Datang: Angry at Li Er, he still begged me to come out of the mountain

Chapter 104 Cheap Books

But there are too many things that need to be done. Let’s talk about this cigarette paper, and it needs to be upgraded again later.

"Father-in-law, there is a truth you must understand, that is, every emperor wants his imperial power to be supreme, and any thing that affects his imperial power should be cleared away. In fact, the five surnames and seven sects can be regarded as powerful if they are enlarged. In particular, they have a lot of money, food, connections and land in their hands. When His Majesty raised his troops, they all expressed it more or less. Think about it, if they hadn't helped our Majesty behind the scenes , relying on our Majesty alone, a son of the Duke of Tang's mansion, it is hard to say whether this world belongs to Li Tang now."

Li Er took a sip of his wine and stared at Jiang Yunqing in disbelief. Why is this son-in-law not afraid of anything, and dares to say anything, especially about the rebellion of their Li family. Talking nonsense about these things is a big treason. , if someone dares to say it, let's see if he doesn't kill that person's whole family.

The five surnames and seven sects are powerful, and Li Er understands very well that when their Li family raised troops, they did get help from the five surnames and seven sects.

"Five surnames and seven sects, if you want to solve it, there are two ways to go. The first one is to let the demon king Cheng Yaojin take the Xuanhua axe, take the troops directly, and kill them all. What is the name? , If the words don’t go well, as long as the imperial court wants it, then someone will find it.”

"Yunqing, you don't know the current situation of the imperial court. There is no way to use force against those of the five surnames and seven sects. It's too bloody. Let's talk about the second one." Li Er directly skipped this and asked Jiang Yunqing to say The other one, this first one, is not realistic at all.

"Father-in-law, do you know more about the court affairs than I do? But if you want to solve their problems in a gentle and peaceful way, there is no way out." Jiang Yunqing said.

Hearing this, Lear's eyes couldn't help but shine. If they can solve their root cause without using a knife, that would be a great thing.

"The root of the five surnames and seven sects is that they have people, and they have books and a recommendation system in their hands. These two things are their connections. If they don't have these two, they will be tigers with their teeth pulled out. They can't bite everyone. It’s just a big dog with some money in the family, it’s nothing.”

Li Er nodded his head very satisfied. He also wanted to restart the imperial examination system, but what is the use of restarting the imperial examination system now? The recommendation came from those people with five surnames and seven sects, and the officials of the court still had indistinct relationships with the five surnames and seven sects, which was useless.

"The imperial examination system is actually the most suitable for the future progress of the Tang Dynasty. If the imperial examination system can be widely promoted, it will break the foundation of one-third of the aristocratic family. But there is another huge problem. These scholars Not from the Kong family, but from five surnames and seven sects..."

Speaking of these times, Jiang Yunqing deliberately shut up, and when his father-in-law became anxious, Jiang Yunqing said slowly: "Father-in-law, how could it be such a coincidence, the business I am doing recently can just be solved these questions."

Then I saw that Jiang Yunqing stood up, went to the bookshelf, and took a few books, one of which was "Yunqing's Poetry Collection", "Hundred Surnames" and some of the Four Books and Five Classics.

Li Er looked at it a few times, but he didn't see any tricks, but there was news from Baiqi that the printing speed of Jiang Yunqing's data was very, very fast.

"Father-in-law, how much does this kind of book usually cost?"

Li Er is still very close to the sufferings of the common people, and has been paying attention to the prices of various things among the people, so he gave a reasonable price for the "Hundred Family Names" in his hand, "If this is the case, it will cost a thousand coins , and it’s all about small profits but quick turnover.”

"Father-in-law, guess how much I'll sell it for."

"Five hundred wen? Six hundred wen?"

"Seventy words."

"What?" Li Er was stunned again, his mouth slightly opened, with a look of surprise on his face.

Li Er is a smart person. Hearing what Jiang Yunqing said, he knew what the second method Jiang Yunqing just said was.

Books are the way to shake the foundation of the five surnames and seven sects.

It coincides with the idea of ​​the Royal Academy that Li Er wants to get.

Why do common people's children have to die in their family's academy? Isn't it because there are no books in their own family?

Before movable type printing, known as one of the four great inventions in ancient times, was invented, books were also a very precious property, and they were simply precious.

In the Tang Dynasty, in order to preserve the integrity of the books, there were still many books on bamboo slips, and many of them had deviations.

Those who have connections and connections can borrow books to copy, and those who don’t know people, even copy books, have no one to borrow, cutting off the way to seek knowledge.

Li Er suddenly seemed to have seen, saw the scholars in the world, everyone has their own books, and there is a steady stream of scholars in the Tang Dynasty, who passed the imperial examination, regardless of their status restrictions, they all came to the imperial examination.

As long as you have books in your hands, you can print them in large quantities, so that anyone in the world who wants to study can afford to read them. If there are more scholars, you can hold the imperial examinations yourself, and you don't need to appoint officials recommended by the five surnames and seven sects.

It's not that Li Er didn't think about these things before, but he never thought of any way to make books read by everyone in the world, which almost made Li Er depressed to death.

Nowadays, the books Jiang Yunqing sells can be sold at such a low price. The quality is not bad. We can also have our own books, and the number of scholars in the world will increase exponentially.

Seeing Li Er's excited look, Jiang Yunqing knew that the books of her father-in-law's house were definitely in her pocket.

"Father-in-law, look, if I can sell all these books all over the street one day, what kind of state will it form?"

Jiang Yunqing directly told his father-in-law his hole cards, and said: "Father-in-law, to tell you the truth, the printing cost of this book is just the money for the text. Those who print the engraving, dare not compare the price with me, and beat the price." Fighting, I can beat them out of shit. When it comes to making money and doing business, I will never lose money."

"What? Yunqing, your stuff is not printed by woodblocks. Those woodblockers spend a lot of money printing each plate. Ten yuan, this is impossible." Li Er looked in disbelief. He looked at Jiang Yunqing and said.

Jiang Yunqing laughed a few times, the treasure of movable type printing still has to keep a secret from her father-in-law.

(End of this chapter)