When Liu Bei was still in the quagmire of the Northern War, Shen Chen was in Jingzhou and had already started his great cause.

In fact, he has been thinking about a question for a long time.

That is, let's put aside the assumption that we can unify the Han Dynasty, even if we can dominate the world, what should we do in the end?

Continuation of feudalism?

Then two or three hundred years after his death, the dynasty changed again and reincarnated, staging a scene in the late Ji and Han dynasties, where the princes competed for hegemony?

So what's the point of him fighting hard?

Is it to let the Han Dynasty continue for a few hundred more years, and then repeat history until the new era arrives two thousand years later?

This is obviously not going to work.

In that case, it is better to learn from Lu Xun, even if more than 100 members of the family are killed, they grit their teeth and endure to join Cao Wei and overturn Sima Yi, after all, they can change the tragic situation of five nonsense, why bother to be thankless?

Therefore, he must take action to carry out certain reforms in humanistic thought, political system, and social development.

So what should be the direction of reform?

Raising the banner of democracy?

Dead.

It is difficult to do this at a time when intellectuals have the power to interpret culture and everyone has to uphold the rule of the monarchy.

It is much more reliable to let him start the industrial revolution from scratch than to engage in democracy in Dahan.

So learn from the greats?

No, it doesn't.

The premise of learning from great men is to overthrow feudalism, and to overthrow feudalism, it still does not work in this era.

Mozi had already experimented in the Spring and Autumn Period, and then was rejected by almost all the princes.

Later, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were also progressives.

For example, Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi and others have long known that the feudal monarchy is "the great evil of the world", but they have not shaken the national foundation of the Qing Dynasty.

And in Dahan, Shen Chen is afraid that he doesn't even have a like-minded person.

So at least for now, feudalism cannot be overthrown, and you even have to complete your change of thinking within its framework.

So under the current situation that the feudal monarchy cannot be overthrown, how to build a complete political system, advocate a people-oriented, pay attention to the bottom of the political system, and create a country that does not treat the people as dogs?

Shen Chen didn't have a clue for the time being.

However, he firmly believed that he would be able to develop a development system suited to the national conditions of the Han Dynasty.

And to create such a country, you first need companions.

For example, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang.

They are all embraced by the people-oriented ideology and the idea of the king and the people, and they pay more attention to the lives of the people at the bottom than the upper class.

Although you could also say that they still maintain feudal rule.

But compared with the other princes of the late Han Dynasty, who killed people like hemp and regarded the people like mustard, the thoughts of Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang were already regarded as a torch in the dark world of the late Han Dynasty.

So Shen Chen wanted to unite them and build such a country together.

Liu Bei is now in Henan, and Shen Chen can't help him much, so he is now working with Zhuge Liang to study the problem of people-oriented thought.

If you want to promote the concept of people for the people, it is definitely not possible to say directly, and you must find the answer from the ancient books of the sages.

For this reason, Shen Chen has been studying the Seven Classics during this time, and all the people-oriented ideas in it have been annotated and discussed.

At the beginning of the third year of Jian'an, the academy run by Shen Chenxing was on holiday.

The students he recruited were all children of local poor families, and the family gritted their teeth when the farm was not working, and he could send them to study, but when the farm was busy, he had to go back.

Therefore, when he was not teaching students to read, Shen Chen would study with Zhuge Liang at home.

It is not only a study of people-oriented thought, but also a study of everything.

Philosophy, education, military, economic, cultural, social order, and current politics, etc.

Three stinkers are Zhuge Liang.

Now that Shen Chen has been added, not only many of Zhuge Liang's ideas are helpful to Shen Chen, but Shen Chen's thinking from later generations has benefited Zhuge Liang a lot.

The two are mentors and friends, and they make progress together.

On this day, Shen Chen left the Pavilion in a carriage and headed for Longzhong.

He sat cross-legged in the carriage, which at that time was unsealed, a bit like a pickup truck.

So he sat on it, and the people around him who were busy in the fields could see him.

When everyone saw him, they all stopped what they were doing and cast respectful glances and glances.

It wasn't until he was gone that he continued farming.

Since that day's debate, Shen Chen has become famous in a battle, and his fame in the surrounding countryside has increased dramatically.

Because of his noble morality of giving pigs and coins, the surrounding countryside people have recognized his morality, and then once they encounter any injustice, they will come to him for theory.

And Shen Chen was always able to make the fairest judgment, which convinced everyone and satisfied, and for a time he had a very high prestige in the surrounding countryside.

