Chapter 16 Zhenyuan Daxian and Printing

Bidding farewell to Concubine Yan, Guan Yang returned to his residence, lying on the couch with his eyes blank, wandering outside the world.

Now think about what you want, the position of emperor was not very interesting to me, and even if you fight for yourself, you may not be able to compete for the three brothers of Li Chengqian, but now the question is whether you can fight or not. If history still follows the original trajectory, it is very likely that Li Zhi will ascend to the throne.

But Li Zhi has a cowardly personality, and although he has made a difference during his reign, he is far worse than Li Shimin. Fortunately, people have a good wife, regardless of Wu Zetian's merits and demerits, just talking about her talent, she is not weaker than a man at all. But it is precisely because Li Zhi is weak and Wu Zetian is strong in nature that in the later period of Gaozong, the power of the imperial court has basically fallen into the hands of Wu Zetian. As soon as Li Zhi died, Wu Zetian's painting style immediately changed wildly, and it can be said that he did everything he could in order to ascend the throne, not only killing his own son, but also almost one in ten of the Li clan, which can be called extremely pitiful. What's more, Li Zhen didn't dare to forget that in history, he committed suicide by poisoning because of the defeat of the army against Wu Zetian.

Some people think that since this is the case, then it is okay not to rebel in this life?

For this kind of thought, Li Zhen can only say hehe, sometimes rebellion is not necessarily what you are willing to do. Besides, Wu Zetian is already cleaning up the Li clan, as long as anyone with a similar bloodline to Li Shimin, almost all of them have not been spared.

Li Zhen, as Li Shimin's parent, how could she be easily let go by Wu Zetian?

You must know that in Li Chengqian's rebellion and deposed, Li Tai was demoted and died early, Li Ke and Li Su were framed to death by the eldest grandson Wuji, Li You's rebellion was demoted to a concubine, Li Yun was falsely accused of suicide, Li Zhi had died, Li Fu died before Li Zhi, Li Ming rebelled and committed suicide, and Li Kuan, Li Huan, Li Jian died early, Li Zhen and Li Shen were already the only two of Li Shimin's fourteen sons.

Excluding Li Zhi's sons, the two of them can be said to be the most qualified candidates to inherit the throne. This is undoubtedly a thorn in the side of Wu Zetian, who is aiming for the throne, and he can't wait to get rid of it quickly, even if Li Zhen and Li Shen don't take the initiative to rebel, Wu Zetian will definitely find a reason to kill the two of them.

Sure enough, after Li Zhen failed to rebel and committed suicide, Wu Zetian directly killed Li Shen on the grounds that Li Shen participated in the rebellion (in fact, Li Shen did not participate at all, Li Zhen did invite him, but because Li Shen was cowardly, he refused.) ）。 It can be seen that even if he does not rebel, Wu Zetian will definitely find another reason to force the two to commit suicide.

Therefore, although Li Zhen does not want to be the emperor, because he knows that the position of emperor is not easy to sit, and the three brothers of Li Chengqian still need the help of the 10,000-year-old fox eldest grandson Wuji, even if he has more than a thousand years of knowledge ahead of them, but in later generations he is a small **, and the only political experience is learned from TV, basically he can't play with the eldest grandson and old fox behind him......

But it's still the same sentence, this is a major matter related to his own life, even if he can't beat it, he can only bite the bullet, otherwise unless he goes into exile overseas and never returns to the Central Plains, he will always have to face it.

"Numb, fight." Li Zhen, who was lying on the bed, gritted her teeth and stomped her feet, hit each other with both hands, and said fiercely: "I don't believe it, my thousands of years of experience in later generations, I can't play with you old foxes?" ”

In addition, you have to solve the fief matter first, as the saying goes, 'Shen Sheng dies inside, and the heavy ear is safe outside', if you want to compete for the throne, it is not enough to toss in Chang'an City, it is best to go out and develop in the fief first, the problem now is that although the prince of the Tang Dynasty will be sealed with many official positions, most of these official positions are remote collars, and only receive the kind of Yu Lu who does not care about things, but this is not good news for himself who wants to develop the fief, it seems that he still has to use something good to exchange for the autonomy of the fief from Li Shimin.

