Dragon fights in Tang Dynasty

Misunderstood?Well, let's make it clear quickly.Li Zhen knew it well, and was not frightened by Li Shimin's unwillingness to see him. He paused, and hurriedly said: "Father, my son occasionally has an idea for making books, and the servants tried it out, and it is feasible now, my son." I don’t dare to hide it, so I’m here to report to my father.” As he spoke, he took out a memorial and a copy from his big sleeve: “Father, this is the Analects of Confucius printed out of something conceived by my son. There are some remarkable things, please take a look at the father."

Li Shimin looked at Li Zhen, didn't say a word for a long time, and then waved his hand after a while, signaling to the little eunuch who was by his side to hand over what Li Zhen had presented, without looking at Li Zhen's booklet first, but first Flipping through the book, just looking at it casually, Li Shimin's face immediately showed a look of surprise - the full text of "The Analects of Confucius" is not long, that is, about [-] words, printed one foot long, eight The book is only about [-] pages wide, but the characters on it are graceful and elegant, soft on the outside and strong on the inside, with a profound and serene charm. With Li Shimin's love of calligraphy, he immediately recognized this regular script It was the handwriting of Yu Shinan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, but after looking at it again, it was obvious that the characters were not written with a brush, so he became suspicious and put it down: "How did this book come about?"

Hey, it's done!Li Zhen was secretly proud of herself, but her face was full of respect and she said: "Returning to my father, since I entered school, I have often heard that my father ordered all places to educate the people, and I think so, but my son I think that since it is for enlightenment, there must be books. If it is done by hand copying, it will be time-consuming and labor-intensive, and errors are inevitable. It saves time and labor, and it can also declare the court's love for the people and respect for scholars. Therefore, every time I have free time, I always think about it. This book is a sample." Li Zhen paused for a moment, took a peek at Li Shimin's face, and then said: "Because I wanted to copy the characters a few years ago, I asked someone to ask Shangshu Yu to write a post. The wording is good, a few days ago Erchen printed this book using this post as a model." Li Zhen talked freely, and explained the cause of the incident in detail, which immediately aroused Li Shimin's attention. curiosity.

"Oh? How long does it take to print this book? How much can it be printed at one time?" Li Shimin asked after pondering for a while.

Hehe, the old man took the bait!Li Zhen felt secretly refreshed, and hurriedly replied: "Returning to my father's words, if there is a copy, let's take "The Analects of Confucius" as an example. If it is calculated as printing a thousand copies at a time, it will take only one and a half months, but even if it is It takes only three months to print more than [-] volumes, as long as the typesetting is completed, the number of printings can be unlimited, no matter how many can be printed.”

What Li Zhen said is already a very conservative estimate. In fact, considering the scale of the printing factory that Li Zhen has built so far, it would take two and a half months to print [-] copies of "The Analects of Confucius", but that's it. It still shocked all the officials. All the important officials did not believe that there was such a thaumaturgy in the world. Although they did not dare to interrogate Li Zhen in detail in front of the emperor, they discussed in private, and the hall was buzzing. The sound immediately exploded.

Even though Li Shimin's eyes were wide open, he frowned after hearing what Li Zhen said, looked at Li Zhen suspiciously for a long time, and asked ponderingly: "Is what Zhen'er said true?"

"Responding to my father's words, my minister's words are true, and I don't dare to lie to my father." Li Zhen replied respectfully.

In Li Shimin's impression, Li Zhen has always been calm and reliable, especially the things that made those new furniture in the past few years impressed Li Shimin even more. , but after all, I believed it a little bit, pondered for a while, and stopped asking about it, turned to look at the important ministers who were talking about it, and said with a smile: "I think this book is acceptable, you might as well try it out." one time."

Li Shimin issued a decree, the eunuch who had his own attendant handed over the book to the key ministers, from the left servant to Fang Xuanling, one by one in turn, the big guys are all people who have seen others, It is natural to understand that if this book can be printed as Li Zhen said, it will be extremely beneficial to the imperial court's move to educate the people, and naturally everyone will praise it.Hearing the applause, Li Zhen enjoyed it quite a bit, but before Li Zhen was intoxicated enough, the old man's next words made Li Zhen break out in cold sweat—"Zhen'er , what do you think of Zhidian?"

