Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the game is to touch the Princess Changle

After writing the last word, Li Chengqian exhaled a breath of air, after all, his father was watching him write beside him.

"Your Highness, sign your name in the lower right corner, and the characters should be slightly smaller." Su Chen said to Li Chengqian with a smile.

Li Chengqian followed his words and picked up the pen again to write the three characters of Li Chengqian according to Su Chen's instructions.

"Father, I have finished writing. Please take a look." Li Chengqian stepped back two steps and said with a bow.

"Well, not bad!"

Li Shimin carefully watched Li Chengqian's horizontal writing style, and then looked at his own vertical style.

At this moment, Li Shimin felt that regardless of the quality of calligraphy, the horizontal layout looked more pleasing to the eye.

Li Shimin waved to the eunuchs and asked them to take the two pieces of calligraphy.

"Everyone, which pair of calligraphy do you think looks more beautiful?" Li Shimin asked.

"Your Majesty, if we only talk about the writing style, the horizontal arrangement of the crown prince seems to be more beautiful, but the number of characters in this calligraphy is a bit too much."

"In addition, why is the crown prince's handwriting written from left to right? What is the reason?" Fang Xuanling asked afterwards.

Li Chengqian and Su Chen smiled at each other and looked at Li Tai at the same time.

Li Tai understood instantly and waved to Wang Defa, who immediately came to Li Shimin with a bundle of paper.

"Father, this is the book printed by my son and Su Chen." Li Tai took out the Chinese language book and handed it to Li Shimin.

Li Shimin took the book and read two or three pages in a row, his eyes getting brighter and brighter.

He did not ask why the content of the book was also arranged horizontally. What surprised Li Shimin was that the characters in the book were almost the same size.

This paper was also something he had never seen before. It was more than twice as good as the paper they were writing on now.

The whole book was clean and tidy, without any excess ink.

"Hahaha, good, good, good!" Li Shimin laughed and said three good words in a row.

What surprised Li Shimin was that there were characters in this book that he didn't know. They looked a bit similar, but not exactly the same and lacked some strokes.

You need to connect the context to guess what the character is.

"Qingque, you did a great job! Does this book cost one guan of money?" Li Shimin asked after praising.

"Father, the printing cost of a book will definitely not be 50 wen, but we haven't recruited workers who know pinyin and lowercase numbers yet.

The fonts for printing this book were typeset by your son, so the printing cost has not been accurately calculated." Li Tai told the truth.

"What is pinyin?" Li Shimin asked puzzled.

"Father, this... Pinyin allows unfamiliar characters to be read after becoming familiar with the pinyin." Li Tai didn't know how to explain for a while.

Li Shimin was confused and asked, "What is typesetting?"

"Father, this is the movable type printing that Su Chen taught me. All commonly used characters are made into single fonts with uniform specifications. When printing, they are arranged according to the content of the book. This is typesetting." Li Tai explained.

After thinking for a moment, Li Shimin was surprised and asked, "You mean: this book is printed by piecing together single characters?"

"Yes, father, so it does not need engraving. It can be arranged according to the content of the book." Li Tai replied.

"Hahaha, I understand. The so-called movable type printing is similar to the principle of seals." Li Shimin laughed.

Su Chen suddenly laughed, "Hahaha, your majesty is wise."

"Your majesty, can this book be..." Fang Xuanling stretched out his hand to Li Shimin to ask for the book.

"Everyone take a look and compare it with previous books to see what is different!" Li Shimin handed the Chinese language book to Fang Xuanling.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Fang Xuanling took it and flipped through it carefully, and thanked Li Shimin in front of the book!

Several other civil officials quickly came to Fang Xuanling to watch together.

Li Tai took out two more books and handed them to Li Yuan respectfully, "Grandpa Emperor, these two books are also printed in the workshop."

"Who wrote this book? Why is it in vernacular? What is the meaning of the symbols above the text?"

Li Yuan read it very carefully. The first few pages were all pinyin initials and finals. He had never seen pinyin.

Li Tai looked at Su Chen and motioned him to answer Li Yuan.

Su Chen did not shirk, and carefully popularized the role of pinyin to everyone, and asked Princess Changle to read all the pinyin to everyone.

He really couldn't read this pinyin, but Princess Changle didn't think there was anything wrong with it. She thought it was learning new knowledge.

Su Chen thought that it would be better for female teachers to teach Chinese in elementary schools in the future!

Through Su Chen's explanation and Princess Changle's on-site reading, everyone also understood the beauty of Pinyin.

"This Pinyin can be used as a must-learn for enlightenment in the future!" Li Shimin said immediately.

"Your Majesty is wise!"

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"Boy, now tell us why the text of this book is printed horizontally."

EveryoneAfter discussing books and paper, Li Shimin asked Su Chen.

After Li Chengqian returned to the palace, he never mentioned to Li Shimin the benefits of writing horizontally from left to right, so Li Shimin did not understand the advantages.

Vertical arrangement also has its advantages, such as some calligraphy works are suitable for vertical arrangement.

"Your Highness, Prince Wei, please come and tell your Majesty and everyone about the advantages of horizontal text."

Su Chen smiled and said to Li Tai, the fat man has now become a qualified worker.

Li Tai spitted and talked for two quarters of an hour, and personally demonstrated the benefits of writing from left to right.

"Horizontal writing and reading are indeed suitable for textbooks." After Li Tai finished speaking, Li Shimin nodded in agreement.

"Father, I wonder when the candidates who failed the autumn examination can be arranged to the manor?"

Li Tai was anxious to recruit a group of literate people, and Su Chen's school was about to start.

After those candidates enter the manor, they will need to be trained for a period of time. They must first learn pinyin and lowercase numbers.

Li Shimin looked at Wei Zheng, who was responsible for this matter.

"Your Highness, 165 people will voluntarily go to the manor tomorrow." Wei Zheng said with a bow.

"What arrangements will you make for Su Chen and these people?" Li Tai thanked Wei Zheng and looked at Su Chen and asked.

"These 165 people will be given to you for training. You will keep 100 people and the rest will be school assistants." Su Chen replied.

"Okay, okay, with these 100 candidates, after a little training, the printing house can print books in large quantities." Li Tai said happily.

Su Chen smiled and nodded, and then took out five or six pieces of paper from his arms.

He was different from others. Others took things out of their sleeve pockets, but Su Chen usually took things out of his arms.

"Your Majesty, please write a few words!"

Su Chen placed the box he had drawn in advance and the required words in pencil in front of Li Shimin.

Su Chen was worried that Li Shimin would not write well, so he prepared a few more copies.

"Your Majesty, don't write beyond this box."

Su Chen stood opposite Li Shimin and pointed, and his tone sounded like he was ordering a servant.

Everyone was used to it, and Li Shimin himself just snorted coldly, picked up the pen, dipped it in ink, bent down, and prepared to write.

"Your Majesty, write better!" Su Chen reminded again seriously.

Everyone wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, and tried hard to hold it back. Empress Changsun couldn't help laughing out loud.

Li Chengqian and Li Tai beside Li Shimin looked at Su Chen with a playful look on their faces.

Li Shimin couldn't bear it anymore. He looked up at Su Chen, then turned to look at his two sons beside him, stood up, and said angrily:

"Come on, drag these three out and give them twenty big strokes!"