Heifu's "theory of historical evolution" was loud and clear, and if he changed to other dynasties, he would definitely be scolded bloody, but in the Qin Dynasty, no one criticized him.

Wang Juan and the doctors couldn't protect themselves, so they could only stare dryly. Li Si can't find anything wrong, because the Legalists also have this view, when Han Fei presented the book of "Five Worms", Qin Shi Huang read it and felt like a confidant, after many years, he still often took it out to figure it out.

Speaking of this, Qin Shi Huang also understood that Heifu's views were generally the same as those of Li Si, both of them were inclined to "King Fajin", and they sneered at Confucianism and Zhuzi's frequent praise of the rule of Yao Shun, and agreed that these people should be rectified.

The only difference between them is the way they handle it......

Li Si's methods were simple and direct, burning and killing things, while Heifu spared a little bend and knocked on the side.

But he heard Heifu continue: "Your Majesty, the reason why the people of the world think that the present is not as good as the past is that they have read the wrong history books and have been mistaken by distorted knowledge. The right prime minister wants to make the scholars no longer praise the three generations of the ancient law and slander the dynasty, although the intention is good, but just collecting history, poems, and books are burned, which is only a symptom but not a root cause. ”

Ideology is such a thing, just pushing through the old does not produce the new, it is useless, and the scholars will not spontaneously learn the laws and orders from the Qin officials, and they have to force teaching.

"If you want to cure the root cause, you still need the imperial court to come forward to revise the history and make up for the shortcomings of the "Qin Ji", so that the world can know that all the Xia have the same ancestor and declare that the Great Qin is the orthodoxy after Yin Zhou."

"Second, to clarify the historical facts, expose the lies, and delete all the smears against Qin in the history books of the Six Kingdoms, so that the world can know how the six kings were stupid and decayed, indiscriminately killing loyal ministers, and how Qin swept the six countries with a hundred battles and punished the riots!"

Unlike the historians of Qi, who paid attention to writing straightforwardly, the Qin historians did not "tamper with history" once or twice: "The Records of Qin" has a very bad tradition, only recording victories, and defeats are taboo.

"Third, it is to reconstruct the history of the Five Emperors, the Three Dynasties, and the Xia Yin Shang to tell the world's scholars that the so-called rule of the three generations is just an illusory imagination, what the real three generations are, how Zhou died with feudalism, and how Qin prospered with counties! It must be clarified in the history books! ”

This is to define the dispute between feudalism and counties, and there are not a few people who advocate feudal retro, and that group of people is Wang Ba's heart to eat scales, but they can brainwash young scholars whose three views have not yet been finalized.

"After a year and a half, the history book was completed, and it was sent to the world, and the disciples of public and private schools learned it...... In this way, after a generation, no one will know the first king of the law, and the past is not the present! ”

The ability of the Qin Dynasty historians knows that they can be said to be the worst in the world, and the "Qin Records" is very sloppy, and they are vague about the time and history of many things, and they do not expect them to compile a masterpiece that can be passed on to future generations. What Heifu wants is just a simple, thin history textbook that can be understood by the reader, and the wisdom of everyone should be able to make it soon.

The core value that runs through this book is that "the world must advance, and the present is better than the ancient". It's funny to say that when this truth was put forward again more than 2,000 years later, it was Yan Fu's translation of "The Theory of Heavenly Evolution", which was shocked by the world as a celestial man. I don't know, the Shang and Han Legalists have long taken this as a consensus, but they didn't say that they understood it so well, and after two thousand years after the Qin Dynasty, people basically took retro as their political pursuit.

Hef's purpose is not only to prevent the burning of books, to let those schools with scientific potential escape this unwarranted disaster, and to reserve a little seed for the intellectual world, but also to give retroism a hard stab!

Historian culture is a unique tradition in China, and a country should learn from history, but it must look forward, not live in the dream of restoring the past! Heifu thinks that in the past 2,000 years, the continuous rise and fall of dynasties, the cycle of history, and the inability to get out of the circle demarcated in the past are also the old problems of this country.

But now, everything is different.

"In this way, even if there is still a Wang Mang in the future, there will be no retro restructuring!"

……

"The afterlife is terrifying!"

Li Si was surprised by Heifu's talent, and began to look at this young man up and down again, and his heart was admired for a long time - just like Han Fei's books of "Lonely Anger" and "Five Worms", which made him admire and hate!

Heifu is no longer with the mud this time, he has a set of logical and meticulous statecraft, and he does not confront Li Si head-on, but climbs up the pole, and the countermeasures proposed are tried in Jiaodong, and the effect is good, which can not only achieve the effect of public opinion, but also be milder than Li Si's methods, which is more acceptable......

The more this is the case, the deeper Li Si's jealousy becomes.

He found that the emperor was in thought, and today's argument was already in danger, and he could only try his best to save the defeat!

So Li Si said: "It is novel for Jiaodong County to keep this policy, but it takes too long, and I am afraid it will take one or two decades to see results." And the history books issued by the imperial court can only be seen by a few disciples in the school, how to contend with the excerpts and circulars of those ill-intentioned people, and the street talk? ”

In Lis's view, books are the source of ideas, but the main way of dissemination is still folk speech.

The history books of the Six Kingdoms have been compiled for a long time, and university scholars like Mozi have watched the Spring and Autumn Period of the Hundred Kingdoms, and some of their transcriptions have been taken out and scattered among the people. After coming into contact with these manuscripts of historical books, the folk families and advocates selected the stories in them, told the stories of Shi Kuang, Yan Zi, and Chun Yuji, and then told the people.

