Datang romantic little landlord

The manuscript was turned back, but it was gone.

"Teacher, where's the rest of the manuscript?"

"No, I just wrote here."

"..."

Immediately, Ma Zhou and Yan Liben's expressions became very ugly, and they were itching unbearably, when Li Wangyou said nothing, which almost made them both scold their mothers.

Seeing Ma and Zhou's uncomfortable expressions as if they had eaten poop, Li Wangyou almost laughed out loud.

Hey, if you really dragged two people into the water, you will never die, just sit and wait for the update!Back then, Li Wangyou pursued reading online novels in later generations, and it was a sad pursuit.

He has the intention to send the blade to the author, dare to update it faster?

What's even more uncomfortable is that besides chasing after the update, the author who met the eunuch would even have the desire to kill.

Li Wangyou is now ready to use this day's angry move, like an online novel, to update and publish a book.

262 Punctuation

Li Wangyou plans to update the online novels in the same way as later generations. After every five chapters are copied, they will be sent to the bookstore in Hu County, and a volume will be printed and published.

Since the birth of block printing in Huaxia, limited by the engraving techniques and craftsmanship of craftsmen, the printed fonts cannot be too small.

About [-] characters per page, even if it is double-sided printing, the "Analects" of about [-] characters is still [-] to [-] pages thick.

And the paper that Datang can use to print books is much thicker than that of later generations.The thickness of an Analects of Confucius is roughly equivalent to the thickness of a book of about [-] pages in later generations.

Li Wangyou plans to print and publish the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" separately, and publish five chapters at a time, with about 2 words, which is equivalent to the thickness of two Analects.

120 chapters of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" can be published in 24 volumes.

I have worked so hard to copy the books myself, so I naturally have to charge some interest back, which makes those who are waiting to read the books uncomfortable.

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

Li Wangyou thought of another idea, turned to Yan Liben and said, "Liben, I plan to publish this "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", please draw some illustrations for me."

"What are illustrations?" Yan Liben was confused by Li Wangyou's words, and didn't understand what he meant.

Books with illustrations did not appear in large numbers until the Ming and Qing dynasties.

In an era without printing, scholars who copied books could not be allowed to draw illustrations according to each manuscript.With the maturity of block printing technology in the Tang Dynasty, it was possible to realize the illustrations in books.

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

"Uh, the illustrations are based on the contents of the book, drawing accompanying pictures. For example, in the first episode of the Taoyuan Sanjie, you can help me draw a picture of Liu Bei and the three brothers getting married in Taoyuan. All you need is to outline the lines. I People will take it to engraving and printing, and bind it together with the manuscript into a book."

When Yan Liben heard what Li Wangyou said, he couldn't help being very excited.

"Teacher, what do you mean, you also want to print the pictures I drew into a book? Paintings can also be engraved and printed? Me, can I sign it?"

Li Wangyou gave him a strange look, thinking that if you don't sign the signature, who would know that you drew the illustrations?I plan to keep it as a family heirloom.

Hey, if the illustrations of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" were drawn by Yan Liben, how much would they be worth if they were sold in auction houses in later generations?

"Of course, you must sign the book, and every illustration must be signed. Well, you can help me draw an illustration for each chapter. Draw it now, and I will send it to the bookstore today."

Li Wangyou's words made Ma Zhou envious, and cast his fiery eyes on Yan Liben, wishing he could grab the job and let him do it for him.

Both Ma Zhou and Yan Liben had already learned about woodblock printing from Li Wangyou.Both men marveled at the incredible speed at which books could be printed in large quantities.

To write a book and set up a biography, for scholars, no matter what dynasty it is, the temptation is extremely huge.

But the time-consuming and laborious stone carvings, thick bamboo slips, and expensive silk, before the birth of woodblock printing, making books and biographies were beyond the reach of scholars.

Now that Li Wangyou is going to publish a book, Yan Liben can leave his name in it, which is also an incomparably huge temptation, how can Ma Zhou not be envious.

The only regret is that what Li Wangyou wrote is actually a novel.

From the point of view of Ma Zhou and Yan Liben, they both felt that their little teacher was not doing his job properly.

In the Tang Dynasty, novels were not valued by people at that time, and they were regarded as difficult to be elegant.

Not to mention in the Tang Dynasty, even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, those authors who wrote novels, in order to take into account their own reputation, used pen names to publish books.

But Li Wangyou was not afraid of being slandered, anyway, he was only sixteen years old, even if Meng Lang was younger, he should be.Compared with the influence that the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" will bring, that controversy is nothing.

Yan Liben didn't say much, and immediately asked Li Heng to bring him pen and ink, and ran to the side by himself, while flipping through the manuscript, he began to conceive how to draw the illustrations.

However, Ma Zhou asked hesitantly: "Master, your book seems to be wrong and does not match the history books. It is not recorded in the history books that Liu Bei and the three became brothers, but only mentioned that they love each other like brothers. And Gongsun Zan did not Participating in the alliance against Dong, Liu Bei and the other three should not have participated in the battle, so why did Lu Bu say that the Three Kingdoms War came about?"

After listening to him, Li Wangyou couldn't help laughing.

"Bin Wang, what I wrote is a novel, a romance, not official history. This is called artistic exaggeration, er, some parts are fabricated by myself, so there is no need to take it seriously."

Ma Zhou could only nod his head in acceptance of this explanation.

However, he picked up a manuscript copied by Li Wangyou again, and asked, "Master, what do these circles mean in your manuscript?"

Li Wangyou looked up, and Ma Zhou was pointing at the punctuation marks in the book.

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

But he also habitually copied the punctuation marks.

Datang naturally has no punctuation marks, only a symbol called "judu", which means that a paragraph with complete semantics is a sentence.

It was not until the Ming Dynasty that names of people and places appeared, and these were early punctuation marks.

However, what Li Wangyou wrote on the manuscript was the standard punctuation marks of later generations, so Ma Zhou naturally couldn't understand it.

After Li Wangyou thought about it, he was used to plagiarism anyway, so he should continue to copy the punctuation marks.

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

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

"It's because this house is safe to live in. Is the person really sad?" Ma Zhou read out.

Li Wangyou shook his head with a smile, picked up the pen again, and added punctuation marks in the sentence: "Read it again."

"This house is safe and can be lived in. He is a good person, not sad. Hiss... Teacher, the meaning of this has completely changed." Ma Zhou also reacted immediately.

Li Wangyou nodded: "Bin Wang, this is a symbol I created to assist reading, um, I call it punctuation. You see, this circle is called a period, which means the end of a sentence. It looks like a tadpole , which I call a comma, means..."

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