Gan Ning left and took more than 20 new-style sea boats and more than 2,000 elite sailors to Daifang County.
The Liaodong fleet will be the main force in the future to attack Yingzhou. Of course, Yan Liang cannot only equip Ganning with twenty sea ships. That is because the more advanced sea ships are still under construction and can only be allocated in time.
Gan Ning.
As for this new type of sea ship, based on the original sea ship, the hull is larger, the number of sails is more, and the draft is deeper. Compared with the original sea ship, the combat effectiveness has increased by one level.
Zhang Fei thought that he could build a navy that could compete with Da Chu by relying on the captured few sea ships. Unexpectedly, the sea ships he regarded as treasures had become the type of ship that Da Chu was about to be eliminated.
All of this is naturally attributed to Yan Liang's extremely smart queen.
Over the years, when Yan Liang fought east and west, Huang Yueying, who stayed in the capital, not only managed the entire palace order in an orderly manner, leaving Yan Liang without any worries, but also kept offering various inventions to the Great Chu when he was free and had nothing to do.
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As a time traveler in later generations, Yan Liang has all kinds of wonderful ideas, while Huang Yueying has superb skills. As long as she has sufficient conditions, she can always turn Yan Liang's inspiration into reality.
The new type of sea ship was finally transformed by Huang Yueying after research.
Although Yan Liang had three thousand beauties on the Jade Bird Platform, most of those women were just his toys. Of course, the woman he valued the most was Huang Yueying.
When he was having fun on the Jade Que Platform, Yan Liang never neglected Huang Yueying. He would go back to the palace every now and then, and Huang Yueying would be lucky for one night.
That night, the wind and clouds were surging again. Spring rain and Linlin were used to nourish his wife with his mighty wind.
The couple hugged each other and lie down, before they realized it was dawn.
Yan Liang owed a blow, stretched his body, and sat up lazily.
"Your Majesty is awake." Huang Yueying had already gotten up and had already dressed up early in the morning. She was waiting to serve Yan Liang.
Yan Liang looked up at the window. It was already midday, and then smiled and said, "I worked so hard last night. I didn't expect that I would sleep until dawn after a night."
Yan Liang's words "too hard work" naturally mean something else.
How could Huang Yueying not hear it? The jokes he said suddenly turned red on his face. Facing the reflection of the morning light, it looked even more moving.
Yan Liang laughed and jumped off the brocade bed happily.
Huang Yueying raised his hand slightly, and the palace maids came to serve Yan Liang in a bath of jade liquid.
After washing his face, Huang Yueying personally presented a toothbrush made of ivory to Yan Liang. The toothbrush was covered with sapphire powder-like salt particles, exuding a rose-like fragrance.
This toothbrush was naturally a concept for Yan Liang when he was free. Huang Yueying invented it with his own intelligence.
However, the manufacturing technology of this era is far less advanced than that of later generations. Although these teeth look ordinary and really need to be built, they are more difficult than creating a good ring-headed knife.
Even so, for the emperor, a handful of teeth is worth mentioning.
As the saying goes, the emperor and the empress, as well as the concubines in the palace, the civil and military ministers and nobles outside the palace have also followed suit. Now the upper class in the capital is popular to get up early to brush teeth.
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"Your Majesty, it seems a bit late to go to court today." Huang Yueying sighed.
"It's too late to be late. It's not the emperor who gets up early and goes to morning court every day, which is the good emperor. I'll take a day off today and spend a day with Ying'er." Yan Liang smiled.
Huang Yueying's eyebrows were dizzy, and comfort and surprise flashed in her watery eyes.
Yan Liang did what he said, and spent the whole day accompanying Huang Yueying in Kunning Palace. The couple said some whispers and discussed various strange ideas with each other.
Before dusk, the couple was drinking tea and chatting. A palace maid walked into the hall with a big board and served it in front of them.
"I'm telling you, this is the printed board that the empress wants. The great creation has been made according to the instructions of the empress."
Printing board?
Yan Liang was immediately interested and looked at the big board placed in front of the table. Looking at the carved words on it, he suddenly realized.
It turns out that this is a piece of printing for engraving.
"In the past, His Majesty issued a manifesto and the court issued an announcement. Thousands of people could only be copied by hand. It was both labor-intensive and slow. I thought, if the court's announcement was carved on the board first
, and then print it on the paper. This saves both manpower and time."
Huang Yueying said, carefully inspecting the carved boards, nodding with satisfaction, and applauding Jiang Zuosi's technical level.
"It turns out that my wife invented the engraving and printing technique." Yan Liang sighed in his heart, and couldn't help but admire Huang Yueying's intelligence.
This engraving printing technology was invented many years after mass-produced paper was released. It is a major event in the history of printing.
