Cui Xie earned three talents to help write popular science picture books. Zhu Zhishan was most gratified. He took the initiative to hold a small meeting at their house, and studied with Li, Wang, and Bian how to divide and cooperate.
The three new authors were stunned when they saw him.
He is the author of "Youth Jinyiwei", and his name is prominently published on the covers of those two books. Although the first book "Capturing Li Guang" is a bit outdated, the second book "Dou Chen Yun" is freshly released. As the new book is sold out, there are still rumors of "Zhu Zhi Shan" in the two capitals and neighboring provinces. Only name.
However, Li Mengyang and others really didn't expect that the set of "Youth Jinyiwei" was actually written by Cui Xie, and asked by Zhu Caizi.
Isn't he a scholar of classics who is profound in science, and he can figure out the principles of heaven? Isn't he a Qingliu minister who is concerned about the country and the people, full of food taxes and military affairs? Isn't he a famous teacher who takes care of junior scholars and prints papers for students' exams
He is a man who is full of classics, does not know romance, and does not even write poetry at literary conferences. How did he come up with the idea of printing this new Jinyiwei comic
It's hard to say in front of Cui Xie if you look down on people like that. Li Mengyang searched for Zhu Zhishan and Wang Shouren behind his back, asked them how Cui Xie became the editor-in-chief of "Jin Yiwei", and asked Wang Shouren, an insider, why he didn't tell them.
If I knew earlier that he was not a Taoist teacher, when he wrote an essay that night, he had to push him to write a good essay that was serious and skillful, so please enjoy it later!
Zhu Zhishan smiled and said: "Master Li, don't blame Brother Wang Xian, this is really your own misunderstanding. Don't you hear about the relationship between Master Ju Anzhai and Master Cui? Don't you see that Xie Zhenfu in Jinyiwei's painting book is Master Cui. His neighbor, the two uncles are his disciples
Others don't know much, but Li Mengyang had impeached Zhang Jiayou for being over-loving when he first entered the dynasty, and he knew the identity of Er Zhang the most.
However, Zhang Guozhang is at home to maintain health and cultivate immortals. The uncles love to fight corruption. Not only do they have no grudges with them, but they are also high-quality relatives who are more liked by the civil servants. At that time, he was impeaching the relatives of the Queen Mother Zhou who had not made the duke. Zhang Guozhang should not have made the duke first, and the emperor had given the Zhang family too many imperial estates, and nothing else could be faulted.
When he wrote the memorial, he also thought that the Zhang family could become the clear stream among their relatives since the three generations of the Ming Dynasty, which may be related to Cui Yuegu's persuasion and education...
But I didn't expect it to be related to the point where even "Youth Jinyiwei" was edited by Cui Xie!
Zhu Zhishan taught him without seeing any strangers: "You can guess by looking at those characters that this set of painting books was collected by him according to the cases handled by his family and friends. However, the manuscripts of his books are distributed to the contemporary talents to write. Yes, the person who wrote it also has his own ambitions for the country, so the more he writes, the farther he writes, the richer the story becomes…”
In the future, when you write, you will still include what you want to write and what you want to teach the people to listen to. Wouldn't it be considered as an application of our scholar's ambition to educate the people
With the guidance of their seniors, Li Mengyang and the three quickly learned the skills of entraining private goods into the script. Fortunately, he had to pass Cui Xie's review in the end. He saw that it didn't matter, and he passed it. He deleted too many things. Finally, he added the popular science knowledge part he wrote and taught people to print it into a book.
The purpose of writing this picture book is to popularize science, and the pictures in the technical part are extremely heavy.
Whether it's "The Case of Xie Qianhu's Skillful Deception of Pigs" in the prequel of Jinyiwei to popularize pig farming techniques; or "Gongsun Shengdian Doucheng Immortal", which tries to explain soybean hybridization; The Elder Wisdom Leads the Water from the Heavenly River"; "Zhuge Liang Builds a Gray City in One Night", which promotes the method of building a house of longevity in Wang Zhennong's book... No matter how wonderfully written the story is, it is all two or three sentences, three or four sentences to make a picture. Only the popular science part consists of one sentence and one image, or even several images in one sentence, so detailed that the seed pits are dug a few inches deep and a few seeds are sprinkled inside.
I taught a few talented people to read the compiled comic book first, and everyone felt a sense of self-confidence in their hearts, "I can farm/feed pigs/build plaster houses when I go back." They clenched the book and asked Cui Xie, "Sure enough , as long as you follow the pictures in the book, you can do these things?"
