I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 676, try to figure out people's hearts

Guo Jia looked at these steles with admiration. He copied them several times back then, and even earned a lot of living expenses by copying the contents of the steles!But now these precious steles can only be placed here, the wind and rain.

Passing the stele, Guo Jia walked into the Jidu Library, and then Guo Jia was shocked by the scene inside. The interior layout of the Jidu Library is extremely grand, not much worse than the palace of the Han Dynasty. Books written on paper.

Guo Jia looked over at random and found that there were tens of thousands of books on this floor. If calculated according to the five floors, the number of books in this library exceeded hundreds of thousands. You must know that a paper book can hold a carload Zhujuan, the scale of this library is not much worse than that of Dahan Lantai, and only a few people can see Dahan's Lantai, but Daqian's library is generous for the whole world to see.

Guo Jia had no choice but to sigh: "Lei Gong is generous in his work!"

The Guo family came to a bookshelf in the library and found that it said novels!
He couldn't help but smiled wryly. Crab Island collects Dagan's newspapers. Of course, he also knows that the market for Dagan's novels has been extremely prosperous in recent years. Novels make a living, and most of these novels are about idiots who complain about women and how their families decline in troubled times, and they feel sad.

For Guo Jia, thinking about novels like this is just a pastime, and they are not on the table. In such a sacred library, arranging some such books is a bit wasteful!
Guo Jia randomly took out a novel book with "The Biography of Yang Zhen" written on it, Guo Jia flipped through it casually, and found that it recorded all the deeds of Yang Zhen as an official!Most of them are true, but some deeds are exaggerated, but they are written in an easy-to-understand manner, even ordinary people who can read and write can understand them. Obviously, this is for the people of Jidu to see.

Guo Jia looked at it and put it down, and then went to another row of bookshelves, which said Compiled by Zheng Xuan!

Guo Jia's heart was shocked, and he looked at the bookshelf and found that the books on it were "Yi", "Gongyang Chunqiu" and "Santong Li" edited by Zheng Xuan, as well as "Mao Shijian", "Zhou Li", " "Rituals", "Book of Rites" and other books, it can be said that Zheng Xuan's knowledge is all on this one bookshelf, so easily placed on the books, Guo Jia can't believe it?

He took out a copy of "Yi" and looked at it. It was really a book annotated by Zheng Xuan.

He couldn't help but smiled wryly and said: "If it was a big man in the past, these books would be priceless treasures, but now there are not many people who even read them!"

There are a lot of people in the library, and people stop to read all kinds of other books, but few people read and take books by the bookshelf on the Confucian classics side!
Guo Jia understood why. In the past, the big Han used the Six Classics and family status to select officials, so they could become Zheng Xuan's students, which was a shortcut to officialdom. But now Lei Gong doesn't like Confucianism. In his opinion, a Confucian master like Zheng Xuan Also not worth the money.Now the knowledge handed down by various families has become a useless thing, and not many people are willing to read it on the bookshelf.I'm afraid that these aristocratic families are regretting that they have lost the world of the big man. If the big man is still there, their families will not be defeated.

Guo Jia took "Yi" to a place where he could watch it, and sat here quietly reading, and there were many such people beside him, but what these people read were all fiction books that Guo Jia despised just now. Everyone watched with gusto, and the struggle within the powerful family still attracted many people to watch.

After he finished reading the book, he found that there was a person beside him writing something in the library!
Guo Jia looked at it curiously, and found out that the book written by this person was called "The Legend of Heroes of Hangan".

At the beginning, I wrote about Lei Gong’s background, saying that Lei Gong was a closed disciple of the Mohist tycoon. After his master died of illness, he took the Mohist treasure car down the mountain to travel around the world, and then he was framed by Zhao Yi in Jizhou and had to become a bandit!
Judging from the current plots, Guo Jia enjoys it with gusto, the content is similar to the real situation of Lei Gong's appearance, and reasonable exaggerations are made in the vague places!
Although the novel is good-looking, Guo Jia kindly reminded: "Lei Gong is still alive, brother, if you write like this, he is not worried about being retaliated by Lei Gong?"

At this moment, the writer of the novel raised his head to look at Guo Jia, and said, "Lei Gong is magnanimous, he doesn't care about things like this at all, little brother, don't worry too much!"

"It's Master Xu in person, and this junior didn't notice it, it deserves to die!" Guo Jia was shocked when he saw that it was Xu Shao who came, and pleaded guilty.

