Li Ze half leaned on the bed and looked at the "Agricultural Minutes" that had just been published by Wuwei Academy. This is one of the most important projects of the Agricultural College under Wuwei Academy this year.

The "Minutes of Agricultural Books" comprehensively summarized the experience of agricultural production before the Tang Dynasty, and comprehensively and systematically summarized and expounded the scope, content, and techniques that must be mastered in agricultural production. The content is rich and rich, including 12 subjects such as agriculture, field system, agriculture, water conservancy, agricultural tools, arboriculture, sericulture, planting, animal husbandry, manufacturing, and waste administration. Not only has a lot of production experience, but also a lot of food processing and storage, wild plant cultivation, grafting and utilization, agricultural equipment manufacturing.

The "Minutes of Agricultural Books" is not only detailed in terms of written records, but also has a large number of illustrations, and compared with the previous agricultural books, this book not only contains many more efficient agricultural tools, but also many more introduced species.

In today's northland, Li Ze can proudly say that he has initially solved the problem of food and clothing. Once this "Minutes of Agricultural Books" is officially published in the world, it will inevitably cause a second upsurge in the development of agriculture, and now the literate people in the north are really very different from those in the past.

In his view, this is completely a fallacy and a means adopted by the ruling class in the past to fool the people in order to firmly grasp power in their own hands.

The people may make it happen, but they must make it known.

One of the privileges of Li Ze who smashed the landlord's powerful family in the north was his mastery of knowledge.

In the past, reading a book was a luxury.

It's not that many people don't want to study, but the heavy pressure of life makes nine out of ten people have to work hard to survive when they are very young, and they don't have the energy to study at all. And the heavy financial burden brought by reading is unbearable for ordinary people.

Nowadays, with the great economic development of the Northland, ordinary people have savings in their hands, and the great development of paper and ink-making skills has made the prices of these things fall again and again, and the popularization of movable type printing has also completed the transformation from clay characters to lead characters, so that the extremely expensive books in the past have now become affordable for ordinary people.

Under Wuwei Academy, government schools, county schools, and township schools began to bloom all over the world, and you can enter these schools to study with a small amount of tuition, which not only teaches reading and literacy, but also teaches a variety of practical techniques, even if you just graduate from a township school, then at least you can be regarded as an intellectual.

If a country really wants to stand forever and open up the wisdom of its people, this is what must be done.

Li Ze is not afraid that everyone will rise up and rebel against him when they have knowledge, on the contrary, he thinks that everyone is literate and literate, but can be more clear about right and wrong, and can treat everything in the world more rationally. Instead of being ignorant, he was crooked into the ditch by some guys with ulterior motives, with a little rhythm.

"The Department of Agriculture and the Wuwei Agricultural College have made great efforts to compile this book, and the household department still has to make special arrangements and allocate a sum of money for printing, which is a great thing for the benefit of the country and the people." Closing the book and placing it on the bedside table, Li Ze looked at Xia Hedao, who was sitting in front of the dresser combing his hair.

"No money!" Xia He's answer was neat.

"If you don't have the money, you have to do it!" Li Ze snorted.

Xia He turned his head and said with a smile: "Li Xiang, you don't have to force the household department to take the money if you have one thing, can't you think of other ways?" ”

Hearing the words in this, Li Ze's eyes lit up, "Where did you get the money from?" ”

"It's not that I came up with a way, it's Wang Mingyi who came up with a way." Xia He smiled: "Actually, you don't need to say it, we also know that this book is a major event for the country and the people, where do you dare to slack off?" Liu Xin of Nasinong Temple also brought a group of little old men and little old women from the agricultural college to the household to block my door, which is really unreasonable. That is, you are used to these people, yesterday I was blocked in the public hall by these people, and I was almost smoked to death by them, can't you give an order that these people must take a bath every day? ”

Li Ze burst out laughing.

The students in the agricultural college are all literate and literate, but not necessarily the gentlemen, many of whom have only practical experience. Now about one-third of the gentlemen are trained by Wuwei Academy, and the remaining two-thirds are those old farmers with rich practical experience recruited from all over the world, and it is really difficult for them to ask these people to change their living habits for a lifetime.

"What did Wang Mingyi think of?" Li Ze was interested.

"He sold the book!" Xia He got up, walked to the side of the bed, skipped Li Ze outside, and half-lay down on the side against the wall, supporting his chin with his hand, tilting his head to look at Li Ze.

"Sold?"

"Hmmm! It was sold to the Liu family in Hedong. Xia He looked at Li Ze's somewhat uneasy look and explained: "It's not really a sale, it's just that when the book was printed, an extra line was added below, the publisher, Liu Hong." ”

"How much did it sell?"

