Chastity Layman

  Chapter 315 There are always people who want to harm me

  In Liangyi Hall, Li Shimin was very unhappy.

  Last night in Zuixian Tower, Qin Lang's limelight had already passed. Although he gave Qin Lang a Wen San rank, he actually preferred to see that the son of Qin Qiong, the number one general under his command, was also a military general.

  Qin Lang was able to write poems and fus, and he wrote poems very well, which was not in line with his expectations.

  Li Shimin also writes poems, but he still separates himself from literati. He never thinks he is a literati. He even hates literati in his heart, because literati don’t look down on literati, because literati don’t use dirty words when swearing, and because literati like to beat around the bush.

  Because of what happened last night first, when Li Shimin heard about the riot in Pingkangfang, he first felt that it was Qin Lang who did it, that Qin Lang was building momentum.

   So he was very upset.

   Isn’t it enough for you to be a prince and master? Why do you have to give yourself the title of poet fairy? There was such a big commotion, it's over.

   Qin Lang certainly couldn't accept the emperor's suspicion and dissatisfaction.

   "Your Majesty, someone wants to murder the minister!"

   "What?" Originally, he wanted to scold Qin Lang severely and beat him hard, but he couldn't swear when he opened his mouth.

   There is a reason why Qin Lang dared to say this.

  So he told the emperor what he saw today without concealing it.

  Hearing that someone brought kerosene to rush into the Zuixian Tower where Qin Lang lived, and also heard that there was a deliberate fight outside the Zuixian Tower and caused a riot, Li Shimin's face turned livid.

   He couldn't understand Qin Lang's meaning.

Last night, Qin Lang overthrew the forty-four families with five surnames and seven sects in Shandong in the Zuixian Tower. As a result, Qin Lang was sung by Chang'an as a poet in the early morning. Lang thing.

   There is no ghost here, it is really a ghost.

   Originally he thought it was Qin Lang's campaign.

   Now it seems that the water is deeper here.

   Li Shimin closed his mouth, and he stretched out his hand to stroke his delicately trimmed beard.

  As for who is the real culprit behind the scenes, it is actually very obvious. Undoubtedly, 44 families with five surnames and seven families are suspected, of which the Lu family is the most suspected.

   "What are these people going to do?"

   "I summoned these scholars to Beijing this time to let them practice justice in the Nine Classics, not to make troubles, **** it!" Li Shimin couldn't help but cursed.

  Because this matter made him difficult to control again, and things that were out of control always made him very upset.

   "Huailiang, how do you say this matter will be handled?"

  Qin Lang was also very annoyed on the way here, but it will be much calmer this time.

"Your Majesty, if someone wants to assassinate the minister, it means that what the minister has done has hindered him. Whether it is leading the reform of the tax system or advocating the reform of the imperial examination system, these have touched the interests of too many people. Now they are panicking, and even jumping over the wall to come up with a plan. This kind of rotten method, I feel that this is just a good thing."

   "Good thing?"

"It can make them jump over the wall in a hurry, which means that they have touched their pain points and touched their core interests, and these are the powers that the court needs to regain, so it is a good thing for the court and His Majesty. The minister suggested that the Zhen Fusi secretly Investigate this case, keep quiet, lest these guys get anxious and bite."

   "When the hard evidence is found, it will not be too late to punish him according to the law!"

  After Qin Lang left the palace, he went to Changle Slope.

  Pingkangfang can’t stay here for the time being, and even Chang’an City can’t stay anymore. The outside of Duke Yi’s mansion is still surrounded by fans of Shixian.

  Although Li Shimin specially ordered Qin Lang to send additional guards, but there is only one thousand days to be a thief, how can a thousand days be against a thief.

   Just took the opportunity to take the concubines, servants and maids to the villa in Changlepo for a vacation.

  As soon as Qin Lang left Chang'an, he just arrived at Changlepo, when Chengqian came along.

   This guy said that he is very troubled now, because many classmates are suspicious of him, even the direct scholars of Chongxian Hall are also very suspicious. And Li Tai, Li Ke, Li You and others also got the poem sent by Qin Lang yesterday, so they know the details of the prince.

  The young prince was not as thick-skinned as Qin Lang, and felt uneasy after using Qin Lang's poem, so he also found a reason to come to Changlepo.

   "I told the straight bachelors to find you to learn poetry!"

   "Come here if you come, just give me a hand."

"do what?"

   "Didn't I say before that I want to do printing? Now the ink research has made a breakthrough, and the trial-produced ink works well, and it can be used on engraving."

  In terms of engraving and movable type printing, Qin Lang did not skip the engraving and directly print movable type. This is because in history, after the invention of movable type printing, in fact, in the following hundreds of years, engraving was still the mainstream printing method.

   Block printing has many advantages over movable type printing, and it is more in line with the needs of the times.

  For example, although engraving printing has a waste of engraving, but after the engraving is finished, there is no need for typesetting. When printing a large number of books, engraving is more cost-effective and more accurate.

Although movable type says that it is possible to print any book with a set of characters, movable type requires more typesetting workers who can read and write, and proofreading also takes time. What is it like. After such a book is printed, the font is beautiful and coherent. However, movable type is recombined with individual characters, so it is difficult to have coherent and beautiful characters in engraving, and it is more prone to typos than engraving.

  In general, history has proved that in most cases, woodblock printing is better than movable type printing.

