Niubi Chen Laodao was very happy, and without saying a word, he paid 500 yuan in advance for printing.

It is worthy of being a Lou Guan Dao who is respected by the imperial court, rich and powerful, and five hundred guan is really worth a drop in the bucket for them. Speaking of which, Yin Wencao, the master of the Chang'an Lou Guandao, is not only a master, but he was also awarded the rank of Yinqing Guanglu Doctor from the Sanpin Wen Essay by the imperial court, and awarded Taichang Shaoqing.

A Taoist temple is actually from the third grade, the level of a dignified prime minister, but you know how powerful it is.

"Three thousand copies, when will they be printed?" Chen Laodao asked.

Li Xiao couldn't imagine that he could carry silver with him at home, and when he took it out, he would have two large ingots of silver collars. Fifty taels and one ingot, exactly one hundred taels, which is equivalent to exactly five hundred copper coins. Look at the words on the silver collar, this is all from the palace to the Louguan Taoist Sect Holy Temple.

"How about a month?" Li Xiao budgeted the time, a Tao Te Ching of about 5,000 words, it is not difficult to print, there are more than 20 editions, one volume can be bound, and now he has almost recruited manpower here, even if the paper mill ink mill has not yet been erected, but as long as you choose to buy some paper and ink, you can also start work, and the printing workshop has his ready-made craftsmen.

"That's enough!" Lao Chen is very satisfied with this time, and it only takes one month to complete three thousand copies of the Tao Te Ching, which is very fast.

Both of them smiled and were very satisfied, Li Xiao felt that he had made a quick buck, while Lao Chen felt that he had done a big thing for Lou Guan Dao, especially he felt that if the three thousand Tao Te Ching could really be delivered within a month and printed well, then Lou Guan Dao would have more scriptures handed over to Li Xiaoyin.

Buddhism has many Buddhist scriptures, and Taoism also has many Taoist collections.

Louguandao is a combination of Taoism and immortal thought, Taoism is not from the Han Dynasty Wudou Mijiao, Wudou Mijiao is just a sect of Taoism.

In fact, Lao Tzu wrote the Tao Te Ching, and the place where he lectured began to become a place for the Taoist school to practice in seclusion, and those who lived in seclusion already had a belief in the Tao, so they were early Taoists.

At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty believed in the study of the Huang Lao, and later Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism and deposed the hundred schools, which was a kind of suspicion and disparagement of Taoist thought and political concepts.

In the pre-Qin period, a hundred schools of thought flourished, among which Legalism was actually derived from Taoism, the founder of Legalism was a person of the Taoist school, it was because Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty respected Confucianism, and later the Han Dynasty had a secret preaching of the Five Dou Mi Sect.

As a sect of Taoism, Wudou Mijiao was also very powerful at the end of the Han Dynasty, and their characteristic was secret preaching, and today's Taoist sect based on Louguan Taoism is basically a Gongguan sect, and they are characterized by the establishment of Taoist temples to preach publicly, and most of them are recognized by the imperial court.

In fact, it is also a disguised surrender to the imperial court, to obtain their support, Gongguan Taoism is more convenient for the imperial court to manage and control, can prevent people from using Taoism to gather people to rebel, so it is easy to get the recognition and support of the imperial court, and the imperial court has also set up a special official to manage Taoism.

The Gongguan Taoist faction such as Lou Guan Dao supported the imperial court, and what they got was official position, land, wealth, and the convenience of public preaching, and their influence was also greatly enhanced.

As the most influential Taoist sect of Taoism today, Louguan Dao's base camp is actually in the Zhonglou Guantai of Zhongnan Mountain, which is seventy miles away from Chang'an, and the Zongsheng Temple in Chang'an City is just a larger Taoist temple of their Taoist school, with more than 120 Taoist priests stationed in normal times, and many lay monks to practice.

In the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the world was turbulent, and the struggle between Buddhism and Taoism was also the fiercest.

