He was lying on the bed with his head resting on one arm, pressing the open "Hu Wen Ji" on his chest, staring at the beam of the room with blazing eyes, and his thoughts stayed on the "Qingshan Manuscript".

There are four articles in "Qingshan Manuscript", some are long and some are short, "Persuasion of Agriculture" is only three pages and thousands of words, but "Persuasion" is more than ten pages before and after, sprinkled with thousands of words. It is because the length of "Persuasion" is too long, and there is an article in the article, which involves all kinds of industries, silk, linen, cotton, paper, porcelain, jade, gold and wood have comments and comments, which looks more like a statistical report. He just skimmed through the headline and didn't read it closely. Even after a cursory glance, he was shocked by the content of the "Persuasion" article, in which the author even mentioned shipbuilding and overseas trade, and said: "...... The tax of Haishi in the two states of Jinquan Yang is divided into inside and outside, and the inside is light and the outside is heavy, so as to benefit the people's livelihood, but the industry and commerce are injured; Hu Jia braved the ocean and crossed the sea, not only to Lier, but also to promote the industrial and commercial solution ......"

Overseas trade can promote the development of handicrafts and partially solve the problem of surplus labor, this truth can be understood by businessmen, and it can also be explained more systematically and thoroughly than the author, but he can't help but admire the author of the "Persuasion of Labor" chapter One by one, his insight comes from books, but the author's insight comes from the observation of the tariff policy of the two places in Quanzhou and Yangzhou, and it comes from field investigations, and he can't be compared with others at all.

He silently recited in his mind the sentences he had memorized from the article.

“…… so that the people have a basis for holding and standing on to understand the people's livelihood; …… Keep the four o'clock and do not hurt its roots; ......" This is a sentence in the chapter "Persuading Farmers". After chewing in his heart for a long time, he still didn't quite understand what "holding on to the evidence" meant, and what connection it had with "people's livelihood", so he had to put it aside first.

“…… The saints established the way, taught all over the world, and the sons traveled strangely, and spread all over the world,...... Now it should be widely distributed among the cold, and the words and texts should be passed on to solve the confusion of the people,...... The women of Chunchun Village are old-headed, like children; …… It can be recorded as an annual examination, and it is also a name for the order, and it should be cited as the place where the law is promulgated. ”

This is the text in the "Persuasion of Learning". The previous sentence is just fine, but it is neat and straightforward and catchy; The latter sentence shocked him so much that he did not know where he was for a long time, and now he should let the scholars go in all directions, teach everyone to read and reason, and even women and the elderly, teach them as children; This should be recorded as an annual performance appraisal of the scholars, and they should be rewarded frequently. The state should legislate for this and promote it as a mandatory policy......

This is completely compulsory education enforced by the state!

Even now, when he chewed on this sentence again, he still felt that his heart was fluctuating and difficult to calm down. His heart was full of admiration and respect for the author, one by one, in this era, someone has proposed to implement compulsory education, and it is the most thorough "education without class", and it also implies the ideological view of "equality between men and women", which is really incredible. What kind of author is this? Is he a thinker? Or a great educator? What kind of era is this? It was possible to give birth to such a great idea......

He excitedly circled around the bedroom.

A sudden urge swelled up in his heart to go out for a walk. Not to walk in the seat card set, nor to walk in the city of Yanzhou, but to the farther south, to Beijing, to Quanzhou, to the vast Central Plains - he should have a closer understanding of this era, this country, and the world......

It took a long time for him to calm down. He knew that for him, "going out for a walk" was a very difficult idea to implement in a short period of time. Da Zhao is going to use troops to the north, and as a soldier guarding the frontier, it is impossible for him to stay out of the upcoming war. And he will not stay out of the way, even the shedding of blood will not be able to dissolve the hatred between him and the Tutz; Let him forget the hatred, unless he is dead!

He was irritated and circled around the room. He doesn't want to stay in Yanzhou all the time, who knows how long he will stay? He was now anxious to go to the army, to the places where he would soon be able to fight the Turrets. Even if he can't be a senior officer at the brigade level, it doesn't matter if he is a battalion commander, even if he is a sentry commander, as long as he can fight the enemy face to face, he will accept any position, even if it is the second sentry or the captain, he will not have half a complaint! But he also knew it was unlikely. Even if he was willing to be a captain, Wei Fu would not agree to let a lieutenant of Guide only command fifty soldiers. But the Wei Mansion couldn't place him immediately, because there was no suitable position for him in the three armies of Yanshan for a while.

It seems that he can only stay on duty......

After lunch, Shang Cheng decided to go into the city to buy the "Qingshan Manuscript". The book is not expensive, only 850 yuan, and he wanted to buy it yesterday, but the owner of the bookstore said that it was something that someone else had already paid for, and he would pick it up in two or three days, and it was impossible to break the contract and sell it to him. Just because you didn't sell yesterday doesn't mean you don't sell today. He carried his jade pendant in his arms. When the time comes, take out the jade pendant and show it to the bookstore boss to see if the boss dares not to sell it.

When he arrived at the door of the bookstore, before he could get off the horse, the owner of the bookstore had already greeted him and affectionately helped him hold the reins of the horse.

Could it be that the boss already knows his identity? Shang Cheng entered the bookstore with a belly full of doubts, and he didn't notice that the young man who led the horse to tie the horse stake pointed to the back crotch of the horse, and quietly gestured to the boss This is a military horse.

