After Zhu Yijun said that he would build a public library, Li Chengliang, Wang Xijue and other ministers were shocked.

Wang Xijue even secretly sighed that the emperor was really willing to spend money to open up the wisdom of the people.

You know, it's not a small expense.

Not to mention, the civil engineering work to build libraries in various places itself is quite expensive.

After the establishment of the library alone, the annual management and repair costs of the library and the cost of employing personnel are not a small amount.

Even, it is not a small project to transcribe and engrave books in the early stage and distribute them to major libraries, and it is necessary to recruit tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of readers to spend many years to do this big thing.

Wang Xijue had to admit that His Majesty the Emperor really did not intend to save more money for future generations, but only wanted to use the greatest financial power to open up the people's wisdom.

Shen Yi also sighed at this, secretly thinking that the Son of Heaven was undoubtedly doing this to let all kinds of useful knowledge that was previously only controlled by royal nobles and official gentry fly into the homes of ordinary people and let the general public come into contact.

Because in the past, book collection was only available to royal and noble eunuchs.

Moreover, the books collected can only be accessed by the emperor and the eunuchs, and are not open to the public.

It is better to directly use the power of the state to set up public libraries and let the people enter the libraries to read, which will undoubtedly give many civilians access to a lot of valuable knowledge and information.

Other words.

As long as a commoner's son can read and write, and is a Han Chinese who pays taxes well, he can enter the public library and learn all the rules and regulations of the country and all kinds of valuable knowledge, including the life experience left by some elites, and no longer only have access to the Four Books and Five Classics in his lifetime, nor can he have access to valuable advice because of his own class.

And what are the consequences of this?

For Shen Zhengyi, he couldn't imagine it.

But what he can be sure of is that this will definitely make a big change in Daming.

It can be said that the traditional art of controlling the people will only become more and more useless.

The people who know more and more about the truth of ruling will also have higher requirements for the ruling ability of future monarchs and ministers.

In fact, Wang Xijue and Shen have always been members of the Jiangnan scholar class, and they are already experiencing this change.

Because the people of Nanzhi and Liangzhejiang have a high literacy rate, there are even more people who read books, and they can read all kinds of national classics and markets, and many of them also make a living by writing books and researching policies.

Therefore, this has led to the fact that the people in these places are very fond of lawsuits, and there are also many professional lawyers, that is, they take helping the people fight lawsuits as their profession, as long as the people give them enough money, they will help them write complaints, teach them how to deal with the government, and talk about all kinds of imperial laws and regulations, so that they can better protect their own interests.

And this made the officials of Nanzhi and Liangzhejiang very headaches, lamenting that there were too many people, especially some officials who just wanted to boil their qualifications and didn't want to do things, and they hated that the people always liked to bother them.

As a result, many officials who just want to boil their qualifications actually don't want to come to Nanzhi and Liangzhejiang to be magistrates, because the people are too difficult to deal with, too difficult to fool, and too fond of finding trouble.

However, Wang Xijue and Shen have always had no intention of dissuading the emperor from doing so.

Because of the changes caused by this opening of the people's wisdom, they will eventually turn into higher requirements for the emperor's ability to rule.

If the emperor is incompetent or lazy, it will not only be the bureaucrats but also the common people who will cheat and fool the emperor and even turn the emperor around.

If the emperor made a stupid decision, he would not only be laughed at and despised by the bureaucrats, but also by the common people.

The conversation turned back.

Zhu Yijun is doing this now, and he can be regarded as only taking care of his own comfort, no matter what kind of monstrous flood will occur if his children and grandchildren are not good or mediocre in the future.

But Zhu Yijun can't help it, if he doesn't do this, his children and grandchildren will still encounter a monstrous flood if they can't do it, and the end will either hang themselves in the coal mountain, or be strangled to death with a bowstring by the minister who betrayed him.

Arguably.

The old method of governance has indeed entered a dead end for the Ming Dynasty, which is equivalent to a person with terminal cancer, who can only try with a new method of governance, as for whether the new method will accelerate the demise of the Ming Dynasty is no longer important to Zhu Yijun, he only knows that this will at least for this nation, there will be a new possibility.

After Zhu Yijun asked for the establishment of a public library, he instructed: "Of course, the books that can be placed in the public library still have to be screened, and this will be screened by the Ministry of Rites, and libraries at all levels will set up bookkeepers to be responsible for managing the library." ”

"In addition, all the books presented will be awarded according to categories, such as the Huangming Literature Award, the Huangming Arithmetic Award, the Huangming Physics Award, the Huangming Medical Award, and other awards.

"The Huangming Literature Award will be promoted by the second assistant Wang Xijue, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Shen Chengyi, and the director of ceremonies, Wang Shizhen."

"I have heard for a long time that Jiangnan culture and education are flourishing, and now that I am in Jiangnan, I will discuss the literary award first."

Zhu Yijun looked at Wang Shizhen as he spoke: "Wang Shizhen! ”

"The ministers are here!"

Wang Shizhen hurriedly replied.

