Chapter 382: Establishing newspapers and movable type printing technology.

"Pooh!"

"Wugui's family can write such things, how can he meet people when he is spreading it?"

"You can think of it!" Li Xiuning gave Li Mu a blank look and said angrily.

"She doesn't have to use her real name to write these things, she can give her a pseudonym."

"This pseudonym means using a fake name."

"If someone discovers it, it can be said that these things are written by xxx. What does it have to do with my Changsun Wugui?" Li Mu explained to the two.

"Wugui, don't listen to him!" Li Xiuning said to Changsun Wugui.

"Xiu Ning, I'm idle at home all day, I really want to try it!" said Changsun Wugui.

After hearing Changsun Wugui say this, Li Xiuning couldn't help feeling guilty.

The Changsun family moved to Taiyuan, and Changsun Wugui stayed to accompany her. However, now that she got married, Changsun Wugui was left alone.

"If you want!"

"Then try it!" Li Xiuning responded.

Li Xiuning still respects Changsun Wugui's own opinions very much.

"General, I'm willing to try it!" Changsun Wugui replied.

"That's great. I can't find a suitable candidate for a while. Please wait for two days first. When I complete the preliminary preparations, I will send someone to notify you!" Li Mu said to Changsun Wugui.

In front of Li Xiuning, Li Mu and Changsun Wugui performed extremely normally, so Li Xiuning did not find anything unusual.

Daxing City.

The Great Sui Weekly.

This first newspaper in the Great Sui Dynasty was very grand, and this official residence was personally rewarded by Yang Guang. Even compared with the official residences of the Six Ministry of the Great Sui Dynasty, it was not bad at all.

However, this newspaper is not considered a yamen, but only the property of half of the king and General Li Mu.

However, Li Mu's identity is here. Although this newspaper is not a yamen, it is better than a yamen.

In the newspaper, Yu Wen Kai, the Minister of Works, brought Li Chun and a skilled craftsman from the Ministry of Works, to Li Mu to report.

Li Mu wanted everyone in the Ministry of Works to invent movable type printing technology. However, it is not difficult to invent this movable type printing technology.

Judging from the current technical aspects of the Great Sui Dynasty, there should be no technical barriers. The reason why the Great Sui Dynasty does not have printing technology is entirely because of ideological barriers. No one has thought of it yet.

It is not difficult to invent movable type printing. It is nothing more than adding some gum to the mud and making square pieces of shape.

Then engrave different fonts on these square pieces, and finally burn them to ceramic and then cool them.

After cooling, arrange it neatly according to the rhyme of the single character to facilitate search.

When printing is needed, find out the corresponding chunks according to the content on the article, then arrange them on the iron plate and fix them with iron frames around them.

In addition, a layer of adhesive composed of paper ash, rosin, gum, wax oil and other substances must be laid on the iron plate first.

Finally, put the movable type plate on the fire and roast it. After the adhesive is melted, use a flat plate to flatten the single word firmly, so that all the movable type plates can be combined into a solid whole.

Then, brush ink on the movable type plate, apply paper and press it gently, and then the handwriting is printed.

After waiting for the required content to be printed, heat the teppane with fire and melt the adhesive, and then remove the movable type blocks.

In this way, these movable type blocks can be used repeatedly and combined into different contents.

Moreover, if one of the characters is damaged, you only need to replace this character separately.

Li Mu talked with Yuwen Kai and Li Chun and said it apart, the two of them suddenly widened their eyes and looked in disbelief.

The two of them never expected that this would be possible. This method sounds very simple, but no one has ever thought about it.

"A great talent, the general is a great talent!" Yuwen Kai couldn't help but exclaim.

At this time, Li Chun fell into deep thought. After a long time, he slowly asked: "General, if this font is printed, is it an intimate or positive text."

Yangwen is naturally a text that is used normally, while Yinwen is a text that is opposite to Yangwen, that is, a text that is upside down, front and back.

These ancient people believed that the positive text is the text used by living people, and the negative text is the text used by dead people. Therefore, when worshiping ancestors, some things will be written in negative text. Then they will be burned in front of the tomb of the ancestors in hopes that the ancestors will receive it.

"If you carve a positive text on the cube, then the printed text will be an intimate text. However, if you carve a negative text on the cube, the printed text will be an intimate text." Li Mu explained to Li Chun.

"General, even if you carve a concealed text, this matter is not difficult!" Li Chun promised Li Mu.

"Okay, let's leave this matter to you."

"But one thing is that this matter is of great importance. I think your Majesty has told you."

"So, you must not reveal a word about this movable type printing technique." Li Mu said to the two of them.

"Don't worry, General, we know." Yuwen Kai said solemnly.

Due to the particularity of this department, the Ministry of Industry has not been penetrated by aristocratic families. Therefore, there should be little problem with the confidentiality of movable type printing.

In a blink of an eye, three days have passed.

movable type printing technology does not have any technical barriers to the current technology of the Sui Dynasty. After all, the Sui Dynasty could even be fired with many exquisite porcelains, so it would be no problem to fire these square pottery blocks.

Soon, the craftsmen of the Ministry of Works burned the first set of movable type characters. After some experiments, they found that the movable type printing technique was indeed as useful as Li Mu said.

As the saying goes, everything is difficult to start with. After this set of font molds was made, after gaining experience, the Ministry of Industry has successively produced multiple sets of font molds.

The most important thing for the operation of the newspaper is movable type printing. After all, it is impossible to copy newspapers manually.

Now that this movable type printing technique has been invented, the next step is to operate the newspaper.

Under Li Mu's easy-to-understand guidance, Changsun Wugui wrote out the first edition of the newspaper in the Sui Dynasty with a red face.

You know, the contents in this newspaper are simply unsightly to the eyes of people of this era.

With the completion of movable type printing and the completion of this newspaper template, the formal printing work has also been put on the agenda.

Li Mu took out a large number of literate documents from the army to be responsible for the layout of characters. After all, it is more credible to use people in the army.

Then, he began to print with arranged templates. Li Mu printed more than 30,000 copies of this first weekly report.

You should know that in the era of serious lack of entertainment activities in the Sui Dynasty, a novel way of entertainment reading newspapers would inevitably lead a trend.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!