Chapter 262

Like the update of later online novels, Li forgets to send every five chapters to the bookstore in Huxian County for engraving and printing.

Since the birth of block printing in China, the font of printing cannot be too small due to the carving technology and technology of craftsmen.

A page of about 200 words, even if it is printed on both sides, the Analects of Confucius with about 10000 words is 30 or 40 pages thick.

The paper of books that can be printed in the Tang Dynasty is much thicker than that of later generations. The thickness of a Book of Analects is also roughly equivalent to the thickness of about 200 pages of later books.

Li Qieyou plans to print and publish the romance of the Three Kingdoms separately, producing five chapters at a time, about 20000 words, equivalent to the thickness of the two Analects of Confucius.

Twenty four volumes of the romance of the Three Kingdoms can be published.

It's hard to copy books by yourself. Naturally, you have to charge some interest back, which makes those who are waiting to read uncomfortable.

Just looking at the depressed appearance of Ma Zhou and Yan Liben in front of him, the belly black man silently praised his method.

Li forgot to worry about another idea and turned to Yan Liben and said, "Liben, I'm going to publish this romance of the Three Kingdoms. Please draw some illustrations for me."

"What is the illustration?" Yan Liben was confused by Li's words and didn't understand what he meant.

Books with illustrations only appeared in large numbers in books of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In the era of no printing, readers who copy books should not draw their own illustrations according to each copy of the manuscript. With the maturity of engraving printing technology in the Tang Dynasty, illustrations appeared in books, which made it possible to realize.

Yan Liben naturally doesn't know what illustration is, so he has this question.

"Er, the illustrations are based on the contents of the book. For example, Ma Zhou's words made him envious and turned his hot eyes to Yan Liben. He wanted to take the job and let himself do it.

Both Ma Zhou and Yan Liben had already learned about engraving printing from Li QIAOYOU. They were amazed at the rapid and large-scale printing of books.

Writing books and making biographies is extremely tempting for readers, no matter what Dynasty.

However, the time-consuming and laborious stone carvings, thick bamboo slips and expensive silk were beyond the reach of readers before the birth of block printing.

Now that Li forgets to worry about publishing a book, it is also a great temptation for Yan Liben to leave a name in it. How can he not be envied by Ma Zhou.

The only regret is that what Li forgets to worry about is actually a novel.

In the eyes of Ma Zhou and Yan Liben, both felt that their little teachers were not doing their jobs.

In the Tang Dynasty, the novel was not valued by the people of the time and was regarded as difficult to ascend the hall of elegance.

Let alone in the Tang Dynasty, even in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, those writers of novels published books under pseudonyms in order to take into account their reputation.

But Li forget worry is not afraid of being slandered. Anyway, he is only 16 years old. Even Meng Lang should be. Compared with the influence of the Book Romance of the Three Kingdoms, that dispute is nothing.

Yan Liben didn't say much. He immediately asked Li Heng to send him pen and ink. He ran to one side, looked through the manuscript and began to conceive how to draw the illustrations.

Ma Zhou hesitated and asked, "Sir, there seems to be some mistakes in your book, which is inconsistent with the history books. The history books do not record that Liu Bei and his three people have sworn as brothers, but only mention that they are like brothers. Gongsun Zan did not participate in the alliance to discuss Dong, so Liu Bei and his three people should not have participated in the war. Why did LV Buyi say the three British war?"

Li forgot to worry and couldn't help laughing when he finished.

"Binwang, I wrote a novel, a romance, not a formal history. It's called artistic exaggeration. Er, some parts are made up by myself, so I don't need to take them seriously."

Ma Zhou could only nod to accept this explanation.

However, he picked up a manuscript copied by Li forgetful again and asked, "Sir, what do these circles mean on your manuscript?"

Li forgot to worry and looked up. Ma Zhou pointed to the punctuation marks in the book.

Although he copied books from right to left and from top to bottom according to the habits of the Tang people, he also changed simplified characters into traditional characters.

But he habitually copied the punctuation marks.

Naturally, there is no punctuation in the Tang Dynasty. There is only a symbol called "sentence reading", which means that a paragraph with complete semantics is a sentence.

People's names and place names appeared in the Ming Dynasty. These are early punctuation marks.

What Li forgot to worry about wrote on the manuscript was the standard punctuation marks of later generations, which ma Zhou naturally couldn't understand.

Li forgot to worry about it. Anyway, he was used to plagiarizing, so he continued to copy the punctuation.

He was not in a hurry to answer Ma Zhou's questions, but raised his hand and wrote a paragraph on the paper: can this house live safely? Is it sad.

"Bin Wang, what do you mean by this?"

"Is this house safe to live in? Is it sad?" Ma Zhou read it.

Li Qieyou shook his head with a smile, raised his pen again, and added punctuation marks to the sentence: "read again."

"This house is safe and can live. It's nice, not sad. Hiss... Sir, this meaning has completely changed." Ma Zhou also immediately responded.

Li Qieyou nodded: "bin Wang, this is a kind of auxiliary reading symbol I created. Well, I call it punctuation. You see, this circle is called a period, which means the end of a sentence. It looks like a tadpole, I call it a comma, which means..."

Li Qieyou simply took a piece of paper, wrote all the punctuation marks on it, and wrote the meaning of these punctuation marks on one side.

Now that you have copied all of them, it's better to promote the punctuation when printing the romance of the Three Kingdoms.

"Wonderful! It's really wonderful! Sir, this punctuation mark is really an artifact. In this way, there will be no more errors in broken sentences."

In the face of Ma Zhou's praise, Li forgot to worry again and nodded calmly, indicating that he was such a genius