One of the passers-by

It seemed that overnight, the direction of the wind in Da Chu's court changed unknowingly.Began to sharpen the knife and rattle at the pigs and sheep-oh, no, it was at the Turks.

Before Emperor Yong'an ascended the throne, he was His Royal Highness King Qing who had the most outstanding military exploits among the princes of the Da Chu Dynasty.It is even said that most of the ministers in the court and China are convinced of his military exploits.Since Emperor Yong'an became king with his military exploits, and later relied on this to proclaim himself emperor in one fell swoop, the heart of Emperor Yong'an was naturally more eager to fight.

And those former ministers who were born in Qing Wang's mansion have also tasted the benefits of military merit.It's just that not long after the founding of Da Chu, natural disasters and man-made disasters made the country weak, so we had to take a gentle strategy against the powerful Turks, bribe them with large sums of money, and appease them with treasures.This was in exchange for a few short years of peace. Now, after so many years of recuperation, when the Turks were on the verge of civil strife, the princes and ministers of Da Chu unanimously chose the main battle.

So the courtiers headed by Wei Guogong Xue Ji became more and more busy.

Xue Yan was also influenced by this atmosphere when he was studying in the Imperial College.He found that the talks and debates of Guozixue and Taixue students had changed from Confucian classics to border defense strategies.But the same thing is that Xue Yan still can't quite understand those who are talking about the dropped bookbags.

There is a saying that says - when you can't adapt to the surrounding environment, you can find a way to change it.Since Xue Yan couldn't understand those classics and history articles, he chose not to listen - he could read them.

So under Xue Yan's selfish efforts - the first "Guozijian Debate News" was freshly released.

Xue Yan's meaning is easy to understand. Don't you guys like to talk and argue, don't you like to write policy theories to show off your knowledge and experience?Anyway, I don't understand what you are saying, and you always talk and waste time. Why don't you all give up empty talk and put what you want to say on the pen. When writing articles, it is better to quote classics and review knowledge.Moreover, when the other party questions your argument, they can also weigh every word carefully and carefully, so that you are not afraid that you will not admit it.

The most important point - any article and argument published in the "Guozijian Debate Daily" must attach a subset of classics and history cited at the end of the article.In this way, not only these Guozijian students can better grasp the meaning of the scriptures, even Xue Yan can take the opportunity to find out what they quoted from the scriptures and read them through.As time goes by, I don't worry about not being able to gain knowledge.

#智智如我，真是一个自己准奇的五体投地#

Not to mention how complacent Xue Yan is, but also to say that Guozijian's sacrificial wine and a dry instruction were also amazed after seeing the first issue of "Guozijian Debate News".At first, I just took the debate newspaper and flipped through it in an attempt to grasp the students' learning progress.Later, when some lecturers saw certain arguments, they were very itchy, and even went up to debate them themselves.

The teachings of the teachings are naturally more sophisticated than the learning of the students, so when the teachings published the policy discussion on the debate newspaper, many students were questioned and had to rack their brains to read the classics of the predecessors. to prove your point of view.There are also other teachings that have been read, hold different views, and cannot help but write articles to refute.

After coming and going, "the flames of war became more and more intense", and even the officials of the DPRK and China were alarmed, and they all wrote articles to discuss learning.He even explored his views on certain measures promulgated by the imperial court.

Xue Yan originally created the "Guozijian Debate Daily" just to facilitate his own reference to classics and quickly familiarize himself with the knowledge these students have mastered.So at the beginning, I didn't expect to use it to make profits, control public opinion, and so on.So he was just a "partner" Jiang Qilang, Xu Liulang, Wang Shize, Zhang Ziyou and others collected the speeches of some students in the class.Basically, it is the collection of Guozixue, Guozixue, and Taixue's collection.Then Xue Yan selected a few words from the homework taught by the Guozijian's edict on that day, and asked everyone to find well-learned students to write articles based on these words, and then took them back to ask the colleagues in the Duke of Wei's mansion to be idle. Transcribe it in the debate newspaper, and then send it back to the students.

Because it is such a format, these debate newspapers are basically one for each class.Most of the Taixue students will take back the newly published "Guozijian Debate News" and copy it by themselves. A small number of Guozijian students will give money to poor students to help them copy because they are not short of money. These are not in Xue Yan's hands. within focus.

However, as more and more people participated, expanding from students to lectures, and from the Imperial College to the court, the manpower for the Duke of Wei to copy the "Guozijian Debate News" and the part-time manpower for copying newspapers in the Imperial College were obviously not enough.

These questions were brought to Xue Yan through the mouths of Xu Liulang, Jiang Qilang, Wang Shize and others.Therefore, after discussing with the students of the Guozijian, Xue Yan changed the "Guozijian Debate Newsletter" that was originally distributed for free to ten coins per copy.The money was used to run the newspaper—

In fact, at the very beginning, with Xue Yan's thinking as a traveler, he wanted to use woodblock printing to print newspapers.Da Chu already had printing technology at this time, and many Buddhist scriptures were distributed to the public through printed editions, so as to achieve the purpose of preaching.

However, when Xue Yan proposed this method, he was strongly opposed by all the students.It turns out that although woodblock printing is available now, due to technical limitations, the quality of things printed by small private workshops is not good. The imperial court has a professional woodblock printing organization, but Xue Yan can't bother Yong'an for a little thing. My God?

What's more, listening to the voices of those Guozijian classmates, everyone generally thinks that the articles printed by engraving and printing are not as good as the ones copied by hand, which is simply "disgraceful to the gentleman".

