After pondering in the house for a night, Li Yuanjia chose the book to be printed.

What Li Yuanjia wanted to print most was, of course, the Analects.

It's not that "The Analects" is very important to the readers of the Tang Dynasty, just because the book is famous enough in history!

It's just that he also knows that it's unrealistic, because the number of words in the Analects exceeds 10,000, and even if you don't consider the repetitive Chinese characters, there are more than 1,300 characters in the whole book, which is not at all what Li Zhong and the others can print now.

To put it bluntly, if you want to print the Analects with movable type, it will be about the same for another two years.

So the final choice was a book with very few words - "University".

The book has a word count of more than 2,000 words...... Don't think that this number of words is very small, in terms of the size of the paper of ancient books and the technology of Datang engraving, a page is only dozens of words, even if it is a book of 2,000 words, it is at least dozens of pages!

In order to reduce the difficulty, Li Zhong's metal movable type is not small.

In other words, a normal book-sized piece of paper can only be printed with six or seven crosses on one page, and if you want to print the "University", you need at least 20 sheets of paper.

This number should be just right.

Moreover, a book of more than 2,000 words, even if some characters Li Zhong has not yet created, the number will definitely be much less than that of the Analects, and then it will not take too long to make it.

Don't forget, Han Wang is a real bookworm!

Over the years, he has continued to collect all kinds of books, and Li Yuanjia's collection has already broken 10,000 volumes. And he is also a man with a golden finger, although this golden finger is a bit tragic, but he has the ability to remember it in this life, and the memories of his previous life are still dissipating, but at this time, the golden finger is finally useful.

Come to think of it, "University" is the most suitable.

Merely......

Even if he chooses "University", he doesn't just find a book to come over and print it directly, Li Yuanjia has not been reckless to this point.

The "University" during the Tang Dynasty was also part of the "Book of Rites".

In fact, before the Western Han Dynasty, Confucianism was also folk thought, but Dong Zhongshu raised it to the level of the country, and since then Confucianism has embarked on the road of becoming official and national studies. The Eastern Han Dynasty's Zheng Jing collated and annotated the Book of Rites, which made it popular in the world and became one of the important books.

As for the separation of the "University" from the "Book of Rites", it will not be until the time of the Song Dynasty. The Book of Rites was divided into the Daxue and the Mean, and then together with the Analects and Mencius, the Daxue was the first of the four books, and has since become the subject of the imperial examination......

Therefore, it is not so easy to extract the "University" from the "Book of Rites" and print it separately.

And......

"This kind of Confucian classic is not Hu Yin's!"

After getting up and washing up the next day, Li Yuanjia, who was still thinking about this matter, sighed: "It seems that I can only wait until I return to Chang'an City and visit the old man in person......

The literati of ancient times were not easy to mess with.

Although there are only a few people who can afford to buy a book these days, most of them just borrow a book and use it to super, but often the books that dare to be printed are not simple editions - if there are no contemporary masters standing behind, if you dare to print, someone will definitely dare to scold!

Like "Mathematics", books that no one reads are certainly not on this list.

Therefore, even if he planned to try to print a copy of "University" with movable type, Li Yuanjia did not dare to find a random copy on the market and start it, and he had to find an authoritative version.

And in Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty in the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, who else is a more suitable candidate than that old man?

Kong Yingda, a great Confucian of the dynasty, one of the eighteen bachelors, and the thirty-first grandson of Confucius, if Kong Yingda says that he is the second, I am afraid that no one in the Tang Dynasty will dare to claim to be the first.

It's just that when he thinks of that old-fashioned and stubborn old man, Li Yuanjia has a special headache......

But no matter how much headache he has, facing Kong Yingda is also something after returning to Chang'an, but now, there is something that makes Li Yuanjia even more headache.

"Hoo ......"

After staring at the wood carving in front of him for a long time, Li Yuanjia frowned a few times, and asked helplessly: "Are you sure you have understood my words and understood the meaning of cuteness?" ”

While speaking, Li Yuanjia took the wood carving in his hand and shook it: "Or, do you think such a ...... Ahem, such a woman is cute? ”

"Goo-dong!"

"The King forgives sins!"

Two carpenters, one swallowing hard, and the other was already lying on the ground.

"Alright, get up for me!"

Frowning, Li Yuanjia said with some irritability: "Don't kneel down in front of me, this king will be annoyed when he looks at it!" Also, I'm just not satisfied with what you've made, but it's not like you don't care to do it, what are you forgiven? ”

“…… Yes, King. ”

Looking at the two carpenters who were silent, Li Yuanjia's eyelids rolled and he was truly speechless.

In fact, there are too many people like the two carpenters in front of him, and Li Yuanjia really has nothing to worry about, after all, the difference in status between them is too big. In front of them, the layers of aura on Li Yuanjia's body were like mountains, and just standing still could overwhelm many people.

After getting used to it, Li Yuanjia was a little depressed at most.

What he was really upset about was the things made by the two carpenters, the two statues of little girls who seemed to them to be very cute—a fat puppet that looked like it had started at least two hundred pounds, with a fancy makeup painted on its face, where was it cute?

Li Yuanjia knows that there is a difference in aesthetics between himself and the Tang Dynasty, but the difference is too big, right?

Anyway, when he saw the bewildered faces of the two carpenters, Li Yuanjia was very annoyed, so he simply waved his hand and said, "Forget it, you go back to those houses first, and the puppet matter will be slowed down...... I'll give you a pattern in two days, and you can just do it for me!" ”

"Yes, King!"

"Let's go down!"

After waving his hand to let the two carpenters out, Li Yuanjia stared at the two fat puppets on the table for a long time, and suddenly looked at the maid waiting beside him: "Chunyan, do you think these two puppets are good-looking?" ”

"Huh? Uh......"

After a while, Chunyan tilted his head and looked at it a few times, nodded with some hesitation: "King, I think it's very good-looking!" ”

“……”

Looking at this girl's delicate appearance, Li Yuanjia rolled her eyes and knew that she had asked in vain.

Naturally, he couldn't scare Chunyan who had been with him for many years, and after staring at the puppet for a while, the girl couldn't help but ask, "King, what kind of game are you going to do?" ”

Glancing at her, the corners of Li Yuanjia's mouth curved, and a touch of nostalgia flashed in his eyes: "A game that can be played by many people, called Monopoly ......"