"I am happy to be in the sixth year of Your Majesty, and I am in charge of the history of Anlu County. For seven years, he served as the commander of Yan County. For twelve years, he was in charge of the prison and was in charge of the prison. In the thirteenth year, the Qin army attacked Zhao and threw his pen from Rong. Fifteen years, pre-Pingyang service. A few years later, he returned to Anlu, a prison officer, passing through Yunmengze, and was captured by a minister, but he was framed by others, he enforced the law impartially and washed away my grievances. ”

This is a momentary impulse, but Heifu always feels that the story of joy should not only be known to tens of millions of people in later generations, but also to Qin Shi Huang!

He should know, no, he must know! In the empire, there is such a diligent and conscientious Qin official!

After the minister became the pavilion chief, he went to visit his house, but he saw that his family was simple, and there were almost no valuable belongings. When I opened it, I saw that it was the text of the law. ”

Hearing this, Qin Shi Huang frowned, because the imperial court had a rule that the laws of the government should not be brought home without authorization, but then he relaxed again.

But he heard Heifu say: "The minister still remembers that Xi has always been indifferent, but when he introduced those simple papers, he was a little proud, and he said that this abundant law was copied by him for several years. ”

In Heifu's account, Qin Shi Huang can imagine a scene in the small place of Anlu in Nanjun, where a grassroots official carefully copied the text of the law every night in the faint light on a bamboo slip as thick as chopsticks.

This copy is four years, but only more than 40,000 words were copied, because it is too slow to write on the slips......

When Qin Shi Huang heard this, he was a little moved, he was high, he was concerned about national policies and major events all day long, and he rarely heard the hard work of grassroots officials.

After finishing speaking, Heifu said: "Your Majesty, in the forty counties of the world, there are many officials like Xi who copy the law by hand!" ”

Just think about it, Xianyang alone, there are countless departments that need complete sets of legal texts, and there are 40 counties, hundreds of counties, and tens of thousands of departments and townships below......

It is no exaggeration to say that the documents and laws copied by the Qin officials in the past 31 years are probably longer than the Great Wall!

It's just a lot of work, but the problem is that it's still slow. The writing pen of the Jian Mu era is really as slow as a snail.

Even if Heifu later made paper, Meng Tian improved the pen, and the imperial court promulgated a simplified official script, it only made the transcription two or three times faster, even the most skilled knife and pen clerk, who copied every day, could write at most a thousand words, as slow as a turtle.

This means that the Qin Law Order, which adds up to tens of thousands of words, requires dozens of sword and pen officials to work tirelessly for a day and a night to copy, which is extremely inefficient. This has also led to the fact that only the county has one copy of the complete law, and even some remote and small counties cannot afford one.

The reason why a book is expensive is not because of the cost of materials, or even because of the knowledge it contains, but because of the manual effort that has been paid.

Moreover, heavy transcription often leads to errors, and once there is a mistake, the person waiting for the knife and pen will be severely punished! The law stipulates that if you copy the wrong one, you will use it to punish the scribe! But sometimes the little officials are also wronged, obviously they made a mistake in the county, and the county painted the scoop according to the gourd, what can they do.

But now, as soon as the engraving printing comes out, all this is no longer a problem!

Tingwei Ye Teng bowed his head: "In this way, as long as the Imperial History Mansion has an engraving plate, and the paper and ink are enough, ten copies of the law order can be printed in one day!" ”

Heifu smiled: "What Ting Wei said is right, compared to copying with a pen on a slip and paper, printing is as fast as a cunning rabbit, and it is convenient for several people, and the cost is much lower!" ”

"In this way, in less than a month, all counties in the world can get the full text of the decree, and the content is exactly the same as that of the Imperial History Mansion, and there is no possibility of errors or omissions! In the future, every year the Imperial History Office will only need to print hundreds or thousands of copies of the revised chapters, hand them over to the county officials to bring back, and then distribute them to the counties. ”

In this way, the knife and pen officials will have less trouble in the case, and the laws and orders of the court can be issued quickly and accurately! I also hope that His Majesty will allow it to set up an engraving and printing room in Xianyang! ”

Qin Shi Huang glanced at the ministers: "What do you think?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, and the fifth doctor, Wang Wu, secretly looked at Li Si and found that he didn't say a word, plucked up his courage and raised questions.

