[Qing] If you don't work hard, you will be forced to inherit the throne

Taking advantage of Sha Cheng being called away to take care of government affairs, Cao Zhen and Yin Reng whispered: "What is your Highness doing for the Yizhi Qingli Department? This is where the officials gather."

Moreover, it is also the gathering place of civil officials who are most influenced by Confucianism, emphasizing etiquette and somewhat pedantic.

"A courtesy officer is always better than a military officer?"

Yinfeng muttered in a low voice: "If you offend someone, the courteous officer will at most say 'disgraceful', but the military officer is good at punching. Don't look at the elder brother who works in the Ministry of War. Military officers below the fourth rank of the Ministry of War have There are so many big and rough people who are unreasonable!"

Cao Zhen thought about the burly reminder from the Ministry of War Minister, and compared Shuai Yanbao's old and thin with Sha Cheng's gentle manner, and she suddenly understood.

"But there are other divisions here in the Ministry of Rites."

The Yizhi Qingli Department is a place full of gentlemen. There are a lot of Confucian literati here. If you are lucky, you can also catch everyone with profound family education, and there are clean streams everywhere. No one will put down their noble heads to flatter them. Flattery, the identity of His Royal Highness will not be too cold.

They will not sincerely come to teach His Highness, nor will they turn their hearts towards His Highness, and they may retreat three feet from His Highness, and do business as usual.

Yinfeng reminded Cao Zhen: "Did you forget that Khan Ama arranged many guards of honor for Gu before?"

Some of the guards of honor and ceremonies, some of the ministers were with the third grandpa, and some of the civil servants were not good with the third grandpa, but they were familiar with Yinfeng, and they were not bad!

Cao Zhen widened her eyes and thought for a while, it seems that this is really the case.

Wow!During his absence for a year, many important events happened around His Royal Highness, and he almost couldn't keep up with His Highness!

After going to Jiangning, Cao Zhen was educated by her grandfather Cao Xi, and went to Jiangning's school to study. As a result, her learning progress was clearly ahead of her peers, and she knew a wide range of knowledge. After being tested by Cao Xi It was discovered that the learning progress of fourteen teenagers had been reached.

Cao Xi sighed again and again: My Cao family has a genius who is rare in a century!

Grandmother burst into tears with joy, eating fast and praying to Buddha every day: "Thank God for blessing, thank Buddha for blessing, brother Zhen's illness has been cured."

Cao Zhen would always refute her grandmother: "It wasn't God who cured my illness, it was His Royal Highness who saved me."

The grandmother repeatedly said: "Yes, yes, I want to thank His Royal Highness, and I also want to thank the Emperor."

The uncle of the Cao family also repeatedly praised: Our Cao family is smoking from the ancestral grave, and a big shot is about to be born.

Cao Zhen's cousins ​​looked up to his talent, and the cousins ​​got excited one after another, being so stimulated by this younger brother's learning ability.

Cao Zhen:? ? ?

This is probably a feeling of reaching the mortal world from an environment surrounded by gods and figures all at once. When she is praised, she is quite smug. The praise of everyone gave Cao Zhen great vanity, the kind of feeling that is far away from her. The sense of superiority that other people had for several blocks made him cock his tail to the sky.

But if you listen to too much praise, your ears will get calluses.

Cao Zhen only needs to compare the study progress in the study room with the study progress in Jiangning Academy, and she can feel the gap.

This gap made him panic and uneasy, lest he be left far behind during the time he left.

He dare not indulge in the false prosperity of "mortals", the one he wants to pursue has always been at the forefront.

Already have a goal, how can he be willing to be mediocre if he wants to approach His Highness the Crown Prince.

In the next six months, Cao Zhen devoted herself to reading books like crazy again. It was not enough for him to read all the books he brought back to Jiangning one by one. He also asked his grandfather to find books for him, eagerly absorbing the knowledge in the books.

