Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 198 Diffusion
Just when Zhang Qingfeng was trying to enter the entertainment circle, he didn't know that during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, his Fengshenyanyi was spreading around at a crazy speed.

When he was in the academy, his books were copied by at least a hundred people. After these people finished copying, they didn't keep it for themselves, and used it as something to show off.

Some people even regard this thing as a tool for making friends.

Zhang Xiaofei, a student of Liucheng Academy, when the Romance of the Gods was popular in the academy, he also borrowed a copy of his classmates' manuscripts.

This Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, he returned to his hometown in Yuhang County with his parents and family.

In his hometown, he knew some friends who were also scholars.

When chatting with a friend, he mentioned that there was a Yang Sanlang in Liucheng Academy, and Yang Sanlang wrote a book, and he was shocked after reading it.He praised Yang Sanlang to the sky, which naturally aroused the interest of his friends.

Hearing what Zhang Xiaofei said, his friend didn't believe it at first.

Next, Zhang Xiaofei said that fortunately he copied a copy, otherwise he would have thought I was a liar.

Then, under his friend's strong request for a view, he had no choice but to "reluctantly" show the manuscript to his friend.

Just as Zhang Xiaofei expected, when his friends watched the content of Fengshen Yanyi, they immediately fell into it.

"What about the back? What about the content behind?"

In the next two days, after Zhang Xiaofei's friends finished reading all the content, they felt that they were still unsatisfied, and wanted to read the following content urgently.

"The latter is gone. Yang Sanlang only wrote so much, and the latter has not been written yet." Zhang Xiaofei spread his hands and said.

"Ugh!"

Hearing Zhang Xiaofei's words, his friends could only sigh.

"You asked that person, Yang Sanlang, right? You asked him to write faster and more, and he would be gone after half-reading. It's really uncomfortable if he can't get up or down."

Zhang Xiaofei saw his friend's look of wanting to stop being tormented, and a tricky smile appeared on his face.

"Don't worry about that, the whole academy is urging him every day." Zhang Xiaofei said.

"Xiaofei, lend me your manuscript for a while." Someone said to Zhang Xiaofei.

"Didn't you finish it?"

"I want to borrow a copy, so that I can take a look when I have nothing to do."

"That's right, lend it to me too, and I'll make a copy too." Several other friends also said.

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On the other hand, as Wang Rong, who is also a student of Liucheng Academy and also copied a manuscript of the Romance of the Gods, it is a bit tragic for him to live this festival.

Because, his manuscript was actually given away by his father.

"Father, why did you give away my stuff? I copied it for two months..."

When Wang Rong knew that his manuscript had been given away by his father, he just felt cold in his heart, and couldn't help speaking impatiently.

"Brat, why are you talking to your father? I gave your book to Mr. Chen. He is going to be promoted next year. If I curry favor with him, I might be able to become a leader in the team. Compared with this What is a broken book of yours?" Wang Rong's father took it for granted.

On the other hand, Chen Wenjie, the director of Qiantang County, after receiving the book of Fengshen Romance from his subordinates, spent two days reading all the content without sleeping or eating.

After reading it, he only felt astonished, but at the same time, he was still unsatisfied.

Such a story, such a wonderful plot, and such a grand setting completely opened the eyes of Chen Wenjie, who has lived for more than 40 years.

After reading this story, he had only one thought in his mind: he never thought that there are such beautiful books in this world.

In the Song Dynasty, there was no concept of novels. In the past, there were occasional stories that existed in the form of scattered scripts.

The content of the story will not be too much, a few tens of characters less is a story, and more will not exceed tens of thousands of words.

And this is the first time a novel like Fengshen Yanyi has appeared since the beginning of the world.

"Come here, prepare the sedan chair, I'm going to the magistrate's mansion."

After reading the story of Fengshen Yanyi, Chen Wenjie immediately realized that this was a very good opportunity to curry favor with Shangguan by giving gifts.

Not long after, after the servants prepared the sedan chair, Chen Wenjie tidied up his clothes, and took the sedan chair to the magistrate's mansion.

"Master Chen came to visit so early in the morning, what advice do you have?" County magistrate Liu Sangzhou said to Chen Wenjie with a smile.

"I recently came across a strange book, and I'm here to show you the county magistrate." Chen Wenjie said to Liu Sangzhou, the county magistrate.

While speaking, he had already taken out the Fengshen Romance and handed it to Liu Sangzhou.

This is a bound book with a leather cover, and the four big characters "The Romance of the Gods" and the four small characters "written by Yang Sanlang" are written with a brush on it.

Fengshenyanyi currently has 20 characters, so this book is as thick as a Xinhua dictionary, and it is quite heavy in the hand.

"Oh? Strange book! Then I want to read it." Liu Sangzhou took the book and said.

"Lord magistrate, this is a book written by a man named Yang Sanlang. It hasn't been finished yet. I'll send you the rest when it's finished." Chen Wenjie said to Liu Sangzhou.

This was told to him by the little official surnamed Wang who once gave him books, and now he is telling the magistrate the same.

Following the exchanges between Master Chen and Liu Zhixian, this is the first time that officials have seen this Fengshen Romance.

Not only that, in the circle of scholars in Lin'an, Fengshenyanyi also quickly spread.

During this period of time, in Lin'an City, a member of the Liu family brought Fengshen Yanyi to the Imperial College.

The son of the Liu family is called Liu Wangbei, and he is in his 20s.

He borrowed this Fengshenyanyi from a junior in the family. This junior was studying in the Liu family's academy, so he copied a manuscript of Fengshenyanyi.

After Liu Wangbei brought Fengshen Yanyi to Guozijian, copying books became popular in Guozijian.

Along with Feng Shen Yan Yi, there are quills and galla ink.

This is one of the reasons why Zhang Qingfeng's family's ink business is getting better and better.

Copying with a quill is many times faster than with a brush, so many people end up having to use a quill after copying with a brush for a while.

There are even people who are not short of money and are too lazy to copy books, and they bid up to ten pennies a copy to buy the manuscripts of Fengshen Yanyi.

Some even went to Liucheng Academy to inquire who had the manuscript of the Romance of the Gods, and they were willing to buy it at a high price.

What Zhang Qingfeng didn't expect was that some people actually sold the handwritten copies for a lot of money.

There was a student who, because of his excellent quill calligraphy, sold his manuscripts for [-] yuan.

Imperial College was the highest academic institution in the Southern Song Dynasty, second only to Taixue in status.

With the spread of Fengshen Yanyi in Guozijian, the Taixue next door to Guozijian naturally got this book.

For a while, Taixue also began to copy books.

In ancient times, the dissemination of books was very difficult. The cost of printing books was high. If you printed too many books, you might not be able to sell them, and if you printed too few books, you would lose even more.

As a result, a popular activity in the circle of scholars, copying books.

No matter what book it is, if you can't afford it, just copy it.

For example, Cao Xueqin's "A Dream of Red Mansions" was widely circulated in the form of manuscripts at that time.

Most of the collections of many big families are manuscripts.

In places like temples and Taoist temples, it is also popular to copy books. They copy not only the Four Books and Five Classics but also Buddhist scriptures.

Some monks even copied scriptures all their lives, which is why Buddhism can spread widely.

(End of this chapter)