Cui Zhiyi trembled all over, let others pull him, he was carried away by anger, and did crazy things that should never be done.

In the midst of the sound of impeachment of Cui Zhiyi.

Cui Zhiwen stood up, he knew that if he didn't stand up again, he was afraid that the eldest brother would be doomed, and even the entire Xuzhou Cui clan would be doomed.

"Your Majesty, yesterday Li Xiao sold the engraving and printing technique to my brother at a price of 10,000 yuan, but today he found out that he had already sold the engraving and printing technique to the imperial court in exchange for the position of the four products of the superintendent. This person relied on His Majesty's favor and meritorious deeds to offer auspicious corn, lawlessness, defrauding colleagues, and committing a heinous crime. ”

"Chen Shen is ashamed to be in the same class as this generation, and begs His Majesty to severely punish Li Xiao!"

Above the court, there was silence.

Defrauding his colleagues of thousands of dollars, it sounds like Li Xiao has indeed gone a little too far. Anyone who has been defrauded of 10,000 yuan is estimated to be extremely angry. Cui Zhiyi's crazy behavior just now seems to have some explanation.

But strangely, no one spoke right away.

Everyone was waiting for the emperor's attitude.

After all, this matter started because of engraving printing, and now engraving printing sells two goods. Li Xiao first dedicated it to the emperor and then sold it to the Cui family.

In everyone's expectation, Emperor Li Zhi spoke slowly.

"Cui Qingyan Li Xiao deceived his colleagues, is there any evidence?"

Cui Zhiyi's chest rose and fell, he broke away from a few colleagues who were pulling him, and said in a loud voice, "Your Majesty, the minister has a contract signed with Li Xiao, and the minister has evidence!" ”

"Then bring in the evidence!" The emperor's voice could not hear emotion.

Cui Zhiyi didn't take the contract with him, he asked someone to go back to Cui's house to get it.

Li Xiao wiped the nose on his face, and deliberately made his face covered with blood, which was even more amazing.

"Your Majesty, there is a contract here!"

Under the gaze of everyone, Li Xiao took out the contract from his arms, and the contract was stained with crimson blood.

Li Zhi took it from the middle official and looked at it carefully.

"With the signatures of the two of you, it is indeed a contract, but I have read it a few times, and it seems that I have not seen any fraud?" Li Zhi's gaze swept over Cui Zhiyi, "This contract shows that Li Xiao is right to sell the printing technique to Cui Zhiyi, but there is no other agreement?" ”

Cui Zhiyi was stunned, what does the emperor mean by this, deliberately protecting Li Xiao?

"Your Majesty, a printing technique, the minister spent 10,000 yuan to buy it, how can Li Xiao still sell two goods?"

Li Zhi turned his head to look at Li Xiao, "Ruiqing, what do you explain about this?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, printing is a technology, not an ordinary cargo. If it is a general goods, it is natural that one thing cannot be sold in two things, and there will always be one person who cannot get the goods. But I am a technology, technology transfer, it is okay to give one or two. Of course, Cui Zhiyi can also ask for an exclusive one, but the price is not 10,000 yuan. ”

Li Xiao wiped his nose and continued, "Since Cui Zhiyi has not made a special agreement with the minister, then he has no right to prohibit the minister from using the printing press for his own use, or even dedicating it to the imperial court, even if the minister really sells another one, then Cui Zhiyi has no right to accuse the minister of breach of contract, because there is no agreement on this matter in our contract." ”

Temple.

Li Ji couldn't help but smile when he heard Li Xiao's explanation. I thought that this explanation is indeed tenable on the surface, but from common sense, it is clear that you are a pit Cui family.

It's not cheap for you to sell Cui Zhiyi for 10,000 yuan for a printing technique, but you have to sell two or three of them, what is this not a trick.

Cui Zhiyi roared, "Since there is no explicit agreement, how can you say that it can be sold?" ”

"The surname is Cui, you want to make a face, don't you have a little bit of pressure in your heart about how much my printing technique is worth? Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to give you a number here. His Majesty is going to let the printing bureau print 10,000 sets of the Nine Classics and 10,000 sets of the Pentateuch, the two sets of books add up to nearly 300 volumes, and the ordinary copy of one set of books, all by manual copying, one volume of 1,000 texts, these nearly 300 volumes are nearly 300 volumes. ”

No one refutes this, books are luxury.

Even if it is the ministers in the palace, which family dares to say that they can store hundreds of volumes? A volume of 10,000 words and 1,000 texts, this is only the price of copying books, in fact, hiring someone to copy books, not only have to give money for copying books, but also have to bring their own pen, ink and paper, this money is not small.

"And do you know how much you can reduce the cost of engraving printing?" Li Xiao asked.

"It can be reduced a lot, a lot." He asked himself, "Or take the 20,000 sets of books that the imperial court wants to print, the cost of a complete set of nearly 300 volumes of copying is hundreds of guan, and if 20,000 sets are copied in full, it will cost tens of millions of guan, it can be said that even if the imperial court takes out all the money from the treasury, it will not be able to copy these 20,000 sets of books, and where can so many copyists come from?" When will it be copied? ”

"But!"

He spoke heavily.

"But if you switch to block printing, the cost will be greatly reduced."

Li Ji had actually already obtained the benefits of engraving and printing from the emperor's mouth in the deliberations of the political hall, and knew that the cost of printing 20,000 sets of books was not high. Otherwise, it would be impossible for them, the prime ministers, to agree to the emperor's madness.

