The First Young Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1748 About Movable Type Printing
Now Li Chengqian in the palace can't wait to see Xuan Shijing, not only Li Chengqian wants to see Xuan Shijing, but also His Majesty Li Er also wants to see Xuan Shijing, so Xuan Shijing has to hurry up The dragon head is catching up.

This has not waited for many days of idleness.

Xuan Shijing also complained endlessly in his heart, didn't he make an agreement with Li Chengqian at the beginning, he would be stable at the court, and he would be at ease in Zhuangzi?Why is it like this woman's face, changing at will?

The plan can't keep up with the rapid changes. In this regard, Xuan Shijing really misunderstood Li Chengqian, because Li Chengqian sent a letter to let Xuan Shijing go to Chang'an City, but he didn't tell Xuan Shijing in the letter, saying that His Majesty Li Er also wanted to see him.

After arriving in Chang'an City, originally he wanted to stay in Daozhengfang for one night, and then enter the palace after the early morning of the next morning, but as soon as he arrived at Daozhengfang, Li Chengqian's people were already waiting for him at the gate of the house The one who came was Li Chengqian's confidant eunuch named Lin'an.

Now that Li Chengqian is in charge of the government, Lin'an is beside Li Chengqian, and his status is also rising. However, no matter how high Lin'an's status is, he dare not be presumptuous in front of Xuan Shijing. He is not Deyi, of course, even if Deyi is in In front of people, there have always been rules and regulations. Until now, there is no rule in the Tang Dynasty where the emperor favors eunuchs and makes eunuchs mess with the government. Li Zhi is gone. Where did the emperor who robbed his son and wife come from? Go re Colliers?
Helpless, Xuan Shijing had no choice but to ride a fast horse to Daming Palace in Longshouyuan with Lin'an.

Li Chengqian was still working diligently in the Xuanzheng Hall. After seeing Xuan Shijing, he dropped the memorial in his hand, got up and walked into the hall.

But Lin'an withdrew from the Xuanzheng Hall in a very sensible way, and helped the two of them close the door of the main hall, and guarded outside by himself.

"I have seen Your Highness." Xuan Shijing bowed his hands and saluted.

"It's just you and me in the palace, so there's no need to be so polite." Li Chengqian said with a smile, "I was in such a hurry to find you from Zhuangzi because I have something important to discuss with you."

"Your Highness, is it for the students of the Faculty of Arts to pass the Jinshi exam?" Xuan Shijing asked.

The results of the students of the Faculty of Arts are indeed very good. There were 17 students, and eleven of them were selected. This story has already spread in Chang'an City. When Xuan Shijing entered Chang'an City, he walked from Zhuque Street to Daozhengfang , I heard people on the side of the road talking about it on the road.

You can hear this incident even walking in Chang'an City, let's talk about how widespread this incident is in Chang'an City, the momentum is more violent than the moth that happened before the test.

"There is a reason for this." Li Chengqian said with a smile: "The students of the Faculty of Arts really surprised me, and this made me more and more convinced that there is a great possibility for the things we discussed. of."

"If that's the case alone, it's still slow." Xuan Shijing said, he also guessed that Li Chengqian was happy because of this, but he had to pour cold water on Li Chengqian.

After two years of hard work in the academy, eleven people have been trained, and eleven people are qualified to be officials. Even so, Xuan Shijing can't guarantee what the future of these eleven people will be like. The road they walk is their own, and no one else can interfere. Who knows how they will fare in the officialdom in the future?Maybe it's thunder and rain?According to this speed, Li Chengqian wanted to cultivate his own people to fight against the aristocratic family. It would have been too early, and it would not work in two to thirty years.

Therefore, Xuan Shijing said that this method is useful, but it is slow to implement. Although it has achieved initial results, after two or three years, or three to five years, those retired old people from aristocratic families will definitely be able to see the clues. Let alone two or three years, maybe it won't take so long at all. Once Li Chengqian moves, they can guess what his purpose is.When the time comes, what Li Chengqian and he will have to face will be a violent storm from an aristocratic family.

"Could it be that Xiaojing has a better way?" Li Chengqian asked.

In his opinion, it is already very good for the academy to take such a slow plan and see initial results.

"There is a way, it depends on whether His Highness can fight against the aristocratic family's nonsense." Xuan Shijing laughed.

These days, Xuan Shijing also thought about other things in Zhuangzi, and it really reminded him of something.

The reason why Xuan Shijing asked Li Chengqian to resist the aristocratic family's nonsense was because once this matter happened, it was righteous and there was no reason or excuse to stop the development and spread of this matter. If the aristocratic family wanted to obstruct it, it was just nonsense.

Xuan Shijing still remembered this matter through a Buddhist scripture. When he was in Zhuangzi, he went to the bookstore and saw a scripture in the bookstore called "Diamond Sutra". When reading the Diamond Sutra, Xuan Shijing happened to see it.

It was the engraved and printed Diamond Sutra.

The engraving and printing technology in Datang is not very mature. Basically, the books in the family of the Xuan family are hand-copied, and the books printed by engraving are far inferior to hand-copied. The books in the bookstore, the price is really cheap for rich people, but it is not cheap for ordinary people.

Xuan Shijing saw the engraved books, and then remembered, yes, there is no movable type printing technology in Tang Dynasty now, why didn't he think of it.

Thinking about my own book collection, almost all of them are hand-copied editions. This is no wonder.

The emergence of movable type printing is bound to reduce the printing cost of various books. If the printing cost is reduced, then the price of books on the market will also be reduced?The lower the price, the lower the cost of studying for poor students, and a series of chain reactions triggered by this will all develop in a positive direction.

As for why the aristocratic family has developed so powerfully for so many years, there is no dynasty with a thousand years, only aristocratic families with a thousand years?Isn't it just that there are some intellectuals in the family?The aristocratic family controls knowledge, as long as this pattern is broken, the aristocratic family will only be weakened in the future, and will not become stronger and stronger.

At the same time, the chances of producing talents from poor families will be greatly increased, and the imperial court will gradually gain the initiative. For the aristocratic family, this is digging the roots.

Xuan Shijing explained the matter of movable type printing to Li Chengqian, Li Chengqian was full of enthusiasm, his eyes stared at Xuan Shijing, and the twinkling light in his eyes was called a shining light.

"Therefore, there is no quick solution, but His Highness must be able to withstand the pressure from the court and the aristocratic family." Xuan Shijing said.

(End of this chapter)