"If Your Highness doesn't have any other problems, the old minister will leave first." Seeing that Li Hong was silent, Li Chunfeng got up and said. Li Hong hurriedly came back to his senses and said, "Thank you Li Lang for winning tonight." ”

"Your Highness is gracious!" Li Chunfeng said with his hand, and left the study. But just as he stepped out of the threshold with one foot, Li Hong suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly asked, "Li Langzhong, can you agree to Lone's request?" ”

Li Chunfeng's body stiffened, and he hurriedly restrained his steps and turned back and asked, "Your Highness, please speak." ”

"Li Langzhong is willing to enter the lonely Chongwen Pavilion?" Li Hong asked.

When Li Chunfeng heard Li Hong say this, his body couldn't help but tremble, and his face showed hesitation, and then he replied, "Thank you, Your Highness!" ”

Li Hong didn't expect that Li Chunfeng just hesitated for a moment, and then agreed to his request, he was overjoyed, and said with a smile, "It is a blessing for Gu to let Li Langzhong go to Chongwen Pavilion, and it is Gu who thanks Li Langzhong!" ”

"Your Highness is gracious!" Li Chunfeng said, "It's not early today, the old minister will come to the East Palace tomorrow to meet His Highness!" ”

"Li Langzhong walks slowly!" Li Hong got up and sent Li Chunfeng out of the study.

Back in the study, Li Hong began to digest the information he had obtained today. Regarding these secrets that Li Chunfeng said, he was convinced and did not doubt it at all. As for the relationship between his own teachings, he doesn't feel that this statement is illusory.

The controversy between Buddhism and Taoism has existed since ancient times, and in the Tang Dynasty, because the Tang Li family recognized Lao Tzu as the ancestor, the favor of Buddhism was not as good as that of the previous dynasties.

Even with Xuanzang with the support of Li Shimin, he went to Tianzhu to learn scriptures, but during the reign of Taizong and Gaozong, Buddhism was still seriously suppressed. Even during the reign of Emperor Gojong, there was a interruption in the translation of Buddhist scriptures retrieved from Tianzhu.

It can be seen that the Li royal family's attitude towards Buddhism is very cold, and in this case, it is not very possible for some of the Buddhist scripture disciples led by Liu Ju to assassinate themselves. After all, the situation of Buddhist scriptures in the Tang Dynasty is very delicate now, and if the monarch who ascends the throne and becomes the emperor in the future is Li Hong, the reincarnation of the Taoist monarch. Wouldn't Buddhism be dealt a bigger blow?

Secondly, Li Hong knew that Empress Wu had always believed in Buddhism, and when Gaozong was reincarnated, she was very fond of Buddhism, so much so that after she ascended the throne and became emperor, she was even more than that.

Li Hong did not understand Empress Wu's paranoid and blind favor attitude towards Buddhism.

Now with Li Chunfeng's explanation, he has another explanation for Empress Wu's belief in Buddhism. As Li Chunfeng said, the battle between him and Empress Wu is not only a struggle for imperial power, but also a struggle between the destiny and the destiny that came into being.

He is the reincarnation of Daojun, and if he wants to stop Empress Wu from wanting to replace Li Tang, it is equivalent to using Daojun's luck to continue Li Tang's national fortune. And if Empress Wu wants to change Li Tang's national fortunes, she must have corresponding decisions, so she supports Buddhism, believes in Buddhism, and uses the Buddhist Mandate of Heaven to fight against Li Tang Daojun's luck, which is the best strategy.

After analyzing this thoroughly, Li Hong found that he had a general judgment on how to take the road in the future.

At this moment, Yan Zhuang hurriedly walked into the study and reported to him, "Your Highness, the young mansion supervisor An Liangchen has asked to see you. ”

"An Liangchen? He came to see Gu so late, could it be that movable type printing was invented? Li Hong asked puzzled, and hurriedly said to Yan Zhuang, "Let him come to the study to see Gu." ”

"No!" Yan Zhuang took the order and strode away. In a few moments, he led An Liangchen and a young retinue in.

"Young Mansion Supervisor and Young Eunuch An Liangchen see Your Highness!" An Liangchen, who walked into the study, hurriedly saluted Li Hongshi.

"No need to be polite, you sit down and talk." Li Hong said. An Liangchen received the order, and after sitting down, he said, "The minister has fulfilled his mission, and the movable type printing has been successful, and I would like to ask Your Highness to take a look." ”

After speaking, he got up and took a box from the entourage behind him, bowed down to Li Hong's desk, and put the box on the bookcase.

