Today's book capital, in addition to the north and south of Beijing, is Suzhou, Hangzhou, Hui and Jian. Suzhou, Hangzhou and Hui are all big counties in China, while Jianyang is only a county in Jianning Prefecture in northern Fujian, but it can be juxtaposed with it, which shows its prestige in the book printing industry.

Jianyang County is especially famous for the printing of books in Masha and Chonghua. The characteristics of Jianyang book are distinctive, and it is precisely that the price is cheap and the things are not beautiful. The paper and stencils they use are far inferior to those of other printing powerhouses, and the key is that they are cheaper.

Xu Yuanzuo wants to run a library, not a library. The library building of the Ming Dynasty is also a historical business card, which has made great contributions to the preservation of ancient books. However, each family has various rules in the library, either not allowing foreign surnames to go upstairs, or forcibly dividing the family property from the library to ensure that the successor is simply for the bearer of these civilizations.

Naturally, the books collected will not be anthologies of current literature and popular novels on the streets, most of them are ancient books of the Song and Yuan dynasties and rare books of the past dynasties. Considering that the ancient books of the Song Dynasty were now on the pages of gold, non-wealthy families could not erect a library building. Moreover, it is impossible for the library to be open to the public, and the most relaxed borrowing conditions must be "old friends".

As a public construction, the key to the library is its large size, which is convenient for more people to borrow books. Therefore, the quality of the books is secondary, as long as you can read them. Xu Yuanzuo does not plan to make this library into a large reading room, and if he wants to borrow books without a deposit, he naturally needs to register his identity. Therefore, it is also possible to grasp the personnel information of many scholars in Chaozhou and even Guangdong Province, and establish a reserve bank.

"The building is divided into three floors and is used to house books. Then dig an underground book cellar, and all the books that enter the library must be copied and hidden in it, called the seed book library. The vicissitudes of life can be preserved forever. Outside the library building, there are four other longhouses. It is built in all directions, and the eaves communicate with each other, so that it is easy to read everywhere. Xu Yuanzuo hung up the renderings drawn by the artist at the preparatory meeting.

This rendering imitates the style of the Northern Song Dynasty court painting academy, and several famous local painters were hired to work together, and finally completed the task on time. Nowadays, this style is no longer popular in the art world, but the artistic achievements of the Song Dynasty are too high. But there is no painter who does not look at or learn, otherwise he may not be able to meet the requirements of Xu Xiaocaishen.

According to the market price of Chaozhou, this painting can fold one floor of the library's stacks.

The people gathered below are all real rich people, and they are also the protégés of the Lin family who sincerely want to donate money this time. These senior brothers have their hearts beating fast when they see the picture scroll, obviously the little junior brother is not a person who does "small things", just this floor has four houses with five courtyards, plus all kinds of flowers and plants on the eaves of the rockery, can two thousand taels be done? Well, that's not even counting the land price.

Fortunately, Xu Yuanzuo has already wrapped up this silver. Saved many people from embarrassment. Although they are willing to donate, they are still a little timid because they are two thousand taels in one breath. This kind of local tyrant who spends a lot of money is definitely a representative of the non-mainstream of the Ming Dynasty, such as Shanghai Kang Changsheng and Huating Xu Jinglian.

Xu Yuanzuo also introduced the rules of borrowing books, from entering the door to looking for books to reading them in the library. Finally, I borrowed a book and went out. There are illustrations and explanations in each link, and even the shape of the library card is drawn.

Lin Keming also sat below. I can't wait for Xu Yuanzuo to say a word, and he will praise one. After listening to Xu Yuanzuo's idea, he also designed a process himself, but compared with the current Xu version, it is like the difference between a thatched house and a building.

- Simply invulnerable!

Such a perfect process, it turned out to be a young man. It only took an afternoon to plan it out. Lin Keming was really amazed, if people have such a mind, whether it is a science field or a shopping mall, they must be invincible.

Xu Yuanzuo did not speak quickly, and his words were clear. The grammar is accurate, and a group of Cantonese people in the audience were originally quite repulsive to the official language, but there was no obstacle to listening. It can be said that this is the most standard and easy-to-understand official language they have ever heard.

Xu Yuanzuo finished talking about the borrowing process and said, "The next thing is the most important thing. Book. The younger brother thought that since this library was for the convenience of all readers, it included the newly literate Mengtong, as well as the masters who had learned well. So books should be all-encompassing. We can be completely uncertain about the book list and buy books when we have them. ”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Next, I'm going to talk about the classification and retrieval of books." Xu Yuanzuo said: "There are hundreds of books, and it is a little difficult to find them. So the focus is on retrieval. ”

As early as the compilation of the "Great Canon" during the Yongle period, it faced a retrieval problem. At that time, the "Yongle Canon" was "using rhyme to unify words, and using words to tie things", according to the habit of building library buildings at the time, this is also used.

