Outside the old Fengqiu Gate, in the Shuxiangfang Outer Diagonal Street between Chenzhou Bridge Street and Guangbei Bridge, Zhao Jun listened to the news from the market and could only call it outrageous.

It was already more than twelve o'clock in the afternoon, and yesterday's council of the Vertical Arch Hall spread throughout Bianliang.

The government has newly established the Constitutional Yuan, which overrides the two governments and three departments and oversees the affairs of the whole country. And has all powers except military power, including the appointment and dismissal of officials.

Such a great power is something that has never been seen since the Tang and Song dynasties.

What shocked the people of Bianliang even more was that Zhao Jun, the former governor of the imperial city, was named the Duke of Song, the envoy of the Three Towns Festival, and was in charge of the political system, and his power was comparable to that of the ancient prime minister.

In this case, the people of Bianliang can't think about it.

Even the spies of the Western Xia and Liao embassies in Bianliang knew the news and quickly passed this important information back to China.

Many people speculate about Zhao Jun's true identity, and I am afraid that it is really possible that he is the illegitimate son of the first emperor.

Only Zhao Yunrang was calm and acted calmly.

After all, as long as his son Lao Thirteen has not been kicked out of the palace, it means that Zhao Jun's identity is not true, then he has nothing to worry about.

And Zhao Jun went to the Constitutional Academy this morning, and ordered some things, and came to the Shuxiangfang in the afternoon.

Recently, he has a lot of things to do, such as organizing and preparing for the establishment of a new department, starting to deal with the affairs of the underground underworld forces, and then the research and development of new weapons.

What is more important is the need for a printing house, which will be used to print notices on a large area, and second, to establish a newspaper in the future to carry out propaganda and public opinion activities.

At present, the basic education of the Great Song Dynasty is still lacking, and the literacy rate is low. It can be seen from the fact that there are only more than 100,000 people across the country in the township test every year.

Even if this figure is multiplied by a hundred times, the number of literate people in the entire Great Song Dynasty is only 10 million, and compared with the population of hundreds of millions, the literacy rate is about 10%, which is very unfavorable to the spread of newspapers.

However, as the capital of Bianliang, the literacy rate of the people is still good.

The main reason is that commerce and trade here are developed, and there are many merchants and officials, even if they are street vendors, they have to know how to read and write, and they can only do business if they know arithmetic, otherwise they can't understand the accounting, and how can they trade and trade?

Therefore, Zhao Jun plans to start the newspaper in Bianliang first, and occupy the high ground in the field of propaganda through the newspaper, so as to pave the way for a big career in the future.

Recently, he heard that the owner of Yuanjing Books was interested in selling the printing house, so he came to take a look.

In the scholarly workshop, during the shuttle of Confucian scholars wearing oblique-necked or round-necked robes, they either hung belts around their waists, hung jade pendants, or tied knots in the center of the front of the waist with silk belts and silk weaving, and the excess part hung down under the waist. Underneath a shirt, pants or skirt, look good.

Because of the light rain last night, the sky was relatively dark, so the travel was in a hurry. Some of them have newly purchased the four treasures of the study, and they are in a hurry to go back, and some have just come over to see some new books on the shelves, and they are sitting in the tea shop in the market, chanting poems and making music.

Guangbei Bridge is located on the Wuzhang River, the willows on the riverbank are still in accordance with each other, there is a small horizontal bridge to the east, it is the late autumn and early winter, the autumn wind is bleak, the bluestone slab on the ground still has the water stains of last night, the smoke willow of the Sui embankment outside the small horizontal bridge has gathered countless visitors and ink visitors.

After Zhao Jun came out of the Constitutional Academy, he went home and changed into Confucian clothes, and walked into the Shuxiangfang, where there were shops everywhere on both sides.

There are many people in Bianliang, and the people like to talk about gossip after tea and dinner, and now the biggest gossip is naturally Zhao Jun's news. His reputation is in Bianliang, at least he is already at the top of the ranks.

"The official family knows how to discern pearls, Zhao Qingtian cleaned up so many silverfish in Kaifeng Mansion, and now he wants to lead hundreds of officials, which is a great thing for our Great Song Dynasty."