"Your Majesty, this engraving is a sharp weapon, but if it is obtained by those with ill intentions, how should it be better to print poems, books, and demagogic articles?"

As soon as the words fell, Tingwei Ye Teng sneered: "Waste food because of choking!" It's ridiculous! Do the five doctors think that the court captains, prison officials, and thieves are all decorations? ”

"I ......" Wang Wu was robbed of white, and he didn't dare to argue with Tingwei, and his head shrank back.

Qin Shi Huang looked at Li Si: "What does the right prime minister think?" ”

Li Siying said: "This thing is beneficial to the imperial court and not harmful. ”

"Great goodness!"

Qin Shi Huang was very happy, he did things vigorously and resolutely, and immediately issued an edict, asking Cheng Shang to return to Xianyang with craftsmen, and set up a printing room in Shaofu, specifically to assist the Imperial History Mansion in printing legal texts, so that they could be used all over the world.

Cheng Shang took the order and left, and the ministers all congratulated Qin Shi Huang, but what Heifu thought in his heart was that maybe after a hundred years, in addition to the slips that he copied by hand, there might also be a stack of legal books printed in neat fonts......

Thinking of this, Heifu felt as if he had done another thing right.

At this time, Qin Shi Huang began to ask Heifu again, where is the Anlu jailer Xi now?

Heifu's face darkened, and he said: "Because of his outstanding political achievements, he was transferred to Jiangling ten years ago, and later he was transferred to Dongting County to be an official in Qianling County. Qianling is a newly established county, the Yue people are barbarian, the place is poor, and the husband died early. I recently learned from a letter from home that Xi Zaiqian was ill and could not be a member of the council, and has now returned to Anlu's home to recuperate, but he has not recovered......"

After hearing this, Qin Shi Huang turned his head and called the confessor: "Happy, Qin Zhi's followers, such as today's decision, since my eastern tour, but seeing the arrogance and lasciviousness of the officials, what is lacking is that they like to be so conscientious and diligent!" Spread the edict of the Emperor, let Nanjun send a famous doctor to diagnose and treat, do not die, and then be promoted to the next level, so that all the officials in the world know that those who are honest and not greedy, and those who are loyal to official affairs will be rewarded! ”

Heifu was stunned for a moment, wait, His Majesty the Emperor has opened his brain, and wants to carry out the activity of "learning from Comrade Xi" throughout the country, so that the cadres of the Qin Dynasty can hold a meeting to learn the spirit of Xi?

He hurriedly said: "Your Majesty has been thanked!" ”

Having said that, Heifu didn't report much hope, and after he learned about it, he had asked his family to ask the best doctor in the south to see Xi, but the joy was that he was sick from hard work, not a day's cold.

What Heifu didn't know was that in history, Xi should have died of illness in the thirtieth year of Qin Shi Huang, but because of Heifu's changes, he lived for an extra year, but he still didn't escape the disease. Whether Xi can survive this hurdle, no one knows, so he can only do his best......

Heff then suggested that printing could not only be used to copy the law, but also to print more things, so that it could be widely disseminated among the people.

Historically, the Tang people originally used this thing to print Buddhist scriptures, dense Sanskrit Buddhism, was transliterated into Chinese, believers in the Buddhist hall incense between the incense, bowing and worshipping, muttering "Amitabha Buddha" in the mouth, to later, printing technology was used in other books, so that the Tang and Song Dynasty culture reached a moment.

However, the printing technique that Heifu invented in the Qin Dynasty was already printing laws, calendars, solar terms, and agricultural books from its very beginning, so that they were scattered throughout the world, which were all useful knowledge for ordinary people, and could further promote literacy and cultural dissemination. If this continues, what will it be like in a hundred years? Even Heifu couldn't have predicted it.