Xu Yuanzuo considered that there will be more and more books in the future, some of which have the same titles, but the content is completely different, such as Qiu Changchun's "Journey to the West" and Wu Lao's "Journey to the West". This kind of rhyme classification will lead to confusion in the storage of books, which is not conducive to the authors of extensive reading auditions, and it is not conducive to scholars writing papers and looking for information -- this is not Xu Yuanzuo's brainstorm, he has already had a plan for a comprehensive university, and once he has a university, the thesis will not be far away.

"Categorized by content. Classified by hundreds of schools, two categories were created. Humanities, nature. Xu Yuanzuo briefly analyzed the difference between the humanities and social sciences and the natural sciences, and subdivided the first-level subjects such as philosophy, history, literature, geography, and law under the humanities. Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and law are further subdivided under philosophy, and there are official histories of various dynasties, historical theories, etc., and literature is divided into current and ancient texts, and under ancient texts, they are subdivided according to dynasties, countries, and genres.

When this item is unfolded, it is simply dizzying. However, no matter how amazing Xu Yuanzuo said later, everyone always had a huge doubt: there is no problem with Confucianism attributing it to philosophy, and the Confucian classics were originally compiled, explained, and passed down by Confucian sages such as the Ten Philosophers. However, doesn't this classification put Confucianism alongside Buddhism, Taoism, and even Legalism?

Finally, someone interrupted Xu Yuanzuo's explanation: "Jing Lian, forgive the sin: where did Your Excellency put Kong Sheng?" ”

Xu Yuanzuo stood in front with a smile and was not in a hurry to speak.

He also asked the crowd to continue to brew their emotions. If someone is willing to stand up and say that Confucius should return to the princes, then he is of course very happy. Although Wang Xue is also Confucianism, when the Taizhou School proposed that everyone can be Yao Shun, it was actually equivalent to overthrowing the saint qualification of "Confucius Sheng" and returning him to the status of a great teacher of all ages. In fact, just think carefully about the phrase "everyone can be Yao Shun". You can see the "ambition" in it - people only need a teacher to guide the way, not a saint who presides over the truth. Only if a person lacks the qualifications to become a saint like Yao Shun, he needs to be completed by worshipping a saint.

In fact, this should also be the understanding of true Confucianism, which is the difference between philosophy and religion. People who are not deeply educated always deify idols because of awe, and forcibly create a Confucianism. In the long course of history. Confucianism and Confucianism are like a rope entangled, intertwined, entangled, supported, and impacted, and it is impossible to draw conclusions with one-sided affirmation and denial.

Obviously, with Xu Yuanzuo's spiritual and material position, it is the most natural choice to let ******** the princes and let Confucianism overwhelm Confucianism, so there will be today's "hiding from the sky and crossing the sea". As a result, he was called broken by the politically sensitive Cantonese Confucian students, and maybe he could get through in Jiangnan.

Xu Yuanzuo waited for a while and saw that everyone was standing opposite. I had to laugh and say: "Actually, it's some little doubts of the little brother." The Holy Gate uses the Four Books and the Five Classics as an outline, which of course does not say. So under the sages, Han Liu, Ou Fan, the sages, Zhou Cheng, Zhu Lu, and even the Confucian masters of this dynasty, should their writings be placed with the classics, or with the princes? ”

Everyone was relieved for a while: it turned out that they were in a hurry, and Xu Jinglian hadn't talked about the classic arrangement of the Holy Gate. They didn't expect their little junior brother. turned out to be a Wang Xueyu sin, and it was also a strange thing among Wang Xueyu's sins.

Xu Yuanzuo said: "I want to be outside the library. It is set up in the 'Sutra' department, which is dedicated to storing the famous teaching classics. The truth that heaven and earth do not change can be said to be scripture, and it is afraid that some thresholds are needed to be selected into it. This place was built for study, and it cannot be caught up in a lawsuit of tongue. ”

Everyone nodded slightly and discussed privately.

Xu Yuanzuo waited quietly for them to finish speaking, and then said, "Fortunately, there is plenty of time now." You can discuss it in detail. I will also consult my mentor and see his teacher's opinion. ”

"It's up to the teacher to decide." The crowd answered.

Xu Yuanzuo quickly regained control of the rhythm and continued to introduce. When it comes to the natural sciences, the scale is far from being comparable to the previous humanities and social sciences, but mathematics and astronomy are still very face-saving. can stand up, biology is very long - thanks to the developed classics of traditional Chinese medicine, as for physical chemistry, it all depends on Xu Yuanzuo.

