Tai Chi Palace.
In front of Li Shimin's desk is a brand-new copy of the Analects, which is bound in threads and is about a finger thick.
The cover is opened, and the first page is "Learning": Zi said: "Learn and learn from time to time, don't you also say it?
Have friends come from afar, are you happy?
People don't know, but they are not ashamed, and they are not gentlemen?
” Every word is extremely neat and beautiful small letters, between the words, the line spacing is as if marked with a ruler, no more than a point, no less, sweeping away, very eye-catching and pleasing to the eye.
Li Shimin flipped through a few pages casually and found that the pages were all like this, neat, beautiful, and there was not a single typo.
"It's a good copy, and it's obvious that it's done with care."
Li Shimin did not hesitate to praise himself, then raised his head to look at Chu Suiliang, and asked: "It doesn't look like Dengshan's handwriting, I don't know who wrote it?"
” Chu Suiliang bowed down and said: "Back to the emperor, this "Analects" was purchased by Weichen from a small bookseller yesterday, and he only charged Weichen ten yuan for such a book. ” "Shiwen?"
Li Shimin raised his eyebrows: "Why is it so cheap, isn't it that bookseller who recognized your identity?"
” The "Analects" copied by an ordinary Xiucai can be sold at least for a high price of thirty or fifty texts, and the "Analects" in front of me is written neatly and magnificently, not losing to any calligrapher, how can it only be sold for ten yuan?
So the only explanation can only be that the bookseller recognized the identity of Chu Suiliangshangshu's right servant and deliberately stammered him.
Chu Suiliang's expression remained unchanged, and he replied in a loud voice: "Weichen has never met him.
At that time, Wei Chen also felt strange, this "Analects" was neatly written, and the handwriting looked like it was written by someone himself, so what was the reason for selling it so cheaply?
Therefore, Wei Chen asked the vendor directly. ” Li Shimin was interested and said very cooperatively: "How did the vendor reply?"
” The vendor did not answer directly, but took out more than 20 copies of the identical "Analects" from the bookshelf in one go, and bluntly said that each copy was ten yuan, and he could provide as much as Weichen wanted.
Wei Chen was curious, and then looked through it, and found that these books were all written by one person, and what was even more strange was that the handwriting and typesetting on each book were all exactly the same, as if they were rubbed inscriptions, from the first word to the last word, there was no difference.
As he spoke, Chu Suiliang took out another copy of "The Analects" from his sleeve and presented it to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, please take a look, this is the second book that Weichen bought from the merchant." ” "Really?"
Li Shimin stretched out his hand to take it, opened it and looked at it, and compared it with the one on the table, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
The handwriting on this Analects is really exactly the same as the first one, the same position, the same text, not even a single point, not a single tick.
"It's really not like it's a manual copy, is it really rubbing?"
As soon as Li Shimin's thought came out, he immediately shook his head and denied: "This is impossible, how can the rubbing handwriting be so clean and tidy?"
This "Analects" is not a simple page or two, but a whole volume, adding up to more than 15,000 words, how can a simple rubbing be able to do it?
” Li Shimin didn't believe that the "Analects" in his hand was so neatly written and neatly written, that it didn't look like a rubbed product.
"Wechen didn't believe it at first."
Chu Suiliang said: "But there are more than 20 volumes of the identical Analects, which really can't be explained.
Even the same person could not have copied two identical copies of the Analects. ” Chu Suiliang is also a master of calligraphy, and he thinks that he can't write two identical calligraphy works.
Because time, mood, and habits when writing will affect the order of handwriting when actually writing.
Li Shimin nodded, unless it is those calligraphy and painting dealers who specialize in counterfeiting, no one will deliberately care about the details of these writings, let alone deliberately make some identical books.
What's more, the price of this "Analects" is only ten cents, under normal circumstances, such a price is destined to lose money, and it is not worth the attention of those counterfeiters at all.
"Okay, don't sell Guan Zi in front of me, I know your character very well, if you don't find the answer, you won't enter the palace to meet you."
Li Shimin was too lazy to guess more, and asked Chu Suiliang directly, he had a faint feeling that maybe the news brought by Chu Suiliang this time could completely solve the eternal problem of literati reading and copying.
Chu Suiliang smiled, and the beard on his chin trembled: "It's still the emperor who understands Weichen."
