At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Their guess was right.

Just one day later, on the seventh day of the first month of the 13th year of Yande, a large cart of books entered Luoyang City from the north gate of Luoyang.

When the head of the convoy entered Nanshi, the tail of the convoy had not yet entered Luoyang.

At the same time, in the four cities in the southeast and northwest, eight [Qiushi Bookstores] opened simultaneously, selling all kinds of books officially approved by the Wei Empire at extremely low prices.

For example, Confucian books such as "Five Classics of Justice" after proofreading.

Mathematics books represented by "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic".

Officially recognized official history books represented by "Historical Records" and "Hanshu".

There are also books on agriculture. Guo Peng instructed relevant officials to compile the "Nongjing", "Essentials for Controlling Locusts", "Essentials for Water Control" and so on.

and other categories of books.

Guo Peng sent people to reedit "Huainanzi" compiled by Liu Xiang, "Lunheng" compiled by Wang Chong, and "Qin Jing" written by Cai Yong himself in his spare time, allowing them to be published and sold to people all over the world.

They also sent people to sort out, add punctuation, and recompile the books of hundreds of schools of thought that were admired by people in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods but have long since declined.

Such as "Tao Te Ching", "Zhuang Zi", "Lu Shi Chun Qiu", "Internal Classics", "Outer Classics" and so on.

These books have been printed, reprinted, and sold on a large scale.

As soon as the news spread, it immediately caused a violent shock in Luoyang City like a nuclear bomb explosion. From the top officials down to the Li people, all the people mobilized and crowded into the eight Qiushi bookstores in the four cities in the southeast, northwest and north to see if this was true or not.

Then they got the exact reply.

Really.

The emperor really got hundreds of thousands of books and sold them in the eight Qiushi bookstores.

Moreover, there are also a steady stream of books entering Luoyang City from the north gate of Luoyang City, entering Qiushi Bookstore in a steady stream, and selling them to everyone in the society at a relatively low price.

At that moment, all learned people saw the dawn of a new era.

They are excited, they are afraid, they are relieved, they are uneasy, they are looking forward to, and they are also feeling hopeless.

All kinds of complex and intertwined emotions hit people's hearts, tearing apart their inherent concepts and ideas, and reshaping all of them at an incredible speed.

chapter 1430 one thousand 340 headlines in Luoyang City

Qiushi Bookstore sells a wide variety of books.

Among them are not only Confucian classics, agricultural books, books related to astronomy and geography, but also books on mathematics and philosophy, and even books on various schools of thought that have not been heard for many years.

There are even history books.

Taishi Gongshu and Hanshu were also printed and sold in volumes.

This is something that I didn't even dare to imagine before.

Even though this is an era of academic downgrading, what His Majesty the Emperor has done is too shocking.

The price is quite affordable, as long as you are willing to buy it, you can always afford it.

But knowledge...

Can it be bought with money?

Should this level of disclosure be achieved?

They will never forget that just over ten years ago, knowledge was still an aristocratic luxury that could not be bought with money. Only scholars could communicate openly, and children from poor families were beyond reach. , and only with the face facing the loess and the back facing the sky, don't even try to recognize the characters.

But now, books and knowledge can be placed in the bookstore for traffickers to read at will, study at will, and even buy them home for their own!

Since when are peddlers, fools and fools entitled to own books?

Moreover, the number of books in Qiushi Bookstore is astonishingly large. Carts full of books are constantly being sent in, and they are almost piled up into a mountain.

After a brief surprise, there was a frenzy of buying books in Luoyang City.

As long as you can read the books, you must buy one of each book and take it home for collection.

Whether he can use it or not will read it later.

This is a book!

For thousands of years, books that many people have never even seen or touched, are now suddenly sold at low prices to the whole society. As long as they are willing to buy, they can always be bought.

Regardless of whether he can read or not, and how much money he has, buy a few books and take them home to read!

The book-buying frenzy is in full swing, and a large number of book buyers are scrambling to buy these books, fearing that they will not be able to grab them or they will be gone after today.

