He Qiu blinked his eyes and said with a smile.

"Your Majesty should also know who the minister is, right? Ministers never say empty words. Don't look at the Four Books and Five Classics, these things seem to be concise, but in fact, what they say is just benevolence, righteousness and morality.

The minister felt that even if he couldn't write the Four Books and Five Classics, he could still write a "Guanzi". ”

Zhu Di hesitated for a moment and said slowly.

"Pipes? That's enough, then I'll leave it to you. ”

He Qiu was still a little disbelieving when he saw the look on Zhu Di's face, and said with a snort.

"The minister also plans to write another book, which should be all-encompassing, covering all the knowledge systems that can be involved, and becoming an encyclopedia!"

Zhu Di asked with some confusion.

"Encyclopedia? What do you mean? ”

"That means that the book is full of all the things that are written."

He Qiu said with some pride, he didn't brag about this, he had the encyclopedia he had drawn in his hand, but the gap with the times was too big, and it needed to be deleted.

Zhu Di muttered.

"In that case, why call it an encyclopedia? Wouldn't it be better to call it "Yongle Canon"? ”

After speaking, without waiting for He Qiu to refute him, Zhu Di suddenly became excited.

"Yes, your book is called "Yongle Canon"! When my father was emperor, there was a "Hongwu Dictionary", and my Yongle Dynasty could not be left behind! ”

He Qiu opened his mouth, a little speechless.

This father and son are really a problem!

It's shameless!

Before, when he was sorting out the dictionary there, he was presented to Zhu Yuanzhang by Zhu Di, and he forcibly turned the dictionary that was originally made into "Hongwu Dictionary", and He Qiu was about to die of grievance.

Good guy, this encyclopedia will also be snatched away by Zhu Di, He Qiu was very dissatisfied, and said with some indignation.

"Your Majesty, this book that the minister wants to make is to construct a new knowledge system, not to sing the praises of virtue!"

Although He Qiu was very unhappy, Zhu Di was very happy and said with a smile.

"That's it, no matter what you say, this book must have been written in my Yongle Dynasty, such a huge book, it's a bit unreasonable not to add my year name, right?"

Although He Qiu was very angry, there was nothing he could do about Zhu Di, who made him the emperor, he can be called one of the most rogue people in the world.

It's too difficult for a mere courtier to compete with the emperor, let alone a domineering emperor like Zhu Di.

Zhu Di saw that He Qiu's expression was not very good-looking, and he was afraid that He Qiu would pick on him like this, so he immediately promised.

"This Yongle Canon is different from the previous dictionary, I will write your name at the front, so that the world will know that you compiled it."

He Qiu's expression looked a little better, but he still insisted.

"There is no evidence, please make a note for Your Majesty!"

Zhu Di touched his nose a little sneeringly, this gesture of distrust is no one.

But he didn't want to offend He Qiu anymore, so he honestly took out his private seal, wrote a note to He Qiu, and made an appointment about the matter.

After He Qiu got the note, he nodded with satisfaction, put away the note, and left the palace directly.

Zhu Di looked at his distant back, and he was in a good mood, only when he became the emperor did he know how lonely the emperor was.

Those who could talk and laugh with him before, now they are all cowering, and only He Qiu still treats him like before, which allows Zhu Di to find a little fun from him.

Let's not talk about how Zhu Di played a scoundrel in that stinky and shameless way, He Qiu returned to his mansion and first took out a manuscript that he had written before.

He had already written this manuscript before, but he was not satisfied with the changes he had made.

In fact, what He Qiu wrote was a book of economics, whether it was macroeconomics or political economy, it meant the same thing anyway.

When it comes to the idea of economics, it also appeared in China in the pre-Qin period, and there is more than one.

The chapters on governance, extravagance, and severity in the book "Guanzi" all focus on economic production, and can be regarded as the earliest book in China that deals with the concept of economics.

Later, Xunzi also wrote a special article "The Wealth of the Country", discussing how to enrich the country and strengthen the people, proposing to be agriculture-oriented, affirming the role of businessmen, but also putting forward the idea of restricting businessmen.

Such ideas almost coincided with the thoughts of Shang Ying and Han Feizi, and profoundly influenced the rule of the feudal dynasty that lasted for more than 2,000 years.

And it is precisely because of this that He Qiu feels that if his book is written, it will definitely be no less than "Pipe".

However, He Qiu exerted enough strength, and it was difficult to speak some economic terms in later generations and transform them into concise words.

For example, the concepts of natural person, legal person, rational person, etc., which are often mentioned in economics, may make people dizzy if they are replaced by literary language, at least He Qiu is not at that level, and these things can still be clearly explained by replacing these things with literary language.

Biting the shaft of his pen, He Qiu finally gave up on himself, and simply explained this "Wealth of Nations" in pure vernacular.

He Qiu's "The Wealth of Nations" has some ideas from Adam Smith, but more often it uses some of Marne's ideas.

After all, in his previous life, He Qiu had been influenced by Ma for so long, and in Daming, he only had a copy of "Capital" in his hand, but not "The Wealth of Nations".

In the final analysis, this "Wealth of Nations" also wants to rub the light of Xunzi, who let Xunzi have an article called "The Wealth of Nations"?

After carefully proofreading his manuscript again, He Qiu directly handed over the manuscript to the printing agency of the Ming Internal Affairs Office, and they sent someone to print it.

Nowadays, the printing industry of Daming has also been fully developed, which has something to do with the books "Dream of Red Mansions" tossed by He Qiu.

Originally, although He Qiu came up with a wax printing machine, the quality of the things printed by the wax printing machine was not good, and it was okay to use it to transmit official documents, and printing books was a bit simple.

However, because of the popularity of the book publishing industry and the novel industry, a large number of businessmen and children of wealthy families threw money into printing and directly came up with expensive copperplate printing.

A complete set of copperplate movable type, the price is nearly hundreds of thousands, which is not something that ordinary people can use.

So far, only the internal affairs office of the imperial court and the two big booksellers of the Ming Dynasty have such complete copper movable type in their hands.

He Qiu, as Zhu Di's son-in-law, wanted to print books, so naturally, he found the Internal Affairs Office.

The people here don't dare to snub He Qiu, who made He Qiu a relative of the emperor?

After receiving He Qiu's manuscript, this group of people arranged for someone to pick out movable type overnight, printed it here, and hurried to deliver 300 copies of the newly released "Wealth of Nations" to He Qiu's house the next morning.