Seeing that there is really no need to read, Grandpa Liu and the three of them were surprised: "Is it that simple?"

"Well, it's that simple." Ye Guoguo said with a little head. "But you have to pay attention when cutting. You can't miss a stroke. You also have to cut the spaces inside the writing. Anyway, only the writing is left, and the edges of the writing are left.

It has to be smooth.”

Only in this way will the printed words be distinct and not look like caterpillars.

Grandpa Liu and all three of them said: "Okay!"

Since the workshop hadn't been built yet, Grandpa Liu and the three of them took the boards back home and carved them behind closed doors. Ye Guoguo planned to print the Four Books and Five Classics first and sell them, so he started carving them, so naturally he carved the Four Books and Five Classics first.

And because among the Four Books and Five Classics, "The Great Learning" has the smallest number of words, Ye Guoguo first tore the book page by page and divided it into three parts, and asked Grandpa Liu, Ji Sandao, and Sister Liu to take one copy each.

carve.

If three people carve a book together, they will finish the book faster.

Then, he divided "The Doctrine of the Mean", which has the second smallest number of words, into three parts...

In other words, among the Four Books and Five Classics, those with fewer words were engraved first, then those with more words.

Originally, Ye Guoguo thought that on the first day of carving, the three of them might not be able to carve much because they were not good at it, but to her surprise, Ji Sandao carved twenty pieces on the first day, and Sister Liu carved

He carved sixteen pieces, and Grandpa Liu carved eleven pieces.

The reason why Grandpa Liu is slower than Ji Sandao and Sister Liu is because he is a little older and his eyesight is not that good. He is afraid of making mistakes and will only start carving after carefully identifying the handwriting. Unlike Ji Sandao and Liu

My sister's eyesight is so good that she can carve it directly.

On the second day, they got better and carved more.

From then on, Ji Sandao could carve thirty or forty yuan a day, Sister Liu could carve more than twenty yuan, and Grandpa Liu could carve nearly twenty yuan.

This block is equivalent to a page of words. Together, they can carve about eighty pages a day.

As long as you carve one piece, you get one yuan of money. It is still five cents, and three people carve it. Even though they carve almost all the time during the day, no one feels that it is hard, and they are very motivated. I wish I could carve it at night when it was not dark.

On the tenth day of May, the workshop was completed.

Calculating, it only took nearly five days to meet Ye Guoguo's expectations. Anyway, Ye Guoguo is very happy.

The labor was paid on the spot, and together with other expenses incurred in the workshop, the total cost was a little over twenty taels of silver.

But it was already afternoon when it was finished. Ji Jingbai and Ye Guoguo were not in a hurry to let Ji Sandao and the others go to the workshop to carve. Instead, they moved all the wooden boards from home to the workshop first.

A large room was chosen to store wooden boards; another large room was chosen to store carved wooden boards, that is, engravings.

The storage of engravings will naturally be classified, so that no matter which book is to be printed, all the engravings of the book can be quickly taken out and printed.

As for Ji Shan and the twenty men, as soon as they had paid their wages and saw that they had nothing to do with them, they went down the mountain and went home. They did not see the scene of Ji Jingbai and Ye Guoguo carrying wooden boards to the workshop later.

However, when walking down the mountain and passing by the terraced fields, a man rolled his eyes and hurried to Ji Shan's side with a playful smile: "Village Chief, I want to discuss something with you."

"What?" Ji Shan looked at him.

The man laughed along and said: "Many people in our village actually want to go up the mountains to open up wasteland, but they are all hindered by the lack of water. Village chief, you are Jingbai's uncle. Can you go and tell Jingbai and Jingbai's wife?
Chapter completed!