The Tang Dynasty started from saving Empress Changsun

Chapter 286 Stab the Knife

Wu Shu said: "Actually, it's not a big deal, but the dictionary has already printed [-] copies. I want to ask when you will sell it."

Chen Jingke nodded and said: "Don't worry, the dictionary will definitely become a thorn in the side of the gentry, and publishing it rashly will attract their attacks."

"When the academy system of the imperial court is established, give priority to dictionaries for the students of the academy. At that time, the attention of the gentry will be attracted by the imperial court, and they will have no time to take care of us."

"Then we will follow the trend and release it all over the world, and we will be able to complete the dictionary promotion work at the smallest cost."

Although the dictionary will affect the gentry's monopoly on learning, it is completely worthless compared to the academic and political system and the imperial examination system.

If the former is a mosquito, the latter two are knives.Once the court shines the knife, the gentry will have no time to control their mosquitoes.

Moreover, dictionaries can be promoted with the help of the imperial court's academic and political system, and they can be distributed directly to the world, saving a lot of trouble in publicity.

Wu Shu also understood this truth, and said: "That's fine, but don't forget about the printing costs, we don't make money, we can't lose money."

Chen Jingke said with a smile: "Okay, you can calculate the accounts, and then I will ask my aunt for money."

While talking, the two returned to Wu Shu's residence in the backyard. Most of the time, Yang took his youngest daughter Wu Chang to live in the other courtyard they bought before.

She is the descendant of the Yang family, and she is also the first wife of the samurai Mingmei. In addition, the identity of Wu Shu and Sun's wife is already widely known, and the old friends and relationships before are slowly found back.

The exchanges of human relationships became very frequent, and it was not convenient for her to continue living in Zixiao Temple, and it was easy to cause gossip.

After her body fully recovered, she moved to live there, and Wu Chang naturally had to follow her mother there.

Wu Shu is the chief housekeeper of Zixiao Temple, and she stayed in the temple for the convenience of management, so now she lives alone in this small courtyard.

When the two are alone, Chen Jingke will inevitably move his hands and feet. For no other reason, he just wants to see Mrs. Wu angry and ashamed.

It wasn't until Wu Shu was annoyed that he pinched his waist twice before he calmed down.

"By the way, Sister Wu, the three-year filial piety period for my father-in-law is almost over, right?"

Wu Shu rolled his eyes at him and said, "There are still more than four months left, what are you in a hurry for?"

Chen Jingke didn't take her joke, but said: "Xie Xiaoyou, are you going?"

Xiexiao means that when the three-year filial piety period expires, the children go to the homes of relatives and friends to pay their respects.After the work is done, the filial piety clothes can be removed, which means that everything will return to normal after the filial piety period is over.

The smile on Wu Shu's face disappeared, and he said worriedly: "According to the rules, all ladies who have not left the cabinet must participate, otherwise it will be rude."

Chen Jingke knew what she was worried about, and said: "I really want to accompany you, but there is a high probability that His Majesty will not let me leave Beijing. But don't worry, I have my own way to make those two people behave."

Wu Shu asked expectantly, "What are you going to do?"

Originally, Chen Jingke wanted to whet her appetite and give her a surprise, but if she didn't say the specific method, she would definitely feel uncomfortable, which he didn't want to see.

So he changed his mind and said: "My father-in-law has made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty, how can the court treat his descendants lightly."

"Before, it was because it was inconvenient to be appointed as an official before the filial piety period was over. Now that the filial piety period is over, it should be put on the agenda."

"The Baiqi Division is just short of people. I am going to ask the saints to recruit them to join. When the time comes, you will go with the recruited officials. I don't believe that the two of them dare to jump."

Wu Shu's eyes lit up, but he still said hesitantly: "Baiqisi is the personal guard of the saint, will he agree to let brother join?"

Chen Jingke shook his head and said, "As early as the day I temporarily took charge of Baiqisi, it was no longer responsible for protecting the saint."

"The reason why you still bear the name of Jinwei is just to facilitate the experiment. Don't talk about recruiting your brother, even if you put another 500 people in, there will be no problem."

The worries in Wu Shu's heart were all gone, and he said with a smile on his face, "Yes, you are the best, the real one. Thank you, the real one, for your help."

Chen Jingke frowned, and said dissatisfiedly: "You little lady is too ignorant, why don't you repay such a kindness with your body?"

……

Unknowingly, a week passed, and a new issue of Mochizuki Tan was released. The article by Chen Jingke attracted the most attention in this issue.

In the last issue, he talked about the gentry's outstanding contributions to China in preserving Chinese classics during the turbulent years.

At the end of the chapter, he made a preview: the next issue will focus on how the nobles protect the classics.

At first, everyone thought that he would talk about how the elites of the gentry fought unyieldingly, how many children they sacrificed in order to preserve the classics, and how much they paid.

But when the new issue was released, everyone was shocked after reading this article.This is not advocating the gentry, it is obviously a stabbing knife.

Gein's article is clearly about the formation of the noble family, starting from the period of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, continuing to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and finally talking about the present.

This process is naturally full of darkness and ghostly tricks, such as land mergers, monopolizing channels for officials, cutting off promotion channels for ordinary people, and so on.

It also focuses on describing the extravagant life of the aristocrats, and the wine pool and meat forest are all pediatrics.What use carp silk to make soup, stir-fry vegetables with chicken feet, etc. are all arranged.

Robbery of civilian girls is naturally a repertoire. He directly used the example of Wang Xiuqi, the Wang family of Taiyuan, who tortured and killed maids.

He also pointed out that the gentry controlled their careers as officials by monopolizing knowledge, and thought they were noble and extraordinary, and even the royal family despised them, let alone ordinary people.

In order to maintain their status, they usually only intermarry each other.

But if great talents are born among ordinary people, they will take the initiative to send women and money to win over them, and incorporate these talents into the gentry system.

Only in this way can they keep their wealth and honor forever and stay high forever.

They even attribute the root causes of many turmoil in history to the noble clans. For example, the Yellow Turban Rebellion was that the clans occupied too much land, and the people had to rebel because they could not survive.

Chen Jingke also knows that it is biased to simply attribute the Yellow Turban Uprising to land annexation, but now it is to attack the gentry, whoever cares if it is true or not is easy to use.

At the end of the article, it was mentioned in passing that the gentry family occupies so much wealth, so they naturally have the spare power to protect the books.

Ordinary people don't even have enough to eat, they don't have the opportunity to study, and even if they want to contribute to it, they don't have the opportunity.

It can be said that this article directly stripped the skins of the gentry. No matter how high they were praised in the previous chapter, this chapter tramples them hard.

The key is that this article directly appeared in front of more than [-] scholars across the country through Wangyue Tan.Through these readers, it reached the ears of more people.

It can be said that in just a few days, it has been well known throughout the country, and the gentry became the target of public criticism for a while.

(End of this chapter)