That night, Wei Xuan held a banquet in the mansion, attended by Zheng Xuan, Cui Yan, Sun Gan and Gu Yong, and Wei Xuan knew that among Zheng Xuan's disciples, these three were the most outstanding. However, Cui Yan and Sun Qian have been in Luoyang for a while, and Wei Xuan only vaguely expressed the idea of inviting them to come out, because Cui Yan and Sun Qian came with Zheng Xuan, Wei Xuan naturally does not have to worry about them leaving soon, but Gu Yong is an exception, so Wei Xuan wants to use the power of Zheng Xuan and others to stay Gu Yong.

It's just that not long after the banquet began, a guard hurriedly came in and handed Wei Xuan a note, and Wei Xuan frowned and pondered after reading it.

Zheng Xuan asked, "Zhongdao, what happened?" ”

Wei Xuan thought about it for a while, and left the table and handed the note sent by Wei He to Zheng Xuan. Zheng Xuan also frowned after seeing it, and after a while, he looked at Gu Yong and asked, "Yuan sigh, do you know that the emperor will be?" ”

Gu Yong didn't know what was going on, the teacher could only say anything when he asked, and when he saw Zheng Xuan and Wei Xuan's serious expressions, he stood up and bowed his hand to Zheng Xuan and said, "Back to Master, the disciple has heard of this organization, it seems to be ???????????????? It is a link between many families, with a common goal. It's just that it's not very clear whether the Gu family has joined Emperor Huiyong. ”

Zheng Xuan nodded and returned the note to Wei Xuan, who glanced at Cui Yan and Sun Qian, and handed the note to Cui Yan with a little hesitation.

Cui Yan's expression was a little strange after reading it, and he handed it to Sun Gan again at Wei Xuan's signal, and Sun Gan finally came to Gu Yong's hand after reading it.

The content of the note is about thread-bound books, saying that many families from Nanyang began to purchase a large number of wire-bound books in the afternoon, and Wei He sent people to send the books to their foothold, and overheard some people talking about it, saying that there were many people coming to the emperor's meeting this time, and people from Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou and Jizhou came, ready to pack and bring back the Wei family's wire-bound books, so that Luoyang Academy had no books. If the Wei family keeps the thread-bound books and does not sell them, it will disrupt the sales of other products of the Wei family.

Gu Yong didn't believe that it was a few family members who delivered books who heard such confidential information, and thought that there were other channels for the Wei family, plus Wei He's feelings at the scene, so he made such a judgment. There are two problems here, the first is that the emperor and the Wei family seem to have antagonistic feelings, and the second is that the emperor wants to buy all the Wei family's thread-bound books on behalf of the family, so as to prevent these precious books from falling into the homes of poor scholars and even ordinary people.

For the second purpose, although Gu Yong did not support it, he could understand it, but the emperor would be so incomprehensible to the Wei family Gu Yong was a little incomprehensible, and he was also worried about the Wei family.

In fact, among the five people seated, Wei Xuan, Cui Yan and Gu Yong are all from local wealthy families, and they should be basically the same according to the interests of the family.

But Zheng Xuan admired Wei Xuan's bias towards the poor, because although books are expensive, the wealthy family is not short of money.

Sun Qian glanced at Zheng Xuan and said to Wei Xuan: "Zhongdao, your establishment of Luoyang Academy and the open sale of wire-bound books are indeed good news for the majority of poor scholars, but you are also digging the foundation of the family. Ji Jue and Yuan Si, as children of the family, are actually in the same breath as Zhong Dao, I think I can understand your approach, how about letting them pay back from it? ”

Wei Xuan shook his head, Cui Yan and Gu Yong may not know the grievances between themselves and the Emperor Society, but since he openly sells wire-bound books, he is naturally prepared. The emperor wants to mess up his business plan, but it is actually a bit blind and arrogant. However, it is also necessary to knock other families with Cui Yan and Gu Yong.

Wei Xuan put away the note and saluted Zheng Xuan, and said lightly: "Xuan once said proudly that our generation of scholars should set up their hearts for heaven and earth, establish their lives for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations." People often say that a century-old dynasty and a thousand-year-old family. It is true that the family has played a role in governing the country, but the selfishness of the family is also vividly manifested in the change of dynasty and foreign invasions.

Most families only care about their own interests no matter how the dynasty changes, which can barely be endured, and it is unbearable to be equally numb or even insensitive in the face of natural and man-made disasters and foreign invasions. Not to mention, when he was declared as the governor of Hedong, in the face of the infiltration of Taiping Road in Hedong, in the face of rampant mountain bandits and thieves, and victims everywhere, many families in the north of the county turned a blind eye, and it is no exaggeration to say that if it were not for Xuan's advance layout, the Baibo army was very likely to ???????????????? It has grown to hundreds of thousands of people, even connecting Uvro in the north and Montenegro in the east. If that situation really happens, not only will I defend my family, but I am afraid that most of the families will be wiped out, and the skin will be attached if there is no hair?

My generation is not a saint, but there must be a degree of selfishness. Why did my Wei family send Quyuan plough to the people of Hedong for free, and now Zi'ah Henan and Yingchuan have also begun to promote, not to improve the efficiency of farming, so that the place is stable, only when the place is stable, our family can develop for a long time. If the victims of the disaster are allowed to become displaced people, the world is turbulent, and how many people can benefit, is the former Henan wealthy still there?

