Promotion Letter for the Chief Executive

In Dachu, where wooden and stone houses are generally only three stories high, this house stands out from the crowd.If it weren't for the progress in the steelmaking work in Qinzhou, such a house would not be able to be built.

This made Pingan very satisfied, because for a long time, he wanted to make the library a landmark building in the capital, and everyone could see it as long as they stood on a high place and looked in this direction.

In this way, its existence is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Sure enough, after the house was built, almost every day, people came to visit it not far away, and some people took the initiative to ask the construction staff, "When will this library be built? Really, anyone can go in and borrow it." Book?"

Ping An accidentally discovered this problem when he came to inspect, so he simply set up a temporary consultation point here to answer everyone's questions.

Of course, it is not "everyone can go in and borrow books". In the short term, only reading books in the library is allowed, and no borrowing is allowed.To open this service in the future, it is also necessary to register a household registration certificate in the library, with the help of neighbors to prove it, to confirm that it is a local resident population, and only those who apply for a library card can borrow books.And return within a limited time, otherwise you will be fined.The penalty amount is ten times the price of the overdue book.

There are still many miscellaneous problems like this. If Ping An wants the people to accept this new thing, it must remove their doubts.Sure enough, after the temporary consultation point was opened, there was an endless stream of people who came to consult.

But the worrying thing is that the vast majority of people are asking repeated questions.A great waste of manpower and material resources.

In the end, Ping An simply decided to hire those people who had been consulted to help answer such simple basic questions.Because they only need to answer other people's questions, even if they only have a few copper coins a day, these people are very happy.Anyway, since they already knew, if someone asked, they would have answered positively.Now that I have money to take, I am more serious.

As a result, more and more people knew the news, almost covering the entire capital, and it was still spreading.

Even before the library was opened, it had already attracted great attention. Even among the courtiers, many felt very interested.No matter how many books they have in their own home, how can they compare with the royal family?The royal family's collection of books is managed and preserved by the supervisor of ceremonies, and ministers are not allowed to browse at will unless they ask the emperor.

And now that there is a library, the emperor has promised Ping An that the Jingchang will print all the rare and rare books collected by the royal family for people to read.Although you can't see the original, as long as you don't like to collect antiquities, but just want to read books, this is enough.

After all, some officials from poor families originally had a collection of books, which they borrowed from rich and noble families, and then copied them down by themselves.They couldn't be more aware of that kind of hard work, so everyone is naturally very happy to have such a good channel now.

And what really made the whole court pay attention to this matter was a memorial delivered by the old man Jiangnan Wen Ning.

In this note, Wen Ningzhi stated that he could reprint the Wen family's collection of books and donate them to the library so that readers can read them.

Although the royal family has a large collection of books, after all, Great Chu has not been established for a long time, and most of the collections were looted during the war.Although there are many kinds of rare books, but in fact, when it comes to the richness and completeness of the collection, it is still far inferior to the aristocratic families in the south of the Yangtze River.

After all, the south of the Yangtze River is rarely affected by wars, and these big families can survive even when dynasties change. The collection of books and wealth accumulated in the past dynasties are all enviable things.

But now, the Wen family has taken the initiative to donate a copy of these books, how valuable this should be!

Moreover, the Wen family has always been the head of literati in the south of the Yangtze River. They have all expressed their views. Will the other families be far behind?In this way, the library's collection of books will probably far exceed everyone's expectations.In this way, it is naturally worthy of the attention of these courtiers.

Because of the backwardness of ancient printing, coupled with its long history, and the lack of punctuation marks in ancient writing, even if it is the same book, the content or annotations will be different if different versions are different.These are very valuable things, which can be mutually confirmed during research.

It's just that everyone's habit at this time is to cherish oneself with a broom, and even if it is shared, it is only with a few people.If it were not for the establishment of a library, I am afraid it would be impossible to see such a grand event.

As the old saying goes, read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles.

The reason for this is actually because reading in ancient times was very difficult.Therefore, many cultural masters only study one of the Four Books and Five Classics throughout their lives. It is true that it is easier to achieve success in this way, but it is also because they often have no other choice.

However, Wen Ningzhi also made a request in the memorial. He hopes that Jiangnan can also build a library, which is about the same size as the capital, and it will be built now.