The smile on the boss's face became even stronger, as if entertaining an old customer, he enthusiastically let Shang Cheng into the main hall of the inner courtyard, and poured him a hot fragrant tea soup with his own hands, and then sat in the master's seat and asked, "The general is still here for the "Qingshan Manuscript" today, right?" ”

Shang Cheng looked at the bookstore owner in surprise. He was wearing a white cardigan that anyone could wear, and the jade pendant was still in his arms and not taken out to show off, how could this person know his identity? He even glanced at his own feet. He wasn't wearing official boots or soft leather military boots.

The boss pointed outside first and said with a smile: "The general is riding a military horse......

The horses of several miscellaneous envoys in the post house were not tied to the military horses, and the big stables were full of military horses, and Shang Cheng had no way to choose. But even an ordinary soldier can ride a military horse, and this doesn't mean that he is an officer, right?

“…… At a glance, you can see that the general is a man who has read a lot of books. The boss smiled and finished speaking.

Riding a military horse and reading a lot of books, as long as such a person is not a prisoner who has been assigned to the army, and has been in the army for a long time, it is impossible for him to become an official. What's more, yesterday, Shang Cheng showed a lot of interest in that set of "Former Tang Poems", and he didn't care too much about the price of fifteen guans. And still take fifteen to buy a few "broken" books?

Now that others have seen through his identity, Shang Cheng went straight to the point and no longer disguised it: he had to buy the copy of "Qingshan Manuscript".

He originally thought that the boss would say a few embarrassing words, and then sell the book to him at a high price, who knew that the boss readily agreed, but asked him to wait a little longer, because the book was indeed a guest to make a fixed payment, and the bookstore could not breach the contract anyway, but they had already found someone to copy another one overnight, and now the book is written by the family, but it will take some time to make the cover......

Shang Cheng asked in surprise, "Do you know I'm coming today?" ”

"If the general doesn't come today, he will come in two days." The boss explained with a smile squinting his eyes.

“…… What if I don't come? Aren't you at a loss? ”

The boss smiled: "I'm not worried about whether the general will come or not, but I'm only worried about what I will do if I can't get the book when the general comes again." He picked up the teacup and gestured to Shang Chengbi to invite tea, and he accompanied him to take a sip of tea before continuing, "The general is a book lover, why didn't he come?" Even if something is delayed for three or five days, I will still come when I am free. ”

Shang Cheng admired the boss's shrewd eye for doing business. At the same time, he also had a question, how could the boss be so sure that he would run again? You must know that there is more than one bookstore in Yanzhou City, and he can't buy it here, so won't he go elsewhere to buy it?

The boss told him that not to mention Yanzhou City, even if it was in Shangjing Plains Mansion, he might not be able to buy this "Qingshan Manuscript". Because this book is out of print. He said, "...... I heard that after Mr. Aoyama knew that his friends had gathered money to publish books for him, he lost his temper and went to the bookstore to take back the books and burn them, and even bought the carved plates and chopped them home. This book was accidentally met when I went to Beijing to buy goods the year before last, and the people who sell books don't know the goods, so they sell miscellaneous books ......."

Shang Cheng asked the boss suspiciously, since this "Qingshan Manuscript" is out of print, why did it sell for 800 articles?

The boss asked him rhetorically: "If Tian Qingshan suddenly figured it out and opened the version again, would this still be out of print?" ”

Shang Cheng thought about it before he realized that Tian Qingshan, the author of "Qingshan Manuscript", was still alive. Since people are alive, of course, the book is not truly out of print, and naturally it is impossible to sell it for too high a price.

At this time, a person who looked like a steward sent the "Qingshan Manuscript" with a good cover. Shang Cheng flipped a few pages of the book, found the chapters and sentences he had memorized, and secretly compared them, but there was nothing wrong.

The boss waited for him to put the book down before asking, "Is the general satisfied?" ”

Shang Cheng was certainly satisfied. In fact, he thought that this hand-copied "Qingshan Manuscript" was even more beautiful than the original book he saw yesterday. The original book is engraving printing, probably because the ink formula is not good, the ink color of the words on the book is thick and light, and it looks like it has been stained by water, which makes people feel uncomfortable. This manuscript is not bad except for the different handwriting before and after, the font is upright, the strokes are clear, and the horizontal and vertical are meticulous, how could he not be satisfied?

What made him even more satisfied was that he originally thought that the price of the "Qingshan Manuscript" written by this artificially dependent would definitely not be cheap, but the boss said that such a book only costs 320 words. He also explained to Shang Cheng the reason for the price: one of the three copyists paid 80 wen, their tea and rice were 50 wen, and the rest of the handymen were 30 wen, and the bookstore actually didn't make Shang Cheng a penny.

Of course, Shang Cheng couldn't let the bookstore owner suffer, and he insisted that this manuscript should also be based on the old price of the original book of 850 yuan. But the boss disagreed, because it was not in accordance with the rules, they were selling books, and they couldn't make money from copying books. Not only will he not, all the bookstores in the world will not copy books for others one by one, which is the food and clothing of poor students, and these students are the parents of the bookstore......

Shang Cheng silently paid three hundred and twenty wen, took the hand-copied "Qingshan Manuscript" wrapped in blue cloth, and left this ordinary and ordinary bookstore with mixed feelings.