated to the corner.

Ying Zheng glanced at Lin Qian again, then picked up the brush and dipped the ink, and wrote on the white paper according to the font of "Han Feizi".

After a while, he wrote dozens of words.

Lin Qian glanced at it quietly, and found that the font was almost exactly the same as the text on the scroll, as if it had been reproduced.

It's amazing.

Ying Zheng raised his eyebrows and wrote another line of text.

Lin Qian became more and more focused.

The two just wrote one and read the other like no one else, and the atmosphere between each other has recovered a lot.

Wang Wan and other courtiers watched and breathed a sigh of relief.

==·Looting·==

After the court was over, Wang Wan and Li Si took the initiative to find Lin Qian and asked for more details about the thread binding method.

Lin Qian was also worried about other problems, so he told them everything he knew about the thread assembly method in a very serious manner, and finally mentioned: "Actually, the step of punching holes can be replaced by tools, just like the one that is made on a wooden board. It's the kind of tool that drives a row of nails and presses it into a row of holes. But...whether this kind of tool can be made, why don't we go and ask Mohist Juzi?"

Wang Wan and Li Si actually didn't think much of Mohist Juzi before. It wasn't that he was incompetent, but that he seemed to have devoted himself to studying various weapons and methods of forging weapons. He didn't know anything about politics, or Can only be counted as half-baked.

If they were not regarded as departments independent of the official system, they would have been pulled down from their positions by many officials.

However, since the Mohists have researched the paper and the Jenny textile machine proposed by Gu Fenghou in a very short period of time, and the two officials who have won the trust of His Majesty have been stumbled by a woodblock printing that is not difficult at all. After a long time, the two finally understood that, just as the Mohist Juzi was not good at politics, they had no advantage over the Mohist Juzi in the field of research.

When encountering related problems, it is more appropriate to find Mojia Juzi.

Furthermore, Lin Qian proposed two printing methods: block printing and movable type printing.

Woodblock printing didn't sound too difficult, so it was directly handed over to Wang Wan and Li Si by Yingzheng, hoping that they could print out the books in Xianyang Palace as soon as possible except for the history books of the six countries, and promote it to the whole country, so as to cultivate more people for the whole country. Scholars, and then select more talents from them.

But the simpler woodblock printing was only now awakened by Lin Qian into a misunderstanding.

So, what about movable type printing?

Wang Wan and Li Si also wanted to print the book as soon as possible, so they immediately nodded and agreed.

After Lin Qian and Zhi Su Neishi asked for leave, they went to the official office where the Mo family was located with Wang Wan and Li Si, and walked in after the announcement.

Then, the three of them witnessed Juzi of the Mo family roaring at a group of young disciples in anger: "How many times have I told you that every time you add materials, you must remember all the data, and it will be easier after failure." When and where did something go wrong! It’s okay for you elms to be stupid, can you be more careful! Ah? Can you!”

Lin Qian and the others looked at a group of Mohists who had been trained like quails in front of Juzi, obediently standing not far away and not passing by.

After the Juzi of the Mo family had enough training and waved away everyone, the three of them walked up to him on their own initiative.

The Mo family first greeted Lin Qian enthusiastically, and then looked suspiciously at Wang Wan and Li Si: "We don't have much contact with each other on weekdays, why do you suddenly think of coming to see me?"

Wang Wan and Li Si: "..."

If it was the past, the two of them could not turn around and left.

But this time