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"Books? Your Highness, you just want our Fanyang Lu family's books?" Lu Zuo and Lu You looked at each other, and then asked back with a puzzled face. He really didn't expect that Li Yin would bring up such a weird question. If I remember correctly, although His Royal Highness Qi Wang is talented, he doesn't seem to be very eager to learn?

"Wrong, this king will not want your Lu family's collection of books, but just borrow them, but the number of borrowed books is a bit too much, so I hope you will let go of all the books in the clan, and I will send someone to fetch them at that time. I'll definitely return it when I'm done!" Li Yin said with a smile, although he doesn't like reading, there are many people in the world who like reading but can't get it.

After hearing this, Lu Zuo and Lu You had black lines on their faces. What kind of books do you need to borrow?It seems that His Royal Highness, Chapter 190, Chapter [-], Book Collection of the Family of King Qi wanted to evacuate Lu's book collection, but he had to bow his head under the low eaves, and it was just a collection of books, although many of them were priceless The rare and orphaned copies, but compared to the survival of the family, this is nothing at all, so I agreed without hesitation.

The conditions have been negotiated, and it is inconvenient for Brother Lu Zuo to stay any longer. After all, Li Yin is ill and there is no way to entertain them.In addition, the result of today's negotiation is undoubtedly a huge disaster for the Lu family, because there is almost nothing they want to get in advance. Although Li Yin also gave them some opportunities, no matter whether it is textile or sugar, It's just a castle in the air, and they can't see the direct benefits at all, so they have to go back and weigh it.

After getting up and seeing off Lu Zuo and Lu You, Li Yin went back to the Hu bed and lay down again.And at this time, a person turned out from behind the screen, it was Mr. Wang Fu Wang Anwang of Qi Wangfu.Seeing his teacher, Li Min on the Hu bed chuckled and said: "Wang Fu, you are really good at predicting things. Lu's visit this time is not only for the purpose of retiring the engagement, but also wants to be suppressed by us for a long time. Get away." Capital Datang 192

Wang An is Li Yin's number one think tank.When encountering something like Lu's, it is natural to participate in the whole process, but according to Wang An, Chapter 190, the second chapter of the aristocratic family collection.He had a friendship with Lu Zuo before, so he didn't want to meet him, so he hid behind the screen.

"The family's top priority is to protect the family. Although this belief can make the children of the family very united to the outside world, when they join forces with other families, various problems will arise, and when the interests of their own family and When the purpose of joining forces conflicts, they will definitely choose the interests of the family without hesitation, as long as they understand this, it will be much easier to deal with these families in the future!" Wang An explained with a smile.He was born in a great family and knows these things best.It's just that now his vision is no longer limited to the family, but focuses on the survival of the entire society, country and nation. This is the vision that a wise man should have.

"Wang Fu, based on your understanding of the Lu family, how many books does their family have. How many of them are we need!" Li Yin asked impatiently.

"Your Highness, your question is really hard for me, but with the Lu family's inheritance of nearly a thousand years, there must be countless books in the family, and there must be many extremely precious collections among them. For example, there are about 50 books in our Wang family. Tens of thousands of volumes. And Lu’s is definitely no less than our Wang’s!” Wang An also showed a hint of fascination when talking about Lu’s collection of books. As a scholar, he naturally has a passion for books. It is a pity that the collections of books in each family are only open to the children of the clan, and some books are only open to some specific children, not everyone can see it, let alone people outside the clan.

"Hmph, speaking of it, the big family is really stingy. Usually, the books in the family are not borrowed at all. If it weren't for the fact that the Lu family was "forced" to a dead end by us this time, they would never agree to lend us the books. Yes." Li Yin snorted coldly, and began to despise the pettiness of the big families.After all, in the eyes of later generations like him, they were nothing more than a few books, but they hid them like treasures, and did not show the bearing that aristocratic families should have at all.

However, when Wang An heard Li Yin's complaint, he smiled a little and said: "Your Highness, you are in a high position, so you don't know the value of books, whether it is the collections of our Wang family, Lu family or other families, Almost all of them are copied stroke by stroke by predecessors. Sometimes it takes a year or even several years to complete a book. It is because countless energy and time are spent in a book that almost all readers will Books are regarded as treasures, if you are not a close friend, you will never borrow them, even among scholars, borrowing books from others is a very inhumane thing, if you have the opportunity in the future, you must repay it twice."

Li Yin's level of ancient prose is limited, and now he can barely understand some letters and the like. As for books such as Confucian classics, he still doesn't quite understand them. Someone must explain them by the side, so he has never paid much attention to reading. He knew even less about the books themselves. He used to only know that Tang's books were generally copied by others, and the price was very expensive. As for how expensive?But he didn't understand it carefully. Now after listening to Wang An's explanation, he finally understands the preciousness of a book.

