I heard Xuezheng suddenly mention his second brother.
Zhang Yue was stunned and couldn't help but asked: "Xue Zheng has been studying in the county for many years. I wonder what kind of person my second brother is under Xuezheng's eyes?"
Xue Zheng smiled slightly, remembering the previous rumors that Zhang Erlang did not send letters to his family. This incident made him a little ugly in front of the magistrate.
But Zhang Yue suddenly asked, Xuezheng didn't think much about it, but said: "When Erlang entered the county school, I was a teaching assistant at the county school. However, Erlang was extremely talented, the only one I had seen in my life. As for the others, I wasn't that good either.
Said, But Erlang’s current talent and learning was proven step by step by himself.”
Then Xuezheng changed the topic: "In a person's life, morality is the first priority, and talent is the second aid. I have seen many people in my life who try to be smart and take shortcuts and go further. No matter how talented they are, they should still be brothers.
Love is the most important thing.”
Zhang Yue didn't know what Xuezheng meant by what he said. He felt a little confused. He seemed to be expressing his feelings, but also seemed to be criticizing Zhang Erlang.
I still don’t know why my second brother resigned from the Jinshi examination. If he really wanted to change his official status and passed the Jinshi examination, then he would never give up his official position.
I heard that many officials were dissatisfied with the sudden change of registration to take the exam, but I thought that these discussions would subside after a while, so they would not give up their official positions because of this.
I heard that my brother ranked 22nd in the provincial examination, but ranked fourth in the palace examination.
There are five Jinshi rankings in total. The fifth class is from the same Jinshi background. They cannot be directly promoted to official positions and must be selected by the guards. Su Zhe's ranking is the fifth class.
His elder brother Su Shi ranked fourth, and Su Shi, like his younger brother, was originally ranked fifth, but because he got first place in the "Spring and Autumn" test in the provincial examination, he was ranked first in the palace examination.
However, he ranked 22nd in the provincial examination and ranked 4th in the palace examination. This may also represent the official's view.
Perhaps there is too much difference between the top and the bottom, which is why the second brother is unwilling to be promoted to an official position.
As Zhang Yue walked, he thought carefully about any interactions he had with his second brother before traveling through time.
He suddenly remembered that one year before his second brother ran away from marriage, he once scolded himself for not wanting to make progress and only playing with his friends all day long.
Zhang Yue had an idea at this moment. The second brother has not sent a letter to his family so far. Is this a way to make him understand that he should not think about hugging his thighs all day long and rely on himself for everything? The second brother really still cares about me in his heart.
, this is really well-intentioned!
Zhang Yue smiled. In fact, he had helped his second brother to beautify it in his mind. Didn't his eldest brother also frequently make excuses for why his second brother had not sent letters home?
After all, he is a famous iron-blooded prime minister in history. If he really felt that he was still the same useless person as before his rebirth, he would have done it if he refused to recognize this brotherhood.
Now I can only work hard and get the approval of my second brother, otherwise how will I enjoy happiness in the future? I will have no chance of glory and wealth.
Wrong, wrong, it seems that I am somewhat fond of glory, and I should be working hard in the name of brothers and sisters.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yue can be regarded as completing the step of "rectifying his mind".
Zhang Yue walked back to his studio, sat down and was about to read, but he saw that Guo Lin had already returned to his studio, and he looked happy at this moment.
Zhang Yue looked Guo Lin up and down and asked, "What's the happy news? Could it be that Sanniang is willing to elope with you?"
“Junior brother, please don’t make fun of me.”
Guo Lin saw that Wu Rang and Qian Qi were not at home, so he said: "Junior brother, please don't be too happy if I tell you a good thing."
“A good thing?” Zhang Yue was full of doubts.
Guo Lin said with a face full of joy: "I just asked the chief of the prison, if there are any servants in the county school? The chief of the prison said that the transcription is his responsibility. All you need to do is talk to him, so I will give you and my name.
Gave it to the chief."
"So easy?" If Zhang Yuexin was a very popular job, it wouldn't be the turn of the two newcomers.
Guo Lindao: "But a page of books only costs one yuan, and I don't have much daily living."
Zhang Yue suddenly realized that it was no wonder he couldn’t recruit anyone.
The county annals record that the county school has 80 acres and 17 acres. In addition, the government also allocated dozens of corridors to the county school, which are rented out to the people to collect some rent money. This corridor is the county school.
of the bulk of income.
But the daily expenses of county schools are not small. In addition to the official salary expenditures of academic officials and school officials, it is also the food and clothing supply for one-third of the students. This is called national support, as well as sporadic expenditures.
Therefore, it is good for the county school to be able to make ends meet, and even if it cannot make ends meet, the county will sometimes use vinegar interest money and the minister's money to supplement one or two.
