Chapter 66: The Road to Rise

Xu You returned to the mountain, and when he changed his clothes, he casually shouted: "Frost ......" After a while, no one responded, and then he suddenly remembered that Frost was no longer there, paused for a moment, and went to sleep after washing.

Regarding Xu You's selection of personal maids, He Wei and Dong Solstice have been having a headache. First the autumn equinox, and then the frost, one has served from childhood to adulthood, has the thickest affection, and knows each other the most, and the other is empathetic, and her background and experience make her like an interpretive flower, so she can stay by Xu You's side for so long.

Xu You seems to be easy to talk to, his life is not extravagant, nor is he lewd, and he does not have as many rules as the gate lords of the Shi clan, in fact, those who know him know that the more casual he is, the more he has extremely high requirements for the people around him. Not only do you know that you are knowledgeable, you have to be able to talk to each other, but you also have to be smart and clever, you have to know what to say and what not to say, and you have to be loyal, especially after the frost incident, loyalty is the most important and important first condition.

Mingyushan now has hundreds of people up and down, and there is really no one who is suitable for Xu You to be a maid, He Wei has the heart to go outside to sell a good training back, but he can pick and choose, not two or three months can be found. Winter Solstice was bold and asked Xu You what kind of maid he wanted to take over the frost, Xu You smiled and said Don't bother, just Yu Su!

For more than two years, Yu Su has basically adapted to the leisurely life in Xu You's mansion, and he doesn't have to fight with everyone in order to survive, and he no longer has a sense of fear and urgency, let alone pretend that he can't speak Chinese to maintain that poor self-esteem, the most important thing is that Xu You's love for the ugly slave is in everyone's eyes, in the Xu Mansion, Xu You is the supreme lord, and the ugly slave is the little princess who is loved by thousands of people, so when she heard that the winter solstice wanted her to serve Xu You, she agreed without any hesitation.

Xu You is not lustful, this is the consensus of hundreds of people in the Xu Mansion, even a beautiful girl like Xushuang, he respects it very much, Yu Su will not think that her appearance that has ruined half of her face and has given birth to a child and has been a prostitute will make Xu You tempted.

This is one of the benefits of outstanding character, which can save a lot of unnecessary trouble. The subtle power may seem insignificant, but when it works, it is enough to make people jaw-dropping.

Yu Su didn't do much to serve people, and he was a little clumsy compared to the frost and the autumn equinox. However, Xu You is not one of those waste warriors who even have to be served by maidservants to dress, eat and go to the toilet. All he needs is to help deal with those trivial chores and trivial things, such as making beds and quilts, such as serving tea and pouring water, such as washing and drying, etc., in addition, if he is interested, he can accompany him to grind and read, such as walking on frost; If you're not in the mood, you can do something you like, such as the autumnal equinox.

In the eyes of the northerners, the most charming southerners are none other than their talents in qin, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and hops, and Xu You is undoubtedly the best among the southerners.

A few days later, a rare guest came to Mingyu Mountain, and it turned out to be an ancestor who had not been seen for a long time. He was carrying a small package, coarse linen clothes, dusty, and the first thing he said when he met was: "I finally pushed to the second position of pi, as Lang Jun said......"

The last time during the siege of Qiantang, the two agreed that when Zu Yu calculated pi to the second position and verified that Xu You's words were correct, he would come to visit.

For the arrival of Zu Xiao, Xu You raised his limbs to welcome, his planning and layout urgently needed talents in arithmetic and mechanical manufacturing like Zu Xiao, so he heard that Zu Xiao had resigned from the official position of lieutenant colonel, settled down the family * daughter, and wanted to follow Xu Youxue that can calculate pi to more than 800 "formula".

Xu You was ecstatic!

The first thing to do was to ask He Wei to isolate an area of the Golden Workshop for use as a newly established bookstore, and then hire thirty calligraphy helpers.

He Wei was puzzled: "Is Qilang preparing to collect books?" ”

The so-called bookmaid is a copyist. Before the invention of engraving printing in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties period of the book industry developed and flourished, according to the "Northern Qi Shu • Zu Ting Biography" record: "Zhou Ke to, please sell "Hualin Quanlu", Wenxiang many collection of books, one day and one night to write, return its book, said: 'No need. There are 700 volumes of this "Hualin Compendium", and such a huge volume can be copied in a day and night.

