The Royal’s Little Lady Chapter 111: Movable type printing

Why doesn’t Chu Yingying know this truth? She is just a little girl from the countryside. Even if she has a novel idea and can make a lot of money, in the eyes of those powerful people, she is no different from an ant that can be easily crushed to death.

Oh, there may be a slight difference. She is much larger than the ant, and she has to worry about collecting the body, while the ant does not.

"What should we do!" Si Chen looked around anxiously, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "How about we go find my mother? Maybe my mother can do something?"

"I have a solution." Chu Yingying suddenly relaxed, and Si Chen hurriedly asked, "What solution?"

In such a short period of time, I don’t know what good solution Sister Yingying can come up with.

Chu Yingying took Sichen's cold little hand and slowly walked out, "It's not convenient to talk here, let's go back to my house first."

"Okay."

When I was checking out downstairs, the hall was noisy, and many people were talking about the same thing——

"Oh, Mr. Liang is just different. His hobbies are different from ours."

"Who says it's not the case? You actually performed the courtesy of Duke Zhou in the teahouse. I said, boss, how much did you charge Mr. Liang? Do you want Mr. Liang to treat your private room as the Qin Tower and the Chu Pavilion?"

Everyone laughed and clapped the table in great joy.

Chu Yingying's expression changed, she covered Si Chen's ears and hurried out. But Si Chen is no longer a child, and he understands some things, especially since he just heard the conversation between Chu Changpei and Liang Qiming.

She was very worried about Chu Yingying, "Sister Yingying, you still have to find a way to deal with Chu Changpei's matter, otherwise it will affect your and Sister Fenfen's reputation."

Because she was close to Chu Yingying and knew Chu Changpei's personality, she never called her sister-in-law, she always called her by her first name.

Although Si Chen is a villain, what he said is very reasonable. These days, one girl in the family has a bad reputation, and no girl in the family can get married! Even those who get married may be divorced!

Chu Yingying nodded: "Don't worry, I have a solution."

Perhaps because she had thought of a countermeasure, Chu Yingying was in a good mood. The two of them went to buy a lot of things together, but they were given back as usual.

After returning home, Chu Yingying handed Si Chen to Chu Fenfen and then got into the kitchen.

Half an hour later, Chu Yingying came in with two pots of milk tea, and there were several plates with red beans and pearls beside them.

"Come on, you guys have a taste. If you like red beans or pearls, just put them in yourself." Chu Yingying was worried that everyone has different tastes, so she deliberately didn't add them in. "This pot of milk tea is original, and this pot of milk tea is rose. Tasty."

It's a pity that there are no paper cups here. Otherwise, I would buy some exquisite paper cups to make it more romantic.

No, she will look back and see if she can open her own glass factory and make different glass cups. Thinking of those beautiful modern glasses, Chu Yingying felt itchy. When the research comes out, selling milk tea by yourself will definitely be more popular!

Everyone in the room, except Yan Junyi, prefers rose-flavored milk tea with pearls and red beans.

Yes, Yan Junyi would come here in the afternoons during this period to teach Chu Xiaotian how to read and write, and he seemed to enjoy it.

Seeing Yan Junyi, Chu Yingying suddenly remembered something important. She quietly raised her buttocks, moved the stool to Yan Junyi, tilted her head and asked him: "Brother Yan, what do you want? Don’t want to open a printing shop together?”

"Printing shop?" Yan Junyi said calmly, "The right to print books and periodicals is in the hands of the court. Do you have someone in the court who can help you get the right to print books and periodicals?"

Chu Yingying looked confused.

What the hell? Printing books and periodicals also requires a license from the court?

Yan Junyi calmly carried out science popularization: "Book printing is not easy, and ordinary people cannot afford it. This is why the price of books has been so high for so many years. And running a country requires literati, and literati who want to obtain fame naturally need books. In this way , how could the court hand over the right to print books and periodicals to others?"

"Huh?"

Chu Yingying's heart dropped when she heard this, her expression was gloomy, she pouted her mouth and murmured: "It's a pity that I thought of movable type printing."

Although she was exposed to movable type printing in her previous life, she did not understand it in detail, so she only knew the surface. But she didn't know what happened during this time. It was as if she had developed a super brain buff, so everything she had come into contact with had specific information in her mind.

After several nights of careful meditation, she had "remembered" a simple and easy movable type printing method.

"What is movable type printing?" Yan Jun's eyes were confused for a moment, but then he regained his clarity, and a rare expression of surprise appeared on his face, "You mean, movable characters?"

Since this way of making money was not feasible, Chu Yingying didn't care if she needed to keep it a secret. She nodded lightly, looking listless like an eggplant beaten by frost, wilting!

"Yes, the current printing technology all uses fixed type plates. Every time a page of words is printed, it must be scrapped and re-engraved~IndoMTL.com~ This is too slow and wasteful. This is The fundamental reason why books are expensive."

The printing technique used in this dynasty was still engraving printing. The so-called engraving printing means that after the manuscript is written, the side with the words is pasted on the board to engrave the words. The engraver uses different forms of The carving knife carves the traditional Chinese characters on the wooden board into raised characters, and at the same time removes the blank spaces on the wooden board, and then rinses it with hot water to make it more rigid.

After that, there is a series of complex processes such as brushing ink, brushing paper, and covering the paper on the board. Not to mention the complexity of the process, this painstakingly carved layout will soon be useless.

"Can you tell me in more detail?" Yan Jun's eyes were as bright as stars, and he asked eagerly for knowledge.

Chu Yingying pursed her lips and said only one sentence: "Actually, based on woodblock printing, the single characters are selected, arranged and then printed with ink. After the printing is completed, the character molds are removed and the characters can be printed. Use it next time."

"Wonderful!" Yan Jun was overjoyed and clapped his hands to celebrate excitedly, "In this way, the price of books can be greatly reduced! This is a good deed that benefits the country and the people!"

Although he has never experienced the pain of expensive books, along the way, he has also seen that many people cannot afford books at all. At the beginning, most poor students practiced calligraphy on a sand table, which was very difficult. As for books, I could only copy three copies in the bookstore and get one in my hand.

If this movable type printing technology can be popularized all over the world, why worry about students not being able to study?

"No matter how good it is, it's useless. I'm just a little village girl. How can I get the right to print books and periodicals?" Chu Yingying rolled her eyes and started talking casually.

Yan Junyi took a deep look at her and asked her with a smile: "If I can help you get the right to print books and periodicals from Yueyang City Mansion, will you be willing to hand over this movable type printing technology to the imperial court?"