This servant's book is a way to work-study. To be honest, Zhang Yue can no longer look down on the price of one penny per page.
However, Guo Lin was still very happy to have such a job. He asked himself if he would go with him, and even made an agreement with the chief of the restaurant.
Zhang Yue couldn't bear to betray Guo Lin's good intentions, but he thought that the fine tradition of work-study study should not be lost, so he agreed.
“Then let’s go see the chief priest in the afternoon.”
“Shall we go empty-handed?” Zhang Yue asked.
“Is it possible?” Guo Lin looked confused.
Zhang Yue shook his head and said, "I'm going out first."
In the afternoon, Zhang Yue and Guo Lin quietly came to the chief's room carrying a bamboo basket of sesame and sesame cakes.
“I should have come to see the chief of the restaurant a long time ago. A few snacks would be disrespectful.” Zhang Yue said.
The chief of the restaurant smiled when he saw this. Arranging servants was just a piece of cake for him, and a basket of sesame cakes was not worth much. But he liked the attitude of others.
“Have you had any snacks?” the chief asked.
“Eat.” Guo Lin quickly replied.
Zhang Yueze said: "Not yet."
"Why are you so polite? Let's sit down and eat some together." Immediately, the chief of the restaurant gave the Hu cakes that Zhang Yue had brought to his sleeping companions. He and Zhang Yue each had one in hand. Guo Lin wanted to refuse, but the chief of the restaurant gave the Hu cakes to the roommates.
Zhaizhang said: "I know your second husband, and he has learned a lot. Although you are not as talented as him, you are quite a good person!"
Zhang Yue said with a shudder in his heart: "The chief has promoted me, please ask the chief to take care of me in the future."
Zhai Zhang finished the sesame cakes in two mouthfuls. He clapped his hands and a lot of sesame seeds fell on the ground. He didn't care and said calmly: "It's easy to say, and I won't be polite to you, but we like to eat flower cakes, so remember it next time."
Zhang Yue and Guo Lin were about to walk out the door.
“Wait!”
The chief of the restaurant called out to the two of them: "I'll go take a look with you."
The transcription office is next to the library.
Zhang Yue, Zhang Yue, and Guo Lin opened the door and entered, only to see two people sitting in the room.
One person was carving words on several wooden blocks with a knife, and the other was playing with molds. They looked up and saw Zhang Yue and Guo Lin wearing robes, and saw the chief of the village behind them. They quickly got up and asked first:
"I've met the chief."
Zhai Chang said: "You still don't understand?"
The two said: "I have met two officials. The villain Chen Zhong (Chen He) is a calligrapher from the official school."
As he spoke, Zhang Yue approached the craftsman named Chen Zhong and asked, "Are you a book engraver? You can actually print with movable type?"
It's really new. The legendary movable type printing of the Song Dynasty was seen for the first time.
Chen Zhong didn’t know why Zhang Yue was so new to this thing in his hands, and couldn’t help but said: “This official, what do you mean by movable type printing?”
Zhang Yue said: "Then what is this?"
Chen Zhong said with a smile: "We in Jianyang call this a movable printing plate, which is different from the printing plates that officials are used to. I have nothing to do, so I just want to give it a try when I am free."
“How did it go?”
Seeing the interest on the other party's face, Chen Zhong shook his head and said with a bitter look on his face: "It's difficult, I also heard that Hangzhou Bookstore has used clay to make letterpress. It's so mysterious and mysterious, but I don't know how the clay is fired, so
The villain thought of using wood to carve words, but..."
At this point, Chen Zhong shook his head again.
Zhang Yue smiled slightly when he saw this: "It's because the wooden characters are not carved well."
“The official is right. Could it be that the official knows this movable type?”
The chief was also surprised and said: "Yes, does it mean that Erlang also knows about block printing?"
Zhang Yue smiled and said, "I know a little bit."
Zhang Yue looked at the two of them and said, "Are you brothers?"
“Exactly.”
Zhang Yue said: "The two of us are here to serve as servants, so we will cause more trouble in the future."
“The official is too polite to say this, so I don’t think I should take it seriously.” The two of them saluted at the same time.
The chief of the restaurant didn’t know what Zhang Yue’s fame was.
But Zhang Yue said: "You use wood carvings as letterpress, but the texture of the wood is sparse and dense, and when wet, it becomes uneven, and it sticks to the ink. How can we keep it together? I heard that the craftsman who uses clay as letterpress is named Bi Sheng.
, first the characters were made of wood, and then they were changed to clay.”
After listening to Zhang Yue's words, the two craftsmen were filled with admiration. Chen Zhong then said: "I see, he is really a talented man. If I had known that I would listen to your words, we wouldn't have wasted so much effort on making this wooden typeface.
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That’s not necessarily the case.
