Chapter 149: Inheritance of the Teacher's Law and Engraving Printing
"This is Taixue? That's a lot of people! Wu Yong stood at the gate of Luoyang Taixue, looking at the crowd in front of him, he really had a feeling of being in the future, he really didn't expect that there would be so many people here.
Early this morning, Wu Yong went to study with the Son of Heaven, but fortunately, Liu Hong asked him to go home first because he had something to do in the afternoon.
"Don't be fooled by these appearances, most of them are here to study, and they are not too students." The person who spoke was Le Yi, a student of Mu Yu, a doctor of "Shangshu", who was born and raised in Luoyang and studied with Mu Yu for many years.
There is no distinction between generations in Taixue, they are all commensurate with senior brothers and younger brothers, and most of them are on weekdays
The teaching form of "successive generations". Next, Le Yi told Wu Yong about the composition of Taixue.
It turns out that there are as many as 30,000 students in Taixue alone. These students are not only wealthy and noble, but also poor children.
Naturally, the children of the nobles are a group of slaves wherever they go, but the poor children are different, in order to take care of their studies, their families come to Luoyang, the capital together.
Therefore, there are at least 100,000 people in this Tai Academy. This made Wu Yong sigh again and again, he really underestimated the pursuit of knowledge by the ancients.
And Leyi is also very curious about Wu Yong, and today Dr. Mu Yu asked him to pick up Wu Yong, which really shocked him.
In the past few days, he has heard about Wu Yong and the text of "Shangshu". I thought that Wu Yong would be boycotted by the fourteenth doctor of the Five Classics, but I didn't expect that the doctors were so open-minded that they intended to accept him as a disciple.
You must know that he has served Mu Yu for so many years, and he has not been treated differently by the doctor, and he is remembered as a disciple.
This made him a little envious and jealous of Wu Yong, but he didn't dare to show it, even if he waited for a long time in the Waiting Mansion, he greeted Wu Yong with a smile, and he didn't have a very high self-esteem.
As for Wu Yong's inquiry, he knows everything and says everything. The two of them walked on their feet, talking and pointing around, and soon came to a mansion deep in the academy.
Le Yi knocked on the door, took Wu Yong in, and saw that the fourteen doctors in the room were all there, and after bowing respectfully, he consciously withdrew from the room.
At this time, Wu Yong didn't know the identities of the fourteen people in front of him, so he could only salute respectfully and said, "Boy Wu Yong, I've seen all the adults!" "After Dr. Fourteen came in, he kept observing Wu Yong, and saw that although he was young, he was neither humble nor arrogant, and he was very satisfied with him.
Therefore, Mu Yu said with a smile: "No need to be polite, your father Wu Kan once studied "Ouyang Shangshu" with me, since you are Wu Kan's heir, are you willing to inherit your father's will and study with me?" Wu Yong was stunned, he didn't expect that he had just come in and was recruited as a student, but he didn't know the identity of the other party at all, although the other party was old, it didn't matter if he was left to worship in the next generation, but in this era of paying attention to the inheritance of the teacher, worshipping the wrong teacher is a very serious matter.
Just when he didn't know how to answer, Wang Fan spoke.
"Dr. Mou's words are wrong, Wu Kan has also studied "Xiao Xiahou Shangshu" with me, and Wu Yong should study with me." Another doctor of "Shangshu", Mu Xie, was reluctant, and he also spoke: "How do I remember that Wu Kan also studied "Daxiahou Shangshu" with me, and if you want me to say, Wu Yong still studies with me." "The reason why the three "Shangshu" doctors quarreled was because the doctors only had registered disciples, and they were the real teacher inheritance, and the students who were not obvious like Wu Kan were not qualified to be listed as registered disciples by them at all.
Now Wu Yong has obtained two and a half "Shangshu" essays from the Taixu Wonderland, although it has a certain impact on their current status.
However, if these two and a half "Shangshu" texts are included in their own teacher inheritance, it is undoubtedly a way to improve their own teachings, so none of the three "Shangshu" doctors will give in.