This was not a secret, and the vendor did not deliberately hide it, Wei Chen just inquired a little and asked the key to it. ” Seeing that Li Shimin had been looking at him, Chu Suiliang stopped talking nonsense and said bluntly: "All this comes from something called engraving printing.
It comes from a craftsman's workshop called Chengde Shufang on the outskirts of the city. ” "They carved words out of hardwood, and then brushed them with ink, like rubbings, like seals, but they made them more delicate and delicate, and the printed pages looked cleaner and more beautiful."
"Just like the "Analects" in front of the emperor, they carved it out one by one with engraving, and I heard that a single engraving can print nearly thousands of pages of articles in one day, which is faster than copying it by hand!"
"That's why the books they printed were so cheap, and they could buy a clean and complete Analects for only ten yuan, which is really a great merit!"
Chu Suiliang praised this kind of engraving printing, he is the prince of the country, the principal of the highest university in the Tang Dynasty, and the leader of the current Tang Dynasty literary circle, in the face of such a grand event that is almost bound to bring earth-shaking changes to the Tang Dynasty literary circle, Chu Suiliang is extremely sensitive.
As soon as the engraving comes out, readers all over the world will no longer have no books to read, let alone worry about the high cost of buying books.
For all the people who read books in the world, especially those who can't afford to buy books, this is definitely a great event of great merit!
Li Shimin's heart moved slightly, and he asked the excited Chu Suiliang softly: "What did the Qing family say just now, Chengde Bookstore?"
Who is the owner of this bookstore?
” Chu Suiliang stood up straight, bowed to Li Shimin, and said: "Weichen is about to report to the emperor that the owner of Chengde Bookstore is not an outsider, it is An Pinghou, who just presented corn and potatoes to the imperial court some time ago-Li Feng and Li Chengde. ” Li Shimin's eyes narrowed slightly, and sure enough, I guessed that the rebel was doing something.
This kid has been dancing very happily recently, and it is a wine shop, a warm table, a fire kang, and a briquette, and now he has even made an engraving print, and even Chu Suiliang, the right servant of Shangshu, and the priest of the country have been shocked.
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Li Shimin felt a little congested, and he couldn't be proud even if he wanted to.
When Li Chengqian was still the prince, this was not that or that, today this master participated in his studies and was not specialized, and tomorrow the master participated in his playfulness and rudeness, making a prince seem to know nothing, everything was wrong, and the whole thing was a piece of mud that could not support the wall.
Many times, even Li Shimin himself felt that this prince was becoming more and more unworthy of his own mind, and more than once gave birth to the idea of abolishing the prince.
Now, the crown prince has indeed been abolished.
However, Li Chengqian, who was deposed, only took less than half a year to start shining outside the court, and the things he did and the exploits he created shone so brightly that Li Shimin, the emperor, couldn't open his eyes and didn't dare to look at it directly.
What is this?
Is it because they have no eyes and have delayed this child's ingenuity?
Or is this kid's stage not in the court at all?
"Your Majesty, Anping waits for this move, it is really a feat for the benefit of the country and the people, and it is also a grand event in my Tang Dynasty literary circle, the emergence of this kind of printing technology, Weichen feels that it is more important than the blackboard than the chalk than the "Three Character Classic" and "Disciple Rules".
"Therefore, Weichen would like to implore the emperor, in the name of the imperial court, to accelerate the promotion of this engraving printing technology, so that my students in the Tang Dynasty can spend less money and read more books as soon as possible."
Chu Suiliang gave advice to Li Shimin, and Li Fengman nodded in a trance: "It depends on the meaning of the Qing family, but we can't ignore An Pinghou's merits, and the reward that should be given is still given." ” "Well, I will give him a Jinshi background and a position of Doctor Taixue in Guozijian."
"The Emperor Shengming!"
Chu Suiliang nodded happily and happily patted Li Shimin's ass.
Dr.
Taixue is suspended under the gate of the Guozi Prison, eating the court's money, and it is an official position that is not big or small.
Don't participate in court affairs, don't take care of government affairs, just teach Guozijian students attentively.
If Li Shimin recommended someone else to take this position, Chu Suiliang might have to take a test, but for Li Fengman, who had written the "Three Character Classic" and "Disciple Rules", Chu Suiliang was a hundred satisfied.
In fact, Chu Suiliang had such an idea when he first saw the "Three Character Classic" before, but Li Fengman's identity was too special at that time, so he kept it aside.
Now, Li Shimin personally opened the royal mouth, which is in line with Chu Suiliang's intentions.