Chapter 513: The Pleasure of Crushing (4)
Looking at the earth-colored family patriarchs below, trembling all over. Guan Yi didn't seem to feel that the excitement was enough.
"I need to inform you that this booklet in your hand has a total of thirty-eight sheets, and a total of seventy-two pages except for the front and back covers. A total of more than 14,800 words were printed on it. Well, uh, this batch is too little printed, so it's a little bit more expensive. It's worth about twenty cents each. ”
What the! Only twenty dollars? What is this concept?
Thanks to the comprehensive promotion of potatoes, the current Chinese people, as long as they are not too lazy. The magistrate or the court should not take too much, and it is generally not a big problem to ask for food and clothing. As a result, in recent years, the price of grain has remained stable at the price of 100 cents per stone. So twenty dollars for a book, that is, an adult's ration money for five or six days: the average family squeezes a little and the money comes out!
And the price of this book can be lowered even more! And this book actually carries more than 14,000 words?!
You should know that the Confucian classic "Analects" is only more than 11,000 words. The book with the largest number of words during the Han Dynasty was Huainanzi, which was only more than 130,000 words.
In other words, as long as the improvement of papermaking and printing technology is carried out in an all-round way, the spread of knowledge will become extremely rapid! When the time comes, maybe it will not be difficult for ordinary mud-legged people to learn to be rich and five-car!
In the era of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, how difficult it was to spread knowledge, there is a story that may be used as a reference.
In the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wang Chong, a Huiji scholar, wrote the immortal materialist philosophical masterpiece "On Balance". However, due to the conditions at that time, the scholars of the Central Plains could not read the full text of the book when they only heard the title and a few words.
Until more than 100 years later, Wang Lang, a native of the East China Sea in Xuzhou, served as the Taishou of Huiji, and then returned to the north due to Sun Ce's march into Jiangdong. After Wang Lang returned to the north, he studied with his friends in his early years. Friends noticed that his knowledge had skyrocketed. At that time, some people speculated: During the meeting, Wang Lang either met great people or read great books. As a result, when he asked, sure enough, he read the whole book of "On Balance" in Huiji. As a result, there was a great increase in knowledge.
So, in this day and age, the spread of knowledge is too difficult. As a result, the rulers of the country hated the family on the one hand, but on the other hand, they had to rely on the family.
What if knowledge could spread quickly and cheaply? Then, the cultural foundation of the family's monopoly career will collapse!
Therefore, the impact of this thin book on the heads of these top families is extremely huge.
"Speaking of which, I might as well digress a little. In the past, after years of hard work, after years of hard work, we reluctantly set up Mongolian schools in the other thirty-nine counties except Wuyuan County. Today, the eight states of Kanto have belonged to the same Han dynasty as the three states of Yiyongliang. Then, we are also preparing to set up Mongolian schools in each of the eight prefectures of Kanto. It's just that the teachers are still insufficient, so the establishment of this Mongolian school cannot be spread across the country at once, and can only be brought from state to state. This year, the goal of the fourth year of Guiyuan is to first set up Mongolian schools in the newly established counties in the eastern half of Yongzhou, as well as in Bingzhou and Yuzhou. Next year, it will be expanded to Jizhou, Youzhou, Qingzhou and Pingzhou......."
Books became cheap and produced at a very fast rate, and the mongolistic education that was responsible for enlightening the children of the lower classes gradually expanded. Although one county and one Mongolian school can cover a very small area, this has smashed the family's monopoly on knowledge into a big hole after all. It is said that the embankment of a thousand miles was destroyed in an anthill, let alone such a big hole?
Times have really changed. This is the common understanding of all the heads of the families present.
And some excellent family owners think that competition, competition from all walks of life, will reappear. If we want to continue to be successful, we must make changes along with it. Otherwise, what awaits them is ruin!
"Ladies and gentlemen, the official has just said so much, in fact, what you are thinking in your hearts, the official can roughly guess a thing or two. I'm afraid I'm not thinking about how to go back and rebel, right? ”
"Huh?! Da Sima laughed, the Han soldiers are invincible and invincible, how dare we have such a rebellious idea? ”
"Yes, Da Sima and His Majesty launched this printing technique, so that the words of the saints can quickly educate the world, what a great thing. It's too late for us to rejoice and rejoice. ”
"Well, no matter what you think, this official will tell you two words: First, the so-called household hub does not run water and does not rot. A person, a family, and a country must be constantly moving, changing, and introducing competition in order to survive for a long time. It has only been more than 30 years since the reform of Sima Zhongda, you look at your children, how are they compared to you? Second, the blood kinship of this family, the four generations are almost the limit, and the next one should be the fifth generation! Therefore, a person, a family, and a country will have ups and downs. There is no country that has been prosperous for a long time, and there is no person who has been smooth for life. Once this education is popularized, your family's interests will definitely be damaged in the short term due to the large number of competitors. But in the long run, it will be very beneficial for your family to survive for a long time.
Of course! There are always some stupid people who only see the immediate benefits, but not the long-term things. Such a person, whether it is Your Majesty or your own official, cannot be saved. Therefore, if you really have any of you who are dissatisfied with the promotion of education and the great interest in culture and education. After you go back, despite the rebellion, this official will show you how quickly my Han's army is coming! ”
Looking at this group of guys who were unhappy, but had to force a smile due to the situation, Guan Yi didn't have any mercy or restraint at all: "Generally speaking, even if you are dissatisfied with my big man, you will definitely not end up in person." Therefore, since ancient times, if the family is dissatisfied with the imperial court, it often supports a certain group of thieves to start an incident, and then depends on the success or failure of this group of thieves. Well, that's a good idea. Therefore, this official will make it clear to you that from this year onwards, where there are large-scale thieves, the imperial court will of course quickly send troops to strangle them. However, if my soldiers of the Han Dynasty had exterminated the manor of a certain gentleman in the vicinity, the officer did not think that they had done anything wrong! ”
"Huh? Da Sima, this is really inappropriate! ”
"That's it, Da Sima, what you said, too, too ......."
"Hehehe, everyone, what Da Sima just said is what I mean. Well, please stay quiet. Please listen to Da Sima's speech. ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty." After arching his hand towards Liu Chen, Guan Yi turned around: "The imperial court has issued an order that from the beginning of April this year, the whole country will once again unify the household tax!" ”
"Huh?"
"You're actually!"
"Ouch! Fooled! ”
If the promotion of education is the cultural basis for dismantling the monopoly of the family. Then the household tax is to dismantle the economic foundation of the family. The former will take a long time, and the latter is close at hand.
"Humph!" At this time, Guan Yi didn't even have a basic disguise, and directly put on a fierce and vicious face: "Just today, the garrisons across the country acted in unison, cooperating with officials and honest envoys from all over the country to check the household taxes in various places. The duration is two months. Within two months, in order to avoid the riots and rebellions in the Kanto region from causing trouble to all of you, so, for these two months, everyone will live in Chang'an! ”()
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