Regarding the duel between the students and the monks of the Guozijian this time, Li Er came to a cold treatment with the attitude of not helping each other, allowing them to block the outside of the imperial city and shouting, and at the same time ordered the left and right military guards, as long as the two waves of people did not fight, they would not care, and let them toss.

Lao Li also has no way, the book was written by his son, and there is nothing forbidden in it, so he really can't do it to seal the book.

Besides, there is no slander against the monks in the book, if the book is sealed like this, what will happen in the future? Buddhism is not the state religion of the Tang Dynasty, so you can't say it, right? When did the divine power exceed the imperial power in the Tang Dynasty?

In line with such a mentality, although Li Er was angry that Li Chengqian always caused trouble for himself, he still did not say too much about this matter in front of outsiders.

And after the monks outside made a fuss for a few days, they found that something seemed to be a little wrong, and the number of students on the opposite side seemed to be increasing.

Finally, the monks realized that they had done it wrong.

Such endless fuss will only make the book The Legend of the White Lady more and more famous, and more and more people will read it, which is equivalent to advertising the book.

With this realization, the monks retreated to the major monasteries overnight, and never bothered with the noisy students again.

And the students have been making trouble alone for a long time, and they all start to go back to class, and the whole thing slowly subsides.

But the matter has subsided, but the legend of the White Lady is on fire, and the fire is very hot, from the high-ranking lords to the common people, as long as they are readers, almost all of them will buy a copy to see.

Because of the promotion of movable type printing, the price of printed books has been reduced to a limit, and the price of finished books has naturally decreased, becoming more popular.

The low price has contributed to the popularization of books, and many people who can't afford to buy books now save some money, and it will not be a problem to buy books.

It's not that I don't want to copy, but the cost of copying books is more expensive than buying books.

Because the font of printed things is very small, and the font of hand-copied will be very large, often three pages of paper hand-copied of the same size is equivalent to one page of a printed book. Therefore, the money saved by copying books is basically all bought paper, and if you calculate it inside and out, copying a book not only does not save money, but it is likely to lose a lot in the end.

For this reason, there were no people copying books, and more and more people were buying books, and booksellers who came and went found that although the prices of books were cheaper, they did not actually lose money, and seemed to be making more money than before.

In this way, they are more enthusiastic about sales rather than price, so the price of books begins to get cheaper and cheaper, especially the essential books for students such as the Analects, the Mean, and the Book of Songs, which are as cheap as before.

The legend of the White Lady is because it is Li Chengqian who wrote the book, so the amount of printing is naturally not small, and the price is almost sold at cost price, which is naturally popularized very quickly. In addition, the young men and women of Datang do lack some spiritual food on weekdays, and now that they have cheap love to watch, of course they will not let it go.

But just when the people in the entire Chang'an thought that Li Chengqian's stomach was bad, His Royal Highness the unscrupulous prince was also holding his head and trying to hit the wall depressedly.

Isn't it just writing a book? As for the old man, he would not let the old man send the old eunuch Fang to ask for the guilt, this old eunuch is not young, and he is not afraid of breaking his body and bones after riding a fast horse for three days.

"Your Royal Highness the Prince, you better hurry up and think of a reason to tell the old minister what is going on with this book, Your Majesty is still waiting for the old minister to go back and restore his life." Old Eunuch Fang is worthy of being a martial arts practitioner, and he is in his sixties, and he has been rushing for three hundred miles, and he has not been decadent at all for three days.

"Old Fang, Chang'an is really like you said, fried the pot? You didn't lie to me, did you? Didn't you see Hongu for more than a month, and you missed Hongu, so you came over to take a look, and then joked with Hongu? Li Chengqian suddenly jumped up from the ground, rushed to the old eunuch, stared at the old eunuch with straight eyes and asked.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, the old minister just wants to joke, and he doesn't dare to joke with His Majesty!" The old eunuch shook his head with a wry smile, very helpless for this unobtrusive prince.

"Alas" Li Chengqian sighed, and after the only hope in his heart was shattered, he pointed to a stone table and stool in the small courtyard of the post house: "The old man is not in a hurry to go back for a while, let's go over and sit and talk." ”

"Whoa!" The old eunuch agreed, and followed Li Chengqian to the stone bench.

He was also very curious in his heart, and he wanted to know what Li Chengqian thought and why he wrote such a strange book at such a time.

Li Chengqian sat on the stone bench, motioned for the old eunuch Fang to sit down as well, and then said: "Old Fang, you have watched me grow up since I was a child, you should know very well who I am, and you won't not believe what I say, right?" ”

"The old minister believes." What can Old Eunuch Fang say? At such times, you can't say you don't believe it.

Looking at the old eunuch Fang standing beside him, Li Chengqian couldn't help but speak: "Sit down, you stand so high, I have to tilt my head and talk to you, it's too troublesome." ”

After the old eunuch Fang sat down, Li Chengqian said with some embarrassment: "My father asked me to come out to patrol the heavens and hunt, mainly to check the frequent occurrence of big snakes in the state capitals, you know?" ”

"The old minister knows."

"So do you think that after the book is written, the people will not be afraid?" The expression on Li Chengqian's face was still embarrassed, but if he looked closely, there was still some schadenfreude.

Old Eunuch Fang had thought of Li Chengqian's various strange answers along the way, but he didn't expect his reason to be this, so after listening to Li Chengqian's question, he couldn't help but be stunned.

If you think about it carefully, if it were not for the preconceived idea that 'Li Chengqian is stirring up trouble', his explanation would indeed be very reasonable.

The White Snake mentioned in the legend of the White Lady did come out of the mountain to repay her kindness, and sacrificed everything she had for a mortal who had saved her hundreds of years ago.

In this way, the big snakes that have been repeated in various places seem to be really no longer so terrible, or the terrible is just the fear of snakes eating people, not the psychological panic, thinking that there is some natural disaster to happen.

However, if this is the fundamental purpose of Li Chengqian's book, then what about the monk? The monks who almost smashed the temple seem to be a little too wronged, right? It's a completely unwarranted disaster.

(End of chapter)