Chapter 2: Too Much You Don't Know (2)
The Lin family is a well-known family of book collectors in the south of the Yangtze River, and the ancestors of the past generations have also exhausted their life's energy and wealth to collect books from all over the world. After the accumulation of generations, the Lin family's collection of books is more numerous and wide than that of the official academy. It is because the Lin family also has another name for "Jiangnan Academy".
But the collection of books seems to be like accumulating wealth, and if you have too much money, you will inevitably be remembered by thieves, not to mention that there are some strange books and cheats that record martial arts exercises in the Lin family's collection, so it is natural to become more and more eye-catching, so book robbery and book theft also occur frequently. How to keep the books in the house from being robbed is really distressing to the heads of the Lin family for generations.
During this period, although the Lin family also tried their best to think of many countermeasures, these strategies were not very thorough, and the results were very poor, so that the Lin family's book collection business seemed to decline.
However, there is an old saying: "Happiness gives birth to sorrow, otherwise the pole is Tailai." ”
The gods and Buddhas of the heavens may have been moved by the Lin family's sincere heart of loving and cherishing books, so with a wave of their hands, they gave the Lin family a genius who shook the past and the present. And with the arrival of this wizard, the thorny problem that had tormented the Lin family for several generations was finally solved perfectly.
Needless to say, this prodigy is Lin Zongbian.
Lin Zongqi is a person, when he can be called the first smart person in the Lin family in the past two hundred years, he was enlightened and read at the age of three, and at the age of eight he was able to memorize the classics, and when he was ten years old, he began to practice martial arts: the first three years read the secret books of martial arts in the family, and memorized hundreds of martial arts in his chest; in the middle three years, he practiced his muscles and bones diligently, practiced Sanjiu in winter, practiced Sanfu in summer, endured all the hardships and strengthened his muscles and bones, and turned all the martial arts recorded in his chest into muscular memory, and reached the realm of 100 sets of kung fu instant switching without jerky; , Wu created a new exercise.
I have to say that it only took Lin Zongbian nine years to complete the achievements that others need to achieve for decades or even hundreds of years, which can really be called amazing, even if you look at the entire martial arts at that time, there is no one who can match it.
Since there is such a peerless talent in the family, the new generation of the family will naturally not be left behind. When Lin Zongbian reached the age of twenty-seven, the elders of the Lin family unanimously decided to officially hand over the entire Lin family to him to take charge, and allowed him to make drastic changes to all the family businesses of the Lin family. Of course, it is precisely because of this wise decision of the previous generation that the Lin family was finally able to enter the prosperous and glorious era.
Lin Zongbian lived up to his high expectations, and his first contribution was to completely solve the safety problem of the book collection at home. After he took charge of the house, he judged the situation, analyzed it objectively, and after a long period of weighing and brewing, he finally conceived a wonderful way to prevent robbery and save time and effort to collect a group of books, which was the famous "method of exchanging books for books" in the future.
He first commissioned Lu Yuanhuai, a skilled craftsman known as the "Holy Hand of the Devil's Axe," to build a "Tower of Ten Thousand Books" with many organs for the purpose of storing books and preventing theft;
The rules are also very simple, just the value of the book itself, regardless of the type of book, and all books can be exchanged for one, or one for many, or more for one. In addition to celebrity calligraphy and paintings, the exchanged books can also be exchanged for rubbings, but if the books brought by the exchanger have a collection in the building, they will no longer be exchanged.
In addition, in order to clarify the value of books, in addition to the specific martial arts classics that are personally evaluated by himself, the evaluation of books in other categories is to regularly invite Taishan Beidou in various industries to the "Ten Thousand Books Tower", so that they can make a value assessment of the books of various genera that have newly entered the building. Later, the Lin family used this as a basis to list the value level and exchange conditions of each book in detail, and regularly updated it in the "Equivalent Easy Book Comparison Book", so as to facilitate the exchange of books to accurately prepare the books for exchange after consulting.