How many bookmaids are needed?

Many scholars who live in poverty, with humble backgrounds and lack of food and clothing, are willing to work as bookmaids, at least they look more elegant and less vulgar. But in fact, the process of copying books needs to be at the desk day and night, hot in summer and cold in winter, both boring and tiring, and copying books is not random scribbling, the requirements for calligraphy are extremely high, and ordinary people can't do this job if they want to.

"It's not a collection of books, we print books!"

"Print?"

Don't talk about He Wei, even Zu Hu is confused, he is appointed as the commander of the prison colonel, and he knows everything about the strange skills and tricks in the world, but he never knew that there was such a thing as printing.

Engraving printing did not exist at this time, and the closest thing to engraving printing was the seal that was currently in vogue. Taoism once had a real person like the peach wood seal, engraved with one hundred and twenty characters, covered on the paper is a small short article, which is the prototype and germination of miniature engraving.

Xu You probably introduced the procedure of engraving printing, and Zu Xiao reacted first, saying: "This is the method of rubbing the monument handed down from the Han Dynasty......

"Exactly, I found my thoughts in the peach wood copy of the Heavenly Master Dao, and then imitated the method of rubbing, and the two merged to create this printing technique."

Zu Xiao is the most outstanding natural scientist of this era, proficient in arithmetic, astronomy, calendar and mechanical manufacturing, and instantly understood the great significance of this printing technology invented by Xu You, Teng stood up, his hands trembled a little excitedly, and said: "Lang Jun is really a man of heaven, so that the time and manpower spent on collecting a book will be greatly reduced...... This is, this is ......"

He was so shocked that he couldn't find the right words for a moment, and he spun back and forth in the room, his blood surging up, from his face to his neck. He Wei realized it later, and also tasted the taste, took over the conversation, and said: "This is the most powerful leap forward of my Chinese orthodox civilization after Cangjie made characters and Cai Lun made paper. Shichiro, with this printing technique, you have left a name in history, and no one can match it! ”

Xu You is willing to steal this technology, but he is not willing to steal this reputation, and said: "Don't say it's my idea, just when Mr. Zu came, I said that it was Mr. Zu's printing." ”

"How?" Zu Xiao strongly objected and said: "No matter how talented I am, I can't take away the beauty of others, can Lang Jun humiliate me?" ”

Xu You smiled: "Mr. is too worried! Printing is only beginning to take shape, and if it is to become a reality, it depends on the talent of the gentleman. Seriously, it is easy for me to come up with an idea, but there must be many problems in operation, and at that time, Mr. will have to find a way to solve it. Therefore, the credit of printing is half of mine and half of you, and I am now embarrassed and famous, and I am afraid of accidents. The gentleman is of high character, and I know it very well, so please be reluctant to make it difficult. Otherwise, I'd rather let the printing press be buried for the time being, and then announce it to the world when the time comes. ”

"Don't ......" people like Zu Xiao, who are itchy when they hear the skills, how can they let the printing technology continue to be buried? After hesitating again and again, he said: "Okay, I will be cheeky to take the reputation first, and then Lang Jun will not have so many concerns in the future, and then explain it to the world!" ”

"It's good!"

Xu You stood up and said, "Mr. has been living in the bookstore for a while, I will send someone to guard it closely, remember, don't leak a little rumor!" ”

Zu Xiao followed Li Mu to the bookstore with great interest, and He Wei sighed: "Sometimes I am really curious about what Qilang's head contains, and he can make something surprising every time he doesn't move. ”

Xu You smiled and said nothing, in fact, he was still a little ashamed, stealing literature and stealing poetry was just a small way, but even printing technology was stolen, and he couldn't help but be sorry for the toiling people who invented printing with supreme wisdom.

He Wei's ghost spirit person leaned over and asked, "Qilang has been thinking about printing for a year and a half, why did he throw it out at this time?" ”

"Yuan Qingqi made sacrificial wine, and the original plan to gradually climb in Yangzhou no longer applies. I'm afraid that the longer I spend in the Heavenly Master Dao, the easier it will be to expose my flaws, so I must take the sword and win by surprise! ”

"How?"

