Xu Yan looked as usual, and said, "I'll fund, the Shen family will engrave books, let's build a library ourselves." If this library can really be opened smoothly, I can also suggest to the imperial brother, and then the government will do it. ”

"Really?" Shen Yu was overjoyed.

The Shen family has no difficulty in carving books, but after all, the family has limited resources and can't afford to provide too big a library, if His Royal Highness Duan Wang can contribute to it...... That's a real fit for you!

Xu Yan smiled and nodded, but Shen Ping was silent and didn't say a word.

It is true that His Royal Highness Duan Wang's intentions are indeed pleased, whether he is to meet Shen Yu's wishes or for the sake of the people, as a royal nobleman who lives in the clouds all the year round, it is rare for him to have such an idea.

However, if you want to build a library, is it not as simple as spending money?

Shen Ping had also been moved by Shen Yan's persuasion before, and even thought of building a small library in Luling with the power of the Shen family. With the financial resources of the Shen family, it is not too difficult to take out two or three thousand books, although it is also a large amount.

But even if this library is built, can it really benefit the people?

Those who have no money to buy books are naturally happy, but what will those generations of scholars, those high-ranking officials and dignitaries think?

The Shen family has a collection of 100,000 volumes, and there are very few people in Shen Ping's belly who don't know about the past and the present. What was the situation when the imperial examination system first came out? The poor students have a way to advance, and they are all happy, but how did those eunuchs and high-ranking families react?

Originally, they were supposed to monopolize the rich and noble official positions, but suddenly there were poor students who were despised by them in the past to get a piece of the pie, and the emperor even had to reuse those people to unite to deal with these century-old clans, and if they didn't suppress it, when would they wait?

This kind of competition has lasted for hundreds of years, even now, although ninety percent of the officialdom is promoted to the official career by the imperial examination, how many people can really come from a poor family?

It is the singular number of the six departments and cabinets of the imperial court today, and there is no shortage of low-level officials who are from a poor family, but among the senior officials above the third grade, it is very good to have two out of ten people from poor families.

Is it because those poor students are not talented enough? Not necessarily. Like Liu Shoufu of the previous dynasty, he was poor and got up, but in the end, he was in power for a while, and his talent was unparalleled. There are also many celebrities who associate with it, there is no lack of shrewdness and talent, and there is no shortage of talents for governing the country, but in front of those nobles, they still have no future.

Looking at the peaceful and peaceful court, there are actually countless things that have been poured.

Now it's good, the Shen family has set up a library in Luling with great fanfare, claiming to work for the welfare of the people of the world, where does the government have face? What do those families think? Wouldn't he feel that his Shen family thinks too highly of himself and acts out of line, and then secretly makes a stumbling block?

But if you think about it deeply, Shen Ping will have a heart to retreat.

Teaching and educating people is of course his wish, but the premise is that the family is safe and the wife and daughter are safe. He would not risk the entire Shen family, let alone have such a selfless and unstinting idea of defying the world's condemnation, so he would only secretly build a small library at the foot of the West Mountain, but he never made a noise.

But how can these words be said to Shen Yan?

She was only a fourteen-year-old girl with a beautiful vision, wouldn't it be too cruel to cut it off?

There was a deep gloom in Shen Ping's eyes, he took a sip of tea to calm his mind, and then raised his head and said to Xu Yan: "Your Highness's compassion for the people is admirable, but this matter involves a lot, and I am afraid that we have to think about it in the long run." ”

Xu Yan glanced at him, didn't refute, and didn't agree-