Li Hong motioned for him to open the box.

An Liangchen, who got Li Hong's nod, carefully opened the box.

Li Hong's eyes were firmly fixed on the box, and the moment An Liangchen opened it, he smelled a scent of ink, and when the box was opened, he saw a set of eight books neatly placed in the box, and the cover of the book actually wrote the words "Yaoshan Caiyu".

"Yaoshan Caiyu" is a collection of essays compiled by Li Hong when he was eight years old, gathering Xu Jingzong, Shangguanyi and others. An Liangchen actually dedicated this anthology to Li Hong as the first book published after the invention of movable type printing, which shows that he really had good intentions in order to please the prince.

Li Hong carefully looked at the "Yaoshan Jade Color" in the box for a while, and then took out the book on the top, and held it in his hand as a treasure and looked through it carefully. He found the book to be excellent on paper, with smooth pages and clear fonts, making it ideal for reading.

"That's right-" Li Hong couldn't help nodding and praising while flipping through "Yaoshan Yucai", "An Liangchen, movable type printing has been successfully invented, can you start printing books on a large scale now?" ”

"Yes." An Liangchen affirmed that "as long as His Highness says a word, it will not be a problem to print any kind of books." ”

"How much time does it take to quote a book?" Li Hong put "Yaoshan Jade Color" on the bookcase, looked at An Liangchen and asked.

"If it's a book like "Yaoshan Yucai", it will take about ten days, and even thicker books will take even longer." An Liangchen pondered for a moment and said.

Seeing that the crown prince was silent, An Liangchen opened his mouth and asked, "I don't know what books His Highness wants to print?" ”

"We'll talk about that later." Li Hong said lightly, "You have made a great contribution this time, and I can't help but discuss you." ”

As he spoke, he glanced at the "Yaoshan Yucai" on the bookcase, took a small brush from the pen holder, and filled the inkstone pond with ink, opened the blank space of the first page of the book, and wrote down Li Hong's two italics one by one. Then put down the pen, he took out the prince's private seal and stamped it on the two words Li Hong.

"I'll give you this book!" After Li Hong finished all this, he said to An Liangchen.

An Liangchen was stunned when he suddenly heard the prince say this, he could get the prince's own inscription and a sealed book, which was even richer than the reward for official promotion!

"Thank you, Your Highness!" After a slight stunned, An Liangchen came to his senses and thanked Li Hong happily. Then he put the book in the box with great disregard for his personal image, carefully closed the lid of the box, and handed it to the entourage behind him.

Li Hong didn't say anything when he saw this scene, after all, it was the first book printed by movable type printing, and it also had his own signature and seal on it, so An Liangchen couldn't be so careful. After An Liangchen packed up the book, he asked, "An Aiqing, how much money does it take to print such a book?" ”

An Liangchen pondered for a while and said, "If you only print a book like "Yaoshan Yucai", it will take about 1,000 yuan of silver. ”

"It costs a thousand dollars to print such a book." Li Hong muttered to himself, and then moved his gaze to Yan Zhuang Dao, "Yan Zhuang, how much do you think we can sell such a book?" ”

"Your Highness, in the bookstore in the East Market now, a volume of such a book will probably sell for eight yuan, and it is more appropriate for us to sell four times." Yan Zhuang thought for a moment before replying.

Eight books are sold for eight dollars, and one book is equivalent to selling for a consistent price, which is indeed very expensive. It's just that Yan Zhuang said that eight books sell for four yuan, and one book sells for five hundred yuan, Li Hong still feels a little expensive, so he frowns slightly and says, "It's still a bit expensive!" ”

Yan Zhuang felt that it was half the price cheaper than other bookstores, and a book was only sold for five hundred wen, which was already very cheap, so he asked puzzledly, "What does Your Highness mean?" ”

"We invented movable type printing so that the poor could afford to buy books and read them. A book is only sold for 500 yuan, which is indeed cheaper than the price of the books in the East Market Bookstore, but for the children of the poor family, they still can't afford it! Li Hong said with emotion, "Let's set it at two hundred!" In the future, the price of all books will be based on "Yaoshan Yucai", and books with less words than "Yaoshan Yucai" will be sold at less than 200 words, and books with more words than "Yaoshan Yucai" will be reasonably added. Of course, some rare books are a different story. ”

"No!" Yan Zhuang saw that the prince's tone was very resolute, so he didn't dare to refute, so he could only bow down and accept the order.

