Chapter 153: Prosperity

"Then buy it from somewhere else. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info "Lu Bu gradually had an idea, that is, commercialization, but now the implementation of heavy agriculture and suppression of business, it is difficult to commercialize.

"We're going to have the corresponding items in exchange, right? The princes of the world minted money privately, and the value of the coins depreciated, and it was not worth anything at all. Chen Gong said.

Lu Bu asked, "Then do you have a way to make money?" ”

Except for Xu Shu, all of them were born in a family, and the businessmen were lowly, and they never thought of using business to collect money, and they all had no choice.

"I have a way to make money, I don't know what the book market is like?" Lu Bu asked.

"Supply outstrips demand. In the past, I wanted a book to read, but I had to go around and get it. Xu Shu said with emotion that he was born in a poor family and had a low status, so he had no way to borrow books, let alone buy them: "But the cost of books is too high, and there are too few people who can afford them." Now there are no books on the market at all, every book is copied by scholars, how long does it take for a book to be copied? What's more, the scholar is a child of a family, and he is not short of money at all, so he needs to sell books? ”

Lu Bu finally let go of the worries in his heart, and circulating books to the market is a huge amount of income, and he can completely implement market monopoly, or he can adopt the method of exchanging books for food: "That's fine." ”

"The lord wants to send someone to copy the book? Now there are far from enough officials to handle government affairs, how can anyone copy books by hand? Chen Gong said.

"I don't need someone to copy books, I have a way to copy in batches, and a skilled laborer can copy at least a dozen books a day." LΓΌ Bu planned to list this as a military secret, but he deliberately misled others, so he said that it was a 'labor copying book', and LΓΌ Bu planned to adopt movable type printing in later generations, so as to greatly improve production efficiency.

Lu Bu continued: "However, my method cannot be copied on bamboo slips, and I need a relatively large and flat paper like Caihou paper. What do you have to do? ”

Now the Caihou paper on the market is extremely expensive, and it cannot be popularized, and the cost of using it to print books is too high. Lu Bu remembered that the papermaking technique still required various practical operations, he only remembered the theoretical process, and the bamboo had to go through nearly a year of decay.

The four great inventions of ancient China were like commonplace in his later memory, and he even knew the main components of gunpowder, but this backward technology and backward instruments produced gunpowder could not be purified into explosives except for fireworks, and it was not lethal at all. He didn't know what the name of saltpeter was now, and he didn't plan to study it, gunpowder had too deep an impact on war, and the gunpowder he researched without power could not be put into war.

"Thin planks can be used instead." Xu Shu had copied books with wooden boards before, and suggested.

"Hahaha...... Yuan directly solves my worries. Lu Bu couldn't produce paper in a short period of time, so Xu Shu suggested that Lu Bu could carry out printing experiments as soon as possible, and after mastering the technology, he would start printing books to collect money and grain.

Shu Shao saw that Lu Bu wanted to emphasize business and suppress agriculture, so he, the captain of Tuntian, would not exist in name only, so he immediately ran out to object: "Kong Sheng said: 'A gentleman is a man of righteousness, and a villain is a man of profit. 'Agriculture is the great benefit of the country, business is the benefit of private individuals, and it is the harm of the country. I hope that the general will not put the cart before the horse, and ask the general to think twice. ”

"Then you're going to conjure food for me." Lu Bu was a little annoyed, now that there are more people, there are more different opinions.

"The general is angry, the end will be tuntian next year, and after this autumn harvest, we will start arranging, and next year's grain will be guaranteed to be worry-free." Shu Shao said.

Lu Bu, Xu Shu, and Chen Gong glanced at each other, and the three of them didn't know how to explain, their level of trust had not yet entered Lu Bu's inner circle, and some military secrets had not yet been told to them, and the three of them looked at each other, and they didn't know how to explain them.

Liu Ye said: "Extraordinary things are done at extraordinary times, and now there is no grain in the general's warehouse, if there is a natural disaster or man-made disaster next year, wouldn't there be no food to eat?" It's okay to be extra prepared. ”

Lu Bu remembered that Liu Ye also knew that he was not staying in Shouchun and was going to 'Hanzhong'. Liu Ye is very honorable to support Lu Bu, in history, even Cao Cao usurped his ancestral inheritance, he can support it, and the small business is normal, Liu Ye does not object.

Xun Gan raised his voice and said worriedly: "Once books are cheap and proliferated, ordinary people can afford to buy them, so that they can also read and write, which will lead to the disorder of the relationship between the noble and the low in society, and the general cannot do anything about it." Kong Sheng said: 'The people can make it, but they can't know it.' 'The general rules the people and drives them to do things, without having to make them understand why they do it. This is an eternal truth, and the general must not be great. ”

Did Confucius say this? Lu Bu really didn't know what he had read in later generations, and Lu Bu didn't believe that Confucius would say such a thing, Xun Gan was a son of the Xun clan in Yingchuan, and he knew the importance of culture to the rule of the scholars.

Lu Bu already had killing intent towards Xun Gan in his heart, and his hand unintuitively touched the sword on his waist.

Liu Ye saw that Lu Bu had murderous intent in his heart, if he killed Xun Gan because of political disagreement, it would seriously affect Lu Bu's reputation among the scholars, and he would offend the scholars all over the world, so he got up and retorted: "Confucius is a benevolent and righteous sage, advocating benevolent government, how can he fool the world so much, Mr. This statement is taken out of context, and he failed to grasp the original intention of Confucius as a whole. No, let it be known', and it is not difficult to see the meaning of this phrase from his 'education without class', which means to educate together regardless of whether it is a high-ranking official or a peddler or a pawn.

