"Announce them in."

As soon as Li Shimin's voice fell, the great eunuch Wang De handed over a glass of honey water in a timely manner and said, "Your Majesty, it's time to eat." ”

"Okay, by the way, let's see what the hell they're up to." Li Shimin handed the cup to Wang De and hung the red pen on the pen holder.

"Pass the meal." The great eunuch Wang De roared in a sharp voice.

"The child Chengqian, the minister Li Gang, Zhang Zheng, have seen Your Majesty." The three of them, the old man, the second and the younger, who entered the main hall, bent down and saluted Li Shimin on the dragon chair.

I happened to hear the voice of the great eunuch Wang De ordering the food to be delivered.

"Wait a minute, we haven't eaten yet." Zhang Zheng suddenly said to Wang De, with a very embarrassed expression on his face.

Wang De was stunned for a moment, Li Shimin smiled, and said to Wang De: "Then there will be three more copies." ”

"Yes." Wang De received the order.

"Don't stand, seat." Li Shimin said to the three people in the hall.

"Father Xie, Your Majesty." The three of them replied in unison, and a few cases were brought in by the chamberlain, and the three of them knelt down on the side.

"I heard, what treasure are you here to give me?" Li Shimin looked at Zhang Zheng with a smile, ignoring Li Chengqian and Li Gang.

In his opinion, such a thing as offering treasure must be the handiwork of Zhang Zheng, a fart monkey.

Old Li Gang was about to get up and reply, but Zhang Zheng grabbed Li Gang and shook his head at Li Gang.

Then he said to Li Shimin: "Back to Your Majesty, the boy and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Master Li are here to offer treasures." As for what treasure to offer, please sell it.

Wait for Your Majesty to finish your meal and then offer it to Your Majesty, otherwise if you offer it at this time, I am afraid that Your Majesty has no intention of eating, and the minister will be at fault. ”

"So make a fool of yourself, if it's not a treasure later, I will cure you of the crime of bullying." Li Shimin said with a smile.

It was also Li Shimin's broad-mindedness that Zhang Zheng dared to say such joking things to Li Shimin.

If it were a different emperor, like Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, the courtiers at the bottom dared to play this trick of wanting to capture and indulge, and they would have been escorted out of the noon gate and beheaded.

Not to mention giving food and joking with courtiers.

"I will not let your majesty down." Zhang Zheng showed a confident smile.

Li Shimin pointed at Zhang Zheng, shook his head and smiled, and stopped talking.

The four of them finished their meal in silence, and Zhang Zheng ignored Li Chengqian's expression of wanting to speak and stopped, and ate very sweetly.

Fang was in the East Palace, because Lao Li Gang suddenly sensationalized, the three of them had no appetite, so they didn't eat anything.

The food served by the East Palace was returned to the kitchen as it was, making the cook almost doubt his life.

I have already gone to Zou Guogong's Mansion for further study, why is this master still dissatisfied?

Old Li Gang also came back to his senses from the initial shock, and began to drink porridge slowly and methodically with a smile.

Only Li Chengqian was at a loss there, fidgeting like a needle in his buttocks.

……

After the four of them finished eating, they rinsed their mouths with honey water, and Li Shimin wiped his mouth with a towel, and then asked, "Now you can talk about it, what kind of treasure do you want to offer me?" ”

Old Li Gang smiled, and stepped out with the wooden box beside him, avoiding the hand stretched out by the waiter.

walked directly to Li Shimin, put the wooden box in front of Li Shimin, and said, "Congratulations to Your Majesty, this is the first auspicious time since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, please open it Your Majesty, and you will know at a glance." ”

"Hehe, so it's mysterious, even Xiangrui has come out, Lao Li Gang, you haven't always believed in this set." Li Shimin smiled, and didn't care about the rudeness of old Li Gang.

The great eunuch Wang De was on the side, watching Li Shimin reach out and open the box, and couldn't help but get nervous.

