Just as he said, Li Mu asked Li Chongyi and Dugujiu to go to the Ministry of Industry and the Zhongshu Provincial Department respectively, and found Bi Laosan and Tang Guan.
The current Datang Daily is divided into two parts in structure. One part is in the Zhongshu Provincial Department, written by Tang Guan, and the Zhongshu Provincial Department is responsible for review and supervision. It belongs to the type of "official publication". And such as advertisements, stories, gossip,
The Zhulu Hou Mansion has the final say. Bi Laosan is only responsible for printing. Every day, before the sun goes down, the content that needs to be printed will be provided to Bi Laosan. At night, it is the time for the printing supervisors and craftsmen to work.
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Li Mu has not been involved in the affairs of Datang Daily for a long time. If Wang Ou hadn't mentioned the advertisement today, he might not have remembered it. But now that he has remembered it, it is logical to integrate it and establish Datang Daily.
Something happened.
Integration is a very simple matter, because the printing supervisor has been moved to the craftsman's workshop. Bi Laosan is also a ninth-grade official of the Ministry of Industry. When Li Muxian started printing, the printing supervisor proposed to be established has now been officially included in the work.
In the official position system of the Ministry.
After moving to the craftsman's workshop, the printing supervisor expanded the scale and hired a dozen more people. Bi Laosan now has twenty people under his command. In the one-third-acre land of the printing supervisor, he is the largest. He arranges things every day and teaches
Skills have naturally formed the demeanor of a superior. Now Bi Laosan is no longer the submissive person he used to be, and he also has a bit of official authority, but this refers to facing the craftsmen. When he comes to Li Mu, he does not dare at all.
Arrogant.
For people like Bi Laosan, what Li Mu changed was their destiny. This was a 'favour', and, as they were both craftsmen, the longer they followed Li Mu, the more they realized how powerful Li Mu was.
In this era, it is already very difficult for ordinary people to learn a craft and master it. As for Li Mu, he can do almost everything. He can be a carpenter, a bricklayer, a carver, and a blacksmith.
The two beasts were also chiseled out by him with his own hands.
The Ministry of Industry has gathered craftsmen from all over the world, and they have all kinds of crafts, but they can't find anything that Li Mu doesn't know. It seems that he can learn and master all the skills as long as he takes a look at them.
The most frightening thing is that Li Mu never makes mistakes.
Youdao is for laymen to see the fun, and for experts to see the door. Craftsmen all know how difficult it is to make two things exactly the same. It is almost impossible. But everything made by Li Mu is above the same level.
The two beasts at the entrance of the Ministry of Industry's official office are an example. They can be chiseled out exactly the same with a chisel. What kind of monsters are they?
Part of the admiration for Li Mu in the Ministry of Industry stems from this. Everyone has something they are proud of, and the thing craftsmen are proud of is naturally their craftsmanship. When someone appears, you will spend your whole life doing it.
When the level of admiration cannot be reached, admiration will naturally arise.
The same goes for Tang Guan.
Originally he was not convinced by Li Mu, otherwise he would not have deliberately caused trouble by inciting Kong Yingda to find trouble with Li Mu. But after experiencing many things, he has transformed into a complete fanboy. What Li Mu said, to him
It's like an imperial edict.
When he heard that Li Mu said that he would set up a Datang Daily newspaper near the official office of the Ministry of Industry and expand its scale, Tang Guan suddenly became energetic and said excitedly: "Brother, I agree with this proposal! You don't know, I am the only one
How difficult it is for people to work so hard to maintain Datang Daily! From writing to proofreading, I do it all by myself. What a shame those masters from the Hongwen Hall in the past still said they were ignorant and incompetent? How many of them did they teach like me?
An unlearned student?"
Changsun Chong couldn't stand listening anymore and said: "Tang Guan, I have heard about your reputation in Chongwen Hall. Among the students in Hongwen Hall, you have always been at the bottom, right? If you weren't lucky, you would have such a
Brother, let me see you..."
Tang looked at Changsun Chong and wanted to retort, but reason told him that he was the heir apparent and he was just a son. There was a huge difference in status. If his elder brother were here, he might be able to argue with Changsun Chong, but what about him?
...That’s a bit off. Otherwise, why would someone study at Chongwen School and he at Hongwen School?
"Snapped!"
Li Mu suddenly slapped the table, startling the two of them.
"Chang Sun Chong! You dare to talk about my little brother? Let me tell you! What my little brother just said is absolutely right! He is now a talent, a talent a hundred times more than ordinary Hongwen Hall students! What's the use of studying well? You have to learn
Do you understand? If you study with books, you may not be able to become an official. My little brother is now a ninth-grade imperial minister. What position do you hold?"
"I..." Changsun Chong wanted to say that I didn't want to be an official. If I wanted to be an official, based on my family background, I would have to start at least as a sixth-grade official! But before he could say anything, he
He was interrupted by Li Mu: "What are you? You damn fat man. If you weren't the son of Duke Zhao, you would be a waste!"