Damn it, the old man really asked the question. Damn it, whoever is the editor-in-chief, anyway, I can't get in. Let's just wait for the book to come out and print it.Li Zhenjin had thought about the possibility of his father asking this question before he came here, but he was still in a cold sweat. Without him, this question is really difficult to answer. Although the whole hall is full of important ministers, but It is hard to guarantee that there will be no eyeliner from those brothers. If Li Zhen's answer is wrong at this time, the story will surely spread. I will let him go, but the problem is that the old man has already opened his mouth, so if he doesn't answer, he has to answer, right?

Li Zhen pondered for a while and said: "When I returned to my father, I thought it was necessary to rule the canon, but I thought it would take a lot of time to rule the canon, and the matter of educating the people is urgent. If we first use the existing four books and five classics, That is, the four books of "University", "The Doctrine of the Mean", "The Analects of Confucius", and "Mencius"; "Zhang Qiujian", "Xia Houyang", "Zhou Bi", "Five Classics", "Ji Yi", "Third Class Numbers", "Zhu Shu", "Ji Gu" and other books may be better published in the world first. "

Li Shimin asked who should be the chief editor of the classics, but Li Zhen answered irrelevant questions, purely changing concepts, but the words he said were quite insightful, especially the concept of the Four Books and Five Classics was refreshing, after all, the so-called The scriptures are vast, far more than the few books mentioned by Li Zhen. "Guliang Biography", together with "Book of Changes", "Shangshu", and "Book of Songs", is called the "Nine Classics". As for various biographies and records, there are dozens of different versions of the Nine Classics.

Li Shimin naturally knew the reason why Li Zhen secretly changed the concept, but seeing that Li Zhen didn't want to say it, Li Shimin didn't care about himself, smiled, and didn't ask any more questions. He looked around at the officials and said: "Everyone What do you think of Zhen'er's words?"

how?How else?The meaning of Li Shimin's words has already been clearly agreed with Li Zhen's opinion, and the ministers will not force themselves to stop it. Moreover, this matter is also a good thing that benefits the country and the people. Naturally, the ministers will not speak out against it. Everyone agrees, everyone agrees.

"Your Majesty, I have a few things that I don't understand and I want to ask His Highness the King of Han." Amidst the praise, Secretary Supervisor Wei Zheng stood up and said loudly.

Li Shimin smiled and nodded, "Sure."

Damn, why did this old man jump out again?When Li Zhen saw Wei Zheng, who is famous for his direct advice, stand up, he couldn't help but feel a little hypocritical—when Li Zhen made new furniture in front of him, Wei Zheng once wrote a book, saying that those new furniture were a product of lust and luxury. It is not advocating generalization, even saying that this object should not appear in the palace.The scorching words in this chapter almost ruined Li Zhen’s good business of making money. If the old man hadn’t used it himself to make an agreement, I’m afraid that all the new furniture in Li Zhen’s hands would have rotted in his hands. Seeing Wei Zheng stand up again now, Li Zhen was really a little annoyed, but she couldn't do it in front of the old man, so she had no choice but to respectfully salute: "Master Wei, please speak clearly, Xiao Wang should know everything and say everything."

Wei Zheng is upright, and he is famous for daring to offend Yan Zhizhi. As long as he takes advantage, even if Li Shimin is furious, he will not be afraid, and he will say what should be said. Seeing Li Zhen's respectful attitude for a while, Wei Zheng didn't seem to feel it, and asked calmly: "The old minister has three things that I don't know. First, where did the four books and five classics mentioned by the King of Han come from? Second, if the books are published , how to calculate the price? Third, who is leading and how to control it to ensure that it is correct? "

The question Wei Zheng asked was extremely sharp, but it happened to be right on the point. The praises that filled the hall immediately stopped, everyone's attention was focused on Li Zhen, and the hall was a bit quiet. Shameless...