Xu Shao was above him both in terms of prestige and status. He had lectured at Yingchuan College back then, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was Guo Jia's teacher. Even if Cao Cao wanted to become an official, Xu Shao had to give him a good evaluation!
Seeing Guo Jia's seriousness, Xu Shao smiled wryly and said, "Where is there any Master Xu? I thought he was just a down-and-out novelist, earning his living by writing novels!"

novelist?This is not one of the hundreds of schools of thought that has been tried and lost for hundreds of years.How is it possible that it is still spreading?However, Guo Jia thought about it later, the Xu family was handed down from Xu Mocheng at the end of the Qin Dynasty, maybe his family really had a true biography of a novelist.

Xu Shao seemed to see Guo Jia's thoughts and said, "It's not as complicated as you think. I'm just buying words now! I've been commenting on characters all my life, and now I'm back to my job of recording the heroes of the world in novels!"

But even Guo Jia can see Xu Shao's sense of loss.

Too!Back then, Xu Shao could decide a person's fate with a single word, even Cao Cao, the son of Jiuqing, was regarded as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials in White!But in Dagan, who is just a spirited old man, such a sense of loss is obviously difficult to eliminate.

And Guo Jia obviously understood Xu Shao's current situation. Lei Gong didn't select officials based on the Six Classics of Confucianism, nor did he look at the prestige boasted by scholars.In addition, the nobles of the big Han were restricted by Lei Gong from entering the officialdom.For a person like Xu Shao, it can be said that he was knocked out of the mundane world all at once.

Now there are about ten thousand people in the entire Daganji who were born in the noble family.Now they can't enter the officialdom of Dagan at all.If they keep some property in troubled times and become merchants, they can keep their former wealth in life.

But many families have been completely defeated. It is not that the children of the former family and noble families have difficulties in life, and they have tried various methods to survive.Some people switch to the painting and calligraphy industry. After all, the common people are living a prosperous life now, and everyone likes to get a few calligraphy and paintings in their homes and put them in the living room, which supports many scholars.

Some people learn from Xu Shao to write some popular novels or articles, publish them in newspapers, and use this method to support themselves. If they don't have the talent for whispering, they can only become a cashier to barely survive.Someone like Xu Shao is considered good!
At this time, a young man came over and bowed respectfully to Xu Shao and said, "Sima Yi is in Hanoi, and I met Mr. Xu!"

"Sima Yi?" Xu Shao recalled, "Are you the son of Sima Fang?"

Sima Yi nodded and said, "Exactly!"

Xu Shao said: "Your father, Sima Fang, is a mediocre man, but his luck is very good. The world is in chaos. Heroes from all sides are fighting for the world with Lei Gong. Si Li has died for thousands of years. But a mediocre man like your father On the contrary, it can save the family, and I have to say, it’s a blessing in disguise!”

What Sima Yi said was extremely embarrassing!Even Guo Jia felt that Xu Shao was more unrestrained than before. Xu Shao would never say that about his father to Sima Yi before!
Xu Shao didn't care about Sima Yi's thoughts and continued to ask, "What do you want this old man for?"

Sima Yi also seemed to have thought of what he was going to do, so he said respectfully: "Xu Shi's wonderful pen is brilliant, my father wants Xu Shi to write a novel for uncle to promote his deeds, so that uncle's reputation will be passed down through the ages!"

Now Guo Jia is also interested. Although Sima Yi doesn't know about it, he knows that the Sima family in Hanoi was originally a big family, but it must be defeated now. After all, Hanoi is at the forefront of the offensive and is also the first to fall. place.

However, judging from Ma Yi's clothes, the family life is pretty good. It is obvious that the family has successfully transformed, at least it has become a wealthy businessman. success.

It's just that he was curious, why should he use novels to promote his uncle's reputation?
Although this kind of thing is not uncommon in the Han Dynasty, it is of no use to the Dagan Leigong. Leigong relies on the army, Litian and imperial examinations to select officials, and these roads are all closed to the powerful clans of the Han Dynasty. You It is useless to promote your reputation, as long as you are from a powerful clan, Lei Gong will not use you at all.

Xu Shao asked, "Who is your uncle?"

Sima Yi immediately said: "The surname Sima is contrary to the name, and the surname is different. He was appointed by the court as the prefect of Julu County, but because he couldn't pay the money for the palace repair, he committed suicide in Mengjin and died to remonstrate with the late emperor!"