This is the result of an exchange between Ping An and Mr. Wen.He wanted to ask Fu Yan to come out of the mountain and ask Mr. Wen to help, but he couldn't let people help for nothing, so he gave this benefit.If it weren't for this, Mr. Wen wouldn't have even told him about Fu Yan's past in the letter.

Anyway, Jiangnan has a prosperous literary style and has been the center of cultural exchanges since ancient times. It is imperative to establish a library, otherwise it will not be able to meet their needs.

And this seems to be a bit of a rivalry, but isn't it a strong support for the new thing of the library?Now that the literati in the south of the Yangtze River have accepted it, this trend will naturally spread throughout the whole of Chu, and it will be much easier to implement it at that time.

In addition, in the planning of Ping An, the library collection, in addition to the part printed by the imperial court, also has private donations.This part will account for a large proportion, after all, this is a good thing to be able to gain fame.However, with the Wen family taking the lead, it will definitely be easier to proceed in the future.

So the application was approved very quickly.After the library in the capital is completed, the construction team will rush to Jiangnan.

As for Ping An, he is now discussing with Fu Yan how to store the books in the library.

There is a discipline called library management in later generations.It can be seen that it is easy to build a library, but it is not so easy to manage it in an orderly manner.According to what to use as an index?How to classify?Which placement method is more convenient to access and organize?These are matters that need to be resolved urgently.

Fortunately, the Fu family has its own library, and Fu Yan has some experience in this regard.As for safety, thanks to the frequent visits to the library when I was in college, I know a little bit.

What troubles him is that in modern times, book indexes use a lot of letters and numbers.But now, not to mention that the Latin alphabet has not been introduced into Dachu, even Arabic numerals are not used now.Ping An knows that the cursive codes used by dock workers are more concise than Chinese characters, but it is impossible to just use them over there.

So in the first step of classifying books, Ping An and Fu Yan had a disagreement.

Ping An is based on practicality. It is best for ordinary people to come in. As long as they can read and write, they will know where to find the books they need, and at the same time refer to the book classification method of later generations.But Fu Yan still has the elegance and romance of a literati, striving for elegance, elegance and beauty.It is based on a subset of classics and history, with phonology as its purpose.In this way, even safety is in the fog, let alone ordinary people.

"Mr. Fu, don't forget that our library is open to readers. Even if it's just a person who just finished his private school and didn't even pass the entrance examination as a child student, I hope he can come here to read. If you follow your method , I am afraid many people will be frightened as soon as they enter the door." Ping An was helpless.

Just like you open a roadside breakfast restaurant, which focuses on cheap and fast food, but turns it into a high-end restaurant, which is daunting. How can there be guests?

"And after our method is finalized, libraries in other places will follow this standard in the future. In the end, I hope that every county in Dachu will have a small library, and even every village will have a library. By then This classification method is completely inapplicable."

"But nowadays scholars are used to classifying according to this method." Fu Yan insisted, "This has been the case for thousands of years, and it has its own reasons."

Ping An is also not giving an inch.

To him, building a library is only the first step, and the classification of subjects is just a start.

As long as this category is set, everyone will find that many categories, such as natural science, may not even have a book.Then Ping An took advantage of the trend to convene people to compile it. While fixing this classification method, it also began to guide the literati in this era who paid more attention to metaphysical philosophy and social science, and gradually turned their attention to natural science.

But now it seems that there is a long way to go.

Fu Yan became stubborn and refused to listen to what he said. Of course, it was impossible for Ping An to back down. For a moment, he was in a stalemate.

After Feng Zhang heard about it, he deliberately came over to tease the two of them, asked why, and then laughed, "How about I come to judge you?"

Both of them naturally agreed, because neither of them thought they would lose.

Then Feng Zhang started asking questions.He picked books whose classification would be vague, and asked the two to classify them according to their own standards.Then compare and compare, which one is more clear and detailed, and which one is more difficult to understand, the advantages and disadvantages can be seen naturally.

What surprised Ping An was that he did not win by a big score, but only won by a small margin.

Sometimes the wisdom of the ancients cannot be underestimated.They can always find a way to incorporate new things into the original system.

