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"As a long time ago, the sky and the earth had not separated, and the universe was in chaos. There was a giant named Pangu who slept in this chaos for 18,000 years."

The prince Zhang Chao was not doing his job properly, and he didn't do his job in the East Palace, so he insisted on taking leave and staying at home. He wrote the Three Character Classic, then set up a Bailu Academy, and wrote an article to make the entire Chang'an look at the Zhang family rules.

Now, he, the head of Bailu Academy, came to be the history teacher of the academy again. He stood on the podium and taught to the fifty children below for three thousand years. Today is the first lecture, which is about Pangu's creation of the world.

Zhang Chao is quite skillful in telling stories. Firstly, the story is quite interesting, and secondly, the method he tells is also quite novel and unique. It not only has the taste of the old man in the children's channel telling fairy tales on the radio, but also has a bit of the feeling of Dan Tianfang telling the Romance of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and even deliberately imitates Teacher Zhao Zhongxiang's animal world.

The mixed taste was very exciting for fifty students in class one year. They all cheered up and pricked up their ears to listen. No one made small moves or whispered. This was not only because Zhang Chao was washing the prince's horse, but also because Zhang Chao was the chief of the academy.

It was all because Zhang Chao's teaching method was too novel and fun. Their husband only knew whether to teach them to memorize or memorize, and they didn't mean anything. They just asked them to memorize it by rote, which was very boring. If they read it wrong, they would be beaten.

It’s not like a mountain leader who teaches Pangu in history classes and speaks about the world. He is still so passionate and full of emotions, and he speaks up and down.

Today, the deputy director Ma Zhou and the other four gentlemen did not attend classes, and they all took a chair and sat in the back of the classroom to listen to the class. This was also what Zhang Chao asked. In the future, the academy would hold such classes regularly. The teachers took turns to listen to a teacher's class, and they would take notes, give evaluations, and make suggestions.

This is also a teaching method that has been found in later generations, in order to help teachers improve some shortcomings and improve teaching quality.

Ma Zhou originally thought it was completely unnecessary to tell history to six-year-old children. Can they understand?

But now sitting here, listening to Zhang Chao's narration, and the students were listening attentively, Ma Zhou doubted himself. It turns out that history can still be said like this, and it is so interesting. Zhang Sanlang's history textbook does not use historical books such as record of the Grand Historian, but uses easy-to-understand words to teach. It is better to say that it is telling historical stories than to talk about history.

Pangu opened the sky immediately made all these children fall in love with it.

In one class, Zhang Chao only told this story, Pangu opened the sky. He asked a few questions in the middle and asked the students to raise their hands to speak. Although some children answered completely incorrectly, Zhang Chao did not punish them, but instead encouraged them.

Time came soon, and the school worker responsible for cleaning the academy rang the bell on time. The children of the other three classes of self-study immediately rushed out of the classroom and ran to the playground to play.

Zhang Chao didn't delay classes either. He hated teachers who delay classes the most when he was studying.

Putting away his lecture notes, Zhang Chao said with a smile, "Second!"

The fifty children in Class 1 were still unwilling to finish their feelings and stood up reluctantly.

‘Goodbye, teacher.’

"Goodbye, classmates."

Ma Zhou picked up his chair and followed Zhang Chao out.

"It's really fun to be unique, I didn't expect your history class to be like this."

Zhang Chao smiled and said, "A boy who has only been enlightened, I can't teach them the Records of the Grand Historian, or the Spring and Autumn Period, Zuo Zhuan. The three thousand years I compiled are just ordinary and popular readings of history, so that they have some understanding of history."

"Although I only heard one chapter, I can feel that your book "Three Thousand Years" is a good book of enlightenment, just like the Three Character Classic. Sanlang, you should ask someone to copy more and send it out, which will definitely make you famous."

When copying books, Zhang Chao really didn't like this way of disseminating books during this period. It was too slow. Last time I copied more than a thousand books, but I invited a large group of copywriters to copy books. The cost of copying books was too high, which forced him to consider printing woodblocks.

He even considered movable type printing.

But when printing was really put on the preparation schedule, Zhang Chao realized that he was still a little too optimistic. Woodblock printing is actually simpler than movable type printing, but it has to be rigid and rigid, and after it is rigid, so you have to engrave a board when printing a page of the book.

If the number of words in a book is large, then you have to carve many boards, which are difficult to store and easily wear out. In addition, there is one biggest defect in stereotypes. Once a word on a board is carved wrongly, the entire board may be scrapped, the previous work will be done in vain, and the labor-intensive and labor-intensive are also expendable.

Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, Bi Sheng invented the printing of movable type in mud, and later improved the printing of movable type in mud to wood, copper, movable type in twelve type, etc., but movable type printing has never been truly popularized. Not only were most of the Song Dynasty printed in engraving, but it was even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

There are also many defects in movable type. For example, each character has to be carved by hand, which is labor-intensive and time-consuming, and carving movable type is more time-consuming than carving. In addition, a single character carries easily lead to uneven sizes of each movable type, not fine and not neat strokes, and uneven line spacing of the characters, and even uneven ink during printing.

Of course, there is another very important reason. Although movable type can be reused, these characters are relatively rigid, and the fonts printed in the article have no aesthetic sense.

