Chapter 518 Is it because I have never eaten Bear Heart and Leopard Gut? (Please subscribe and vote)

Li Chengqian looked at Cheng Chubi with a confused expression, and then glanced at the seal under the cover.

"Isn't this already obvious?"

At this moment, Cheng Chubi acted like Einstein who was about to discover the theory of relativity, or like Newton who was about to be hit on the head by an apple.

"No, Your Highness, if you cover me a few more times, I will have an indescribable feeling. It's very strange..."

Li Ke on the side was also full of doubts. Although he didn't understand what Brother Chu Bi wanted to do, he could only encourage him in a low voice.

"Brother, just build two more and try to see what kind of evil moth Brother Chu Bi wants to do."

"???" Cheng Chubi was completely unhappy. What a monster, I want to invent something, do you understand?

This is for your brother, so that your brother can surpass that little Michelin tire prince.

Becoming the most eye-catching, ahem, most dazzling young star among the Li family of the Tang Dynasty.

After giving Li Ke a vicious look, Cheng Chubi took a deep breath.

Forget it, don't compete with this family guy. Let's wait until the great invention that promotes Chinese civilization appears hundreds of years in advance, and then we can take revenge on this bad prince when we have the opportunity.

Li Chengqian looked at his painting with a black line on his face, and gritted his teeth helplessly and covered it twice more.

Cheng Chubi picked up this painting and looked at the three vermilion seals neatly arranged in a vertical row, with a look of sudden enlightenment on his face.

"Sure enough, I understand, Your Highness... you are really a genius, hahahaha..."

"Brother Chu Bi, what on earth are you making a fuss about?"

Li Chengqian rubbed his eyebrows, feeling that it was no longer him who needed treatment, but Brother Chu Bi.

"Brother Dexian, come and give me your private seal. Come, Your Highness, please give me your private seal. And Yu Zhanshi, please give me your private seal too..."

Although everyone didn't understand what this guy wanted to do, they still took out their private seals and handed them over under Cheng Chubi's repeated urging.

Then he saw Cheng Chubi using his big hand that held a mace and a knife to take out his own private seal.

Then all four private seals were put into the ink pad box, copied, and a blank piece of tribute paper was pulled from the side, and then stamped hard.

Everyone looked at Cheng Chubi's operation with blank faces and confusion. They saw four private seals of different sizes stamped on the tribute paper.

"Do you understand?"

"..." The three heads shook in unison.

Cheng Chubi reluctantly changed the order of the four private seals and stamped them again...

"Do you understand now?" Cheng Chubi glanced at the three people, and what he saw was still three blackened and confused faces.

Cheng Chubi looked up at the sky with a look of despair. Damn it...he had led him to such a point, but they still couldn't understand it.

"Didn't you notice? The words on these four private seals are all different."

Yu Zhining's face turned dark and he reached out to Cheng Chubi.

"General Cheng, we know this nonsense even if you don't say it... Could you please return your private seal to me?"

"Why are you so anxious? Who would care about your thing? I am leading you to broaden your horizons and consider new things.

Don’t you think that our woodblock printing in the Tang Dynasty is very backward now?”

"And these four private seals are already providing us with a better idea."

As soon as these two sentences were spoken, the expressions of the other three people immediately changed. Both the Li brothers and Yu Zhining were all shocked by Cheng Chubi's words.

"Look, if the Analects of Confucius has 10,000 to 20,000 characters, the font used is only 3,000 to 4,000 characters.

If I carve these three or four thousand individual fonts, and then use this method to print the first page of "The Analects" first, and then on the second page, I will adjust their order and increase or decrease the fonts..."

Cheng Chubi was gesticulating and spitting at the explanation, and all three of them had already come to their senses.

They all looked at Cheng Chubi with horrified expressions, as if they had been shocked by the picture Cheng Chubi had painted.

Yu Zhining's face turned from black to red. He didn't care about his long beard that had grown down due to the shock just now, and said with a trembling voice while taking a cold breath.

"Yu understands what General Cheng means. In the past, engraving and printing had to be based on the content and format of the book."

"If it's your method, General Cheng, you only need to carve out all the required fonts separately and fix them with something."

"That way, no matter what kind of books they are, and with that set of fonts, all those books can be printed."

"If it is really feasible, then its cost, compared to today's engraving and printing, would be extremely affordable..."

"This, this is simply good news for the poor people in the world who have no books to read..."

Yu Zhining turned his head blankly and looked at Cheng Chubi, never expecting that this man always enjoyed antagonizing the officials in the East Palace.

Chengri was lucky enough to be admitted to His Highness the Crown Prince, a rough and unreasonable martial artist who was not only excellent in medicine but also a genius in poetry.

Today, with just a few private seals, one can come up with a brilliant idea to innovate the book printing method of the Tang Dynasty.

Although Yu Zhining was born into a family of officials, he once served as an official in a certain place during the late Sui Dynasty and knew the poor people in those places.

It is extremely difficult to study. The only way to have books to read is to rely on a wealthy family and borrow books from them, or to worship a certain teacher.

Even if you are a scholar with a modest family income, if you want to sell a set of classics with a small number of words, you will have to hesitate before doing so.

More often than not, they borrow it from others and then copy it themselves. The reason is because the price of books is really ridiculously high.

The woodblock printing of the Tang Dynasty was very difficult to carve, and because the woodblocks were mostly made of wood, they would crack and be damaged if not properly maintained.

As a result, the price of books printed with engravings has remained high, and after multiple printings, the handwriting will begin to become blurry.

Even so, the income earned by the people of Chang'an City from one month's work may only be enough to purchase a set of "The Analects of Confucius".

After hearing Yu Zhining's lamentable explanation, both Li Chengqian and Li Ke became more and more calm.

Li Ke stared straight at Cheng Chubi, then glanced at the prince beside him, and murmured in a low voice.

"Brother Chu Bi, I'm really convinced by your brain."

"Could it be that, brother, you took some amazing elixir? Is it because... because I haven't taken the bear's heart, leopard's gallbladder?"

"..." Cheng Chubi suddenly became unhappy when he saw Li Ke's blank eyes.
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