Wentang

Chapter 413 Fetters
The king treats his ministers with state officials, and the ministers treat them with state officials.This is the most romantic thing between ancient monarchs and ministers.Yue Shan thought that it would never happen to him.

As a time traveler, a young man who was born under the red flag and grew up in New China, how could he have such feelings for an indigenous dictator?
But just now, he was really moved by Li Shimin.

"The Analects of Confucius" means that everyone knows everything, and those who are far away dare not say it. The academic trend of the next few hundred years will depend on this book.

As an emperor, he chose to respect the author when he had the opportunity to change it according to his own ideas.What kind of heart and tolerance is this, and what kind of trust in the writer.

Yue Shan's heart is not made of stone, how could he be indifferent.

After thinking about the care he and his eldest grandson Wugou had taken for him since they met, Yue Shan finally fell.

Everything he did before was for the prosperity of the entire Central Plains civilization. As for Li Tang benefiting from it, it was all incidental.But now he is willing to stand on Li Shimin's standpoint and plan for the rise and fall of Datang.

Li Shimin successfully turned Yue Shan and Li Tang into fetters, not by using high-ranking officials and generous salary, nor by marrying his daughter, but by his trust and tolerance.

I believe you are not Sima Qian.

Sima Qian ate the food of the Han Empire, but truthfully recorded the scandals of the early Han royal family in the Shiji, which can be called a big treason in the era of "being taboo for the venerable".

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty didn't kill him directly but eunuched him, which can be regarded as magnanimous.

Li Shimin said that he is not Sima Qian, but he is saying, I believe that you, Yue Shan, will not harm the interests of Li Tang and the royal family in this book.

At the same time, you are telling Yue Shan that you are not Sima Qian, and I am not Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.I will be more magnanimous than Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and I will not blame you for this book.

Of course, it's Yue Shan's business to believe it or not, anyway, that's what people say.

Yue Shan is willing to believe that Li Shimin's words are true, because he agreed to publish this version without changing a single word.

Once a book is modified by another person, it will lose its original meaning. If the person who modified it has selfish intentions, it will be ruined.

In addition, Li Gang and Kong Yingda also knew the final version determined by Yue Shan. Once the published version was different from the version they finalized, they would definitely be able to guess the reason.

You are a scholar who wrote a book for the emperor to revise, hehe...you are not worthy of being a scholar.The reputation that Yueshan has built for so many years stinks every minute.

It can be said that Li Shimin's move is not only to respect and trust him, but also to protect his face and honor.

However, Yue Shan did not feel ashamed of this trust, and he did not discredit Li Tang in this book.Even because he was afraid that the words would be too big to talk about, he still wrote in many places.

For example, while emphasizing human rights, they also did not forget to call on everyone to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism. When promoting Mencius's thought that the people value the monarch and despise the ruler, they also emphasized the importance of the person at the helm.

Of course, these are actually side details. Yue Shan himself thinks that the most groundbreaking part of this book is that it further deduces the people-oriented thought based on Mencius's thought that the people are the most important and the king is the least.

Dialectical materialism and seeking truth from facts are deduced based on the study of things.It also slightly involved some logic content, but he had never studied logic in his previous life, so the involvement was not very deep.

With regard to rights, he also vaguely pointed out that absolute rights lead to absolute corruption, and suggested that the court should learn to separate powers and not hand over all rights to one person.

He didn't mention a word about the separation of powers that the traveler likes to tout most.

Before entering the 21st century, the separation of powers was hyped, and the United States was also hailed as the future of mankind.

However, in the second decade of the 21st century, too many things happened.Only then did everyone understand that the so-called separation of powers... Well, everyone understands anyway.

In this book, Yue Shan has always emphasized that professional matters should be left to professional people. The emperor does not have to know everything, he just needs to learn how to arrange work for others.

At the same time, in order to cater to scholars, or Yue Shan himself is a scholar, in order to protect the interests of his own class, he proposed the idea that scholars and the emperor rule the world together.

He also made a new interpretation of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and believed that the status of "workers" should be improved, and farmers and workers should be juxtaposed.

In order to prove his theory, he traced back to Guanzi's original intention of setting up the "craftsman's register", proving that the sages valued craftsmen, but the original intention was distorted by later generations.

For businessmen, the policy of suppression has continued, and it has been clearly stated that businessmen must not be allowed to take power.

Wealth can be passed on indefinitely. If businessmen with wealth are allowed to take power, the power will always be in their hands.

He also borrowed Ma's theory, saying that a businessman will take risks if he has 50.00% of the profit... If he has [-]% of the profit, he will dare to betray his ancestors.

In short, this book has its advantages and disadvantages.In the eyes of Tang Dynasty people, it is absolutely groundbreaking and has epoch-making significance. In the eyes of modern people, it is still maintaining feudal rule.

After leaving Li Shimin's place, Yue Shan returned to Longshou Mountain Printing Workshop non-stop, and personally supervised the people in the printing workshop to make engravings.

Speaking of which, the strength of Longshou Mountain Printing Workshop is also very strong. Although Yueshan has not managed much, it has developed into a large workshop with more than [-] engravers and dozens of printers in the past two years.

At this time, hundreds of sculptors put down their work and devoted themselves to carving the Analects of Confucius.

As for movable type printing, as the same sentence said, Yue Shan only proposed this technology and assigned a group of people to study it, and did not put it into use in large quantities.

When the technology is immature, the books printed by movable type printing are not beautiful, and the cost is not much lower than that of woodblock printing.It is better to use block printing directly.

Moreover, the engraving made of high-quality wood can be used for a long time, and it can even be used for many years if it is properly preserved.In this way, the advantage of movable type printing is not great.

The Longshoushan Paper Mill also went all out to produce high-quality paper, and the ink workshop also began to produce high-quality ink for printing.

In short, for this book, Yue Shan used all the resources in his hands, just to publish the book as soon as possible.

While he was busy printing, Er Yalou fell into an unprecedented silence.

This story started from the day when the Analects of Confucius was completed. Li Gang took his set of books and went directly to Erya Building, found a dozen of the most prestigious Confucian scholars in the dictionary compilation working group, and asked them to come together'Yazheng '.

Needless to say the final result, everyone was impressed.

Then the dozen or so people turned their heads and told others about the contents of the book. Although what they recounted was not very detailed, it still caused a huge shock.

Everyone ran to Li Gang to ask to read the book, and Li Gang naturally would not disagree, so he generously lent the book.

Naturally, a set of books is not enough for more than 100 people to read, but everyone has a way to take apart the book first, and each person can quickly copy it in a few pages.Then everyone circulated transcripts to each other.

This is indeed a good way, and the problem of shortage of books is quickly solved.The only sequelae was that when Li Gang found out about this, he was so angry that he beat people with a cane.

When these people saw the whole picture of Analects of Confucius justice, they immediately became quiet.They did not expect that Qing Shuihou, who was only 13 years old, actually completed the interpretation of the Analects.

The key point is that Li Gang's "opening the first of its kind in the ages, creating a great cause that will last for thousands of years" is worthy of the name.

A few days later, the content of "The Analects of Confucius" was disseminated in scattered letters, which, as expected, attracted the attention of the academic circle.

Especially after one of the volumes was leaked by someone, the entire academic world was boiling...

It can be said that the Analects of Confucius has not yet been published, but it is already famous all over the world.

(End of this chapter)