Chapter 15 third quarter

Shi Yue quickly forgot about the discussion about the parliament. The Spring Festival is not over yet, and the research and development of wooden movable type printing technology has occupied all his energy.To his surprise, Sang Chongguo would take the initiative to help him. From clay movable type to wooden movable type, the technical difficulty is not great.Under the guidance of Shi Yue, the rotary typesetting frame, which can greatly improve the typesetting efficiency, was also quickly designed.It only took about 20 days, and the complete set of equipment for the wooden movable type printing machine conceived by Shi Yue has been produced as a sample.Sang Chongguo participated in the invention of a new technology for the first time, and he was very enthusiastic. In less than a month, everyone in the printing workshop knew that his young owner was capable and kind, and that these devices could be produced so quickly. , and the labor enthusiasm mobilized by Sang Chongguo are also inseparable.

But in Shi Yue's view, wooden movable type printing is still a crude technology. Since the technology cannot be improved by leaps and bounds for the time being, more advanced management methods should be adopted to improve production efficiency.Shi Yue imagined a large-scale book printing workshop with hundreds of people. Some people specialize in making movable type, some in typesetting, some in typesetting, some in printing, and some in bookbinding.Different people have different salaries, and it works completely on an assembly line—if the scale is large enough, a book of 200,000 words can be printed within 20 days.Considering that the book market at that time was not fully developed, and many people published books at their own expense for engraving and printing, the profit of such a book printing house can be guaranteed.

According to Shi Yue's suggestion, Sang's Printing House formulated the standard size of wooden movable type, and then sent it to other woodblock printing houses to order from them. unexpected.As a result, not only the problem of making wooden movable type was solved, but also the cost of the entire printing workshop was greatly reduced—this method was quickly accepted by the printing workshop guild, and only one year later, the standard size of movable type was no longer determined by the Sang family. Rather, it is formulated uniformly by the guild. ...