While the two religions fought and attacked each other, they also fused and absorbed each other. For example, Taoists also learn the teachings and precepts of Buddhism, and Buddhism also learns Taoist cultivation techniques.

For example, Tao Hongjing repaired Huayang Palace in Maoshan, and built a Taoist altar on one side of the museum, while a pagoda was built on the other side.

In terms of Buddhism, the third-generation patriarch of Tiantai Sect, Nanyue Huisi Zen Master, also made a vow in the vow he wrote that he would first cultivate into a Taoist immortal, and then practice Buddhist Zen.

There are many Buddhist classics, when Zhenguan, the monk Xuanzang also went to Tianzhu to learn the scriptures, there is a special translation place in Chang'an City, gather a large number of monks to translate the scriptures, in order to spread the Dharma.

Passing on the Dharma with scriptures is undoubtedly a good way of publicity, Taoism used to lag behind Buddhism, and later it was also catching up, and famous Taoist priests in the past dynasties also compiled Taoist scriptures.

Even in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, after they pushed Emperor Wu of Zhou to destroy the Buddha and Pingqi, they also assisted Emperor Wu of Zhou in compiling a hundred-volume "Supreme Secret". This set of books has 100 volumes, that is, according to the style of compiling Buddhist scriptures, the Taoist classics of the previous schools are divided into different righteous categories according to their contents, and they are excerpted and arranged separately, divided into 49 righteous categories and 288 articles, which is regarded as the first encyclopedia of Taoism.

This book has a strict system structure and covers a wide range of topics, such as Taoist theological theories, cultivation methods, Fu Zheng Zhai Jiao, precept norms, genealogy of immortals, biographies of immortals, etc., all inclusive, excerpts and quotations of Taoist books more than 170 volumes, reflecting the scale of the development of Taoism in all aspects of doctrine and religious practice in the entire Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and also reflects the desire and historical trend of various Taoist schools to move towards integration and unification under the pressure of Buddhism.

The book even mixes many sayings from many Buddhist and Taoist schools, not only promoting the cosmology, but also explaining the birth of the human body and the destiny of life, and many of the contents are actually from Buddhism, and many precept systems are also quoted from Buddhism.

Because Li Tang respected Laozi as his ancestor, Louguan fully supported Li Yuan's army, so in the Tang Dynasty, Taoism received unprecedented support since the Wei and Jin dynasties, and its strength flourished.

As the leader of the Taoist sects, Lou Guandao also has the ambition to unify Taoism. Yin Wencao, the suzerain of contemporary Louguan Taoism, has a great plan, he wants to compile a set of Taoist Taoist Taoist collections, and compile all kinds of Taoist works from the pre-Qin era to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

This is a big plan, the origin of Taoist classics can be traced back to before the official establishment of the order, from the pre-Qin to the Western Han Dynasty, there are 47 kinds of Taoist and immortal works, 1,200 volumes.

Many ancient works have been lost or damaged, and it is a great project to find and add to them, but Lou Guandao has money, people, and ambitions, and of course will not give up this goal.

Chen Laodao returned to Chang'an from Zhongnan Mountain Louguantai this time, in fact, it was to report the progress of this plan to Yin Wencao, Louguantai has collected Taoist works everywhere over the years, Laozi, Liezi, Laozi Hujing, Zhuangzi, Guiguzi, Steward, Huainanzi, Mozi, Sun Tzu's Art of War, Yellow Emperor's Neijing, Baopuzi and other books, all of which have been listed as Taoist classics by them, and they have searched for almost.

Among them, the Jin Dynasty Taoist Ge Hong's "Hug Puzi Inner Chapter: Reverie" sorted out as many as 680 volumes.

Taoism is rooted in Taoism, combining myths and legends, witch culture, immortals, yin and yang, and the five elements of yin and yang, and has attracted many social ideals and political requirements, so the whole ideological system is extremely complex, after all, it is a local sect.

