The Yangzhou big exam, Qiao Gong's annotation, and printing technology completely set off a trend among the entire Han Dynasty.

"Old Li Tou, where are you going!?" A farmer looked at the old Li Tou of the same village over there and asked, now is the time when the farm is busy, and people can't get out, but the old Li Tou put down the hoe and put on the only piece of clothing in the family with only five or six patches, this is the rhythm of entering the city.

"What else can you do, go into the city!" Lao Li Tou said to the farmer over there.

"What are you doing in the city? Visiting relatives? The farmer asked suspiciously, if you want to visit relatives, you can go back a few days later.

"I'm going to the city, buy books for my kid!" Lao Li Tou said to the farmer in the same village.

As soon as the farmer heard the words of this old Li Tou, he immediately grinned: "Old Li Tou, don't talk and laugh, just buy books for your family's family background?" Can you afford it? "This is not a mockery but a kind of persuasion, the value of a book is as high as several gold, even if the old Li Tou's family sells a few acres of fertile land, there is not so much money to take out.

"I can't lie to you!" Lao Li Tou is in a hurry, and the countrymen are also very concerned about face, "I want to buy two, no, three books, give our second child, let him study, and become a big official in the future, at least like the chief!" "In Lao Litou's mind, the lieutenant chief is a big official.

"Haha, you're still an official, Lao Litou, didn't you drink that little wine today, aren't you afraid that your mother-in-law will give you two huhu (slaps) to eat!" The two of them argued, and slowly there was a circle of people around them, and they all laughed when they heard Lao Li Tou's delusions there.

Lao Li Tou was squeezed by a few fellow villagers and was speechless. His face turned red, "Me." I. I'm right! Why don't you believe me, I deceived you to get a lot of money! ”

"Haha!" The surrounding villagers have already regarded Lao Li Tou as a joke.

"What's wrong, what's wrong!" In the midst of the noise of the crowd, a man dressed in the clothes of an official ran over.

"The lieutenant is here, the lieutenant is here!" This person is the head of this village, and he has little power, but he is also in charge of hundreds of households, and he can be regarded as an official. The big guy still respects him very much. Because the grain seeds that the big guys need to farm and the cattle and farm tools that they need to cultivate the land are all obtained from the hands of this chief. So it's still very majestic.

"Captain, it's this old Li Tou, maybe he's drunk, and he actually wants to make their second child an official, and he also wants to say that going to the city to buy books is not wishful thinking~!" The people on the side told Lao Li Tou as a joke to the lieutenant chief.

"Being an official?" The lieutenant chief shook his head, it's really not easy to be an official, he's just an official, and it's 108,000 miles away from the official.

"Look. I'll just say that Lao Li Tou drank too much, and he hasn't even heard of the lieutenant chief! How could he know! "Look at the way the captain looks. The name of the village over there thinks more and more that this is Lao Litou's wishful thinking.

"I didn't drink!" Lao Li's face was terribly red.

"Alright, alright!" The lieutenant clapped his hands, "It's not easy to be an official, but Lao Li Tou is right, there are indeed books for sale in this city, and Lao Li Tou is probably really going to buy books!" The lieutenant said to the crowd below.

"Ah, old Li Tou, you have made a fortune!" Everyone looked at Lao Li's expression and changed, you must know that being able to buy books is a skill that only rich people can have, a book is worth a few gold, and an acre of fertile land in this era is only 2,000 yuan.

"Go, go, where did I get rich, my mother-in-law sold a dozen eggs laid by my hen and the hen together for a hundred dollars, let me buy books!" Lao Li Tou said to the villagers over there, although the villagers were surprised that this old Li Tou actually sold him the old hen that could lay eggs at home, but what was even more surprising was that Lao Li Tou only took a hundred yuan to buy books? Isn't that a joke? The crowd did not believe it again.

But the governor over there nodded, "One hundred yuan, if you buy it right, it's okay to buy two or three good books." ”

This lieutenant also bought a lot of books, although he couldn't read them, but he was able to have a collection of books at home, which means that this is a scholarly family, so the lieutenant chief gritted his teeth ruthlessly, bought a cart of books and went back, and sold one of their courtyards in the city to him.

With these books in the mansion, even if you can't read them, you can show them off. You must know that there used to be a collection of books at home, and it was really a rich family.

"Wouldn't it, for a hundred dollars, you can buy three or two books?" The people over there don't believe it, although a hundred mosquitoes is a lot of money for them, but it's not big enough to be able to buy books, and they have two or three copies.

