This...? Yang Qian was stunned, and quickly returned to the workshop, found the carpenter just now, and ordered him to immediately re-make several sets of wooden boxes, wooden frames, rollers and stylus pens like the ones just now, no one is too few, no nine are too few

If there are too many, these things need to be made in a big way. The more, the better!

There are also stylus and smooth metal plates. Fu Xuechen used blunt awls and bronze mirrors to modify them. In fact, it doesn’t have to be so troublesome. You can just find a blacksmith workshop to customize them! By the way, there is also wax paper, which must be made new.

A large number of them came out, and they also had to add the outer frame lines and grid lines drawn on the wax paper in advance as Fu Xuechen said. All the frame lines must be of the same size...

Seeing that the sky was getting dark and it was already past the time for the next shift, Yang Qian had no intention of going home. He excitedly ordered his craftsmen to do their work, eager to give him the new set of printing equipment invented by Fu Xuechen.

Get a big batch out.

Fortunately, when there was a rush to work, the craftsmen had to work late at night, and at such times, the workshop was in charge of the food. Since the boss had an order, they just followed it, and no one protested.

, these days no one has the idea that they can’t work overtime for nothing.

Yang Qian asked the kitchen of the workshop to bring him a dinner, and then went straight into the office where the workshop was located, spread out his paper and pen, and started to write a report. This matter is too big! It must be informed immediately.

The superior knows!

It would be best to make one or two more sets tomorrow, and submit the report to the Ministry of Works together with the report, and then the chief officer of the Ministry of Works will report it to the Holy One. This is a technological change that will last for a long time. If the Holy One knows about it, he will definitely be very happy, and he will be rewarded when the time comes.

, everyone at the Ministry of Industry will benefit immensely.

Of course, Yang Qian is not the kind of person who takes credit from others. The equipment was invented by the Fu family boy. Even if the other person is young and underage, he will still praise the child solidly in his report.

Report his achievements truthfully.

The writer wrote the report in a short while, and dinner was just delivered. Yang Qian finished the meal in a happy mood, and hurriedly left the office and entered the workshop. He wanted to take a look at everyone's food.

How is the progress? Has the equipment been produced?

There is a separate space at this end of the workshop, where several craftsmen are busy.

In addition to the original carpenter, there are two more carpenters here. They all follow the old carpenter and learn to make rollers and matching new wooden frames for printing. In addition, there is also a blacksmith workshop.

At the same time, the production of refills and iron plates for stylus pens was started, and the papermaking workshop was also ordered to trial-produce a new type of plaid wax paper.

Pen refills are the best to make. At this moment, people from the blacksmith workshop have sent a few pen refills here. The carpenters put a set of pen refills on the pre-drilled pen holders and then modified them.

After some gluing, several more stylus pens were made.

Yang Qian followed Fu Xuechen's example and wrote on the wax paper with a stylus. He was not used to using these things and scratched several pieces of wax paper before he could barely master the strength of the pen. He wrote a poem on the wax paper with the iron hook and silver strokes.

The words, about a hundred or so, occupy only a small space in the middle of the wax paper.

The font is only about the size of your thumb. Yang Qian also wants to write big characters, but unfortunately the stylus has such a small nib and cannot write big characters.

I took the newly made wooden box, put the white paper on it, then hooped the wax paper, closed the frame, dipped the roller in pine ink, rolled the wax paper in the wooden frame back and forth twice, and opened the wood.

The frame, the white paper at the top of the box, successfully printed the poem I just wrote.

Yang Qian was such a big man and his beard was almost gray. He was holding a newly acquired piece of printed paper and staring at the poems carved by his own hands. He looked left and right, grinning like a child, and he was so happy that he couldn't find the direction.

He was a literati, and his favorite thing was to deal with words. Together with his classmates and friends, he also published several poetry collections, but these collections of poetry were all handed over to bookshops for printing. The craftsmen in the printing workshop could only print their works.

The poems and words were neatly carved on lead or pottery boards, which was very different from the calligraphy written by literati like them, and could not be called the art of calligraphy at all.

But this wax paper printing is different. Although writing with a stylus cannot fully reflect the unique stroke changes of calligraphy, it can finally fully imprint the structure and style of Yang Qian's own writing, which is amazing!

Think about it, with such convenient wax paper printing, literati who originally did not know how to engrave reverse characters, as long as they can write, can easily print as many books as they want, and even want to copy their own paintings.

It seems easy, what kind of earth-shaking changes are these?!

There are also many prefectures and county offices, which always have many notices, notices, sea fishing documents and the like, which need to be copied and distributed in large quantities. And there is always a new demand for this type of writing, so it is not worth engraving for it every time.

Printing, so that officials at the upper and lower levels of the government were often busy copying official documents.

If you have this wax paper printing equipment, you only need to mark one copy of all official documents, and then print as many copies as you want. Even if you need to print hundreds of copies, it only takes half an hour. This can save everyone a lot.

of time and energy!

Yang Qian was thinking happily when he suddenly caught a glimpse of the trembling Master Liu from the corner of his eye, looking like he was hesitating to speak behind him.

"Huh? Old Liutou, what do you want to say? Just say it." Yang Qian asked proactively in a good mood.

Master Liu looked hesitant, opened and closed his mouth a few times, and finally gritted his teeth and looked up at Yang Qian: "My lord, I just want to ask, is there still a need for engraving in the future? We all can only

It's just a carving, isn't it...is it..."

He didn't dare to ask further, but Yang Qian was stunned for a moment and immediately understood what he meant.

Indeed, with such a convenient printing process, it seems that printing does not require so many engravings. From this point of view, the printing workshop that originally required hundreds of people may have to lay off many craftsmen. This industry is about to face the crisis.

With the coming subversive blow, many craftsmen are facing unemployment...

Yang Qian's mind was spinning rapidly, and he replied after a long while: "You can rest assured for the time being. The printing workshop of the Ministry of Industry is also responsible for printing the historical records compiled by the imperial dynasty. The text must be unified.

Yes, woodblock printing must continue and will not be abandoned."

"Yes, yes!" Master Liu was very happy when he heard this.

Yang Qian fell silent, and his previous happiness was a little less. The craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry did not need to worry. I am afraid that other printing workshops in the world will no longer retain the labor-intensive, time-consuming and costly engraving printing. What they pursue is

It's profit. If you can use the convenient and low-cost wax paper printing method, how can you still spend high costs to make engravings and support so many engraving craftsmen?!

It is conceivable that once the new printing method spreads all over the world, the printing industry will immediately be an earthquake. Countless craftsmen will lose their jobs, and countless people who rely on woodblock printing will have to change their jobs and find another way to make a living...

However, Yang Qian did not want to stop the progress of this matter. After all, compared to the social problem of a large number of people being unemployed, the development benefits and positive impacts that convenient printing technology can bring to the world are much more profound and far-reaching.
Chapter completed!