"This book is not for sale, it is for making friends." A tall, thin young man suddenly walked over and said loudly.

"This is our shopkeeper." The guy next to Yang Xiaoshan hurriedly introduced.

"I am Wei Heng, the owner of this bookstore, and I have already noticed it when I flipped through this "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom". This book is the way to enter the brotherhood? Wei Heng asked.

Yang Xiaoshan also bowed his hand and said: "The next surname is Chang, and the single name is a mountain character." Brother Wei is polite, this "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom" is a brilliant masterpiece. The Chinese people only know that China is the old empire, and the surrounding countries are barbarians. This book tells us how big the world is and what those Western countries are like, and this is a good book to open your eyes to the world and broaden the horizons of the Chinese people. ”

"Chang doesn't have many surnames, dare to ask the governor of Hubei Chang Dachun who is 。。。。。。" Wei Heng guessed.

"It's my father-in-law, but unfortunately the whole family was ruined by Long Hair, and I was the only one left." Yang Xiaoshan still has to hide his identity.

"The Chang family is full of loyalty, which is admirable." Wei Heng bowed his hand again.

"This book is signed Wei Yuan, are you his 。。。。。。?" Yang Xiaoshan also found that there should be a connection.

"Yes, this is the work of my father-in-law entrusted by Lord Lin Zexu Lin. This book is the brainchild of my old man, but unfortunately it has not been taken seriously by the world for more than ten years. Don't be afraid of Brother Chang's jokes, give this book away, and no one else wants it. "Wei Heng is Wei Yuan's grandson.

Yang Xiaoshan sighed, in fact, there is no shortage of elites of the times in this era, they saw the gap between China and the Western powers, and also proposed ways to catch up with the powers, but everyone was too conformist, only recognized the ancestral legal system, but did not know how to reform and self-improvement, until the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom hurt the Qing Dynasty, they did not know to "master the skills of Yi", or treat the powers as Yi.

"When I was in Wuchang, my family invited some foreign teachers, so I learned some things about foreigners." Yang Xiaoshan explained to himself.

"Brother Chang, please sit inside, it's rare to meet a bosom friend, and I want to ask Brother Chang for more advice." Wei Heng inherited the ambition of his grandfather Wei Yuan, hoping to find a path of self-improvement for China, but unfortunately he has been seeking no way, so on the one hand, he opened a bookstore to introduce his grandfather's doctrine to the world, and on the other hand, he also looked for people with the same ambition to explore this knowledge.

Yang Xiaoshan followed Wei Heng to the inner hall, and the two of them sat on chairs, with a Huanghuali table in the middle, on which a pot of tea was brewed. The layout inside is very simple, all ordinary things, and it seems that the business of the bookstore is not very good.

"Brother Chang, come, drink tea." Wei Heng poured a cup of green tea for Yang Xiaoshan, and then said, "I am not inferior to China, and the English ship is strong and strong, and I signed a shameful treaty." The younger brother wants to do something for the country, but he doesn't know how to start. Excuse me, Brother Chang, how do we do it? How can China catch up with these powers? ”

"The reason why England and other countries are strong seems to be that their foreign guns and foreign cannons are powerful, which is the most obvious layer. In fact, the strength of the country lies in the people, and the country will naturally be strong when the people are strong. Yang Xiaoshan sorted out his thoughts, which were also summed up by his predecessors.

"What is Minqiang?" Wei Heng asked.

"The people's strength is nothing more than two points: one is the people's wisdom, to be literate and to master a certain culture and production technology, and the other is to be rich and grasp a certain amount of wealth. One of the most important ways to do this is to increase the literacy rate of the population, because illiteracy cannot build a strong state. Yang Xiaoshan took a sip of tea and said slowly.

"Our text is really complicated, the articles are jerky and difficult to understand, and it is difficult to improve the literacy rate." Wei Heng knew that Western writing was much simpler than Chinese characters, and said with emotion.

"Therefore, it is necessary to promote vernacular writing, write the same as what is spoken, so that the article can be clear at a glance and easy to understand." Yang Xiaoshan remembered the May Fourth Vernacular Literary Movement.

"Brother Chang's idea is very bold." Wei Heng never thought of this, nodded again and again, writing in the vernacular greatly reduces the difficulty of writing and reading, so that more people can understand the text and write the text.

"To make the people aware of the need to change the culture, although our Chinese culture has a long history, there are still some dross that will hinder the development of society, such as superstition, hierarchical concepts." Yang Xiaoshan remembered the New Culture Movement.

"It feels so difficult, does China have any hope of developing into a power like the West?" After hearing this, Wei Heng felt that this was not something he could do alone.

"Yes, it's very difficult, but as long as we have the perseverance, do it little by little, and change the Chinese people little by little, one day we will become strong in China. Because our Chinese are very hardworking, we attach importance to education, and we have a positive attitude, such a nation will become strong one day. Yang Xiaoshan is still very confident in the Chinese people, as evidenced by the Chinese living in Western countries in his previous life, in the same environment, the Chinese all kinds of academic tyrants, and then easily enter the middle class, and the general income is higher than that of people of other races.

"When we have a large number of educated people, we will be able to develop industry, concentrate the population in the cities, build many factories, and transform China from an agricultural country to an industrial country, so that our national strength will grow rapidly." Yang Xiaoshan knows too well how powerful China will be as the world's factory.

"Can we do the parliamentary political system in the West?" Wei Heng asked this very bold question.

"Well, I can't say this, but I know that a system that can make society develop rapidly is a good system, and it must be adapted to our national conditions." Yang Xiaoshan remembered Comrade Xiaoping's theory of white cats and black cats, and China's rapid development in the previous life was not to argue, to do things vigorously, to develop, and to solve problems when there were problems. The system is not static, it is also changing little by little with the development of society.

"Then according to Brother Chang, what can I do now?" Wei Heng still hadn't found a definite way.

"Actually, you can try to run a newspaper, write in the vernacular, and introduce your Taigong's doctrine in the form of a newspaper. A book is too expensive, a newspaper can be much cheaper, little by little to introduce the words in your Taigong book to everyone. Yang Xiaoshan suggested.

"Brother Chang's suggestion is very good, but there are too few literate people, and this newspaper is probably difficult to sell." Wei Heng frowned, his bookstore business was not good, and he still relied on selling some books for the imperial examination to maintain his balance of payments.

"You can go to the academy to sell it, and you can take it out outside the hotel of the examiners in Beijing, or you can take it out in the exam room. You don't want to write all the things in your Taigong book. On the main board, some erotic stories are written, and the people and things in the West and the rise of their countries are introduced in the corners. In this way, you can not only sell the newspaper for a profit, but also promote your Taigong's doctrine, isn't it a double win? "Yang Xiaoshan knows how to catch the eye too well, and erotic things are the most eye-catching no matter what era.

"Is that good? Isn't it a bit vulgar? Wei Heng couldn't understand it.

"Everything is difficult at the beginning, you have to eat one bite at a time, and you can't do anything if you don't earn money. When your newspaper is influential, you can separate the content. Although Yang Xiaoshan doesn't know much about business, he still understands the basic business principles, and at the beginning, he should focus on survival, and his feelings are based on the condition of worry-free survival.

Wei Heng is a nerd, no wonder he doesn't run a bookstore very well, after listening to Yang Xiaoshan's words, he nodded, and seemed to have found the key to solving the problem and the direction of his own efforts, "Just do what Brother Chang wants, thank Brother Chang for his guidance." ”