"I can't lie to you!" The chief over there looked at the dealers under his hand, and he couldn't help but be angry.

"Don't dare, don't dare!" The common people still look like the people are not in harmony with the officials. He was very respectful to the chief, but his face was still obviously not convinced.

"You'll know when Lao Li comes back in the evening! Old Li Tou, it will take a while to go from our village to the city, you can take the ox cart of Cheng Ge'er! The lieutenant chief waved his hand and said to Lao Li.

"How does this make this, what does this make, Lao Li Tou is a little scared, that ox cart, generally no one really dares to sit, because there may only be two or three ploughing cattle in a village, and every villager regards these ploughing cattle as treasures.

"What's not to be desired! It just so happens that Brother Cheng is going to the city, so you can just go with it! "The lieutenant is very generous, and under the thanks of Lao Li Tou, Brother Cheng's ox cart set off.

"Alright, let's all disperse!" The chief waved his hand and said to the villagers under his hand.

After all, you have to be busy with farming, so everyone is also working hard for a while, and then they disperse, no matter how lively they are, they also need to finish their own things.

It was soon darkening, and the sun was about to set.

The people have also finished their day's work and are about to clean up and go back.

"Why did you say this old Li Tou hasn't come back yet!" Some people are still thinking about the daytime.

"I'm afraid I didn't buy the book, so I don't dare to come back!" A lot of people have this idea.

"yes, this is a book purchase. I was working in that big family. It's the Wu family in the city, you know. Master Wu! One of the people said to the others.

"Master Wu? But that Master Wu who is in the tea business? "Some people know this Master Wu.

"Yes, Master Wu has a lot of money, but if Master Wu wants to buy a book, he asks his grandfather to worship his grandmother, and he finally bought a book, and I heard that it cost dozens of gold!"

"Oops, so many!" For these people, that's astronomical.

"Yes, so Lao Litou, isn't it a joke to go buy books this time!"

"Don't say that. Maybe people looked away and gave Lao Li a book! Ha ha! Everyone laughed for a while, the ancients didn't have anything like TV to entertain, these rumors and these laughing stocks are their entertainment, and the topic of Lao Li Tou can make them talk for half a year.

"Lao Li Tou is back, Lao Li Tou is back!" Just when everyone was laughing, news suddenly came from there, and Lao Li Tou was back. He came back with Brother Cheng, who was driving the ox cart.

"Didn't Lao Li Tou buy a book!" Someone over there asked hecklingly.

"I have nothing to say to you!" Lao Li Tou turned his head and left, not caring about other people's gossip at all.

"It must be that old Li Tou didn't buy the book!" Everyone thinks so, because if Lao Li Tou buys the book. He would still be like this, and he would have been complacent a long time ago. Where would you leave without a sound like this?

So those people who used to mock Lao Li Tou have now become even more sarcastic. What old plum head is a lazy toad, I want to eat swan meat, what old plum head is a daydream, and so on.

"Hey!" But Brother Cheng over there couldn't help it, and couldn't help sneering, "You are still laughing at other people's old Li Tou one by one, you guys, you just don't know what to say!" Brother Cheng sneered, gloating one by one, but he didn't know that the person who benefited the most was that old Li Tou.

Did Lao Li Tou buy the book? He did buy it, not one or two, but three books, but Lao Li Tou didn't say anything, and made a fortune in a muffled voice.

Because after buying three books, this old Li Tou got a benefit, that is, after hearing that there were books, after two months of farming, they could let their second child enroll in school.

It is to enroll, this small county town under the Lujiang River, there are a total of three schools in it. You can enroll in school after you are busy farming.

The reason why Lao Li Tou didn't tell them was that he wanted his second child to enter the hall first, so that he would be one step faster than others.

"This old Li Tou, we are still in the same village as him in vain!" Someone on the side listened to Brother Cheng'er's words and immediately became resentful, this old Li Tou is too unkind.

"That's it, that's it, how can I say that I'm also his brother-in-law, he doesn't sue sù others have to sue me anyway! ~”

Brother Cheng looked at these villagers with disdain, your brother-in-law who was sneering just now didn't talk less.

"Brother Cheng, is this true? This book only costs 30 yuan a piece? "Some people still don't believe it.

"I lied to you that you have the benefit of a few pennies!" Brother Cheng said disdainfully. "Look, I bought two copies too!"

"Brother Cheng, can you read books?" Someone on the side laughed.

"If I can't understand it, I can learn!" Brother Cheng said a little annoyed.

"Haha, Brother Cheng, can you still enter the academy at your age!" There was a lot of laughter, leaving Brother Cheng angrily driving the cow back to the cowshed.

