Chapter 582 I’m too lazy to argue with you, a bad guy (please subscribe and vote)
Li Shimin stayed at the Lishan Tangquan Palace for two days. He felt at ease every day, eating and drinking with his father and son.
Then he wandered around admiring the beautiful scenery of Lishan Tangquan Palace. After two days, he returned home satisfied.
When leaving, he did not forget to extort two large bags each of dried fish, dried five-spice beans, and five-spice peas from Cheng Chubi.
Of course, Li Shimin was relatively self-sufficient and blackmailed her under the guise of thinking about his daughter.
Cheng Chubi, on the other hand, scoffed at Li Shimin's high-sounding reasons, treating the emperor as a fart.
Do you really want these snacks for your daughter, and then blackmail me for the best of several bottles of wine?
I don’t know who said it, but I hate it for feeding someone’s pet, the apple of his eye, to the point where he’s almost turned into a little fat man.
It's a pity that Cheng Chubi really couldn't find anyone to talk to sincerely about these true words, so at most he could only write in a diary.
After two days of eating fish with peppercorns and tofu, Li Shimin thoroughly enjoyed all kinds of health care such as bathing, back rubs, and foot massages.
With great satisfaction, I reluctantly left Lishan Tangquan Palace.
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Except for spending some time with these big guys, Cheng Chubi spent the rest of his time squatting in his yard and writing books behind closed doors. He read and Deng Chengxin wrote.
A few days after Li Shimin returned to Chang'an, his heroic son Wu Wang Li Ke also jumped to Lishan Tangquan Palace.
It's just that when he came this time, he also brought those wonderful treasures that had been printed out: "The Analects of Confucius", "The Thousand-Character Classic", and "The Three-Character Classic".
When Cheng Chubi received the news, he could only let Deng Chengxin go for the time being and quickly left the house.
Cheng Fa and Cheng Da, who had been squatting nearby for a long time, jumped in with bamboo cards.
"Come on, come on, my dear brother, I'll take advantage of the young master to go to work, and we three brothers will just have some fun."
During this period, his calligraphy improved greatly, but his right hand felt like it was about to suffer from tenosynovitis. Deng Chengxin rubbed his sore wrist and wanted to cry without tears, but he could only brace himself.
After all, playing cards is a puzzle and fun game, and Deng Chengxin is also very addictive.
His Highness the Crown Prince removed the traction and made sure that there was no problem.
Finally, he returned to the Prince Tang Courtyard and resumed getting along with the princess day and night.
Cheng Chubi rushed to the Prince Tang Courtyard and happened to see Yu Zhining climbing up the steps. He strode up and walked straight into the palace with Yu Zhining.
Then he saw Li Chengqian flipping through the book in wonderment, while Li Ke was dancing proudly beside him.
After the two entered the palace, they saluted the two highnesses to show their respect. Li Ke over there couldn't wait to pick up a copy of the "Three Character Classic" and handed it to Cheng Chubi.
Cheng Chubi opened this thread-bound book. The cover was thick, and the paper inside was made of Chengjia paper whose quality had been greatly improved.
The content inside was naturally arranged vertically. Cheng Chubi looked at the three-character classic that had been printed into a book and read it from beginning to end.
Since the quality of Chengjia paper passed the test, the quality of printing has been significantly improved, especially compared with the previous first trial printing sample.
"How many can be printed in one day?" After Yu Zhining hastily flipped through all three types of books, he suppressed his inner excitement and asked Li Ke.
Li Ke chuckled, raised his hand, picked up a copy of "The Analects of Confucius", patted the cover and said.
"Our roller printing machine can print four pages at a time. After printing, it can be cut."
"If there are four pages per page without changing the page, a machine can produce 1,500 pages in one hour.
If the craftsmen print in shifts, 15,000 sheets a day will be no problem."
"And the mechanical control is very simple. All the craftsman needs to do is control the machine and pay attention to adding paper and ink."
"After discussing with Brother Chu Bi last time, we have now built a total of twenty such drum printing presses.
With the experienced craftsmen leading the novices to practice printing at the same time, they will be able to get started quickly.
Take the "Three Character Classic" as an example. Even the book cover only has sixteen pages. We only need fifteen machines and work day and night to produce fifteen thousand volumes.
In fact, printing is not difficult for us now. The most time-consuming thing is cutting and binding into volumes..."
"Fifteen thousand volumes a day..." Yu Zhining's pupils were dilated as he murmured in a low voice.
"If this printing lasts for a hundred days, wouldn't it be possible to distribute 1.5 million copies of the Three Character Classic and 1.5 million copies of the Analects to the world..."
"Can you please stop thinking too beautifully about Zhan?"
Cheng Chubi, who had just been enjoying himself for a few moments, heard Yu Zhining's hysterical nonsense.
He reminded the Donggong boss unwillingly, "The Three Character Classic only has more than a thousand words, so sixteen machines can handle it."
"The Analects of Confucius must have almost 20,000 words. Even if the content of The Analects of Confucius can be arranged more compactly, the page will probably only exceed 150 words..."
Yu Zhining glared at Cheng Chubi angrily, always feeling that this guy was disturbing his interest, but considering that he was the inventor of movable type printing.
I'm too lazy to argue with a bully like you. If you don't win, I'll get pissed off easily.
"I still have more than three months to fully recover from my illness. So, we still have three months to print these books."
Li Chengqian holds a "Three Character Classic" in his left hand and a "Thousand Character Classic" in his right hand.
There was a look on his face that was about to make him faint with joy, and he was muttering something ecstatically.
Cheng Chubi, who was communicating quietly with Li Ke, heard this and put forward his own suggestions to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Tang Dynasty.
"Your Highness, I and His Highness the King of Wu feel that both the Three Character Classic and the Thousand Character Classic are short and concise, but they are most suitable for enlightenment, and there are many people in the world who need them."
"In this case, it would be better to print 300,000 copies of each of these two types, which would only take a month and more than ten days.
In this period, we can add some more cylinder printing machines and movable type reserves, and of course we can also train more craftsmen.
Then, we will concentrate our efforts on printing "The Analects of Confucius". By the time Your Highness is fully recovered from your illness, there will probably be 50,000 or 60,000 copies of "The Analects of Confucius"..."
"When the time comes, I'll put it in the court. Just based on this number, hehe... I'm afraid all the gentle scholars in the world will be scared to the point where their legs will go weak."
"..." Li Chengqian, Li Ke, and Yu Zhining all claim to be literati or scholars.
They all stared at the vulgar martial artist Cheng Sanlang who was standing here with a black look on his face and talking nonsense.
But it's hard to refute, after all, everyone is really shocked by this number.
Chapter completed!