"If her method works, it will greatly reduce the cost of papermaking. Combined with movable type printing, books can enter every household and ordinary families will also be able to afford them,"
Manager Chai said solemnly after listening to Lou Zixi's words.
It had always been a troubling issue for Her Majesty the Empress that ordinary people found it difficult to access education. For years, she had invested all the silver she earned into schools everywhere to allow the populace to read and write.
Manager Chai and others had also been thinking about cost-saving measures, because every bit of money saved could help even more people.
Many might laugh at this form of charity, considering it a futile effort. Now, many nobles secretly ridiculed them, saying that a peasant, even if literate, remains a peasant and can never change their strata.