Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 777

On the second day, Jia Xian brought more than a dozen terrified and excited master craftsmen outside the Palace of Government Affairs, and Ye Chen summoned them in batches.

Ye Chen first introduced what white phosphorus and red phosphorus are to a few masters of the Civil Research Department and professors of Xiangfu College who are divided into chemistry majors, and then told the formula of matches, and asked Jia Xian to be in charge of ordinary raw materials and search for phosphate rock.

Then he gave several old glass workers a formula. This is a glass formula that Ye Chen derived from his memory and chemical knowledge. It is very simple. One part of quicklime, one and a half parts of soda ash, seven and a half parts of quartz, temperature When it reaches [-] degrees, it can be released.But because there is no thermometer now, these glass craftsmen still need to figure out and estimate the heat by themselves.

Ye Chen wants to try out glass, but he doesn't expect to make any high-end luxury goods. He knows that glass blowing is a skill that requires considerable experience. He doesn't have more than ten years of experience. He wants to make that kind of beautiful glass. Lun's glass art is nothing short of fantasy.Ye Chen's request is very simple, to make transparent glass products is success.Of course, the most important thing is the mirror. According to Ye Chen's guess, the rare item of the mirror alone can make Xiangfu Kingdom earn two or three million taels of silver every year.In addition, the cost of glass binoculars will be reduced by more than ten times, and Xiangfu Kingdom can equip all officers and spies in the entire army with binoculars in a very short period of time.

The last ones summoned were several master craftsmen and well-known printing shop owners who had some research and attainments in printing in the Xia capital of Xiangfu Kingdom.

In this era, woodblock printing not only flourished in quantity, but also reached a very high level in terms of woodblock technology and printing quality. Coupled with excellent paper and ink, the woodblock printing books of this era reached a high level. A high level of perfection.However, engraving is a huge project after all, and it takes a long time to engrave and print a book. This will undoubtedly be a big limitation for the rapid publication of a large number of books, and because of this, the cost of books is very high. Ordinary people simply cannot afford to buy or use books.There are only one or two books in a village, and it is common for the whole village to pass down generations as treasures of the town and village.Thus, it has greatly affected or limited the proportion of people who can read and read.

So people wanted a faster and less expensive way to print books.Therefore, in the original history, under such a large background and the needs of social development, movable type printing was invented by the talented craftsman Bi Sheng during the Qingli period of the Northern Song Dynasty.Bi Sheng's movable type is made of mud.It is also the earliest movable type in the world, more than 400 years earlier than the movable type used by Gutenberg.

There are few records about the movable type technology invented by Bi Sheng. Only Shen Kuo, a famous scientist in the Northern Song Dynasty, made a more detailed record in his book "Mengxi Bi Tan".The historical role of this record is to inspire later aspirants to continue along the road of Bi Sheng, so that this technology continues to develop and improve, and finally becomes the dominant printing method.

Movable type printing is a method in which single movable type is made in advance, and then according to the manuscript to be printed, the required characters are picked out and arranged in a version for printing.Printed with movable type, after a book is printed, the plates can be broken up, and individual characters can still be used to line up other book plates.It can be said that the invention of movable type is a great milestone in the history of printing.It not only inherited some traditions of woodblock printing, but also created a new printing technology.Especially after this technology was spread to the west, it was immediately welcomed by printing workers in countries using phonetic writing, and this technology was continuously improved, gradually becoming the dominant printing method in the world.The invention and development of movable type created conditions for faster printing of books.This method was still one of the methods of producing books, newspapers, and magazines in the world until the 21st century before Ye Chen traveled through later generations.

Moreover, in the original history, from the invention of clay movable type by Bi Sheng in the Northern Song Dynasty to the mid-Ming Dynasty, the technology of movable type has gone through clay type, wooden type and metal type, and the technology is also constantly improved.The development of the printing industry also promoted the development of the paper industry.

What Ye Chen needs to do now is to allow movable type printing to appear in this world more than 60 years earlier than the original history.It is great that Bi Sheng was able to invent movable type printing, but the ideas and methods in it are actually not difficult to put on. Sometimes what is missing is only an inspiration or an opportunity.So after Ye Chen made it clear, these craftsmen who have been engaged in printing work all their lives suddenly realized, and all of them felt that His Majesty knows everything and is omnipotent, and promised to handle this matter properly.As for how they serve the court, that's not Ye Chen's concern, it's up to Jia Xian to handle it.