  Movable type printing is suitable for printing newspapers and magazines, while printing books such as subsets of classics and history is actually suitable for engraving, because they can be reprinted repeatedly, with beautiful fonts and high accuracy.

  Movable type printing will definitely be done by Qin Lang in the future, but at this stage, it is better to do the engraving first.

   Chengqian then became Qin Lang's assistant.

  With the ink suitable for engraving and the bamboo paper that is cheaper and more suitable for printing, what Qin Lang lacks now is an engraving.

  He tried to write a Three-Character Classic by himself, and asked Cheng Qian to copy a Thousand-Character Classic, which is now the introductory book of the Chongxian Museum.

  The number of words in the two articles is not much. For example, the thousand-character text is exactly 1,000 characters, the original version of the Three-Character Classic is 1,145 characters, and Qin Lang's revised version of the Three-Character Classic is only 800 characters.

   "Which everyone's font is the word teacher, I haven't seen it before!"

  Chengqian wrote the thousand-character prose using the regular script that Chu Suiliang and Yu Shinan adopted according to Wang Xizhi’s method. The famous masters of regular script in the Tang Dynasty belonged to Ouyang Xun, Yu Shinan and Chu Suiliang in the early Tang Dynasty, and later Yan Zhenqing, Liu Zhao and others.

  Ouyang Xun formed the European style by integrating the southern stele and the northern annals, while the two Sui and Yu changed the king's law and broadened their education.

Wang Fa is Wang Xizhi's calligraphy. It is different from other calligraphy styles. Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is called Wang Fa because his calligraphy achievements are the creation of new styles. These variations include Xingcaokai styles. The law, not the body, later calligraphers called this method the method of neutralization, which is the soil for the cultivation of various bodies in later generations.

  So, the law of the king is actually the foundation of the contemporary masters such as Ou Ti and Chu Yu.

  Chengqian’s calligraphers learned from Chu Suiliang, Ouyang Xun, and Yu Shinan, three contemporary calligraphers. These three are all famous regular script masters. Chengqian’s regular script is still very good, especially the first-hand regular script is very beautiful.

  But Cheng Qian had never seen the handwriting written by Qin Lang.

Qin Lang had studied calligraphy before, so naturally he had seen countless posts, including all kinds of posts by famous Tang and Song masters, and learned all kinds of styles. He still has the basic skills, but he hates calligraphy, so he didn't What an achievement.

  Compared with Chengqian, he is not much better, so he was also ridiculed by Li Shimin.

He is now writing the Three Character Classic and is preparing to make a trial version, so he chose Songti, a font suitable for printing. Songti is a font that appeared in the Song Dynasty to adapt to printing. For the decorative part, the strokes such as dot, press and hook have sharp points.

   This type of font is very suitable for woodblock printing. It is convenient for woodblock printing and looks good when printed.

   It's just that this is a font that will only appear hundreds of years later. In the early Tang Dynasty when regular script was still in its mature stage, it was indeed new.

  Chengqian thought it was because he had never learned it.

   "This is Qin Style, a new font suitable for woodblock printing created by me, teacher." Qin Lang said boldly.

  Chengqian put down his pen, and carefully watched Qin Lang's engraving of the Three Character Classic written in 'Qin Style'.

  The vertical version is used, with more than one hundred words per page.

  In order to facilitate understanding, Qin Lang also specially added punctuation marks.

Cheng Qian also thought it was very fresh, so Qin Lang taught him this set of punctuation marks while copying. After Cheng Qian learned it, he found it very useful, especially for their beginners. The ambiguity, with this punctuation mark, undoubtedly provides great help, and can even become an auxiliary tool for the article. For example, the period after a sentence is different from the question mark, and it expresses a completely different meaning.

  The comma and full stop in the sentence can also distinguish the context.

It took Qin Lang several days to finish the version of the 800-character Three-Character Classic. He wrote a total of five pages, and then wrote a title version with a page of preface in it, as well as the words left on it. Edition number, publication time, distribution address, name of writer, publisher, printer, watchmaker, etc. This information can not only clarify the responsibility, but also a way to calculate the workload and pay the rewards. Of course, it is also a kind of commendation and commemoration for the hard work of these people, and it is also convenient for future inquiries.

"For the convenience of printing, our printed books will be different from the current album books and scroll books. Our book is printed on a single page first, then printed on both sides, and then bound into a book, which makes better use of paper and is easier to read. .”

  For a book to be printed, it has to go through many links, such as writers and writers, engravers and engravers, printers and printers, and watchmakers and dressers.

   "Now we have written the block, and the engraver we hired will carve it on the wooden board."

   "Where did you invite the master sculptors, can they carve?"

The engraver Qin Lang invited was a master seal engraver. When engraving seals, there will be yin and yang according to the needs. Engraving and printing use Yang characters, so this is not difficult for the master. Just engrave it according to the plate, which is no different from engraving a seal, except that there are more characters.

Engraving is a key link in engraving and printing. After all, engraving characters is not easy, and scriptures such as the Nine Classics often contain hundreds of thousands of characters, with more than one hundred characters in one edition, and more than a hundred editions in one volume. Thousands of editions are required for dozens of volumes, and one master can't carve much in a day, so engraving is the most time-consuming and labor-intensive process to complete a large book.

  This requires more engravers and hundreds of professionals. This is the most restrictive place for engraving and printing. Fortunately, block engraving is just an ordinary artisan skill, and it is not difficult to train, and these engraving masters don't actually need to be literate, anyway, they can engrave according to the written block.

  (end of this chapter)