Chapter 898 Movable Type Printing Three-in-One



It was already autumn, and before we knew it, the sky had become very high.

There are some cotton candy-like white clouds floating in the blue sky.

A relatively cool breeze blew by, and the leaves on the trees rustled.

The papers in front of the children who were taking the exam were rustling in the wind. Amid the rustling sound, two children put down their pens and moved their legs to chase the papers that were blown away by the wind.

Han Cheng, the invigilator, couldn't help but smile when watching this scene. Suddenly, he felt a sense of time and space confusion.

It was as if I was back in elementary school, carrying the small stool I brought from home and squatting in the open space outside the classroom to take exams.

It was quiet all around, the sunlight was shining on my body, making me feel warm. Apart from some numbness in my legs from squatting for so long, I felt fine.

Time passed quietly, and people began to hand in their papers one after another.

This time, Han Cheng did not collect the papers, but handed the matter over to Shitou, Yuan and other teachers from the Qingque tribe.

There were only four invigilators including Han Cheng. On the one hand, it was because the minors in the tribe were very honest and would not cheat. On the other hand, the papers from the third batch onwards had not been copied yet, and the rest of the people were still working overtime to copy the papers.

The test papers with names written on them were collected together, some were filled with names, while others had large blank spaces.

Han Cheng asked the minors who had been taught the test papers to rest for a while and continue with the math test later.

During their break, Han Chengshitou and a few others went to the toilet, then divided the papers into four parts and prepared to start grading them soon.

Among them, Han Cheng got the most papers, almost half.

Sitting on a wooden chair with a backrest, Han Cheng took the time to correct more than a dozen papers, then stood up and announced the start of the second exam.

These minors returned to their previous seats and sat down quickly.

Stone, Circle and Yellow Bug began handing out math test papers.

After looking for a while, Han Cheng sat down again, leaned back on the chair, crossed his legs, put the test paper on his legs, and held a pen dipped in red ink in one hand to correct the Chinese test paper.

It was quiet all around, with only the occasional sound of wind blowing through the leaves and the sound of some children flipping through their test papers.

Fu Jiang came over at some point and lay down beside Han Cheng, resting his chin on his front paws, with his tail lazily swaying from time to time.

After correcting the papers for a while, Han Cheng raised his head and looked around, then continued to correct the papers in his hand.

The time is beautiful, with peace and tranquility.

It even made Han Cheng want to become a teacher in the tribe.

This first batch of papers were very simple, so they were graded very quickly. By the time these children handed in their math papers, Han Cheng and his colleagues had almost finished grading them.

After the math test, Han Cheng and his colleagues took the papers back. After grading all the Chinese papers, Han Cheng took them all over and added them up as he was very fast at math to calculate the total scores.

The rest of the people started marking math papers.

According to the plan, two more exams will be held in the afternoon to select second-year students, so we must hurry.

After a busy period, both the Chinese and mathematics papers were graded.

Just like in the previous teacher examination, the number of people who passed in Chinese was far higher than the number of people who passed in mathematics.

This time, there were a total of 453 people taking the exam, 371 of them passed the Chinese test, and 252 passed the mathematics test.

There were two hundred and two people who passed both Chinese and mathematics.

Han Cheng's plan was to have those who failed to pass even one subject start directly from preschool classes along with those who had never been trained in Chinese literacy.

Those who have only passed one subject will start from the first grade but will not participate in the second grade assessment.

Only those who have passed both Chinese and mathematics can take the second grade exam, which is the afternoon exam.

Those who fail the afternoon exam will continue to the first grade, and those who pass any subject can go to the second grade.

The following are similar.

After lunch and some busy work, Han Cheng and his team finished the statistics, wrote down the names of those who only passed one subject, and notified them to move on to the first grade.

At the same time, a statistics was made for those who did not pass any subject and asked them to attend preschool classes.

Those who have passed both subjects will continue to take the next exam.

After such a selection, Han Cheng found that there were a lot of first-year students.

There were 169 people who only passed the Chinese test, and 50 people who only passed the math test. The total number of people who passed the two tests was 219.

