Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 184
He Xiu, who only won a bet once in his life, did not choose to bet with the little fat man in the end. After all, this little fat man taught by himself is very thieves. He dared to bet with himself, which shows that he still has a certain amount of confidence. The fat man directly sent someone to call Cui Shi over, and He Xiu opened the book again and kept looking at it, wondering what he was mumbling about.

After a while, Cui Shi just arrived and was surprised to see He Xiu there. He visited the emperor and He Xiu again. Did you write it yourself?" Thanks to Cui Shi's good temper, he didn't get angry, smiled and nodded, and said, "It's what I wrote."

"Are you proficient in farming and mulberry? Female red? Even medical skills?"

He Xiu was a little unbelievable.

Cui Shi suddenly realized, and said: "It turns out that Mr. He was surprised by this. Although I wrote this book, many of the contents were not written by myself. Among them, the part about farming and mulberry is my wandering around, visiting old farmers and villages. Officials, summed up, and the rest are the same, I just summed up the knowledge of everyone, and wrote a book."

He Xiu couldn't help but sighed: "Even so, he is still a great talent of Mr. Cui. This book has benefited the people a lot. Based on this, you can become a prince!" After finishing speaking, he turned his head and looked at the little fat man beside him , the little fat man was happy and said: "Song Dian!" Song Dian immediately ran over and saluted He Xiu and Cui Shi. Give it to the official school, so that children everywhere can learn it."

"In addition, distribute a copy to the county officials in various places, let him see how to manage farming and mulberry!"

"Yes!"

After the little fat man finished speaking, he looked at Cui Shi again, and said with a smile: "Cui Gong wrote a book, and he has made great achievements. You can choose your own food when you enter the village!" Said: "Thousands of your poems and prose that praise me are not as good as giving the people a millet!"

When this article came out, Cui Shi's reputation suddenly soared, and he became a great Confucianist on a par with He Xiu and Zheng Xuan. Because the emperor has always attached importance to farming and mulberry, officials from all over the world are vying for this "Four People's Monthly Order". The people saw it, and immediately set the rules. If scholars want to copy and observe, they don't have to pay the fee, but if they are rich and important ministers, they have to pay [-] yuan for copying a copy!

The little fat man was a little annoyed that he had to pay [-] yuan for copying a book?I still want to spread this book with all my strength, aren't you hindering my plan?Wen Renxi explained: "Precious things are the most important thing. If you let others copy it at will, these officials will definitely not pay attention to it. If you sell it for a thousand gold, everyone will definitely brag about it!"

In this regard, the little fat man was skeptical. As a result, after Wen Renxi set the price, the book became even more popular, and many officials rushed to copy it. The book has completely become a must-read book for every official of the Han Dynasty. He also drafted two books if he heard about the attacks.

The thousand-dollar copy is called a superficial manuscript, and some scholars with outstanding calligraphy in Luoyang were invited to copy a copy, which was called an exquisite manuscript. Jian and others bought it, making this exquisite manuscript a symbol of power and wealth. Afterwards, they made a huge fortune again, and they were very happy to hear about it.

Since then, his attitude towards Cui Shi has obviously changed a lot, and he often lingers around him, asking him if he has any new works, which scares the newly sealed township lord from going out.

Not only Cui Shi, but also some other great scholars were entangled in his home by him, even He Xiu was beaten up by He Xiu, and he never went to see He Xiu again.

This behavior of Cui Shi showed those great Confucians who longed for prestige a new way out. For a while, many great Confucians took out the works that they usually treasured and dedicated them to the emperor one after another. The books they studied since they were young made these great Confucians very excited. Among them, there are of course many excellent works.

Among them, especially Xun Shuang, who is also one of the elders of Xun You and the most famous person in the Xun family at present. He took out hundreds of works at one time. They were all frightened. He was well-versed in the classics and wrote many books on the classics in his life. He personally annotated and wrote "Li", "Yi Zhuan", "Shi Zhuan", "Shang Shu Zheng Jing", "Spring and Autumn Regulations", and wrote A "Chinese" that explains the prosperity of the Han Dynasty!
He also had some research on Gongyang, and wrote "Gongyang Questions" and "Debate of Prophecy". Of course, the content of these two articles made old man He a little furious. He searched for a few days with a sword, but he couldn't find Xun Shuang. In desperation, he entered the palace and scolded Xun You, and even confronted him about the content of Gongyang studies. Naturally, Xun You was no match for old man He in Confucian classics, so he pointed at him and scolded him for half an hour before he escaped.

Xun You also wants to cry but has no tears, and it's not my book, why are you confronting me?
Xun Shuang compiled these own writings into a book called "New Book".

And his brothers did not stop, Xun Jian set the goal of writing books in the field of history, and also wrote several "Zuo Zhuan Analysis".

Many great Confucianists who stayed behind closed doors have come up with their own works, and the prosperity of the writing style is nothing more than that. Naturally, this is also counted on the head of the little fat man, and it has become another merit of the little fat man. The happiest thing is the current The students, originally because of the scarcity of books, they just followed the great Confucianists, constantly reviewing their respective Confucian classics, and they were a little bored.

But now, they no longer lack books, and the works contributed from all over the place are almost full of the emperor's library!
The little fat man often calls He Xiu over and reads these books with him. Whenever there is a conflict involving Confucianism or rams, the little fat man will handle it by himself. Look, they selected several books together as the must-read books for the students of Taixue, and some of them were taught by official schools and classified.

Of course, he did not hesitate to reward the great Confucians who wrote this book.

Among these great Confucians, Xun Shuang was the only one who did not accept the award. He said: "Presenting books for the people, not for high officials and titles!" , the enthusiasm for writing books that was finally aroused began to decline again. Finally, Zheng Xuan came forward and wrote a letter to Xun Shuang. In the letter, he wrote:

"The law of the State of Lu is that the people of Lu are ministers and concubines to the feudal lords. Those who can redeem them will take their gold from the mansion. .From now on, Lu people have not redeemed people.If you take the gold, you will not be harmed; if you don't take the gold, you will not be able to redeem people. "

"Zilu rescued the drowning man, he worshiped it with a cow, and Zilu received it. Confucius said: Lu people must save the drowning person. Confucius saw it carefully, and observed it far away."

"What you are doing today is different from Zigong's redemption?"

Zheng Xuan used an example to remind Xun Shuang that if there were people from Lu who were slaves outside, the people of Lu could redeem them and get money from the government. Money, Confucius scolded him, if you do this, will anyone be willing to redeem these slaves in the future?But Zilu saved a drowning man, and that man wanted to give him a cow.

He readily accepted, and Confucius praised him, saying that the people of Lu will surely save drowning people in the future!
He just took this example and asked Xun Shuang, what is the difference between your current behavior and Zigong's?

After receiving this letter, Xun Shuang was shocked and turned pale, saying: "My mistake!" Then he accepted the emperor's award, and wrote back to Zheng Xuan, honoring Zheng Xuan as his teacher, and the actions of the two of them also followed suit. Time has become a good story.

All kinds of works were transcribed, and everyone laughed from ear to ear.

When he sold Xun Shuang's book to the Xun family for tens of thousands of dollars, his reputation was completely rotten, and there was a vague request in the court to invite someone to cook and hear people to attack him. institutional procedures.

(End of this chapter)