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Chapter 2327: Monopolized Knowledge


The subset of classics and histories, etc., is the forbidden place where the wealthy families of the world want to monopolize knowledge!

Lin Sha wants to make a name for himself through a certain part of the subset of the Interpretation of the Scriptures and History, it's not impossible, but the price he needs to pay is too high.There is no strong family power to help publicize it, and there are other so-called celebrities to support the scene, and it is quite difficult to rely on such a mixed Shilin to become famous.Unless, he is willing to attach himself to a wealthy family, it is possible to rise quickly.Otherwise, in addition to facing the implicit rejection of Shilin, you will also have to face the cynicism and ubiquitous suppression of the so-called Shilin's predecessors!

From the very beginning, Lin Sha did not intend to follow the path of traditional literati, but planned to play alternative, take the path of 'realistic literature', and intend to be a realistic critic of literature.No, he made an in-depth and detailed investigation and understanding of the four things of 'clothing, food, housing and transportation' of ordinary residents in Luoyang City, and then recorded them through relatively simple words.Fortunately, there was a large amount of blank paper on the market, and his small workshop also made a little blank paper supply from time to time, which was enough for him to spend a lot of time on writing.If you still use bamboo slips to record, not to mention that it is a big trouble to simply engrave all the characters on bamboo slips, let alone spread influence.In the era of bamboo slips, because the inscription and copying of words were quite inconvenient, it was convenient for powerful families to monopolize knowledge and culture.Because the knowledge culture at this time is indeed a tool that can be directly controlled!

It is said that in the era of bamboo slips, because of the inconvenience of lettering, all the so-called celebrities who were famous, regardless of their own talent level, were at least not bad level carvers.Some of them are particularly talented, or they are strong hands-on guys, and they even play tricks in lettering, which can be called a generation of carvers!

The large output of white paper avoided many troubles in the era of bamboo slips, not to mention that at least in terms of knowledge diffusion, paper books were much stronger than the heavy bamboo slips.Isn't there an idiom called 'sweat cow chongdong', in fact, it is a cart of bamboo slips, and the weight machine is heavy and needs to be pulled by an ox cart, but in fact, the words recorded in this car of bamboo slips are estimated to be only as many as a normal paper book.Obviously, the powerful families have realized that the emergence of paper books may seriously disrupt their monopoly on knowledge.They didn't have the courage to ask the Spirit Emperor to interrupt the massive output of white paper, this was a rather crazy money-making industry, with the Spirit Emperor's greed for money, whoever dared to propose to him would be unlucky.Besides, it is indeed convenient to make paper books to record words, but it was not easy to extract a book in the past, and the process of engraving the text alone required a lot of energy and time.They still came up with a way to deal with it, that is, how much blank paper appeared in the world, they would join forces to take as much as they could, anyway, Emperor Ling only had to sell paper to make money, but no matter who bought the paper.Therefore, although white paper has been launched for more than half a year, there is basically no white paper circulating on the market, and all of them have fallen into the hands of wealthy families.These powerful families did not waste a large amount of blank paper when they purchased a large amount of paper, they organized all their readers, took the most valuable knowledge of the middle family, spent a lot of energy and great cost to copy it all on the paper, and then bound it into a book to continue to serve as the most valuable knowledge wealth of the family!