"Xiangrui, two sets of books are printed in 10,000 volumes each, how much national money will be spent in total?"

Li Xiao held up three fingers.

"300,000! Just 300,000 is enough! ”

As soon as these words came out, the lips of many gray-bearded ministers in the palace trembled with excitement.

Nearly 3 million books, so many books, only 300,000?

Doesn't that mean that a book costs only a hundred dollars? A set of 100 volumes is only 10 times? A set of 180 volumes of the Pentateuch is only 18 volumes?

It's impossible, how can it be so cheap. It costs 1,000 to copy a book, and paper doesn't cost money? Mo doesn't want money?

"Don't believe it, there is a characteristic of engraving printing, that is, the more the same plate is printed, the thinner the cost will be. For example, if you only print one book, then copying a book will take a consistent time, while printing a book may cost several times, and the cost is much higher than copying a book. ”

"Engraving plates can be reused, and the more you print, the lower the cost. Printing tens of thousands of sets, then the edition money can almost be ignored, this volume of a hundred dollars, the main cost is paper and ink labor, and there is a new book binding method, with this method, the cost of paper is also greatly saved. Combined with other improvements, the result is an astonishingly low price for a book. ”

"God bless Datang, with this magic technique, from now on, everyone in Datang has books to read, and they have all started to read!" A white-bearded old Wenchen excitedly admired.

Li Xiao waited for a large number of Tianyou Datang's voices to slow down, and then said, "Originally, it was impossible to copy 20,000 sets of scriptures by hand, even if you could, you would have to pay tens of millions of yuan." And now, engraving printing, but only use 300,000 times, and time, labor, money are saved a lot, don't you think that this engraving printing technology is far more than 10,000 dollars? ”

"Everyone, I will transfer such a magical printing technique to the Cui family for 10,000 yuan, why is Cui Zhiyi not satisfied?"

Cui Zhiyi glared at Li Xiao with hatred, only regretting that in order to get this printing technique earlier, he did not add a binding clause to the contract with Li Xiao, and even hated that there was not even a witness at that time, and some words were not clear.

"Your Majesty, how can the minister keep the invention of engraving and printing, which is beneficial to the country and the people, keep it private? The minister would not be as bent on monopolizing printing as Cui Zhiyi, and I didn't expect him to have this kind of thought, I just saw that he liked this printing very much, so I transferred a copy to him, but I didn't expect him to be satisfied, and he actually wanted to monopolize it, and even beat me in public in the court today! ”

As soon as these words came out, they were heart-wrenching words.

Li Xiao has this printing technique, and he wants to dedicate it to the imperial court first, but Cui Zhiyi wants to monopolize it.

Li Ji stood up to help Li Xiao speak at this time, "In this matter, the two of them originally had a contract, so they should come according to the contract." Originally, according to common sense, one product is not sold in two, but engraving printing is not an ordinary item, and its value is far more than 10,000 yuan. Cui Zhiyi did get the engraving printing technology in his hand, and this matter is right. ”

Since Li Xiao is right, then it is Cui Zhiyi who is wrong.

Li Zhi's face darkened, he had never had a good impression of these scholars. This Cui Zhiyi knew that Li Xiao had printing skills, so he immediately made out thousands of dollars to buy it, and he didn't want to monopolize this technology exclusively, it was really shameless.

"Cui Zhiyi, even if you and Ruiqing have a dispute over the contract, then you should go through the referee of the Yamen, how can you beat the official in public on top of the Golden Palace?"

Cui Zhiyi is only a position from the sixth rank, while Li Xiao is a newly appointed secretary and young eunuch, and he is from the fourth rank. Cui Zhiyi beat up the officials, and committed the following crimes, not to mention that he was still on top of the Golden Palace, in front of the emperor, and he was also guilty of bullying the king.

"Dali Siqing is listed, Cui Zhiyi's behavior today, what crime should he talk about?"

Dali Siqing hurriedly stood up, as Dali Siqing, he was very familiar with the Tang Dynasty, and he quickly replied.

Cui Zhiyi has committed many crimes, each of which is enough to remove officials from office, and even enough to go to prison.

Prime Minister Li Yifu bluntly said that Cui Zhiyi committed the crime of disrespect after Dali Temple Qing finished talking about the laws that Cui Zhiyi had violated, and he should be punished!

Li Yifu is from the Shu clan, and he hates those high-ranking scholars the most, and he doesn't know how to envy and hate the five surnames like Cui Zhiyi, so he naturally won't let go of the opportunity.

Cui Dunli, the prime minister of the Cui family, hurriedly interceded for Cui Zhiyi.

Although Cui Dunli is the Boling Cui family, he can't write two Cui families in one stroke, and the five surnames and seven families are already married to each other, and the intertwined relationship is complicated.

"Your Majesty, Minister Li Xiao also asks Your Majesty to forgive Cui Yuanwai!"

Li Xiao stood up and said loudly.

"Oh!" Li Zhi was a little surprised in his heart, no matter how you look at this matter, Li Xiao deliberately tricked Cui Zhiyi, but now why did Li Xiao intercede for Cui Zhiyi?

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister has been married to Cui Yuanwai before, Cui Yuanwai set up a marriage contract to give Cui's second daughter to the minister as a concubine, Cui's daughter will soon choose to enter my Li family, although I was beaten by Cui Yuanwai today, but he is my father-in-law, I will be beaten by him."

As soon as Li Xiao's words came out, Cui Zhiyi fainted directly.

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