If we add in those who didn't pass the second-grade exam, I'm afraid the number will easily exceed two hundred and fifty.

It easily exceeds the total number of students of all ages from the second grade and above.

Without a doubt, the largest number of students are in pre-school and first grade.

It will take another two years for the situation to return to normal.

The afternoon passed quietly. In the lighted room, Han Cheng and others continued to correct, tally, and copy scores, and carry out related matters...

Two days later, all the exams had been completed and the classes and grades had been divided according to the exam results.

As expected, the higher you go, the fewer qualified people there are.

For example, in the highest grade, the fifth grade, there are only thirteen students, and except for three who passed both Chinese and mathematics, the rest all passed only a single subject.

The preschool class is divided into two classes, each with more than 70 students. The first grade has the largest number of students, divided into four classes, each with more than 60 students.

Apart from these two outliers, there are fewer classes in the remaining grades, with only one student each.

After the grades and classes are divided, teacher resources need to be allocated.

Because there are fewer students in the upper grades, the two highest-level courses, Stone and Circle, are taught to both fourth and fifth graders.

In addition to studying cultural subjects, the children in the tribe also need to learn other things and participate in labor, so they only have classes half a day.

And there are two days of rest in seven days.

In this way, Shitou and Yuan were fully busy teaching two grades.

For the remaining thirteen teachers who had just passed the exam, Han Cheng picked those with lower academic performance and good personalities to be teachers of preschool and first grade. Some of them also needed to teach two classes.

After finishing all these, the next step is to find an empty house to serve as a temporary classroom before the new classroom is built.

Before this series of tedious, detailed, yet indispensable and unomitted tasks were completed, the autumn harvest in the tribe had already begun.

After a sumptuous feast, the Qingque tribe entered the annual harvest season.

The children in the tribe were very lucky. They had just passed the exams and were assigned to grades and classes. Before school started, they were already on vacation and joined the autumn harvest with the adults.

As for Han Cheng, he still hadn't left the tribe with his men as he still had some things to do.

It's still about teaching.

When he was compiling the textbooks before, he did not think about grading the students in the tribe, so now he has to revise the previously compiled textbooks.

At the very least, textbooks for each corresponding grade should be compiled.

Therefore, he split the two books he had previously edited and expanded and extended them on the basis of the previous ones.

The later the Chinese text is and the higher the grade, the longer the text is and the more advanced the content is.

Mathematics textbooks go further and go beyond just geometric concepts like perimeter, area, and volume.

Including the angles, these are also written out.

At the same time, he also included reciprocals, fractions, decimals, linear equations, simple squares and cubes in the corresponding textbooks.

Because he was always thinking about Jinguan City and rice in the south, Han Cheng worked really hard during this period. He kept writing these things from morning to night, really day and night.

Even when I was humming some tunes with my sister Bai Xue at night, I was thinking about how to write a certain text or what a certain law is.

In the past, he always envied people who sat in the office holding a pen, but now, he doesn't envy them at all.

Who says sitting in an office is easy?

The pen is not light at all to hold.

This is not only mentally taxing, but also physically taxing.

After a busy day, I feel dizzy.

It was not until this time that Han Cheng suddenly realized that his thoughts some time ago were wrong.

If time could flow backwards, space could change, and I could go back to the past, I would never again have the idea of ​​​​locking up some Mo Shebai in a small dark room.

I won't play his little hook for no reason anymore...

Time passes quietly in the busy days.

By the time he finished these things and finalized the teaching materials, the first batch of millet planted in the tribe had been harvested and the second batch of millet had already begun to be harvested.

Han Cheng took a short rest and then called together Shitou, Yuan, Huangchong and others for a meeting.

The main thing was to explain the issues of copying and application of these newly compiled textbooks, and let them take the time to study the textbooks of the grade they teach, and ask him immediately if they don't understand something.

After resolving all these issues, he quickly led his men south.

For this reason, Han Cheng specially approved them to temporarily not participate in the tribe's autumn harvest.