"Good things may not be, Zhao Qingtian is investigating and dealing with those people. But investigating corrupt officials and corrupt officials are two different things from governing the country, and I heard that this Zhao Zhisi is only in his twenties, too young, if he doesn't know how to govern the country, will it make the country decay? ”

"Indeed, even if the official family thinks that Zhao Zhisi is a talent, but I heard that he did not enter the imperial examination, I don't believe that those ministers in the court will agree. Even if he is reluctantly allowed to govern, he is afraid that he will be prevented from governing. ”

"Who said he didn't get into the imperial examination"

On the tea stall in front of the Yuanjing Book Club on the street of Shuxiangfang, several scholars are chatting while drinking tea.

There is basically no literary prison in the Northern Song Dynasty, even if it is the Wutai poetry case, it is also the internal struggle of the scholars themselves, and the emperor will not deliberately persecute the scholars with literature, so it is not taboo to talk about the court on the street.

Especially in places like the Scholar's Workshop, where there are many literati and doctors, there are often scholars who talk and express their opinions in order to be appreciated by high-ranking officials.

For example, Xia Zhu was originally a military attaché, but because of his good literary skills, he showed the poetry collection he wrote to the then prime minister Li Xin, so he turned his military to literature, and then participated in the imperial court system.

After all, the policy in the imperial examination also belonged to one of the disadvantages of the needle, which was beneficial to their increase in the level of policy theory.

At this moment, those scholars were chatting.

Zhao Jun is stepping into the Yuanjing Book Club, and because of the large number of bodyguards around him, it naturally attracts everyone's attention.

When one of them saw him, he was stunned at first, and then hesitated, seeing that Zhao Jun was about to step into the book club, he finally mustered up the courage to get up and shouted: "Brother Hanlong! ”

"Huh?"

Zhao Jun turned his head and said with a smile: "Brother Song! ”

Song Cai left a few scholar friends behind and walked towards this side, and the guards of the Imperial City Division next to him were trying to stop him, but Zhao Jun waved his hand and signaled him to come over.

"I didn't expect it to be Brother Hanlong!"

Song Cai was emotional, but she still suppressed the joy in her heart, tried her best to keep herself calm, stepped forward and said, "What is the matter with Brother Tai coming to the Scholar's Workshop?" I'm very familiar here. ”

"Is there something about it, since Brother Song is here, let's go for a walk together?"

Zhao Jun greeted with a smile.

"Let's go for a walk."

Song Cai suppressed her joy, then turned her head and said to the group of scholars: "Brother Wang, Brother Li, Brother Sun, I met an old friend, I will accompany him first, and I will come back to you later." ”

"Okay, then you go, we're going to Baihualou later, and you can come directly when the time comes."

The guy over there also replied.

Song Cai suddenly said to Zhao Jun with an embarrassed face: "What Baihualou, I don't even know what place it is, does Brother Zhao know?" ”

"I don't know, let's go see it next time."

Zhao Jun smiled.

Baihualou naturally knew that it was a prostitute garden located on Beixie Street, not far from Shuxiangfang.

It seems that the scholars of Bianliang are still living a very fast life.

After finishing speaking, Zhao Jun walked into the book club.

The area of the book club is more than 100 square meters, and there are more than 10 bookshelves, on which a large number of books are neatly stacked.

A smell of pulp, ink and incense came to my face.

The shopkeeper had long noticed that there were many people gathered at the door, and as a businessman, he knew that there was a big customer when he looked up.

Maybe this big customer doesn't buy much, but his status is definitely noble.

After all, who would go out with so many bodyguards?

I'm afraid that the sons of the father-in-law are not so extravagant.

"Brother Zhao came to the Book Fragrance Shop today, is he here to buy books? If you want to buy a book, you have met the right person. ”

Song Cai followed Zhao Jun into the bookstore, and said as follows: "The "Xunzi" annotated by the Han family, the "Analects" annotated by the Confucian family, the "Spring and Autumn Period" annotated by the Gai family, and the "Book of Rites" annotated by the Lu family are the best annotations on the market at present. If you like other miscellaneous books, there are also "Taiping Guangji", "Taiping Yulan", and "Art and Literature Gathering".

He said in one breath more than 20 popular books on the market, the Song Dynasty imperial examination needs to be proficient in the Seven Classics, the Seven Classics of Confucianism have a lot of commentaries, but the Confucianism also has a distinction between superior and inferior, so it is recognized that the Confucianism has Han Yu, Kong Yingda, Gai Wenda, Lu Deming and the like, and the books they annotate are the most sought-after goods on the market.

