Chapter 455: The Nineteenth Task Qin Shizhi's Liu Bi's Ambition 28
Of course, the best selling of these books is the paper version of the collection, hundreds of thousands of bamboo slips, printed on paper is actually just a few thousand books. If Lu Renbing is a little more black-hearted, compressing and compressing the font size, dozens of books can be printed.
Most orders are subscriptions to the common Zhuzi Baijia classics, plus some historical geography books. The whole set was purchased by some large families. There are also wealthy families who deliberately buy a full set of bamboo slips in the manuscript.
No matter what kind of customer it is, Lu Renbing will not refuse to come, as long as he gives money, he will sell anything. Lu Renbing's hand caught the First Emperor off guard. He didn't have the idea of burning books yet, and the books Lu Renbing sold were all in the small seal version, which was in line with the imperial book and text laws.
Including the dignitaries and dignitaries in the center of the empire, they couldn't understand what Lu Renbing was going to do, because in their impression, books were very precious things, and every family had a book that they wanted to hide and tuck, for fear that others would steal it. Lu Renbing's this is good, and he sold all the books accumulated by Confucianism for hundreds of years.
Of course, they will not miss this opportunity, among Lu Renbing's big customers, Xianyang's bigwigs are the main buyers. Including Li Si and Zhao Gao, they all bought a full set of luxurious bamboo slip books.
According to Lu Renbing's statistics, more than 900 sets of bamboo slips have been sold in total, and there are really many rich people.
One of the palace collections of the First Emperor was also bought. Don't think that the royal collection doesn't need to be replenished. After the emperor of the Han Dynasty ascended the throne, there were only dozens of books in the treasury, and he had to issue an edict to ask for books from the people, which can be imagined how precious the books of this era were.
You have to ask Lu Renbing where he got so many sets of bamboo and wood versions, cough cough, he has been preparing to sell books for profit from the beginning of his book collection to the time of Huaiyin.
What's the best way to save something? It's not in a safe, it's not a deep pit and it's buried. Instead, there are so many things that seem to be precious that they are rotten on the street, so much that people don't even have the desire to pick it up when they see him. It's like the weeds on the roadside never need to be protected, and they can survive for generations. On the contrary, those things that need to be carefully protected are doomed.
Lu Renbing has enough manpower in Huaiyin to help him copy books, anyway, those children are idle and copy. Although the production of bamboo and wood slips requires a certain amount of skill, it is not a problem for local tyrants.
Xunzi and Fu Nian were actually opposed to Lu Renbing's sale of books. They are also people of this era, and they take books very seriously. A clearance sale like Lu Renbing always makes them feel sorry that their things are being sold cheaply.
Of course, Lu Renbing told them about the things that would be easier to preserve the inheritance after the popularization of books, and several of them were smart people, so of course they quickly figured it out.
Historically, the book burning order was passed quickly, and a large part of it was because burning those books would not touch the interests of the Xianyang magnates, because their families did not have these books, and they did not rely on these books to live.
Now it's okay, Haoqiang everywhere has a collection of books in his home, and Zhao Gao and Li Si don't dare to knock on people's doors to burn books easily, is it really that the sword of the old Qin family is not sharp? The authority of Li Si, the prime minister, comes entirely from the trust of the First Emperor, like a castle built on the sand. Once the First Emperor died, Zhao Gao, a eunuch, could easily obtain his head.
Well, none of this has anything to do with Lu Renbing, as long as the First Emperor does not issue a book burning order for a day, Lu Renbing's book selling business will not stop. It's so profitable.
Looking at the mountains of wealth, even Xunzi, who had seen through everything, felt a little unbearable.
If you have money, you have to spend it, so Lu Renbing continued to buy land to open up wasteland, tuntian, and expand the scale of the college. Establish Mongolian studies, middle schools, and open secondary colleges such as martial arts, engineering, and science. Buy mines, start various workshops.
Xunzi, who is old and almost doesn't care about the world, has also been tossed by Lu Renbing's generosity in recent years.
He called Lu Renbing to his home and wanted to have a good chat with Lu Renbing.
"Zibi, where do you want to talk about the little sage village? Before you made sacrificial wine, our little sage village was the leader of the world's corporal forest, a noble place, and now? Although it is not full of copper smell, it is not expensive. How can there be a reason for academies to sell books in the world? What do you want? ”
"Uncle Shi, the heart of the ancestral dragon annexes the four seas, and it is never allowed to have a disobedient heart, Confucianism is divided, and the remnants are broken, I heard that the servant shot Chun Yuyue repeatedly wrote to the emperor, opposing the county and asking His Majesty to divide the clan. Many Confucian doctors are in agreement, and there are even doctors who talk about poetry and read history in official schools, advocating separation. The First Emperor should be very displeased, if someone with a heart, such as Zhao Gaolisi, deliberately pushes, the overthrow of Confucianism is just around the corner. ”
Speaking of this, Lu Renbing peeked at Xunzi, and sure enough, when he heard Li Si, his face was very unnatural.
"Therefore, the disciples must make a good cut with those Confucian doctors as soon as possible, recruit disciples on a large scale, get closer to the emperor, and resell books, all in order to build a protective wall for the little sage village and avoid falling in the coming storm."
Xunzi is not a fool, he is one of the most powerful wise men in the world. After a long silence, he finally sighed and didn't say anything more.
"By the way, Uncle Shi, when I was reading books in the library earlier, I could always feel that there were several forces of people sneaking into the library to rummage for something. I wonder if Uncle Shi knows what they're looking for?
"Hmph, they must be looking for this thing." Xunzi snorted coldly, and made a quaint box from his sleeve with his backhand. "This thing was originally not our Confucian thing, and it fell into the Little Sage Village by chance. Originally, this matter was extremely secretive, except for me, only three people knew about it. Now I don't know why, the news leaked. I know that there are no less than four forces that have come to this little sage village to look for him. “
"Originally, this thing should have been kept by your master, but unfortunately he was eager and had no intention of quarreling in the rivers and lakes. Now that you have risen, it is up to you to keep. ”
Lu Renbing solemnly took the box, only to see that the box was very exquisite, and reached out to open the lid, and found that the box turned out to be an extremely sophisticated mechanism, which requires special techniques to open, and brute force cracking may get a bunch of garbage.
"Uncle Shi, what is here?"
"It is said to be the Seven Nights of the Dragon! The Seven Houses of the Canglong Dragon, also known as the Seven Houses of the Oriental Green Dragon, "Horn, Kang, Di, Fang, Heart, Tail, Kei", form a complete dragon-shaped star sign. It is said that after King Wu settled in the world, the seven houses in the east of the twenty-eight nights skyrocketed in luck and the stars were unstable. Jiang Taigong Lu Shang, cast a spell and used seven magic weapons to collect the luck of Qisu, and became a treasure that can suppress the national fortune like Jiuding. ”
Canglong Qisu was buried under Jiuding to suppress Zhou's luck, and later Zhou lost its tripod, and Canglong Qisu also wandered in all directions. The heavy treasure chased by the princes in the troubled times of the Spring and Autumn Period is the Seven Nights of the Canglong. Later, it was obtained by the monarch of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States and became a treasure of inheritance.