Wentang

Chapter 410 Chang'an Zhigui
From the end of July to the beginning of August, the literary world once again boiled over a book.

"Shopkeeper, here are five books on Confucianism."

"I want ten copies, double the price."

"I pay three times as much, and everyone will give me a copy."

The front of Qingwenzhai was crowded with scholars, clamoring for the same book.Looking at these scholars who don't take money as money, the shopkeeper of Qingwenzhai never regretted it.

A few days ago, Longshoushan Bookstore contacted him, saying that he wanted to consign a book to him, but he didn't agree.Although this book was written by Qing Shuihou, so what?
Looking at the title of the book, he knew that it was not a serious book, so he refused without even reading the content of the book.The people from Longshoushan Printing Workshop simply turned around and left.

Of course, the main reason for his refusal was that the people in the book printing house set the selling price, which was very low, only ten cents per copy.

The book printing house gave him six pennies a book at wholesale, sold for ten pennies, and only earned four pennies for a book.He really despises such a profit.

Afterwards, he took this incident as a joke and told his neighbors, but he didn't expect that he would become a joke in a blink of an eye.

Since yesterday, people have come to ask if there is this book one after another, and he felt that the situation was wrong at that time.Today, just after opening, a large group of scholars blocked the door, holding money and crying to buy Confucianism.

And they all bought three copies, five copies and ten copies. He just made a rough estimate. These people alone could sell more than 100 copies, which is a profit of more than half of the money.

The key is the popularity it brings, which is of inestimable value.

"Everyone, everyone, just listen to me." The shopkeeper of Qingwenzhai shouted: "Everyone, don't worry, I have sent people to Longshoushan Printing Workshop to pick up books, and everyone will be able to buy them soon."

"Really? I've been watching since you opened the door, but I haven't seen you talking to anyone else. How can you ask someone to pick up the book?" A scholar shouted.

"That's right, I saw it too, he must be lying."

"Liar, bah."

"No business, no fraud, you are a profiteer. Don't be fooled, he doesn't have books here, let's go to other places to buy."

The shopkeeper of Qingwenzhai twitched his face, but he tried his best to persuade him to stay: "I asked the clerk to pick up the books early this morning. I really don't want to lie to everyone."

At this time, a shout suddenly came from a distance: "Everyone, hurry up, Biquxuan has just arrived at a group of unique Confucianism, and it's too late and it's gone."

Then the crowd ran away into the distance with a clatter, leaving the shopkeeper of Qingwenzhai jumping around helplessly.In the end, he could only vent his anger on the library boy:

"Where did you die, Dachun? Why don't you go to Longshoushan Printing Workshop to buy books."

At the same time, I couldn't help thinking about a question, is it really so good to respect Confucianism?This is the first time he has seen such a situation in which countless people pursue a book after opening the library for so many years.

If we put it in history, only the grand occasion when Zuo Si's "Sandu Fu" came out in the Western Jin Dynasty had such a scene.

The shopkeeper of Qingwenzhai was still too slow to grasp business opportunities. He didn't know that the situation of being blocked by scholars not only happened in his library, but also happened in Quan Chang'an and even the whole of Yongzhou.

The price of Domineering Confucianism has even been fired up to more than ten times, and there is still no price in the market.It took only three days for Yue Shan to hoard tens of thousands of books and they were sold out. I don’t know how long it will take for the subsequent printing.

As a result, two businesses have exploded in response to the demand: one is the business of copying books by hand. Usually, it takes dozens of words to copy a book, but now it takes hundreds of words to copy a book of Confucianism.

Another business is paper trading. If there are too many people copying books, there will be not enough paper.Many people couldn't buy paper, and couldn't wait to have a copy of Confucianism, so they copied it on silk.

After this situation came out, countless famous teachers and scholars were also dumbfounded. They knew that this book would be popular, but they didn't expect it to be so popular.

"Chang'an paper is expensive. I always thought that the grand event of Sandu Fu had come to an end, but I didn't expect it to happen again today." Li Gang laughed.

"I didn't expect it either. I didn't expect Yue Shan to have such a gulf in his heart at such a young age. I feel ashamed." Looking at the book in his hand, Wang Ji said in amazement.

"Immortal children have their own extraordinary features." Li Gang said.

"Oh? Li Gong also believes in the theory of ghosts and gods?" Wang Ji asked in surprise.

"Zibuyu speaks strange powers and chaotic gods, if you don't believe it, respect ghosts and gods and stay away." Li Gang directly intercepted two sentences from the Analects of Confucius to answer his question.

As a great Confucian, Li Gang has righteousness in his heart and is not afraid of ghosts and gods.But not being afraid doesn't mean denying their existence, I can only say 'I haven't seen them anyway, so let's pretend they don't exist'.

But Yue Shan made him have to suspect that there are really ghosts and gods in this world, otherwise how could a 13-year-old boy know so much?
Although they often talk about Gan Luo's 12-year-old seal, there are only records about him going to Zhao as an envoy in history, and nothing else.