Therefore, Yin Wencao's plan for Taoist classics not only lists the classics of Taoism, Fangzhong, and Shenxian as outside the Taoist classics, but even includes the hundred schools of pre-Qin Zhuzi and the lone ancient books of Zhou and Qin, of course, it is only included in books related to Taoism, such as Mozi's book, which has a lot of Taoist thoughts.

The unification of the various schools of Taoism is actually the ideal of those famous Taoist priests after the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the unification of thinking is naturally inseparable from sorting out Taoist classics and compiling Taoist books.

The large-scale compilation of Taoist books is still from the time of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, when Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty first compiled 100 volumes of "Supreme Secrets", and later compiled "Xuandu Sutra", a total of 6,363 volumes, and then continued to sort out later, and all the scriptures were passed down in 8,300 volumes, which were stored in the Xuandu Temple.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a compilation of the "Three Caves Sutra", and the Northern Zhou Dynasty compiled the "Xuandu Sutra", which were actually a summary of the Taoist scriptures of the past dynasties, but unfortunately they were mostly damaged by the war, or not complete.

Yin Wencao wanted to take advantage of the favorable conditions of respecting Taoism after the unification of the Tang Dynasty to comprehensively collect Taoist classics and compile a complete collection of scriptures covering all Taoist thoughts, and such a book could be compiled into at least 10,000 volumes.

This is not only a collection of Taoist classics, but also a repair of some damaged Taoist classics.

However, Yin Wencao's goal also faces a big problem, that is, even if those Taoist scriptures can be collected and repaired, how to preserve the inheritance is another problem. After all, tens of thousands of scriptures contain hundreds of Taoist books, and these books are so large that they can fill several rooms.

In the event of war, fire or water, it may be damaged.

However, if you copy one or two more copies and save them in other Taoist temples in the ordinary way, it will be more laborious, time-consuming and expensive than collecting and repairing those Taoist scriptures.

And now Chen Laodao has found a solution, and Li Xiao's printing technology can solve the biggest problem they face.

Three thousand copies of the Tao Te Ching a month, with this speed, and only five hundred, then their 10,000 volumes of Daozang plan is no longer a problem.

Printing is actually not that difficult, anyway, Li Xiao feels that printing 3,000 books for 500,000 yuan is really a very profitable thing.

On the side of the Zhongwei Bridge, the recruited hungry people are building paper mills and ink mills, papermaking and ink making need a large place, there are all kinds of paper, different paper has different manufacturing methods, but most of them are inseparable from rinsing, lime is inseparable from the process of drying paper, and ink making is mainly based on pine smoke, so it is necessary to dig a kiln.

On the contrary, printing is actually relatively simple.

Find a calligrapher with good calligraphy, write the edition first, in fact, there is no special requirement, that is, it is required to be as neat as possible, and the few calligraphers in Li Xiao's workshop have now learned Li Xiao's printed Song version, and even the blue is better than the blue.

Engraving Song font, compared with regular script and line of books, relatively dull, but horizontal and vertical is conducive to the carvers stereotype, although such a printed book, certainly not as good as those famous copyists copied out of the book font, but neat, and each engraving has to be proofread several times, after proofreading, the next printing process, there is no longer a need for workers to read, and there is no need to worry about there will be more typos.

The Tao Te Ching, which has about 5,000 words, was completed by ten editions of the ten bookmakers in the printing workshop, but it took a little time to complete it. And there are now dozens of engraving craftsmen in the printing workshop, and it only took half a day to complete the engraving one by one.

After several engraving students cross-proofread the engraving, all the pre-printing preparations have been completed.

"Daochang Chen, it's better to take a break here, and leave tomorrow, when the three thousand copies of the Tao Te Ching can be brought back together!" After Li Xiao asked the craftsmen to start printing, he said to a few bull-nosed veterans who were about to leave.

"You can take it tomorrow?" Chen Laodao was shocked again.

"Yes, tomorrow afternoon at the latest."

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