God-level Consort of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 21

There is food and meat. In order to eat such a meal, Wang Erniu has struggled for a long time, and today, it finally came true.

When putting down the chopsticks, Zhou's eyes were filled with tears.

The next morning.

Wang Erniu said goodbye to his family, and with anticipation, he took the tools he usually used and hurried to Lai Guogong's mansion.

"When you arrive at Lai Guogong's mansion, don't say anything, don't ask anything, just work hard with the second young master. These days, there are not many good people like the second young master!"

At the time of parting, Zhou's earnest explanation seemed to still linger in his ears.

When he came to the furniture factory, Wang Erniu found that the other three hadn't arrived yet, but the second young master Du He and the housekeeper Fu were already in the yard.

Wang Erniu hurried forward to salute.

Du He asked with a smile: "Your name is Wang Erniu, right? What, have you discussed it with your family?"

Wang Erniu patted his chest and said, "Second Young Master, it's already been arranged. Let alone two months, even two years, I'm willing to stay."

Thinking of the meat and melons bought for five cents yesterday that made the two children excited until midnight, Wang Erniu felt that no matter how hard he was, no matter how tired he was, it was worth it.

Du He saw that although Wang Erniu was simple and honest, he was quick-witted, so he laughed and said, "Look at what you said, it's only two months. You can rest for three days."

After hearing this, Wang Erniu was too excited to speak.

In this year and month, can you still rest after working?

This is the first time I heard it.

Not long after, the other three also arrived.

The three of them also went back to discuss it, and of course the family strongly supported it.

Du He stood up, clapped his hands, and said, "Okay, since we're all here, let's sign a confidentiality contract."

Old Fu took out the contract and asked the three of them to sign it.

Duhe added: "Remember the terms of the contract, but if you violate it, you will be beheaded."

Several people nodded hurriedly.

Afterwards, Du He brought the four of them into a room.

I saw that there were already two heavily armed guards guarding the door of the Duke's Mansion. In the future, everyone who entered or exited the room would need to be inspected, and other people would not be allowed to enter.

Come to the room.

I saw that there was already a large pile of cement piled up in the corner, which was said to be cement.

Du He took out a piece of paper and said, "This is the basic principle of movable type printing. You all have a look at it first. Using this technology, within half a year, I can overwhelm the booksellers in the entire Tang Dynasty."

Wang Erniu and others saw it, and were beyond shocked.

Everyone is familiar with printing books. The most direct method is engraving. Every time a book is printed, an engraving needs to be made. For a book with 100 pages, it means [-] yuan for engraving. Once a word is broken, Just need to make an engraving again, very time-consuming and laborious.

But movable type printing is to carve each character on the clay, and after firing, it can be combined according to the printed content.

Of course, in order to be enough to use, some characters may need to make more than a dozen movable types to print a page, while rare characters only need one or two.

Wang Erniu suddenly knelt down and said, "Second Young Master, even if someone puts a knife on my neck, I will not reveal the movable type printing technique."

When the other three craftsmen saw it, they also hurriedly knelt down and began to swear.

So everyone understands why they signed a non-disclosure contract.

This thing is a subversive blow to traditional engraving and printing, especially to booksellers.

Once leaked, the loss is simply immeasurable.

Du He waved his hand to get everyone to stand up, and said indifferently: "It's not as serious as you said, but it's just a technology, and others will figure it out sooner or later. Let’s talk about earning a fortune. Okay, no problem, let’s start working right away. After five days, I hope to see the finished product. In view of the shortage of manpower, all the processes need to be done by you guys. This is my A list of movable type compiled overnight."

The list of movable type in Du He's hand is sorted out based on the "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" in his hand. There are more than ten or twenty commonly used characters, and it is enough to print a copy of "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties".

Fortunately, that "Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties" was published in traditional Chinese, which saved Du He a lot of trouble.

After the moveable type printing started, Du He took a break and went to see the production of the swivel chairs. The skills of the ten craftsmen became more and more pure, and they could produce forty swivel chairs every day.

But Du He knew that it might not be easy for these chairs to be rolled out and accepted by people.

……

Deep in the palace.

Two little lolis are sitting in the gazebo.

It was Princess Li Yuanshu of Runan and Princess Li Lizhi of Changle.

Li Yuanshu held a piece of paper in her hand, and the content on the paper was: Li Baidou's Hundred Poems on Wine, Sleeping in a Restaurant in Chang'an City;

"The emperor can't get on the boat... This Du He, is this why he looks down on this princess?" Li Yuanshu said, her mouth pouting.

Li Lizhi curled her lips: "Hmph, sister, what time is it, you still think about that concubine who escaped from marriage, that guy is really disgusting, he dared to escape from marriage, you see, it has been several days, and there is no one News, I went to ask my father, but my father didn't say anything, I really hate it, sister, can't we not marry him? You see, there are many young talents in Chang'an, such as Changsun Chong, Fang Yiai , Qin Huaiyu, none of these guys are worse than Du He."

Li Yuanshu looked a little unnatural, she shook her head and said: "Lizhi, you don't understand, marriage is such a trifling matter! Du He's doing this, maybe there is something unspeakable."

"Hey, if you are able to marry the princess, it means smoke is rising from the ancestral tomb of Duke Lai's mansion. What right does Du He have to run away from marriage? It's really unreasonable... Sister, staying in this palace is quite boring, why don't we go out and have a look around?" By the way, go and teach Du He a lesson, hmph, I heard that he even brought his eldest brother here, this time, let's settle the score together." Li Lizhi was eccentric, and suddenly came up with an idea.

After hearing this, Li Yuanshu also became interested, and the two hit it off immediately, and immediately planned to leave the palace.

……

On this day, Du He finished washing and was going to look at the swivel chair and printing.

As soon as he left the house, he saw Old Fu rushing over and shouted, "It's not good, it's not good, Second Young Master, something serious happened..."

Seeing the old housekeeper's panting appearance, Du He calmly asked, "Old Fu, why are you panicking? Could it be that the sky is falling?"

The old man stepped forward, supported the pillar to stand still, and then said: "Second young master, it's not good, someone smashed our furniture factory, and a dozen of the rotating wooden chairs that were just produced yesterday were smashed forcibly. ah."

When Du He heard this, his complexion sank.

"Lu Bu, take the guy, Bianren go!"

(End of this chapter)