There are also a lot of miscellaneous books, such as the books he said, which are books that bring together all kinds of things on the market. In addition, there are history books, hundreds of works of Zhuzi, poetry collections, transcriptions of current texts, political analysis, and prose and song collections, which were collectively called subsets of classics and histories at that time.

"Of course."

After Song Cai said some mainstream books, he suddenly smiled and said, "If Brother Hanlong likes scripts, there are also them here." ”

He said meaningfully, "Everything."

In fact, the Song Dynasty already existed, and even because of the popularization of vernacular Chinese, there were scripts, and the number of words could reach tens or millions.

Many people think that classical Chinese is written in ancient times, but in fact, classical Chinese is only a written language, and the spoken language is mainly vernacular.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the folk already had vernacular spoken language, and in the Song Dynasty, vernacular literature was basically popularized.

Even in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the way people spoke was not much different from that of later generations.

A modern Beijinger returns to the city of Beijing in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and his authentic Beijing accent is guaranteed to be regarded as a local Beijing master.

Although the vernacular of the Song Dynasty is slightly different from that of the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are not many differences.

In the development and prosperity of the market, the script naturally became popular, which greatly enriched the lives of the people of Bianliang.

Zhao Jun heard Song Cai's words and wondered, "What does it mean?" ”

"That's it."

Song Cai squeezed her eyebrows, and her expression gradually became obscene.

When Zhao Jun heard this, he immediately sternly refused: "What did Brother Song say, how could I be such a person, I, Zhao, watched "Spring and Autumn"!" If I see this kind of thing, I must criticize it fiercely! ”

Song Cai changed his expression, nodded again and again, and said: "Exactly, I mean to take some of these books when the time comes, send them to Brother Zhao's mansion, and criticize Brother Zhao!" ”

"That's for the best."

Zhao Jun nodded and looked around.

The boss came over, piled up a smile and said to Song Cai: "This official is really insightful, our Yuanjing Book Club is the place with the most books in the whole book Xiangfang, and there are all kinds of books." ”

As he spoke, he said to Zhao Jun: "What book does this son want to buy?" As long as you can give a rough idea, the shop will definitely be able to meet any of Childe's requirements. ”

He called Song Cai an official and Zhao Jun a son, which belonged to watching people cook, and it was not easy to recognize Zhao Jun's identity.

Song Cai was not annoyed, and pointed to the inner room familiarly: "I was trying to buy some notebooks to read back recently, and the shopkeeper will take me to see it later." ”

"Yes, yes, yes."

The shopkeeper nodded repeatedly.

Zhao Jun said: "I heard that your Vision Book Society has a printing workshop? ”

The shopkeeper's eyes suddenly lit up and said: "Yes, yes, does the son want to publish a collection of poems or write articles?" ”

It's a big deal.

If the ancients wanted to publish their own works, they did not submit them to a publishing house, but found a printing house at their own expense.

At that time, it was difficult to print, and if you wanted to print your own poetry collection and articles, you had to engrave the engraving plate by yourself in the printing house, and the cost was very exaggerated.

A complete set of engraving often requires dozens or even hundreds of times according to the number of words, if the number of words is large, such as tens or millions of words, it costs thousands of times. Therefore, publishing a collection of poems can make money compared to simply selling books, no matter how many books others print, it is the price of the engraving that is sold.

Therefore, the shopkeeper is naturally very happy to meet such a big customer.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that Zhao Jun said: "Well, I want to buy a ready-made printing workshop and print it myself, I heard that you want to sell the printing workshop, so I came over and asked." ”

The shopkeeper had a big mouth at that time.

I thought it was a big customer, but I didn't expect people to be too rich and directly wanted to buy a printing house.

He persuaded: "If Childe wants to print his own poetry collection and articles, there is no need to buy a printing shop and go back, and send the sample paper in the future, and we will help carve it." ”

"You don't understand, there are too many things to get in the future, so it's more convenient to buy a printing shop."

Zhao Jun said: "Aren't you selling to the outside world? ”

The shopkeeper thought for a while and said, "This matter is indeed ordered by the owner, but the specific matter still needs to be asked by the owner." ”

"Go and call your host."

"Yes."

The shopkeeper knew that the bodyguard who looked outside knew that it was a distinguished guest, so he didn't dare to slack off, so he ordered the guys in the store to entertain him, and he ran out in a hurry.

(End of chapter)