"King, why don't you tell Your Majesty the real cost......" Liu Qu looked at Liu Ponu with a melancholy face, and his heart was very uncomfortable.

Making money is definitely going to be earned, even if this thing is not counted in the workshop, even if the emperor personally arranges someone to make it, it is still to make money.

It's just more or less, the cost that Liu Ponu told Liu Che is almost twice as high as the real cost.

If His Majesty asks about us, I really don't know what to say......

You say that's true, right?

Isn't this demolishing Liu Ponu's platform?

But if you don't say it, isn't it the crime of bullying the emperor if the emperor finds out?

"Tell him what? Don't you notice that the bad old man is getting more and more out of breath lately? A little thing is just a little bit of a babble, how can there be a little bit of the appearance of being an emperor! Liu Ponu couldn't help but bury it, as for the lesson just now?

In the face of a big strategy, there shouldn't be any problem with damaging him, right?

Ahem, it's mainly a habit that has been developed for a long time, and it can't be changed for a while.

Before Liu Qu could react, Liu Ponu hurriedly continued, and Liu Qu of the province wanted to persuade himself again.

"If he asks you to tell the truth, don't look at this as just a small piece of paper, his role is no less than that of thousands of troops."

"The early stage is the accumulation stage of capital, and we must use this thing to dig out more money from the big dogs, and with the money, we can build more workshops and make more paper."

"When it reaches a certain scale, the cost and selling price of paper will plummet at a rate that is visible to the naked eye!"

"Uncle Liu, tell me, if there is so much paper that I can't use it up, I compile it into books and sell it at a very low price, will ordinary people have ideas?"

Liu Qu's eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at Liu Ponu in disbelief.

The more things, the cheaper the price, he still understands this truth.

But the book is so funny?

No one dares to imagine how high the cost of making up a book is, not to mention making it up, not to mention borrowing books from those big dogs to copy them, even if the emperor takes a book out of the palace and asks him to copy it at will, the cost will not be low.

"King, this thing doesn't seem to be so easy, even if the price of paper comes down, the cost of this transcription is not low, even if you don't consider the occurrence of mistakes in the transcription process that lead to the abandonment of previous efforts, a person transcribing a book, fast is a day, slow is three or five days, then how many people have to find to transcribe?"

"Besides, the people are illiterate, even if they have enough books, and the price is so low that they can afford it, they can't read the books when they buy them back, isn't that a waste of money?" Liu Qu persuaded seriously.

He heard what Liu Ponu meant, and he also guessed what Liu Ponu was going to do.

But from Liu Qu's point of view, this is a bold and risky approach, and the probability of success is very low, and even this matter may not only not succeed, but will also suffer serious backlash.

What are you doing this for?

Really, those old magnates are stupid, and they can't see anything?

The book has its own house of gold, which is not an empty phrase, but a real truth.

When a peasant becomes a cultural person, how can they be willing to do so?

The competition at the top is fierce enough, and now you farmers still want to come and grab jobs?

What's the trouble?

"Immortals have their own tricks!" The corners of Liu Ponu's mouth rose slightly, revealing a treacherous smile, and continued: "Of course, this king knows how strong the counterattack of the old magnates will be, but this king has his own way to break the situation!" ”

It is impossible to steal people's jobs, and people don't fight back.

But when the Sui Dynasty, which is generally believed to have pioneered the imperial examination system, conducted the imperial examination, why did the magnates not launch a strong counterattack?

Is it that they don't want to?

Of course not, of course the counterattack exists, but it is not as fierce as imagined.

The main reason is that a imperial examination was held, and the magnates suddenly sighed, and then found that this method was very good.

According to the previous rules, some people were destined to have a hard time entering the power class, but through the imperial examination, they are expected to surpass those who are more awesome than themselves, so why not support it?

In other words, the Sui Dynasty skillfully transferred the contradiction between the magnates and the common people, turning it into an internal contradiction between the magnates, so that the elite class was not monolithic, and they naturally did not prevent the people from participating in the imperial examination.

In this way, it is equivalent to opening up a channel for the grassroots people to rise, although many years after the start of the imperial examination, there are very few ordinary people who have come up from the grassroots level.

But the seed has already been sown and is beginning to take root in the future.

The greatest advantage of the imperial examination system is that it greatly suppresses the ability of wealthy families to intervene in national politics, making it difficult for them to form a new family bureaucracy.

At the same time, because of the implementation of the imperial examination system, the imperial power was further sent to the countryside to the hearts of the people.

Of course, the experience of history only gave Liu Ponu more confidence in these aspects, and what can be done in history may not be able to be done now, and Liu Ponu is not sure whether the current environment is suitable for that set.