Now that he has risen to such a height, Xue Yan is too lazy to ask for trouble.So they advertised in the Guozijian Zhongguang to recruit poor students who are willing to copy articles to earn a pen fee, and then sell them to classmates, teachers, and adults who are willing to join in the fun at a price of ten cents a piece.And those poor students are also happy to have such a "noble" part-time job-it can not only make money, but also understand by analogy and familiarize themselves with the scriptures.After all, the articles that can be selected into the debate newspaper today are either written by the great Confucians of the dynasty, or they have something to say and a novel idea.As the saying goes, three people must have my teacher.These poor students plunged into the sea of ​​suffering of copying articles with both pain and joy.

Xue Yan's actions solved the urgent need.It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. Gradually, the influence of "Guozijian Debate News" spread to the surrounding areas of Chang'an. Students from other prefectures and counties, and even county government officials also asked people to buy newspapers.In this way, the "artificial work" collected by Xue Yan is obviously not enough.And judging from the time it takes to manually transcribe the debate newspaper—because Guozijian has clear talk and debate every day in class, the original time for publishing the newspaper is once a day.Later, there were too many people, so it became a three-day period, and then it was delayed to a seven-day period.Now there is an issue every ten days...but there is still a dilemma that the first issue of the debate newspaper has not been completely transcribed, and the next issue's policy submissions have already been handed in.

In the end, Emperor Yong'an, who was busy preparing for the court, was alarmed.After learning of the big commotion Xue Yan had made, Emperor Yong'an couldn't help but say, "As expected of my nephew, he can even make such a commotion when he goes to the Imperial College to study," so he summoned Xue Yan into the palace for questioning. Under the oppression of Emperor Yong'an and his ministers, Yan said some arguments such as "newspaper is the tongue of the court", "it is the result of enlightenment", "it can control public opinion".After discussing with the courtiers, Emperor Yong'an personally approved it, but Xue Yan was allowed to take the "Guozijian Debate News" to the court for engraving.

Xue Yan entrusted the blessing of the "Guozijian Debate Newspaper", and it was the first time that he felt the engraving and printing technique of the Dachu version.As a result, after going back and forth a few times, Xue Yan couldn't bear the court's big hand - without him, one cost money, and the other cost time.

After all, the so-called engraving and printing technique is that the imperial court engraves the texts to be promulgated on copper plates by skilled craftsmen, and prints them one by one.In this way, if it is printing an ordinary collection of classics and history, it is fine, there is always a model, if it is printing "Guozijian Debating News", which has different content every day, but has to print a large number of copies, it is difficult for the craftsmen to record it every day Copper plates, this is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and a lot of copper plates are wasted-it can't be used again after one use, which is really expensive.

So even if the readers of the "Guozijian Debate" are all looking forward to it, the "Guozijian Debate" that was sent to the Ministry of Industry to use engraving and printing techniques still cannot be distributed on time every day-there is no other reason, because of the skilled craftsmen who engraved copper plates The fastest speed is only three days to carve a copper plate.Moreover, the content carved out by these craftsmen with hard work can only be used once and then it cannot be used again.

Seeing it, Xue Yan felt uncomfortable like bleeding in his heart.Turning around, he asked the head of the Ministry of Industry: "Why don't you think of a way to cut out those words one by one, and then spell them according to the written content before printing. In this way, wouldn't it save a lot of trouble?"

Never underestimate the wisdom of ancient laborers.Xue Yan's deliberate words really awakened the dreamer.The head of the Ministry of Industry immediately put down all his affairs, and pestered Xue Yan to inquire about the meaning of the words one by one.And Xue Yan also dug out most of the content about movable type printing in the bronze bracelet, and answered questions about the head of the Ministry of Industry.

That night, the head of the Ministry of Industry called all the officials of the Ministry of Industry to discuss something that Xue Yan didn't know.I only know that they have worked hard for several months to light lamps and boil oil, and they have overcome the problem of movable type printing.

After the successful invention of movable type printing, the "Guozijian Public Opinion News" was the first to benefit - it was finally able to print out once a day.The second shock is the ruling and opposition parties.In the kingdom of Gein, the most important thing was "education". As soon as movable type printing came out, the scholars were the first to be affected.Therefore, after discussing with the ministers, Emperor Yong'an immediately ordered that the "right to use" movable type printing belong to the imperial court, and the people are not allowed to use it.

And all the officials and craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry who participated in movable type printing were controlled in Chang'an City. "No edict to enter and exit Chang'an."

As soon as the imperial court issued this decree, others could do it, but the vassal kings were not satisfied with the fiefdoms, and they all petitioned Emperor Yong'an to disclose the production process of movable type printing in order to "educate the people".However, Emperor Yong'an used the excuse of "the most urgent task is to prepare for the war against the Turks", and was too lazy to talk to these vassals.

But at this time, the wind in the court Xue Yan couldn't care less about it.Because he was caught up in another trouble.

The matter began when the Ministry of Industry had just "invented" movable type printing.

April 26 is Wei Wuji's birthday.As Wei Ziqi's best friend, Xue Yan must of course carefully prepare a birth gift for his best friend, Aye.However, Wei Ziqi himself, as a son, couldn't think of a good idea.

So when Xue Yan asked Wei Ziqi, Wei Ziqi could only say a few choices with a blank face - nothing more than isolated ancient books, antique calligraphy and paintings, especially nothing new.

So Xue Yan suggested that the poems and articles that Zhen Guogong Wei Wuji had thanked for so many years could be collected and printed into a collection with movable type printing. Wei Ziqi and his mind.

Wei Ziqi also thought Xue Yan's proposal was very good.So I went home, secretly searched the poems and articles written by Lord Zhen Guo from the study, and handed them to Xue Yan.Xue Yan quietly used movable type printing to engrave it, and on the birthday of Zhen Guogong, he gave it to Zhen Guogong as a congratulatory gift.

As a result, the "basket" came out in one fell swoop.