Although the clerk in the bookstore has repeatedly emphasized that the volume is sufficient, there is no need to worry about not being able to buy, but people just don't believe it, they just want to buy, and they buy a lot, and they have to buy every volume, and they have to buy the whole set before giving up.

The news of the book-buying frenzy quickly spread back to the imperial court. Everyone in the imperial court knew about it, and they all turned pale with fright. Many officials from humble backgrounds even rushed out to join the book-buying frenzy, fearing that they would not be able to buy what they wanted if they fell behind. Books that can be passed down the family.

The books that they can't see and can't own, the theories of various schools of thought, theories of agricultural astronomy and geography, and history books, even ordinary officials cannot see them.

Books and knowledge learned that had to be read by the ancestors can now be bought!

If you can buy knowledge with money, why should money be distressed?

Knowledge is the most important thing, right?

This book-buying frenzy lasted for three days before it stabilized.

Within three days, Luoyang people exploded their purchasing power and desire to buy, and almost bought eight Qiushi bookstores.

However, the fleet of books that entered Luoyang City in an endless stream finally withstood people's desire to buy, and the huge number of books resisted this wave of madness.

The continuous flow of book convoys into Luoyang City dispelled the doubts and panic in people's hearts, and made them believe that the era of being able to buy books at will did not come suddenly and disappear suddenly, and it will never appear again.

This is not a flash in the pan.

The emperor really developed a new technology, so that books can appear in a steady stream, and they can be produced continuously, so that everyone who is willing to buy books in the whole Wei Kingdom can afford to buy them.

Seven days later, the book-buying frenzy stabilized, the market stabilized, and people who entered Qiushi Bookstore were no longer panicking and scrambling, but polite and restrained.

It seems that everyone has entered the sage state.

Seven days is enough to make people believe that the books are endless, not just one wave and no follow-up.

The officials in the court finally understood that the emperor was really selling books, and he could continue to sell books in the future, selling all the books he could find.

In addition, punctuation marks were added to set the rules, that is, the sentence is broken like this, and the understanding of the sentence that is not broken like this will not be accepted.

Anyone, as long as they have some money and can read and write, can buy books and read books.

Some obscure places are even annotated with official notes. The official helps everyone understand obscure places. As long as you can read, you can definitely understand them.

As long as you are a little smarter, even without a teacher, you can learn by yourself to a certain extent and become a knowledgeable person.

The few remaining officials of traditional scholar background in the court were completely stunned by the sudden attack of the emperor.

It immediately occurred to them that the past of their dreams might never return, that the golden age of their dreams was gone forever.

The era of intellectual monopoly is over, it no longer exists.

Gone are the days when books could be purchased relatively cheaply.

They don't know how the emperor mastered this technology, but since it's done, it's too late.

The emperor not only sold some books to the public, but also some books that were not sold to the public.

These books are only circulated in the education system and key departments, such as important military books and political and technical books.

Books in this category are either only available to relevant officials, or are only available to students and teachers in the education system.

Of course, the number is also quite large.

The central government did not have the books requested from the central government that were lacking in those local schools and schools, but now there are.

This time, I made up for you in one breath.

Okay, let's increase the number of enrollments.

Not only the academy and the school can increase the number of students, Guo Peng once again announced that the number of Taixue students will be expanded at the same time, from [-] to [-], returning to the heyday of Taixue.

During the heyday of Taixue in the Han Dynasty, there were almost [-] Taixue students. Guo Peng wanted to restore this number and let Taixue reach its peak state.

At the same time, Guo Peng also asked local schools and schools to recruit a considerable number of school-age students.

If the target is set, if it falls below the target line, the person in charge of the local academy or school will be punished.

Guo Peng wants to officially start this education campaign, and fix the education and selection models of the Wei Empire from now on, unshakable, so as to completely consolidate the foundation of the Wei Empire.

Let those who try to make things happen after his abdication and death completely despair.