So on the one hand, Liu Ponu is preparing to break the situation, and on the other hand, he is consulting a lot of information.

Fortunately, the bad old man's attention to Liu Ponu allowed him to walk around the palace at will and consult all the classical materials at will.

Then Liu Ponu discovered a shocking secret.

The imperial examination was not the first to be established in the Sui Dynasty, it was at most a process that was perfected and comprehensively promoted.

Because Liu Ponu found a decree that Emperor Jing began to implement in the second year of the Weiyang Palace, called Zhaoju Virtuous and Fangzheng, and it has been continued.

When Liu Che wanted to recommend Liu Ponu as a talent, Liu Ponu called him a good guy, but after reading this information, he realized that there was a prototype of the imperial examination in the Han Dynasty.

The core idea of the edict is almost exactly the same as that of the later imperial examinations, which is nothing more than that there are some different subjects in later generations, and some changes have been made in the way of examinations.

It is precisely because of this decree, which has been in place for decades, that Liu Ponu has the confidence to do this.

Of course, he didn't float either, of course Liu Ponu knew very well that this was not something that could be done in the short term, but this seed must be planted by itself, not only to be planted, but also to be perfected.

After all, Liu Ponu's ideal is to bring China into the industrial age in advance, well, two thousand years earlier than the original history, if this is not able to beat others in the future, maybe the coffin board will not be able to suppress Lao Tzu at that time......

"Uncle Liu, go and gather the families of those craftsmen, and this king will apologize to them personally!" Liu Ponu commanded Liu Qu, and his heart was even more helpless.

What do you call this?

People who are good at it come to cooperate with their own research, but they lose their lives when they do it.

If this is their own problem, it would be easy to say, but the problem is Liu Ponu.

And it's also because Liu Ponu owes it, although Liu Ponu is shameless, although he is a little cheap, but his nature is not bad at all, and it is very uncomfortable to watch so many people being implicated because of himself.

Fortunately, the data and everything that were studied before have been recorded, otherwise Liu Che's fluttering knife would have passed, and his efforts in the past half a month would have been gone.

The families of the craftsmen are all in the city, and it is not difficult to gather, but it is not easy to get them into the palace.

found a more free place to temporarily resettle these people, and Liu Ponu rushed over directly.

However, when leaving Weiyang Palace, Liu Ponu heard some rumors that were not very good.

"There are so many big mouths in this palace!" Liu Ponu complained to the many Yulin soldiers with a displeased face, and then went straight to the outside of the palace.

It is rumored that Liu Ponu angered the emperor, and as a result, the emperor killed all sides in his small courtyard, carrying dozens of corpses, and the emperor came out with a very bad face.

And after coming to the place, Liu Ponu discovered how terrifying the speed of the spread of rumors was.

What happened just now is now reaching the ears of their families?

There were old and young, standing there trembling one by one, their eyes all revealing a deep sense of fear.

"It is true that your relatives were killed by the emperor, but it was not their fault, but because of the evil consequences caused by the carelessness of this king, this king is very guilty in his heart, and he summoned you not to kill people as rumored outside, but this king wants to give you an explanation, and also to those who were killed by mistake." With these ordinary people, Liu Ponu doesn't need to say so much because of that.

It's meaningless, it's useless, it's all in vain.

Besides, they are now afraid of each other, and even if they say it, they may not be able to listen to it.

The most important thing right now is to dispel their fears, so that they can get over the pain of losing their loved ones as soon as possible, and of course, by the way, make a statement for themselves.

As for Liu Che......

It is true that he doesn't have to carry the cauldron, but for the sake of his own career, he still can't run away from the cauldron!

"The emperor was originally very angry, but after the king explained clearly, the emperor's anger disappeared, but people can't be resurrected after death, and it's too late to say anything now, but anyway, they also died because of this king, and the responsibility that should be borne by this king still has to be borne by this king."

"So this king asked the emperor for permission to treat you and the others well, and the emperor agreed."

"This king thought about it carefully, it's not impossible to let you go into the palace to replace them, but the situation in the palace is complicated, and what this king doesn't want to happen to them will happen to you one day."

"So this king now gives you two choices, one is to enter the workshop, no matter how many of you want to come, this king will arrange everything, in addition, their current money will also be issued to you, but it is paid in the form of a basic salary, that is to say, for example, if your family is implicated by this king, and then two people are sent into the workshop, the person who was implicated can get ten dollars a month, then the ten dollars will be divided into two, and the two people will each get five dollars, and then as long as they do as much work as everyone else, The king promises that you will always receive five more than others. ”

"The second option is that the king will give you a one-time compensation of 5,000 yuan per person, and you can go anywhere with the money to live a stable life, of course, no matter which one you choose, this king will give you an additional 2,000 yuan for funeral expenses......"