Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

As Chang'an gradually approaches the Spring Festival, Chang'an gradually becomes more and more lively. Now, due to the advancement of printing technology in the Tang Dynasty, the cost has been reduced again, and with it, the cost of various papers has also been reduced. Gradual decline.

In the winter of this year, various states in the Tang Dynasty began to publicly sell the Tang calendar prepared by the Taishi Bureau under the Ministry of Culture for the first time.

This calendar can be regarded as an expansion task of the printing plants Li Ke built in various parts of Datang in order to build Datang Daily.

Using the cheapest and poorest quality paper, the printed calendar contains 360 and five days in a year, as well as two counting methods: the Gregorian calendar and the lunar calendar. It is like the calendars of later generations, and also prints some appropriate and taboo things.

Anyway, these things are just trivial matters to the Taishi Bureau. It doesn't matter if you calculate a year's time roughly. They are all traditional arts and they are very cheap. Such a calendar was reduced to a penny by Li Ke.

This is almost the cost, it does not make money, and if the shipping fee is included, Li Ke allows it to sell at a price of 2 coins at most.

If 2 Wenqian were placed in the early years of Zhenguan, this number would be almost an astronomical figure to ordinary people, but in today's Tang Dynasty, this number is not an astronomical figure.

It can be said that almost all the people can afford it. Because the agricultural tax is exempted, the people have a certain amount of funds in their hands. Although it seems that buying a calendar for 2 cents is a bit of a luxury for the people.

But in fact, the things recorded on these calendars are still very important to many people.

The reason why Li Ke is eager to promote this is because in this era, the calendar is to some extent one of the most important ways to expand the culture of the Tang Dynasty and expand the influence of Chinese culture.

You know, with the establishment of Pei Xingjian's Central China Theater, the Tang Dynasty's dating method quickly began to spread in Tianzhu, Persia and other countries.

They may not use the Tang Dynasty's counting method, but they all use the same method as the Tang Dynasty, that is, how to calculate the number of days in a year and the time in a day.

Because Datang's method is extremely precise, unprecedentedly precise.

Dividing time zones is not difficult for the current Taishi Bureau of the Tang Dynasty. After the time zone division is completed, the time calculation for each region will naturally be based on Chang'an time, and then the time for each time zone will be calculated.

Naturally, these local countries are very fond of these Tang Dynasties with accurate timing.

In order to cooperate with the promotion of the Tang era and time, Li Kedu had people sell Datang clocks to countries such as Persia, Byzantium, and Arabia.

If they want to use time, they naturally have to use these eras. It doesn't matter how they name the year, whether it is the number of years of a certain emperor in Persia, or the number of years in Persia.

At least their New Year time, the day of each month, etc. are the same as those of the Tang Dynasty. This is enough.

Civilization is the witness of time, and time is the carrier of civilization.

Without the witness of civilization, time naturally has no meaning of existence. Similarly, without time as a carrier, civilization cannot settle and become strong.

A seemingly simple calendar can enhance people's sense of participation, participation, and belonging in the country.

Because on this simple calendar, it shows not only time, but also thousands of years of cultural accumulation.

The Book of Changes, festivals, history, etc. are all condensed in this small calendar.

Although this year's calendar was printed in a hurry, some short stories can be printed on the subsequent calendars each year, with historical stories as the main body and all the knowledge of the Tang Dynasty, including astronomy, geography, humanities, etc. in vernacular.

Although each page is just a brief introduction, for people who may never have left their villages in their entire lives, this knowledge can greatly expand their horizons!

Why an ordinary person more than 1000 years later can become a highly talented person in ancient times is because under the impact of countless information, even the information that is passively received has filled their brains with a lot of information. knowledge.

This knowledge seems to be of no use in modern society, but its impact in ancient times was great.

Similarly, why the people of this era are so ignorant, isn't it because they have no channels to receive any information at all?And this calendar is one of the channels.

It does not need to be precise or profound, it only needs to record a lot of common sense, and this common sense will be a huge improvement for all people.

And in the process of understanding this knowledge, they are understanding Chinese culture, and in the process of understanding Chinese culture, they are increasing their sense of belonging, allowing them to repeatedly confirm that they are a person from the Tang Dynasty.

It can be said that this knowledge is continuously hinting to them from the subconscious, hinting that they are a Tang Dynasty person!

At the last court meeting before the New Year in the 27th year of the Tang Dynasty, Li Ke sat on the dragon throne, somewhat in a trance.

Although a year has passed, it always feels like many years have passed. The main reason is that this year has changed too much. If nothing else, last year he was just a prince, but this year he is already an emperor. .

Forget about becoming the emperor, now his father went to play in Guangzhou, Hainan, and his mother, stepmother, concubine Jinyang and others went with him. Jinyang was said to be coming back in the middle, but he didn't know why he didn't come back later.

Maybe it was because the weather on the road was too cold and my father was worried.

As for his eldest brother, he never came back from Liaoning Prefecture, but his sister-in-law and the others moved out of the East Palace directly on the second day after Li Ke succeeded to the throne.

Li Ke asked someone to ask, saying that it was his elder brother who arranged it.

What else could he say?The edict that Li Shimin asked Qin Qiong to convey to the whole country through the Ministry of Security contained not only the edict for the Zen position, but also the document that Li Chengqian himself gave up his position as prince, saying that his talents could not be inherited by the Tang Dynasty.

It can only be said that Li Ke ignored the Ministry of Security at the beginning, or that he ignored the people's hearts.

It can be said that he has been supervising the country for the past two years and is used to arranging things through various departments such as the Ministry of Security. When his father arranged things in his name and said that he would be affected, all the security forces of the Ministry of Security, etc. Don’t keep member confidentiality measures too good.

As for the Intelligence Department, they are all people from Yuelai Trading Company, and people from Yuelai Trading Company will certainly not object to what His Highness proposes.