Everyone knows that there is a teenager in Longzhong Township, who is full of poetry and books, and has noble morals, and every time there is a dispute in the township, he will often go to him for comment, and finally everyone will be persuaded by his reasoning, which is respectable.

The carriage drove slowly, and finally drove into Longzhong Mountain, and went up along the mountain road, and the Zhuge family's house was already seen in the distance.

Although Zhuge Xuan died of illness, he had left Zhuge Liang with enough political legacy.

The two elder sisters are married to the Xiangyang clan, and under such protection, Zhuge Liang can be regarded as quiet, even when Jingzhou Shilin was most against Shen Chen, no one provoked him.

When I entered the courtyard, I saw Zhuge Liang reading under the corridor, and when he saw Shen Chen coming, he raised his head and smiled like a spring breeze: "Brother." ”

"Brother."

Shen Chen arched his hand, and then slowly walked over to him and sat down together.

Zhuge Liang put aside the bamboo slips in his hand, took out a brand new roll of bamboo slips and brushes, and said: "The day before yesterday, we talked about "the birth of the people in heaven, so that the prophet is aware of the latter, and the first consciousness is also conscious", I have written down the enlightenment and education of the public. ”

"Oh?"

Shen Chen took it and glanced at it, the content recorded in it was indeed the matter they discussed about education the day before yesterday, but it was very brief, and if it was not annotated and analyzed, it might be incomprehensible, so he sighed: "It's a pity." ”

Zhuge Liang was curious: "What is a pity? ”

Shen Chen said: "It's a pity that it was not recorded on paper. ”

Zhuge Liang chuckled and said, "The paper produced by your Huangmen Pavilion is very expensive now, and I can't afford it." ”

Shen Chen smiled: "It's okay, I'll send some to my brother when the time comes." ”

Papermaking was invented by Cai Lun, and it existed in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Including thousands of years later, the papermaking technology of the industrial age is the same as Cai Lun's process steps, except that it is manual and the other is replaced by a machine.

The reason why the Eastern Han Dynasty did not popularize paper is because the best raw materials have not been found.

It's like before the tungsten filament used for light bulbs, even if there were electric lights, they didn't make the bulb popular, and the best carbon filament bulb could only be used for a short period of time.

The same is true for papermaking.

The paper invented by Cai Lun has a rough texture, breaks when touched, and the surface is not smooth, so it is panicked to wipe the buttocks.

However, the wisdom of the ancient Chinese working people is infinite, from the emergence of papermaking in the Eastern Han Dynasty to the use of mulberry bark and rattan bark to make paper in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, so that the papermaking technology gradually matures, and the surface is gradually smooth.

This created conditions for the calligraphy of Wang Xizhi and others, and the painting of Gu Kaizhi and others.

At the end of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, sandalwood, wheat stalks, rice stalks, etc. have also been used as papermaking raw materials, people have improved papermaking technology step by step, and the cost is getting cheaper and cheaper.

Eventually, in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, it was discovered that bamboo was the best paper product.

Since then, paper has officially entered the lives of the general public, which laid the foundation for the decline of the family gate valve and the rise of the imperial examination system after the Tang Dynasty.

Shen Chen actually didn't know that the best raw material for papermaking was bamboo.

But he can try.

The process is not difficult, the difficulty is to find the most suitable raw materials.

It's like what we learned in textbooks when we were kids, the so-called Edison experimented with more than a thousand materials and finally "invented" the tungsten electric lamp.

The papermaker of Huangmenting, under Shen Chen's urging and experimenting again and again, finally spent two years to find bamboo as a raw material and manufacture paper that can be used for writing.

Since then, Xiangyang paper is expensive.

Zhuge Liang got Shen Chen's promise, stroked his palms and said with a smile: "A word is a certainty, but you are not allowed to cheat." ”

"Of course."

Shen Chen also smiled: "Recently, I was thinking about annotating "Zuo Chuan", if it can be carved out and printed into a book, it will be able to better teach students." ”

Zhuge Liang pondered: "This is the way of education that Ah Chen has been studying?" ”

"Not bad."

Shen Chen nodded: "Education must start with popularizing knowledge, but if you just talk about it with your mouth, there are too few bamboo slips that can be recorded, and only paper bound into books can complete the education of the people that even the master can't do." ”

Since the improvement of papermaking and the appearance of engraving printing, since the Tang Dynasty, the folk literacy rate has increased like a fly, breaking the monopoly of the family, and it is from here that it begins.

But in the Han Dynasty, it was obviously a very difficult task, because the family gate lords would not let you do it.

