Longevity starts from Yitian

Chapter 217
The eight departments of the Appraisal Institute are in charge of the culture of Qingguo, and all the public opinion, books, publications, etc. under their control...

The host of the Eighth Office was Xuan Jiu. Chen Pingping introduced Ji Qinglin to Xuan Jiu. Xuan Jiu was holding a volume of books and was engrossed in reading them. He didn't pay attention to Chen Pingping and Ji Qinglin.

Chen Pingping shook her head helplessly, this Xuan Jiu... likes to read books when he has nothing to do on weekdays, and he is fascinated by reading, like a nerd...

"Xuan Jiu, what kind of book are you reading?" Chen Pingping asked with a smile. He knew that as long as he talked with Xuan Jiu about books, Xuan Jiu would definitely respond to him.

Sure enough, as soon as Xuan Jiu heard Dean Chen mentioned the book he was reading, he immediately got distracted from the story in the book, and said with a slight smile: "This book is called "Fighting Knife in the Snow", and the writing is not bad. .”

Ji Qinglin was slightly taken aback, he didn't expect that the Chief of the Eighth Division of the Procuratorate, who was in charge of Qingguo Culture, was actually reading "Copied" "Fighting Swords in the Snow" by himself.

Chen Pingping then asked, "A novel... who wrote it?"

Xuan Jiudao: "It was written by the well-known writer with the pseudonym 'Sword Ranger' in recent years. Although some of the stories he wrote are quite...common, but once you read them, you can't stop..."

Chen Pingping laughed loudly, and said: "That's a coincidence, Xuan Jiu, the Mr. Ji I want to introduce to you, who will be the director of the Third Office of the Procuratorate, is the author of the novel you read—" You Xia with a sword, you can chat with him more in the future. It happens that you are in charge of culture, books, publications..., and he opened the "Qiandian" teahouse business and the subsidiary "Qiandian" bookstore business. There's a lot to work with..."

When Xuan Jiu heard this, he stopped looking at the book in his hand, turned to look at Ji Qinglin, and asked: "I have a question I want to ask, Mr. 'Sword Ranger', reading... can really read A peerless master?"

Ji Qinglin didn't expect that the person in charge of the culture of the Qing Kingdom would ask such a curious question, and he couldn't help laughing and crying for a moment, saying: "If you can go to a world where you can practice literature and Taoism, maybe reading books will be true." Can read out a peerless master..."

Xuan Jiu clapped his palms and laughed, and said: "Haha, Mr. 'Sword Ranger' is such a rare and wonderful person! No wonder Mr. 'Sword Ranger' can write such fantastic stories. Let countless book readers and teahouse listeners indulge in it, lingering..."

Zhuge, the director of the First Division of the Procuratorate, didn't take it seriously, and snorted coldly: "Hmph, he's just an obscene person who writes some low-level stories. Don't you blush when you praise him by saying that he's once in a lifetime? Xuan Jiu, thanks to you Hosted by the Eighth Office of the Inspection and Procuratorate in charge of Qingguo Culture!"

Xuan Jiu shook his head slightly, and sighed, "Master Zhu, have you read the novel written by this 'Sword Ranger'?"

Zhu Ge sneered and said: "Novels are nothing more than low-end things, not to mention that the novels written by Mr. "Sword Ranger" seem to be more vulgar and vernacular than the previous traditional novels, but they are just to please the common people. Why should I watch it? I don’t have to dirty my eyes!"

Xuan Jiu smiled slightly, and said: "If Mr. Zhu has never read the novel written by this 'Sword Ranger', how would he know that Mr. 'Sword Ranger' uses vulgar vernacular?"

Zhuge said: "I... Although I haven't read those novels, I... I heard many scholars scold those novels in this way. These scholars have very elegant tastes, and they scolded...should not be wrong... ..."

Xuan Jiu said indifferently: "Hearing is delusion, seeing is believing. Besides, culture belongs to everyone, from princes and generals to merchants and pawns. Is there really a so-called distinction between high and low? Maybe... The so-called high and low are nothing but people wishful thinking to praise some things that they think are noble, and then belittle some things that they think are indecent... These novels written by "Sword Ranger" can be spread in the market, With such a wide range of book readers and teahouse listeners, and the influence of thousands of people, isn’t there a little bit of merit?”

"Who knows that thousands of years later, will anyone still remember the phrase '30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi, don't bully young people into poverty', will there be a young man who cheers up like this when he is frustrated in life? At least now We don’t know about you and me. For things we don’t know, maybe we should be more in awe, instead of being full of arrogance and prejudice. Maybe the arrogance and prejudice you and I are today will be laughed at by future generations after many years short-sighted and ignorant..."

Xuan Jiu's long speech made Zhuge speechless for a while. After all, he is not a scholar or a cultural person. He has never been interested in which works are good and which are bad, which are elegant, and which are high-class... It's just saying what others say, but in fact, I don't have any opinions of my own, so naturally I can't argue.

Ji Qinglin was also quite surprised. When he copied those novels, he didn't have any concept of elegance and indecency at all. Everything was just to make money. He copied the long online novels on Blue Star just because these works were on It has indeed developed to the limit of literary interest and length, and its popularity has greatly surpassed traditional literary works, and the more popular it is, the more money it will naturally make.

Xuan Jiu said slowly: "A lot of literature that is now regarded as classics and shelved on the shelf was once popular in a certain dynasty, so that dynasty became the dynasty with the most abundant output of this kind of literature. The essence, let go of the dross, and pass on to future generations, such as poems, words, and songs. No one knows whether certain literature that is popular today will be like poems, words, and songs in the future, after hundreds of years of refinement, and then Become a treasure and pass it on..."

Ji Qinglin cupped his hands respectfully and said: "Master Xuan has placed such high hopes on the story written by my clumsy pen, I am terrified! Thank you, Master Xuan, for your encouragement!"

This Lord Xuan is in charge of the culture of Qingguo. All the public opinion, books, publications, etc. of Qingguo are under their jurisdiction. The affiliated bookstore industry will have many places to deal with the eight departments of the Procuratorate.

Xuan Jiu nodded and said with a warm smile: "Such a long story that needs to be updated frequently is unprecedented in the long river of history. I am looking forward to what it will develop into in the future..."

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In this way, under the recommendation of Chen Pingping, Ji Qinglin met with all the directors of the Procuratorate in Kyoto.

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