Laughing and laughing, but although the common people are a little ignorant but not stupid, they send their dolls to the school, there are only benefits and no harm, anyway, it is not the time to be busy with farming, one by one they all go home to get money and take things, and the next day they all go to the city to buy books.

They don't know how to read can be wise or something, they only know that reading may become an official, even if they can't be an official, they can go back and say that at least our dolls are literate.

On the second day, the people gathered in all the cities, and they bought and sold books without noticing.

And on top of every book is a sentence "Reading wisely and opening your eyes, what the saints learn, what the world is prospering - Qiao Xuan." ”

What does the old man Qiao Xuan think now, Liu Mang thinks it is so pleasing to the eye, as long as there is that sentence, it can be said that nearly half of the scholars in the world will respect this Qiao Gong, and even some people have begun to establish Qiao Xuan as a Ji Sage, another Qiao Sage after Kong Sage and Meng Sage.

Qiao Xuan's face was full of redness, and this face was completely earned.

"Lord, this book is sold so cheaply, will it be too much of a loss!" In the main hall, Mi Zhu, the head of the household, is crying and sad, because this thing to buy a book, there is simply no profit, not to mention those pen and ink, this paper alone has a cost of fifteen wen, and Liu Mang only sells a copy of thirty wen in Yangzhou, if you count the labor and freight, it can be said that not only does not make money but also loses a lot.

"Zifang, the matter of education is originally a loss-making business!" Liu Mang can think about it, as long as the people can be wise, the loss will be a loss, this book is not about making money, but about making talents, as long as there are thousands of children in a county town, even if there is only one talent, then Liu Mang is earning, and it is difficult to change a talent.

"Lord, there is nothing at such a price in Yangzhou, but why is it sold at such a price in the capital of Yanzhou?" Mi Zhu didn't understand it even more, you said that you opened the people's wisdom in Yangzhou, and you sold books at a loss of thirty yuan, why did you go to other states and counties at this price, then Cao Cao of Yanzhou will be your enemy sooner or later, you are not an enemy.

"Hehe, I wish he Cao Cao would buy all the books!" Liu Mang smiled, the more books sold in other states and counties, the happier Liu Mang became, why, because there was also Liu Mang's calculations in it.

Why should the people be fools, because they have not read the book, so they are easy to be deceived, and once you have read the book, then naturally this vision is different, and the idea is not the same, maybe a doll in the mountains who has not read a book only thinks about marrying a wife and giving birth to a doll and herding sheep after Zhang Da, but once he has read the book, he will be infected by the fame of those scholars or scholars in the book, thinking, why can't they be like this, I am also a scholar.

There is a big test in Yangzhou, which can let the children of the poor family enter the officialdom and let them carp jump into the dragon gate, but there is no such thing in other states and counties, and it is not that everyone is stupid and can't see the benefits of this big exam.

The big exam is a reshuffle of the scholars, the scholars can no longer maintain the superiority of his reading, they used to study and become officials are the children of the scholars, as long as they are not fools, they can be filial piety and officials. Once you take the big test, you will offend the scholars.

Liu Mang is not afraid of offending the scholars, because the Yangzhou scholars have basically run away, the Jiangdong scholars have been killed by Liu Mang and suppressed a group, and they dare not talk much, and the scholars in Xuzhou have also migrated to Yanzhou, it can be said that the three places completely belong to the vacuum of the rights of the scholars, which of the scholars dares to play with Liu Mang?

And other princes are different, such as Jingzhou, no matter how much Liu Biao hates Cai Mao, he doesn't dare to kill Cai Mao, just because the Cai family is powerful, killing Cai Mao's family may be a big turmoil. He still has to rely on these nobles.

How dare they open a big test, if they do a big test, they will offend the family of the scholar family, isn't this death!

If there is no big exam, those people who have opened the wisdom of the people will not agree, and there are only two choices left for them, one of which is to come to Yangzhou to participate in the big exam, so that the students of the world will inevitably gather in Yangzhou, and there is also a choice to fight with those scholars, so that the local princes are anxious, no matter which choice is beneficial to Liu Mang's Yangzhou.

That's why Liu Mang sells books so cheaply, which is the export of many cultures, and it is also a cultural war.

A steady stream of books from Yangzhou were printed and dumped towards the land of Kyushu in the Han Dynasty, and all of a sudden books completely changed from a privilege of the scholars to something that went to the homes of ordinary people.

Every household, whether poor or rich, is embarrassed to go out and meet people without a few books. (To be continued......)