"All the printing costs are paid by the Liu family. Sinong Temple wants to print 200,000 copies. After doing the math, the cost of a copy is about a silver dollar. Sinong Temple is going to distribute some of it to the agricultural officials and county schools and township schools in various places, and the other part wants to be sold for money, and Sinong Temple thinks that it should still be able to sell it for two silver dollars. ”

Li Ze sighed.

"What's wrong, Childe?" Xia He looked at Li Ze and said strangely: "Isn't it good to not spend the money of the treasury and do things again?" ”

"I'm thinking, these wealthy families can survive a hundred or even hundreds of years without falling, it is indeed reasonable, just this wisdom, ordinary people really can't reach it. It is no wonder that although these people are up and down, they can always rise again and again. Kai Minzhi, Kai Minzhi, this matter really can't be relaxed for a moment, otherwise, the elite of this family, it won't be long before these people come to talk about it! ”

Xia He didn't understand.

"Childe means to sell cheap?"

"It's too cheap." Li Ze patted the edge of the bed, heartbroken. "This kind of agricultural book is destined to be passed down for eternity, and even if there is a change of dynasty in the future, the new ruler may tamper with history, but he will never touch such a agricultural book. Liu Hong bought this name with a mere 200,000 silver dollars, and he will be famous for eternity. And his Liu family can't say that he will also shine because of this book, and he will open a big grade with other families and become a real famous family admired by later generations. It's a big loss! ”

Xia He listened in a daze.

"Where do a bunch of old men and old ladies in the Agricultural College know this, Liu Xin is a short-sighted guy, Wang Mingyi drills money all day long, and he can really make a million profits, but he gently let it go, oops, I feel sorry for me." Li Ze sighed for a long time.

Xia He stayed for a long time before he said, "Lost?" ”

"It's definitely a loss! It's a big loss, maybe Liu Hong is now smiling from ear to ear in the house. 200,000 silver dollars, what is it worth to him, Xia He, how much did we sell for a bus line at the beginning! Although this book doesn't make money, he earns fame. Money is easy to earn, but fame is hard to earn! ”

Xia He bit her lip, and her face slowly turned red.

"Tomorrow I'm going to find this Liu Hong to have a good talk!" She spoke word by word.

"Didn't you say that the contract was signed? Do you want to go back? This is seriously inconsistent with the spirit of the contract that we have been advocating. Li Zedao.

"I'm going to regret it." Xia He snorted: "Sage Kong said that only women and villains are difficult to raise in the world. I'll just see, does that Liu Hong dare to offend me? If you don't want to offend me, you'll have to add money. I'm a household secretary now, and even if I don't have a household secretary in the future, if I want to pinch him, I will hold it in my hand. ”

"How much do you want?" Looking at Xia He, who was obviously a little angry, Li Ze asked cautiously.

"If there's a million silver dollars missing, don't talk to me about it." Xia He said angrily.

"He's going to have to bargain with you! Don't forget, the contract has already been signed, and according to our law, it is already in effect. Even if he is afraid of you, he is afraid that he will not spit out so much at once. ”

"Ask for a sky-high price, pay it back on the spot." Xia He said: "Anyway, if he doesn't spit it out, I will never give up." ”

Li Ze laughed: "You can't do this in the office of your household secretary." It is better to summon him privately and threaten him in private, so that there will be no proof of death in the future, I think he really doesn't dare to offend the current Hubu Shangshu and the future concubine. ”

"Childe is right!" Xia He's eyes lit up, "Although it is a little inauthentic, but I have to take out some money from these people, and the money in their hands is always better than in our hands." Now there is a law that governs that they cannot take money from them, but if they are willing to do good deeds, the law cannot control it, right? ”

"Of course, of course." Li Ze nodded again and again: "We must do this within the law, we can't know the law and break the law, and if we break the rules, it will be difficult to make rules in the future." ”

Xia He sat up straight and said in a deep voice: "Gongzi reminded me this time, in the future, I will pay more attention to those gentlemen in Wuwei Academy, and encourage them to write more books, so that we can get more money back." Especially those guys in the Gewu Academy, we allocate so much money to them every year, they can't afford to waste it all! In the future, we must also set a rule, whoever has greater results will be able to get more money, and they can't eat a big pot of rice in one go. ”

"It's a good idea, but don't forget the people who dig the wells, you really get the money back, don't forget to give a little bit to the people who write the books, otherwise, no one will write books in the future." Li Ze reminded with a smile.