Chapter 15 The Ling Emperor's Obscene View Cai Yan Nan Ye is angry and peeping at Yuxi 6

Chapter 15 Lingdihuang** Guan Cai Yannan Ye's aggrieved peeping at the jade seal (6)

Nan Ye cried when he saw a story and told Cai Yan. He hurriedly comforted him again and asked about Cai Yan's recent situation. Since Nanye left, Cai Yan has moved out of his mansion. Originally, a pair of sisters Qingfeng and Mingyue also wanted to take care of Cai Yan, but they were politely declined by Cai Yan, but Zhang Ning often came to accompany her.

Cai Yong went home before Cai Yan. These days when he lived in an arsenal to escape the plague, the old man was not idle. He had been wandering around the card printing factory, thinking about printing. After returning home, he began to sort out his collection of books. If he wanted to see which books should be printed first, he waited for Nan Ye to come back to discuss with him.

In addition to taking care of Cai Yong, Cai Yan usually helps his father sort out books together. When he remembered Nan Ye, he read and stroked the piano to distract his attention.

As soon as he mentioned printing, Cai Yong suddenly came to his sense and said a bunch of classics that he wanted to publish, such as the Book of Songs and the Analects... Nan Ye's head was big. Cai Yong has no other requirements. He just wants Nan Ye to allocate a workshop for him so that he can start printing as soon as possible.

Nan Ye scratched his head and said to Cai Yong, "Sir, I also want to set up the printing factory for the benefit of the people as soon as possible. It's just that this paper-printed book is completely different from bamboo-binding books. Sir, do you know how long the bamboo slips in this book are?

Cai Yong didn't want to say, "The imperial edict is three feet long, the copying of scriptures and classics is two feet and four inches long, and folk letters are one foot long."

Nan Ye flattered: "Sir is really erudite! This paper book also needs to be sized. And I'm afraid the way of reading and writing this book is also different from the book.

Cai Yongqi said, "Isn't this printing just rubbing the words on bamboo slips on paper? What does it have to do with reading and writing?"

Nan Ye said to Cai Yan, "Please also ask Zhaoji to bring me a book of classics and a pile of paper to explain. If there is a pen and ink, please bother Zhaoji to get it together.

Cai Yan was also curious about the difference between this book and the book. In a short time, he took a book and a pile of paper from Cai Yong's study. There is a pen and ink hall, but there is no need to pick it up deliberately. Cai Yan just studied the ink and waited for Nan Ye to write.

Nan Ye thanked Cai Yan and pointed to the book and said, "Sir, please see, this book is made of bamboo slips, and everyone is used to rolling up bamboo slips from left to right and unfold them from right to left when reading. In this way, our reading habits are right from top to bottom and from right to left?

Cai Yong nodded and said, "It has been like this since ancient times. What's so strange?"

Nanye picked up another pile of paper and said, "If we assume that these papers have been printed into books, how can it be convenient for you to read them in your hand? Or should we bind the upper, lower, left and right sides of this book for easy reading?

Cai Yong took the paper and played with it for a while and said, "Of course, ordinary people hold the book in their left hand, and it is more convenient to read it with their right hand. It should be bound on the left side."

Nan Ye nodded and said, "That's the reason! It can be seen that the binding methods of books and books are completely different. If you write in the way of books, it will inevitably make reading inconvenient. So I hope that the words in this book can be printed from left to right, and change vertical reading to horizontal reading. That's it..." Nan Ye said and took a piece of paper to casually write a few numbers horizontally from left to right, and drew a few horizontal lines to represent the direction of writing.

Cai Yong has also played cards and naturally recognizes numbers. After reading what Nan Ye said, he felt that it was not much convenient. He frowned and couldn't understand why Nan Ye did more.

Cai Yan's eyes lit up. He took the paper to write a mathematical formula of 1+1=2, and then said to Nan Ye, "If you print mathematical books, this horizontal writing is really convenient." It turned out that Nan Ye had been writing horizontally when Arabic numerals were popularized, so Cai Yan felt that it was much more convenient.

Nan Ye saw Cai Yan support him and smiled and said, "It's really difficult to change a reading habit, but once you change it, you will find its convenience. This printed book not only needs to change the way of writing, but also needs to add digital page numbers in the corners, so that as long as you remember the page number, you can easily find the pages you want to read next time. Punctuation should be added between the reading of paragraphs and sentences in the book, so that people can know where to pause at first sight and save paper.