The other eleven Doctors of the Five Classics were also a little dumbfounded, they didn't expect that as soon as Wu Yong came, the three Doctors of Shangshu would quarrel first.
They tried to persuade them, but they didn't know how to speak. After all, this is related to the other party's inheritance of the teacher's law, and if you don't say a word well, you may offend the other party to death.
In this way, the three doctors of "Shangshu" quarreled fiercely, pointing out the shortcomings of the other party's teachings. And the other eleven Pentateuch doctors can only choose to hang high on their own business.
I don't know how long the quarrel lasted, the three "Shangshu" doctors seemed to be a little tired, so they looked at Wu Yong at the same time and asked, "Wu boy, which of the three of us do you choose to be your teacher?" After a while, Wu Yong finally understood, the three old men were all doctors of the Five Classics of Tai Academy.
He has been studying with the Son of Heaven these days, so he naturally knows how great the influence of the doctors of the Five Classics is, and none of them can be offended by himself.
If he chooses one of the three, he will definitely offend the other two, which he does not want to see.
Therefore, he thought about it carefully before he replied respectfully: "The three doctors have learned all the ancient and modern times, and it is a blessing for the kid's ancestors to be able to look at the kid, but the kid is now a servant of the Son of Heaven, and the matter of choosing a teacher is not something that the kid can decide." Only then did the fourteenth doctor remember that Wu Yong had another identity, and now he and the Son of Heaven studied with the three emperors, if he and others forced him to apprentice, he was afraid that he would be alienated from today, and one was not good, and the doctor's position would be canceled, which was not cost-effective.
Everyone glanced at each other, and finally Mu Yu sighed and said: "It's okay not to mention the apprenticeship, but the two and a half articles of "Shangshu" are to stay in my school palace. Wu Yong was stunned for a moment, and then reacted, the doctors of the Five Classics admitted that the two and a half articles were written in the "Book of Shang".
This is good news for him, among the Five Classics, the most people who study the "Shangshu", the influence is also the greatest, if the world all learn these two and a half "Shangshu" texts, he will become the world's teacher, when the time to raise his arms and call, the responders gathered, it is really majestic.
He was thinking about good things here, and he didn't want Dr. Liu Pu of Yi to suddenly ask: "Since you have been too empty for many years, can you have a way to stop the gradual decline of my current literature and scripture studies?" Although the other doctors were a little caught off guard by Liu Pu's question, they also looked at Wu Yong with blazing eyes.
Wu Yong came back to his senses, frowned and thought for a while, when he went to study with the Son of Heaven on the first day, Yang Ci said that the similarities and differences between modern literature and classics and ancient literature and classics, in fact, the dispute between the two families is, in the final analysis, a dispute between the interests of officialdom.
He didn't want to get involved, this was much more influential than the competition between the three "Shangshu" doctors, and if one was not good, he would become a public enemy of the world.
However, since a doctor asked like this, if he did not give a satisfactory answer, he was afraid that the matter of the two and a half articles of the "Book of Shang" would be far away.
Just when he was at a loss, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a pile of bamboo slips and a stack of white paper not far away, and many thoughts flashed through his heart.
Wu Yong's first thought was movable type printing, but movable type printing in this era seems to have a certain degree of difficulty.
Movable type printing includes clay movable type, ceramic movable type, wooden movable type, and copper movable type. But no matter what kind of movable type it is, there are many disadvantages.
The main disadvantage is that it is easy to be damaged, it is not easy to preserve, and the printing is not clear and beautiful enough. For example, clay movable type, ceramic movable type, generally known as clay movable type, is easy to break when printing, so that the printed matter is always short of words.
The wooden type, due to the uneven texture of the wood, the difficulty of carving, the deformation of the wooden type after wetting, and the medicine is not easy to separate, etc., the application is the least, and only the special wood can be obtained.
Movable copper type is generally not used, because it is not easy to ink, and there is no such ink that is easy to ink.
The most important thing is that copper is very expensive, and some people even use copper as gold nowadays, and it is estimated that the copper movable type will be secretly melted before it is engraved.