Zhang Yue smiled on his face and said: "It's not worth mentioning. I don't know how the clay letterpress in Hangzhou is, but the characters made of clay are easy to break, so if there is no special method, it may not be easy to store."
“Good view, great view.” The two brothers admired Zhang Yue so much that they fell into admiration.
The chief of the village also looked at Zhang Yue with admiration.
"Chief, they just said they had nothing to do. Isn't there a book seal in the county school?"
Zhai Chang sighed: "To be honest, there are only two of them in our county's school of plate making. It takes a long time to engrave a book, so the county's plate makers would rather go to Jianyang."
Zhang Yue said: "I heard that there are both official and private carving workshops in Yongzhongli and Chonghuali, Jianyang. There are hundreds of carving workshops with hundreds of people, and there are hundreds of carving workshops with just a few people, right?"
The two craftsmen smiled and said: "Yes, our Jianyang prison is as famous as Shu and Zhejiang. Our two brothers are both from Jianyang and have been carving books for generations. It was the chief of Zhai who hired us. Came to Pucheng."
Zhang Yue said to the Zhai Chief: "So the official school bookstore belongs to the Zhai Chief?"
The head of the village nodded and said: "The county school carving workshop cannot make ends meet, so I asked the government to buy it. But so far I can't make ends meet, so I decided to buy this t-shirt."
Zhang Yue suddenly realized that it turned out that the chief had relied on this method to enter the county school.
Purchase purchases were very popular in the Song Dynasty.
That is to say, if the government's industry cannot be managed by itself, it will be contracted to the private sector. The private sector will hand it over to the government by promising a certain amount of income for a certain number of years, and then run it on its own.
Zhang Yue said: "If I have a book and ask you to print it, what should I do?"
The chief didn't say anything, but Chen Zhong said: "We brothers have been idle all day, and of course we want to find something to do. If the officials are interested, a hundred dollars per plate will be fine, but I don't know if you will pay for the engraving and ink yourself or Shall we go out?"
Zhang Yue did not agree immediately.
The chief of the restaurant added: "If you think it's expensive, eighty yuan is fine. Their brothers are idle anyway, and they haven't opened in a few months."
Zhang Yue nodded and said immediately: "Zhai Zhang, you two, if you want to make movable wood type, you cannot use jujube wood. Pear wood, which is usually used for engraving, must be jujube wood or poplar wood. After cutting it, you need to use jujube wood." drying."
Chapter Yue doesn't mind. He wants people to learn this knowledge, because these are very simple craftsmanship, and it is easy for others to copy them.
Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty used jujube wood movable type to engrave imperial documents. Of course, this does not mean that jujube wood does not have the disadvantage of swelling and deformation, but it is more suitable for making wooden type than ordinary wood.
This is all based on hundreds of years of practical experience. Folk carvers have studied which kind of wood is more suitable for wooden movable type. But for Zhang Yue, it is very simple. To put it bluntly, it is just a matter of one sentence.
The Chen brothers looked at each other, trying to figure out Zhang Yue's words.
The chief asked: "Is this method feasible?"
The Chen brothers said: "You will know after you try it."
The chief looked at Zhang Yue and smiled and said, "I saw you right, you are really a nimble person. If this method works, I will pay for the ink and engraving money for your book engraving, and you don't need to pay for the printing money in the future."
The county school has private exams every month and public exams every year. The papers used in the exams are printed by the county school bookstore. Each exam requires a paper printing fee. Although it is not much, it can save nearly a year's worth of money.
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“What the chief said is true, the book I want to print is not thin.”
The chief thought for a while and said with a smile: "Since I promised you, there is no reason to break my promise."
Zhang Yue laughed and said, "Zhai Changfang is a refreshing person. It's a pleasure to associate with you."
They both laughed.
A few days later, the Chen brothers successfully trial-produced wooden movable type, which was indeed much more durable than the original wooden type.
And Zhang Yue also wrote the book for publication.
This is a ‘Cheng Wen’ from recent years.
Cheng Wen in the Song Dynasty refers to a formulaic article, that is, the examiner gives a topic and writes an article below, asking students to imitate this article. The article written by the examiner is Cheng Wen.
However, Cheng Wen in the Ming and Qing Dynasties refers to articles written by those who passed the imperial examination in the examination room.
In the Northern Song Dynasty, there was no such concept of Jinshi Ke, and the imperial examination was also a stage of exploration. From the beginning, people studied for themselves, and everyone valued literary words, to later articles that valued flowery ideas but no classics. Yes, this sentence is criticizing
The 'Xikun style' created by Yang Yi, a fellow from Zhangyue Pucheng.
Nowadays, in the Jinshi examination, the writing style is mainly "Taixue style". Taixue style can be said to be specially designed for the imperial examination, and has created a first-class writing style.