Xu You seemed to remember something funny, his fingers gently wrapped around the long hair scattered on his shoulders, and said, "Who is the biggest enemy of the Daomen?" ”

"Although the Dao Sect is currently the enemy of the Six Heavens, the real enemy is still the Sect of Ben Wuzong!"

"If you want to sit big in the door, you naturally have to step on the corpses of the enemy. The so-called surprise is to stab the monks in the most important things! ”

"Oh?" He Wei raised his eyebrows and said, "I have been a monk for ten years, but I don't know what monks value most!" ”

"You are a false monk, reciting scriptures orally, and you can't do anything with desires!" Xu You's eyes flashed with a little coldness, and he said softly: "Whether it is a monk or a bull's nose, what they value most is orthodoxy!" ”

In the thousand-year-old history of China, the change of dynasties, the contention of a hundred schools, and the difference between Huayi and China are nothing more than two words: orthodoxy!

The Buddha came from the west, and if he wanted to fully integrate into this highly developed civilization, he had to justify his identity as a Hujiao. The great monks of the past dynasties did not hesitate to integrate metaphysics into Buddhism, and also highly borrowed from the teachings of Confucius and Mencius and Lao Zhuang, with the aim of making Buddhism stand firm faster, have a wider range of followers, and have transcendent influence among the scholars and Li Shu, before they could claim to be orthodox.

That is, the state religion!

Since the beginning of the Six Dynasties, Buddhism and Taoism have taken turns as the state religion, and in order to compete for fame and show orthodoxy, countless bloody storms have been set off. What Xu You is doing now is just putting this contest that is still in the gestation period on the open ring, which seems to be bloodless, and it seems to be more literary and artistic than the fight between the court and the rivers and lakes, but in fact, when it comes to influence, it is unprecedentedly huge.

"Yes, it's orthodox!"

He Wei's eyes opened, the brilliance flowed, and he had the impulse to wait in his heart, and said, "Where did Qilang's knife come from?" ”

"From the scriptures!"

"What scripture?"

"Lao Tzu turns into a Hu Jing!"

In the next three months, Yuan Qingqi's boat traveled all over the twelve counties of Yangzhou, and even Xu You could hear her news from time to time in Qiantang, and most of them were shocking so-called miracles.

First, in Fuchun County, the green lotus was turned into a water to make the three-eyed clear spring that had been dry for ten years trickle again; Later, he applied Tianlei Zhengfa in Shanyin County, causing a forest fire, burning 80,000 ghost soldiers and saving countless Li people; Then there are water monsters eating people in the Feiyun River in Yongnian County, Yuan Qingqi Qing Eight Scenery Fu Divine Sword, bloody battle for three days, seriously injured, only to kill the water monster at the bottom of the river, protect the safety of one party; The most bizarre is that in Songyang County, a pregnant woman died in childbirth, and Yuan Qingqi passed by on the way to the funeral, and actually said that the boy under the seat of Lao Jun was in Fan, forcibly dispersed the funeral procession, and recited the mantra after opening the coffin, and fed the pregnant woman to take the talisman water, and immediately came back to life and gave birth to a daughter. Yuan Qingqi regarded her as a righteous daughter, and after she was seven years old, she came to take her into the mountains to cultivate.

All this, through word of mouth, almost depicted Yuan Qingqi as the Nine Heavens Xuannu Nether, omnipotent, omniscient, Heavenly Master Dao Yangzhou rule from this incense flourished again, Taoist temples around the country crowded, rent rice money tax almost straight after Du Jingzhi when he was sacrificing wine.

The root of it is not that Yuan Qingqi has revealed more miracles than Du Jingzhi, you must know that Du Jingzhi is a real person who has treated the plague with rune water, but thinking about the cure after the chaos, and people's hearts need sustenance.

Because the destruction of Yangzhou by the white thieves is too deep and too fierce, how many people's wives are scattered, their families are ruined, and those who survive have no fixed place, they can't eat, and their bodies and spirits are suffering from double torture.

"Heavenly Master Dao is full of talents, Shichiro really needs to be extremely careful!"

Mingyu Mountain, there is a pavilion named Wangyuan, Xu You and Qingming sit and talk to each other, He Wei leans on the railing alone, looking at the intelligence summary handed over by the winter solstice, which is mentioned the most is Yuan Qingqi.

By the way, her current Taoist name is Ning Changyi, and everyone respects the Zuo Shen Yuanjun and does not dare to name it!