Li Shimin's voice frightened Li Shen. looked up at Li Shimin, and then looked around. It's like a computer that has just been turned on, and I think about why I came here. Then Li Shencai said: "The son is guilty." ”

He actually admitted it, and Li Shimin was stunned. The ministers were also stunned. No one expected Li Shen to admit it like this. Shouldn't you deny it outright, shouldn't you be sophistry and clever in every way? It's a different picture.

"Then tell me what you have done." Li Shimin's face was gloomy

Li Shen thought for a while: "I went to the restaurant yesterday and didn't give any money. Two days ago, I went to the West Market and took a fancy to something, and he didn't sell it to me and let me grab it. I also beat Wang Yushi's nephew. Cui Yushi's brother-in-law. ”

"Poof" Cheng Biting Jin squirted out with a smile. Seeing that the occasion was wrong, he hurriedly covered his mouth.

"His Royal Highness King Ji, don't avoid the important and trivial. In order to improve your reputation, you deceive the world's readers. What do you have to say about this," Cui Renzhi said after hearing what Li Shen said

Li Shen turned his head to look at Cui Renzhi and said a repetitive line: "Why are you again." ”

"Yes, this official is the overseer of the imperial history. Supervise hundreds of officials for His Majesty, and have the responsibility of reporting the news. His Royal Highness King Ji said yesterday that he would sell the imperial examination books to scholars, but yesterday they were all sold to merchants, and none of the students bought them.

Is it an insult to us who deceive the readers in this way? Or do you look down on readers. Cui Renzhi pressed forward step by step

"All bought by merchants? I really don't know. But it's not already said in the newspaper, first come, first served. Could it be that the reader does not know how to read? Li Shen asked with an innocent expression

"King Ji, no matter what. Reading people is still very important. In this way, you can print 10,000 copies of yesterday's books and sell them to the students. Li Shimin said

"Ayer. No way! Printing books comes at a big cost. Newspapers are losing money every day. I made two volumes of what I sold yesterday, a total of eighteen copies.

For example, the Spring and Autumn Period, the current Spring and Autumn Period has a total of more than 30 volumes. Each volume costs two or three times, and a spring and autumn book costs more than sixty times. And I made two volumes, each of which cost 10 yuan, and the total amount was only 20 yuan.

Aye, you said that I am making money or losing, this time it is because I understand that it is not easy for students, so I sell it so cheaply. Aya doesn't think I'm still making money with a book in ten volumes. Li Shen's face was full of grievances

When Cui Renzhi and other families heard this, their hearts were settled. If Li Shen uses the same engraving printing as them, it is indeed not profitable.

may even have to pay some money, but what Li Shen said still needs to be confirmed, but you can't listen to Li Shen's words.

"Your Majesty, since His Royal Highness King Ji said it, he should do it. Otherwise, it will be difficult to calm the mouths of the world's readers. Wang Weiqu stood up and said.

"No way, the newspaper says it's on a first-come, first-served basis. We have to follow the rules, and if we say 10,000 copies, it will be 180,000 copies. The cost of each book is 1.8 million yuan, and my palace does not have so much money. Li Shen flatly refused

"His Royal Highness King Ji, people can't be untrustworthy, since they say it, they should do it. If you play a book like this, aren't you afraid that you will be laughed at by the people who read all over the world? Choi In-ji joined the warband

"This king has not broken his word. Speaking on a first-come, first-served basis, I won't do a loss-making deal anyway. Li Shen's fighting for the green tendons burst out.

"Your Highness, don't offend the scholars. Otherwise, they are talking nonsense outside, which is not good for the reputation of His Highness. It's better to break the bank and avoid disasters. This is Wei Ting standing up and seemingly persuading Li Shen, but in fact, he fell into the ground.

Li Shen turned his head to look at Wei Ting, it sounded like it was for his good. But in fact, he is still saying in disguise that he deceived readers. It is mainly the Wei family who speaks, and the previous impeachment of the Wei family was not involved, no matter how it is said that it is also Wei Guifei's maiden family, and Li Shen also wants to call his uncle. Now that the Wei family has also ended, they are fighting with Li Shen in the ring, which shows that the family has begun to jointly deal with Li Shen.

Wei Ting was a little flustered by Li Shen's staring, he was able to have a place in this court all thanks to Wei Guifei's recommendation several times, otherwise how could he have his current status. Now that he is standing on the opposite side of Li Shen, he is really a little ungrateful.

"Master Wei also thinks that this king has deceived the scholars?" Li Shen said with a gloomy face.

"Your Highness, the old minister is also for your good, the sword of the warrior, the pen of the reader. If you let the reader write a little outside, it will not be good for the reputation of the prince after all.

If the royal family is implicated, it will be even worse, His Royal Highness said that this is not the case. Wei Ting looked bitter.

