"Playing Song"/Chunxi Di Xiao

Chapter 18

Many years later, Wang personally wrote a biography for his father, "My Dad, Boss Wang" (later changed a name that is not very easy to understand under Fang Hong's strong opposition). The beginning of the biography is as follows: My Dad, Boss Wang, is a noble person, a pure person, and a person with low interest.

For example, he would take his son to see other children grab cow dung.

That's right, Wang Gang resolutely stepped forward and saw a child like a monkey jumping out next to him. He shoveled the black cow dung in front of him and stuffed it into the dung basket he carried. The child was only five or six years old, with a dark face and a small body, but his movements were astonishing as he moved.

Wang was not shocked. He once went to the grassland to follow up a project. At that time, they went to the local yurt as a guest. The locals piled up a lot of dry cow dung outside the yurt, which were used to make fire to keep warm. The dry cow dung was resistant to burning, and the engineering team once gathered around the burning red-burned cow dung to eat. The more primitive the development of productivity, the more useful the cow dung is.

Zheng Si and Wu Xing were really shocked. Although they were only grown up in Yin County, they were still half "city people". They had never been to the fields since childhood, so naturally they didn't know that this cow dung was of great use.

After another child jumped out, he fought with the child who picked up cow dung, and shouted, "I said you don't allow me to come here to pick it up." Only then did Zheng Si and the others come to their senses incredibly.

Wang Anshi went up to mediate a few words, and learned from the two children that they were also "dividing zones to pick up manure" and they picked it up in their respective places. Recently, all townships are busy with spring plowing, and oxen borrowed everywhere, and there are many opportunities to pick up manure. They have tasks every day!

The thin black child belonged to Widow Zhang. He looked stubborn and stared at everyone with a vigilant look in front of the dung basket. The more versatile child had no choice but to say, "Forget it, just pick it up, they will pick it up, their family is also very pitiful." After saying that, he carried the dung basket with a look of unlucky look to find cow dung elsewhere.

The black and thin child looked at the child's back, then looked at Wang Anshi and his group, and also carried the feces basket and ran away.

Wang Anshi turned his head to look at Wang: "How is it? Look at other people's children, looking for cow dung everywhere."

Wang Mashe flattered: "Thanks to my father's amazing!"

Wang Anshi: “…”

In the next half day, they encountered several verbal battles. Most of them were the fact that your canal was dug and your field ridges were piled up in a crooked manner. Wang found that although there were dense water networks in Yin County and many rivers of all sizes, the water conservancy projects were very bad. Without a comprehensive plan, the water was left in vain to the sea. It should not be enough to water or not, and it should be drought or drought. Any fights were bound to be due to uneven water diversion!

Wang glanced at Wang Anshi and always felt that Wang Anshi ran out every day during this period, as if he wanted to do this. He was his old profession in engineering! Wang was wondering whether to show his father a little.

Forget it~ When his father starts planning, he will take a look at the level of engineers in this era~

I am about to see my colleagues, and I am a little excited to think about it.

Wang Anshi didn't know what his son was thinking. This time he took other children. After noon, Wang Anshi specially found a Buddhist temple to eat and sleep. There were not many anything in the Song Dynasty, but there were many Buddhist temples. There were six or seven in Yin County alone. No wonder the officials of the Song Dynasty wanted to say something about "redundant monks"!

Wu believed in Buddhism, and Wang was often taken to the Buddhist temple to burn incense. Among the monks, some of them were sincere in their pursuit of the Buddha, and some were fishing for troubled waters. After seeing too much, the king thought that most of them were ordinary people.

In the previous life, Wang had absolutely no concept of gods and Buddhas in his heart. Now it’s different. He and Sima Yan have experienced such evil things as time travel. When the king encounters a Buddhist temple, he will bow politely, and when he encounters a Taoist temple, he will bow politely. Who knows which gods and Buddhas sent him?

All of them have come, God has to bless them with peace and smooth life!

When Zheng Si and Wu Xing saw that Wang Xiao's hands were closed and they were still muttering something, they were immediately infected. They closed their eyes and bowed to the Buddha in the main hall. Wang Anshi looked at the three children worshiping at the Buddha statue without saying anything, and briefly explained the intention of staying with the host who came out to talk to him. The other party knew that it was the magistrate who came in person, so he immediately vacated the best Zen temple for them to stay.

Although the dinner was vegetarian, the taste was quite good. Wang Zheng was seriously dealing with his dinner. A young man of fifteen or sixteen stepped inside and looked like he was here to eat. The young man asked for a vegetarian meal and sat at a table not far from Wang Anshi and his group to eat, while eating, holding a book in his hand.

Wang was full, and glanced casually, and immediately became interested. The boy seemed to be reading a medical book. Wang looked at Wang Anshi, who was still working on vegetarian food, jumped off his chair and ran to the boy's side, and asked, "Can you lend me your book?"

The boy looked up at Wang in surprise. The boy looked pretty, with small eyes and single eyelids, and his face was pale, and he looked not very good.

Seeing that Wang was young, he spoke slowly and was not as disorganized as a child of the same age. He nodded and handed the book to him, reminding him: "Be careful, don't break it."

