Li Xiu was waiting for Xiao Yu in the side cutting room of the printing press, but he didn't expect that he would not come on the left or right, which made Li Xiu very surprised. He asked someone to search for it, but soon someone came to report that he had met Xiao Yu at the side of the printing press.

When Li Xiu learned that Xiao Yu was actually on the printing office, he couldn't help but be very surprised, so he stepped here and saw Xiao Yu standing outside the printing workshop, looking inside on tiptoe, with the expression on his face as if he was surprised and happy, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Seeing Xiao Yu being so stunning, Li Xiu had to walk up and speak, "I wonder what's wrong with Duke Song coming to look for him?"

After hearing Li Xiu's words, Xiao Yu woke up and turned around and looked at Li Xiu. However, at this time, there was no trace of anger on his face. Instead, he looked at Li Xiu incredible ways. After a while, he spoke: "How did the prince consort think of this method of printing books?"

"What does Duke mean? Don't you believe that I can come up with this solution?" Li Xiu said with some dissatisfaction at this time. If he were to ordinary people, he would not be so unreasonable. It's just that Xiao Yu and him had a conflict. The two of them had a fight in the Liangyi Hall just now, so he was naturally very sensitive to Xiao Yu's words.

However, what Li Xiu did not expect was that Xiao Yu was not angry when he heard his thorny question, but explained patiently: "I think the prince consort misunderstood what I meant. I just saw pages of the Analects of Confucius being printed with my own eyes. If I were asked to copy the words on these pages, it would probably take half an hour to copy them. But in the hands of these craftsmen, the printing was completed in an instant. I just counted it. The pages they printed in one hour could make me copy them for a year, and they had to be free from eating, drinking, or sleeping to copy them."

When Xiao Yu said it at the end, he couldn't help but look of admiration on his face. Although he was a nobleman, his family tutoring was very strict since childhood, especially in terms of reading. In order to strengthen his memory, he often copied books, and even his collection of books in his family was copied by him from a young age.

Li Xiu was stunned when he heard Xiao Yu's words, and then looked at the other party carefully and found that Xiao Yu didn't seem to be lying, which surprised him. However, the other party's attitude changed, and he couldn't be so cold-eyed, so he coughed and replied, "Actually, this movable type printing is nothing. If Mr. Xiao is interested, I can take you to the bureau!"

"That's great. I'm just about to understand how this printing works!" Xiao Yu couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard Li Xiu's words. Although he had a prejudice against Li Xiu before, this printing technique shocked him greatly. Although he had heard about the printing company before, it was better to see the reality with his own eyes.

At that moment, Li Xiu took Xiao Yu to start from the layout and introduced him one by one. The principle of movable type printing is very simple, so Xiao Yu could understand it at first glance. However, although the principle is simple, each process has many wonderful ideas, which also made Xiao Yu admire him, and his prejudice against Li Xiu completely disappeared without realizing it.

Finally, Li Xiu brought Xiao Yu to the binding house. This was also the last step in printing books, which was to bind the cut-edged pages into books. However, due to the limitations of the times, the books at this time could only sew the pages with thread, which is the thread-bound book in later generations. Of course, binding books is not as simple as sewing clothes, but requires special tools.

After visiting the entire book printing shop, Xiao Yu picked up a bound Analects and flipped through it. He couldn't help but sigh: "I used to copy an Analects for at least several days, but if I put it here, they could bind dozens or hundreds of books in one hour. It was amazing. If this had been done, I'm afraid that all scholars in the world would not have to worry about not having any books to read."

Li Xiu could understand Xiao Yu's feelings. In fact, since the establishment of the Book Printing Company, almost everyone who has been here has such feelings. The more people read, the more they have experienced it. After all, there is no scholar who has not copied books. However, the emergence of printing technology means that future scholars will no longer have to suffer such hardships.

"Yes, I presented printing techniques to Your Majesty to make books cheaper, and the dissemination of books also represents the dissemination of knowledge. If everyone can accept the teachings of saints, there will be no more sins in the world!" Li Xiu also sighed at this time. Although Li Xiu had many objections to the Confucian doctrine, one thing cannot be denied, that is, Confucianism sets a code of conduct for people, which is more conducive to the development of human society.

"The prince-consort's move is indeed a benefit to the people and the country. Xiao is not talented, so he thanks the prince-consort on behalf of all the scholars in the world!" Xiao Yu also showed a solemn expression when he heard this, and then bowed respectfully to Li Xiu.

Li Xiu hurriedly returned the gift when he saw this, but before he could say anything, Xiao Yu said again: "But I have something to ask for when I come to find the prince-consort, and I also want to ask the prince-consort to help me."

"You are polite, please make any requests!" Li Xiu had guessed before that Xiao Yu must have something to do when he came to see him, and it might be related to the academy. However, he didn't expect that after the other party came to the book printing company, he unexpectedly reached a settlement with him. Although Li Xiu didn't care, others' attitude towards him, it would be better to have one friend than to have one more enemy.

"In fact, it's not a big deal. It's just that the academy needs to recruit a large number of students. His Majesty proposed an idea, that is, the court will contribute to providing all students with books for their study, and this also requires the help of the printing press!" Xiao Yu finally raised his request at this time and said.

"It turns out that this is the matter. We must cooperate with the academy. Mr. Xiao only needs to prepare a sample of the books he needs. I will arrange for people to print these books first!" Li Xiu nodded immediately and said, "The academy is in a tight time, so Li Xiu naturally agreed immediately.

"Then I would like to thank my husband!" Xiao Yu said with great gratitude. Originally, Li Shimin ordered this matter, and he was not afraid that Li Xiu would not agree before, but now his attitude towards Li Xiu has changed greatly, so he spoke very politely.
Chapter completed!