Seeing this, his grandfather resigned from Jiangning Academy for him, and instead hired famous teachers to teach him. One famous teacher was not enough, so another one was added, so the number increased to five famous teachers.

The Cao family has a deep foundation in Jiangning and is extremely wealthy. It is no exaggeration to say that they are local tycoons. Cao Xi, loyal to Kangxi all his life, made money under the emperor's order, and contributed a lot to the income of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Cao Zhen had the best education in the world in the Forbidden City, and enjoyed the best education in Jiangning after leaving the Forbidden City.

With ink in his stomach, he will be confident when he returns to the capital. As a result, His Highness the Crown Prince has already entered the court to do business, and he has not only become a fat ball, but also embarrasses His Highness the Crown Prince. Behind His Highness, it is also fortunate that His Highness does not despise him now that he is too round to be on the stage.

Soon, Sha Cheng came back, pleaded guilty to Yinreng, took him to the Yizhi Qingli Department, and recruited Sa Hai, the chief in charge of this department, to order Sa Hai to bring Yinreng.

Seeing the familiar face, Yinreng was very kind, and greeted him with a smile: "Congratulations to Mr. Sahai for his promotion."

Sahai bowed and said, "Meet Your Highness the Crown Prince."

"In the next period of time, I will be familiar with the affairs in the Yizhi Cleaning Department, and I will trouble my lord to take care of it."

Not to mention, Yinfeng has his own nobility that he has cultivated since he was a child. When he smiles and talks to people, that sense of alienation dissipates a lot, which makes people feel good about him and look up to his noble status.

If you want Xiaomei to rate Chujun's temperament, you can give Yinfeng a [-] points, as long as he doesn't open his mouth, as long as he hides his free and carefree heart like a wild horse, don't float too high, just look at it from the outside , It seems that the officials of the Ministry of Rites were really bluffed.

In comparison, the chubby Qiu Cao Zhen who was next to Yinfeng felt a little inferior. He lowered his head and pinched his own soft flesh, feeling ashamed of himself under the halo of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.The little chubby Cao Zhen is not worthy of His Highness the Crown Prince at all, standing beside him looks ridiculous.

Cao Zhen made up her mind to eat boiled vegetables every day and exercise more every day, in order to lose weight quickly.

After Sha Cheng entrusted Yinreng to Sa Hai, he went to work on official duties. Shuai Yanbao was not around, so he did the work for two people alone, and he had to endure Wu Nuchun, who kept the handsome face and was not so easy to use, so that he was busy. Got exhausted.

Sahai called his subordinates again, among them, Gu Badai, Duoqi, Xierda, etc. were all familiar with Yinfeng.

Yinfeng officially stayed in the Yizhi Qingli Department, and he spent about seven days to get a general understanding of the affairs under the Yizhi Qingli Department's control.

According to his understanding, the cost for people to produce a book is very high nowadays. The high cost does not lie in ink and paper, but in asking craftsmen to engrave characters.Many craftsmen in the Qing Dynasty still used traditional engraving and movable clay type printing, and wooden movable type printing in the Yuan Dynasty has also been passed down to this day. Various printing methods coexist. Among them, engraving printing is the most expensive and suitable for printing some paintings.

Yinreng asked Sa Hai: "Why didn't you think of separating the radical from the other side of the character? If the radical is calculated, wouldn't it cost less and cost less?"

Sahai: "..."

What His Royal Highness said is absolutely right, why didn't I think of it before?This matter should be reported to the emperor and issued to the Department of Printing and Casting. This is a good thing that benefits the country and the people!

After some internal activities, Sa Hai's eyes went dark, and he felt desperate for the extra workload he was about to have. He even wanted to cry?

Except for the emperor ordering officials to repair books, books from the people cannot be widely circulated, so that there are many orphaned copies. The biggest reason is the high cost of publishing books.Compared with hiring craftsmen to engrave and print, if you want to publish a small amount of books, it is cheaper to hire a scholar to copy.

