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Chapter 198: Movable Type Printing

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The Story of the West Chamber has already talked about more than half of it!
There is still a part left unsaid!
After Yang Chen woke up, his spirits were radiant, the blessing seal in his mind was constantly vibrating, and the power of thoughts came from the dark void.

One, ten, one hundred...three hundred, until five hundred reached the power of thought, and then stopped.

"Five hundred thoughts?"

This is crazy!
Yang Chen, who originally blamed himself for going to Tianranju late, felt the five hundred thoughts coming from the dark void, and was so shocked that he couldn't speak.

How can there be so much thought power!

Simply incredible!
"Is it because the villagers of Yanwangzhuang last night all believed in me wholeheartedly, or is it that "The Story of the West Chamber" is very popular and has attracted a lot of fans?"

Yang Chen felt particularly shocked!
When you calm down, you have to check the source of these thoughts from the seal of fortune.

With a glance, he saw his student, Ma Wencai was already waiting outside the room, standing quietly by himself, guarding the outside of the room and not coming in.

"It's a good seedling!"

Ma Wencai looks playful and smiling, but as the grandson of the richest man in Weicheng, he will inherit the family business in the future, and his family education is also very strict. Among other things, at least in terms of respecting teachers, Ma Wencai has done a very good job.

As businessmen's children, they know better that knowledge is hard to come by, so they study harder and more seriously, and they respect their master even more.

"Wen Cai, when did you come, come, why don't you come in, just call Master to wake up!"

Outside the yard, guarded by the Qimen Bagua Mizong Formation, Yang Chen woke up from sleep, lifeless and not alert.

Hearing Yang Chen's voice, Ma Wen walked into the room.

"Master, you're up, I'm seeing that you haven't woken up yet, so I didn't bother you!"

"Master, do you know that you asked me to print the Three Character Classic, yesterday I had two hundred copies printed, I thought it would not sell well, but who knows, this morning, I just spread the goods in shops everywhere, It was sold out early in the morning, and the shopkeepers of these shops all asked their families to speed up printing."

When Ma Wencai talked about the "Three Character Classic", he was elated and triumphant.

"Three Character Classics" dare to say one scripture, it is a treasure of scriptures, which has an unparalleled effect on opening up the enlightenment of living beings, and the sentences are catchy and easy to understand.

Printing such a book can be said to be both fame and fortune. Such a good thing can't be found with a lantern.

However, if other scholarly families had authentic scriptures, they would have kept them privately and handed them down to future generations as family heirlooms. Only a person like Yang Chen with a broad mind could make such a treasured scripture public to the public. of grandeur.

Yang Chen smiled without saying a word.

He had expected such a result.

One must know that the "Three Character Classic" is one of the three enlightenment books in Yang Chen's previous life. It has been circulated for hundreds of years and has been praised by various dynasties. From this, we can see how charming this book is!
"Your grandpa, how much do you plan to print?"

"You know, this book is enough for the Ma family to buy for a lifetime. How many mansions, cities, villages, and populations did the Great Zhou Dynasty have? In addition to the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were also other countries. What do you think? For a moment, how long does it take to buy it, how much does it cost, even if it takes several generations to buy it, it may not be possible to buy this book all over the world!"

Following Yang Chen's description of the blueprint for the future, Ma Wencai's breathing became a little heavy.

Such a future is too beautiful.

Marvin, however, believed in such a prospect.

The "Three Character Classic" is a treasured book of authentic scriptures, whether it is rich or poor, who would not wish to buy such a treasured book and leave it to their children and grandchildren.

However, Ma Wencai's brow drooped a little immediately.

"Master, the book is a good book. I saw that many people must have snapped it up like crazy, but the cost of printing this "Three Character Classic" is very high. In order to let more people buy this book, grandpa opened it up. The price is not high, excluding the cost, it is profitable, and it is unrealistic to want to print on a large scale.”

Yang Chen frowned, "How much does it cost to print something, is it expensive?"

Ma Wencai said, "Master, you are a scholar. Some of these commercial matters are still unclear. You may not know that the best printing technology is used now, engraving and printing."

"Engraving and printing is to paste neatly copied manuscripts on a smooth wooden board of a certain thickness. The front of the thin and almost transparent manuscript paper is attached to the board, so that the characters become reversed, and the strokes are clearly recognizable. The engraver uses a carving knife to The unwritten part of the page is cut off, and it becomes a convex inscription, which is completely different from the inscribed inscription on the stele with a concave inscription."

"When printing, ink is applied to the raised characters, and then the paper is covered on top of it, and the back of the paper is gently wiped, and the writing remains on the paper."

"When printing a book, first dip a brush in the ink and brush it on the carved board, then cover the board with white paper, and lightly brush it on the back of the paper with a clean brush. Take the paper off, and the book will be printed one page at a time. After each page is printed and bound into a book, the book will be printed successfully.”

"The book "San Zi Jing" has a lot of characters in it, and it will take a lot of time to engrave it."

"The [-] copies printed today are all part of the front part of the "Three Character Classic". The latter part is still in the process of engraving. It is still unknown when it will be printed?"

"Besides, after the time-consuming and laborious engraving, the "Three Character Classic" has no other uses after printing, and the cost is also very high. It can be said that most of the printed books are not profitable at all, and the gains outweigh the losses."

"Only this precious book, the more it is printed, the more profitable it will be."

In Shangyanshang, Ma Wen would have left a manuscript copy if it hadn’t been for the precious book written by his master Yang Chen, but if he wanted such a large-scale printing, he didn’t even think about it.

"However, it's not a waste of effort. You don't know. Ever since the shop sold the first part of the "Three Character Classic", countless people have come to the shop to snap up all of them. Some of the unavailable ones are still queuing up at the shop. Waiting in front of the door, the team is like a long dragon, winding for miles, and you can't see the edge."

"Those who can buy this treasured book are all grateful to the Ma family, and even regard the master as a half teacher!"

Yang Chen was thoughtful, no wonder there was so much thought power rushing into his talisman of good fortune and righteousness, it must be related to the release of the "Three Character Classic".

It's just that I feel a little weird about the engraving and printing that Ma Wencai mentioned.

"The cost of woodblock printing is indeed too high, can't you use movable type printing?"

(End of this chapter)