There are only two possibilities for this situation to occur, one is to participate in political struggles and be killed, and the other is to lose sight of everyone.

Of course, he did not deny Gan Luo's ability. He went to an enemy country at the age of 12 and won more than a dozen cities for the country by word of mouth. This is indeed an unprecedented feat.

However, compared with Yue Shan's achievements, Gan Luo's achievements are indeed a bit underwhelming.

Not to mention Yue Xue's Five Books, the ability to build Dizhou into the most prosperous place in the country in two years is rare in ancient and modern times.

The Baiqi trained by one hand has now become the most elite army in Datang, none of them.Now he has written such an imperial masterpiece such as Dominating Confucianism.

It can be said that he was on the horse to rule the army, off the horse to rule the country, and to study with a pen.Not to mention Gan Luo, there are very few people with this ability throughout history.

And all those big men in history were rich in experience and inherited from famous teachers, but Yue Shan's ability seemed to be born out of thin air.

Except for the unfounded old Taoist master, I can't find any school experience, which makes people have to believe that he has something to do with the theory of ghosts and gods.

It's not just Li Gang and Wang Ji who are expressing emotion, everyone who has read this book is surprised and admired by Yue Shan's literary talents.

Let me talk about the disciples of Confucianism first.

The effect of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's exclusive respect for Confucianism is still very obvious. A hundred schools of thought disappeared, Taoism returned to Taoism, Legalism and military strategists became a supplement to Confucianism, and most of the scholars in the world were disciples of Confucianism.

Even though the Sui Dynasty believed in Buddhism, and Li Tang recognized that Lao Tzu was constantly elevating the status of Taoism as the ancestor, it could not change the situation that Confucian disciples accounted for the majority.

Are these people willing to be suppressed by Confucianism?Certainly not.It's just that the situation is stronger than others, and being held by Li Shimin's sore feet, he couldn't resist for a while.But these people have been looking for a solution.

As soon as Yue Shan's exclusive Confucianism came out, it attracted everyone's attention and gave a shot in the arm to Confucianism who was gradually short of breath.

It turns out that our Confucianism won with dignity, and the demise of a hundred schools of thought is not the fault of our Confucianism, but the choice of history.Although our Confucianism has various flaws, we cannot deny our achievements because of this.

So Confucian disciples frantically pursued this book, and spontaneously promoted it, recommending this book to more people.They also unconditionally supported Yue Shan who wrote this book.

Because to support Yueshan is to support Confucianism alone, which is to support the orthodoxy of Confucianism.No matter how much people hate him in their hearts, they should praise him on the face.

Of course, scholars praised this book not only because it justified the name of Confucianism, but also because it was written really well, and the content in it also aroused extensive discussions in the academic circles.

A group of Confucian scholars in Taixue held a book of Confucianism, and they were exchanging enthusiastically.

"I think the greatest achievement of respecting Confucianism is to straighten out my Confucian orthodoxy. Buddhism and Taoism are the most concerned about orthodoxy. Before my Confucianism only respected Confucius, and the orthodoxy was not invited. Now we can trace back to the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and we can..."

"That's right, from now on, the merits of the rule of the Three Dynasties belong to my Confucianism..."

"I think it's still Meng Ke..." A student couldn't help but wanted to express his opinion, but was interrupted by his classmates as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Shut up, don't be disrespectful to the great sage, that's Mencius."

The student looked remorseful, and quickly admitted his mistake: "Thank you, classmates, for your guidance. It should indeed be Mencius. What I want to say is that Mencius' thought of 'righteousness' was discovered in the book Zunru, which is the real essence."

"What you said makes sense, but I still think that the proposal of the Four Books has far-reaching significance."

This group of students blushed and thickened their necks when they argued with each other, but no one could convince anyone, and they had to break up unhappy in the end.

"According to Yao, Shun and Yu, down to Meng Ke, Confucius said to become benevolent and Meng said to take righteousness, four books and five classics. From then on, Confucianism has complete morality and classic meaning, and its position will not be shaken." Wang Zhiyuan sighed.

"This... Master's words are too much. My Taoist school is a first-class scholar handpicked by a sage. How can a book change it." Lu Qianchang said in disbelief.

"The trend of the times, the saint will not go against the trend." Wang Zhiyuan shook his head.

In the Great Mercy Temple, the ten great virtues gathered again, but this time everyone was very quiet, and no one was willing to speak.

After a long time, Zhizang asked nonchalantly, "Where is Xuanzang?"

Yet no one answered his question.

Chang'an City, Duke of Qi's Mansion.

Looking at the thin book in front of him, Changsun Wuji showed a frustrated expression for the first time, and he also had doubts about himself and Yue Shan's idea of ​​stealing the limelight.