Xu Yuanzuo was worried that astronomy was a little sensitive, in the end, in the Tang Dynasty, "private astronomy" and "smuggling through the pass" were two serious crimes that could not be pardoned, and the Song people did not use clear legal documents to untie astronomy and the Mandate of Heaven, but it was not impossible for those who studied astronomy privately. Meng Yuan did not pay attention to this kind of exquisiteness, but it stimulated the study and inheritance of astronomy. In the Ming Dynasty, the law did not prohibit private astronomy among the people, but because they had been entangled with the Mandate of Heaven for too long, they were still a little sensitive.

However, the current Cantonese scholars are obviously too far away from the imperial court. They are sensitive to the status of Confucianism, but they are very numb to the question of the Mandate of Heaven. This is also the country's peace for too long, and the legitimacy of the imperial court has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, who would question whether a two-hundred-year-old imperial court has a mandate of heaven.

Xu Yuanzuo didn't see the obstacle and was greatly relieved. As long as it's okay now, it won't be a problem in the future. During the Wanli period, Europeans brought new knowledge of mathematics and astronomy, and the scholar class did not care whether they studied official or private, and they were all very energetic. In the Chongzhen period, the almanac was revised, and the imperial court even set up three institutions to revise it at the same time: Qin Tianjian revised it with the traditional calendar; Xu Guangqi presided over the revision of Western Law; There was also a folk scientist who claimed that his method was far more accurate than that of the Qin Tianjian and the Western French calendar, so Chongzhen agreed to give him the same treatment and revised the edition. In the end, choose the best.

It can be seen that as long as the wheel of history rolls into the Wanli era, even if someone uses his mantis arm as a car, he will not be able to resist the enlightened and open astronomical boom of the Ming Dynasty.

"The foolish brother has heard of the "Chemistry Sutra", but I don't know if this 'chemistry' comes from this book? If it is based on the Taoist scriptures, why is it placed in nature and not attributed to the sons? The senior brother sitting in the front row asked.

Xu Yuanzuo said with a smile: "This chemistry has nothing to do with the Taoist "Huajing". Well, in order to let you brothers have an intuitive concept, the younger brother will do an experiment, for example. He hadn't prepared before, so he thought of the simplest thing: ignition.

A small piece of candle, lit and covered with a small hand stove. When the oxygen in the hand stove runs out, the candle is naturally extinguished.

This is something that has been seen by people who have lived in life.

"That's chemistry." Xu Yuanzuo said.

The crowd was dumbfounded.

If this is chemistry, then chemistry is nothing!

"Or rather, the object of chemical research." Xu Yuanzuo said: "Where does the fire come from? What is the reason for the combustion? And why did it perish? Between the heaven and the earth that we breathe day and night, what is the proportion of turbid air? Is it combustion with clean air or turbidity? To solve these problems, we need chemistry. ”

"But what's the use of this?" Someone asked.

Xu Yuanzuo took a deep breath: It's really embarrassing for you to do this, liberal arts students!

Fortunately, although he is a liberal arts student, the more physical and chemical literacy these people can compare. He thought for a moment and said: "In the ancient world, the Suiren clan took fire, so it created the foundation of China. It can be said that without fire, man is no different from an ape, and he drinks blood with the same hair, can he be considered a man? Nowadays, there are more and more tools for making fire, and it is becoming more and more convenient. From the orange-red flames we took from the beginning, we have been able to take out even more scorching flames through the bellows, the conservatory, and the nine-story Dan Pagoda. Brothers, from stoneware to fine porcelain, it is the progress of using fire! Can this still be said to be useless? ”

When everyone heard him say this, they all bowed their heads. They don't touch the spring water, but they also agree with the impact of technology on productivity - if technology is really regarded as "strange skills", why spend the cost to dig up the corners of the country and hire craftsmen who hide in the government! If there are people in China who are most sensitive to technological means, it must be these people who can use technology to make money.

Not to mention anything else, Chaozhou, as a coastal important place, is an important purchase market for maritime merchants, and they know very well the price gap between a stoneware bowl and a fine porcelain.

"I wonder if the ancients had a discussion?" Someone asked.

Xu Yuanzuo smiled: "Senior brother, why do you expect the ancients to do everything for us?" The younger brother has written some superficial words over the years, if the senior brother is interested, please correct it. ”

Everyone was in an uproar: this clearly means that he is the first generation of grandmasters who founded the sect, right? That's what it means, right?

If it weren't for the same disciple and brother, I'm afraid someone would really shout: Get this madman out! (To be continued.) )

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