This is something he has seen people do with his own eyes and has recorded countless data. How could it not work? He even drew the amount of lime powder to disinfect when raising pigs, how to bury pottery water pipes with drip irrigation holes when diverting water to reduce water leakage and evaporation, and how to mix grass stems and paper tendons when making plaster bricks. Just so that people can make it after reading the picture book.
Cui Xie nodded with a smile: "If you don't believe it, you can try it yourself. Others are a little more troublesome, but legal plaster can be made in all seasons, so let's take brick scraps, Baishan mud, tung oil... Come try?"
Only the Cui family's house was given by the emperor, and it was also called Xie Ying, who had built it to a new level. It was a pity that the snow-white gables were painted with plaster. There was an old house in the house that Li Mengyang rented, and the walls were peeled off in several places. A few people gathered together to buy a few materials written in the book, pounded paper tendons, grass stalks, mixed putty, and tried them with a trowel. Painted once.
After the wall is dry, it is really smooth and flat, even if you get close to it with a torch, it won't catch it. Generally, it won't fall off if you knock it twice, just like a good wall.
Really useful! If those wooden houses were covered with a layer of plaster like this, they would not know how to prevent fire and how would they be able to live in for a long time!
Several talented people conducted experiments by themselves, and became more confident in the popular science comics they wrote, and they became more active in writing manuscripts. Even Wang Jiusi, who was studying in the Hanlin Academy, was so busy all day that he had to make up a few pages of "Xiao Zhou Hou Cloth Machine Teaser" while he was at work.
However, after reading the volume of "Building a Ash City", editor-in-chief Cui shifted his focus from crops and studied cement instead.
In fact, the materials used in Wang Zhen's legal plaster are very similar to cement, which aroused his thought. In the countryside, there are still people who use ground pottery, porcelain, brick powder mixed with lime to make earth cement. Let’s push it back, these raw clay and lime for burning ceramics… It seems that there is something else, and they should be burned together in the furnace. Can you burn cement
It's just that I don't know what temperature to burn, and I'm afraid that the quality of the burned cement will be poor. After building the wall, it will fall and hit people... No wonder the roofs of ancient houses are empty. A board smashed down, it can really kill people.
Or don't rush to use high-tech products such as bamboo reinforced concrete and cement prefabricated panels. This cement burns out like plaster, so just paint the walls.
Cui Xie found Xie Ying and asked him if there were any farmers in his family who could burn bricks, and asked them to try out a local cement.
Wang Zhen's "legal plaster" looks quite similar to the raw material of cement, except that it takes half a year to dry the bricks made of plaster into hard as stone bricks; his cement is just like the brick powder and lime. , but don't use tung oil and glutinous rice pulp, ask the craftsmen to find other things that are easy to solidify after drying and mix them in, and think of making quick-drying cement.
You can really put the right materials and proportions. It should be dry in two or three days after pouring water. Just looking at the hardening speed can tell whether it is successful or not.
Xie Ying thought for a while and said, "I don't need to burn a kiln for this, right? I don't need to go to the countryside. I asked them to make a small courtyard and just try it out at home. We both stare at each other often, they don't dare to be lazy, they make it out. faster.
Choi Xie agreed immediately.
Also, it is too late to find a kiln worker when the unearthed cement is discovered first, and then the official cement is fired.
The Xie family's house was full of empty courtyards, so Xie Ying randomly found a courtyard where he could see the situation clearly from sitting on the upper floor of the library, and asked someone to buy lime, old bricks, mills, stone mills, and raise his head. The mule grinds and grinds bricks, mixed with lime and various viscous materials to make cement.
When the master pats his head to come up with something, the servants have to work hard.
Thanks to Cui Xie's successful experience in the past few years, the Xie family members have unconditional trust in him. The Xie family was busy with his words, but they didn't think that their master was tempted by the neighbors, and he made some messy things to cause trouble. On the contrary, he felt that Mr. Yue Gu must have obtained some kind of immortal recipe, and their family helped to get it out, and they could also touch the light of immortals.
Just hearing the name of cement is one level higher than ordinary plaster!
The servants of the Xie family all joined in the fun, and even the cook had to go to the yard to take a look and give pointers to Jiangshan. Master Cui simply moved to the library in the middle of the garden and lived there, supervising the work of the Xie family and the work of his own author.
After July, Brother He returned to Beijing with his wife, Mrs. Xie. The two were still in the old house of Cui Mansion, living together with Brother Heng and his wife.
In August, in the Northern Zhili Township Exam, and Brother He won the 120th Juren, but Brother Heng failed to pass the exam. He didn't care too much, so he simply donated a prison student and went to the Imperial College to sit in prison, completely eliminating the idea of examination. And brother He became the focus of the Cui family. He went to Shijiaofu for a mock test every three days. He was more like a prisoner than his second brother.
