The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 273 Woodblock Printing
"Taught by the heavens, the handicrafts of the immortal family are indeed beyond the comprehension of mere mortals."

A craftsman with half-white beard and hair held the yellow paper in his hand, almost crying, and said with emotion.

"'Paper Dyeing Method''Paper Dyeing Method'...the wisdom of immortals, we and mortals will not be able to share it..."

Xu An looked at the group of craftsmen who worshiped on the ground, the affiliation of the destiny he preached, the myth of the Taiping Dao, the Yellow Turban Army and himself, finally saw the results.

"To my virtuous and virtuous teacher, the engravings of the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Classic" are under the supervision of my wolf guard, and the craftsmen have finished engraving them. This is a trial plate, please have a look."

A wolf guard hundred household officer wearing a white wolf uniform walked slowly into the house holding two wooden planks in his hand.

"Carving?"

Yang Ji looked at the board in the hands of the wolf guard hundred household officer, a little curious, he had never heard of engraving.

"May I ask Duke Ming, what is this engraving?"

Yang Ji turned around, bowed to Xu An and asked.

He knew that most of this was written by Xu An, so he didn't ask others.

Moreover, it was related to the two heavenly books "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Classic", which made him extremely curious.

Fu Qi and Pang Bo also stepped forward slightly, listening with all their attention, for fear of missing any words of Xu An.

Xu An smiled slightly, took the engraving from the wolf guard Baihu, and placed it on the desk.

Yang Ji, Fu Qi, and Pang Bo came together, and the three raised their eyes to look at the "engraving board".

I saw densely packed lettering on the wooden board called "engraving block".

Although the font was reversed, Yang Ji could still see that what was engraved on it was exactly the content of the "Three Character Classic".

"This is? No..."

Yang Ji showed doubts on his face, and touched the protrusion on the engraving with his hand. He felt as if he had grasped a very important thing, but he couldn't figure out the joints for a while.

Seeing Yang Ji's expression, Xu An said with a smile, "Mr. Yang will know when he fetches the paper. What is it used for?"

"well……"

Yang Ji immediately took a piece of "Yellow Sky Paper" from the desk next to him.

Xu An took the yellow sky paper, gently covered it on the engraving block, and pressed it slightly.

Yang Ji's eyes froze, he had already thought of the key point!
"Wonderful... wonderful... wonderful!"

Yang Ji couldn't help applauding, and Fu Qi also showed surprise.

Pang Bo on the side still didn't understand Xu An's meaning, and hurriedly tugged at Yang Ji's cuff and asked, "Wen Zhong, what's the use of this?"

Yang Ji looked excited, and pointed to the engraving in front of him and said.

"Paint ink on the engraving block, then cover it with paper, and then just lightly brush, the words on the engraving block will appear on the paper immediately."

Pang Bo's complexion changed drastically, and he quickly picked up an engraving block, looking at the densely packed small characters on it.

If it is true as Yang Ji said, this small engraving block has hundreds of characters on it, and it can be recycled after being painted with ink and then covered with paper, so how many books and files can be copied in one day.

Pang Bo had thought before that if Xu An wanted to set up so many elementary schools, he would improve the papermaking method, but now that there are not enough officials, copying books is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it takes a lot of time.

Pang Bo now finally knew why Yang Ji and Fu Qi looked so excited, this is a transformative invention!

"Could it be that this is also the law taught by the immortal?"

Pang Bo held the engraving plate carefully, for fear of damaging it, his voice seemed a little trembling.

"nature."

Xu An nodded, engraving and printing, plus the "jute paper" that is easy to store, the two combined into one, gave Xu An the confidence to open a school.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, knowledge, books, bamboo slips, all of these existed in the hands of nobles, and it was very difficult for ordinary people to just read and write. Many ancient books were held in the hands of those powerful families.

For example, Hao Zhao, his methods of defending the city and equipment are all learned from the books and classics in his own home.

One reason is that the bamboo slips are not easy to carry and difficult to spread, and before the advent of engraving and printing, most of the books and classics were copied by hand, which also caused the remaining books to be quite limited.

Xu An sent Wei Lv to Hedong County to eliminate the powerful family. Another point is to search all the precious books and classics of the powerful family.

The Yellow Turban Army and the powerful family are incompatible. Although Hao Zhao is a son of a powerful and powerful family, his joining the Yellow Turban Army is just his subjective opinion, and his family may not agree.

It has been a while since the Yellow Turban Army unified the Shangdang, but in fact, except for the forcibly coerced civil servants who work under the supervision of the Eagle Wolf Guard, most of the powerful families, even if they succumbed, did not let their family members The willingness of his nephew to become an official in the Yellow Turban Army.

After all, almost all the actions of the Yellow Turban Army violated the interests of these powerful families.

Let's just talk about land tax. Now the Yellow Turban Army collects land tax. All powerful landlords need to pay land tax according to the land they own. Wolf Guard Tiqi has been investigating Yintian.

Without such messy taxes as counting tax, oral tax, and poll tax, the tax paid by ordinary people is indeed much lower.

However, under the rule of the Yellow Turban Army, the powerful family had to pay more taxes, which directly violated their interests.

This is also one of the reasons why the powerful families in Hedong County resisted so hard.

The powerful landlords in Bingzhou quickly surrendered because there was no better way. After all, the Yellow Turban Army only violated their interests, but what the Huns wanted was their lives and money. There is no need to compare which is more important. .

Therefore, the officials and tyrants in Bingzhou can still be driven by the Yellow Turban Army for the time being.

Of course, if the Han army gains the upper hand again, these tyrants and officials who had already succumbed in Bingzhou will definitely show their fangs again and resist the rule of the Yellow Turban Army.

Therefore, Xu An wanted to seize the world and defeat the heroes of the late Han Dynasty. The limitations of the Yellow Turban Army prevented him from relying on his family. He had to take another road full of thorns.

And this way is to rely on the masses.

As for the masses at the end of the Han Dynasty, they were illiterate, and the powerful landlords controlled the township and the mouthpiece.

And to control the mouthpiece, it is necessary to open up the wisdom of the people, so that more and more people can read and write, so that the government orders of the Yellow Turban Army will not be distorted by those entrenched and powerful landlords who are entrenched in the village.

When the elementary school is gradually developed and the enlightenment education is gradually expanded, an official newspaper will be established at that time, and the Chinese language rights can be further increased.

This is the power of publicity!

There were only a few people outside the house, and the footsteps were even louder.

It was only at this time that Yang Ji realized that at some point, the inside and outside of the house were already full of Tiqi from Eagle Wolf Guards.

Even Liu Pi, the commander of the Eagle Wolf Guard, was among them.

Xu An stood up slowly, looked around the craftsmen in the house with a frosty face, and said coldly: "'Yellow sky paper' and 'engraving and printing' are top secrets of our army. Anyone who leaks will implicate the nine clans!"

(End of this chapter)