Crowned the New Han Dynasty

Chapter 1044: Printing letters and passing them on, breaking the wall of eternity
Lu Zhi was stunned when he heard this.

Chen Zhi continued: "I have noticed the points that Lu Jun was worried about before, so I paid attention to them, but there is one thing that Lu Jun may not have seen!"

"What's the matter?" Lu Zhi calmed down and pretended to ask for advice humbly, but inside he was planning to continue persuading him later. After all, the general seemed to have relaxed this time, and Sun Xiu also had nothing to say to refute him for the time being, so he couldn't let it go. Take this opportunity.

But then I saw that Chen Zhi did not speak, but stood up and walked to the bookshelf, pulled out a book from it, and then threw it on the table in front of Lu Zhi and Sun Xiu.

Lu Zhi and Sun Xiu looked at the book in front of them, and immediately became concerned, and began to think about the title.

"Chen's Wenlu"?
This book was no stranger to them. It was one of the earliest published volumes.

In the beginning, in order to promote the printing technique and avoid being boycotted by the aristocratic family, Chen Zhi took several of his own articles and compiled them into a bibliography with a small number of words and chapters, which was published and distributed.

This kind of thing was just like he was showing off his personal literary talents and spreading his fame. The family was not too vigilant. In addition, the content was not much and it was easy to print, so it was successfully released. The government distributed it for free, and it soon spread everywhere. .

Seeing Chen Zhi take out this book now, whether it is Lu Zhi or Sun Xiu, the representatives of this aristocratic family and a poor family, they all hope to find the meaning behind it.

On the issue of sending their son to the countryside, they believed that every move made by Chen Zhi had its meaning.

"Could it be that one of the articles in the catalog just touches on this question and provides the answer?"

This idea appeared in the minds of both of them at the same time.

This is not their random imagination for no reason. Different from other people's records, Chen Zhi, as a general in the northern expedition and the governor of Youzhou, his articles are not just empty explorations and discussions like ordinary celebrities. On the contrary, the articles are Several articles included in the catalog often represent some of Chen Zhi's thoughts and policy tendencies.

Among them, the most representative and well-known are undoubtedly the two articles "Shi Shuo" and "Six Kingdoms". The former reveals Chen Zhi's views on the way of education, and the latter involves many foreign thoughts.

In addition to these two articles, the text also includes Chen Zhi's views on farming and his opinions on farmers and tenants in "Essential Art for Qi Min", which covers about three chapters. The remaining chapters are Excerpts from the "Dadian". Articles from the collection were excerpted and combined into a set of books. There are many articles about Confucianism and Taoism, which reflect certain governing thoughts.

In the past two years, many scholars from aristocratic and poor families have bought "Wen Lu" to study it, and have studied several of its articles thoroughly.

Now when the two of them thought about it, they felt that several articles all related to issues related to selecting talents and educating the people, but they were scattered in different sentences.

"When I go back this time, I have to ask the clan members to pick out the relevant contents in the records and put them together completely. Maybe we can see the general's original intention!"

While Lu Zhi was thinking like this, Sun Xiu felt that something was wrong. Since the Lord had already talked about the specific issue, he shouldn't play riddles. Could it be that the issue was not in the article?

The two of them just deliberated, not daring to speak rashly. The lobby suddenly fell silent, which was a bit awkward.

Seeing this, Chen Zhi said, "I mean, this book was printed, and printing technology was involved behind it. You must know that in the past two years, this printing technology also brought a lot of money to the family." Typography!
Immediately, Sun Xiu and Lu Zhi both understood and realized why Chen Zhi took out this book. It was because they had gone wrong and they couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

But then, they thought about the problem of printing, and immediately, Lu Zhi's face became ugly again.

The rise of printing is inseparable from the promotion of Chen Zhi. When he was still in Daijun, he came up with related technologies and hoped that aristocratic families could join in and share the profits.

Unfortunately, the Daijun family resisted it out of class instinct, so Chen Zhi was the only one to promote it alone, and published some documents, which were only circulated within Daijun. Outside Daijun, even in Youzhou, they were suppressed. Not very popular.

But when Chen Zhi took control of Youzhou, entered the North, and once again promoted the development of printing, the situation was different.

In fact, even if Chen Zhi didn't push it, small private workshops were already spread everywhere and began to take shape. When he advocated the official publication of Youzhou, the aristocratic families he had just conquered joined in one after another in order to show their obedience. To please Chen Zhi, at that time, the class instinct of the aristocratic family was more to continue the family, and other principles could be let go.

After all, Chen Zhi is also a high-ranking celebrity with upright roots. It is not shameful to submit to such a person.

At first, the effect was impressive. The circulation of printing technology in publications gave the family unexpectedly rich returns. But as soon as they became interested, the situation took a turn for the worse. Small workshops sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain, seizing the low-end market. If Youzhou's official publications can only be circulated within the circle of aristocratic families, the profits will be much thinner and become useless.

On the other hand, the spread of knowledge brought by cheap books began to arouse the vigilance of aristocratic families.

Chen Zhi's words rang in front of the two of them: "After the spread of printing, many small workshops appeared. Their printing can be said to be poor, but they are large in quantity. The price of each volume is getting lower and lower, and the number of people who have access to books is getting larger and larger. If you want to Before long, the number of people who have read the book will exceed a certain number, so how to restrain these people?"

Sun Xiu's eyes lit up and he praised: "So it turns out that the general's civil and military skills just give this group of people something to look forward to, letting them know that they have a chance to succeed every year. If they don't succeed this time, there will be another time, year after year. One year, there is always hope, so people will try their best to get promoted, study with peace of mind, and be imprisoned in their hometown, not wandering around."

Lu Zhi also understood, but he still complained a little in his heart. In his opinion, this printing technology was also advocated by the general. If there are too many scholars, one cannot control them and cannot be an official. They will run around all over the world. No. You know how many plotters you have to be to rebel against the king, but it turns out that you are the one who comes up with ideas to restrain them.

Naturally, he would not know that the popularization of printing, the collapse of knowledge monopoly, and the spread of knowledge to the lower classes are inevitable trends in history. Instead of letting the situation develop on its own, it is better to take action to restrain it now.

Of course, the more important thing is that the negative consequences caused by knowledge monopoly have gradually been reflected in this era.

No matter what Lu Zhi thinks, he has to admit that Chen Zhi's words make sense. Wenwu Jufa is indeed a good way to restrain the poor scholars who are accomplished and energetic but have nowhere to get promoted, but...

"If we let them go to various places and preach to the people, it would be too much. The people have not learned anything and have no ambitions. They tend to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. The more they know, the harder it is to control them."

Chen Zhi said, "We are trying to make the people get used to getting information from Juzi's mouth. As long as they have this habit, some hidden dangers will not be a concern at all!"

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