Chapter 439: The One Who Guides the Way

The door of the workshop was pushed open, and the sound of grinding stones came out of it, and there was some dust in the air, so choking that Cao Pi waved his hand in front of him.

He looked inside, and saw what was going on, a group of craftsmen polishing and handing the stones, polishing the stones into regular squares, and then being carried by people and passed on to the next group of craftsmen. The next group of craftsmen wrote different words on the stones, and after they were done, the stones were transferred to the hands of the next group. The last group of craftsmen carved the words on the stone according to the words that had already been written.

It wasn't until the stones were carved that someone moved them to a room, and the people in the room didn't seem to be craftsmen, but gentlemen, who selected stones and put them into square slabs, doing things that Cao Pi couldn't understand.

"Mr. Gu, this is ······"

Cao Pi looked at the affairs in front of him puzzled, didn't Mr. Gu say that he would take him to read a book, he didn't see a single book.

"Come with me." Gu Nan didn't answer him directly, but led him into the room where the stones were arranged.

Those gentlemen all smiled and said hello when they saw Gu Nan walking in, and they often saw Gu Nan here, and they gradually became familiar with it.

Before he entered the room, Cao Pi smelled a smell of ink, and when he entered the room, he found that the room was much larger than it looked from the outside.

There are also a group of craftsmen in the room, and after the master has finished arranging the words, the craftsmen will ink the arranged square boards and then cover them with pieces of paper.

Then in Cao Pi's stunned gaze, the blank paper was printed with words, and when the ink was almost dry, the white paper was taken off, which was exactly a page of text.

Finally, the pages are sorted into the last few side rooms, where they are compiled into a book.

"Zihuan, you said that with this method, can you get enough books for the world to read, so did you lose this bet?"

Gu Nan walked to a table, picked up a page of paper with words printed on it, and looked at Cao Pi beside him.

Cao Pi was still stunned and didn't answer, he couldn't figure it out, what was in front of him was obviously just a very simple solution, but why had it never been thought of throughout the ages. In the hands of Mr. Gu, it turned into a miracle.

"Zihuan." Gu Nan saw that Cao Pi was still stunned, and smiled: "Don't you want to break your word?" ”

Cao Pi came back to his senses, stood up straight and said calmly: "Naturally not, but." ”

His face showed a look of embarrassment and confusion: "Mr. Gu, why do you want me to do this." It's hard for me, but I don't think it's going to be difficult for you. ”

"Why not, it costs money to build a academy." Gu Nan said with a smile.

Cao Pi's face turned dark, and sure enough, he thought that this person was here to cheat money.

But then, the smile on Gu Nan's face retracted, and he put the page back on the table and said.

"Besides, I can't always be here, and there are some things that I can't always do myself."

She won't grow old or die, if she doesn't get old for ten years, others won't think about it, and if she doesn't get old for twenty years, others will just say a word or two, and if she is not old for thirty years, she can still be said to be well-maintained. But if you are forty years old, and you don't even have a trace of it, you may have to be seen with strange eyes. Not to mention fifty years, sixty years.

She can't stay in one place for that long, sooner or later she has to leave.

And she has too many things that she only knows one thing and doesn't know the other.

Although she has traveled for a long time, what she has learned is only a hundred schools of thought, and later generations of physics, mathematics, chemistry, philosophy, etc., have begun to forget more and more, but these are indispensable and cannot be wrong.

She didn't have the ability to delve into the crystallization of these countless generations and countless well-educated people by herself.

For these, she didn't learn much in the past, and now she can only memorize a concept, write some ways out and beginnings, and point out a path that probably won't go wrong.

So there are many things, she can only make a start, or plant a seed, point out the way, so that future generations can follow this path.

She also believes that sooner or later, this kind of seed will grow into a big tree in the sky, and sooner or later, this road will become a road to heaven.

For this reason, what she must do now is to plant this seed of writing, print books and study them, and the books in her basket, which are these seeds.

