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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.
Chapter completed!