Chapter Seventy-Four: Communication, Printing
Early the next morning.
Gai Nie left the Mojun Mansion.
Where to go······ Ignorance.
Meanwhile.
With the gradual flow of "Journey to the West" into the Seven Kingdoms under the sale of countless merchants, an invisible storm quickly swept among the hundreds of schools.
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Qi State, Songhai.
Little Sage Village.
Fu Nian rode a fast horse, and after a day and night journey, he finally rushed back at the first time.
As Mo Jun's friends, Fu Nian and the six-fingered black man got "Journey to the West" and "Paper" about a day earlier than everyone else.
And both of them also got a little bit of 'insider' news from Mo Jun.
After returning to the Little Sage Village.
Fu Nian went straight to the back mountain with the package and found his uncle, who is also the contemporary head of Xiaoshengxian Zhuang - Xunzi.
"Uncle Shi."
"It's Fu Nian! You're back, what's the ······ for this trip?"
Xunzi in the small courtyard of the back mountain was studying the chess game, and after hearing Fu Nian's voice, he did not raise his head, but dropped a son first, and only then did he raise his head after the chessboard layout was completed.
And it was this look up that instantly made Xunzi stunned, and he didn't even notice that a chess piece he had just picked up fell from his fingertips.
"You······ Who are you? ”
"Uncle Shi, please stop joking." Fu Nian said helplessly.
His uncle is good at everything, but sometimes he has the mentality of an old naughty boy, when is this now, is it time to joke?
Xunzi: "······"
Am I kidding?
Seeing that Fu Nian has been out for less than a year, there have been such big changes, and this time it really makes the 'old and weak' Xunzi a little bit weak.
"Uncle Shi, please take a look at this first."
Seeing that Xunzi was a little stunned, Fu Nian had no choice but to go straight to the topic, took out a copy of "Journey to the West" from his package, and handed it to Xunzi.
Xunzi first took the blank paper and glanced at it, and it was this glance that instantly made Xunzi realize that something was wrong.
And when Xunzi took "Journey to the West" again, opened it and took a look, Xunzi's gaze changed abruptly.
"This thing······ Where did you come from? ”
"The student traveled to Hanzhong and served as a teacher in Shengpingjun's mansion for a period of time, and this thing was invented by Shengpingjun." Fu Nian said respectfully.
"Shengping-kun!"
Xunzi's deep eyes narrowed slightly, although Xunzi is now old and has not been out of the mountain for a long time, it is naturally impossible for him not to even hear the name of 'Shengpingjun'.
It's just that most of the fame that Mo Jun passed on to the Qi State before was about his achievements in food, and now Mo Jun suddenly created a 'white paper' and other literary and Taoist holy relics, which really made Xunzi feel a little surprised.
"What is the value of this thing?"
"Before the students left, this item was not available for sale. However, the student had heard Sheng Pingjun mention that this myth called "Journey to the West" was only sold for about 150 yuan. And this kind of 'blank paper', one big money can buy five. ”
"How can this thing be so cheap?"
Xunzi's squinted eyes suddenly opened, and he looked at Fu Nian in surprise.
As the head of the contemporary Xiaoshengxian Village, Xunzi has used bamboo slips countless times in his life, and because of this, he can clearly judge the advantages of this 'white paper' over 'bamboo slips' without even getting started.
Good things are more expensive, and that's right.
Xunzi originally thought that the price of this kind of 'blank paper' would be very high, so he was only slightly surprised, but he was not too shocked.
However, when Fu Nian quoted the price of this 'blank paper', Xunzi couldn't sit still at all.
"Yes, and this is only the price of the sale, the cost of this 'blank paper', according to my understanding of that Saint Pingjun during this time, may be much lower than we imagined."
Fu Nian said in a low voice.
At this time, even Xunzi realized the seriousness of the matter, the low cost means that it can be mass-produced, and the more things produced, the wider the scope that can be spread.
"Also, Uncle Shi, can you take a look at the difference between these two books?"
As he spoke, Fu Nian took out a new copy of "Journey to the West" from the package and handed it to Xunzi, who spread out the two books and placed them in front of him, and looked at them carefully.
It turned out that the two books were identical, and each text was identical.
Xunzi's deep eyes shrank suddenly.
"This ······"
"According to Sheng Pingjun, this technique seems to be called 'printing', and I have personally seen the printing house opened by Sheng Pingjun in Hanzhong, which printed 100,000 books in just half a month."
When he said this, even Fu Nian himself felt a little incredulous.
100,000 copies.
What is this concept?
To put it mildly, in the whole world today, the Seven Kingdoms and the Hundred Schools of Thought combined, all the books in the collection are probably not 100,000 volumes.
After the shock, Fu Nian felt a deep fear and creepy, after all, in the current era, knowledge is difficult to spread, and the idea of popularization has been imprinted into almost everyone's mind.
Even if he thinks about himself, he has always thought so.
This is not just a monopoly of the aristocracy.
What's more, the hard conditions are not up to standard.
At first, Fu Nian thought that Mo Jun's invention of 'white paper', a cheap and convenient text carrier, was scary enough.
However, when Mo Jun showed Fu Nian the efficiency of [Printing], Fu Nian deeply felt what was called 'horror'.
This can no longer be regarded as changing the literary environment of the current era.
To be exact.
It should be 'destroy'.
When I first saw Mo Jun showing the effect of the combination of [Printing] and [White Paper], Fu Nian and the Six-Fingered Black Man who were present at that time had already vaguely seen that Mo Jun completely destroyed the entire world and the existing literary environment in an arrogant and unreasonable manner.
This will be a turmoil that will affect the whole world, all the sons and hundreds of schools.
But at the same time.
It's also an opportunity.
If someone can seize this opportunity, they may be able to make the entire sect flourish in an instant.
It is precisely because of seeing such a scene that the six-fingered black man and Fu Nian before would gallop on [Qinping Avenue] regardless of their image.
As the representatives of the Mo family and Confucianism today, they must seize the day given to them by Mojun to seize the opportunity in the next turmoil.
This.
Fu Nian can see it, and Xunzi can naturally see it.
So after Xunzi pondered for a moment, he said slowly: "What does he want?" ”
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(End of chapter)