"Master Marquis, please come back, you cannot leave the house."
"I'm going to supervise the work. This is His Majesty's order. Do you deserve to be punished if I delay you?"
"The ban is also an order from His Majesty. Lord Marquis, please come back."
"..."
This was the seventh time that Li Mu tried to leave the mansion but was blocked by the Forbidden Army. After Li Shimin's decree was issued, a group of Forbidden Army came that day and guarded the front and rear doors of Zhuluhou Mansion. No one was allowed to come in and out, except Li Mu.
, it is absolutely impossible to get out.
In his two lifetimes, Li Mu finally got a taste of what it's like to be in jail, not to mention how uncomfortable it is. Strange to say, in his previous life, Li Mu could be considered a homebody. If he didn't have to go to work and had food and drink, he could stay at home until the end of time.
He didn't feel any discomfort, but after coming to Tang Dynasty and staying at home for only three days, he felt a little unable to sit still, and he couldn't figure out why.
Li Mu returned to the back house, fell down on the deck chair in the yard, swaying slightly, staring at the clouds in the sky in a daze. Bai Qiaoqiao brought Li Zhien to the front, and Li Mu glanced at them and said, "I'm sorry.
There’s no need to say any more. If you’re sorry, go make me something delicious.”
"Yeah!" Bai Qiaoqiao happily agreed, but Li Zhien was about to cry because she couldn't cook. Li Mu gave her a sideways glance and said, "Can't you cook?"
"Hmm..." Li Zhien lowered his head and responded slowly.
"Then why don't you go learn it?!"
"Oh, oh, I'm going to study right now."
After sending away his wife and the troublesome maid, Li Mu became bored again. Before he was grounded, he went out early in the morning every day. After a day of wandering, he still had the energy to knock and improve his forging proficiency.
. But he suddenly had some free time and had time to upgrade him. He suddenly became lazy and fell on the recliner without wanting to do anything. He only had one thought in his head: he wanted to leave the house and be free!
"Boss, Mr. Yuwen is here." Li Chongyi came over and said. Li Mu opened his eyes and said lazily: "What is he here for?"
"You asked him to find a craftsman who could carve. He found one and is waiting in the lobby."
"Ah, yes!" Li Mu remembered. That day he thought of a good way to avoid practicing calligraphy, printing!
When Li Mu was working on the game "Heroes of the Tang Dynasty" before, although he was responsible for data balance, he also read some information about the background setting of the game. One of them was about printing. Because he saw
The content surprised him, so he remembered it deeply.
Printing was invented during the Tang Dynasty and was commonly used in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. The earliest engraving discovered is a single page of Sanskrit Dharani sutras and mantras, which were engraved in the Wu Zetian period. In other words, there was no such thing as printing in the early Tang Dynasty.
.
This surprised Li Mu. In his subconscious, printing was a very basic thing. It was such a simple thing to find a wooden board, carve the words on it, apply ink on it, brush it with a piece of paper and print it.
How could it be possible that it didn’t even exist during the Tang Dynasty?
But the fact is that there is not.
Another thing that surprised Li Mu was the evolution of block printing, movable type printing. After block printing was invented in the middle Tang Dynasty, it took nearly three hundred years before people realized that they didn’t need to engrave every time they printed.
On a board, you can carve single characters one by one and then arrange and combine them. It took ancient people nearly three hundred years to accumulate and summarize something that seemed so simple to later generations. This made Li Mu somewhat incomprehensible.
But perhaps the progress of human civilization is like this. Sometimes it needs an opportunity, and then it will lead to rapid development. This is like modern times, in three hundred years, people can fly into space, but in the previous three thousand years, human beings can fly into space.
We all live the same life. It's like a piece of window paper. Unless you pierce it, you will never be able to see the scene inside the window.
In order to be lazy, Li Mu thought of printing. And he decided to do it in one step and directly develop movable type printing. He asked Yu Wengui to hire several craftsmen who were good at engraving, and planned to carve a set of commonly used movable type.
Yu Wengui hired stone carving craftsmen, and Li Mu asked them to use hardwood to carve. Although the materials were different, they quickly got started. They didn't understand the reason why Li Mu asked them to carve characters, and Li Mu didn't explain much.
From a thousand-character book, each of them was asked to tear out a page and carve it. After carving, they would tear off another page and pay ten cents for each word. The craftsmen were very happy. With their carving speed, they could carve at least two hundred words a day.
Words, who can not be happy after getting two pieces of money?
Li Mu squatted aside and watched, secretly amazed in his heart. We really cannot underestimate the ability of the ancient working people. Take these craftsmen for example. They can't read, but the characters they carved are exactly the same as the fonts on the Thousand-Character Inscription. This
Li Mu admires this ability, at least he certainly can't do it himself.
"Boss, the general is here and he brings two people with him."
"Two people?"
Li Mu's heart moved, and he quickly got up and ran to the lobby. He heard Li Shimin's voice in the distance, secretly thinking that he had indeed quickened his pace.
"I'm late to welcome you, and I hope your Majesty will forgive me." Li Mu bowed and saluted. Li Shimin was originally happy, but when he saw Li Mu coming, his face immediately dropped, and he snorted and said: "Zhuluhou is so big.
How majestic, hanging the eldest son of the Bolingcui family on the street and whipping him, it is indeed domineering."
Li Mu heard Li Shimin's teasing intention, but he still cooperated with the acting and said: "Your Majesty, let me argue, there is a reason..."
"Stop it! Stop arguing. I'm too lazy to listen to you." When Li Shimin heard the words 'Rong Chen argued', the scene where Li Mu made Kong Yingda faint that day appeared in his mind, and his ears were buzzing.
Xiang, who really didn't want to hear it, said: "I already know what happened. If there were no extenuating circumstances, why would I only punish you with a ten-day grounding?" After that, Li Shimin gestured to Changsun Wuji next to him and said:
"You have to thank Mr. Zhao Guo. He has said a lot of good things for you."
Li Mu quickly saluted Changsun Wuji and said, "Thank you so much, Lord, for your kind words."
Changsun Wuji smiled and said: "I just stated the truth, no need to thank you. It's just that you have to be calmer in your actions in the future and don't be so reckless again."
"My nephew knows."
Li Shimin said: "Don't say any polite words. I came today to hear from Mr. Mao that you have made the new plow. I want to see if it can be doubled as you said.
efficiency."
Li Shimin had many things to do every day, so he would not come to the courtier's home for no reason. However, the matter of the new plow was related to the foundation of the country, and Li Shimin was very concerned about it. And Li Mu was under confinement and could not enter the palace to demonstrate for him, so Li Shimin only then
Come here. If Li Mu messes up, the consequences can be imagined.
Fortunately, Li Mu was already prepared. Hearing this, he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I have indeed made a set. Please move to my studio and let me demonstrate it for you."