Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Book Copying Operation
"Jiarui, you don't know, if they are thick-skinned enough, then I don't want them yet! It was because they kicked their noses and cheeks and were thick-skinned that I took them as disciples. Do you really think that we are simply a master-apprentice relationship? We're actually just using each other, but that's enough to use each other, and we don't have to do much. We don't value academics, and I don't have anything to teach them, it's just that we just use each other. Shi Bufan said.
There is nothing to say about this Ren Yaxiang and Xin Maojun, who are extraordinary in real times, and their teacher-student relationship is actually just a relationship of mutual use. Their teacher-student relationship is actually weaker than Shi Bufan's facing those children, but in Shi Bufan's eyes, they are far more important than those children. Those children taught by Shi Bufan are actually not all the way to Shi Bufan, they are from different levels, and the interests they represent are naturally different. So he can't really get the following of those students.
On the contrary, Ren Yaxiang and Xin Mao will be these humble talents, which is the foundation that the real Shi Bufan relies on. They have the same class background and the same purpose as Shi Bufan, so they are naturally natural allies.
"However, I don't know how many people really believe in your 'Xinxue'!" Qin Jiarui still shook his head and said.
Shi Bufan replied: "If one in a thousand people in this world can believe in my 'Xinxue', I will be satisfied." In fact, the vast majority of believers are unlikely to make progress. The important thing is that they can benefit from this mind, so that they will support me. Just like those scholars, do they really believe in the Mandate of Heaven? Because this destiny is good for them, they will believe it. Only what is good, will be believed. If there is no good, God will slaughter you! ”
"Huh-" Qin Jiarui was taken aback, Shi Bufan's words were very disrespectful, if those religious people heard it, then I am afraid that they would really scold him, especially the Tang Dynasty, which respected Taoism, it was even more dangerous.
However, Shi Bufan did not care, although his thinking was inclined to idealism, but he would not admit that there was a God. Theism and idealism are not equated, Shi Bufan believes that God is actually in the heart, and even the heavens are mostly illusioned by the human heart, and the gods of heaven and earth are just shaped by the human heart, and the human heart exists when he exists, and the human heart believes in the natural existence. But if the human heart doesn't need him anymore, then naturally it can't exist. Although Shi Bufan is inclined to idealism, he will not reject materialism, which is also the thinking of later generations. Ancient philosophies were almost all extremely idealistic, and naturally there was great respect for the so-called gods.
However, Shi Bufan even dared to say such a thing as slaughtering gods, because he knew that gods did not exist, but were only shaped by people's hearts. As long as no one thinks that there is a god in this world, then the god naturally does not exist.
Shi Bufan knows that in the career of the official, academics are not the main thing. Although scholarship can promote careers, it cannot be relied upon. Academics are just the icing on the cake, and the real thing is your ability to be an official. A pure scholar is not a good official. These ancient apprentices, especially those in the officialdom, are actually not simple. During the Ming Dynasty, there were so many protégé relationships, which were actually just the formation of political faction groups, students used the resources of the teacher to develop, and the teacher used the students to stabilize their position, and finally even selected some students as faction successors, so that they could promote each other and use each other.
If your students are the kind of academic nerds, you don't dare to accept them. If you are using yourself, then you might as well take advantage of them, and it is beneficial for both parties to use each other. This academic idea of Xinxue is just a bond that unites the Hanmen, and it is not really something that people believe in. Believing in thoughts and following them are not the same thing. How many people in the revolutionary era really understood the truth of the revolution? The vast majority of the low-level soldiers and civilians do not understand the truth of the revolution, but they know that this revolution can bring benefits to them, and they are naturally willing to follow them. If there is no benefit, no matter how good the "truth" is, it will not be able to support it.
"The world is bustling, and it is all for profit. If it is not good for them to worship me as a teacher, then they will not come. I'm not afraid that they have ulterior motives, what I'm afraid of is that they don't. Only true interests will allow us to follow me. If they can't get the benefits, then it's normal for them to leave me. Don't talk about morality, morality is actually unreliable. Although I advocate the study of mind, the study of mind is actually a study that advocates the needs of human beings. Since human needs are what we need, that is to advocate reasonable satisfaction of our own desires, as long as we reasonably satisfy our own desires, and satisfy our own desires without harming the public interests of the vast majority of people in the world, then this is the core of my psychology. Therefore, they worship me as a teacher, and they do not harm the interests of the vast majority of people in the world, but can satisfy the interests of the vast majority of people in the world, why should I refuse? Shi Bufan asked.
Qin Jiarui really didn't understand what Shi Bufan thought. Shi Bufan has actually gradually changed from a scholar to a politician, not to mention that Shi Bufan seems to be a scholar, but he has seen a lot of politicians back then. There are not a few high-ranking officials in any of his universities, so he is very familiar with the thinking of those politicians. When you are a politician, you really can't be embarrassed. If you want to be a politician, then don't be a politician. This Ren Yaxiang and Xin Mao are very thick-skinned, which is naturally in line with Shi Bufan's ideas, and they can be accepted as subordinate brothers.
"Next, let's copy the books and copy some of these books, so that we can print them accordingly!" Shi Bufan said.
The next day, Shi Bufan copied books in the Xiuwen Museum. Then he directly took the books in this Xiuwen Pavilion and copied them, anyway, there are a lot of books in the Xiuwen Pavilion, which can be used as a channel for excerpts. There are several places in Datang to collect books, and the Xiuwen Museum is one, and this is the closest place to Shi Bufan, so of course Shi Bufan has to copy books quickly. In several other places, Shi Bufan also arranged for Xin Mao to organize students from the four schools to copy books, so that after copying these books, they could be printed and opened in libraries.