When Sima Yi said this, both Guo Jia and Xu Shao suddenly realized that Sima Zhi's reputation in the Han Dynasty was relatively large, and they all knew about Sima Zhi's deeds.

In the second year of Zhongping (185), Sima Zhi was appointed as the prefect of Julu County by the imperial court.At that time, a fire broke out in the Yuntai of the Nangong Palace in the imperial palace. Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong, the eunuchs' regular attendants, persuaded Emperor Ling of Han to collect money from all over the world, called "gongxiu money", which was ten yuan per mu, and was used to repair the palace and cast bronze figures.

He also ordered the state and county cashiers to send wood, aragonite and stone to the capital.There are 3000 to 300 million people in the large counties, and there are differences in the rest, and the people are sighing.Considering Sima Zhi's reputation as an incorruptible prefect of Julu County, he reduced or exempted [-] million yuan, but Sima Zhi still couldn't afford it. Ask, I can't do it!"

So he said that he was ill, and the court repeatedly urged Sima to pay the money directly.Sima Zhi had no choice but to set off, traveled to Mengjin, left a suicide note to criticize the policy of selling officials and nobles, and then committed suicide by taking medicine.

Everyone knows the following things, because the "Xiugong Qian" caused Jizhou to be in chaos again, and Lei Gong also took this opportunity to rise. The world will not perish!

The roots are all here. If the first emperor had listened to Sima Zhi's words, the world would not have perished.

"Such a good official should indeed write his deeds, let his deeds spread, and let the world know his deeds! I will leave this matter to the old man!"

"Then thank you, Master Xu." After finishing speaking, Sima Yi left behind ten catties of gold.

Xu Shao also accepted the money frankly. He is doing this job. It can be said that he is not much different from the big man, but he has to work harder. It used to be a one-sentence thing, but now he has to write a novel, and the effect is also important. It is not as big as before, but it cannot be said that it is completely useless, because even having a good reputation and a bad reputation in Dagan are two different things, and his articles are worth the price.

Then Xu Shao said: "You sort out your uncle's deeds and give it to me. I will show you the template in a month. If you think it is okay, you can print and distribute it yourself!"

Sima Yi nodded, and left here!
Guo Jia saw this scene inexplicably, and then said: "Master Xu, the world has already been captured by Lei Gong, and Lei Gong didn't give him an official position based on his reputation. What that brother did just now is probably useless." Act of."

But Xu Shao laughed and said: "How can this be considered useless? If it is really useless, the Sima family will give 10 catties of gold to this old man. You really have the ability to comment on the world before!"

"The Sima family paid so much for the purpose of showing Sima Zhi's deeds to Lei Gong and Dagan's people!"

Then he said helplessly: "The current big job is too difficult for those of us who used to be aristocrats. People of our background can hardly stand out."

Guo Jia nodded in agreement with Xu Shao's words. The entire Dagan government has no family backgrounds. This is even more exaggerated than that of the former Han Dynasty. After all, Emperor Gaozu also had Zhang Liang, a son of aristocrats.

But now Dagan don’t say that there are no people from the noble family among the high-level people. Even the middle and low-level people are not from the noble family. People with political achievements, Lei Gong put them in a quiet position in order to win people's hearts.

But like the former top families, the Xu family, the Yang family, and the Yuan family, have now been completely beaten down by Lei Gong, and they have completely disappeared in the officialdom.

Xu Shao said: "But there is a silver lining to everything. Although Lei Gong hates the nobles and nobles, he is also lenient towards officials who really serve the country and the people. Liu Boan and Lei Gong can be said to be life and death enemies, but his family has not been discriminated against because Liu Yu saved the lives of countless people in Youzhou, resisted the barbarians and kept the land of the big man, and even his eldest son Liu He can become a A high-ranking official, this is Liu Bo'an's legacy!"

"There are also Lu Zigan's eldest son who is also an official in Dagan, Gongsun Zan's eldest son, the Huangfu family, Duan family, Zhang family, and other officials who sacrificed for the country and the people. Their descendants can all enter the officialdom of Dagan. , although the current generation can only do some leisurely official positions, but after waiting for the second generation, they will be truly integrated into the Daqian court."

"Now the Sima family wants to take such a path. Although Sima Zhi didn't have much merit, he committed suicide because he didn't want to embezzle and harm the people. No one can say that he is a virtuous minister. According to Dagan's policy, such a virtuous minister Your family can be lenient. In this way, the Sima family can integrate into the officialdom of Daqian!"

(End of this chapter)