Chapter 47: Is This His Original Creation?
"Did you see it?"
"Look!"
"There is no need to light a fire at night, it uses a kind of electric light, where you go, there is light, if you want red light, you want green is green, if you want a rainbow of colorful light, it is colorful, even if you walk at night, there are lights on the road......"
"Don't say you don't need a fire for lighting, you don't need a fire for cooking. ”
"I can't figure it out, how can I stir-fry without fire?"
"There is a car when you go out, and the road of thousands of miles arrives in an instant, from our Luoyang to Bianliang, according to what is written in the book, it is just a meal. ”
"Not to mention a meal from Luoyang to Bianliang, many people there eat in Beihai in the morning and go back to Nanhai to sleep in the evening. ”
"However, I don't envy those, what I value most is that the old are dependent, the young are raised, and they can eat and wear without hard work. ”
"The poorest people in the ordinary country live, the houses they live in, the food they eat, the clothes they wear, the things they play, the things they sleep, the things they walk...... They are all the richest than my Great Song Dynasty, and even better than the official family. ”
"Yes, don't say that we are full of yearning, even the official family is afraid of that kind of life, it is said that everyone there lives a long life and has few diseases, and there are almost no diseases that cannot be cured. ”
......
In the whole world, there are only a few people who are happy to be satisfied with the status quo, not to mention that in this era, even if it is royal, in addition to having more women, eating better, dressing and living better, life is also helpless.
And the world described in the book.
Not to mention those colorful lifestyles.
Speaking of medical care alone, the average life expectancy of the Great Song Dynasty is 30 years old, and many of the children born to the royal family died early, but the infant mortality rate there is very close to zero. The overall life expectancy is 80 or 90 years, and the wealthy class can live for hundreds of years, and even if they die, they can use cryonics technology to preserve the human body and wait for the resurrection in the future.
The richer people there are the real hooray, hooray. Hooray!
The poorest people there live more comfortably than the officials here.
This shock, this shock!
Not to mention the poor people who are already living at the bottom of society, forced by life, and overwhelmed. Even some people with extremely high status and no worries about food and clothing are also a great temptation and incredible.
What's more, the entire Great Song Dynasty has long been overwhelmed because of its population of hundreds of millions and extremely limited resources.
At this time, the Northern Song Dynasty had reached the point of extreme collapse, and it didn't take long. Shuibo Liangshan Uprising, Fangla Uprising, Baojia Uprising, large and small riots and uprisings in various places, uprisings, the world will be full of smoke.
It can be said that the dissatisfaction of the whole society has actually accumulated to a very high level.
The poor are dissatisfied, and the rich are dissatisfied.
Now the Qin Dynasty has drawn an infinitely beautiful pie for them.
Rumble!
From top to bottom, from the rich gentry, landlords, to homeless people, small people in the market. Poor peasants, from non-scholars to scholars, are all discussing. Yearning for the world in the book, he even began to doubt the various systems of governing the country and the various theories of Confucianism.
Of course, there are discussions such as:
"Ignorant, a country house in his book is better built than a palace, do you know how much manpower and material resources it takes to build a house in the palace? It is not an easy task to use stones, but the house there is three or four stories high, and the normal one is more than ten stories, and the one hundred stories higher is a small meaning. Such a house, I don't say anything else. Just talking about laying the foundation, the manpower and material resources spent can make half of the county unaffordable. ”
"The biggest flaw in his book is the iron car, I don't say anything else, just one point, if it is really an iron car, how heavy a car is, the most troublesome thing about the car is the road, such an iron car, unless the road surface is also cast in iron, otherwise, it can't be driven two or three times, it will be broken!"
......
There are also a large number of people who are constantly nitpicking like this, thinking that they have found great evidence that Qin Xianao lied.
But no matter how much such people persuade people not to believe the absurd things in "Travels in the Fairy Kingdom", and even make those people speechless in their words, they still yearn for it, doubt the status quo, and doubt all kinds of existing statecraft.
At the same time-
"Don't believe Qin Xianao's book, it's just a novelist's words, not much different from the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" he wrote, it's all ten false and one true, true and false, mixed ......"
""Travels in the Kingdom of the Immortals" is a book of myths and legends, and the real truth in it may be that the names of a few people are true, and the kind of extreme place described does not exist......"
......
Sima Guang, Cheng Yi, Wen Yanbo...... One by one, they used their influence to shout and shout. They also had no choice but to ban and destroy "Travels in the Kingdom of Immortals", but Cihang Jingzhai refused.
It is forbidden to destroy it.
Social dissatisfaction, seeking innovation, seeking change, and seeking prosperity and strength are increasing and growing from the bottom to the top, and all strata are growing, how can Sima Guang, Cheng Yi, Wen Yanbo, and others not panic. Even Cheng Yi, Sima Guang, Wen Yanbo, Cai Jing...... and so on one by one, they sent articles to the newspaper, expressing their willingness to be interviewed and talk about their views on "Travels in the Kingdom of Immortals".
But—
"Mr. Yichuan, just like printing, you don't think it exists, but the fact exists, this "Journey to the Immortal Country" seems ridiculous, but is it really so? You better take a look first, and later if you want, I will come to interview your ......"