Li Shen turned his head not to look at Wei Ting, but at Li Shimin. Li Shimin also said calmly in the end: "What Wei Aiqing said is reasonable, I can't let your affairs implicate my royal reputation." You are responsible for what you do. 10,000 copies of each volume must be taken out according to the agreement. ”

"Aya can't, 180,000 books, it's going to lose a lot of money, and I don't have so much money in my house," Li Shen cried

"Hugh is going to say, you are not bad for the hundreds of thousands, and the royal reputation cannot be lost." Li Shimin did not allow Li Shen to defend himself

"Your Majesty, my look at 10,000 copies may not be enough to calm the anger of those students outside. Now that students from Chang'an City and the surrounding areas have come, it is estimated that the matter of books is also spread by ten. I think it's better to add some. Cui Renzhi also added a fire when he saw Li Shen like this.

Hear that. Li Shen turned his head to look at Cui Renzhi with fire in his eyes. "Master Cui, if you are willing to fight righteousness and squander money, don't prevent your Cui family from printing some books and selling them cheaply. Don't think I don't know how much your printing costs. ”

"His Royal Highness King Ji, my Cui family has not offended the world's scholars. And we also have a large family to support, not as rich as His Highness. Cui Renzhi said with a smile.

"It was decreed that Li Shen, the king of Ji, would sell 30,000 copies of each of the nine kinds of books to the Datang readers at yesterday's price from tomorrow. There is no mistake in completing the deadline of three months. Li Shimin said to the people below

"No, Aye. That's a lot of money. 540,000 books! Don't! Li Shen began to shout, and he almost rolled in public.

"Hmph, this is your punishment. Go down, the concubine hasn't seen you for a while, you go and see the concubine. Li Shimin snorted coldly

Li Shen turned around with a sad face and looked at the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty. Then he slowly walked out of the main hall. While the people were ready to speak of state affairs,

Li Shen's voice came from outside the main hall: "The immortals and Buddhas have not yet been completed, and they only know that the night is uneven." The wind canopy is full of sad songs, and the mud floc attracts Bo Xing's name. Nine out of ten people are white-eyed, and none of them are scholars. Mo is sad because of the poems, and the spring birds and autumn insects make their own sounds"

This is Huang Jingren's "Miscellaneous Feelings" in the Qing Dynasty, expressing the poverty and sorrow of being a poet. (The author saw this poem on the outer packaging of the product in the store next door.) ）

Everyone savored it, and Kong Yingda, who was the priest of the country, sighed and said: "Hey~ King Ji is really talented, not only expressing his poverty, even if he scolds us scholars for being useless, it is also so meaningful."

If King Ji concentrates on learning, he will definitely have some achievements. This sentence is nine out of ten people's eyes, and it is useless to be a scholar, which exhausts King Ji's mood at the moment. Kong Yingda shook her head helplessly.

"Useless is a scholar" Li Shimin is also savoring the poem made by Li Shen

(I didn't find out how many scholars there were in Zhenguan, only that there were more than 6.4 million scholars in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty.) But it's not Zhenguan. However, it is possible to speculate based on some accounts.

The schools of the Tang Dynasty were mainly government-run, and the central government set up Guozijian with six schools under its jurisdiction, namely Guozixue, Taixue, Sixue, Law, Calligraphy, and Arithmetic, and these schools mainly recruited children of nobles and bureaucrats.

It also recruits a small number of civilian children, taught by doctors and assistant professors, and the students are called apprentices, and the Confucian classics based on the Nine Classics are taught by Guozixue, Taixue, and the Four Disciplines, and are recruited according to the level of official positions in the apprentices' families.

The children and grandchildren of officials above the third grade can enter the country, and there are more than 300 apprentices, and the descendants of officials above the fifth grade can enter Taixue, and there are more than 500 apprentices.

The four schools also accept the descendants of officials and ordinary people below the fifth grade, and there are as many as 1,000 apprentices. Law, calligraphy, and arithmetic teach practical knowledge, and accept the children of officials and common people of the eighth and ninth grades, and the quota is limited to more than 10 people, and the local state schools and county schools are set up, with 20-50 students in each school.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there were 360 states and 1,557 counties. Nearly tens of thousands of students a year, the state and county schools have to make up the number every year. And this is not counting the children of state and county officials.

The total number of civil and military officials in the Tang Dynasty was at least 10,000 or 20,000, and the general history records that the Tang Dynasty had 180,000 officials at its peak.

Therefore, I personally speculate that there were at least 200,000 scholars in the Tang Dynasty during this period, and there were many children of merchants who did not go to the academy to study, but invited gentlemen.

The children of Tang Lu businessmen were not allowed to take the imperial examination, but they did not say that they were not allowed to study. Can he do business without knowing words? There should be a lot of people doing business in Datang.

According to archaeological experts, there are 73,000 shops in Chang'an East City. So I don't think the Tang Dynasty read as little as everyone says. Every year, thousands of people in the imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty echoed the conditions.

And the literacy of the people is also very high, and many people know about their simple daily life. Notices posted by the government, notices of tax collection. Don't you know a few words and don't suffer a loss?

Literacy and reading are two different things. At that time, the reading, imperial examinations, Confucian classics, and the Nine Classics were all in classical Chinese. I don't know what it means if no one teaches me how to read words. ）