Of course, there are also history books to be printed to brainwash readers all over the world, which is called a new subject by Heifu "National History......

After so many days, Hefu thought it was time to put an end to this controversy!

"Your Majesty, as the minister said that day, copying books by hand is like a rough soldier of wood and stone, and engraving and printing is like a soldier of copper and iron."

"The former copied a book, spread it to ten people, and influenced a hundred people. The latter printed 100 copies, distributed them to 100 people, spread them to 1,000 people, and influenced 10,000 families! Compared with the two, it is like hitting wood with iron, destroying the withering and decaying! Your Majesty, if every public school disciple can have a newly compiled "History of the Country" in his hand, let the officials teach him, preach the difference between the ancient and the modern, and the county is better than the feudal reality, and then use it as a subject for the examination of officials, and everyone can read it, why worry that they will not abandon the previous king and the current king? Why worry about public opinion and people's hearts? ”

Qin Shi Huang touched his beard and nodded slightly, whether to prohibit private learning or to regulate private learning, to burn books or to repair books, he had made a choice in his heart, but his eyes glanced at everyone:

"Do you still have any objections?"

The ministers were silent, they all knew that the emperor was not asking about himself, it was Prime Minister Li Si!

Li Si still seems to be very calm and indifferent, but under the calm, his heart is turbulent, this is the first time he has followed the emperor for more than 20 years to lose in the national policy!

Between life and death between expulsion or retention, he persuaded Qin Shi Huang.

On the issue of saving Han and destroying Han, he won Han Fei, and even killed this terrible opponent with a knife.

In the debate between feudalism and county, he overwhelmed Wang Juan, successfully triple jumped, and jumped from Tingwei to the right prime minister, one person below ten thousand people!

But just when he was complacent and ready to take the opportunity to completely defeat Wang Juan, starting with book burning, through a series of drastic plans, he won a feudal title for himself, and when he was famous for eternity, he was intercepted by the black boy who killed him halfway......

What made Li Si's teeth itch was that Heifu was full of praise for his concept of "King Fajin", but with a slight change in the means. In a gentler way, to do the book burning, Li Si was confident that he could overwhelm him, but when Heifu moved out of the printing press, he knew that the matter could no longer be argued.

Heifu won the favor of the emperor by relying on his vision ahead of the times and the new technology that he kept pulling out of his pocket.

Li Si knew that he had lost this controversy, not to Heifu, but to himself.

Although the slander of Feng Chan is serious, it has not yet reached the extent that the emperor has made up his mind to completely abandon Confucianism and Confucianism in the world.

At this time, arguing strongly will only disappoint the emperor, and Li Si knows that what he can do is to try his best to hold the chassis.

Let yourself lose less ugly? No, no, what Li Si thinks in his heart is always to turn defeat into victory!

A long-winded argument to the controversy? No, he Li Si wants to turn over, just one sentence!

So Li Siyu said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the art of engraving and printing should be strictly observed, and at the same time, the folk papermaking and paper use should be prohibited. After all, the people can make it, but they can't know it! ”

"The prime minister has a point." Qin Shi Huang's jaw is said to be.

Heifu frowned slightly, Li Si is going to go to the end on the road of foolishness, but that sentence is good, science and technology can make the authoritarian more authoritarian and the free more free, this is also a helpless thing, and it is still far from the popularization of knowledge among the whole people.

But Li Si's next sentence made Heifu completely refresh his understanding of him!

But I heard Li Si say again: "In addition, the old minister thought about it again and again, thinking that the poems and books and the words of a hundred schools of thought really did not need to be blindly burned, which caused the scholars to clamore, it is better to be forbidden in the conquest, and repair and burn!" Just like the saying of Confucius, choose those who are good and follow them, and choose those who are not good and change them! ”

"However, this matter of repairing books and history, the old minister is not talented, and he is willing to preside over it together! I hope Your Majesty will allow it! ”

Heifu was stunned, and for a while, the cold hair stood on end!