Chapter 299: The Originator of Grotesque Novels
This is the second time Zhao Hui has seen Zhen Mi.
It's really exquisite, even if Zhao Hui hasn't started a family yet, he wants to have such a daughter.
"If you want to read, you don't have to go to the Shanggu bookstore." Zhao Hui said to the Zhen Rong sisters: "The books that Shanggu Bookstore has, there are also all here. ”
Since they are all printed, all kinds of books, Zhao Hui also has a collection in Jicheng.
Although the bookstore in Jicheng is not as good as the Shanggu bookstore, the variety of books in Zhao Hui's state pastoral mansion will definitely not be less than that of the Shanggu bookstore.
Now there are more and more varieties of books in Dahan, but there are only a few thousand varieties.
Millions of new books are printed every year.
Dahan is still too short of books now.
It's just that this lack is also relative to Zhao Hui.
For Zhen Mi and Xu Shu, they didn't dare to think that there would be so many books for them to choose from.
Even if you read one every day, you won't be able to finish it for the rest of your life.
For many book lovers in Dahan, the first thought that pops up in my heart at the first time is to finish reading all these books.
Then they spread it in the sea of books, and it wasn't until a month later that they woke up to the fact that the current books, even if they used them for a lifetime, would never finish reading.
Although the number of slips purchased from the private sector has been greatly reduced.
But Zhao Hui also began to let people compile their own books.
published a book, in the past, not many people in the whole Han dared to think about it.
is not a famous person, if you dare to say that you want to publish a book, you will definitely be laughed off.
And even if you want to publish a book, you have to ask for money first.
Most of the scholars published books, in fact, they only burned a piece of article, usually only a few hundred words.
Even if it's a lot, it's only a few thousand words.
Zhao Hui received the slips from the people, and few have seen 10,000 characters.
A simple slip of thousands of words is a large box, weighing dozens of catties.
Not to mention the 10,000-word one.
If you want to produce a set of 10,000-word simple scrolls, it will cost at least a few million.
If you want to promote it again, even those families don't have the financial resources.
But now it's different, people who want to publish their own books can only buy a stack of blank paper, and they can easily write tens of thousands of words.
It is also very simple to produce a book of more than 100,000 words.
Especially for Zhao Hui's people, publishing a book is like drinking water.
Once you've written it yourself, send it for printing.
Zhao Hui didn't need them to write any big books.
It's just that they want to write a little more and increase the number of books.
Whether it's grotesque, folklore, or riddles, you can make a book.
Lin Song, who was in charge of the Youzhou newspaper, was forced by Zhao Hui to write more than a dozen books.
Of course, Lin Song did not sign these dozen books.
It's not that he doesn't want to be famous, it's that he doesn't dare to let people know that these books were written by him.
He thinks he is a cultured and virtuous person, and he wants to become a celebrity like Zheng Xuan.
But his current ability is not enough to write those books with profound connotations.
Zhao Hui asked him to write all those grotesque, as well as those feelings and loves.
If these books were to be known to those great Confucians that they were written by him, they would immediately be drowned in spittle.
In the eyes of these people, these grotesque romances should all be burned.
However, the sales of these books are better than those subsets of scriptures.
Some people don't like it, but there are many more who like it and use these books to kill time.
Watching the Analects every day is very boring, and those who can patiently watch a day are not ordinary people.
Most people are forced to start watching it from a young age.
Ordinary people don't have much literacy, and even some poor people are literate, and they don't have spare money to buy these books.
So most of these books were bought by the children of those families.
Even though the elders in their family were eager to burn all these books, their children were secretly reading.
Some even directly tore off the book covers of the Spring and Autumn Period and pasted them on these grotesques.
Lin Song never thought that one day, he would be able to publish a book.
But when he thought of the books he had written, he did not dare to say them.
At the same time, he was very curious, how Zhao Hui could think of those things.
The book he wrote about ghosts is a collection of various short stories.
What kind of fox turned into a man to seduce men?
Or meet a female ghost in a barren mountain.
Many of them were mentioned to him by Zhao Hui, and then according to what Zhao Hui said, he filled in various plots.
Zhao Hui has also read a few articles, and the plot is very simple, but Lin Song's writing is first-class, and these stories are exciting.
Even those women in the governor's mansion, who are literate, will also quietly read these books, and they are very fascinated by them.
Zhao Hui bumped into them more than once, and wept while watching.
Those who are illiterate are also begging those who are literate to tell them stories.
And those men in the mansion watched the sword fly every day, flying to the sky.
These books, since Zhao Hui made them out, he will not ban them.
Only, and dereliction of duty.
Folklore, mythological stories, also have special people to compile.
Thousands of years of civilization, there are still many legends, because they are only passed on by word of mouth, and finally lost.
For these books, Zhao Hui sold them more expensive than the Analects of the Spring and Autumn Period.
Because the people who buy it are mainly the children of the family. Of course, Zhao Hui wants to make a little more money from these people.
Zhen Mi soaked in the library in the governor's mansion every day.
Zhen Mi's favorite is still poetry books, but she is only twelve years old, and she is also very interested in those grotesque.
Although the Zhen family is now about to become a bookseller.
But Zhen Tu will not let these books enter the Zhen Mansion.
He used these books to earn money, and there was no pressure in his heart.
Even if he mistakes someone's children, it is also a mistake for someone else's children, as long as the children of his Zhen family don't look at it.
Zhen Mi is reading a ghost called A Chinese Ghost Story.
She was also fascinated by what she saw, and her small face was completely immersed in the world of the book.
After a long time, Zhen Mi closed the book.
Chat fast, nameless.
The cover of the book is simple, just four words.
But on the inside page of the book, there is another sentence.
This book is pure fiction and should not be taken seriously.
"Well, if it were true." Zhen Mi sighed.
"I just don't know who wrote such a story and why none of it was signed. The same is true of that Tang and Song poems. ”
Zhen Mi really wants to meet someone who can write Tang and Song poems.
In the past two years, she has memorized all the dozens of poems.
And Zhen Mi herself tried to write a few songs, but unfortunately they didn't meet her requirements.