If there is chaos today, a large number of talents are needed to govern the country, can the family really provide so many talents? Look at the former Yuzhou Thorn Shi Kong Ling, look at Zhang Zhi and Wang Rui, and then look at the land ghost Yuan Changshui, which one can calm the place and revitalize Chaogang? The public sale of wire-bound books to the outside world has indeed moved the interests of the family, but it is also to recruit more talents for the world. ”

Hearing this, Zheng Xuan nodded frequently, Cui Yan and Gu Yong looked surprised, they really didn't expect that Wei Xuan, who came from the Hainei Wang clan, was so determined to weaken the family.

Cui Yan stood up slightly embarrassed and said: "Yan did write back to ask the head of the family to send someone to Luoyang to buy books as soon as possible, but it was just to buy books, of course, my Qinghe Cui family may not want these wire-bound books to flow out, but I definitely have no intention of being an enemy of the Wei family, and I definitely never thought of leaving the academy with no books to read."

I think that the Emperor Guild also wants to let Zhongdao control the number of wire-bound books through this method, and there is no other deeper malice. ”

Gu Yong nodded and said, "Zhongdao, you are dedicated to the country and the people, we have all seen it." Yong has seen the pricing of the line-bound book, according to the estimate, Zhongdao your Wei family should not be profitable, and I think it is also to attract talents to come to Luoyang, the so-called good intentions. Since there is a shortage of supply, we will raise the selling price appropriately to achieve the goal of controlling sales. ”

Sun Qian nodded, although he supported Wei Xuan's approach, it was indeed not easy to offend many families completely. Especially what emperor will be from Gu Yong's words can be seen that it is definitely not a simple organization, since the emperor will have sent people to Luoyang, I think it is also a good opportunity to fight with the Wei family to the end. Of course, Wei Xuan can lead his troops directly to the foothold of these people and confiscate all the property, but in that case, Wei Xuan will stand on the opposite side of the world's families, and he will be the same as Dong Zhuo. Moreover, the money that the family used to buy books was a drop in the bucket compared to the wealth they had, and such a break was not worth it at all.

Wei Xuan was unmoved, he knew that before the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Song Dynasty, the family controlled Chaoyang but desperately stuffed it into his pocket, completely ignoring the interests of the country, the nation and the people. So that there will be five chaos in China, there will be confrontation between the north and the south, and there will be a well-dressed southward crossing. For example, Yang Song in the Eastern Han Dynasty and Hanzhong experienced so many troubled times and actually became the ruler of the Sui Dynasty.

Another example is the five surnames and seven wangs during the Tang Dynasty, most of the Han Dynasty had them, they are Hedong Pei's, Qinghe Cui's, Fanyang Lu's, Longyou Li's, Taiyuan Wang's and so on!

The country is still broken, and the people are dead. The magic weapon of these families is to ignore the survival of the country and the general righteousness of the nation,???????????????? Regardless of the three principles of the people's life and death.

Wei Xuan's public sale of thread-bound books was only the first step, and it was his goal to truly achieve a perfect imperial examination, so from the very beginning he was opposed to the purpose of the Imperial Society! Cao Cao is also the kind of person who is unwilling to be at the mercy of the family, and there is a more outstanding representative of Tang Taizong Li Shimin.

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After pondering for a while, Wei Xuan sat down and looked up at Cui Yan and Gu Yong and said: "Trade peacefully, whether it is the Emperor Guild or other families, as long as the Wei family still has books in their hands, they will always sell them, and the price will not rise." The Wei Family Association first guaranteed the use of books for the academy and the middle schools in the three counties and the primary schools in each county.

Although most of our generation of scholars may not be able to do the four sentences that Xuan said, the goal is a little smaller, and it should be our original intention to let more readers have books to read on the road of continuing to study for the sake of the saints, and we should always keep it in mind.

In addition, militarily he is not afraid of Dong Zhuo, politically he is not afraid of Eryuan, and economically he is not afraid of any emperor, on the contrary, if such a trouble, my Wei family has a reason to justifiably cut off the things produced by the Wei family from the emperor's society, and Xuan wants to see if the emperor's society has the ambition not to use the Wei family's goods to make profits. ”

Seeing Wei Xuan's tough attitude, Cui Yan and Gu Yong also knew that persuasion was useless, but they had to seriously think about the relationship between the family and the Wei family and Wei Xuan. The two also knew that this was a big gamble, just like no one thought that it was he Wei Xuan who defeated Dong Zhuo in the Eighteenth Route Alliance, in case that day Wei Xuan swept Kyushu and overwhelmed the world or even changed the dynasty to reign in the world, then the family that followed the earliest would not only not be weakened, but would rise because of it.

When there are only a handful of people who can surpass the Wei family in Hedong in terms of fame today, the Hongnong Yang family was migrated to Chang'an by Dong Zhuo, most of the upper echelons of the Yuan family in Runan were wiped out, and the Yingyin Xun family is now the in-law and close partner of the Wei family.

Now that Wei Xuan is famous all over the world for his crusade against Dong Zhuo, the Wei family has taken this opportunity to withdraw from a series of luxury goods, thinking of this, both of them have a helpless wry smile on their faces.

Now that the two families are closer to the Wei family because of the relationship between Cui Yan and Gu Yong, they are really reluctant to give up in a hurry.