Villager of Daming

Chapter 1007. High technology of mimeographing simple banknotes
The officials were relieved, but at the same time they were under great pressure. Why is there a Ningguo Mansion? It was so depressing to compare with my peers.

Someone gave me the Four Treasures of the Study, write a notice! A notice to teach people how to make dried mulberries.

"Wait, I'll give you something good, wax paper, for mimeographing. You can print out many copies by carving one sheet, which saves the time of copying."

Seeing that the officials were about to write, Zhu Fan first stopped and ordered someone to get the stencil paper set.

Xiaqiu Village only makes stencil paper, not stencil paper. Typing stencil paper requires a manual printer, which is expensive and has little practicality.

For example, when writing announcements now, the font size of a mechanical printer is fixed, and stencil paper can write large characters. If you use a thick stylus, the lines will be thicker.

If you really need to print a large number of books and periodicals, especially newspapers, you can count on the printer's wax paper printing quantity to be small, and copper movable type to be more convenient.

There is a shortcoming of handwriting. It requires manual adjustment. When writing a 'cross', one horizontal and one vertical will overlap each other. First write the horizontal one. When writing vertically, lift the stylus to the intersection position and drop it below the horizontal one. The wax paper in that area will be scratched once less and will not be easily broken. This is called the brush-raising method.

In fact, Zhu Wentian's head hurt when he thought about the mechanical printer. It had a complicated structure and he didn't remember everything.

It is a manual printer using the upper and lower shape detection method. This type of printer is high in cost and easy to use. In addition, it requires manual word picking at a low cost and requires high requirements on typists.

Notices appeared one after another, no one needed to copy them, the words were all the same.

He was speechless: You have finished writing, what else do you do for us? We couldn't write it again, so we could only write it this way.

After he finished writing, he found that he didn't look very good, so he asked: "Your Highness, can you write it again? This is the first time I use such a pen."

So he thought about it and learned to write: "Notice, in addition to mulberries, other fruits can also be made into dried fruits. His Highness the King of Jin will buy them all. If you don't know how, ask the Yamen and the sergeant together."

The other officials followed and watched together, and the young man re-coated the wax paper. Because the writing was too thick, after a few scribbles, he simply gave up and didn't want it anymore. There was no shortage in the team and he could make new wax paper at any time.

Someone from Xiaqiu Village came to teach me. I changed to a thick stylus and wrote the word "notice" first, and then the date, which was the first day of May in the seventh year of Hongwu.

"Just write it like this." After finishing writing, the boy from Xiaqiu Village gave the thing to the county magistrate Liu Yunli next to him.

"Yes, you can re-apply the wax on your paper and you can write again, but I'll give you a new one." Zhu Fan nodded, and the boy changed the wax paper.

After the newspapers are sold, we will equip each county with typewriters and ask them to type out the newspapers in time to see if any merchants want to advertise. If so, add the advertising words to each county according to its own situation and then use ink to print it on the newspapers. .

After the notice was written, the person next to him took the paper and roller to be printed, put it on the net, dipped it in oil and started to turn it. He went up and came back, opened it, took out a piece of printed paper, put it on the net again, and turned it again...

It's not that he doesn't know how to use it. Many officials carve private seals by themselves. You can't use a brush for engraving. The carving knife is at least a hard pen.

Liu Yunli held the stylus: "..."

Content: His Royal Highness the King of Jin has issued an order, ordering officials to teach the people to harvest mulberries and make them into dried mulberries. His Highness the King of Jin will buy them and give them a lot of money. If the mulberries that cannot be eaten are spoiled, it is better to dry them in the dark and exchange them for money. If you don't know how, you can go to all the yamen and offices in Taiyuan Prefecture. asked the sergeant sent by the imperial court.

Zhu Wentian is also thinking hard, but currently his mind is on the industrial zone, and the typewriter is not in a hurry.

"Is it so fast? Engraving printing is just that. No, engraving printing is not as fast as this. It's not easy to apply oil on that board. This one can be dipped in."