The person who created the Taixue style was Shi Jie, because some scholars during the Jingyou period regarded it as a high ranking, so it eventually became popular among Taixue students.
But in the second year of Jiayou's reign, Taixue style was angrily criticized by Ouyang Xiu, who knew Gongju.
For example, Liu Ji, a Taipei student in modern science, wrote an article in the Taixue style, which begins with "The heaven and the earth are rolling, all things are flourishing, and the saints are growing."
Ouyang Xiu immediately dismissed him when he saw it, and sarcastically said, "The scholar stabs, the examiner brushes".
For scholars all over the world, this is a terrible situation.
In the past, scholars who had studied the Taixue style for more than ten years were suddenly hit the bottom. Therefore, no one knows how the imperial examination style will develop after Jiayou passed the imperial examination for two years.
So Zhang Yue personally collected them, and asked Hu Xuezheng to copy the articles that ranked highly in the provincial examinations, including Su Shi's famous "The Theory of Honesty and Honesty in Punishments and Rewards", and immediately published a book called "Huang Song Jia" The book "Articles of Gao Di in the Second Year of You".
This Chengwen represents the latest trend in scientific examinations and can be regarded as a must-read for every Jinshi scholar.
After the book was completed, Zhang Yue personally read it to Xuezheng.
Zhang Yue was a little uneasy at first, but when he saw Xuezheng, he became more and more happy and said: "Ouyang Gong once said, 'Ruthless is like nature, and justice is like weighing'. This statement is true! Today's articles have forgotten the way of education and use coquettishness as the basis. Victory, and Ouyang Gong wanted to sweep away the malaise in the literary world. He followed the example of Han and Liu in promoting the ancient path, determined to follow the ancient path, and took the ancient path as a balance. He can be called the supreme Duke, the supreme Duke!"
“What Xuezheng said is very true. Although the students are students of economics, they also feel that quality is the first priority and the emphasis of literature is second.”
Xuezheng smiled and said: "It's very rare for you to have such an insight as a practitioner. This reminds me of Brother Ling, who also said something like this."
“Yes, how do you plan to sell this book?”
Zhang Yue said: "The cost of printing, ink, engraving, and typesetting is really not small. If you don't lose money, it will cost at least one hundred guan. The student plans to set it at 600 yuan per book. He does not intend to make money, but only intends to popularize the style of writing." , do something to benefit the students in this county.”
Xue Zhengdao: "This is a good thing. You can go ahead and do it. It would be great if every Jinshi science student in this county could have a copy. Every article here can speak for Ouyang Gong about what it means to restore ancient times and respect the past."
Zhang Yue said: "Thank you Xuezheng for your advice. I will try my best to do it."
Immediately Zhang Yue took ten more books and put them on Xuezheng's desk and said: "This is newly printed by the students. The ink color is the latest. The wooden characters on the back are a little cracked, so I took the best one and presented it to Xuezheng. Students send them to their relatives and friends."
Xuezheng flipped through Zhang Yue's book and found that the ink printing was excellent.
This student really knows how to do things.
Xuezheng smiled and said, "Well, I happen to have some use for it, so it would be disrespectful to use it."
Zhang Yue understood that printing a book actually costs nothing. The most important thing is that the engraving is expensive and whether it can be sold.
The book is scheduled to be printed at 600 words each, which is not expensive for a book with more than 10,000 words. Zhang Yue calculated the cost. Ink engraving is free. After deducting the cost of manual typesetting, he only needs to sell 130 copies to recoup it. capital.
So Zhang Yue decided to print two hundred copies to test the waters in his own county. As soon as the news came out, the scholars rushed to buy it, and more than half of it was sold within a few days.
This really made Zhang Yue sigh. What is knowledge is money? In the blink of an eye, more than thirty thousand dollars had been put into his pocket.
At this time, the chief could not stand it anymore. He found Zhang Yue and couldn't sit still. After discussing the profit sharing with Zhang Yue, he printed 500 more copies and sent them to Jianyang for sale.
There are hundreds of bookstores in Jianyang, and if there are bookstores, there must be booksellers. It can be said that booksellers from all over the world gather here. Hundreds of booksellers come here every day. They all buy books from Jianyang and transport them back to various states. Sell.
The people sent by Zhaizhang came back within a few days and told them that the "Emperor Song Jiayou's Second Year Gaodi Articles" had been sold out and asked them to print it immediately.
A few days later, the booksellers in Jianyang could not sit down and came to Pucheng in person to ask for seals. The supply was already in short supply.
Finally, "The Highly Dissertated Articles of Emperor Jiayou of the Second Year of the Song Dynasty" was republished for a time. It was not until the DB book of "The Articles of the Second Year of the Emperor's Jiayou of the Song Dynasty" was rampant in the market throughout Jianyang and Jianzhou that the trend of buying stopped.