Zhuge Liang pondered: "If this is the case, wouldn't it be everyone's family?" ”

"Yes, there will be no more prominent people in everyone's family."

Shen Chen said: "In the past, if you want to be an official, you must be able to read and learn characters, but those who read and learn words will inevitably be born in a family. ”

"That ......"

Zhuge Liang frowned, now Jingzhou Shilin only has a lot of complaints about Shen Chen's resistance to Cao, and there are some antagonisms with different positions, and they can't make a situation of life and death.

And the popularization of paper and engraving printing is digging the foundation of the family, how can they sit idly by?

"Shh

Shen Chen made a gesture of booing on the side of his mouth: "Brother doesn't say, I don't say, who can know?" Moisturizing things silently, first printing and educating students privately, and then promoting it in their hands in the future, they will not realize this. ”

"Hmm."

Zhuge Liang nodded slightly, and then a wave of emotion rose in his heart.

Ah Chen even told him that he was not afraid of telling the family at all, and his trust in him could be said to have reached an overwhelming level, and he must not let him down.

Shen Chen smiled slightly, if it were an ordinary person, he would definitely not say that, because it was equivalent to handing over his net worth and life.

But who does he trust?

Zhuge Liang, who has been loyal and righteous through the ages!

Even he can't be trusted, and who else can be?

In fact, this is also true.

From the perspective of God, many people think that engaging in paper and engraving printing in the Eastern Han Dynasty is looking for death.

But the real popularity of paper was in the Eastern Jin Dynasty at the height of the family's gate lords, and if they really realized that this thing could cause harm to their ruling base, why not ban it earlier?

Just as when the electronic computer was first invented, people would only think that it was just a tool for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Who would have thought that it could develop to the point that people's lives can never be separated from it?

Therefore, in the case that most people have already formed a fixed thinking, no one can see the changes brought to them by a certain emerging thing at a glance, even Zhuge Liang was guided by Shen Chen to think of this.

However, in order to prevent a certain genius from accidentally considering the impact of paper and printing on the family's door valve, Shen Chen did not dare to promote it on a large scale.

Just teach it privately, and then use it for universal education when you take power in the future.

The two were talking.

Suddenly, there was the sound of horses' hooves outside the door.

After a few moments, there was a knock on the door.

"Who?"

The little boy Anu asked.

"Xu Shu."

The man outside the door shouted.

Anu went to open the door, the door opened, and Xu Shu, Pang Tong, Cui Jun and others walked in.

"It turned out to be a couple of brothers."

Zhuge Liang and Shen Chen stood up to greet them.

When Shen Chen was teaching, Zhuge Liang would often visit Pang Degong.

After coming and going, he got on good terms with Xu Shu and others.

Historically, he also became friends with his uncle Zhuge Xuan not long after he died of illness.

It just so happened that Xu Shu and their place was not far away, and they would often come to see him.

The Pavilion was not far from Longzhong, they came to visit Zhuge Liang, and Shen Chen was often there, so naturally they became more and more familiar.

However, Shen Chen hadn't talked to them about his thoughts.

Because in addition to Xu Shu being forced, Shi Tao and Meng Jian both took the initiative to accept Cao Cao's conscription and went to Cao Wei to become officials.

This proves that their thinking is actually the same as that of the Jingzhou scholars at that time, and this is still after the incident of the edict.

Therefore, if you talk to them about people-oriented ideas and anti-Cao concepts, it is easy to have a conflict with them on their positions, so it is better not to talk about it.

Xu Shu was familiar with himself, and came in and said with a smile: "Ah Chen is also here, that's just right, let's go together." ”

"What's wrong?"

Zhuge Liang asked curiously.

Xu Shu said: "Mr. Decao wrote a letter to Shiyuan, saying that he had arrived in Huyang and would be able to go to Xiangyang today, and we would discuss and go to meet together." ”

Pang Tong took the word at the beginning of this year, the third year of Jian'an was 198 AD, and Pang Tong was born in the second year of Guanghe, that is, 179 AD, so his actual age should be nineteen years old.

But at that time, there was a saying that he was a virtual age, according to the concept of the Han Dynasty, he was already twenty years old and crowned, so this year, his uncle Pang Degong personally named him Shiyuan. Eight Chinese Net

Hearing that Sima Hui was coming, Shen Chen was also very curious about the famous man who named Zhuge Liang Wolong and Pang Tong Feng Xiao, so he said: "Mr. Decao is famous all over the world, and I have long wanted to meet him, so I happened to go with him." ”

"Let's go."

Xu Shu waved his hand and set off with them.

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.