Except for the ancient scriptures that are widely circulated outside, folk literati want to get more abundant books and have to go around and buy them.

The richer the family, the more influential people there were, and there were many private bibliophiles among the people.

In the imperial court, the collection of books is divided into two types: the palace collection and the official collection. Books from all over the country are collected and tasted, leaving good books and removing bad ones.

If a person wants to publish a book, he needs to have a lot of money, or have surplus money at home, or have the support of a wealthy businessman.

Books are scattered all over the place, and a major event like the "Ming History" case is either because the person who published the book spent too much money so that the scope is too wide to attract attention, or it is because someone reported that the tragedy happened.

However, there are quite a few non-governmental book printing houses, but they are all private in nature and not under unified management.

Yinfeng had previously proposed to manage the books of the world, and the issue of numbering the publications of the books was left to the Ministry of Rites.

Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, the government has been responsible for managing books by secretaries, supervisors and pavilions, but the printing and distribution have been managed by the Ministry of Rites. There have been quarrels over this matter at court meetings.

Secretary Jian and Guan Ge said that they were only responsible for collecting government books, and printing, publishing and distributing imperial books was the business of the Ministry of Rites.

The Ministry of Rites also said that they were only in charge of publishing and distribution, but never in charge of the world's books. This matter should be a matter between the secretary and the library.

In the end, it was Kangxi who made the final decision, and the matter was handed over to the Ministry of Rites, because the secretarial supervisors and the pavilions were all filled with idle officials, which were used to house famous scholars and win over Han officials.In comparison, the Ministry of Rites is more capable.

Therefore, the newly established management books department of the Ministry of Rites was placed in the Yizhi Qingli Department. For this reason, a place was specially opened up to store books from all over the country for review, and now they are numbered.

For such a huge project, just reviewing those privately published books will almost blind your eyes.

From the capital to the localities, all levels of review, the numbering and management of books across the country, these huge projects, I am afraid that they will not be completed in recent years.

Sa Haidao: "The emperor issued an order to expedite the review of some books before, and those without a publication number shall not continue to be published. Books that have not yet been published will need to be submitted to the newly established Guangshu Division in various places for review in the future. In the end, the Guangzongshu Division will Approval Grant Number."

When saying this, Sa Hai sighed deeply: "When I first received these jobs, the officials of the Ministry of Rites complained a lot."

Yinreng felt the hairs on his back, especially when he saw that the group of officials were overwhelmed by the sea of ​​books, he felt guilty and wanted to touch his nose.

"The Ministry of Rituals is really short of manpower. I feel that the newly established Guangzong Secretary is a new department. It cannot replace the original officials. It needs to set up another official position to add manpower to recruit new talents."

Sa Hai's eyes were dark: It is considered that this Highness has some conscience.

"The minister has already submitted a memorial to the cabinet, but the memorial only has two words, 'read'."

Yinfeng: "..."

Ah, isn't this perfunctory and lazy style the same as Khan Ama's?

The lack of personnel in the imperial court may have to wait for the completion of the general examination to alleviate the influx of new blood.

Nalan Xingde is now working in the Ministry of Rites because of the embarrassment of his position. He is also a member of the Secretary General of Guangzong. He has to contact the Printing and Casting Department and also accepts contributions from all over the world.

Because newspapers were also issued, the newspapers were transferred from the original responsibility of the Printing and Casting Department to the Guangzong Book Department.

Yinfeng: All the duties are piled up on the secretary of Guangzong. No wonder everyone is so busy. They don't know what they are busy with all day long. Every day is dark and they can't see the way forward. Just think about it and wipe away the bitter tears for the officials working here.