Then Wu Yong thought of engraving printing, which is the most likely to work. Engraving printing has played a significant role in the spread of culture, but there are also obvious shortcomings: first, engraving is time-consuming, labor-intensive and costly; second, a large number of book plates are inconvenient to store; Third, there are typos that are not easy to correct.
Of course, the advantages of block printing are also obvious. First of all, the layout is flat, the ink is good, and the printing is relatively clear.
The second is the art of calligraphy, which can express engraving. Finally, the engraving has been used for a long time, and a engraving is generally not easy to damage.
Thinking of this, Wu Yong bowed down and said: "The adults are the teachers of the deceased father of the little son, and the boy does not dare to deceive him, but the boy sees a skill called 'engraving printing' in the Taixu Wonderland, which can quickly spread the scriptures. ”
"What is block printing?" The fourteen doctors were stunned for a moment, and then asked eagerly.
"The so-called engraving printing is actually very simple, it is to prepare a slightly thicker smooth wooden board, paste and copy the neat manuscript on it, the thin and almost transparent rice paper is attached to the front of the board, the characters become reversed, and the strokes are clearly legible. Then let the engraver use a carving knife to cut off the part of the layout without handwriting, into the font protruding yang, printing, on the raised font ink ink, and then cover the paper on its surface, gently wipe the back of the paper, the handwriting remains on the paper. This engraving can be used repeatedly, that is to say, if a copy of the "Shangshu" is carved, then with this set of engravings, hundreds of copies of the "Shangshu" can be copied in a short time, so fast, it will be far more than handwriting! Wu Yong said as he started to start
The skill of "creation" is to carve the content of "Bao Xun" in the house. Seeing Wu Yong quickly finish writing an article on a wooden board with a brush, and then carving it seriously with a carving knife, the fourteen doctors couldn't help but look at each other, but they didn't bother Wu Yong, and they were very curious about what kind of magic Wu Yong's so-called engraving printing was!
The article "Bao Xun" is only a hundred words, and there is a system in hand, and Wu Yong took less than half an hour to complete all the carvings.
Then he carefully brushed a layer of ink on it, spread out the white paper, and gently scraped it with a bamboo board, and suddenly a "Bao Xun" was printed on the white paper, and then handed it to everyone: "Ladies and gentlemen, please see, this is engraving printing." Dr. Liu Pu of "Yi" took the paper, he really couldn't put it down, he looked at it and looked at it, and when the others saw this, they also wanted to take it and take a look, but they didn't want Wu Yong to blink an eye, so he actually printed more than ten more sheets and asked them to have one.
"It's amazing!" Everyone exclaimed as they looked at the identical handwriting on the paper. They can't help but be shocked, in the era when there was no printing technology, the reproduction of books could really only be handwritten, and every book volume was a rare treasure for the eyes of the reader.
Why did the ancients call learned people?
"Learn to be rich and five cars" is because the knowledge they learn is bamboo slips, and they are all pulled by horse-drawn carriages when they are carried, which is extremely inconvenient.
Like the "Bao Xun" recorded by Wu Yong, the text is only 100 words, but it also has to record a volume, which is not only a waste of time, but also troublesome to look through.
Now as soon as this engraving printing technology comes out, all the problems have been solved in an instant. In addition, Wu Yong taught 14 doctors how to bind paper together with twine and then encode it into a book.
This made the fourteen doctors even more shocked, looking at Wu Yong's eyes, it was like looking at a monster.
You know, thread-bound books are also a big invention! Among the Five Classics, the "Book of Songs" alone has 39,224 characters, and if bamboo slips are used, I am afraid that a carriage will not be able to fit it.
And with a wire-bound book, a thin booklet will do. Such a thin book, which can even be carried around, is simply unimaginable in the past.
The fourteen doctors, all of whom were old and sophisticated, could not help laughing at the same time when they thought of the role of the woodblock printing and the wire-bound book.
"With these two kinds of Taixu Immortal Techniques, I want to make a big splash in my scriptures today!"