Transmigrated into a female county magistrate during a famine, leading her country to prosperity

Chapter 478: Socially fatal training

The printing shop is different from the cloth shop. If we really want to break it down, the cloth shop is the livelihood of the entire Tongan County, from the county government to the common people, while the printing shop is the livelihood of "individuals" such as the Tongan County School and the Tongan Chamber of Commerce.

Therefore, Shen Zheng also handed over the construction of the printing house to the county school and the Chamber of Commerce.

A printing workshop is not like a cloth workshop. Not only are there many processes involved, but each process also requires a lot of people.

After the movable type clay is made, the operation process of the printing house is roughly divided into three steps.

——Arrange the active mud as needed.

——The paper is covered with ink and printed.

——After drying the papers, bind them into books.

Only those who perform the first step need to be able to read and recognize words, so that they can select words for typesetting.

The second step requires some technical content - a dexterous person can save some ink when applying ink, and the saved ink can be used to print half a page of more words. Half a page plus half a page, how much more can half a page mean?

As for the last step.

As long as the person in front does the job carefully, the last step will be the least troublesome job. In other words, as long as the book is not changed suddenly, cutting paper and binding it can be done by anyone, young or old.

The materials and tools required for these three steps are not complicated, including movable type clay, molds, ink, bristle brushes, and at most some bamboo racks for drying and pins and thread for sealing the top.

Therefore, Shen Zheng did not need to worry too much about handing the matters of the printing house over to the county school and the Chamber of Commerce. It was just like what she had said before - she could hand these matters over to them, which meant she trusted them. She would not interfere too much in what they wanted to do and how they wanted to do it. She would only help or give suggestions when they needed it.

Shen Zheng was not surprised that Yu Shizhang and others started experimenting with printing today. She had heard from Yu Shizhang before that he might start trial printing in the next few days.

But what she didn't expect was...

"You can print if you want, but why are you on guard against me? What shameful things are you printing and why can't I see it?" She looked at Yu Shizhang, feeling anxious.

Seeing her eager to learn, Yu Shizhang sighed and said, "I'm not on guard against you, I just want to give you a surprise. Also... you're shy, so it's better not to know some things so early. We're also considering your situation."

A bad premonition suddenly surged into Shen Zheng's heart. She thought of the previous "sheng shrine" incident and her eyebrows jumped. She asked in surprise: "What is printed on it? Could it be the life story of this official?"

Her eyes went dark and she felt dizzy, and she only heard a starlight twinkling in front of her eyes.

Printing your life? Is there anything more socially devastating than this?

What happens after it is printed? Do we need to call on county residents to buy it until everyone in Tongan County has a copy, and even outside Tongan County?

Heaven!

If there was a quilt in front of her at this moment, she would want to crawl into it without leaving even a hair outside.

"Print your life story?" Yu Shizhang showed a teasing smile on his face: "I don't even have this treatment, and you're still thinking of publishing your life story before me? You can do it."

Shen Zheng's face suddenly turned red, and he wanted to get into bed even more.

But it's okay...

There is nothing more socially dead than a biography, right?

"So what are you printing secretly?" She spread her hands towards the student before, "Show me, otherwise..."

The threat is obvious.

The student looked at Yu Shizhang pleadingly, as if he had lost his parents: "Uncle..."

"Give it to her, give it to her. Let her take a good look for herself." Yu Shizhang saw that his previous persuasion was useless, and his face was full of the words "If you don't listen to the advice of the elderly, you will suffer the consequences."

The crumpled piece of straw paper finally landed in Shen Zheng's hands. Just one piece was not enough. Several students around her opened the paper in their hands one after another. After taking a look, they whispered to each other: "This is the third page. Which page are you on?"

"Page 4..."

"What about the second page? Who has it?"

Shen Zheng's eyes darkened again and she looked at Yu Shizhang in disbelief.

"There are still several pages?!"

Yu Shizhang smiled at her: "It's not Benbo who wrote it. It was Xiao Li, a few gentlemen, and these boys and girls who discussed and figured it out on their own."

After all this time, everyone has a share.

But...Xiao Li?

Li Hongmao?

Shen Zheng glanced at the two of them suspiciously. When did their relationship become so good?

Then Li Hongmao must call him Lao Yu...

"Sir Shen, here..." The students collected the straw paper and handed it to Shen Zheng.

Diwu Tanwei was also very curious about the content above and silently took two steps towards her.

From the moment she stepped into this courtyard, she felt a little confused. Those strange seals and molds, as well as the small earthen kiln in the corner of the courtyard, were all new to her.

And there is what they call "seal".

What is “printed”? “Seal”?

Shen Zheng unfolded a crumpled piece of straw paper, and Diwu Tanwei's eyes fell on it.

She was stunned after seeing it clearly, and murmured in a low voice: "This calligraphy...is good calligraphy, but why is the ink stain so serious? It's also a little crooked? The spacing between the characters is also...not well controlled."

She found a lot of faults, but she didn't say that the words on it were bad.

Because the calligraphy is indeed good, as the saying goes, seeing the person is like seeing the calligraphy, from this calligraphy we can see that the person who wrote it has an excellent memory and strong writing skills.

Even though the ink stains are heavy for some reason, it can still be seen that the person used ink very skillfully.

Could this be Lord Shen’s handwriting?

This thought only popped up for a moment before she suppressed it.

Because Yu Shizhang raised his chin, put his hands behind his back and came over, saying, "Little girl, you have good taste."

Then she understood.

Diwu Tanwei forced a smile and said awkwardly, "It was originally the calligraphy of the uncle. I was blind and didn't know the true meaning of it. I showed off..."

I should have kept my mouth shut. Now I might have offended Yu Shizhang again.

"Show off? What are you showing off?" Yu Shizhang glared at the students. "They didn't print well in the first place. If my handwriting is ten times more elegant, then they didn't print even half of it, let alone one point!"

The students looked down at their toes in embarrassment, but it wasn't that ugly...

"Seal?" Diwu Tanwei looked at the font seals scattered on the table and had a guess in his mind.

Just as she was about to ask, Shen Zheng beside her screamed: "Why did you bring me up here when we were studying? Li Hongmao, you..."

Only then did the Fifth Tanwei skip over the handwriting and start paying attention to the content above.

She read the words aloud: "Tong'an County School... School motto: With the virtue of Shen Zheng."

"Don't think about it, don't think about it!" Shen Zheng was frightened and immediately raised her sleeves to cover the lower half of her face. "What's the difference between this and a short note about my life..."

Looking at it from another perspective, this "Academic Training" seems to be even more socially deadly.