Wang Shitong, the magistrate of Taiyuan County, found it useful and praised it.

"The seal needs to be stamped. Should we also write it?" When Guo Lingzhong, the magistrate of Qingyuan County, thought of stamping, he planned to use someone else's written seal to print it out and stamp his Qingyuan County seal.

"You write it yourself, this is what I wrote." Liu Yunli refused.

"Does that mean we need to consume more sheets of wax paper? Anyway, the content is the same, how many more sheets can be printed? Four or five sheets are enough for one village, and a few more sheets can be prepared for them."

Wang Hushou from Loufan Town came with him, otherwise he wouldn't have a good rest, and now he plans to use someone else's writing.

"Use these two! If you write any more, you have to put them on wax paper." Taiyuan Mansion's Tongzhi Chai Shu decided, but Guo Jinglan remained silent and acquiesced.

Everyone took turns to come forward to work and experience it, and then found that using a roller is a technical job. It doesn't work if it is too heavy or too light. If it is too heavy, the ink will be more, and the whole piece will be finished. If it is too light, the printing will not be clear, and there will be blank words. When dipping the ink You have to control how much.

No one said anything, it doesn't matter if they waste paper, they will have to waste it in the future, it is a skilled trade.

"Don't stick the wax paper upside down, otherwise the words will be upside down. If you take it off and lay it over again, it won't work. If there are fewer words, just rewrite it. If there are more words... I will leave some gasoline for you. Use gasoline and cotton swabs to wipe it, and then lay it again. "

Zhu Fan watched others working and introduced his experience and how to deal with wax paper. If a word was written wrong, it could be corrected. If it was pasted upside down, he would use gasoline to clean up the contaminated ink and re-paste it.

Officials in the yamen must carry their seals with them. Usually there is a person who is responsible for holding them, but now they all put them on themselves.

After printing a batch, they would put the seals on them first, send horses and boats to send them away, and post them to various villages, and naturally there were more in the county town. Just post them wherever you found. Anyway, no one would copy them, which would save trouble.

"Your Highness, this thing is easy to use. It has the ability of engraving, but it is not as complicated as engraving. You can write and seal at any time."

Cao Longzhao, the governor of Taiyuan Prefecture, was the most interested in this. He wrote many notices in the prefecture. He not only wrote them, but also found people to copy them and then posted them.

With few manpower, copying this would take time. If he had new things, he could write a notice himself with a brush, then order someone to carve it into wax paper, print it out and send it out hard.

"It's a waste of paper, but the paper is good." Zhaomo Lu Yu emphasized the problem of high funds. There is no need to copy, and everyone promises to print more.

The things he was in charge of were auditing and various project expenses. The easier it was to print, the more officials wanted to print more and post them everywhere.

Zhu Fan waved his hand: "Paper is easy to make. This kind of paper has minerals added to it. We have it in Taiyuan Prefecture. It looks better than raw edge paper and... different from rice paper.

In short, the cost is low. I will teach you later and build it for the people to practice calligraphy and writing. People should write more letters! Then keep accounts. How much money does the family earn and how do they spend it? There is an account book.

Including how much grain was harvested and what the eggs were sold for, write down everything. We may do random checks to see the daily lives of the people. "

Zhu Fan has no idea how much it costs to use current mimeograph paper. Anyway, the resources are sufficient, and the rest is a matter of start-up capital and technology.

"Your Highness, the paper of the treasure note..." Tian Jiang, the general judge, saw that everyone was talking and it was time for him to speak. He was worried that this kind of paper was the same as the treasure note.

"We can't make treasure banknotes. The paper and ink are all special, including watermarks. Each treasure banknote is numbered. It can be soaked in water for a long time without rotting. It has blind spots and discolored ink. That technology..."

Zhu Fan smiled and shook his head, still want to make treasure banknotes? That is Xiaqiu Village’s specialty technology, and it needs to continue to be improved! Who didn’t know there could be problems with fake money?

(End of this chapter)