All the families with a little background are like this, and the so-called celebrities in the entire Luoyang City were almost extinct during that time, and they were basically wiped out by the wealthy families in the city, either copying books or copying the knowledge on the bamboo slips to paper.It is quite convenient to have a paper to record knowledge, and they don't just copy it once, but copy multiple copies in one go, and those branches that are quite prestigious in the family have to pass a copy.Although knowledge is still only transmitted within the family, the tendency to spread is unstoppable.After the celebrities recorded all their knowledge on paper and bound it into a book to make multiple copies, some family members with active brains began to use their family and their own fame to exchange books with other families.Naturally, it was sneaky at the beginning, and it also caused fierce conflicts between family members and between families, and a lot of unpleasant things happened for this.But later, seeing that the situation was out of control, the desire for knowledge of the celebrities and scholars exceeded everything, and finally the family leader had no choice but to open the knowledge exchange mode between the families.This is how the knowledge in the hands of the major families began to slowly spread and spread.It's not that a certain family is good at 'Mao Shi', a certain family's essence 'I Ching' or the like, at least in the circle of wealthy families in Luoyang, the knowledge mastered by each family has begun to circulate.The time is still short, and there is nothing to see at the moment, and when each family digests and absorbs the new knowledge, there will basically be no situation where one family has exclusive access to a certain aspect of knowledge.There really is such an ignorant family, and the rest of the families are not vegetarians, and they will definitely take some means to force this uninteresting family to submit and take out their own knowledge and disclose it in their own circles.This is the power of paper, which easily breaks through the barriers of knowledge dissemination, and allows the major families in Luoyang City to start a journey of knowledge exchange that is both happy and painful.During this period, it was not without Baume & Mercier that recorded their academic achievements in a book, and copied hundreds of Benben on the market in one go, wanting to further expand their influence and popularity.No one is a fool, in the past in the era of bamboo slips, because it was not easy to write a book, it was quite difficult to become famous in Shilin, relying on their own talents, and only other celebrities touted.In this way, it has caused a rather bad phenomenon, that is, celebrities from wealthy families are obviously much more famous than celebrities from ordinary scholars.This naturally leads to a lot of contradictions, because of the different knowledge they have, it is not very easy to distinguish one, two, three, and so on.There is no broader standard, whether it is really talented or indiscriminate, it is indeed quite unreliable to distinguish between the superior and the inferior.Unless people like Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu are talented, it is possible to show a level of talent that is obviously superior to others, otherwise it is difficult to distinguish between a superior and a superior.However, the advent of paper changed all this, and as the speed and frequency of knowledge exchanges between the wealthy families of the world became faster and more frequent, the knowledge of everyone within the small circle suddenly became quite broad.The truly talented ones quickly came to the fore, and the promiscuous guys could no longer be tricked.But the wealthy families are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, the stronger the family, the more famous and better the reputation they produce, those whose own family power is not enough, but they feel that the talent is amazing, they are naturally unwilling.The right to speak in the circle is firmly in the hands of a top family, which is determined by the strength of the family, and it is not a reality that can be changed by one or two talented celebrities.They can't easily change the adverse effects of the family's strength, but they can make up for the shortcomings through other means, and it is a pretty good way to record their academic experience and enter the market to expand their influence.It's a pity that the Dao is one foot high, and the appearance of a large number of papers has seriously threatened the monopoly and dominance of the top family giants on knowledge, how can they allow those family celebrities with average strength to challenge their dominance in the field of knowledge?

It's still a simple means, buy and buy, I will buy as many books as you publish, anyway, these top wealthy families are all wealthy, and they usually have no place to spend the large amount of money in their hands, and now they are really generous to buy books, and the local tyrants can't do it!

This is the current situation of the Luoyang cultural circle, which is quite closed and xenophobic!

In order to monopolize knowledge, these wealthy families have really exhausted all means.For example, Taixue and Dongguan collected books, and now they are basically replaced with paper books, which should be the best source of knowledge to spread, but I don't know how the wealthy families of Luoyang operated, they actually said that Emperor Ling, a greedy guy for money, took all the paper books in Taixue and Dongguan Collection as wealth.If you want to take away the books you want to study, you can buy them with money!

The doctor who works in the Dongguan library wants the books here, and he still has to buy them with money!

Emperor Ling set the price so high that it was a black-hearted businessman, and even sent eunuchs and Yu Linwei to personally supervise it in order to prevent Taixue students and doctors from smuggling books away.As a result, although the Taixue students and Dr.

Dongguan still bought a lot of books, due to the huge expenses, they treated these books as treasures and did not show them easily.In this way, the huge collection of Taixue and Dongguan books was stunned that it had not been spread in the market, and people had to admire the methods of those wealthy families.In order to purchase a large amount of paper and books, they have rushed to Luoyang with huge sums of money, and their arrival has made the price of books rise all the way, and it is impossible for the books that flow into the market to fall into the hands of other classes, and knowledge is still firmly in the hands of the wealthy families.Lin Sha took a moment to understand the current situation of the cultural class in Luoyang City, and couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.It seems that only when the price of paper drops to the level that the poor can afford, and the advent of printing, will it be possible for books and knowledge to spread on a large scale!

In order to control books and knowledge, the wealthy families have tried their best to do their best, I have to say that they are really powerful, there are basically no books circulating on the market at the moment, and cultural knowledge is still in the hands of a small number of people!

Lin Sha didn't have the idea of breaking this situation, he just wanted to take advantage of the convenience of the appearance of the paper to make a name for himself so that others would no longer dare to ignore his existence easily, but he didn't have such a great sentiment, and he must educate the world.Even the saint didn't do it, so forget it about a martial artist with a little bit of strength.He took out a stack of manuscripts, about the content of clothing, food, housing and transportation that were closely related to the ordinary people in Luoyang City, first found Yang Qiu, asked him to help take a look, asked his opinion, and then showed Cai Yong and Lu Zhi to the two gentlemen."

Well written!"

When Yang Qiu looked at these manuscripts, he suddenly seemed to have found a soulmate, and he looked at them carefully, and couldn't help but applaud continuously, many of the contents of these manuscripts were the real situation that he didn't know......

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