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Chapter 670
The year of Ganlu Nine Years was not bad. After a heavy snowfall in March, the climate returned to normal, and there were several rains one after another.

The river is plentiful, and some low-grade fields become high-grade fields, and the high-grade fields are more fertile.

Many people actively reclaim wasteland after farming their own fields.

Sangma is planted in the mountains, fish ponds are surrounded by tidal flats, and grasslands are turned into pastures.

The chickens and dogs in the land of Guanzhong hear about each other, and the fields are connected.

There are children running and laughing everywhere.

The former Xianbei, Qiang, Hu, and Huns have gradually faded away. They speak pure Chinese, wear Han clothes, and live in houses in the style of Han family courtyards.

If you don’t want to sinicize, of course you have ambitions, you can only stay in the waiting stage for the rest of your life, and the land tax is [-]% higher than that of governing the people.

Children and grandchildren cannot study for imperial examinations, nor can they enter the youth camp. Even if they join the army, unless they have the merit of being the first to behead the general, they will be soldiers for the rest of their lives.

Under the adjustment of various measures, the ethnic groups became Sinicized without knowing it.

Only some old and young people in Chang'an City still maintain the old traditions of the Huns and Xianbei. They don't live in houses, and they have to set up a tent in the yard. Everyone's fields are cultivated, and their fields are planted with grass to graze sheep...

But these people are destined to be submerged in the tide of the times.

What their next generation sees, hears, and feels when they go out are all the customs of the Han family. In such a big environment, it is impossible not to change.

Yang Zheng attaches great importance to children.

A nursing home was set up in Chang'an, and broth was provided every other day.

While eating meat and drinking soup, Xuan Yilang and his friends began to tell stories, and all kinds of stories were filled with private goods.

The king of Qin is a sage descended from heaven, who rescued the suffering grassland herdsmen and common people in the Central Plains.

What 2000 years ago, everyone was a family and drank the water of the Yellow River together.

It is not a simple preaching, but a vivid performance that is integrated into various fairy tale-like stories.

Xuanyi ordered Wei Zhu to be in charge of this matter, and sent the written story to Yang Zheng for approval.

Yang Zheng added more fun based on the experience of later generations.

The youth camp has become a children's organization, and the outstanding children selected, no matter what ethnic group, are sent to Taixue for further studies.

And Taixue became a comprehensive university.

Yang Zheng also added a lot of private goods. Although Confucianism is still the mainstream, its proportion is decreasing, and the proportion of arithmetic, medicine, alchemy, and investigation of things is secretly increasing.

In this regard, Huangfu Mi and Ji Kang are both big stars.

Zhang Yu and Du Kuan also wrote a lot.

Feng Qi, who was far away in the Western Regions, somehow tricked some scholars to come here, carrying a thick book bag.

The state of Qin was stable, and the number of monks in Tianzhu also increased a lot.

But most of them gather in Guzang.

Guzang has become a hotbed of academics and ideas, where various civilizations collide from east to west, from north to south.

Confucianism originally disdained to communicate with these heretics, but under Yang Zheng's insistence, Du Kuan and Zhang Yu led a group of Confucian scholars to join them, and started an ideological collision with scholars in the west.

Yang Zheng feels that as long as any kind of civilization stands still, it is the beginning of its decline.

Even in this era, when the Chinese civilization is at the pinnacle, we need to open our eyes to see others.

The most enthusiastic ones are the monks from Tianzhu, who can come from Tianzhu not far away, how can they be ordinary people?
Almost all of them are scholars from Tianzhu.

After about a year in Guzang, he could master the Chinese language proficiently, be able to speak and write, and translate Buddhist scriptures in large quantities.

The most famous one is Zhu Fotucheng, a native of Tianzhu. He became a monk in Wuchang country at the age of nine. He went to Kubin twice to study the Dharma. After completing his studies, he traveled to various countries in the Western Regions. Known as the "God Monk", he entered Guzang from the Hexi Corridor and debated with Zhang Yu, Du Kuan, and scholars from the Western Regions, and became famous for a while.

Yang Zheng's heart skipped a beat, if Buddhism flourished, it would be a sharp weapon to control the grasslands and the Western Regions.

Of course, too much is too much, if this thing develops too unscrupulously, it is not a good thing.

It depends on how to manage it.

It happened that Zhu Fotucheng proposed to the government to build a new Buddhist temple.

Yang Zheng brought it under the jurisdiction of the government. All monks must pass the examination of the Xuanyi Division and get a degree certificate to be a real monk, otherwise they are illegal wild monks.

Buddhist temples in Hexi and the Western Regions also pay taxes on a head-to-head basis, and they must also pay land taxes if they have Buddhist fields. Yang Zheng only exempted them from corvee.

Guzang has a strong academic atmosphere, and the bigger reason is because of paper.

This is definitely one of the major contributions of Chinese civilization.

The increasing demand for paper made the tyrants see a way to make money and built paper workshops one after another.

However, in order to prevent the deterioration of the environment on the Loess Plateau and the upper reaches of the Yellow River, Yang Zheng banned the construction of paper workshops in Hexi, Guanlong, and Hetao.

Only in the middle of Sichuan and the middle of the south are they supported on a large scale.

It can also be regarded as a compensation for the tyrants in Sichuan.

Papermaking in Shuzhong is far away from Hexi, which also avoids technology leakage.

In Yang Zheng's understanding, when a country is strong, its culture must prosper.

There are more paper-making workshops, technology is slowly improving, and the price of paper is slowly coming down, plus government-controlled printing workshops.

There are a lot of books on the market.

Confucian classics, poems and songs, as well as "The Sima Family", "The Rise of the Great Qin Dynasty", "New Three Kingdoms" and so on published by Xuanyi Division.

Although the name is weird, the printing and cutting are very rough, and the quality of the paper is also poor, but it is cheaper.

A copy costs about twenty dollars, which middle-class families can afford.

Yang Zheng also set up a library, adding a variety of picture books and comic books, which can be rented for only one fee for three days.

If you study in the library, it is directly free.

Of course, the people are busy with their livelihoods, so not many can read, but children can read a lot after two or three years of free education in public schools.

The drill library is most of them.

The other two beneficiaries are poor scholars and common people students. Many books are monopolized by powerful people, and ordinary people can't read them at all, and the library is almost free.

There is an incident that Yang Zheng of later generations still remembers vividly. Zeng Guofan took a fancy to a copy of "23 History" and asked for 100 taels of silver, which is equivalent to 2 to [-] yuan in later generations. He pawned his clothes and borrowed money to buy it. , very happy...

This is still the Qing Dynasty with relatively developed productivity, and the price of a book in the Three Kingdoms era can be imagined.

Ordinary people may not see the shadow of books for a lifetime.

Of course, in addition to the paperback version, there is also a hardcover version, with gorgeous binding, white paper, brown, ink, and plaster, the cover is also painted with gold and silver thread, decorated with silk brocade, etc., copied by people with superb calligraphy skills , but such a book is directly equivalent to gold.

He was strongly sought after by the tyrants of the scholar family.

When one copy comes out, one will be bought at a high price...

Some nobles from the Central Plains even made a special trip to order.

Perhaps seeing the huge business opportunities, many scholars who failed the imperial examination no longer returned to their hometowns to farm, but copied Buddhist scriptures and Confucian classics in Guzang and Chang'an.

The powerful children of the gentry disdain to do these things, but it is the livelihood of many poor families.

At this stage, the library is still losing money, but Yang Zheng insisted on establishing it.

In one or two years, no effect can be seen, but in ten or eight years, it will be able to form a dimensionality reduction blow to the noble families.

(End of this chapter)