Chapter 248: Song Jiang's Observations
In the summer of the eighth year of the Great Song Dynasty, that is, the days when the rain in Yuncheng County, Shandong, Hubaoyi, Song Jiang, and Song Zhusi had just accepted Yan Po as the outer room, and he was careful and keenly discovered two novelties.
The first is that after the "Three Character Classic" and "Disciple Rules", the same packaging, the same cover, and two more books have been circulated in Jingdong.
One of the books, "Phonological Enlightenment", is an enlightenment book designed to train children to cope with and master phonological rhythm.
This book reads with harmonious sound and rhyme, catchy, rich in dictionaries, and brilliant in writing, it is really a rare good book to systematically train readers to fight against voice and rhyme, choose words and make sentences, make articles, and write poems and lyrics.
As soon as this book came out, Luoyang paper was immediately expensive.
Especially those children who are immersed in studying hard to prepare for the examination to gain fame, they are like a treasure, and they all say that if they had read this book earlier, it would not have been so difficult for them to participate in the imperial examination!
Compared to the first one, the second book is actually even more remarkable because it is a collection of poems.
But if it is an ordinary poetry collection, it is just that, because the literary style of the Great Song Dynasty is flourishing, culture and education are flourishing, and there are countless poets in the general sense, and there are not a few poetry collections.
Therefore, the average poetry collection is really nothing.
But as soon as this "The Complete Works of Su Dongpo's Poems" came out, it overpowered all other poetry collections in the Great Song Dynasty, and even the words of Liu Yong, the most famous before, as well as the poems of the famous Ouyang Xiu and Wang Anshi, were also compared.
Moreover, these two books are the same as the previous "Three Character Classic" and "Disciple Rules", and the price of the books is simply outrageously low.
"Sound Rhythm Enlightenment" enlightenment is only eight eldest sons, and the price of two pancake fruits; The price of "The Complete Works of Su Dongpo's Poems" is slightly more expensive, only 12 texts, but compared with the price of at least a few hundred texts in ordinary poetry collections, it can also be said to be a free gift!
In short, as soon as the two books came out, they were immediately sold out, and those who didn't get it late were so anxious that they beat their chests.
On the one hand, the bookstores were informed that the next batch of books was being printed, and on the other hand, they also opened up a venue in each county, city and town, and specially sent people to read the contents of the two books aloud, and to listen to them with free tea and snacks.
So, under such vigorous publicity, it didn't take long for people to hear people reciting "clouds to rain, snow to wind, and evening to clear sky." Laihong is against the swallow, and the bird is against the songworm. Three-foot sword, six jun bow, Lingbei to Jiangdong", "benevolence to righteousness, let Gong, Yushun to farmers", "loyalty to Sheji, Likou to cover the country", "wisps of green smoke and fragrant grass, the slightest rain in Xinghua Village" is such a rhythmic sentence.
Or sing "Life is everywhere you know, just like Feihong stepping on the slush", "If you want to compare the West Lake to Xizi, it is always appropriate to apply light makeup and heavy makeup", "People are like Qiuhong to have letters, things are like spring dreams without traces", "Affectionate but ruthlessly annoyed", "The taste of the world is Qinghuan", "The beauty has seen each other for a thousand years", "This heart is my hometown", "A little Haoran, a thousand miles of fast wind", "Ten years of life and death, I don't think about it, I can't forget" and other poems and famous sentences.
And this time is different from the last time, the last time "Three Character Classic" and "Disciple Rules" were not signed, but this time the three big characters "Lin Chong" on the blue cover of "Sound Rhythm Enlightenment" are extremely conspicuous; On the cover of "The Complete Works of Su Dongpo's Poems, I", it is clearly written "Mr. Dongpo's posthumous work" and "Lin Chong finished".
Everyone was shocked.
Because through everyone's word of mouth before, everyone already knew that Lin Chong was an invincible general.
Passed around, it finally became that Lin Chong was one zhang tall, with a waist circumference of ten feet, a horse on his arm, a man standing on his fist, a ten-stone hard bow, and a two-hundred-pound iron spear with both hands.
In short, in the legends of the common people, Lin Chong has always been this kind of fierce Zhang Fei image, and no one ever thought that this person would be so knowledgeable and talented.
For a while, almost all the people who came into contact with these four books were full of curiosity, what kind of person was this invincible Lin Chong, who had rebelled against the flag and defeated the imperial army several times?
Song Jiang was also full of curiosity, but more worried.
I am worried that the activities of the Liangshan army are becoming more and more arrogant, and it is becoming more and more difficult for the Liangshan army to exterminate.
If nothing else, let's just say that now in the county towns and towns near Liangshanbo, the power of the imperial court can hardly leave the county seats and markets. Further down to the various villages, it is completely the world of the Liangshan Army.
Those mud legs who farmed the fields were also angry, relying on the support of the Liangshan army, and they simply didn't take the squire above and even the tolerance in the yamen in their eyes. Some of the tenants who used to be submissive now dare to speak loudly to the owner.
Is this really unreasonable, isn't it messy if it goes on like this?
Another thing that made Song Jiang pay attention was that at the same time as the four new books were circulated, a new style of gold yuan, silver yuan, silver slots, copper yuan, and copper plate also spread in Jingdong.
This new money was also made by Liang Shanjun.
In the beginning, people like Aunt Sun's husband Chen Gensheng who worked on the Liangshan military construction site, and those who served as soldiers in the Liangshan army sent their wages or salaries home, and they used this new money.
After that, when the spring silkworms were about to spin silk and form cocoons, Liang Shanjun sent people below to buy a large number of silkworm cocoons, and they paid this new money.
At the beginning, everyone had never seen this kind of new money, and they also expressed doubts about the weight of this new money - the weight of two small flat coins was used as ten cents, isn't this the ten coins issued by the imperial court a few years ago? Does this work?
However, the instructors of Liangshanjun, as well as the men and stewards of Liangshan Department Store, all went out and tried their best to explain - this money is different from the ten coins of the imperial court, and we can't fake this money privately.
What's more, we use this new money to collect your cocoons, and the price is 20% higher than in previous years!
If you take the new money, you can also go to the Liangshan Department Store and Liangshan Store to buy our Liangshan Army's things, whether it is firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, or soap, soap, sugar, liquor, and you can buy it with these new money!
If you are not at ease, you can also go to the Liangshan Money Village in the four cities outside Liangshanbo, and exchange it for gold, silver, or copper coins at any time for twenty-four hours a day!
Of course, if you exchange money......
Such a patient and meticulous explanation, coupled with Liang Shanjun's good reputation among the common people, this new money was accepted by the people everywhere at once.
Because Song Jiang has a good reputation for being anxious for people's urgency, being kind and charitable, and squandering money with righteousness, Song Jiang is also very popular and respected among the people below, and he also deliberately went to the street or the countryside to investigate.
Unexpectedly, it has only been about ten days, and all the people who have received the new money are full of confidence in this new money, but when it comes to the banknotes issued by Cai Jing, they all scold.
Liang Shanjun is shaking the foundation of the imperial court!
Song Jiang's heart twitched, and for the first time, he had a panic about Lin Chong, who had been concerned by him for a long time.