For woodblock printing, many people who have good calligraphy write the manuscript, and then ask the sculptor to carve it, so that the carved font is a whole article. The font is more like a complete calligraphy work, and it feels good to read.

The characters on the same engraving board will also have the same height, the font is uniform, and the printed ink clarity is higher.

Zhang Chao felt that if he wanted to do it, he would start with engraving printing first. The printing of movable type is still not enough. The cost of movable type printing is indeed low, but the effect is poor. Unless you print some advertising posters, otherwise most people would not be willing to buy movable type. After all, books in this era are more expensive, and those who can afford books are scholars, or they are rich nouveau riche. Who doesn’t want to buy a beautifully printed book, and who is willing to buy a rough book?

However, if Zhang Chao wants to carve, he must first find a few excellent carving masters. This is actually not difficult. Uncle Ke Ba and Old Carpenter Zheng have worked as old carpenters for decades. These days, carpenters are all craftsmen. With a hammer and a chisel, they can carve various patterns and shapes. It is not a matter of carving, etc., flowers, birds, fish, insects, birds, beasts, mythical characters, etc.

As long as Zhang Chao asked Ma Zhou to write a manuscript on thin and almost transparent manuscript paper, and then paste the front with a smooth wooden board of a certain thickness, the characters will become inverse and the strokes will be clearly visible.

When Uncle Ba and Carpenter Zheng used a carving knife to cut off all the parts without the handwriting on the page, it became a protruding male text. When printing, apply ink and sweat on the raised font, then cover the paper on it, gently wipe the back of the paper, and the handwriting is left on the paper.

This is actually somewhat similar to a seal. There is already a rubbing technique. It is similar to a rubbing inscription. First, engrave a large layout like a seal, then dip ink, and spread the paper on the layout according to the rubbing inscription. This is already the prototype of woodbing printing.

However, this kind of rubbing is relatively simple. The printed pages are actually white characters on black background, which wastes ink and takes time to process.

Therefore, the mainstream method now is to copy books. Manual copying, which is both accurate and beautiful.

But the manual copying speed is slow. Copying one or two books is nothing. But if you want to copy one, ten books, it is very fatal. Especially for those with a large number of words, you don’t know how long it takes to copy one, let alone copy hundreds of thousands of books, and copying has its disadvantages. Sometimes there are inevitably some mistakes in copying.

When you get a book you copied incorrectly, it is easy to spread rumors. Unlike carvings, each piece takes many processes, writing manuscripts, engravings, printing, and checking them before each level, and the error rate is very low.

Zhang Chao planned to print his own Three Character Classics, three thousand years of history and Zhang's family rules. But copying alone was too slow and the cost was high. Asking a scholar to copy a book for one day, the salary was much more expensive than hiring a few long-term workers.

Zhang Chao has been planning to get a woodblock and print a book for a long time.

However, Zhang Chao was still a little worried about the specific operation. After all, this is a very powerful thing, which is both convenient and much lower than the printing. If you really want to make it, it will definitely be a good thing that benefits the country and the people. But it will definitely be a target for many people. This is why Zhang Chao did not dare to do it.

Now Zhang Chao has a status and a reputation. He also hugged the King of Qin and the Prince, revealing that he is now the Prince, and secretly he is also the King of Qin, and has a good relationship with these nobles of aristocratic families. In addition, he has gained a lot of reputation now. Zhang Chao feels that if he makes a woodblock print, he should not be criticized.

Anyway, I don’t print anything else, I just print the books I wrote myself.

After printing the Three Character Classic for 3,000 years, I can still talk to the monks about cooperation. The scriptures in the temple are an important industry for monks to make money, and they hire the most copywriters. The monks have many scriptures, many of which are large volumes, and there are dozens or hundreds of volumes at any time.

If Zhang Chao cooperates with monks, make some carved plates and prints a large number of scriptures, this is a win-win situation. Monks can sell large amounts of Buddhist scriptures to believers and good women, and can also preach Buddhism. Of course, Zhang Chao earns printing costs. The more carving and printing is printed, the lower the cost will decrease.

If a piece of carved paper can be printed with three or five thousand, it will be quite profitable.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chao turned around and smiled at Ma Zhou and said, "Bin Wang, you are well-written. How about you help me write a few manuscripts later?"

Ma Zhou suddenly thought of the painful experience of staying up late to copy the Three Character Classic last time, and his face became a little unfavorable.

"Don't worry, I won't let you write more. Just write one article just like the Three Character Classic and Zhang's family rules. I only have one requirement, and I have to write it carefully and treat it as a calligraphy work heirloom. If I write it well, I will give you a consistent amount of money!"

Ma Zhou smiled bitterly and wrote it as a calligraphy handed down from generation to generation. Two articles cost nearly two thousand words, and you gave me a penny of money. Sanlang, you are too stingy, and only two words cost a penny. You bought two Hu Ji, but it cost two hundred penny!

I looked at it today and saw one of the categories of monthly tickets, becoming seventh. The monthly tickets for the new book were also lost, and the thirteenth. Alas, I struggled for a month but I was not able to get the monthly ticket prize. However, even if I can’t win the prize, we have to fight to the end. I will not give up my efforts until the end. I will still update the 100-year monthly tickets, and my brothers will continue to support it!
Chapter completed!