Immediately, Yan Zhuang thought that he could make money by buying books, so he asked, "Your Highness, after the invention of movable type printing, the cost of printing books will be very low, even if a book is only sold for 200 wen, we can make a lot of money, I don't know what books we will print this time?" ”

"Just print two books, one book "Yaoshan Yucai", and the other is-" Li Hong groaned for a while, and said in a cold tone, "Just print the Tao Te Ching." ”

A large number of printed "Yaoshan Yucai" Yan Zhuang can understand Li Hong's move, because this is the prince wants to use this book to promote himself, and wants everyone in the world to know and know him because of this book, but the large-scale printing of "Tao Te Ching" makes Yan Zhuang unable to understand. And An Liangchen on the side also thought so in his heart, so he couldn't help asking, "Tao Te Ching?" ”

"Yes, just print the Tao Te Ching!" Li Hong said affirmatively, "The first printing of 100,000 copies." ”

The reason why Li Hong printed the Tao Te Ching on a large scale was to attack Buddhism.

Because since some of the disciples of Buddhism surrounded Liu Ju and wanted to kill him, the reincarnation of the Daojun, then he couldn't help but take action and let him see how powerful he was, but now that the murderer has not been found, he can only use this way to retaliate against the small group that assassinated him.

Of course, he has another intention to do this, that is, since Empress Wu wants to use Buddhism to weaken Li Tang Guoyun, and wants to use Buddhist luck to resist his Taoist luck, then he doesn't mind looking at the printing of the Taoist classic "Tao Te Ching" to fight against the Buddhist luck of Empress Wu, and "Tao Te Ching" is just the beginning, in the future, he will continue to print His Royal Highness Taoist, he doesn't believe in how to re-Buddhism after martial arts, no matter how to support Buddhism, can be worthy of him printing a large number of Taoist classics, so that everyone in the world can have a Taoist classic, Let them study the heights carefully.

This way, this way, although very stupid and stupid. But when it comes to his own life and death, whether he will survive in the struggle with the afternoon in the future, Li Hong doesn't care whether he is stupid or not.

Seeing that the prince's tone was resolute and unquestionable, Yan Zhuang and An Liangchen didn't dare to say anything more, so they could only bow down and receive the order.

"How's the matter of the bookstore going?" Li Hong asked.

"Your Highness can rest assured about the bookstore, the minister has already cleaned it up, and it is located in the East Market, which is a three-story building, but the bookstore has no name yet, and I ask His Highness to give it a name." Yan Zhuang replied immediately.

Li Hong didn't care much about the name of the bookstore, so he said casually, "Let's call it Egret Bookstore!" ”

"I know." Yan Zhuang replied.

"By the way, you can't just open a bookstore in the East Market, you can also open a bookstore in the West Market." Li Hong reminded.

"The minister understands, and he will do it immediately tomorrow." Yan Zhuang replied.

Li Hong turned his gaze to An Liangchen and asked, "How long will it take for the 100,000 copies of Yaoshan Yucai and the 100,000 copies of the Tao Te Ching to be printed?" ”

"Back to Your Highness, because "Yaoshan Yucai" already has ready-made mold characters, there is no need to engrave and typeset, it only takes three months to print, and it may take four times for "Tao Te Ching". An Liangchen replied.

"Tao Te Ching" is only 5,000 words, even if some famous annotations are added, the number of words will not be too much, and it cannot be compared with the eight-volume "Yaoshan Yucai", so it will not take a long time.

"Within three days, 5,000 copies will be printed and sent to Egret Bookstore, and the rest will be reprinted slowly!" Li Hong said, "Remember, you must do a good job of keeping the work of movable type printing confidential, and you have set up a special publication office in the Shaofu Supervision to be responsible for this matter. ”

As soon as An Liangchen heard Li Hong's order, he understood what the prince meant, and immediately bowed down and said, "No! ”

Then Li Hong told the two of them some specific things about printing books and buying and selling books, and the two of them said goodbye and left.

When Yan Zhuang and An Liangchen left, Li Hong looked at the starry sky outside the window, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Movable type printing books, this is just the first step in his development of science and technology, a very small step, in the future he will continue to improve the science and technology of Datang, one day, he will let Datang's iron horse set foot on the land of Europe, so that the whole world will only read one language, only speak one language, will only have one faith...