The Xinhua Bookstore in Tanggu District is not large, with a total of two floors, and the area is equivalent to an ordinary restaurant. The books sold here are mainly for ordinary consumers www.biquge.info mainly for general readers, from ordinary popular science books, daily magazines, to popular novels and prose poetry collections, and some professional books.

After Jin Zuchun walked into the bookstore, his eyes lit up, and even his subordinate Zhang Baozhong exclaimed: "So many books." ”

Jin Zuchun said with a smile: "So, it is not unreasonable for Datang to be strong, I heard that everyone in Datang North America reads, and wherever there is a town, there are such bookstores." ”

He casually picked up a book next to him, with "The Spiritual Connotation of the Analects" written on the cover, which is a book that introduces Confucianism and traditional Chinese culture to ordinary readers in popular language. Jin Zuchun did not express any opinion on the content of this book, but turned to the back cover to see the price, he said: "The book that is so exquisitely printed and much easier to preserve is only sold for 1 Tang Yuan, less than half a tael of silver." The key point is that there are many kinds of books of the Tang people, and the number is huge, and you can imagine how much knowledge is contained in it. ”

During the Qing Dynasty, Joseon was forbidden to import books on astronomy, calendars, geography, and history from the Qing Dynasty, and some knowledge was regarded as a restricted study. The samurai of the Warring States period in Japan, if they could obtain a copy of "The Art of War", they had to offer it as a family heirloom, and they cherished it even more, and many places restricted the spread of this kind of knowledge.

In Datang, except for some important technologies and theories that are restricted, most of the general knowledge is open. People can spend a few dollars to buy a book to learn Newton's classical physics, buy a geography book, and learn about the customs of all over the world. This kind of openness is also not forbidden to export to foreign countries, and Datang Publishing is also an important export trade industry, with a large number of books and copyrights being purchased every year. After the establishment of the Warsaw system, Datang launched a strict anti-piracy campaign. Even the British government had to pay Datang a fee for the loss and publicly apologize.

Although North Korea is a region in the Chinese cultural circle, literate Koreans understand Chinese characters rather than other dialects. Therefore, the export of Datang's books to North Korea is not translated, but the group of North Korean readers is not large, and it is not profitable for Datang publishers, so the scale of export is relatively small.

Jin Zuchun is a person who loves to read, and in recent years, he especially likes to read books imported from the Tang Dynasty, for which he also had to master the simplified Chinese characters used by the Tang people, and by the way, he also changed his reading habits from right to left to left to right. There is also an interesting anecdote in the history of Kim Jo-chun, the Joseon king Jeongjo was disgusted with the popular sketch novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and advocated elegant and orthodox literature. As a favored minister, Jin Zuchun also supported the king's advocacy on the surface, but behind the scenes, he was obsessed with reading all kinds of popular novels from the Qing Dynasty, and even co-edited a collection of novels, and he also wrote a novel in plain text "The Legend of Wutai Swordsman". When the king found out about this, he reprimanded him like a teacher reprimanding a student.

In this plane, the base camp of popular fiction creation has long been transferred from the Qing Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty. The open social atmosphere and relatively free creative environment, coupled with various later works from the public, have made the field of popular literature in the Tang Dynasty flourish. These popular novels influenced not only the Tang people, but also other parts of the Chinese cultural circle.

Jin Zuchun was pleasantly surprised to find a copy of "Tianlong Babu" on the shelf, and said: "Is it actually Mr. Jin Yong's new book?" Last year, I was fortunate to ferry "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", which was heartwarming and unstoppable. ”

As a trusted minister, Jin Zuchun is still a complete martial arts fan. Every good martial arts novel starts, Jin Zuchun can't do anything else as soon as he reads it, and he has to read all the books to return to normal. When in North Korea, it was not easy to obtain books from the Tang Dynasty, and publishers may not necessarily sell books to North Korea once a year. Jin Zuchun was also embarrassed to ask someone to go to Shanghai or Tanggu to buy books, and this time he came to Datang Bookstore in person, like a fish in water.

Perhaps because he has seen through the future of the country, Kim Zuchun does not pay much attention to his own actions. In this Xinhua bookstore, he bought hundreds of books in one go, most of which were martial arts novels that he had not read, and there were also some books and tool books that he found interesting. Kim had to ask the bookstore staff to send him to the Diplomatic Hotel.

In the era before the advent of the information explosion, reading books was a very interesting activity for anyone who could read, enriching knowledge and broadening horizons.

In the evening, accompanied by the staff of the Tianjin Foreign Affairs Office, they had a dinner at the DPRK Mission at the Diplomatic Hotel, which was not luxurious. A 10-person round table in the Tang style, with 10 dishes at a table plus soup and dim sum, is actually the standard for ordinary Tang people when they gather to visit friends, and almost every restaurant can do it. But for North Korean officials from the Korean Peninsula, who were still impoverished at this time, it was already a rare feast.

After eating and drinking, and going back to rest, Jin Zuchun patted his stomach a little civilianly, picked up a novel, and said with a smile: "This Tang people's life is really good." Food, clothing, housing and transportation are good, and it is convenient to study, so what more can you ask for. ”

What he saw and heard for a long time made Zhang Baozhong also particularly amazed, and said: "The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty is really extraordinary." If the people of our dynasty can live and work in peace and contentment with half of the Tang people, it is an unprecedented benevolent government. ”

Jin Zuchun showed a somewhat contemptuous look and said, "It's impossible to count on those straw bales from the remote sect. In addition to ginseng, deer antler velvet and other products, North Korea lacks products, and its agriculture is not as good as that of the Central Plains, let alone industry and commerce. Today, the Tang Dynasty dominates the sea, the Westerners are all afraid of submission, and the people in the DPRK and China do not want to forge ahead, and find out the reason for the strength of the Tang Dynasty, but the internal fighting is endless, corruption and profit, which is really despised. We have built a country on agriculture for thousands of years, but we have not been able to make the people rich and well-fed with agriculture. Today's achievements of Datang can be done in industrial and commercial technology. If North Korea wants to rise up, it must learn the law of industrial and commercial operation of the Tang Dynasty in order to become a rich country. Now in this situation, it is no longer possible for Mingjun to rule the world with some benevolent government. North Korea must also seek new and change. ”

However, he quickly smiled again and said, "It's just that the fate of North Korea does not depend on our hands. The 2,000-year-old pattern of Korea becoming a country of its own may no longer exist. (To be continued.) )