"I'm not a waste!" No matter how good-tempered Changsun Chong was, he was anxious to be called a waste. He glared and said, "You don't want to accept me as your apprentice, so you don't have to insult me, right? Why am I a waste?"
Li Mu sneered and said, "Well, tell me, aside from being the son of Changsun Wuji, what else do you have left with everything you have now?"
"I..." Changsun Chong was a little confused. For a moment, he really couldn't think of anything.
"The world respects you and treats you with courtesy, just like me. I can talk to you patiently because of your father's sake. If you were not the eldest son of Zhao Guogong, I would have beaten you long ago just because you followed me endlessly.
.Don’t you have any idea?”
Changsun Chong opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything. He couldn't bear such insult anymore, so he stood up and prepared to leave.
"stop!"
Changsun Chong stood still but did not look back. His voice was choked and he said: "You have already degraded me like dirt, what more unpleasant words are there to say?"
"You misunderstood me. I am not disparaging you, but telling you a fact. My real intention is to inspire you and make you successful. Do you want to live in this world? The greatest achievement is
Do you want to inherit your father's title after a hundred years? Don't you want to leave a mark in the history books?"
Changsun Chong was startled, and everyone who heard this sentence was a little startled.
Li Mu continued: "I've done it! The Zhenguan plow can double the efficiency of farming, and people without more arrogance can cultivate fields. Based on this, when future generations write history, they will definitely mention me. But
I haven't stopped, I'm researching new things every day, what am I doing for? Is it to make money?"
"No! Absolutely not!"
"Money is like floating clouds to me, and I regard money as dung! Everything I do is to prove my worth, to make the country stronger because of me, and to make the people richer because of me. This is how I, Li Mu, exist in the world.
Meaning. And you, Changsun Chong. How vulgar and dirty are your thoughts? Is it so difficult to recognize the excellence of others? Tang Guan may have been an unlearned student in the past, but today he is the best in my country.
Editor, the manuscripts he wrote are read by thousands of people in Chang'an every day, letting the people know the government's decrees and major events in the country? Compared with him, just like Kong Yingda and others, how many people read their articles?
“Excuse me, if you put all the students from Hongwen Hall, Chongwen Hall, and Imperial College together, how many people would there be in Chang’an?”
Changsun Chong cannot argue with this, and this is indeed the case. Before Datang Daily, books were as good as heirlooms. If a family had a collection of books, they would treasure them very much and not show them to others easily. How could they educate the people?
But Tang Guan was so happy that he didn't expect that he was so great, and his back immediately straightened up. The most important thing is that next time someone says that he is ignorant and incompetent, he will have something to say.
Changsun Chong was silent for a while, turned around, bowed and apologized to Tang Guan: "I just made a mistake."
"Oops..." Tang Guan was startled. He didn't expect Changsun Chong to apologize to him. He was the eldest son of Zhao Guogong! He subconsciously reached out to help him. At this time, Li Mu coughed, and Tang Guan retracted his extended hand.
When he came back, he cleared his throat and said reservedly: "It's easy to say. Knowing your mistakes can make a lot of improvements. I forgive you."
Li Mu raised his hand and knocked him, and scolded him with a smile: "You even dragged Wen, okay, this matter has been exposed. I will discuss the recruitment of people in the newspaper with His Majesty before proceeding. You two first discuss tomorrow's recruitment
Things are done, Bi Laosan." Li Mu looked at Bi Laosan, who had been silent, and Bi Laosan said hurriedly: "Master Hou, the little one is here."
"You are an official now. You can no longer call yourself a junior. You have to call yourself a lower official... It seems wrong to be a lower official. I am no longer the minister of the Ministry of Industry." Li Mu paused and said: "Well, you can call yourself 'a lower official'."
I', we have no distinction between superiority and inferiority."
"How can this be possible?" Bi Laosan said in fear: "Master Hou treats me like my parents again. No matter what, I don't dare to be so rebellious."
He is a grateful person!
Li Mu said happily: "It's a good thing that the conversation is getting longer. Okay, the names and so on are just trivial matters. It's serious if you do things well. Has the printing supervisor made any progress in his skills recently?"
"Reporting to the Marquis, I was about to talk to him. Recently, craftsmen have tried a lot of materials for carving mahjong. A craftsman accidentally discovered that using clay to carve characters, each character is printed, and then hardened by fire.
The clay movable type has better printing effect and is more durable than the wooden movable type and stone movable type used before."
Li Mu just asked casually, but he didn't expect to get something unexpected.
He recalled the history textbooks he had learned in middle school. It seemed that the movable type printing technology invented by Bi used clay movable type. As expected, working people are the source of progress through long-term practice and research. Li Mu was overjoyed and said: "Bring this craftsman here tomorrow."
Meet me at my mansion and bring his clay calligraphy. If it is true as you say, I will be richly rewarded!"