"A book collection? Your Highness, do you just want our Fan Yang Lu family's collection of books? Lu Zuo and Lu You glanced at each other, and then asked with a puzzled face, he really didn't expect that Li Su would make such a strange request, if he is not mistaken, although His Royal Highness the King of Qi in front of him is talented, he doesn't seem to be very studious?

"That's wrong, this king won't want your Lu family's collection of books, but just want to borrow them, but the number of borrowed books is a bit too much, so I hope you let go of all the books in the clan, and then I will send someone to pull them, and I will return them when I run out!" Li Su said with a smile, although he doesn't like to read, but there are many people in the world who like to read but can't get it

After hearing this, Lu Zuo and Lu You had a black line on their faces, what kind of books do they need to borrow to pull the car? It seems that His Royal Highness the King of Qi wants to empty their Lu family's book collection, but people have to bow their heads under the low eaves, and they are just some books, although there are many priceless rare books and unique books, but compared to the survival of the family, this is nothing at all, so he agreed without hesitation.

The conditions have been negotiated, and it is inconvenient for the Lu Zuo brothers to stay, after all, Li Su is sick and there is no way to entertain them. In addition, the result of today's negotiation is undoubtedly a huge disaster for the Lu family, because there is almost no thing to get in advance, although Li Su also gave them some opportunities, but whether it is textile or sugar making, it is still just a castle in the air, and they can't see the direct benefits at all, so they have to go back and weigh it carefully.

After getting up and seeing off Lu Zuo and Lu You, Li Su went back to the Hu bed and lay down. At this time, a person turned out from behind the screen, it was Mr. Wang An, the prince of the Qi Palace. Seeing his teacher, Li Xuan on the Hu bed smiled and said: "Wang Fu, you are really like a god, the Lu family came this time, not only to withdraw from the marriage, but to get rid of our suppression for a long time." ”

Wang An is Li Su's number one think tank. When encountering something like the Lu family, it is natural to participate in the whole process, but according to Wang An. He had a relationship with Lu Zuo before, so he didn't want to meet him, so he hid behind the screen.

"The preservation of the family is the first priority. Although this belief can make the children of the clan show great unity to the outside world, but when joining forces with other families, various problems will arise, and when the interests of their own family conflict with the purpose of joining forces, they will definitely not hesitate to choose the interests of the family, as long as they see through this, it will be much easier to deal with these families in the future! Wang An explained with a smile. He came from a big family and knew these things best. It's just that now his vision is no longer limited to the family, but focuses on the survival of the entire society, the country and the nation, which is the vision that a wise man should have.

"Wang Fu, with your understanding of the Lu family, how many books can they have in their family. And how many of them are what we need! Li Su asked impatiently.

"Your Highness, this question is difficult for me, but with the Lu clan's inheritance of nearly a thousand years, there must be countless books in the clan, and there must be many extremely precious collections among them, such as the collection of books in our Wang clan is about 500,000 volumes. And the Lu family is estimated to be definitely no less than our Wang family! Wang An said that the Lu family's book collection, his face also showed a hint of fascination, as a reader, he naturally has a special feeling for books, but it is a pity that the collection of books in each family is only open to the children of the clan, and some books are only open to some specific children, not everyone can see it, let alone people outside the clan.

"Hmph, speaking of which, the big family is really stingy, usually the books in the clan are not borrowed at all, if it weren't for the Lu clan being cornered by us this time, it is estimated that they would never agree to lend us books." Li Su snorted coldly and began to despise the small families of the major families. After all, in the eyes of he, the future generations, it was just a few books, but they were hidden like treasures, and they didn't show the bearing that a family should have. …,

However, after Wang An heard Li Su's complaint, he showed a hint of amusement and said: "Your Highness, you are in a high position, so you don't know the preciousness of books, whether it is the collection of our Wang family, the Lu family or other families, almost all of them are copied by predecessors one by one, sometimes it takes a year or even years for a book to be copied, it is a book that takes countless energy and time, so almost all readers regard books as treasures, if they are not friends, they will not borrow them at all, even among readers, Borrowing books from others is a very unkind thing, and if you have the opportunity in the future, you must definitely repay it twice. ”

Li Su's level of ancient literature is limited, and now he can barely understand some letters and other things, as for what Confucian classics and other books, he still can't understand them, and someone must explain them next to him, so he has always paid little attention to reading, and he knows even less about the books themselves. He didn't understand it carefully, but now after listening to Wang An's explanation, he understands the preciousness of a book.