But at this moment, Wang An went on to say: "Of course, the reason why the aristocratic family prohibits borrowing books is not only because the books are precious, but the most important thing is to block knowledge. After all, since the imperial examination system was implemented in the former Sui Dynasty Later, most of the officials had to go through the imperial examination, so if the aristocratic family wanted to control the court again, they had to take the imperial examination. In order to reduce some competition, they naturally refused to disclose the family's collection of books!"

"That's right!" Li Yin was also thinking about this question, and he was full of admiration when he heard Wang An's words, "Knowledge is a key to unlock the wisdom of the people, and books are the carrier of knowledge. The ancients recorded the knowledge they learned from life. It is not for people to collect it, nor for some people to use it as a tool for their own profit. Books should belong to all the people of my Tang Dynasty, and this is the ultimate goal of my library. Purpose!"

Seeing Li Yin's righteous face, Wang An secretly smiled in his heart. Although the library was proposed by Li Yin, and as he said just now, it bears the name of benefiting the people of Tang Dynasty, but as long as it is a little Anyone with a discerning eye can see clearly that the purpose of Li Yin's move is to hit the big families of the five surnames and seven Wangs.

The reason why aristocratic families control the court is because they have a large amount of educational resources in their hands. Not only did the children of the family enjoy the most superior and most orthodox Confucian education since childhood, but they never worried about books.But some scholars outside the aristocratic family are different. In order to find some books they need, they often ask for help, and some people even visit others from far away. There is no introduction from an acquaintance, and it often ends in the rejection of the other party.

It is in this kind of educational environment where there is no fairness at all, the children of the aristocratic family are naturally better than others in terms of knowledge, and it is easier to get on the list during the imperial examination. In addition, the imperial examination in the Tang Dynasty is not only They value the candidates' knowledge, as well as referees and wind reviews and other messy things. These are often the children of aristocratic families who have an advantage. As a result, most of the scholars who can enter the officialdom through the imperial examination are The children of the aristocratic family, and it is through this method that the aristocratic family gradually controlled more than half of the power in the imperial court.

Li Yin wants to break the educational barriers established by the aristocratic family. The first step is to popularize books. As a later generation, he naturally thinks of libraries first, and this is the second thing besides newspapers. A tool for attacking aristocratic families.

The library work should have started a long time ago. At least Li Yin was planning to build a library in Chang'an first, and then find a way to mobilize the industrial and commercial circles of Datang to promote the construction of libraries all over the country. It doesn't matter how big or small the library is. , as long as there are books to read, but soon he discovered a problem and had to postpone the library plan.

The purpose of cracking down on aristocratic families is to better develop industry and commerce. The development of industry and commerce also has a great relationship with the technical level of various industries. As the saying goes, technology is the primary productive force. If industry and commerce want to develop, then in construction, agriculture, mathematics In terms of other disciplines, Datang must also make achievements.

In fact, many people have conducted research on these subjects before the Tang Dynasty, especially in mathematics, and there are many books.It’s just that what Li Yin can find are mostly Confucian works, but there are very few more practical science books such as architecture and mathematics, which makes Li Yin very unwilling. After all, no matter how good Confucianism is, it can’t create wealth. Real knowledge is the real driving force to promote the development of industry and commerce. He does not want the library he has worked so hard to build to become an accessory to the imperial examination.

With this kind of thinking in mind, Li Yin had to postpone the matter of the library for a while, and then collected some practical books other than Confucianism, and sorted them according to their functions, hoping to organize all types of books into It is a systematic subject, but it is a pity that those practical books are not easy to find. Although there are some in the imperial palace, after the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the books in the imperial palace were not well lost, so the imperial palace in the Tang Dynasty There are not many books in the court collection, which cannot meet Li Min's requirements at all.

In the end, under Wang An's reminder, Li Yin thought of the big families of the five surnames and Qiwang. Confucian classics, and also has a large collection of non-Confucian books. Some time ago, Li Yin sent someone to find Wang Kuang in Taiyuan and asked him to help him filter out some useful books from Wang's collection. Tens of thousands of copies were sent, and Wang Kuang also said in the letter that these are only the first issue of the book, and that they can be replaced by another batch after printing is finished.

It was also seeing these Taiyuan Wang's collections that made Li Min interested in the collections of several other great families, so he put forward such an additional condition for Lu's, in order to sort out and classify all these books, for the sake of Make preparations for your own national library career. rq! ! !Capital Datang 192