Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 871 - 871 872 You and Jingjing are a perfect match

?Chapter 871: Chapter 872: You and Jingjing are a perfect match! Chapter 871: Chapter 872: You and Jingjing are a perfect match! The Emperor of Xiyun immediately inquired, “Jingjing, what brilliant idea do you have? Speak quickly!”

Anjing said, “Our current books are all handwritten, and not only is copying them by hand time-consuming and troublesome, it’s also prone to errors and omissions. Clearly, we know how to use stamps… has no one considered, based on the principle of stamps, engraving the mirror image of a page of text onto a block? Then, after inking it, we could press the paper onto it, wouldn’t that imprint all the text onto the paper? This method could be used for the other pages, and then bound into a book. This way, it is much simpler, neater, and more reliable than handwriting.”

About ancient movable-type printing and block printing, Anjing had learned from history textbooks.

Seeing that both the Emperor of Xiyun and Su Chengyu were listening excitedly with shining eyes, Anjing felt amused but continued to say, “This method is actually quite simple. Even if I didn’t mention it, someone would have eventually discovered it; it’s just a matter of time. Father, you could start by having someone develop this. Handwritten books are really too expensive, an ordinary poor family can’t even afford a single book, let alone discuss sending their children to school. Furthermore, the books printed this way could also be sold to other countries, cheaper than hand-copied ones, I’m sure other countries would buy them.”