farming female castellan

Chapter 116 Want to Open a Bookstore

The engraving techniques of several boys have become more and more proficient.Chen Fan ordered a lot of mud blocks, and asked them to engrave reverse characters on one end according to the handwriting she wrote, and then burn it hard.

"Sister, what is the purpose of engraving so many seals?" Chen Zhongliang asked curiously.

"Printing." Chen Fan said.Each of the children carved a seal for themselves.

"Why do you have to print so many words?" he continued to ask.

Chen Fan looked at the boys and waited for their answer.

"Sister, do you want to print a book? Just cover these chapters one by one, and you can print a book." Chen Zhonglin was very thoughtful.

Chen Fan nodded: "I have this plan. When Qin Shihuang unified the weights and measures, he stamped the edict with four crosses on the pottery measuring vessel with a wooden stamp. Scholars all have seals, so I want to see if the seal can print books. Specifically How to operate and how effective it is, you still need to experiment more.”

Chen Fan told them these things to infiltrate them, and she was inspired by this idea.

"Stamping one by one, will the characters be stamped incorrectly, right?" Chen Zhongzhu asked a question, and everyone agreed.

How can it be covered properly and neatly?
"Arrange them first, and frame them with a frame." They discussed a way.

"That's a good idea! There are still molds for making tofu and cakes, and we can also customize a mold for the characters," Chen Fan said.

After a few days, the framed iron plate was received, and the children carved many small seals.Burn them hard with fire, and they become clay movable type one by one.

She left the printing work to several children to fumble.

They worked very hard, put the movable clay type into the template, then painted ink on it, then covered it with a layer of paper, and pressed it with a block.

When the paper was peeled off, the ink marks on it were very uneven.

The children frowned.

Children don't give up so easily, they think about how to print the words more clearly whenever they have free time.If you have any ideas and any materials you need, Chen Fan will give you support and make some suggestions.

The days passed as usual, and a lot of pasture in the field was shipped out, and most of the corn stalks were also shipped to Qijiadu and Yema Mountain for silage, and Wangjiadun had no place to dig cellars.

The fields have been plowed, and the stalks are dried by the roots and used for cooking every day. They become plant ash and are scattered into the fields.

Chen Fan asked Zhang Ci: "The wheat in my hand may be more productive. Shall I give you some?"

Zhang Ci smiled and shook his head: "It is enough to have a piece of land with high yield, after all, it has just been remodeled. Every piece of land is high-yield, it is difficult to be convincing."

"The land you bought has also been remodeled."

Zhang Ci still smiled and shook his head: "It's relatively barren and not filled with fertile soil. It's just turning over the land. It's good to grow crops. It's incredible to harvest a lot of food at once."

Chen Fan didn't force it, and planted all the nine acres of land with wheat seeds in the space.The wheat in the warehouse was transported by Zhang Ci to other places for sowing.

After working for nearly half a month, the children have almost completed the movable type printing.The potion was prepared by Chen Fan, and the children can't completely study it by themselves. How much do they know?
Zhang Ci is very interested in this technology. He was very surprised to see the children quickly print out neat and clear characters on each sheet of paper.

"This is much more convenient than woodblock printing. If a word is engraved wrong on the woodblock, the entire plate will be destroyed. Now there is no need to worry about this problem. And you can typesetting anything you want to print."

The children were very excited, and chattered to Zhang Ci about the experience of the half month.

Zhang Ci brought a lot of snacks this time, the girls had head flowers and cloth, and the boys had daggers.We all had dinner together happily.

"The Tian family gave me two shops, and I plan to use one to open a bookstore." Chen Fan looked at the full moon in the sky and said to Zhang Ci.

Today is August [-]th, the moon is round and bright.

"It's good to open a bookstore. There are many students in the county, and there are many people who buy books. Now the printing method you have figured out is also very convenient. You can print books and sell them yourself." Zhang Ci said.

"If you print all the books yourself, the amount of work will be huge, and many skilled seal engravers will be needed."

"Workers can be found, and the final printing process can be done by ourselves. The more books are printed, the more advantages of this printing method will be reflected. Books can also be sold to the state city." Zhang Ci said.

"I also have an idea to sell some guidance books. Some people read a book and suddenly ask him a sentence in the book, but he may not remember it. Some people don't understand the content deeply or comprehensively. There are also guiding opinions on the website, which is equivalent to the master of the academy giving them advice." In fact, it is selling supplementary materials, but who will write them is very important.

Zhang Ci chuckled: "This can also be considered."

"When will your shop open?" Chen Fan asked him.

"It will take a while. Those sent by the family will first open shops in other places, extending all the way here. The shop has been renovated and is going to open a pastry shop."

"In fact, we can open stores at the same time. If the business is good, we will continue to open, and if the business is not good, we will close." Chen Fan said.

One by one, when will we have to wait?

Zhang Ci was silent for a while, and said: "This method is very good, but the movement is too loud."

The next day was the mid-autumn festival in the eighth lunar month. The two children of the Liu family went back to the city to celebrate the mid-autumn festival. Chen Fan and the others did not go to the city, so they celebrated the festival at home.

(End of this chapter)