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Chapter 644 Movable Type Printing (Second Update, please subscribe)

For the later expansion of Beiping City, Luo Cheng is now increasing the cement inventory in advance.

It is certain that with the advent of cement, the expansion of Beiping City will inevitably be much faster than imagined.This is unquestionable and an established factual result.

In addition, news also came from the shipbuilding workshop that Luo Cheng had set up near the Bohai Sea earlier.After spending more than a year, they finally built a hundred ships according to Luo Cheng's request.

Speaking of which, Luo Cheng still invested quite a lot in this, and now it is finally rewarding, which is really a good thing.With these ships, Luo Cheng can do many things.

In this feudal era, the importance of the navy has not been discovered, so many people do not value coastal defense.But Luo Cheng is very clear that there are many resources in the ocean, and coastal defense is even more crucial.

Therefore, Luo Cheng's first goal is to build a professional navy, not the usual river navy, but a navy capable of crossing the ocean to prepare for future events.

The manufacture of ships has not stopped, because there are still many places where sea ships are needed.Previously, Luo Chengcheng and Hu's father had discussed to start trade by sea, but in fact, it still hasn't started to this day.

After all, the conditions are limited, and it is impossible for Hu's father to build a sea-going ship out of thin air for trade.Moreover, he also needs the protection of armed forces in order to carry out various activities safely.

Today's ocean is not stable, even if there is no disaster like Japanese pirates, there must be other pirates rampant.Therefore independent armed forces are necessary.

But Hu's father obviously wouldn't go to privately train soldiers and horses. If he wanted to start maritime trade, he could only wait for Luo Cheng to train the navy.If there is no basic guarantee, what will happen later?

But as time approaches, Luo Cheng will naturally not go all the way to the beach to train the navy.Now he still has other things to be busy with. Before Luo Yi officially proclaims himself emperor, building momentum is an essential link.

The rise of the Luo family obviously has nothing to do with the aristocratic family.It was completely relying on Yan Yun's original foundation, plus Luo Cheng's large supply of supplies after he opened it up.

Therefore, the power of the aristocratic family is very weak in Yanyun, and it can even be said to have no influence.But as an aristocratic family that has ruled the Chinese government for hundreds of years, how could it be possible to give up power so easily?

Even if they really promised, Luo Cheng would not believe it.

People's hearts are the most difficult to guess, especially in the face of power, there are too many uncertainties.Those aristocratic families are obviously factors of instability, how can Luo Cheng make them feel better?

The reason why Luo Cheng accepted Changsun Wuji's surrender was, on the one hand, because he did have extremely high political talent, and on the other hand, it was because he had already given up the power of the aristocratic family to join Luo Cheng.

In this era of rampant aristocratic families, it is extremely difficult for a child from a poor family to rise to the top.Not to mention that among the poor families, there are not many real scholars, and the gap between the two sides is huge.

Of course, it was impossible for Luo Cheng to let such a situation happen. If the children of the aristocratic family were not willing to work for him, it would be better to find a way to suppress the aristocratic family, so as to support the children of the poor family to rise to the top.

Undoubtedly, the family is most proud of its books. Even though paper has become popular nowadays, there are still very few people who can really have a large collection of books in their homes.

Today, books represent education, knowledge, and fame.Mastering these resources is equivalent to controlling a large number of urbanites in your own hands, which is the foundation of the family.

In the absence of a suitable substitute, a normal ruler would naturally not tear himself apart from the family.Because without the support of the aristocratic family, I am afraid that the operation of the entire court will be affected.

Therefore, there is no doubt that what Luo Cheng is tinkering with now is not other things, but movable type printing, which will promote the development of civilization again in the next few hundred years.

Block printing already exists today, but it is extremely time-consuming and inefficient.Such things obviously cannot meet Luo Cheng's needs, and he must innovate on this basis.

In the Song Dynasty, Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, but he didn't get half of the benefits, and even was framed by others, and eventually suffered a lot of unreasonable disasters.

Although this story is sad, it is the fact that movable type printing has greatly promoted the spread of culture.This is also an important reason why Luo Cheng wants to get it out.

In fact, movable type printing is not difficult, as long as those commonly used characters are fired into models, arranged into words and sentences, and then painted with ink, they can be printed on paper.

Under Luo Cheng's arrangement, all kinds of clay characters were made as quickly as possible.It is conceivable that with the promotion of movable type printing, it is not a dream that the number of scholars is increasing day by day.

It doesn't take much effort to make this thing, after all, there is no technology ahead of the times, it's just a clever idea.

Movable type printing soon achieved results. Mr. Luo Cheng ordered a batch of revised versions of the "Three Character Classics" to be printed, deleting some content that did not conform to this era, and everything else was included step by step.

When Father Hu saw this, his face was full of astonishment. Although he was not a scholar, he knew what it meant.In addition to the terrifying business opportunities, it will also greatly reduce the cost of studying.

Because the cost of movable type printing lies in the movable type, which can be recycled many times afterwards.Therefore, the more the printing quantity, the less the cost will be apportioned. How can the impact be small?

This coincides with Luo Cheng's idea. While exercising the plan, he can also make a lot of money, so why not do it.Anyway, as long as it doesn't violate his interests, Luo Cheng has no objections.

After that, Luo Cheng took the "Three Character Classic" to look for Xu Maogong again. Although Xu Maogong is a Taoist priest now, he was also a scholar before, and it was only because of the trend that he transformed to this point.

When Xu Maogong saw the almost identical printed matter that Luo Cheng took out, he suddenly became a little uneasy.His expression was not much different from Father Hu's, both of which were a little unbelievable.

We must know that block printing is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and there are still problems in quality. Compared with movable type printing, the gap is not a little bit.If this thing enters the world, I am afraid that the pattern of the world will be changed.

The so-called scholars will no longer be an extremely rare group, but a flood that cannot be recruited.Because of their occupational limitations, they can only do so much.

Turning the pages of the book, Xu Maogong couldn't help but sighed: "This movable type printing technique is really miraculous. It's really unimaginable to print these handwritings exactly the same."

Luo Cheng looked very calm, shrugged his shoulders and said: "The military master must know Luo Cheng's intentions. In my land of Yanyun, how can the family dominate, and some things have to be started from now on."

Xu Maogong was taken aback when he heard the words, then suddenly realized that Luo Cheng was Chi Guoguo's conspiracy.With the book bonus, isn't the status of the aristocratic family very embarrassing, this is to be rooted out.

(End of this chapter)