Cai Yong could understand the page number mentioned by Nan Ye, but he didn't know what the punctuation was, so he asked, "What is the punctuation Guanghua said?" Why don't I know?

Seeing that Cai Yan also looked at himself as a curious baby, Nan Ye began to write and draw on paper to play the role of punctuation, which was about the dark. Finally, Nan Ye copied two pages of the book according to the modern writing method and added punctuation marks.

Cai Yong read the sentence according to the punctuation and shouted, "Wonderful!" With this punctuation, you can read and write the article with less ambiguity. And as Nan Ye said, adding punctuation can save paper. In ancient times, it was not without punctuation, but punctuation was very simple. Empty, uppercase and segmentation were usually used to indicate pauses, which was a bit like using spaces, capitalization and carriage return to replace punctuation when typing. If there are more spaces and carriages, it will naturally take up a lot of space, and of course it is a waste of paper.

Seeing that Cai Yong recognized his idea, Nan Ye promised Cai Yong to open a small printing workshop in the arsenal and give it to Cai Yong as an experiment first. When can we print books with clear handwriting and good quality to expand the scale?

Cai Yong appreciated Nan Ye's rigorous style of study. He was not unhappy because he only gave him a small workshop. Instead, he was very excited. After praising Nan Ye well, he sent Nan Ye out.

Nan Ye didn't wake up until he went out. He obviously came to Cai Yan to solve the pain of lovesickness, but in the end, he was pulled by Cai Yong to discuss academic issues for a day. Helpless Nanye had to shake his head and walk to the mansion with a wry smile, thinking that it would be better to make an appointment with Cai Yan tomorrow, so that the two-person world would not be disturbed by Cai Yong, a super light bulb.

Before Nanye, who returned to the mansion, entered the gate, he saw the two sisters Qingfeng and Mingyue standing at the door anxiously and looking left and right. As soon as the two girls saw Nan Ye coming back, they quickly ran over and almost fell under Mingyue's feet.

Nanye didn't know what was urgent, so he quickly turned over and grabbed a pair of sisters and asked, "What's going on in the house?" Why are you so panicked?"

My sister Qingfeng is calmer than my sister. After seeing Nan Ye, she has a backbone again. She breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The mage is back. An angel came to preach the decree and has been waiting for the mage for a day."

Nan Ye's heart thumped when he heard that the eunuch of the decree was issued by the order of the Spirit Emperor. Because Cai Yong was guilty, Nan Ye went to visit Cai Yong and Cai Yan and did not reveal his residence. He only said that he went out to visit his friends. The two maids, Qingfeng and Mingyue, did not know where they had gone, and they could not send letters. Nan Ye was afraid that the two sisters would be wronged at home, so he asked, "But that angel embarrassed you two?"

Qingfeng and Mingyue shook their heads at the same time and said, "That's not the same time. It's just that we were anxious, so we came out to welcome the mage."

As soon as Nan Ye heard that his people were fine, he first relieved half of his heart, and the rest was the eunuch who was worried about the decree. He didn't dare to delay and let Qingfeng and Mingyue lead the way three steps and two steps into the hall.

As soon as he entered the room, a shrill voice sounded: "The mage is really working hard. Today, as soon as he returned to Luoyang, he went out to visit his friends. Our family has been waiting here for a day."

As soon as Nan Ye heard the voice, he knew that it was an old acquaintance Duan Ji. He quickly stepped forward and saluted and said, "I don't know that it's really rude for Grandpa Duan to preach this order today!" Please forgive the crime. I don't know if my father-in-law eats? I'll order someone to prepare."

Duan Kui waved his hand and said, "You're welcome. The servants in the house have already entertained it. Isn't the tea not cold yet? The mage is so anxious to go out to visit his friends, but he went to see his confidant?

Nan Ye frowned and said, "Why did Grandpa Duan say this?"

Duan Ke smiled and said, "Nothing! Nothing! It's more important to spread the decree first. Your Majesty has a decree that Master Xuannanye will take his disciple Xiyuan to discuss the reward tomorrow.

Nanye was specially approved by the Lingdi to see the emperor without kneeling, and saw the officials at the first level, so he just bowed and said, "chen Nanye took the order."