"Sima Xiangye, it's really a great honor for us that you want to be interviewed, but I'm afraid I can't let you get your ...... when you're busy."
......
Ah Zhu and Ah Bi politely declined, saying that it was for their own good, and did not accept their request at all, and even the manuscript they sent to the newspaper was suppressed and not published in the newspaper.
The newspaper is indeed for the good of Cheng Yi, Sima Guang and others, but Cheng Yi, Sima Guang and others are really angry.
Soon, the second and third volumes of "Travels in the Kingdom of Immortals" were published one after another.
And these two volumes were born, the flesh and blood of the entire fairy kingdom became more and more plump, and the world became more and more three-dimensional and real.
Of course, the second and third volumes, because the more the protagonist Qin Xianao learns the language in the realm of immortals, the more he understands, many of them seem to have loopholes in the first volume, so they are explained here.
For example, why don't iron cars have briquetted pavement?
Because the iron car is either running on the rails, or the tires are wrapped around a layer of tires. And this tire ......
......
Three volumes of "Travels in the Kingdom of Immortals" were published in succession, according to Qin Xianao, this is just the beginning, and there is still a long way to describe the social system, economy, culture, etc.
But this caused an even bigger sensation and caused an infinitely huge impact, which is still fermenting. Brewing......
A manor in Luoyang.
"Sima Junshi and Uncle Cheng Zheng are writing again?"
"Well, this is their seventh letter these days, and these two old men are really stubborn. ”
After opening the two letters and scanning them slightly, Xian Yuting closed the letter paper with her hand and rubbed it, and the letter turned into a sky full of debris, Xian Yuting had a trace of sadness in her eyebrows, after the Qin Dynasty issued a newspaper, Sima Guang and Cheng Yi ...... All the people below were almost unanimously opposed, but they were pressed down. However, this time the book "Travels in the Kingdom of the Immortals" was issued.
If it's just Sima Guang, Cheng Yi, Wen Yanbo, Lu Gongshu, Lu Dafang, Liu Zhi, Zeng Bu, etc., it would be easy to do.
However, all of them, whether they were Buddhas, Taoists, Confucianists, or sects, as long as they could speak, all wrote letters and strongly advised them to agree to the ban on the book "Travels in the Kingdom of the Immortals".
No matter how strong Cihang Jingzhai is, he must also be willing to cooperate with the people below. After all, Cihang Jingzhai has always been unparalleled in the world in terms of force. But they are all 'convincing people with virtue', and many times they do things that are the icing on the cake, and they will not do too subversive meddling in the world.
It is relatively rare for them to take matters into their own hands and directly force them.
"The text of the book written by Qin Shengchao. Can't you find out which country it's from?" asked Xian Yuting.
An Menglu shook her head: "In the library pavilion, almost all the words of large and small countries are recorded, but I have never seen that kind of writing. ”
"Could it be...... Is he telling the truth?"
Xian Yuting picked up a book on the desktop in front of her, opened it, and saw lines of text written on the paper. If you are a modern person, you can recognize these words at a glance as English.
English is the main language in Western countries though.
However, the development of the English language has undergone great changes, and each period of change is earth-shaking, which can be roughly divided into three periods:
Old English period.
Middle English period.
Modern English period.
People in the Middle English period hardly knew Old English if they didn't study it, and those who studied Modern English would have been confused when they read the Middle English texts.
The text on the book is handwritten in modern English from the Qin Dynasty, at a time when there were very few English speakers in the far West who were still in the Old English period.
How is it possible for Cihang Jingzhai to find out from which country the modern English written by the Qin Dynasty was borrowed?
"Master. Qin Shengchao wanted to use these words to write a book, and threw it out, deceiving people to say that it was a text from the realm of immortals, a book from the realm of immortals, if these words were really his original, then he could really deceive people. ”
"Hmm. Xian Yuting nodded.
Sima Guang, Cheng Yi...... Waiting for her to force Cihang Jingzhai to allow the ban on the destruction of "Travels in the Immortal Country", the answer given by Xian Yuting was the text in the book in her hand, as long as they found out the source of the text, they agreed.
But......
So far, no one has replied.
And Cihang Jingzhai searched it by himself, but he couldn't find which country or place these words belonged to.
However, this Qin Sheng Dynasty is also erudite, and the language he wrote is very similar to the language of the extreme west, especially the composition of these characters with more than 20 letters, which at a glance can be seen to be obviously from Latin, but when taken together, it is different from all the current scripts. An Menglu was very emotional, the words written by the Qin Dynasty seem to look like Western characters, but in fact they have their own characteristics, but there is no doubt that the Qin Dynasty must have learned, or studied hard, and even knew one or two Western languages and scripts.
This should be his originality, this person while creating original language and writing, while writing books, while learning the doctrines of Socrates and others, while also running a newspaper, writing "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", serializing other novels, writing "Travels in the Kingdom of Immortals", writing "Analects" annotations...... They even have to bother with us. Xian Yuting's eyes were complicated.
What the Qin Dynasty did, each of which was a huge project separately.
But the Qin Dynasty supported it alone, and there was no merit and hard work, and the Qin Dynasty worked so hard, and people's hearts were all flesh and blood, how could Xian Yuting be indifferent? This is why she was willing to suppress those objections and did not agree to ban the newspaper so far. (To be continued......)
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