These people still have such insignificant thoughts, fantasizing that they can counterattack after Guo Peng's death. Guo Peng just wants to puncture their last illusions and make them doomed.

As long as this matter is carried out, Guo Peng's goal will be achieved after the state-run bookstores - Qiushi Bookstores bloom all over the country.

Papermaking and printing are combined into one, completing the last step for the era of burying the gentry.

This is the end of the era of the gentry, and there will never be a possibility of restoration.

The people of the world who have obtained cheap books will not allow any forces to take away the books they can buy.

Even if there is no teacher, even if he is illiterate, even if he is just an ordinary old farmer on the ground, he can buy a book to read, and then carefully keep it as a family heirloom.

Of course, when they find that books are everywhere and the number is extremely huge, they probably won't regard a book as a family heirloom anymore.

All kinds of books are sold openly in Luoyang City, and there are many buyers, and there are huge crowds of people outside Qiushi Bookstore.

Discussions about these books have reached such a frightening level that no one paid attention to the series of personnel adjustments Guo Peng made to stabilize the political situation after his abdication.

Everyone is concerned about these cheap books, and everyone is concerned about the public sale of books.

The emperor even issued a decree, saying that if the folks have a collection of isolated books, they can dedicate them to the imperial court, and the imperial court will reward them.

If there are capable folks who write their own books, they can bring them to Luoyang and report them to the imperial court. If the imperial court feels that the quality is high after viewing, they can even publish them publicly, and pay the author of the book something called "author's remuneration".

In short, give money.

For this reason, the imperial court will also set up a publishing department under the Ministry of Education to deal with this matter, and to deal with the release and distribution of books.

The imperial court very much welcomes talented people to deliver their own books to the imperial court, so that the imperial court can distinguish good from bad. If they can be sold publicly, it will be a great achievement and be famous all over the world.

As soon as this news came out, it once again grabbed the headlines in Luoyang City.

A large number of literati and students were so excited that they rushed to report this matter, and spread this matter to everyone they knew, and even themselves were ready to move.

People who have ideas and want to write books have started to act, and even those who have written books but have not had time to publish them have also taken action.

In the past, if you want everyone to know that you have written a book, you must first have a certain social relationship.

Or if you are a celebrity yourself, you can invite three or five friends to judge the good and bad together, and then let them go out to spread the news.

One spreads it to ten, ten spreads it to a hundred, and after a while, the whole city knows about it.

People in the city know it, and people outside the city know it is a matter of time, but it is too difficult to be famous all over the country. Basically, it is good to let the people of Luoyang know.

But it was different now, the emperor announced to the outside world that the state-run bookstore——Qiushi Bookstore would set up stores in every state capital and every county capital of the Wei Empire. This was the first step of the plan.

In the future, it will be expanded to every county and even every township, so that the people at the lowest level can also read books.

Once a book is recognized by the court as valuable, it will be printed, and then sent to the whole country through the network of Qiushi bookstores all over the country for publicity and sales.

The target group is scholars and literate people in the whole Wei Empire.

Chapter 1431 One Thousand 340 Printing Division and Newspapers

The era of 30 or 30 years ago is very different now. Just talking about the large-scale improvement of the population literacy rate is not comparable to that of [-] or [-] years ago.

In the past, books and culture were just elegant items for self-entertainment among the 40 educated people in the empire. It was impossible for those illiterate traffickers and foolish men and women to understand this elegant art.

But now, after Guo Peng’s decades-long literacy campaign, traffickers and foolish men and women can also read some characters. The most basic reading and writing are not a problem, and the number of people who can read books and understand culture is rapidly expanding.

Elegant art, which used to only reach 40 people, is now "flying" into the homes of ordinary people.

Once the book is published, it will cover the whole country, and the coverage will be too large, and the benefits will also be huge.

The imperial court stipulated that every book sold could be shared with Qiushi Bookstore, and the bookstore would pay the author of the book [remuneration] according to a certain percentage. As long as the book is still on sale, the money can be taken.