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Ye Chen promoted the concept of seven days a week in Xiangfu Kingdom as early as the founding of the country, and stipulated that on Saturdays and Sundays, except for those on duty, public officials should rest normally.The troops also have to rest on weekends and no longer train, and soldiers and officers can take turns to leave the barracks to go out in proportion.

In Shunzhou, a restaurant near the barracks of the Second Infantry Brigade of the Qinglong Legion. Xin Ruishan, Gao Debao and three comrades who went out together were eating. Gao Debao who came back from Beijing seemed to have lost a lot of weight, so he said to him: "Gao Debao, you haven't been here a few times before, the food here is quite good, especially the roasted whole lamb, which I heard was invited from Dangxiang Bashi It’s baked by the master’s master, it’s really fucking delicious, but it’s a bit more expensive, last time the three of us had just finished paying our military pay, so we got together and came over to have a meal together.”

Gao Debao sighed, and said, "Come on, I've lost a lot this time. I thought that the salary of the special brigade would be double, and the same level would be one level higher than other troops, so I signed up, but... Oh! Forget it, drink."

Xin Ruishan hurried over and asked in a low voice: "I've heard about this special brigade for a long time. The pay is so high. What are you doing? Why can't even you, an excellent soldier, pass the training?"

Gao Debao said unhappily: "The instructor is not allowed to reveal it. It is a secret, otherwise it will be punished as leaking the secret."

Xin Ruishan immediately replied: "It's just a secret, and I won't tell it." He pointed at several people again, "You are not allowed to tell it." The others immediately agreed.

Gao Debao drank a bowl of wine in discouragement before saying: "Then don't talk about it, a few people can live with that thing, sleep for more than two hours a day, and torture people to death in various training every day There are so many things, push-ups and sit-ups are counted in thousands. For ten days in a row, you can be so tired that you vomit blood every day. In the latrine, or in a pit full of pig and sheep intestines and offal, the stench is so bad. You eat half of it, and he throws a piece of intestines on your neck.”

Xin Ruishan grinned when he heard this, and several other people also looked disgusted, cursing one after another: "Isn't this fucking torturing people, treating people like animals."

Gao Debao gritted his teeth and continued: "It's just animals, they can toss about. If someone is too tired to move, the instructor will step on your head and yell at you. It's not like we used to scold you stupidly or something. It's the 2th generation of ancestors. After scolding, every day there are people who can't bear to be dismissed. At that time, we signed up and selected 200 people from our first batch of more than [-] people for training. In the end, there were only more than [-] people left. I held my strength and survived. These ten days." Several people around listened intently, waiting for his next words.

"Then it will be easier. I can sleep for three or four hours a day. The things I practice every day start to be fighting. Two or three people cooperate to practice, but the queue never practices. I'm not afraid of these things. Well, suddenly one day, when I got up in the morning, I marched to the mountain forcibly, and one person gave me a rope to slide down the mountain. The cliff was not ten feet high. I, I don’t know what happened. I fainted when I saw the cliff , I have no strength in my hands and feet, but we are really not afraid of death. I hate that the instructor said on the spot that I was passive training and I was afraid of death. In the end, I was dismissed later. Fuck. His mother instructor."

Gao Debao became more and more angry, Gulu took another sip of wine, and one of his companions said, "It's also thanks to these doggy instructors that they can come up with so many bad moves."

Xin Ruishan licked his lips, first glanced left and right at the people on other nearby tables, and then said in a low voice with a mysterious face: "You don't know! When I was standing guard at the gate last time, I heard the brigade commander and battalion commander were there. We chatted and said that the captain of the special brigade is Bai Canghai, the killer king of our Xiangfu country. From my point of view, he wants to train all 2000 people in the special brigade to be killers. That's why he trained abnormally like Gao Debao said. "

Gao Debao said fiercely: "Someone said that when I was training, but after a few days of training, I felt that it was not all for training to become a killer. You don't know, there are other damages besides what I just said. Trick, I heard from those instructors that after being selected, there are still many old people, and what kind of wilderness survival should be practiced, such as swimming, riding horses, all kinds of long and short weapons, poisons, wild herbs, house structure, and urban structure when thrown alone in the deep mountains and old forests. , maps, disguises, anyway, there are all kinds of things, and they will be eliminated while practicing."

Xin Ruishan shook his head and said: "I have practiced all of these, are you still a soldier? This mother is a magic soldier. I also signed up at the time, but I was not selected. I still envy you. Now it seems that It’s much more comfortable to stay in the ordinary army than in the special brigade, he doesn’t want us, I’m not willing to go there to suffer.”

(End of this chapter)