Zhu Yijun asked at this time: "You have always been the leader of the literary world, you must have read countless books, and you must be able to recommend a few excellent books and a few great writers for me." ”

"To be honest, the poetry and songs of this dynasty are not as rich as those of the Han and Tang dynasties, especially the kind of masterpieces that are enough to last for centuries, which will make it seem that the culture of this dynasty is not brilliant, and it seems that the Chinese culture is going downhill in this dynasty."

"Maybe the poems and songs are no longer in line with the actual cultural needs of this dynasty, but the new words are in line with the actual cultural needs of the people of the world, then these should reach a higher level in this dynasty, so that it can be seen that this dynasty is also prosperous in culture and education."

"Please rest assured that the ministers will be able to discover many masterpieces and many brilliant people for Your Majesty."

Wang Shizhen replied at this time.

Zhu Yijun shook his head.

"Qingpu Jinshen Wang Qi presents "Continued Literature General Examination"

"Jintan Wang Kentang presents the complete book of ancient and modern medical orthodoxy"

"Xiuning Cheng presents "Algorithm Unification"

……

Because Zhu Yijun asked people all over the world to donate books, and Fan Jiatianyi Pavilion was awarded an official position because of his rich collection of books, and the emperor also said that he would reward excellent book-related authors, so for a while, many Jiangnan gentry came to offer all kinds of books that they thought they could make the emperor pay attention to.

Of course.

In the area south of the Yangtze River, culture and education are prosperous, and there are many people who write books and collect books.

Therefore, it didn't take long for Zhu Yijun to receive many books from the people.

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, many of these books are masterpieces that can be passed down to the world, and they must really be preserved for future generations, which is enough to serve as a standard for the prosperity of culture and education in this dynasty!"

Wang Xijue said to Zhu Yijun on this day, and said: "Especially this "General Examination of Continued Literature" has more than 200 volumes, which can be described as a big book! The era is connected with the "General Examination of Literature", starting from the Jiading period of the Southern Song Dynasty and descending to the present dynasty. ”

Moreover, this book has added six examinations such as Jieyi, Academy, Clan, Six Books, Daotong, and Fangwai than the "General Examination of Literature", and the headings of each examination are divided into volumes, but four sub-items of the Yellow River, Taihu Lake, Three Rivers and River Canal have been added to the Tianfu examination; Maritime transport has been added to the national examination; In the school examination, the academy and the school were added. ”

Speaking of which.

Wang Xijue bowed to Zhu Yijun and said, "Your Majesty, this book can be used in conjunction with the canon of this dynasty." ”

At this time, Shen Yi also smiled and said: "The "Algorithm Tongzong" presented by the businessman Cheng Dawei is also a strange book of arithmetic, and its "head multiplication" and "division method" can be called wonderful, which can be called the culmination of abacus! The 'measuring scooter' mentioned by it is even more magical, which will be of great benefit to the measurement of the field, so that the measurement efficiency of the world will be greatly improved. ”

Shen Yi said and said: "The foolish minister thinks that the Emperor Ming Arithmetic Award should be this person. ”

Cheng Dawei, as Shen has always spoken, is indeed quite famous in the history of mathematics in later generations, and is known as the father of the invention of abacus and the father of the tape measure.

However, because Zhu Yijun is not a major, he doesn't know this person very well, and now he can only learn from Shen Yiyi's mouth, and so he took the "Algorithm Tongzong", and specially turned to the place of "measuring the scooter" and glanced at it: "This thing might as well be called a tape measure directly." ”

Shen has always said yes.

And Wang Shizhen also followed at this time: "Your Majesty, the Linchuan Tang clan dedicated his family Tang Xianzu's "Soul Resurrection", although it has not yet been published, but it can also be called a great talent's work, it is reported that although Tang Gong had already intended to write this book to sing a new ceremony, but he originally planned to write it after resigning, but now he has entered the edict, so he simply wrote it out in advance and sent it back to his family, so that his family could find someone to print it. ”

After listening to it, Zhu Yijun took the "Soul Return" presented by Wang Shizhen in his hand, and after reading it, he found that it was the famous "Peony Pavilion" in later generations, so he said: "It is a work that deserves to be a great talent." ”

Then, Zhu Yijun said: "These books must be compiled into the "Wanli Canon"! Mobilize all the literati in Jiangnan and let them copy these books as soon as possible, so as to save these books from being lost in the future. ”

"Yes!"

It is really the country's prosperity and strength that makes Zhu Yijun dare to be so generous now.

For a time, the literati of the entire Jiangnan participated in the construction of the Wanli Dictionary and the public library.

Many low-minded literati who were unwilling to do ordinary hard work, and who were shy in their pockets, received this errand one after another, copying books and school books in various public houses.

As a result, the entire Jiangnan region also flourished in the paper industry for a while, and the city was full of ink, and at the same time, a large amount of silver money flowed into the hands of these literati from the inner treasury and the state treasury.

"You've really found a job?"

Songjiang, Hou, who had a sharp decline in spinning income due to the boom in steam spinning, was surprised to see his husband Shen Maoxiao come back with a handful of silver dollars, and asked in surprise.

Shen Maoxiao nodded: "It's the work of copying books for the imperial court, and I will be paid three taels a month, because I write well and am responsible for the final transcription, so the salary is higher." (End of chapter)