Similarly, Confucianism and Mo also have their own book inheritance, and they hold a book of "Book", "Poem", "Spring and Autumn" and "Yi", and begin to boast of the rule of three generations, which has a deep foundation among the people. It is not easy for the newly compiled history books compiled by the government to compete with these centuries-old knowledge.

Heifu thought otherwise, even if there were still remnants of the old history books, it would be difficult for ordinary people and most scholars to see them. As long as the government can attach importance to education, starting with children, often the rulers will watch what they show them and learn what they educate.

But Li Si shook his head: "Jiaodong County lives in the north and Jiaodong, and I don't know the situation outside, and a new situation has appeared in the world!" ”

Li Si began to report the new situation to Qin Shi Huang: "It is also thanks to the hemp paper made by the Jiaodong County Guard, in the Central Plains Liang and Chu, the law of paper-making is not strictly controlled, and it has flowed into the people, and there are also privately made papers in the Linzi market. Many Kanto scholars used light paper to transcribe the miscellaneous histories of the Six Kingdoms, as well as "poems" and "books", and then copied them to each other. At this very moment, it is useless to screen them one by one, and they must be treated violently and burned completely......"

"So fast!?"

Heifu was surprised, but think about it, it has been five years since he made paper in Xianyang, the production process of hemp paper and leather paper has been very mature, the official documents of the imperial court are basically paper, and the counties have also established paper mills one after another, and the government did not pay much attention to it at first, with the entry and exit of personnel, the craftsmen left, and the process flowed into the people, which was mastered by some noble families, and saw that it was profitable to sell paper, so they set up private workshops.

And the Central Plains scholars walk back and forth, often with books together, the car pulls heavy bamboo slips, so there is a "learn rich five cars" said, change to paper books, but half a car can be.

In addition to being lightweight, paper also has an advantage in writing, and there is only one way to copy knowledge in these days. Most of the scribes were economically impoverished scholars who made a living by copying books. And the employers are some officials and scholars. When the text carrier is bamboo slips, the copyist has to copy the bamboo slips one by one, once there is a mistake, you have to use a knife to cut off and correct, and finally compile it into a bamboo book, this process is time-consuming and laborious.

Paper is convenient, as a substitute for silk, so that the scribe and scribe save a lot of energy and time, as a result, hemp paper in the Central Plains gradually became popular.

As a result, the private collection of books has increased several times, and this small butterfly effect has become the biggest obstacle to Li Si's book burning.

Heifu was amused in his heart, this time it really became "the wildfire is inexhaustible, and the spring breeze blows and grows again", so he said: "Right Prime Minister, in this way, won't the difficulty of burning books increase tenfold?" ”

Li Si pointed out-for-tat: "It is not only ten times more difficult to cultivate history and teach scholars, but it is a hundred times more difficult!" ”

Heifu was waiting for this sentence, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the prime minister, the subordinates have a strategy that can reverse this hundredfold difficulty in one fell swoop!" ”

He carefully took out a piece of paper full of words from his sleeve, walked over respectfully, and looked at Li Si with both hands.

Li Si took it and took a look, but it was a "The Way of Officials" promulgated by Ye Teng in Nanjun that year, looking at it horizontally and vertically, except for the penmanship and font being too neat, and some indescribable grotesqueness, there was nothing peculiar.

He frowned and handed the paper to Ting Wei Ye Teng on the side.

Ye Teng glanced at it, but he didn't know why, and coughed and asked, "Heifu, what do you mean by this?" Is it a pastime for the prime minister and me? ”

"How dare you...... Please look at this piece of paper again. ”

The second piece of paper was handed over, and Li Si glanced at it, and it turned out to be "The Way of the Official", the same beginning, and he couldn't help but be a little impatient.

But in the flash of light, he noticed something unusual!

"These two articles are not only the same in content and handwriting, but also in the size, spacing, and even a typo of each word, all of which are exactly the same!"

Li Si Shen Yun calligraphy, he knows that although everyone has a unique handwriting, but to write a word exactly the same, as if carved out of a mold, almost impossible!

One word can't be used, let alone a hundred words? When Li Si was thinking, the two pieces of paper had been passed to Qin Shi Huang, and after comparing the two, it proved that it was not Li Si who was dazzled, and the words on it were indeed completely consistent.

But Qin Shi Huang couldn't see the reason, and flicked his sleeves: "Hugh wants to sell Guanzi, what is the mystery, say it quickly!" ”

"Yui!"

Heifu was about to unravel the puzzle, but Liss had already figured it out.

He muttered, "If I'm not mistaken, the words on these two pieces of paper were not written by people, but printed on them in woodcut Yangwen!" ”

"The prime minister is right, it's printed."

"Printed?" Everyone suddenly realized, no wonder the shape of the words is a little strange, but the general seal can only print a few words, this is a whole article......

Heifu didn't explain how to do it, and first asked the old man: "Dare to ask Captain Ting, which one will win if the soldiers of copper and iron and the soldiers of wood and stone fight each other?" ”

Ye Teng replied: "Of course, it is the victory of copper and iron. ”

Heifu said with a smile: "However, even if the princes' history books are scattered among the people, most of them are wooden bamboo scrolls, although there are paper books recently, but after all, they have to be copied by hand, and it is not easy to write a thousand words a day." ”

"But recently, Jiaodong craftsmen have made a machine! The shilling craftsman carved out a template in yang script and engraved the words and phrases of the entire book on the wooden board. Once engraved, only two people are needed, the paper and ink are enough, the speed of the book can reach a hundred times that of handwriting, and 100 books can be printed a day, up to a million words, far exceeding the speed of handwriting! ”

Heifu made a gesture to Qin Shi Huang: "The minister called this technique printing, engraving printing!" Today to Your Majesty! “