"My lord, why are you frowning? Saints have never had a good impression of Confucianism. Qing Shuihou's praise of Confucianism will definitely make Saints unhappy, and it will probably make him lose his favor. You should be happy." The eldest grandson Chongren who was beside him Can't stop.

"Hey, you only know one thing and don't know the other." Changsun Wuji smiled wryly, "Half a year ago, the sage suddenly showed extreme dislike for Confucianism. I was very surprised, it was too abnormal."

"Although the sage was elevating Taoism before, he also attached great importance to Confucianism. What he really wanted to suppress was Buddhism. But half a year ago, he changed his normal routine and targeted Confucianism everywhere."

"After seeing Yue Shan's book, I wanted to understand where the joints are."

"Please enlighten me, my lord," Changsun Chong said.

"This is a play played by the sage and Yue Shan." Changsun Wuji said.

"Acting?" Chang Sun Chong asked doubtfully:

Changsun Wuji said: "It should be true that the sage is dissatisfied with some aspects of Confucianism, but he will not suppress Confucianism because of these dissatisfaction. After all, the Tang Dynasty cannot do without Confucianism, and the country still needs them to govern."

"His real purpose is to transform Confucianism and turn Confucianism into what he wants. But after so many years of development, Confucianism can be changed so easily."

"So he thought of this method. First, he suppressed Confucianism to create panic, and then let Yue Shan infiltrate Confucianism, and use his own identity to guide Confucianism to change."

"This book on Confucianism is Yue Shan's stepping stone. People of Confucianism will definitely accept him and hold him high in the sky."

"But Confucianism has been developed for hundreds of years and it is too difficult to change, especially since most of the Five Classics are in the hands of aristocratic families. They will never agree with Yueshan's innovation."

"In order to reduce the resistance, we can only find another way. So Yue Shan thought of starting from the orthodoxy and new classics."

"So he traced the orthodoxy of Confucianism back to the period of Yao, Shun and Yu, and established four books in addition to the Five Classics. He even raised Meng Ke's 'righteousness' to the same level as 'benevolence'."

"Once scholars all over the world recognize these things, then he can set aside the Five Classics and achieve the goal of reforming Confucianism by interpreting orthodoxy and interpreting the Four Books. The aristocratic family can only watch and have no ability to oppose."

"If my guess is not wrong, he will attack Sishu soon. At that time, I will know whether my guess is correct."

Changsun Chong was dumbfounded when he heard this. There are so many calculations hidden in a book of exclusive Confucianism. If Changsun Wuji hadn't explained it, he would never have imagined it.

At this moment, he had a feeling of 'this world is so dangerous, I really want to hide'.

But... Looking at Changsun Wuji, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and he said with admiration: "My lord's wisdom is not far behind, and you can see through the sage's strategy just by using clues."

Changsun Wuji would have been very complacent at other times, but now he is really not complacent, shaking his head and saying: "I am definitely not the only one who can see through this."

"Ah? Will someone tell the truth about the sage's plan?" Chang Sun Chong was a little anxious.

Because of his eldest grandson Wugou's relationship, he still has a lot of affection for Li Shimin, or he admires him very much.Besides, the rise and fall of Li Tang is also directly related to the wealth of the eldest grandson's family, so he has to care about it.

"Don't worry, the sage is a conspiracy. Even if the Confucianists know about it, there is nothing they can do about it. This brick from Yueshan is right in the gap of the Confucianism. They can only accept it." Changsun Wuji said.

"Oh, that's good. But... the sage actually trusts Qing Shuihou so much, and plans such an important matter with him. If things go on like this, I'm afraid that my eldest grandson's family will be inferior." Chang Sun Chong was overjoyed at first, and then worried the way.

"Chong'er, you're thinking wrong." Unexpectedly, Changsun Wuji shook his head and said, "Yue Shan is not our enemy, he is your cousin's future husband, and a relative of our eldest grandson's family. And my eldest grandson's family has indeed benefited greatly." many."

"But...don't your lord always treat him as an enemy?" Chang Sun Chong asked in a daze.

"I don't regard him as an enemy but as an opponent, an opponent who can inspire my fighting spirit. In fact, we have taken care of him in court." Changsun Wuji said seriously: "So don't make any difference, so as not to cause misunderstandings."

"Here, I've made a note, my son." Zhang Sun Chong relaxed his nervousness and responded.

Seeing his relaxed son, Changsun Wuji sighed inwardly.Is it true what he said?impossible.Although he had no direct conflict with Yue Shan, they were drifting away because of their interests.

The reason why he said that was because he didn't want Zhang Sun Chong to set himself up an invincible opponent and suffer too much blow.

Yue Shan is too monstrous, and although Chang Sun Chong is also very good, it is difficult to beat him.

"Oh, by the way, my empress told me in private yesterday that the sage intends to marry Princess Runan to you. You should go to the palace more often when you are free. Remember to pay attention to etiquette."

(End of this chapter)