Therefore, the meaning of this sentence is 'Let the people do what they know and can do.' What the common people don't know and can't do on their own, we should teach them why they want to do it, and then they will do it themselves. ’”

Xu Xuan also nodded in agreement: "Only in this way can he be a sage." ”

Xun Gan was speechless by Liu Ye's words, and he was unconvinced and couldn't find a reason to refute it, and Xu Xuan, who was a demoted general, supported Liu Ye's remarks, and Xun Gan didn't know how to refute it.

The dialogue between Liu Ye and Xun Gan gave Lu Bu a general understanding of the two, at least Liu Ye began to enter his inner circle, Xun Gan will slowly become alienated and marginalized, until he is finally replaced by a role, Lu Bu will only let him help take care of government affairs, but will not entrust him with great responsibilities.

Shu Shao opposed Lu Bu, out of official business, but also out of deep-rooted ruling thoughts, but Xun Gan was made for the interests of the family, which is the same as Chen Qun's Jiupin Zhongzheng system, that is, he wants the family to rule the people from generation to generation, which is seriously contrary to Lu Bu's idea of universal education, how can Lu Bu tolerate Xun Gan.

"Whether it is out of the needs of the predicament or the general trend, a certain will copy a large number of books, circulate among the people, educate the world, and if anyone wants to oppose it, get out of here." Lu Bu said coldly to Xun Gan with a cold face.

"Who's up to it?" Lu Bu turned his head and asked Chen Gong, if he couldn't find someone he trusted to do, he could only hand over this matter to Chen Yu.

"Although Lu Ji is young, he loves books, why don't you leave this matter to him in charge?" Xu Shu said.

"But Lu Ji and Lu Xun haven't returned to their hearts yet." Lu Bu didn't know what happened to Lu Xun and Lu Qiling, and he was worried that once Lu Ji knew about the printing method and passed on this technology to the enemy, he would not be able to monopolize and accumulate wealth.

"The lord first tested him one or two, but he was the best person to copy the book." Chen Gong also said.

The matter has been discussed, and the rest is a confidential matter, Lu Bu dispersed all the idle people, leaving only Chen Gong and Xu Shu, and Liu Ye was also left to observe.

Lu Buxian said like Liu Ye: "Bu Xian is not accompanying Ziyang, what he said about taking Hanzhong the day before yesterday is a lie. ”

Liu Ye was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that Lu Bu was now beginning to trust him, so he would make such a move, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "Ye is afraid, the general believes in Ye, and Ye should be the power of dogs and horses." ”

"The places that I really want to take are Guanzhong and Xiliang. What do Ziyang think are the pros and cons? ”

"Guanzhong is dangerous, and Qin's four stoppers can resist millions of enemy troops; The land is flat and fat, and Qin swept Liuhe with the land of Guanzhong and won the world, but now the population of Guanzhong is withering, and there is no productivity without population, and there is no combat effectiveness. The location is advantageous in taking the customs, and the people are lost. Hanzhong has a solid population, but it is a small land, which is not enough to achieve a great cause. In such a pattern, the best strategy is to take the Guanzhong and plunder the population of Hanzhong. ”

Liu Ye was right, that's why Lu Bu wanted to migrate to Guanzhong even the people of Guangling thousands of miles away.

"Is there a good solution?"

Liu Ye shook his head: "The general can take two prongs, one is to take Hanzhong, the other is to take Guanzhong, arrange these two strategies at the same time, and then decide whether to take Hanzhong or Guanzhong first according to the situation." ”

"But Zhang Lu taught the ignorant people with five buckets of rice, and under his education, Hanzhong was united in one mind, like an iron plate, the time and place were favorable, and it was more difficult to defeat him than to defeat Han Sui and Ma Teng." Xu Shu said that when he offered the plan to take the pass, he had the intention of gaining a foothold in the pass first, and after in-depth understanding, he vetoed this idea.

"Does Xu Junshi know Zhang Xiuqi?" Liu Ye asked.

"I don't know." Lu Bu, Chen Gong, and Xu Shu shook their heads at the same time. In this era of backward information, it is really difficult to know a person who is not very famous.

"Zhang Xiu, a native of Ba, the real founder of Wudou Midao." Liu Ye said: "He preached at the same time as Zhang Jiao, the horn is the Taiping Dao, and the cultivation is the Wudou Rice Dao. The people of Hanzhong have been deeply bewitched for decades, and the Wudou Rice Sect is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. However, they did not know the cause of Zhang Xiu's death. In the second year of the first peace, Liu Yan appointed Zhang Lu as the governor of Sima, and Zhang Xiu led the troops to attack Hanzhong Taishou Sugu as Sima of other departments. After Zhang Xiu killed Su Gu, Zhang Lu killed Zhang Xiu again and captured his soldiers. ”

"Really?" Xu Shu and Chen Gong asked in surprise at the same time.

"Absolutely." Liu Ye said affirmatively.

"I've got a plan to break the enemy." Chen Gong and Xu Shu said at the same time.

"I also have a plan to break the enemy." Liu Ye said not to be left behind.

Lu Bu also had a plan in his heart, and he planned to look at their own strategies, so he proposed: "Why don't you three write down your own plans on paper?" ”