"It's too slow to copy like this, and it looks like you're going to have to use a hard pen to copy it!" Shi Bufan thought.
Soon the direct Shi Bufan also made a quill pen, this kind of quill pen production is not complicated, this kind of quill pen is a very important pen in Western history, is the earliest hard pen. Therefore, in order to copy the book quickly, Shi Bufan naturally gave up the speed of this brush copying, which not only takes a long time, but also occupies more paper. This kind of hard pen copying can be at least five or six times faster, and save paper space, the space of a brush word is enough to write three or four hard pen words, so that the space of a book can write five or six hard pen books, which is also saving paper costs.
It's a pity that Shi Bufan doesn't know how to make paper, otherwise he might be able to use a better way, but there are 100% satisfactory ones in this world? It's good to have a hard pen, but you can't change the world just by inventing things.
On the other side, Xin Mao will take dozens of students from the four disciplines and go directly to the library of Guozijian like locusts, and go directly here.
"This is the school scholar who gave us a hard pen, and then you enter the four schools, copy all the books of the four schools for me, and then take them outside, and someone will help us print them. After printing, everyone opened a library, and when the time came, the school scholar opened an open library outside, and everyone could read for a long time as long as they paid a small fee. When the time comes, everyone can look at it as they want. As long as he is willing to help copy books, then Shi Shulang agreed, and he can read books in the library for free for life! General Xin Mao said.
"Okay, here we go! Since it's to help Shi Xiaoshulang do things, and you can read books for free for life in the future, then we'll go! "If this can be the case, then even if I don't pass the exam in the future and am forced to leave the four schools, then I can read books without spending money, which is great!" "It's not easy to read a book, of course it's good to read a book for free!" ……
Hearing about reading books for free, this is an extremely important benefit for many students of the four disciplines. In ancient times, books were expensive, and it was difficult to borrow books, let alone read them for free? Although there are many books in the Four Sects of Learning, these books are all for public use, and non-government students are not allowed to watch and read. Once a student of the four academic schools has been enrolled for nine years and fails to be admitted to the imperial examination, he must be withdrawn from the university. Then a group of people will come over after dropping out, a total of three years of big assessments, nine years later, if you don't get admitted to the imperial examination, no matter who will leave. After leaving, they can't read, so they should feel that this free reading is a good benefit. In ancient times, it was not like the later generations that you could read books at any time as soon as the Internet was opened, almost any book could be read. So for this opportunity to read books for free, they can be regarded as fighting.
"Brush Brush Brush ......"
Dozens of students of the four disciplines directly copied in the library of Guozijian, and everyone still copied in partitions, directly ensuring that everyone did not copy the same copy. This makes everyone very speechless, this copy is really crazy. Before, everyone didn't have such crazy copying books, but now they actually came to copy books en masse, which is simply terrible.
"Hurry up and copy the book, and then take it out and print it! After printing, put it in the public library, and then we can read it casually. At that time, everyone will also have great benefits for future generations, and when the time comes, you can bring your relatives and friends to this library to watch, as long as you have a very small amount of money, and then you can read as many books as you like. These money are not for profit, but to keep the books from being damaged and repaired. So everyone hurry up and work hard, so you are also helping your relatives and friends! Xin Mao will organize four students to say.
Hearing that this library can also be beneficial to their relatives and friends to read, everyone is even more energetic to work, and hurriedly excerpted the books of these four subjects. In this way, the books of the four disciplines began to be copied in large quantities, and then the samples that had been copied were sent out.
"This movable type printing is really powerful, as long as we engrave a plate, so that we can put it together and print it casually. Such characters can also be combined by themselves, so that there is no need to engrave a book on each page. And this movable type printing is better than hand-copying, and this movable type printing can make the font smaller. As long as you make sure that you can read clearly, you don't need to make the text too big, the smaller the text, the more paper is saved, so of course it is the best! The paper is too expensive, so it would be nice to be able to make the text smaller, not too big. Anyway, the big characters can be seen clearly, and the small characters can be seen clearly by ordinary people, so they don't need to be too big! Qin Jiarui said.
General Xin Mao hurriedly said for a while: "Master, the master is really too powerful, and he even thought of this method." In this way, the children of the poor families in the world will be blessed in the future, they can spend a very small amount of wealth and can also read books. In this way, the cost of reading books can be reduced countless times, and books that you have to buy can now be rented. Although this thing does not belong to you, as long as you learn the knowledge in the book, it doesn't matter. ”
"Yes! Why didn't we think about renting books in the past? If someone was able to do this in the past, then we don't have to work hard to accumulate at all, and we may not be able to buy a book after a busy year! Now I rent books so we can read hundreds of books a year. Ten books in the past year are already good, isn't it this money to make trouble? Now we can get books for almost as little as we spend a small amount of money, and everyone in the world will be grateful for Shixiao Shulang's library strategy! Why didn't anyone think of it before? Some people sighed.
Shi Bufan took the initiative to explain: "The most important role of books is not the material of paper, but the paper and pen and ink are just the carrier of knowledge. It doesn't matter who this carrier is. As long as you can learn the knowledge on this carrier and become your own, that is important. Books are really useless, and there is no need to deify books in this way. After all, books are dead, but people are alive. Instead of pinning human beliefs on books, it is better to memorize the things of books and use them well, and this is the real learning. It's better to have a library of countless books, that's just for nothing. The real book is not made of paper, but made with heart, have you remembered? ”
"Remember the teachings of the school scrivener!" Everyone said together.