Chapter 51: Bi Sheng's End
The next day was the Great Dynasty Meeting, King Qin took the initiative to give up the money workshop The news spread all over the court and the opposition, and hundreds of officials stood in the Taiji Palace, discussing this matter from ear to ear, all saying that King Qin's move was for the benefit of Sheji. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The way to be an official is to hang up on your own business, and it is not their money that is lost anyway. As the saying goes, a sedan chair carries people, and after Li Er took the initiative to hand over his military power, he made another selfless move, and the attitude of the ministers towards him changed greatly, and many people who were still suspicious of King Qin before felt that they were thinking too much.
Baiguan's words reached the ears of Pei Lian, who was standing in front, and his nose was almost crooked, he entered the palace happily yesterday, thinking that the emperor had something good to enjoy with him, but he didn't expect to get such news. Since Lao Li became the emperor, this is the first time. Gritting his teeth and looking at Li Er and Wang Mai behind him, a burst of anger rose in Pei Lian's heart.
According to the usual practice, after the three provinces were announced, they discussed the official candidates of the Tiance Mansion, which was another face-saving project, after all, Lao Li had already promised Li Er to allow him to set up his own official office, and what was carried out at the court meeting was just to stamp the jade seal.
After announcing the matter of Tiance Mansion, Li Er still did not return to the team, took out a piece of music from his sleeve, and held it above his head with both hands: "Erchen still has something to play." ”
Lao Li nodded to the eunuch next to him, and the eunuch took the piece from Li Shuangli at a trot, and held it in front of the emperor with both hands. Lao Li opened the chapter and looked at it, and a line of regular script appeared in front of him, "On the ...... on the Establishment of Patent Supervision in the Tiance Mansion", which listed in detail the benefits brought by the patent system. But craftsmen have been a lowly industry since ancient times, and it is not a bit of a fuss to set up a functional body to protect them, and it is still discussed at important court meetings.
After reading it, the emperor motioned to the eunuch to hand the proclamation to Pei Lian, and after Pei Lin finished reading it, he passed it to the prefects of the six departments in turn, and after a while, almost all the important officials finished reading this somewhat strange proclamation.
"Your Majesty," Pei Lin said, "Shi Nong, Industry and Commerce, craftsmen are a few indecent, and they cannot be in the hall of elegance, and the minister thinks that there is no need to discuss this matter." "A lot of times, politics just doesn't make sense, especially for political opponents, what you support is what I oppose, whether you have a reason or not, this is the so-called opposition for the sake of opposition. However, Pei Lin is an old fox, he did not dwell on whether what was written in the music was right or wrong, once he fell into an argument, he gave the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it, and it would be better to directly strangle this possibility in the cradle.
Pei Lian's words Lao Li also felt reasonable, and he nodded approvingly: "This matter is indeed not suitable for making a big move, so let's discuss it later." ”
"Hmph......" Pei Lian snorted coldly, and looked at Li Er from the corner of his eye, intentionally or unintentionally, since you kid doesn't know how to lift and stir up Huang Laozi's good deeds, then don't think about it.
Li Jiancheng frowned and thought about the content of the chapter just now, from the bottom of his heart, he felt that what the chapter said was very reasonable, although the craftsman did an errand that did not enter the stream, but no one dared to object to its importance. But this matter was brought up by Li Er, and he had to think deeply about the reason, what is the second child doing, as the prince of the Tang Dynasty, is it necessary to curry favor with those powerless and powerless low-level craftsmen?
"Your Majesty!" Li Er saluted his father again, but he used the title between the monarch and the minister, "Now the movable type printing technique that is popular in Chang'an is done by a craftsman named Bi Sheng, this person is unknown in his life, such an initiative, but it was buried, if it wasn't for Wang Tejin who accidentally learned about this skill, I'm afraid my Tang Dynasty would have no chance with this movable type printing." In the world, I don't know how many craftsmen like Bi Sheng have crafted like this, we sit high in the temple and enjoy the people's fat and people's ointment, but we have never asked them whether they are alive or dead, and such skills are almost lost. Now that movable type printing has spread all over the world, I don't know how many literati will benefit it, how can this be a trivial matter? ”
Many officials have heard of movable type printing, and it is a technology that has just emerged in Chang'an recently, and the flexible combination of typesetting has greatly shortened the money and time spent on printing, and has become an amazing new process. It's just that everyone has heard of Bi Sheng's name for the first time, and they can't imagine that the inventor of this process is actually a down-and-out craftsman.
Wang Mai lowered his head to hide the strangeness on his face, he didn't expect Li Er to actually move out what he had said to him in public, but this was a very convincing example. These officials may not understand other crafts, but movable type printing is related to the speed of book printing, and everyone present understands it. Compared with the previous engraving printing, although there are still many shortcomings of movable type, this is undoubtedly a technological innovation for the benefit of the world.
Li Yuan has also heard of this movable type printing, from the emperor's point of view, he has a deeper understanding of this matter, the decline in printing costs means the decline in education costs, and the decline in education costs means the increase in talents, in the long run, there is no need to look at the faces of those families, it is indeed a major technological innovation.
"Does this Bi Sheng have any relatives alive?" Li Yuan asked.
"This ......" Li Er was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect his father to ask about it, "...... Wang Tejin should be clear about this matter. ”
As soon as Li Er's voice fell, the eyes of the hundred officials fell on Wang Mai, who was pretending to be an ostrich with his head down, and said in his heart, it was really strange that this county prince of Qizhou still had an intersection with a craftsman.
"Forehead......" Wang Mai bowed to Lao Li with a hard head, but he was thinking about how to round this lie, and deliberately slowed down his speech and said, "Speaking of this Bi Sheng, the words are long, and it is still ten years in the great cause...... Oh...... No...... In the eleventh year of the great cause......" said as he slowly said the image of a craftsman who had no children and no daughters and painstakingly studied printing skills, "...... In this way, Bi Sheng swallowed his last breath, but his eyes were always fixed on the piece of cement, and his greatest hope was to benefit the world with the results of his painstaking research......" In the end, Wang Mai felt his sadness and felt that he was full of drama.
"Alas......" The officials shook their heads and sighed, all lamenting Bi Sheng's ill-fated journey, but fortunately, in the end, this movable type printing technique was known by Wang Mai, so that his enthusiasm would not be wasted.
Li Yuan shook his head with a sigh, this Bi Sheng is indeed a talent, but it is a pity that he did not see the day when his achievements were famous in the world. Thinking of this, Li Yuan tilted his head and said to the eunuch next to him: "Spread my will and build a Bisheng Temple in Chang'an for the world to pay homage to and offer incense ......"