[That’s for sure. The printing workshops in the Qing Dynasty were only responsible for collecting money to help people print, and did not include the functions of publishing houses.The department of General Secretariat of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China is now like a "bare commander", the kind who takes the lead alone and has no subordinates to work.Even the textbooks use ancient books left by the predecessors. 】Yinfeng: It's no wonder that Huang Mafa didn't even think about managing civil documents. The work was too complicated, and compared to the chaotic and restless national conditions at that time, the book was a small problem.

So Huang Mafa chose to cut off everything at once, relying on suppression and severe punishment to achieve prohibition and restraint.

Yinfeng knew that this was not possible now, but seeing that the officials here were so busy, no one could find time to organize the establishment of a "publishing house".

Yinfeng probably had a solid idea in his mind, so he asked Kangxi for a day off instead.

Kangxi raised his eyelids: "What do you want to do again?"

"My son wants to go to the Secretary's Office and the Pavilion," Yinfeng said truthfully, "Recently, I have seen that the Yizhi Cleaning Department is so busy with books, and I thought of the Secretary's Office and the Pavilion that manage the government's books After all, it is a good place to continue the Song Dynasty, and many books in it are comparable to those in the palace, and I want to see how it is different from the library in the palace."

Kangxi accepted Yinfeng's explanation, and thought about it: the secretaries, supervisors and pavilions are all old scholars who have nothing to do all day long. There are many talented people, but they can only play with writing and ink, and they can't do things at all. People with high status are placed there, and Baocheng doesn't need to find those people if he wants to do something.

With Kangxi's permission, Yinreng took his little friend Cao Zhen and wandered off to the secretary's prison and the pavilion.

Yinfeng found these old ministers who kicked the job of proofreading books to the Ministry of Rites and spent all day doing nothing to read in the library. This group of people has no rights.

Yinfeng first visited the secretary Cheng who had an official position but no real power, and advocated that these old people who could not work but could only read and talk would publish books.

After discussing with Secretary Cheng, Yinfeng went to the pavilion again, and visited the four pavilions of National History, Taishi, Classics, and Miscellaneous Cases.

The veterans thought it was His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who came instead of the Ministry of Rites, and there might be the emperor's intentions in it, so they agreed after a little thought.

The main thing is that they will do it!

As a courtier with a background in traditional Confucianism, Sha Cheng felt close to famous Confucians from the bottom of his heart. Yinreng approached Sha Cheng quietly and said, "I want to help famous Confucians publish books. I don't know if the Ministry of Rites might cooperate?"

With the source of the manuscript, the Ministry of Rites can of course cooperate. Whether it is requested by the emperor or His Royal Highness, the Ministry of Rites has a complete system.

Yinfeng asked the Ministry of Rites to cooperate in publishing a book, but it was not really his intention to publish a book.

Yinreng: Gu is created out of nothing, secretly crossed the old warehouse, imagined out of thin air, fabricated out of thin air!

【…】

Xiaomei recalled the nursery rhymes she played when Yinreng was young, and refused to admit that she taught Yinreng to be broken.

After Sha Cheng agreed, Yinfeng said again: "I admire Confucianism alone, I want to spread Confucianism, I want to invite more famous Confucians to publish more books, and I want to solicit contributions from people all over the world."

When Sahai heard this, his face immediately turned green.

Sha Cheng hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "This matter is very important, I'm afraid we have to ask the emperor's order."

Yinfeng said quietly: "It would be great if all the students in the world could learn the true biography of the famous Confucianists! Don't Mr. Sha think that this is a good thing for the students in the world?"

Sahai shouted in his heart: But no one in the Ministry of Rites can take the time to do these things!

Xu felt Sa Hai's gaze, and Yin Reng said with a smile: "Gu also knows that the Ministry of Rites is short of manpower. It's just about publishing books. You can send people to contact printing houses in various places."

Sa Hai couldn't help but said: "Contact the private printing house, what is the printing and casting department? How can the court go to the private client to do things?"

Sha Cheng didn't say anything, but told Yinfeng firmly: "This matter should be decreed by the emperor."