As for those who were invited to the "Ten Thousand Books Tower" to comment, the Taishan Beidou also went there happily because they could get the rare and unique books in the building, and at the same time they were extremely impressed by Lin Zongbian's broad mind in the circulation of books, so they were all fair and fair when evaluating the books, and they were not subject to their own preferences and dislikes. For this reason, everyone in the world is satisfied with this book, and those who want to change books also follow this manual to prepare books of corresponding value to exchange.
As soon as this move came out, the effect was immediate, and in the next ten years, there were no more book thefts and book robberies in the Lin family's "Ten Thousand Book Tower". This is because the "Ten Thousand Books Pagoda" built by Lu Yuanhuai, the "Holy Hand of the Devil's Axe", is so seamless that people have no idea where to start; second, since everyone knows that there is such a proper method of exchange, there is no need to commit the stupid act of stealing. Even if you can't get the book you want from the "Tower of Ten Thousand Books", you can find someone who has exchanged it for this book in private, and then exchange it with other means.
In this way, Lin Zongbian only took more than ten years to build the "Ten Thousand Books Tower" into the largest book distribution center among the people. In front of the "Ten Thousand Book Tower", no matter the scorching heat or the cold winter, the book changers are all coming and going, rubbing shoulders one after another, and the scene is not prosperous!
And Lin Zongbian also relied on this pioneering move, while gathering books in the world, he also won the world's fame, even today, he also came to exchange books.
At that time, when the waiter of the Ministry of Rites was appointed by the emperor to bring three carriages of books to exchange books, but one of the ancient Taoist books that needed to be exchanged was really precious, and the waiter rummaged through the three carriages and could not find a book that could be exchanged for the same value. It's just a pity that this squire is so anxious that he scratches his ears and cheeks in front of the "Ten Thousand Book Tower", sighs again and again, but there is nothing he can do. Under the torment of anxiety and panic, he was covered in cold sweat in the dog days, and frost suddenly appeared on his face, and in the end, his breath could not be continued, and he actually passed out on the spot.
Seeing that Lord Shilang was so frightened, Lin Zongbian sympathized with him that it was not easy to be an official, so he dedicated this book to the Son of Heaven free of charge on the grounds that "the shore of the land is not a prince and a minister, and the emperor sits on the things of the world".
Lin Zongbian's generosity was tantamount to a life-saving timely rain for Lord Shilang, which made Lord Shilang grateful to him, and it was needless to say that he would be grateful for his kindness after that.
When Lord Shilang returned to the dynasty with the book, he praised Lin Zongbian in front of the emperor and praised him as the first strange person in the past hundred years.
After the emperor got the ancient books, he was very happy, and he heard that this squire praised Lin Zongbian very much, and he couldn't help but have a great interest in Lin Zongbian and his person, so he passed down an edict to let Lin Zongbian enter the palace to meet him.
The emperor's intention was to reward and show that the royal family owed nothing to the people, and secondly, he really wanted to meet Lin Zongbian and see what was unique about this person.
After Lin Zongbian received the edict, he also went north to meet him as scheduled, and traveled with the emperor in the imperial garden. During the tour, Lin Zongbian's conversation and demeanor were neither humble nor arrogant, his words were logical but humble, and when talking about the emperor's beloved, Taoist secret arts, his insights also made the emperor quite refreshed.
However, Lin Zongbian left him behind in order to prevent the emperor's love, and without angering Tianwei, he deliberately expressed some views that were contrary to the emperor's cognition, but not very important. After doing this several times, the emperor slowly lost interest in him, but in the end, in order to show the emperor's grace, he still gave Lin Zongbian the official position of the head of the Nanjing Rite Department.
As soon as this decree was issued, the news spread far and wide. All of a sudden, Lin Zongbian listened to the news that he could catch the grass fiercely in an instant throughout the entire martial arts, and he became more famous, with unparalleled scenery, as if he was the first person in the martial arts. Since then, he has become a popular figure among people from all walks of life in the world, and has maintained a prominent reputation until today.