When people were in Qin, Shennong reincarnated at the beginning

Chapter 55 The Great Qin Cultural Empire
"Baby, this thing is really a treasure!" Ying Zheng couldn't help admiring after trying to understand the importance of paper.

"Aiqing, since you said that the paper is cheap to make, is it difficult to make it?" Ying Zheng asked with concern.

Ying Zheng thought to himself, there is nothing perfect in this world. Since this kind of paper is cheap to make, the process of making it is very troublesome.

"Your Majesty, this thing is very simple to make. A skilled craftsman can make paper after learning two or three days at most." Li Mu replied.

Hearing this, Ying Zheng was overjoyed. If this paper is really so convenient to produce, then the world's knowledge will no longer be in the hands of various schools of thought, but will be in the hands of Da Qin .

"Your Majesty, this piece of paper is official, and the method of making it must not be leaked."

"Educating the world and the human race is a matter of great merit." Li Mu said to Ying Zheng with a solemn expression.

What Yingzheng lacks most now is merit.It can be said that Yingzheng is now racing against time. He must obtain enough merits from the human race before the Great Qin is annihilated, so that the Great Qin will rise from the mortal to the heaven, from the mortal dynasty to the Great Qin Heaven.

Educating and enlightening people's wisdom is the easiest way to obtain merit, and paper and books are the key to obtaining merit.

Li Mu said so, how could Ying Zheng not know the importance of this.

"Shang Guoshi, don't bother the two masters with one thing, you have to take care of this matter yourself." Ying Zheng said to Li Mu.

From Ying Zheng's point of view, Li Mu was very interesting to Da Qin.This human race's list of gods is a priceless treasure, and now the art of papermaking is also dedicated to Daqin.

"Your Majesty, it's fine for me to coordinate at this time, but I have one condition, the civil and military personnel of the Manchu Dynasty must cooperate with me." Li Mu said to Ying Zheng.

At this time, Li Mu already had a perfect plan in his mind. The key to this plan was to use printing in addition to papermaking.

When these two technologies are mature, Li Mu can control the culture of Daqin, build schools in various parts of Daqin, and build free libraries in various places.

Today, although the Great Qin has unified the world, except for the land of Qin, the old places of the Six Kingdoms basically still use the original characters and languages.However, once paper-printed books became common, these people would have to learn Qin characters even if they did not learn Qin dialect.

As the saying goes, everything is inferior, only reading is high.The reading here does not refer to Confucianism, but to cultural inheritance.The best way to inherit culture is writing. Whoever masters more books and more writing will master the inheritance of Chinese culture.

Building schools and free libraries in various parts of Daqin will cost a huge amount of money. From the perspective of Daqin's finances, can it bear it?

Regarding the matter of money, Li Mu can be said to have a solution. To build schools and libraries, Li Mu has no intention of spending a share of the Daqin treasury.

There are so many businessmen and gentry in this world, they have money, but what they lack is culture.

In ancient times, scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen were divided into three, six, and nine classes. Although businessmen were rich, they were the lowest class and the most despised.

Therefore, if they are asked to pay, in exchange for the opportunity for their younger generations to acquire knowledge.Not to mention the money spent on building a school, they are willing to let them go bankrupt.

Suddenly, a meticulous plan appeared in Li Mu's mind. He wanted to build a Great Qin cultural empire.It can be predicted that once this matter is successful, it will definitely be able to obtain a large amount of merit for Daqin.

This is also the reason why Li Mu seeks to win the power of political leaders, to popularize knowledge, popularize knowledge, and open up the wisdom of the people.This will touch the interests of many people, and many people will oppose it.Therefore, to execute this matter, Li Mu must have absolute rights.

Fortunately, this was in the Qin Dynasty, and Ying Zheng suppressed the world by himself. As long as it was something he decided, no one had the right to say no to it.As long as he survives Yingzheng's death, his decision is the word of heaven.

If you try another dynasty at random, even if the emperor wants to popularize culture and open up the wisdom of the people, I'm afraid he will end up as emperor.

Ying Zheng's trust in Li Mu is absolute, it can even be said to be beyond the trust in anyone else.Because it was Li Mu who gave Da Qin the chance to live a second life.

What is Yingzheng's dream in this life is to let the Great Qin be passed on forever, and as long as the Great Qin Dynasty becomes the Great Qin Heavenly Court, then the Great Qin will truly last forever.

In Ying Zheng's view, everything that stands in the way of Daqin's promotion will be crushed to pieces.

"Aiqing, if there are people in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty who don't listen to Aiqing, Aiqing can hold my sword and kill him." Ying Zheng said, untied the sword from his waist and handed it to Li Mu.

Yingzheng's sword is called Tianwen, also known as the Emperor's Sword. It is the sword of the Qin kings of all dynasties.The specialty of this sword, that is the specialty.

Ying Zheng handed the sword to Li Mu, which was equivalent to giving Li Mu Shangfang the sword.With this sword in hand, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, princes and ministers, Li Mu wanted to kill whoever he wanted, and whoever he wanted to kill.

This is the royal charter.

Within a few days, a new yamen named Daqin Ministry of Culture was established. This new yamen was established by Shang Guoshi, Lord Shennong himself.

It is said that His Majesty attaches great importance to this new yamen, and today Wenjian is enshrined in front of the hall of this new yamen.Every yamen in the whole Great Qin had to give priority to obeying the transfer of the Shang Guoshi, and whoever dared not listen would have their head beheaded if they asked the sword today.

However, this new yamen is also puzzling, since the establishment of a new yamen, Shang Guoshi does not want officials or petty officials, but first recruits a group of craftsmen to go in, and I don't know what they are doing.

Li Mu's yamen of the Ministry of Culture of the Great Qin Dynasty is said to be a yamen, but it is actually more like a state-owned enterprise.This is not only for official business, but also for production, manufacturing and many other matters.

These days, Li Mu has mobilized a large number of craftsmen to make paper, and while making paper, he has to study movable type printing.

Whether movable type printing can be invented is also the key to whether Daqin's cultural empire can be built.

Books in this era were all written on bamboo slips, and all of them were hand-copied.Copying by hand is not only time-consuming, labor-intensive but also error-prone.

Paper has no words, but books have words. What does this mean? It means that there is no word.

Therefore, after the mass production of paper, it is absolutely impossible to use the inefficient hand-copying method to make books, and to invent movable type printing, which is an imminent thing.

(End of this chapter)