She won't be the one who has reached the end of the line and has been sung by generations. What she can do is the one who stands at the starting point and silently points out the way to everyone who comes.

"Mr. Gu." Cao Pi frowned: "Why can't you always be here?" ”

He had some bad premonitions in his heart, could it be that Mr. Gu was planning to leave?

"Haha, people will always die one day, right?" Gu Nan casually snorted and covered up the past with a vague explanation.

She smiled slightly and looked at Cao Pi seriously.

"You just don't forget what you promised me."

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In the evening, there was a knock on the door in front of Gu Nan's house, and Gu Nan was sitting in the courtyard, so he went to open the door by himself.

Standing outside the door was Cao Cao, which made Gu Nan a little surprised, Cao Cao had never been to her mansion.

Walking into the mansion, Cao Cao looked around in surprise: "Mr. Gu, why don't you have a servant in this mansion?" ”

Gu Nan smiled indifferently: "I like to be quiet, except for Qi'er, there is only one cook at home." ”

The two of them sat down in the courtyard, perhaps because it was quiet, and they could even hear the sound of the wind passing through the hall, and the crisp birdsong in the distance. The flower branches in the flower bed on the side are swaying, and the shadows of the trees in the yard are swaying, which makes people unconsciously calm down.

Cao Cao smiled and nodded: "It's better to be quiet." ”

Gu Nan picked up the teapot on the table: "I usually don't have any wine at home, so let's drink some tea." ”

Saying that, he brought Cao Cao a cup of tea.

"Mr. Gu." Cao Cao picked up the teacup and said loudly: "I heard Zihuan say today, you took him to the bookstore?" ”

Cao Cao has always known that Kong Rong is doing the matter of printing and engraving books, and he agrees to this matter, but he has always had some doubts about the matter of teaching the world. He also knew that he should talk to Gu Nan that there might be a solution, so he came here today.

"Mr. Gu, are you going to learn from the world?" Taking a sip of tea, he asked Gu Nan.

Gu Nan put down the teapot and said, "Yes." ”

Cao Cao touched his beard, he knew that this was a good thing, but he still had some worries.

Glancing at Cao Cao, Gu Nan smiled to herself, she naturally knew what Cao Cao was thinking, he was afraid that the people would be restless after they were knowledgeable.

"As early as the pre-Qin period, Confucius once said that there is no class in education." Gu Nan held the teacup and said slowly.

"But when you do it, there will always be problems."

Cao Cao's slightly frowning brow loosened, he knew that Gu Nan saw what he meant.

"But Mengde, if the world is good at learning, then there will be more talents, and if there are more talents, the family and the country will be rich and strong, and the family and country will be rich and strong, and the country will be peaceful and secure." Gu Nan continued.

"To abolish governance is to fool the people, but to govern well is to benefit the people. The incompetent are afraid to be more talented, and on the contrary, the more the merrier. Mengde, I don't think you will be the former. ”

Cao Cao shook his head and smiled, but he secretly thought in his heart that Mr. Gu's eloquence was really powerful.

"Finally." Gu Nan took a sip of the tea in the cup.

"Meng De thinks that why the Han family is like this, the Han family itself is one of them, and the princes are self-reliant."

"If only people from the family can learn, it will be difficult for the people of the poor family to have a way out, and in the future court, I am afraid it will be difficult to escape the time when the officials are all from the family. At that time, all the families are in power, where is the court? ”

"Yes, it is better to take advantage of the troubled times to govern the world at this time, learn from the people, and open the way out for the poor people. In order to balance the family in the future. ”

Gu Nan said a lot, but this last point was the most important, and it was also something that Cao Cao had to think about.

The courtyard under the tree was silent, waiting until Gu Nan finished drinking the tea in his hand.

Cao Cao laughed, he thought that he was not incompetent, nor was he a person who had no tolerance for others, so why not learn from the world?

If you do this, it is history, and you should have a stroke from him.

"It's just that Mr. Gu has hurt my family Zihuan, and he is still closed, thinking about how to build that academy that is enough for people from all over the world."