But at this moment, I only heard Wang An continue: "Of course, the reason why the family prohibits the borrowing of books is not only because the books are precious, but also for the purpose of knowledge blockade, after all, since the implementation of the imperial examination system in the former Sui Dynasty, most of the officials have to go through the imperial examination, so that if the family wants to control the court again, they must participate in the imperial examination, in order to reduce some competition, they naturally refuse to make the collection of books in the clan public!" ”

"That's right!" Li Su was also thinking about this problem, and when he heard Wang An's words, he also praised it, "Knowledge is a key to open the wisdom of the people, and books are the carrier of knowledge, the ancients recorded the knowledge they learned from life, and then passed it on to future generations, not for people to collect, nor for a part of it to be used as a tool for their own profit, books should belong to all the people of my Datang, and this is also the ultimate goal of building a library!" ”

Seeing Li Su's righteous and awe-inspiring look, Wang An smiled secretly in his heart, although the library was proposed by Li Su, and as he just said, it has a name for the benefit of the people of the Tang Dynasty, but as long as anyone with a little vision can see clearly, the purpose of Li Su's move is to attack these big families with five surnames and seven wangs.

The reason why the family controls the court is because they have a large number of educational resources in their hands, and the children of the clan not only enjoy the most superior and orthodox Confucian education since childhood, but also never worry about the problem of books. However, some readers outside the family are different, in order to find some books they need, they often ask for people everywhere, and even some people travel thousands of miles to visit others, and they are just borrowing the books in each other's hands to take a look, but unfortunately if there is no acquaintance to introduce them, they often end in the rejection of the other party.

It is in this kind of educational environment where there is no fairness at all, the children of the family are naturally stronger than others in terms of knowledge, and it is easier to get on the list when the imperial examination is held, plus the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty does not only value the knowledge of the candidates, but also the messy things such as recommenders and reviews, which are often the children of the family, so that most of the scholars who can enter the officialdom through the imperial examination are the children of the family, and it is in this way that the family slowly controls more than half of the power of the imperial court.

Li Su wanted to break the educational barriers established by the family, and the first step was to popularize books, and as a later generation, he naturally thought of the library first, and this is also the second tool to attack the family in addition to newspapers.

Originally, the matter of the library should have started a long time ago, at least Li Su was originally going to build a library in Chang'an first, and then find a way to mobilize the business community of the Tang Dynasty to promote the construction of libraries throughout the country, it doesn't matter if the scale is good or bad, as long as there are books to read, but soon he found a problem, and had to postpone the library plan. …,

The fight against the family is to better develop industry and commerce, and the development of industry and commerce also has a great relationship with the technical level of various industries, as the so-called science and technology are the primary productive forces, and industry and commerce want to develop, so in construction, agriculture, mathematics and other disciplines, Datang must also make achievements.

In fact, many people have studied these disciplines before the Tang Dynasty, especially in mathematics, and there are many works. It's just that most of the things Li Su can find are some Confucian works, and there are very few practical scientific books such as architecture and mathematics, which makes Li Su very unwilling, after all, no matter how good Confucianism is, it can't create wealth, only those real knowledge is the real driving force for the development of industry and commerce, and he doesn't want the library to be built with great effort to become an accessory to the imperial examination.

It is precisely with this idea that Li Su had to delay the matter of the library for a while, and then collect some practical books other than Confucianism, and classify them according to their functions, hoping to organize various types of books into a systematic discipline, but it is a pity that those practical books are not easy to find, although there are some in the palace, but after the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the books in the palace are not lost, so the palace collection of books in the Tang Dynasty is not very many, and it cannot meet Li Su's requirements at all.

In the end, under Wang An's reminder, Li Su thought of the five surnames and seven wangs, these great families, compared to the Tang Dynasty, which has only been established for decades, these great families have been inherited for nearly a thousand years, and the clan not only collects a large number of Confucian classics, but also collects a large number of non-Confucian books. When the printing is finished, you can change another batch.

It was precisely because of seeing these Taiyuan Wang's collections that Li Su became interested in the collections of several other great families, so he put forward such an additional condition for the Lu family, in order to sort out and classify all these books and make preliminary preparations for his national library career. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )