"King, Li Zhong is here."

"Well, let him come in."

"yes."

He could vaguely hear the conversation in the room, but Li Zhong stood respectfully outside the door, not daring to go in directly, nor even dared to stretch his head to look inside. He waited until the beautiful little girl came out of the inside and said to him indifferently, "Get in, be careful." Li Zhong took a deep breath, subconsciously stretched out his hand to bounce the dust that did not exist on his body, and then walked in with his foot.

"I've seen the king..."

"Okay, get up."

After Li Zhong finished his greeting, Li Yuanjia waved his hand, and asked him to get up at the first time and asked with a smile: "Li Zhong, how are you doing the movable type required in "The Great Learning"? How much is it missing?"

Not surprised by Li Yuanjia's problem at all, Li Zhong immediately bowed and said in a deep voice: "When you say the king, you are still thirty-one words short of... These are not commonly used Chinese characters. Five requirements are required for each character, that is, one hundred and fifty-five movable characters... If the slowest ones, it will take about ten days, and if it is fast, it will take seven or eight days!"

Before coming, I guessed what the king was going to ask, so Li Zhong naturally had already prepared.

In fact, if you just print the book "The Great Learning", many words don't need to be made as many as five. For example, those rare "天" and "天" are enough to make one or two. But in the words of the king, since you have already started, just do more.

What if I want to print other books in the future and there are many of this words on a certain page?

Just five movable types, really not many.

Of course, these are just some characters that are not very commonly used and can even be called "unfamiliar". Li Zhong and others have made at least twenty of the commonly used characters, such as "Zheng", "De", etc.! And some more commonly used, many books have almost full pages, such as "Zhi", "Yu", "Zi", "Yu", etc., and at least fifty or even hundreds of them are prepared!

Anyway, Li Zhong and the others are becoming more and more proficient in the craftsmanship of Yin and Yang.

Now it is a little bit difficult when carving at the beginning. After all, if metal movable type is not damaged by humans, it can be used for a long time, and each word can be reused hundreds of times. So in order to save paper and ink, the movable type made by Li Zhong and others are not large in size. If you judge it by Li Yuanjia's standards... that is, the level of the number three characters?

Anyway, even scholars who are good at writing small characters must write slowly with fine pens.

So even though Li Zhong has several skilled workers now, and he still uses the Korean King's style that gives up the beauty in order to facilitate carving... Ahem, Song font, but it still takes one person a whole day to carve a word. In addition, some people have to do the work of yin and yang molding, and some people have to clean and process the characters after casting. It really takes at least seven or eight days for more than one hundred movable characters!

Li Yuanjia also knew this quite well. He nodded and said, "I understand. After all the words are done, you can type them immediately. First make a copy and send it to me. After I finish reading it, I will decide whether to print it."

The same thing is true, even in the Zhenguan period, this book cannot be printed casually.

At least Li Yuanjia dared not print casually.

Li Zhong naturally wouldn't ask too much, and immediately bowed and said, "Yes, the big king, I remember it."

"Um."

With a slight jaw on his head, Li Yuanjia raised his eyebrows at him and asked about the main purpose of calling Li Zhong over today: "Li Zhong, have you brought all the records I asked you to bring?"

"I have already brought it, king!"

Without any hesitation, Li Zhong quickly presented a booklet he had accumulated for several years with both hands.

However, Li Yuanjia didn't mean to reach out to pick it up. He casually asked him to put the booklet on the table and asked with a smile: "I won't read the stuff anymore. I just want to know one thing, that is, when you tried to find alloys suitable for movable type, you should have tested the things you made every time, right?"

"Uh...yes, lord."

After being stunned for a moment, Li Zhong nodded again.

When I was studying with that gentleman in Luzhou, Li Zhong and Zhang Wan would learn something from Li Yuanjia every month. Although the time was short, it only looked like two or three days, they still learned a lot. So they not only know what the words "alloy" and "test" mean, but they also use it in daily life.

After seeing him nodding, Li Yuanjia naturally showed a satisfied smile on his face: "Very good, then you should keep all the alloys made at that time, right?"

"Yes, king, they are all here!"

This time, Li Zhong nodded directly: "There is a small warehouse in our movable type printing workshop, which is used to store alloys that are not suitable for movable type after making them. Now it costs about 100 yuan... But in order to save costs, we don't make much each time, just one or two kilograms."

"Haha, OK!"

After hearing Li Zhong's words, the smile on Li Yuanjia's face became even stronger.

Not only because he got the results he wanted, but more importantly, he heard the four words "save costs" from a Tang Dynasty man, which made Li Yuanjia feel satisfied at this moment...

Before he knew it, he had changed a lot.

So for the next ten seconds, Li Yuanjia didn't say anything, but the corners of his mouth were curved with a very obvious curve, and he happily enjoyed this satisfied moment. However, his strange reaction made Li Zhong feel a little panicked, because the servants stared at the king directly and were very disrespectful, so he didn't dare to look up. He was naturally very nervous if he couldn't hear the sound at this moment.

"well……"

After a while of heat, Li Yuanjia sighed with satisfaction and said, "Li Zhong, I will give you a task next. In addition to doing those movable types during this period, I will do the work I gave to you."

"Yes, please speak, lord."

"It's very simple, just take out all the alloys I made before!"

With his fingers gently tapping the table in front of him, Li Yuanjia smiled and said, "But this time it is not used to make movable type, but try to make them into other things, such as daggers, farm tools or daily objects, and then test their hardness, toughness, etc., and then see which of them is more rust-proof..."

...

"Tsk tsk, fortunately I remembered this!"

After Li Zhong took the order and left, Li Yuanjia turned on the booklet on the table and subconsciously rubbed his nose.

The booklet is obviously written with the words written in the Willow Branch, which is very small, but also very clear. Li Zhong is also very careful. Not only does he record the raw materials and ratios used for each alloy, but also the weight of the alloy made, the reaction with the ink, etc.

Although it is very simple and only has the most basic digital records, these words flashed with extremely dazzling light in Li Yuanjia's eyes...
Chapter completed!