It's a big deal!

No matter how reluctant Chen Xuezhi and Zheng Yulian were in their hearts, they couldn't stop Chen Guan from deciding to turn his newly built courtyard into the "Chen Family Bookstore"!

Chen Xuezhi was depressed, and said hatefully: "If I knew today, I wouldn't have worked hard to repair this courtyard!" This is good, get around, the yard is repaired, but the home is gone, I'm sorry for the ancestors! ”

Chen Guan gave his father a cigarette again, and persuaded in a low voice: "The yard is still our yard, but the purpose has changed." You can rest assured, guarding the Wulongyu Tourist Scenic Area, our Chenjia Bookstore business will be very good, better than you planting 200 acres of good land to harvest! ”

Chen Xuezhi will be skeptical, but he knows that his son has grown up and has the ability, and he never goes out of tune when he speaks and does things, although he is distressed, he is no longer verbose.

Chen Guan came back this time, the main task is to see how the engraving printing "Zizhi Tongjian" is going, Dongtonghua Concentrator No. 8 is going to hold a commissioning ceremony, and the Chen Family Bookstore is urgently needed to print the "Zizhi Tongjian" as a souvenir, Cui Ying is still looking forward to it!

Chen Guan told his parents not to tell people that he became the deputy director of the Mingshui County Public Security Bureau, everyone will naturally know about this matter for a long time, there is no need to say it, it is showing off, and others will laugh when they think about it!

Chen Xuezhi and Zheng Yulian originally graduated from junior high school, and they can be regarded as people who can write and calculate in the countryside. Chen Guan was worried that his parents would be overjoyed, and he couldn't help but show off in front of the villagers, which was human nature!

Zheng Yulian was stimulated by the news that her son became the deputy director of the county public security bureau, and the tears that were still rolling in her eye sockets just now were long gone, so she went to the kitchen to cook, and prepared to let Chen Guan and the two go back to Tonghua Town after eating.

Chen Xuezhi led Chen Guan to the front house, and asked Chen Guan to meet Xu Wenzhi, the engraving and printing master introduced by Cui Ying, and his apprentices.

Xu Wenzhi: They are busy.

When he saw Xu Wenzhi, Chen Guan saw that he was a black and thin man in his 50s, with sparse hair on the top of his head, not tall, and he looked very bloated in cotton clothes, looking unkempt.

Xu Wenzhi also brought five apprentices, all of whom were laid-off workers of the county printing factory.

After shaking hands with Chen Guan, Xu Wenzhi asked Chen Guan to look at the printed sample book.

"Zizhi Tongjian" is the Northern Song Dynasty minister Sima Guang and his assistants Liu Chu, Liu Shu, Fan Zuyu, Sima Kang and others lasted 19 years to compile an unprecedented scale of chronicle general history, the whole book to the time "outline", to the event as the "goal", the outline is the eye, the time is the narrative, a total of 294 volumes, about more than 3 million words, there are 30 volumes of "Catalogue", 30 volumes of "Examination Difference", recorded the 23rd year of King Weilie of Zhou (403 BC) to the sixth year of Zhou Shizong Xiande (959 AD) a total of 1362 years of history. The title of the book was given by Song Shenzong, which means "in view of the past, there is a qualification for governing the Tao".

"Zizhi Tongjian" and Sima Qian's "Historical Records" are called the double walls of ancient Chinese historiography, and Sima Qian and Sima Guang are called "the two Simas of historiography" in the field of historiography. It is said that a "General Guide to Governance" was studied 17 times by the old people who single-handedly created the republic during their lifetimes!

The reason why Chen Guan asked Xu Wenzhi and them to print "Zizhi Tongjian" with carving printing is for a reason.

When Xu Wenzhi worked in the printing factory in Beijing, he did the work of restoring ancient books. The printing house itself has a set of wood-block engravings of the annotated version of the "Zizhi Tongjian Yin Note" in Hu San Province in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty, which is recognized as the most popular version of "Zizhi Tongjian", which was originally regarded as a treasure. During the **** period of the Cultural Revolution, the rebels in the printing house were in power, and such a precious engraving of "Zizhi Tongjian" was unexpectedly unkept, and it was about to be lost and damaged. Xu Wenzhi was alone in the factory, and did not dare to participate in the rebel organization, seeing that such a precious engraving was unprotected, he went to the rebel leader to reflect, but he did not expect that the next day the rebel leader said that the printing house should remove the four olds, and only print the red treasure book, this kind of thing must be destroyed immediately. Xu Wenzhi saw that he had messed up, and he didn't report it, but when he reported it, it brought a catastrophe to the engraving, and he quickly reported that he was willing to be responsible for destroying this set of engravings to ensure that the corpses were destroyed and destroyed. At that time, the leader of the rebels also praised Xu Wenzhi for being conscious! As a result, Xu Wenzhi found a few people to help, and transported this set of engravings out of the printing house by shelf car, saying that it was going to be pulled outside to be destroyed. No one knew that Xu Wenzhi pulled the engravings out of the printing house, pulled them to a scrap collection point, packed them, wrote the political slogans of the time on the boxes, and transported them back to Shuiquan Railway Station by train. Xu Wenzhi then rushed back to Shuiquan, put forward the engraving in batches at the Shuiquan Railway Station Freight Station, transported it back to Mingshui, and kept it in his hometown.

At that time, the railway system was also seized by the rebels, and the rebellion was justified, and the rebels did not need money to take the train in tandem, let alone carefully inspect the consignment, as long as the political slogan of long live so-and-so was written on the cargo box, it was all transported at no cost. Xu Wenzhi transported such a precious engraving of "Zizhi Tongjian" back to Shuiquan, but he didn't pay a penny for freight, and no one knew that the cargo box with the slogan "Long Live XX" was actually a precious "Zizhi Tongjian" engraving.

Then again, even if someone knows the truth, it's nothing. In those days, cultural relics and classics were not only worthless, but also the bane of raiding homes. How many people have taken the initiative to burn the treasured collectibles at home, not to mention the old engravings kept by this printing house? If you take out this set of engravings and sell them, it will be good to sell them for 20 yuan!

Even if it is put on hold until now in 1995, if it were not for Chen Guan to engage in engraving printing, this set of engraving plates would be worthless. Because what is popular now is electronic plate making, which is advanced, convenient and has high printing quality. If this set of engravings wants to appreciate in value, if it wants to rise to the treasure level, it will take another 10 years!

Last time, Cui Ying came to Wulongyu to attend the opening ceremony of the Bai family compound, and heard Chen Guan say that he wanted to engage in engraving and printing, so he recommended Xu Wenzhi. After Chen Guan left Wulongyu, Xu Wenzhi, who received a call from Cui Ying, rushed to Wulongyu in a hurry, did not see Chen Guan, and used the phone of Wulongyu Village to talk to Chen Guan. At that time, Chen Guan was still skeptical about whether Xu Wenzhi would be able to engraving and printing, and asked repeatedly on the phone to figure out how long it would take to start printing. Xu Wenzhi knew that Chen Guan was anxious to see the finished book, so he said that he had the engraving of "Zizhi Tongjian", saying that as soon as the construction started, after the retrieval and addendum were carried out, the book could be printed. Chen Guan was overjoyed, so he asked Xu Wenzhi to immediately find someone to print the engraving "Zizhi Tongjian".

If it weren't for the ready-made engraving, Chen Guan would not have been able to print the engraving "Zizhi Tongjian" in the short term. More than 3 million words of brilliant masterpieces, just engraving engraving, I don't know how long it will take! At the very least, with the current strength of Xu Wenzhi and others, it will definitely not be completed in a year!