I'm not a genius in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 330 Engraving and Printing

When Wang Zi'an's side was quiet, the entire Tang Dynasty was listening to thunder in a silent place.

There are two most breaking news recently. One is that His Majesty the Emperor, who was rumored to be seriously poisoned, has recovered.The second is that the current emperor passed away, and now His Majesty personally guards the coffin, weeping bitterly, unable to control his grief, and has been unable to manage affairs for many days.

As soon as these two news came out, clouds moved in all directions.

The Turkic army, which was once ready to move at the border, retreated hundreds of miles overnight, and Tuyuhun also suddenly retreated, and sent Shi Ji to demand peace.The tense situation at the border collapsed overnight.

Li Xiaogong, the king of Hejian who was confronting Li You's rebels far away in Tongguan, used the strategy of luring the enemy to go deep, and burned nearly [-] of Li You's rebels in a fire at Tongguan.Thick smoke billowed above Tongguan, and the fire continued for three days.The rebel commander Li Shentong Wang Kuang and others died in the rebellion, the rebel supervisor Xiao Junlan committed suicide, Li You fled in embarrassment, was captured by the local garrison in Yongji County, and will be escorted to Beijing soon.

"Is Li You caught now?"

Prince Anbai tapped the small bamboo stick in boredom, then turned to ask Qin Huaiyu.Although Qin Huaiyu, the Deputy Superintendent, did not know how to raise pigs, he was quite responsible. He rode over to take a stroll around the pig farm almost every day, which made Wang Zi'an's news about Chang'an City unstoppable.

"How could such an idiot be the opponent of Lord Hejian? King Hejian just used a small trick to lure the enemy, and that idiot really broke into the Tongguan camp, but he was shut down by Lord Hejian." Dog, a big fire will solve it..."

Qin Huaiyu curled his lips in disdain, and said with some regret.

"What a great opportunity to do meritorious service, but it's a pity that I couldn't catch up--"

"Has his military advisor caught him?"

Seeing that Qin Huaiyu had talked for a long time without mentioning Yin Jiushang, Wang Zi'an couldn't help frowning and asked.Qin Huaiyu may not know how powerful this Yin Jiushang is, but he does know that this Yin Jiushang may be the leader of the remnants of the Yin family, the master who is proficient in cold and yin palms.

"I haven't heard of it—maybe it's dead, such a big fire—"

Qin Huaiyu took it for granted that Wang Zi'an didn't say anything, he knew in his heart that even Li You couldn't be burned to death in a big fire, let alone a level-level expert like Yin Jiushang?

"By the way, it may take a few days later for the textbook you want, and it will be brought to you tomorrow-I found you a dozen students who are good at calligraphy in the Imperial College, but some of your textbooks match those that no one has seen before. , it’s more laborious to copy, so it’s a bit slower—”

Wang Zi'an: "..."

Looking at Qin Huaiyu who was asking for credit, Wang Zi'an almost choked on his words.I asked you to help print some teaching materials, and you turned around and found a group of people to copy for me——

"What kind of expression, disgusting and slow? Let me tell you, just this, I'm still an acquaintance of entrusted, just your convoluted conformity, who do you think is willing to copy it for you—"

Qin Huaiyu looked at him with disgust. To be honest, he didn't see what the hell was written in the textbook.Wang Zi'an scratched his scalp and asked a little puzzled.

"Aren't you all engraved and printed?"

"What woodblock printing?"

Qin Huaiyu was confused by Wang Zi'an's words, so he couldn't help asking.Looking at Qin Huaiyu's eyes, Wang Zi'an realized that he seemed to have made a big oolong.In my previous life, I only remembered that woodblock printing was invented during the Tang Dynasty, but I didn’t say anything about the era. It is estimated that this technology either hadn’t appeared at this time, or it had appeared, but it was only spread in a very small range. Not officially released to the public.

"It is to carve the characters on the wooden board, and then print them one by one—forget it, I will ask Mr. Yang to help carve a version in the afternoon, and you can have a look... Forget it, Mr. Yang is busy making the cylinder, Don’t bother him with this little work, I’ll show you, you go to the city and find some craftsmen to do it directly—”

As soon as he thought of it, Wang Zi'an simply found a thin piece of paper, picked up a pen, and wrote a long poem neatly in imitation Song style.He picked it up to look at it, and found that it was only enough for one page. After pondering for a while, he wrote a long poem silently, making it into two pages.

Qin Huaiyu was a little curious and wanted to come up to take a look, but he kicked him out directly, nonsense, what's so interesting about it, he hurried to the side where Yang Siqi was working and took a straight wooden board to be serious.Not long after, Qin Huaiyu came over carrying a rectangular plank.Wang Zi'an took a look in his hand and found that it was a jujube board pieced together. He nodded in satisfaction.

This woodblock printing technique is actually very picky about the wood used for the engraving.You must use fine and solid wood, such as jujube wood, pear wood, etc. Of course, sandalwood is better. The wood is tough and fine, and the effect is great, but it is too expensive and the cost is too high to be worthwhile.

Wang Zi'an found two nails, pasted the words he wrote on the board upside down, and then stretched out his fingers.Naturally, he also knows a little about sculpture. In his previous life, in order to sharpen his mind and break through the realm of a master, he had studied with a master sculptor for a long time, and his skills were quite good.But now it's just to make a look, and it seems a bit unnecessary to carve it with a knife.

Then, Qin Huaiyu saw Wang Zi'an stretching out his fingers and pressing the words backwards on the wooden board stroke by stroke!

penetrating!

Qin Huaiyu was not surprised by his skill, but was surprised by his kung fu.All the characters are neat and neat, and the strokes are neat and even. This finger strength made him amazed.

"Just put the ink on it, take the paper and print it."

Wang Zian got up and went back to his room, studied the ink, brushed it evenly on the wooden board, then lightly changed it with rice paper, brushed lightly on the back of the paper with a towel, then picked it up, and illuminated it according to Qin Huaiyu. .

"Look, it's printed like this—of course, after you go back, don't let the craftsmen carve like this, you'd better let them carve it in Yangwen, so that the printed books are no different from the copied ones—"

At this time, Qin Huaiyu also saw that the doorway was coming. He held the two samples printed by Wang Zi'an and couldn't help but marvel.

"With this thing, what kind of books do I need to copy in the future? It will save me a lot of trouble if I print them directly—poor, I was forced to copy so many books by my father—"

Wang Zi'an couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

"Copying books naturally has the benefits of copying books, but there is no need to copy one by one—"

It's okay to copy one or two copies. Like Wang Zi'an, if you want to run a school, you need dozens or hundreds of copies. If you copy one by one, it will really exhaust you.

While the two were talking, Yang Siqi and Yan Wen came back from the construction site.He asked while washing his hands.

"I heard from Mr. Qin that Lord Hou is going to make an engraving. What is an engraving?"

(End of this chapter)