If it wasn't for Ping An's purpose to break the original system, he would admire the method proposed by Fu Yan very much, and would happily adopt it.But reform is like this. Things that look perfect at the moment have to be broken and abandoned.

After the classification is determined, the next work becomes faster.Because there are no letters, Ping An uses celestial branches plus numbers to subdivide and index, and quickly establishes the entire classification system.

The next step is to make some adjustments and changes based on the actual situation during the layout process after the collection of books arrives.

Although there were often disputes with Fu Yan during the process, the two appreciated each other even more, and their relationship was more advanced than before.In fact, several times when chatting, Ping An wanted to ask about Qin Haoran, but after thinking about it, he still shut up.

This is someone else's privacy, so it's not good to ask casually.

Unexpectedly, when the preparations here were almost done, when the two were drinking and eating together, Fu Yan suddenly mentioned it.

"You told Haoran, right?" He asked Ping'an.

Since he took the initiative to speak, Ping An asked directly, "Are you reconciled?"

Fu Yan took a sip of his wine and looked at the bustling street outside the window. It was dusk, and the pedestrians on the road were rushing home.He looked at it for a while before speaking, "I've been thinking all these years, if I hadn't gone far away, she might not have died. Even if I become a foolish man and woman in this world, people are still alive."

If you live, you have everything, and if you die, you will die.

A human life weighs heavily on my heart.Because he is a man with conscience and responsibility, so he can't forgive himself even more.

Ping An suddenly understood what Fu Yan meant.

There was no talk of reconciliation at all, because the person he blamed was not Qin Haoran, but himself.Confucianism pays attention to self-examination and self-denial, so he felt that he was at fault for this matter, but he couldn't escape it, he could only remember it over and over again.

This seemingly serious and deep man is so simple in his heart.

But Ping An has a different view on this, "Mr. is too harsh on myself. You also said that maybe, maybe even if you didn't leave, the fate would not be different."

An author named Sophocles in ancient Greece wrote a classic tragedy called "Oedipus the King".This book tells the story of the hero Eddy who tried his best to avoid the fate shown in the oracle of "killing his father and marrying his mother", but finally embarked on this path, showing the conflict between man and fate.

When studying this book, many literary critics put forward the saying that "character determines destiny", and it is widely agreed.

Ping An himself is a loyal supporter of this statement.

Sometimes he designs an event precisely according to the personality of the person he is dealing with, so that the opponent cannot escape no matter what, and can only walk into the trap he arranged.And in his communication with Zhao Can, he always believed that Zhao Can should manage the courtiers, as long as he used them according to their respective personalities, he could easily achieve his goals and satisfy both the other party and himself.

It's just that you have to grasp the degree of it, because variables are everywhere, and people's personalities will not remain the same.What he has to do is follow the trend, not play with people's hearts.Otherwise, sooner or later the ship will capsize.

Therefore, Ping An felt that since Fu Yan's fiancée, Miss Fu Yan, did not live the good life she thought after marrying Qin Haoran as she wished, it meant that there was something wrong with her character.Even if the possibility is changed, unless her personality changes, the result will still be the same.

"Haoran said the same thing." Fu Yandao, "But she is still so young, there is nothing wrong with her other than arrogance, and she shouldn't bear such a fate."

"What happened back then?" Ping An couldn't help asking.He originally planned to ask Qin Haoran before, but he didn't find the opportunity.

Then Ping An heard another version of the story from Fu Yan.

In fact, in the story, it is not the fiancée and Qin Haoran who are in love with each other, but Fu Yan himself and Qin Haoran.Of course, it is not appropriate to say that they are in love with each other. They were still young at the time, but they just had a vague affection for each other, and they did not expose the window paper.

If things go on like this, maybe the two can't help being together in the end, or maybe the good feelings they had when they were young disappeared with the passage of time, and each married a wife and had children.

But this matter was known by Fu Yan's fiancee.At that time, she was crazily infatuated with Qin Haoran, but she had a marriage contract with Fu Yan. For his love, he knelt in front of Fu Yan and begged him to help him, and threatened him with this matter, so that Fu Yan had to leave his hometown.

After Qin Haoran knew the truth, he also left, intending to find Fu Yan.

It's just that the world is so big that it's difficult to communicate, so it's not easy to find someone.But the fiancée also followed up secretly.

