The University, a classic book throughout China's 2,000-year history, was originally a part of the Book of Rites, which is said to have been written by Zeng Tzu in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and its content is a work that discusses educational theories.

There are many later generations in the "University" who have not read this book, but the equally well-known arguments, such as the three programs of Mingmingde, proximity to the people, and goodwill, as well as the eight items of Gewu, Zhizhi, sincerity, righteousness, self-cultivation, Qi family, governing the country, and leveling the world, emphasize that self-cultivation is the premise of governing people, and the purpose of self-cultivation is to govern the country and level the world, etc., which have had a great impact on ancient Chinese education.

The University has always been a part of the Book of Rites.

However, because of its content, starting from Dong Zhongshu in the Western Han Dynasty, the academic status of "University" has been improving, and finally in the Northern Song Dynasty, because of the efforts of Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, and Zhu Xi of the Southern Song Dynasty wrote this "University Chapters and Sentences", which can be regarded as completely pushing this chapter of "The Book of Rites" to the altar.

From then on, the Daxue, along with the Zhongyong, the Analects, and Mencius, became known as the "Four Books" and became an official compulsory course and the basic content of the imperial examinations.

In the world more than a thousand years later, "University" is famous.

Even during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, the status of "University" was far less important than that of later generations, but because of the admiration of Dong Zhongshu, Zheng Xuan and others in the previous Han Dynasty, as well as the interpretation of Kong Yingda, the old master of the dynasty, it also made these few thousand words seem quite important.

So when Li Shimin saw that his younger brother sent him a pamphlet, which was full of the content of "University" in ugly "Han Wangti", the emperor was a little surprised at first, and the random was full of shock!

This book can really be bought for fifteen dollars......

No, according to the stinky boy, if he used slightly worse paper, cheaper ink, and printed more, let's say 5,000 copies, he could even make this book ten dollars a piece!

Oh my God, it's only ten big bucks!

You must know that a bucket of rice in Chang'an City today only costs four or five big money...... Although Li Shimin also knows very well in his heart that the price of rice in Chang'an is a lot, in fact, it must be far more than that, but ten big bucks is just that, what is it in front of such an expensive thing as books?

Anyway, after repeatedly reading the sentence in Shiyilang's letter dozens of times, Li Shimin had to admit that he was a little moved.

For only ten copper coins, you can buy a copy of "University"!

For the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, this has to be said to be a huge temptation, a huge temptation that can break the monopoly of the family gate valve on knowledge!

Shiyi Lang's words accurately hit the itch in Li Shimin's heart.

Regarding the dirty matter between Tang Taizong and the family gate valve, in fact, there is no need to explain too much, because since the former Sui Dynasty, all monarchs have been committed to destroying the gate valve and trying to establish the supremacy of the royal family.

During the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui, he abolished the Jiupin Official Law and began to take the imperial examination, the purpose of which was to select civilian talents and destroy the official selection system of the gate valve. It's a pity that the time of the Sui Dynasty is too short, and this heavy responsibility can only fall on the head of the dynasty surnamed Li.

It's just that even a hero like Li Shimin must adopt a moderate policy to reform and slowly weaken the power of the family.

Because the accumulation of hundreds of years of Shandong Shi clan is not a joke, and it has made great contributions at the founding of the country, if you rashly shoot at the other party, not to mention that it will give people a rabbit and a dead dog to cook, there are huge doubts about whether the royal family can really do so many door valves.

The power of the gate valve is too great.

Otherwise, Li Shimin would not have let people set ranks based on the rank of ministers, and reproduced the "Clan Chronicles", so that the royal family surnamed Li would be judged as the first class......

In the final analysis, in addition to the wealth and hard power accumulated over countless generations, the monopoly of the Saga Gate Valve on the transmission of knowledge is also an important factor.

In the court of the Tang Dynasty, how many officials are not from the gate valve?

And the reason why this situation occurs, in addition to accumulation, is nothing more than that the cost of supporting a child to study is too high, not to mention those ordinary people who have to work all day in order to eat a full stomach, that is, ordinary little rich families, it is not so easy to support a scholar!

The gentlemen's shackles were very expensive, because they had to feed their families on these things, and they had to live a richer life than the rest of the people; Pen, ink, paper, and inkstone are also very expensive, and perhaps inferior brushes, inkstones, and inks are not valuable, but white paper is never an ordinary item, and it can be classified as a luxury item in the ordinary little rich family.

After all, everything is handmade, and the low productivity is frighteningly low, which is just a matter of looking at the price of handmade paper in the future.

And......

These investments are not a year or two, but at least ten years!

The saying that the ten-year cold window is not a joke.

So as long as you think about it, you can understand that supporting a student during the Zhenguan period is basically like supporting a college student in 2020, except that the average annual income of ordinary people is 10,000 yuan, and the normal annual consumption of this student is 10,000 US dollars......

Practicing calligraphy with branches and sand, and meeting a good teacher who is willing to waive tuition fees are all good things that only a very few people can encounter. Because many of the masters had to rely on teaching to eat, or to improve their own lives, and only a few geniuses could practice a good handwriting by relying on things like twigs and sand.

Hard pen and soft pen are originally two concepts.

However, in this era, people's requirements for words are very high, and there are even words like their people, and the deity of a person's writing level represents the character! Therefore, if you don't write well enough, even if you are talented, I am afraid that it will be difficult to enter the eyes of those bigwigs, and judging a person's character and talent by their appearance is quite similar......

Ahem, it's too far.

In short, after reading Shiyi Lang's words, Li Shimin was indeed a little moved.

One of the biggest costs of a scholar's study is undoubtedly the cost of buying books.

The price of paper is already very high, and the investment in making engraving is even more expensive, so for many readers, copying books is their normal means of gaining knowledge. And even so, it is difficult to find someone to borrow books, and it costs a lot of money to buy paper, pens and ink by yourself, and it takes a lot of time and energy, which is quite not cost-effective.

If there is a book, it is naturally excellent.

"If Eleven Lang can really do ten dollars a piece, it will really be a blessing for the world's scholars."

Thinking about it, the emperor's heart moved, and in a blink of an eye, he looked at the letter that he had read several times: "In that case, why don't you let him increase the amount of sea water to dry salt?" Since he said that I had underestimated the salt drying in the sea, then let him try it first, and then use the money from the salt drying to print books......"

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