"Forget it, don't care, it's still early anyway." Although he has made up his mind, Li Zhen knows that these things can't be rushed, he is only three years old, Li Shimin still has twenty years to live, and he has enough time to lay out: "Now the top priority is to solve the problem of the identity of the old man, which Taoist immortal is powerful and low-key?" ”

"Oh, I can't think of it." Li Zhen thought about it over and over again on the bed, but his Taoist skills were not deep, and the immortals he could think of were all widely known, even if there were occasionally one or two immortals who were more remote, but they were all small immortals, and they were not useful.

"Madan, it's really not good, I'll make up one for you, okay?" Li Zhen, who really couldn't think of it, was ready to make up one casually: "But if you make it up, then you have to arrange a origin for this immortal, and you have to make up the secret books of the exercises, treasures, supernatural powers, and so on...... Eh...... There's no need to make it up at all, isn't there a ready-made one? ”

Li Zhen's face suddenly turned happy, because he suddenly thought of a great power in later generations, this great power did not appear in the original Taoist history, but appeared in "Journey to the West", this great god is Zhen Yuanzi.

It is said that in "Journey to the West", Zhen Yuanzi is a ruthless character, he is known as the ancestor of the earth immortals, and his mana is boundless, and even Guanyin Bodhisattva admits that he is three points inferior to him. And Zhen Yuanzi's treasures are not ordinary, not only have the ginseng fruit tree of the ten spiritual roots of heaven and earth, but also the fetal membrane of heaven and earth, and he has cultivated the Qiankun technique in his sleeve, Sun Wukong is also a powerful character, but in the face of Qiankun in his sleeve, it is the four masters and apprentices who have taken all the people and horses - this is completely in line with the standard of being both powerful and low-key.

"That's it." Li Zhen shouted loudly and chose Zhen Yuanzi as his target.

On the second day, Li Zhen told Li Shimin about Zhen Yuanzi, and after Li Shimin listened, he said with endless admiration: "I am really a person among the immortals, if I can always accompany the disciples of Zhen Yuan Daxian in this life, even if I am a little Taoist child, I will be satisfied, Zhen'er, you said that the ginseng fruit tree can live for 47,000 years with one bite, but is it true?" ”

"Oops." Li Zhen suddenly remembered that Li Shimin was the same as almost all emperors, almost no resistance in the face of immortality, and blamed himself for being too talkative, in order to enhance his persuasiveness, he deliberately described Zhen Yuanzi's treasure in detail, and the ginseng fruit tree was the most important, but now he dug a pit and jumped by himself.

"Father, the child doesn't know if the ginseng fruit tree has that effect, but the child knows that your plan to suppress the family is about to be completed." Li Zhen had no other way but to change the topic: "The old man said, in order to thank the Tang Emperor for his kindness, you can take these books, and the Tang Emperor will also be given a printing technique and papermaking." ”

"Typography? We have this, is there anything unusual about the printing technology of the old gods? "Li Shimin is the emperor after all, he is crooked, and now when he hears Li Zhen's words, he instantly sobers up, but he is very curious about Zhen Yuanzi's gifts.

Printing has appeared for a long time, but the earliest one appeared was engraving printing, after all, the principle of seals is not difficult to understand.

It's just that Li Zhen wondered, since he knew the engraving, didn't he know how to separate the characters? As for the engraving, it has been used for hundreds of years. Or rather...... Movable type printing harmed the interests of some people and was erased alive, such as the family......

The reason why the family can become a family is because they monopolize knowledge, and monopolizing knowledge is equivalent to monopolizing officialdom. This also led to the fact that in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, it was not the emperor Li Shimin who had the most right to speak, but the family group headed by the seven sects and five surnames, which was also the reason why Li Shimin wanted to support the Guanlong group in every possible way.

Because there are too few scholars from the poor family, even if Li Shimin is cultivated now, there are not so many books, and the family is different, their family is less than a thousand people at most, with their collection of books, they can carry out elite education, and they can also use the daughters they have cultivated to win over the promising scholars, and over time, a huge interest group has been formed - this is far from being comparable to Li Shimin.

If there is movable type printing, then the printing cost and efficiency will be greatly reduced, and then the price of books will also drop greatly, and the poor scholars have more opportunities to read, and the probability of talent will be greatly increased. So it is entirely possible that the Maison killed the development of the printing press, and it is definitely not unlikely.