At first she blamed Qin Haoran hysterically, but because she had to rely on him to take care of her, she finally calmed down.It's just that this girl, who was spoiled by her family since she was a child, can't bear this kind of life before long, and plans to go home.

But before he found Fu Yan, Qin Haoran was of course unwilling to leave.So the two had a big fight, and the fiancee left in anger.

At that time, they had already arrived in the capital city, where there were rich and powerful people everywhere. After she left, she quickly offended a dude, and was taken in by the other party, who wanted to force her to marry her as a concubine.At this moment, someone rescued her.A young girl's mind is easily changed. She falls in love with the person who saves herself in danger, and forgets Qin Haoran who was obsessed with her before.

It turned out that the other party was not a good man, and the two parties did not have a marriage book matchmaker, so after the other party rejected it, they left.

When Qin Haoran finally found her, she already had a child in her womb, but the child's father had long since disappeared.In desperation, he had to stay and take care of him.I don't want her to suffer from such a blow, her mind will be depressed, her body will go from bad to worse, and in the end she will be killed and killed when she gives birth.

After burying the man, Qin Haoran was left with nothing but a sense of loss.

When things got to this point, he didn't dare to go to Fu Yan anymore. He felt that maybe it was because he was too greedy and refused to accept the established fate, so God would give such a punishment.That girl is not only a thorn in Fu Yan's heart, but also a knot in his heart.

In the end, Qin Haoran simply became a monk in Tianji Temple.Practicing with the Changchun real person every day, so that my heart can be at peace.

It's just that I didn't expect that Fu Yan would also come here a few years later.

... Ping An had long expected that this would be a bloody story, but he didn't expect it to be so bloody.After listening to it, I didn't know what to say for a while.

Did they do something wrong?not at all.However, what he lost was the loneliness and wasted half of his life.

This kind of story is always very embarrassing.

"What's your expression?" Fu Yan asked.

Ping An said, "It's just a pity." If he and Zhao Can really parted ways due to various reasons and did not get back together later, then maybe many years later, when he reaches Fu Yan's age, when he thinks back on what happened now, he will only be able to It's a pity to sigh.

Fortunately, he and Zhao Can are not the kind of people who follow the rules. On the contrary, they want to be above the rules and do not want to be bound.

Fu Yandao, "I thought it was just tempering me. If it weren't for the experiences I had when I was a teenager, I'm probably still in the Fu family. Even if I have some achievements, I'm afraid that's all there is to it." reputation.

Because in addition to providing them with resources, the family will also restrain them.Most of the friends Fu Yan made when he was young have become mediocre now, they are the head of the family and hold power, but in terms of knowledge, I am afraid they are not as good as they were back then.

It's not necessarily a bad thing for him to think so.Pingan said, "Sir, you are open-minded, I am not as good as you."

Fu Yan laughed it off, and then asked, "The library is about to be completed, when will those books be printed?"

Without books, a library, even if built, is just an empty shell.Fu Yan is the curator of the Huangchu Library, and if the library is not open for a day, his position is still empty.Now that I have taken on this burden, I naturally hope to implement it as soon as possible.

Ping An said, "I'll go back and remind you."

Even with movable type printing, the speed would not be too fast, mainly because there was no machine printing at this time, and everything had to be done manually.Moreover, the ink cannot be dried quickly, so it must be dried.Otherwise the words will be crowded together.So even if there are not many books required by Ping An, it will take a while.

But soon, good news came from Jiangnan.Xu Wenmei wrote to Ping An, telling him that ink research had progressed.This new ink is easier to use, works better and dries faster.In addition to a letter reporting the good news, Xu Wenmei also sent several samples to Ping An, as well as ink formulas and instructions for the production process.

Ping An immediately went to the factory to test this new ink, and the effect was naturally very satisfactory.Except that there are no colorful options, other aspects fully meet the needs of Ping An.In terms of color, Xu Wenmei said that they are considering adding various dyes and conducting experiments.

This once again shows that the creativity of the people is unlimited. As long as they break the shackles and restrictions above, they will spontaneously invent and create many things.What Ping An has to do is to give them a little guidance and inspiration.

With this new type of ink, the printing speed is naturally accelerated.After the library decoration is finished and dried, the books here will also be printed.