Nothing to do.

Li Zhi is quite good at arranging people, and after getting the engraving printing technology in his hands, he simply handed it over to Li Xiao to be in charge. A new printing bureau was established under the supervision of the Secretary to print books.

The first task given to his new secretary by the emperor was to set up the printing office as soon as possible, anyway, he wanted people to give people, money to money, and land to land. 10,000 sets of the Nine Classics, this is the task that Li Zhi handed over to the Printing Bureau.

Ostentatious.

Li Xiao couldn't help but sigh, the emperor's hand is really big.

If it were me, even if I had printing technology in hand, even if the printing cost was low, I wouldn't just get 10,000 copies first. I must investigate the market first, and then hold an investment conference, looking for some dealers or something, at least to get some orders first, and even better to get some deposits first, so that the construction will start.

Directly come to 10,000 sets of nine classics, too simple and crude.

However, 10,000 sets is indeed not too much for the emperor.

After all, the imperial examination in Datang today is actually dominated by the Ming Jing and Jinshi, and among them, there are few people admitted to the Jinshi Subject, and the Ming Jing subject is the most admitted, especially those who take the Ming Jing are often those children of the scholar family. As the saying goes, thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi.

If you don't take the Ming Jing until you're thirty years old, you're considered old. And if you can be admitted to the Jinshi at the age of fifty, you are still young.

"Your Majesty, please give me a few words." Li Xiao's hippie smile.

"Words?" Li Zhi was a little confused by the second monk, why did he suddenly say that he wanted to give words?

Li Xiao asked people to take paper, ink, pen and inkstone, and personally sharpened the ink for the emperor.

"Just write one line of words, the original version of the Nine Classics of the Imperial Examination, and the secretary of the province will correct it!"

Li Xiao plans to use the emperor's words as a signboard to advertise the Nine Classics, and when the Nine Classics are printed, a line of big characters will be printed on the cover of each volume, and the Nine Classics of the Imperial Examination will be genuine.

Coupled with the secretary's correction, it is definitely a matter of raising the price.

He Li Xiao does things, and if he wants to do it, he must do the best.

"Your Majesty, I heard that there is a book in the Writings Bureau that has been proofread, can it also be handed over to the Printing Bureau for printing and promulgation?"

"You mean the Pentateuch is righteous?" Li Zhi immediately understood which set of books Li Xiao was talking about.

The righteousness of the Five Classics is the interpretation of the righteousness of the five classics. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court declared the five books of the Book of Poetry, the Book of Songs, the Book of Rites, the Book of Rites, the Book of Rites, the Book of Rites, and the Spring and Autumn Period as classics, so they were called the Five Classics.

During the Zhenguan period, Emperor Taizong ordered the great Confucian Kong Yingda and others to compile the Five Classics Yishu works, which are the official interpretation of the five classics, edited by Kong Yingda, which lasted more than 30 years, and more than 50 famous scholars before and after the participation of the Great Confucian.

Among them, "Zhou Yi" uses Wei Wangbi and Jin Han Kangbo notes; "Shangshu" is the biography of Mei Xianben Han Kong Anguo; "The Book of Songs" uses Han Mao Heng's biography and Zheng Xuanjian; "The Book of Rites" uses Zheng Xuan's notes; "Zuo Biography" is pre-annotated with Jin Du. Most of the scriptures are based on a number of annotations from ancient times, especially from the Han Dynasty, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty. ”

The purpose of this series of books is to complete the unity of the content of the Pentateuch, and in general, to unify the mind.

This is of course very helpful for the Tang Dynasty to rule the world, and it is beneficial to the imperial court to choose classic commentaries that are more suitable for the needs of the imperial court.

The minister believed that the righteousness of the Pentateuch had lasted for more than 30 years, and now that it had been revised, it should be immediately published and promulgated throughout the world. Moreover, the minister also suggested that this Pentateuch Righteousness could be listed as a standard, and it was stipulated that the classic part of the imperial examination in the future must also be answered according to this paper. ”

Li Zhi felt that what he said made a lot of sense.

"10,000 copies of the Pentateuch can be printed."

The Tang Dynasty pursues the Nine Classics of Confucianism, which has several more classics than the Five Classics of the Han family, but the Five Classics are also the foundation.

This set of books was finally completed, from the beginning of Zhenguan to the present, it was not easy to complete the compilation and proofreading.

Under normal circumstances, after the completion of this set of books, several sets would be copied by the Provincial Bureau of Writings of the Secretary and stored in several large pavilions of the imperial court.

But now that there is printing, of course it can be printed and distributed.

These five classics of Confucianism were written early, the text is obscure, and the memory is brief and ominous, so there are many difficulties for later generations to learn, so later scholars and Confucians are popular to make biography and annotations for the scriptures, but a scripture often has a number of biography and annotations for each one, and the descendants do not know which one to listen to.

The righteousness of this set of Five Classics compiled by the Tang Dynasty is to select a better annotation from it, abandon the rest of the miscellaneous theories, and unify the complicated scriptural interpretations of the previous generation.

This is actually a set of reference books, which are specially used to interpret and study the Pentateuch.

This set of books includes 14 volumes of "Zhou Yi Justice", 20 volumes of "Shangshu Justice", 40 volumes of "Mao's Poetry Justice", 70 volumes of "Justice of Rites", and 36 volumes of "Spring and Autumn Zuochuan Justice".

A total of 180 volumes, which can be described as a huge compilation.

In particular, there are not only famous Confucians of the Tang Dynasty such as Kong Yingda, but also many important ministers such as Yu Zhining and Changsun Wuji who participated in the increase in losses.

"Okay, the righteousness of the Five Classics will be handed over to the printing bureau for printing, and then distributed to the world, and in the future, all mortals should understand the scriptures, and they must recite and study the Confucian scriptures, and the righteousness and principles are all according to the righteousness of the Five Classics, otherwise it will be regarded as heresy." Li Zhi clapped.

There are dozens of imperial examinations in the imperial court, but the Ming Classics are the mainstay, and the Nine Classics and the Five Classics are the necessary books for the examination, so the ideology and theory of this set of books will have a huge impact on the Tang people.

Li Xiao also knows some of the philosophical ideas of these Confucian classics, such as Zhou Yi's righteousness preaches the idealism of the first way and then the form, and the book of etiquette and justice preaches the Confucian concept of valuing etiquette, advocating the hierarchical difference between the noble and the low.

This is the idea of unity.

Since the Han Dynasty, the imperial court believed in Confucianism and ruled the world with Confucianism. Confucian classics are the foundation of Confucianism, and classics are the manifestation of Confucianism.

It can be said that the unification of the Confucian classics is actually to unify the universal values of the people of the world, and to achieve a firmer rule by supporting and propagating those values and ideas that are beneficial to the imperial court.

On the other hand, when Li Shimin engaged in this set of giant compilations, he actually brought the academic power monopolized by the scholars into the hands of the imperial court.

If a set of the Five Classics is compiled and published by the imperial court, then the right to interpret the Five Classics is no longer in the hands of the various scholars, but in the hands of the imperial court.

"If you want people to give people, you want money to give money, and you want land to give land, I hope to see results in the shortest possible time."

"10,000 sets of the Nine Classics, I do what I want, 10,000 sets of the Five Classics are righteous, and I also do what I want!"