Yan Liang never mentioned his ideas about this printing technique, but his wife, when she was free, had to figure it out that her virtuous and intelligent wife was truly the greatest inventor of the world.
"Ying'er, your intelligence and your appearance have never changed at all. You are still so powerful for more than ten years." Yan Liang held the carving board, appreciating and praising.
He praised Huang Yueying for being smart and beautiful, and praised her for being young and beautiful. These sweet words only made Huang Yueying feel as if she had eaten honey, and she smiled secretly between her eyebrows.
"Although this engraving board is good, it will be invalid every time you use it. If you print a book, you don't know how many engraving boards you have to carve, and it will be a pity if you use it." Yan Liang soon discovered it
The shortcomings.
Huang Yueying sighed: "There is nothing to do about this. I also feel that it is a waste, but so far, I still can't think of a better way to solve this defect."
When Huang Yueying sighed, Yan Liang looked at the carved board, but his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Ying'er, this carving board is dead, but the characters are alive. If each character is created separately and you only need to be arranged and combined when used, then will not be wasted?"
"Every word is created separately?" Huang Yueying slapped her eyelashes, and surprise flashed in her starry eyes.
What Yan Liang said is actually the process of movable type printing.
Movable type printing was originally invented by Bi Sheng in the Song Dynasty on the basis of engraving printing. This major invention is of milestone importance in the history of printing, and its importance is no less than gunpowder.
The invention of movable type printing has made the dissemination of cultural technology more convenient and smooth, and its significance is comparable to the invention and promotion of mass-produced paper.
In fact, the process of movable type printing is not that complicated. The key is that it is such a hint of inspiration and flexibility.
But in history, such seemingly simple inspiration often took hundreds of years to appear under various coincidences.
Yan Liang came from later generations, and for him, the most undesirable nature is inspiration.
Today he saw his wife and invented the engraving printing technique. After being reminded, inspiration exploded. Suddenly, he followed the idea and thought of movable type printing technique.
"Your Majesty said, why didn't I expect it? Why did you have to engrave each word separately? Isn't it better?" The smart Huang Yueying quickly got through, and couldn't help but feel surprised.
Suppose, he was full of surprises for Yan Liang's broad thinking.
Yan Liang had long been accustomed to his wife's stunning gaze, and only smiled faintly: "I was just inspired and got something occasionally. How to make it depends on Ying'er."
"Well, Your Majesty's idea is so clever that I have to think carefully." Huang Yueying's thoughts were suddenly immersed in Yan Liang's novel inspiration.
In the next few days, Huang Yueying, with her extremely talented and occasionally pointed out by Yan Liang, finally found a feasible method.
The key to movable type printing is to cast characters.
Huang Yueying's method is to use clay to make blanks with the same specifications, engrave the reverse single characters on one end, and the protruding height of the characters is the same as the thickness of the edge of the copper coin. Then, burn this clay movable type with fire.
, become a single movable type.
In order to meet the needs of typesetting, there are generally several or even dozens of commonly used characters for repetition in the same version. If you encounter uncommonly used characters, you can use them as you like.
After casting characters, you will pick and type.
In order to facilitate the selection of characters, the burned clay characters are classified in advance and placed in a wooden grid according to the sound and sticking them on paper to indicate.
When typing, use a framed iron plate as the bottom support, apply a layer of medicine made of rosin, wax and paper ash on it, and then select the required clay characters and arrange them into the frame one by one.
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After a full frame, it becomes a plate. Then bake it with fire. When the potion melts slightly, use a flat plate to flatten the literally. After the potion is cooled and solidified, it becomes a pattern. After brushing ink on it, you can print it.
It's right.
After using one version, bake the potion with a torch, shake it gently with your hands, and the movable type can fall off the iron plate, then press the rhyme and put it back into the original wooden grid, and then prepare for use next time.
Bi Sheng invented the movable type printing technique, but after many experiments, he first used wood to print, but finally failed several times before he thought of using mud to burn it.
With Yan Liang's reminder, Huang Yueying could skip the wooden movable type directly and go straight to the mud movable type. I don't know how many detours I took in it.
It was evening in Kunning Palace, where Huang Yueying was holding the printed sheet with movable type printing technique. Yan Liang returned from the Wuhuan army and made "East Jieshi".
Admiring Yan Liang's masterpieces and the exquisitely printed paper, Huang Yueying's face full of mature charm was filled with joy.
"My Ying'er is indeed amazing. Once this movable type printing technique is released, it will benefit the world." Yan Liang put his arms around Huang Yueying's waist and praised.
Huang Yueying sighed, "Your Majesty is a master of magic and martial arts. He can write such a strange work as "East Jieshi" and also suggest that I create this movable type printing technique. Your Majesty is truly beneficial to the world. I think,
In history, I am afraid that no one can surpass His Majesty.” (To be continued...)