After the Luming Banquet, Ju Anzhai launched a new comic strip series "Daily Agricultural Classics".
The real name is actually called "The Book of Getting Rich", which is simple and rude, easy to understand, and popular among the people.
But when the authors heard the name, they all rose up and demanded a name change. Li Mengyang generously stated his interests and persuaded Cui Xie to change it to "New Interpretation of the Agricultural Classics" or "New Agricultural Books", in short, the word "rich" should not be used! The word "get rich" carries a vulgarity of eagerness for quick success and greed for good money, and it is not something written by their scholars!
Cui Xie felt extremely regretful that "The Book of Getting Rich", such a good name as a treasure of CCTV's seven TV shows, could not be used, but he was afraid that the writers would make a fuss and go on strike, so he had no choice but to choose another program.
The daily agricultural classics, peasant friends will know that this book is a agricultural classic that needs to be read every day, and it is not bad.
He changed the name of this set of books, and the authors breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhu Zhishan even said bluntly: "It's nothing to do with others, I have received the grace of Master Cui's glasses, and you have taught me to be a jinshi in the entrance examination. The reason for writing a manuscript for you. If you had to name this book "The Book of Getting Rich", I would have to write it under a pseudonym."
The three of Li Mengyang also had the same idea. They are all true geniuses, and they pride themselves on their literary talent. They feel that readers must be impressed by their writing, and they are not picky about their shortcomings, so they all have their real names printed on the front of the comic strip like Zhu Zhishan to show their identities.
It is rare for Cui Xie to add a name to the comic strip. In the picture albums that wrote about the techniques he developed by himself, a line of "Technical Guidance Cui Xie" was added on the bottom of the inner cover. Those picture albums that changed the wording of Wang Zhen's "Nongshu" were annotated with the original work and wrote Which chapter to quote from.
The content of this series of comics is not as compact and exciting as Jin Yiwei's. They have printed thousands of sets and put them on the market. Before they can be sold in the surrounding prefectures and counties, they are all digested in the capital. There are still many readers lining up in front of the study room, waiting for them to print new ones as soon as possible.
Cui Xie didn't understand why the book was so popular.
This set of books is aimed at farmers. In order to reduce costs, the drawings are not very delicate except for the parts related to agriculture. The printing aspect is also as simple as possible, except that the cover still uses the color printing technology of the stencil.
He was really puzzled, and embarrassed to ask others, so he secretly asked Xie Ying: "Why are so many people reading it? I thought that people in Beijing would not read such a book, and I was going to ask people to take it to the countryside and sell it to the dealers. "
Xie Ying smiled and said, "Who told you to name it "Daily Agricultural Classic"? If it was still called "The Book of Getting Rich", eight out of ten people who bought it today would not buy it."
Those who read this book are not the young people who read "Jin Yiwei", but the old gentlemen who call themselves moral models. They also liked this fresh color picture book, but they couldn't see the Jinyiwei comic strip, which was called "playing with despair", so they could only endure it. This set of books has the word "Nongjing" in the name, and it can be regarded as a book that is economical and beneficial to the people. Don't they have to rush to buy it
The country is based on agriculture, and what they see is not the fragrant or bizarre stories in it, but the way to calm the people and govern the world. So don't look at what's written in this comic strip are the same things as ordinary novels and storybooks on the market, but in the book there is a way to guide farming, animal husbandry and mulberry farming, which can be put on the desk in a grand manner!
Cui Xie thought about it, shook his head and smiled: "So it turns out, I guessed the target market wrong. The scholars of the Ming Dynasty all have a plot of farming and reading family heirlooms, and selling the "Nongjing" is a bonus of feelings..."
That's why Ju Anzhai's family couldn't print this book, so let's cooperate with others according to the method of printing the Three Kingdoms. Go to various places to find bookstores for cooperation, and let the local bookstores embroider the images on the inner pages of their home blocks. They are only responsible for selling the covers of the engraving and color printing...
He doesn't plan to make money from the "Daily Agricultural Classic", and it is the real purpose to be able to promote the technology.
Cui Xie frowned slightly, thinking about the issue of cooperation with bookstores around the world, his eyebrows were suddenly held down, and he rubbed a few times to loosen the wrinkled Chuanwen. He looked up, but saw Xie Ying looking down at him, her deep eyes as if trying to read into his heart: "Your book is now a book on the desk of an official and a scholar, what else is there to be sad about? If you're bothered, don't think about them first, just think about me."
yes. As long as he saw Xie Ying, he really didn't want to frown, and unconsciously smiled.