So, Shitou and the others began to study intensively. When they encountered something they didn't understand, they would ask Han Cheng, and many times they would write down some of what Han Cheng said in a small notebook.

Shitou's task was heavier, not only because he needed to teach fourth and fifth grades, but also because Han Cheng had told him some things about making bamboo paper later, and asked him to write them down and explore them when the time came.

Moreover, during this period of time, he also needed to instruct several people in the tribe from time to time on how to produce the kind of paper already available in the tribe.

This is because with the compilation of textbooks and the conduct of various examinations, the demand for paper in the tribe suddenly increased, so it was necessary to hurry up and produce a batch.

In between doing these things, Han Cheng also took the time to check the things the tribe had prepared for this trip south.

He also called together some high-level members of the tribe, including the witch and the eldest brother, to arrange matters for the second half of the year.

The main thing is to hold the Winter Games, select qualified tribal slaves to become citizens of the tribe, and then hold a meeting to free slaves and drink green bird wine with the new citizens.

These matters are important to the development and stability of the tribe and need to be arranged properly.

If nothing unexpected happens, he will have to wait until the next year to open up the paddy fields and plant the seedlings before returning, so these things need to be arranged in advance.

The final solution reached was to hold the hero worship ceremony and the Winter Games as scheduled.

As for the matter of abolishing slavery, a discount needs to be made.

When the Winter Games are held, the names of all those who will be freed from slavery will be announced.

At the same time, these people will move out of the slave courtyard and live in the inner courtyard, and enjoy all the rights and interests that citizens of the Qingque tribe should enjoy.

However, the issuance of resident ID cards and the drinking of Green Bird wine to join the tribe will have to wait until Han Cheng returns.

On the one hand, Han Cheng thought about it and felt that these things should not be done by other people. On the other hand, these things were done after Han Cheng arrived. From the beginning to now, Han Cheng has been the leading actor in all the events. People in the tribe have become accustomed to it, and there is a trend of developing towards unwritten rules.

If we hand it over to Wu and the eldest brother, not only will the people in the tribe disagree, but Wu and the eldest brother themselves will not be used to it.

It was they who took the initiative to propose to postpone the two ceremonies until after Han Cheng returned.

In addition to these things, Han Cheng also gathered Heiwa, Bo, Gu, Dou, Laoyang and others and instructed them to continue reclaiming land, intensifying grazing, and building a blue brick school in the second half of the year based on the various existing lands.

The things are scattered, but I have to explain a few things.

After explaining all this, Han Cheng called Bo and Heiwa separately and explained the matter of printing to them.

The technology tree of printing technology must be opened. Han Cheng was really fed up with copying books and papers during this period.

Nowadays, when Han Cheng sees something that needs to be copied into dozens or hundreds of copies, he feels pain in his wrist.

"...wait a minute, you can make clay or wood into small cubes, and on one side, carve the words upside down...carve more commonly used words, and less commonly used words...In the future, when the tribe needs to copy a lot of things, arrange these words one by one, make them solid, brush ink on them, and then print paper on them, and you will immediately get a new article..."

Han Cheng talked to the two people about printing technology.

Instead of first using woodblock printing and then movable type printing, movable type printing was used directly.

Woodblock printing is not suitable for the current tribes.

Even the thing with the highest duplication rate in the tribe now only has about 300 copies, and most of them have only a hundred or so copies, or even less.

Under such circumstances, it is really not cost-effective to carve the plates and then print them.

It can be copied manually without waiting for the engraving to be completed.

Movable type printing, which can be disassembled and reassembled, is more suitable for small-scale printing in the tribe.

After all, the biggest trouble with movable type printing is the making of the movable type. As long as the movable type can be made well and other problems can be overcome, it will be much more convenient to use.

Moreover, if any character is damaged, you can just replace it. It is not like carving a plate, where if one character is damaged, the entire plate will be scrapped.

Han Cheng was not unfamiliar with movable type printing, because he had learned about this chapter in the history textbook when he was in school.

Although I have not done any specific operations and do not understand some of the details, it is enough to have this general direction and framework.

