It is okay to use the few existing copiers and printers to produce some internal promotional materials, but it is impossible to enlarge them to the printed materials needed by the whole island.
Besides, precious copy toner and print cartridges cannot be wasted on this.
But for the printing project, Fang Xiaoyue directly selected all the carving craftsmen in the Xinghai Kingdom's naturalized citizen system.
No way, he was planning to develop a metal letter printing system, but he didn't have that much time to carve the metal letter stencils slowly.
This task was left to the carving craftsmen.
In fact, in this era, small printing workshops such as bookshops have already appeared.
The original job of many carvers was to carve and print wood boards.
And there are people like Fang Xiaoyue who carve out individual characters, like letterpress printing.
It's just that because the current printing industry is more about producing some high-quality eight-part essays and some fixed books in ancient times, it is far from the need for all kinds of printed matter in later generations, so engraving woodblock printing is more practical.
There is strength in numbers. Just when Fang Xiaoyue developed the prototype of the printing press, the letter molds carved by the engraving craftsmen also cast suitable typefaces.
The type was typeset and put on the printing press, and soon thousands of copies of the "Message to the People of Nanhai" were freshly printed.
But this is just an official announcement.
Fang Xiaoyue later developed an ink and paper printing press. After the development of this small manual printing press, which was quite ancient in later generations, it greatly facilitated the printing of documents and notices for various units in the Xinghai Kingdom, and even several schools tried their best to obtain documents from the Ministry of Industry.
We requested more than ten ink printing machines to facilitate the printing of school examination papers.
Indeed, the convenience of this ink-on-paper printing machine is that it does not require typesetting. You only need to engrave the content on the oil paper with a sharp stylus, and then use an ink roller to roll over the oil paper to print documents, notices, and test papers.
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There is no doubt that this simple small printing machine allows people who do not understand typesetting to easily produce printing.
Under such circumstances, ink and paper printing machines are more popular in Xinghai Kingdom than the previous regular printing machines.
Units from all over the country have requested a large number of configurations of this ink and paper printing press.
Of course, the biggest disadvantage of this kind of printing machine is that the printed fonts are irregular and handwritten, and the ink on the printed matter can easily stain your hands, which is very annoying.
But the benefits always outweigh the disadvantages, which is why it is so popular.
The subsequent pharmaceutical preparations were also commissioned by Zheng Xiangdong, entirely to deal with the current situation of miasma plague rampant on the South China Sea Island.
No way, tropical islands are such troubles.
There are dysentery, various parasitic diseases, cholera, dengue fever, etc.
Fang Xiaoyue's job is to restore the Chinese patent medicines of later generations as much as possible.
After all, in this era, it is impossible to promote Western medicine.
The reason is very simple. The drugs, injections and other substances required by Western medicine are not enough to protect the health of the time-traveling veterans, and it is even less likely to be used to popularize the naturalized people.
Whether it is selfish or not is a matter of discussion within the community.
However, the final conclusion is that we are still unwilling to take out these drugs, which are already in small quantities.
No way, people who travel through time are also human beings, and people have selfishness.
Traditional Chinese medicine in this era is more about experience. No one who has practiced medicine and saved people under the master for twenty or thirty years would dare to practice medicine alone after that.
This results in the fact that there are not many Chinese medicine practitioners who can practice medicine independently.
In places like Nanhai Island, there are even fewer traditional Chinese medicine practitioners.
A handful of more than 20 traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have been invited by the Ministry of Health Affairs to conduct research on traditional Chinese medicine and proprietary Chinese medicines.
From this point of view, Dr. Wang Delun from the Ministry of Health Affairs is still very prophetic.
However, it was precisely because of the difficulties in recovering Chinese patent medicines in later generations and other reasons that Wang Delun just asked Zheng Xiangdong, and Zheng Xiangdong just asked Fang Xiaoyue to take charge of this project.
No way, everyone knows that Fang Xiaoyue is indeed very good at medical skills, but the problem is that she is too busy!
Ordinary people really can't afford this gentleman.
If Zheng Xiangdong hadn't come forward, Fang Xiaoyue would have gone to the shipyard to help.
No way, as far as shipbuilding experience is concerned, Chuan Chuanzhong basically has none.
The navy is in urgent need of its own warships, and the South China Sea Islands also need warships to protect them, which puts great pressure on the shipyard.
The shipyard director had come over several times to ask for help from Fang Xiaoyue.
But having said that, it is not difficult for Fang Xiaoyue, a tenth-level Chinese medicine practitioner, to guide the Ministry of Health Affairs in the restoration of proprietary Chinese medicines.
After only spending a week and providing a set of methods and ideas for making several Chinese patent medicines such as Bupleurum Granules and Xiaoer Huadu Powder, Fang Xiaoyue left the Ministry of Health Affairs and transferred to the shipyard.
Don't underestimate those Chinese medicine doctors. After obtaining Fang Xiaoyue's ideas in this regard, they have experience in how to transform existing Chinese medicine prescriptions into proprietary Chinese medicines.
In fact, those ointments, patches, powders, and pills in the past were actually a kind of proprietary Chinese medicine.
Many well-known Chinese medicine shops will sell prescriptions corresponding to some diseases into ointments, patches, powders, and pills. Patients can just buy these proprietary Chinese medicines and take them home.
After getting rid of the Chinese patent medicine business, Fang Xiaoyue's workplace changed to the shipyard.
In fact, the shipyard has extracted a lot of information on shipbuilding in the library. The construction of ships such as sailboats is not troublesome for the shipyard's technicians. At most, they can just practice their skills first and scrap a few ships.
Just the price.
But there is a key problem, that is, the shipyard failed to find suitable canvas, and the marine clock also needs to be solved urgently.
After all, the sailing ships of the Ming Dynasty basically used traditional hard sails.
Hard sails, on the other hand, have high wind-receiving efficiency, can rotate around the mast, and can borrow wind from any direction. Soft sails are divided into two types: horizontal sails and longitudinal sails. Although horizontal sails are less efficient in receiving wind than hard sails, their advantage is that their area can
It is made much larger than a hard sail, and the mast can be higher. A square sail cannot go against the wind, so a fore-and-aft sail must be used.
To put it simply, the advantages and disadvantages of the two are different. If the area is the same, the hard sail has greater advantages, is easier to operate, and has fewer operators, while the soft sail can be made larger, thus offsetting the disadvantages of the hard sail.
advantages in this regard.
At the same time, it is difficult to raise the sail of a hard sail, but the requirements for the canvas are not high. Even if it is in tatters, it can still borrow wind. However, the efficiency of borrowing wind of soft sail is not high, and it cannot borrow the wind in all directions, but it is easy to raise the sail. Due to the area
It can be made larger, making the boat faster than a hard sail.
Therefore, shipyards still prefer to use soft sails.
The use of soft sails requires high-quality canvas, and canvas that becomes tattered after a period of use is definitely not acceptable.
As for purchasing canvas from the West, there is no reliable purchasing channel.