Stretched out his hand to protect Li Er, and said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, why don't you let the old slave open it for you?" ”

Li Gang's eyes widened when he heard this, and he said angrily: "How can you be a eunuch in the Jinluan Palace, and the old man can still plot to kill Your Majesty?" ”

"It doesn't matter." Li Shimin stretched out his hand to stop Wang De's behavior of opening the box for him, and at the same time, he didn't believe that the three of them would have the idea of murdering him.

Then he reached out and opened the box, and a team of lead blocks carved with small characters came into view.

"What is this?" Li Shimin pointed to the lead type in the box like a seal and asked Old Li Gang.

"This thing is called lead type, Zhang Zheng's little baby made it." Old Li Gang said with a smile.

"What's the use?"

"The minister will demonstrate it for His Majesty, and His Majesty will understand." Lao Li Gang explained as he reached out and picked out four lead characters from the box and arranged them in a row.

He also took Li Shimin's red pen for reading and folding, and brushed ink on the lined up lead movable type.

Then he picked up a piece of rice paper and gently pressed it up, and then spread it out and placed it in front of Li Shimin.

On the rice paper, there were four fly-headed small blocks of "Son of Heaven Shengming".

I changed the order of the rows of lead type, and gently pressed the rice paper on.

Spread it out again, and the four boys of "Shengtianzi" appeared on the paper.

"This." Li Shimin stood up suddenly.

Zhang Zheng handed the newspaper in his arms to Li Shimin in a timely manner. said: "Your Majesty, please see, this is the newspaper that Weichen said." ”

Li Shimin took it and saw it at a glance, "Shocked, a generation of famous ministers passed away, and the emperor personally carried the coffin, who has this honor, all in Datang Entertainment Weekly." ".

And then below is densely packed like a fly's head carved out of a mold.

The format, spacing, and font of each word are all exactly the same. Compared with the ordinary hand-copied Di Bao, there are also some more dots or circles-like symbols used to break sentences.

"This newspaper is using these ......"

Lao Li Gang reminded in a timely manner: "Your Majesty, this is called lead type. ”

"This newspaper is printed with these movable lead type?" Li Shimin stared at Zhang Zheng deadly.

He pointed to the newspaper in his hand and the lead type in front of him.

With a look of shock on his face, he asked word by word.

"Back to Your Majesty, exactly. The treasure that the minister, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Master Li want to offer to His Majesty today is this movable type printing. Zhang Zheng looked at Li Shimin's shocked face and replied.

"When Lao Chen first learned about the effect of movable type printing, he was also so shocked that he was speechless." Old Li Gang smiled and mended the knife.

Li Shimin sat back on the dragon chair, and the shock on his face slowly turned into ecstasy.

"Hahaha, with this sharp weapon, the family, what a way." Li Shimin suddenly laughed.

At first, it chuckled, and slowly, it turned into a loud laugh. Then, the entire hall was filled with Li Shimin's happy long smile.

Li Shimin has reason to be happy, what is the most expensive in this era? Three-year-olds can answer: "Knowledge is the most expensive." ”

Where knowledge comes from, of course, comes from books.

Where the books are, they are all in the hands of the family.

The family monopolized the educational resources of the entire Tang Dynasty, and for this reason, Yang Jian, the Wen Emperor of the former Sui Dynasty, had to come up with a method for the imperial examination.

wants to break the monopoly of the family on educational resources and even on the official position of the empire.

It's a pity that there is little effect, and all the good educational resources are in the hands of the big families, and the poor family can't get out of the noble son.

Because the poor family can't afford to buy books, and there is no teacher education.

With the weapon of movable type printing, there will be more and more books in Datang, and readers in Datang will also spring up like mushrooms after a rain.

In less than 20 years, poor students will grow up one after another, and they will be inexhaustible.

Without the monopoly of educational resources, the decline of the family is only a matter of time.

Therefore, Li Shimin has every reason to be happy.