The remaining things can always be figured out through repeated experiments.

After all, the most important thing about this thing is creativity.

Bo and Heiwa are both carpenters and weavers, and one is a potter and mold maker. They are still exploring the path of porcelain making and are not in the same system as cultural and educational undertakings.

Therefore, after listening to Han Cheng talk about movable type printing, although he was also curious about the Son of God's idea, he was not particularly impressed.

But people like Stone, Circle, and Yellow Bug are completely different.

After Han Cheng explained this matter to Bo and Heiwa, they all became excited when they learned about movable type printing.

Having copied a lot of things these days, they can deeply understand that if such things can really be made, how much benefit it will bring to the tribe.

Not only can they be freed from the heavy work of copying, but they can also quickly promote the development of tribal teaching.

Not to mention anything else, just the issue of textbooks can be solved quickly.

After all, textbooks are different from test papers. There are many words in textbooks, and it takes a long time to copy one.

Think about the children in the tribe. After the autumn harvest, everyone can hold two new books and sit in the classroom to study. Shitou, Yuan, Huangchong, Xiaomei and others can't help but feel excited and intoxicated.

Such a scene is so beautiful that it makes people intoxicated just by imagining it.

While admiring the Son of God's genius idea, these fifteen people came together to find their Son of God and told him that they all wanted to participate in this matter and wanted to make such a good thing as soon as possible.

Worried that Han Cheng would not agree, they made assurances without waiting for Han Cheng to speak, saying that this would absolutely not affect things like copying textbooks and preparing lessons.

Since they had said this, Han Cheng naturally had no reason to refuse.

Moreover, their action also reminded Han Cheng that he should leave related matters to relevant people to complete.

Although people like Shitou, Yuan, and Huangchong are not carpenters or potters, they will have to deal with words frequently in the future, so it seems more appropriate to let them do seal carving.

As for the use of clay for making movable pottery type and the firing process, it would be enough to let Heiwa give some more guidance.

Moreover, Bo and Heiwa both have a lot of things to do.

For example, the carpentry room headed by Bo needed to hurry up and produce a large number of tables and chairs specifically for teaching.

We also need to quickly produce a lot of blackboards to hang on the wall and small blackboards for minors to use.

In addition to these, when building blue brick and tile houses, the doors and windows also need to be made by them.

As for Heiwa, he is also very busy. In addition to pottery and molds, he is now also exploring how to use kaolin to fire porcelain. At the same time, he is also the main person responsible for guiding the firing of blue bricks in the tribe.

However, movable type printing, a new tool involving several difficulties, requires someone to calm down and spend a lot of energy and time to study it seriously.

It is obvious that Bo and Heiwa are not very suitable for doing this.

In comparison, it would be more appropriate to leave it to Shitou, Yuan, Huangchong and Xiaomei.

After thinking these things through, Han Cheng called Bo and Heiwa and gave them new instructions, asking Shitou and his team to take the lead in the research of movable type printing, with Bo and Heiwa serving as assistants.

Bo, Heiwa, Shitou and others seemed very happy about Han Cheng's new arrangement...

After arranging all these small matters one by one, half of the second batch of millet planted in the tribe has been harvested.

And Han Cheng is finally about to set off.

In the misty morning, many people had already gathered in the square of the Qingque tribe.

All the supplies that had already been packed, as well as the people who had been clearly informed that they would go to Jinguan City with Han Cheng, were gathered here.

Han Cheng, carrying a backpack, appeared in front of everyone with Little Wandou in one arm and Little Xing'er in the other.

After kissing the two little guys on the face, Han Cheng put them on the ground.

The two little guys were very well behaved. They didn't ask Han Cheng to hold them more. After being put down, they followed Han Cheng obediently.

"Son of God, be careful, drive slowly, don't be so anxious, we will take good care of the tribe..."

The witch gave instructions there.

He had said similar things a few days ago, many times.

Han Cheng listened patiently and lightly vigorously to reassure Wu.

Almost everything that needed to be said had already been said, so Han Cheng did not say anything more. He just stayed here for a while and then set off with his men...

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