Sha Cheng refuses to enter, and even sues Kangxi behind Yinfeng's back!

The emperor recalled Yinfeng and asked him helplessly, "What are you messing with again?"

Yinfeng shook his head: "Hey, I didn't expect that Mr. Sha is such a person who likes to make small reports."

"That's because Sha Cheng thinks you're annoying, and doesn't want to see how busy the Ministry of Rites is."

"Khan Ama, the Ministry of Rites is busy because its functions are not perfect. The Department of Printing and Casting can only manage the printing of courts, but not the whole country. The Secretary of Guangzong has to manage all books, but does not care about private printing workshops. Now there is such an opportunity. Let the printing and casting department become the head of printing and casting, and control all the private printing workshops, so why not do it?"

Famous Confucian manuscripts, still worried about poor book sales?The bright bait can attract all folk printing workshops.

The imperial court opened up the printing workshops to print a large number of books. Merchants pursue profit, and the imperial court pays for them to print. Who would not like the wasteful business?

"In addition to the folk bookstores, there are also folk bookstores, which can also be used to win over this network."

Yinfeng drew a big pie for Kangxi empty-handed: Didn't you say that opening up the style of study would cause turmoil?Controlling the entire world's printing workshops and bookstores in the hands of the imperial court is so tempting, will you take the bait?

After going to the Ministry of Rites, Yinreng found that the management of Daqing's books and schools was a mess.

The only school that the imperial court can manage is Guozijian, and what the other schools teach has nothing to do with the imperial court.The only thing that can affect the teaching content of Tianxia Academy is the imperial examination system.

Loose management and severe punishments on culture and education have made domestic literature grow in a deformed way.It felt like letting a horse without a bridle go to graze by itself, but the horse went astray, so the horse was slaughtered...

Kangxi froze for a moment, a flash of inspiration flashed through his mind, he suddenly came to his senses, and then looked at Yinfeng with complicated eyes: "I thought you wanted to open up the style of study?" The beast was misleading, and even worried that he would really become a "saint".

Yinfeng took it for granted: "The premise of an open style of study is the ability to guide it! Khan Ama, relying only on government orders, the twisted melons are not sweet. Private businessmen think about how to make money, and people think about how to live a better life." On a good day, what scholars think about is how to learn more knowledge so that they can stand out. Form a big network, and the imperial court will control the direction of the literary world. The literati "I want to control you" are more gentle. What the Qing Dynasty needs is not the ethos of trembling and refusing to write articles under severe oppression, but what it needs is a circle of literature in which a hundred flowers bloom in a well-defined garden."

And as time goes by, the garden will grow and expand to a larger scale in order to raise the flowers that have been nourished so hard, and the flowers will multiply in the garden, making the garden even bigger.

Yinfeng: Khan Ama has no sense of security, so Gu will create a sense of security for him.With this sense of security, the scene of a hundred flowers blooming that Gu wants will really come.

Xiaomei was shocked by Yinreng's "dominant president" declaration, and hurriedly said serious words to rescue the big friend from the strange style of painting.

[Xiaomei supports Big Friend.Excessive freedom is indulgence, and indulgence can lead to disaster.With the country as the network, the country can make progress while maintaining stability. 】Yinfeng's words moved Kangxi: It turns out that Baocheng has never forgotten his responsibility as the prince from the beginning to the end. No matter how big he goes, it is all for me.

The author has something to say: This chapter can be regarded as written, Kakaka, Tuantuangu finally fiddled with the Daqing version of the Radio and Television Zongju that is suitable for the Qing Dynasty and will not overturn.

The reference materials are from the following, because the focus is scattered, there are no numbers.

The Types and Characteristics of the Subjects of Public Opinion Activities in Ancient China

The Management System and Method of Book Collection in Ancient China

On the Historical Position of Anhui Publishing House from the Late Qing Dynasty to the Early Republic of China