"I beg your pardon for being a lonely advisor, who is this Mr. Bi Sheng? Isn't it a great Confucian who will only show his reputation in the future? Listening to the tone, Shen Long's admiration for Bi Sheng is still above Kou Zhun, Ouyang Xiu, Fan Zhongyan and others, but he has never heard of this name, Wang Anshi can only guess like this.

The reason why I guess it is a great Confucian is because Shen Long said the word cloth clothes, and he can leave a name in history with cloth clothes, and in Wang Anshi's imagination, I am afraid that there is only a great Confucian who refuses to enter the office.

"No, this Mr. Bi Sheng was born in the third year of Kaibao in the Great Song Dynasty and died in the third year of Huangyou." Shen Long glanced at the words on his face and said, Kaibao is Zhao Kuangyin's era name, and Huangyou is the era name used by Song Renzong after Qingli, and it has only been seventeen or eighteen years since now.

"This?" Wang Anshi's father and son looked at each other, the two of them had never heard of a character who could be so admired by Shen Long, and the two of them could be regarded as having seen and heard a lot, how could this happen?

"Mr. Bi Sheng is not a great Confucian, there are quite a lot of Confucians in the Northern Song Dynasty, such as Guanxi Zhang Zai, Cheng Yi Cheng Hao brothers, Mr. Lianxi Zhou Dunyi, etc., oh, I almost forgot that Jiefu can also be regarded as a great Confucian in the world, but unfortunately, Jiefu's knowledge is not widely spread in later generations, but the Cheng brothers and their second disciple Zhu Xi's knowledge has dominated China for hundreds of years, and Zhu Xi has become the only person who is not a disciple of Confucius and enjoys the Confucian Temple, ranking among the twelve philosophers of Dacheng Palace."

"It's a pity that I don't like his learning, it's too twilight, but I like Zhang Zai's learning a little; Although Wang Yangming, Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi, Huang Zongxi and others tried to reform Confucianism in the future, it is a pity that they still can't shake the status of Cheng Zhu Lixue. ”

"Cheng Hao is too rigid and doesn't know how to be flexible, this kind of learning is actually ......" Wang Anshi couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this.

"Worthy of enjoying the Temple of Confucius, ranked among the twelve philosophers of the Dacheng Palace? Isn't it four with ten philosophers? Wang Yan asked, in the Great Song Dynasty, these fourteen people who enjoyed incense in the Confucian Temple were four matches: Fu Sheng Gong - Yan Yuan, Shu Sheng Gong - Zi Si, Zong Sheng Gong - Zeng Shen, Ya Sheng Gong - Meng Ke; Ten philosophers: Min Loss, Ran Yong, Duanmu Ci, Zhong You, Bu Shang, Ran Geng, Zai Yu, Ran Qiu, Yan Yan and Zhen Sun Shi.

The rest of the outstanding Confucians can only stay in the east and west, that is, the houses on the east and west sides of the Dacheng Palace, including the disciples of Confucius who are not the four with the ten philosophers, as well as the great Confucians of the past dynasties, such as Zhang Zai, Cheng Yi, Cheng Hao and Zhou Dunyi that Shen Long just said, as for Wang Anshi, don't look at the Confucianism that will depend on his interpretation of the imperial examination this year in the future, and in the future, he will not even be qualified to enter the east and west.

"In the future, there will be more barbarian emperors, and Zhu Xi will be added to Youruo and what I just said." This is all a matter of the Qianlong period, Zhou Mingzhang pointed to the collection of books in the scripture department, "If you are interested, I can show you Zhu Xi's book, but I guess you can't read it, it's really not very interesting." ”

Wang Anshi doesn't think very highly of Cheng Hao's knowledge, so naturally he doesn't need to talk about his disciples.

Wang Anshi thought that the barbarian emperor that Shen Long said and the barbarian who replaced the Great Song Dynasty were all the way, but he didn't continue to ask, as for Zhu Xi, he could also get his book and go back to see it later, so he continued to ask about Bi Sheng, "Dare to ask Shen Daochang, what kind of person is this Bi Sheng?" Why have you never heard of it? ”

"Bi Sheng is neither a Confucian nor an official, nor a literati, so it's not unusual that you haven't heard of it." Shen Long pursed his lips and said, "This Mr. Bi Sheng is a Cai Hou-like figure. ”

Cai Hou? Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty? Could it be that Bi Sheng is a big mink stall in the palace? If it's a famous mink stall, I won't know it? And how can eunuchs leave their names in history?

"Jiefu thinks crookedly, Bi Sheng is not a eunuch, Cai Hou improved papermaking, so that students all over the world have cheaper writing materials, and Bi Sheng invented movable type printing, which improved the efficiency of printing books, reduced the cost of printing books, and allowed more people to buy books, this merit is far above Kou Zhun, Su Shi and others, even Jiefu is much inferior." Seeing that Wang Anshi's father and son didn't seem to have figured out this truth, Shen Long couldn't help but shake his head.

Hey, you readers, you don't always pay attention to technology, forget it, let me tell you about it, "Okay, you may not understand it just by saying that, wait a minute, I'll show you something interesting!" ”

After saying that, Shen Long slid down the mirror, and a board of unknown material fell from the sky, blocking the water feature wall outside, and the study slowly turned black; Suddenly, a light flashed overhead and fell on the board, and a rectangular picture appeared on the board, on which was a Song man holding a wooden plate.

Looking at his dress, he should be an ordinary craftsman, there are many words placed in the wooden plate, this Song man is taking out a piece of text engraved with words and carefully examining it, next to it is written Bi Sheng and movable type printing a few large characters.

There are too many stimuli today, Wang Anshi and his son are a little numb, just look at the picture seriously, only to see that the picture suddenly moved, and Bi Sheng's profile appeared, telling his simple life experience, Bi Sheng is just a craftsman in a printing shop, and the only thing he did was to invent movable type printing.

Then the picture changed again, and the image of Bi Sheng in the painting gradually became clear, looking like a real person, and then moved, and began to demonstrate how he invented movable type printing, from engraving blocks to typesetting, and then to brush ink printing, each process was clear, Wang Anshi and his son also understood, but they could not understand the meaning.

"Dare to ask Jiefu, how much does it cost to print a book in the Great Song Dynasty?" Shen Long asked.

Wang Anshi also prints books often, and he is no stranger to this, he thought about it and replied, "I printed six books a few days ago, which is a lot. ”

"Well, where's the price? Is it stereotypical? After seeing Wang Anshi nodding, Shen Long continued, "The stereotype must be made of finely grained wood, and the price will naturally be more expensive; After using Bi Sheng's movable type printing, the cost of engraving is saved, and the price of printing the same book will be at least half of it. ”

"It is not easy for poor students to study, and it would be a blessing if the price of books could be reduced by half." Wang Anshi nodded, but he still felt that this was not enough to be qualified to go down in history.

"Well, I'll show you something!" Otherwise, they were afraid that they would still not be able to figure it out, but the picture on the wall flashed, and the painting style changed again, and a huge steel house appeared.

I saw a thick stack of white paper enter the steel cabinet, and when it is spit out from that side, it is full of words, and then these words go into the next iron cabinet, and when they come out, they have been cut properly, and when they come out of the last cabinet, they become a book.

Almost instantly, hundreds of books were printed, and Wang Anshi and his son fell into shock again.