Chapter 892 Printing houses and movable type printing
On November 20, the fourth year of Tianxuan, Qu Mao summoned Meng De, Minister of Industry, and Zhong Mou, Minister of Science and Technology, and had long chats with the two ministers respectively, and had a full understanding of the current work progress of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Science and Technology. Of course, Qu Mao was very pleased with the work of the two new ministers.
The day passed quickly, but Qu Mao didn't plan to spend time in the lord's hut doing some chatting and brainwashing work. Instead, he called Meng De and Zhong Mou who were still busy in the Yiping Inn early in the morning. The Minister went straight to the Dry Island Printing House.
The three of them, under the **** of 50 fifth-tier court guards, rode war horses through the underground passage to Gandao, and Su Buqing also accompanied them.
On the way, the three of them did not run wildly, so Qu Mao asked Minister of Industry Meng De and Minister of Science and Technology Zhong Mou about the printing technology currently used by Gandao Printing Factory.
In fact, the printing factory in the Holy Land of Yicheng Territory was established and gradually flourished after Qumao started to set up elementary schools, middle schools and universities. At present, Gandao Printing Factory and Liandao Printing Factory mainly print books written by teachers of various schools. The textbooks are the main task, and other printed materials are basically not involved.
Although Zhong Mou and Meng De have just become the ministers of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Industry of Yicheng Territory, as veteran heroes of Yicheng Territory, these two people are very familiar with the technological and industrial development of Yicheng Territory, and they have devoted themselves to it after taking office In the corresponding field, facing Qu Mao's question, both of them talked with eloquence.
Hearing Meng De and Zhong Mou introduce that the main technology of Gandao Printing Factory is woodblock printing, Qu Mao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief deep in his heart.
The so-called engraving printing is to reversely engrave the content to be printed on a wooden board, then sprinkle ink on it and then print on paper. It is a very primitive printing process.
Qu Mao breathed a sigh of relief because he went straight to the printing factory. Qu Mao’s purpose was to copy movable type printing from another world. Mao believes that he can still get a lot of cheating points.
The group of people finally came to the printing factory. Meng De and Zhongmou contacted the director of the printing factory and led Qu Mao to visit the printing factory workshop. Qu Mao did see the technicians in the engraving workshop earnestly carving woodblocks.
After visiting all the processes, Qu Mao asked the director of the printing factory to select four of the most skilled engraving technicians to come and accept his questioning.
The director of the printing factory did not know Qu Mao's intentions, but Meng De and Zhongmou urged the director of the printing factory to follow Qu Mao's instructions, and soon four of the most skilled engraving technicians from Gandao Printing Factory came to a conference room .
Four senior engraving technicians each brought a piece of their favorite engraving block to the meeting room. Qu Mao looked at the full-page engraving block in the hands of the four engraving technicians one by one, and asked: "Several masters, what do you think?" He is the master with the highest engraving skills in Gandao Printing Factory, does the engraving of this kind of woodblock have a high error rate?"
An engraving technician replied: "My lord, the more experienced a craftsman is, the lower the error rate will be. For the four of us, the chance of making mistakes is already very small, but it is impossible to completely rule out the possibility of not making mistakes.
Of course, in order to reduce the error rate of engraving, the factory is currently taking measures to copy the reverse side of the content on the master plate in advance, and then the technician will engrave the block according to the handwriting, which can greatly reduce the error rate. "
Qu Mao nodded, looked at the engraving block in his hand several times, and asked: "If each character is engraved on a plate, can it be done? Just as big as the font on this engraving block."
As long as you provide a character-sized plate, we will definitely be able to engrave it. However, based on your understanding of plate making, my lord, your request should not be difficult to achieve. "
Qu Mao smiled and said: "It is enough to carve a single character into a board, I will write a paragraph, you bring your own tools, and carve it for me on the spot.
The factory manager went to inform the plate-making process to make a plate according to the current size of a word, and make 50 small plates. We will try it on site. "
After finishing speaking, Qu Mao took out a pen and paper, and wrote a sentence, which was only 20 characters in total, and asked four engraving technicians to quickly carve the 20 characters on a small wood block.
The small wooden blocks did not take half an hour to be processed. Four senior engraving technicians worked together, and all 20 characters were carved in less than five minutes.
Qu Mao found four small wooden strips to form a hollow frame, arranged 20 individual character boards in the order of the words he wrote, and then filled the blank space of the wooden frame with blank boards.
Then, Qu Mao smiled and said: "Meng De, Zhong Mou, do you see that? The sentence I wrote just now can be printed directly, and the efficiency is easier than engraving the whole page, right?
Of course, a 20-character sentence is definitely not particularly obvious. If it is a 100,000-word textbook, the efficiency can be improved several times at least. "
Both Meng De and Zhong Mou looked straight, and the ones who were more excited were the director of the printing factory and the four senior engraving technicians. can be clearly perceived.
Qu Mao had actually been prompted by the cheating system, knowing that he had succeeded in copying movable type printing from another world, and the cheating system rewarded 1000 cheating points at once.
1000 cheating points are now a drop in the bucket for Qu Mao, but the problem is that as long as the printing factory continues to use movable type printing, the cheating points will continue to be generated.
Qu Mao continued: "If you are worried that the movable type plate will move during printing and affect the printing quality, you can use an iron sheet as the base, burn rosin to stick the movable type plate, and then heat it after printing to take out the movable type plate and reuse it."
Zhong Mou and Meng De saw Qu Mao revolutionize a technology without using it for three hours in the printing factory, and their eyes widened instantly, not knowing what to say.
Zhong Mou sighed: "My lord, it seems that my subordinates were a little impulsive when I suggested to you yesterday afternoon. Your lord does have amazing technology. With you here, why worry about the technological development of our Yicheng territory?"
Qu Mao smiled and said: "I don't have much time to stay in the Holy Land. In the short term, we still have to focus on the main continental war. This time we see what can be reformed, so we will carry out on-site reforms. We still need to consult you in the future." Overall planning and operation, to give full play to all the scientific research strength of the territory."
Zhong Mou quickly nodded and said, "Yes, my lord! This subordinate will definitely live up to your expectations."
(end of this chapter)