Chapter 668: Literary Affairs
After a heavy snowfall in March, the weather returned to normal, and several rains fell one after another.
The river was abundant, and some of the inferior fields became superior fields, and the superior fields became more fertile.
Many people actively reclaim the land after cultivating their fields.
Mulberry hemp is planted in the mountains, fish ponds are enclosed in tidal flats, and grasslands are turned into pastures.
The chickens and dogs in the land of Guanzhong smell each other, and they are connected.
Everywhere there were children running and laughing.
The former Xianbei people, Qiang people, Hu people, and Huns have gradually faded, speaking a pure Chinese dialect, wearing Hanfu, and living in a house that is also in the style of a Han family courtyard.
I don't want to be sinicized, of course, I am ambitious.,I can only stay in the stage of waiting for a lifetime.,The land tax is two percent higher than that of governing the people.。
Children and grandchildren can not study the imperial examination, nor can they enter the youth camp, even if they join the army, unless they have the merit of being the first to become a general, they will be soldiers for the rest of their lives, and the military merit of the twelfth turn will be halved.
Under the adjustment of various measures, the ethnic groups have been sinicized unconsciously.
Only some old and young people in Chang'an City are still maintaining the old traditions of the Xiongnu and Xianbei, not living in a house, but setting up a tent in the yard, and cultivating the fields of others, and planting grass and grazing sheep in their fields......
But these people are destined to be drowned in the tide of the times.
When their next generation goes out, what they see, hear, and feel is all the customs of the Han family, and in such a big environment, it is impossible not to change.
Yang Zheng attaches great importance to children.
Set up a nursing home in Chang'an and provide broth every other day.
While eating meat and drinking soup, Xuanyilang began to tell stories, and various stories were filled with private goods.
What King Qin is a saint from heaven to rescue the suffering grassland herdsmen and the people of the Central Plains.
What 2,000 years ago, everyone was a family and drank the water of the Yellow River.
It's not a simple preaching, but a performance that blends into a variety of fairy tale-like stories.
Xuanyi ordered Wei Zhu to be in charge of this matter and sent the written story to Yang Zheng for approval.
Yang Zheng added more interest according to the experience of later generations.
The youth camp has become a children's organization, and the outstanding children selected, regardless of ethnic group, are sent to Taixue for further study.
And Taixue became a comprehensive university.
Yang Zheng also added a lot of private goods, although Confucianism is still the mainstream, but the proportion is decreasing, and the proportion of arithmetic, medicine, alchemy, and Gewu is secretly increasing.
In this regard, Huangfu Mi and Ji Kang are both big bulls.
Zhang Shu and Du Kuan also wrote a lot.
Feng Qi, who was far away in the Western Regions, somehow tricked some scholars into coming over and carrying a thick bookbag.
The Qin State was stable, and the number of monks in Tianzhu also increased a lot.
However, most of them are gathered in Guzang.
Guzang has become an abyss of scholarship and thought, where various civilizations collide in the east, west, north and south.
Confucianism originally disdained to communicate with these evil sects, but at Yang Zheng's insistence, Du Kuan and Zhang Hu brought a group of Confucian scholars to join them and collide with scholars in the west.
Yang Zheng feels that as long as any kind of civilization rests on its laurels, it is the beginning of its decline.
Even in this era, when Chinese civilization stands at its peak, it needs to open its eyes to others.
The highest enthusiasm is the Tianzhu monk, who can come from Tianzhu thousands of miles away, how can he be an ordinary man?
Almost all of them are scholars from Tianzhu.
In about a year after arriving in Guzang, he will be able to master the Chinese language, speak and write, and translate Buddhist scriptures in large quantities.
The most famous is Zhu Buddha Tucheng, Tianzhu people, nine years old in Wuchang country monks, twice to the Zobin to learn the law, after the completion of the study traveled to the Western Regions, famous, there are nearly 1,000 disciples, highly respected in the West Plains, called the "Divine Monk", after entering Guzang from the Hexi Corridor, and Zhang Xu, Du Kuan, Western Regions scholars debate, famous for a while.
Yang Zheng's heart moved, if Buddhism is prosperous, it is also a sharp weapon to control the grassland and the Western Regions.
Of course, if this thing is too unscrupulous, it is not a good thing.
It depends on how to manage it.
It happened that Zhu Buddha Tucheng proposed to the government to build a new Buddhist temple.
Yang Zheng brought it under the jurisdiction of the government, and all monks must pass the examination of the Xuanyi Division and get the degree, which is the real monk, otherwise they are illegal wild monks.
The Buddhist temples in Hexi and the Western Regions also have to pay taxes according to the capitation, and if there is a Buddha field, they must also pay the field tax, and Yang Zheng only exempted them from servitude.
Guzang has a strong academic atmosphere, and the bigger reason is because of paper.
This is definitely one of the major contributions of Chinese civilization.
The increase in demand for paper has made Haoqiang see a way to make money, and they have built paper workshops.
However, in order to prevent the deterioration of the environment on the Loess Plateau and the upper reaches of the Yellow River, Yang Zheng banned the construction of paper workshops in Hexi, Guanlong, and Hetao.
It is only supported on a large scale in central Shu and southern China.
It can also be regarded as a compensation for the Haoqiang in Shuzhong.
Shuzhong papermaking, far away from Hexi, also avoids technology leakage.
In Yang Zheng's understanding, when a country is strong, its culture must be prosperous.
There are more paper-making workshops, technology is slowly improving, and the price of paper is slowly decreasing, plus printing workshops controlled by the government.
There are a lot of books on the market.
Confucian classics, poems and songs, as well as "Sima's", "The Rise of Great Qin", "New Three Kingdoms" and so on.
Despite the strange name, the rough printing and cut, and the poor quality of the paper, it is cheaper.
A book costs about 20 yuan, which the middle-class family can afford.
Yang Zheng also set up a bookstore to add various picture books and villain books, which can be rented for only one dollar for three days.
If you read at the library, it is free of charge.
Of course, the people are busy with their livelihoods and not many of them can read and write, but the children receive two or three years of free education in public schools and can read a lot.
They are the most common ones in the Drill Library.
The other two beneficiaries are the Hanmen scholars and Shu students, many books are monopolized by the powerful, ordinary people can't see them at all, and the library is almost free.
In later generations, Yang Zheng remembered something vividly, Zeng Guofan took a fancy to a copy of "Twenty-three History", and asked for one hundred taels of silver, equivalent to 15,000 to 20,000 yuan in later generations......
This is still the Qing Dynasty, where the productive forces were relatively developed, and the price of a book in the Three Kingdoms era can be imagined.
Ordinary people may not see the shadow of books in their lives.
Of course, in addition to the paperback edition, there is also a hardcover version, the binding is gorgeous, the paper is white, the brown, ink, and paste are all of the highest quality, and the cover is also depicted with gold and silver threads, decorated with silk brocade, etc., copied by people with superb calligraphy attainments, but such a book is directly equivalent to gold.
It is highly sought after by the heroes of the scholars.
When I came out with a copy, I bought one at a high price......
There are even Central Plains scholars who made a special trip to order.
Perhaps seeing the huge business opportunities, many scholars who failed in the imperial examination no longer returned to their hometowns to farm, but copied Buddhist scriptures and Confucian classics in Guzang and Chang'an.
The powerful children of the Shi clan disdain to do this, but it is the way of life for many poor families.
At this stage, the library is still losing money, but Yang Zheng insists on setting it up.
I can't see the effect in one or two years, but in ten or eight years, I can form a dimensionality reduction blow to the wealthy families.
(End of chapter)