"I know." Wang Xiao's face was very serious. He turned back to the cover and looked at it. It was a medical book. After looking through the content, it was a medical case that he had never seen before. It was written in detail and interesting. Wang couldn't help but ask, "Where did you buy this book? I'll buy one too."

The boy was really surprised now. He said, "Can you really understand?"

The king gave him a look of "Why are you so stupid" and said, "Why do I borrow it if I can't understand it?"

The boy also felt that he had asked a stupid question and honestly replied: "This was not bought, I copied it myself." He told Wang about the origin of this medical book. It turned out that there was a hermit in Yuehu area not far from this. The single name was Yu, and he was known as Mr. West Lake. His family had more than 10,000 books. Although he lived in seclusion and ignored the world, he was very good to scholars. He allowed scholars to copy books at home for free. Sometimes there were too many people asking for advice and would open a lecture. He was quite famous among scholars.

The young man's name was Shen Kuo, who lived in Hangzhou. After reading the books he had collected at home, he learned that Mr. Xihu had countless books, so he came to borrow them. After borrowing them for more than two months, he copied all the books he was interested in and read them day and night, and was fascinated. As the dinner time approached, he hurried back to the temple to have some vegetarian food.

There are empty rooms for passers-by in the temple, usually a single room separated from the bathhouse rented by the court, and Shen Kuo lives in that place. Yes, there are many monks, and the court will also allocate special funds to build bathhouses for monks. The bathhouse covers a large area and has good facilities, which is enough to rent for tourists to temporarily live.

For example, every year when the exam is in the season, the bathhouse in Daxiangguo Temple in Kaifeng will be filled with scholars who come to participate in the spring exam. This will allow scholars to live in the inner city at a low price, and Daxiangguo Temple will also have an additional income, which is a win-win situation!

After hearing Shen Kuo introduce these things, Wang's eyes immediately changed when he looked at Shen Kuo. Shen Kuo, whose name is Cunzhong, is a Northern Song Dynasty literati who occupied a place in the history of science. He is chasing everything in astronomy and geography, and has the most basic qualities of a scientist: he always has strong curiosity!

Shen Kuo wrote down all the techniques he learned in his life, the gossip he saw, and the pretentious skills he learned, and wrote them together into a book - "Dream of Dreams and Bi Tan".

For example, there is a man named Wang Ziye who is a vegetarian who never gets into meat and lives a happy life. He heard that he will write it in the book in the future.

For example, there is a bachelor's pavilion in the third hall of the Bachelor's Academy. There is a big locust tree in front of the door of the pavilion, commonly known as "locust Hall". It is said that most of the people who lived in the locust Hall in the past became prime ministers, so there were cases where the bachelors rushed to grab the locust Hall. He saw with his own eyes that someone moved someone else's luggage and forced to rob it, and he also wrote it into the book.

This is secondly. Wang remembers that he wrote in the history of science. "Dream of Dreams" introduces the use of compass, the three-section pressing method (used by the river engineer to block the gap in the Yellow River), and also records the movable type printing technique invented by Bi N! In fact, after Bi N's death, his children did not promote movable type printing technique, and the tools of movable type printing technique have always been collected by the Shen family.

Wang noticed this book because of the three-section pressing method. After all, it was his old profession. He took the time to read the book again. The contents in it were forgotten because they had changed their body. Now, as soon as Mr. Shen Kuo came to him, he remembered most of the time. Wang suddenly felt the spirit, movable type printing technique!

Although he didn't know how to operate it, he remembered that later the movable type printing technology was introduced abroad and became "lead type". From a promotional perspective, making lead movable type should be the best choice.

The problem is that Chinese and English are different. English only has twenty-six letters, and there are only a few thousand commonly used Chinese characters, so a set of movable characters must be prepared with at least a few thousand movable characters. If someone writes articles, he has to carve a few on the spot. It’s a big deal!

Moreover, dictionaries are hard to use now, so how to arrange these movable types to facilitate layout is also a big problem. Wang thought, it would be better to go in a few years, and look for a reason to ask Fang Hong to find our great inventor, the carving machine, and then fumble to get a set of movable types.

When Wang was in Kaifeng, he read a new dictionary called "Jiyun", which was arranged according to the pronunciation and looked like a big man: a character is often divided into regular styles, or styles, vulgar styles, and ancient styles. There are seven or eight ways to write them!

How difficult would it be if the carving master arranged a set of movable type in front of him? Why should he be a carving worker if he can recognize so many words? The carving worker is so hard that he often only earns one tael of silver for carving five thousand words, and only makes so much money if he is blind! So if he wants to promote this technology, either Fang Hong makes a fortune and raises a group of technicians with high salaries; or the court takes it seriously and sends official craftsmen to do it.

No matter which one, Wang couldn't do it for the time being. Wang put aside all the thoughts in his mind and actively approached Shen Kuo, who was still a young man. He was very interested in the big bathhouse mentioned by Shen Kuo: "Brother Shen, will you go take a shower after dinner?"

Shen Kuo: "??????"

Did he miss something?!

Why did the topic suddenly change from medical books to bathing?!
Chapter completed!