『PS: Several book friends seem to be confused. "Recognizing words" and "learning knowledge" are different."

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The Wei State has not yet had this ability to popularize culture nationwide.

Based on the overall situation of this era, Zhao Hongrun believes that at least 70% of the people in the country do not recognize words - they can speak the language of the Wei Kingdom, but if they ask them to write, nine and a half of them cannot write them.

Some people may think that most people in Wei do not recognize words, so what should they do when buying essential goods in their daily lives?

It's actually very simple: rely on your own body.

For example, the "北" in the text represents the distance between the two hands when an adult raises his hands. Why does this kind of unit of measurement that is actually not standard is still a measurement based on the measurement of "北" and "北"? It is not difficult to guess.

Even illiterate people have their wisdom.

Of the remaining 30%, about 60% of them only recognize a few or a dozen commonly used characters and can write their own names. Only a very small number of people recognize more than a hundred words, or even hundreds of words, and can read books smoothly. Among these very few people, there are also those among the royal family, aristocratic family, and those among the common people who are not satisfied with their current social status and hope to change the current situation through study and examination.

Among these people, considering that those rich children who have the opportunity to recognize words and learn literature may not be talented, so heroes from ordinary origins such as Jie Zizhang and Zhang Qigong are extremely precious.

A few days later, the Ministry of Rites collected a piece of surnames in the world according to the request of King Zhao Run of Wei and compiled a book called "Hundred Family Surnames". It is not so much a book, but rather a thin book.

This thing can actually be considered a "book"?

When he handed this book "Hundred Family Names" to King Zhao Run of Wei, Du You, the Minister of Rites, trembled with both hands, as if he was a little nervous.

What else can you be afraid of? It’s just that he, the Minister of Rites of Wei, made up such a thing for the sake of the king’s order. If this is spread, it will be laughed at by scholars all over the world!

In contrast, Zhao Hongrun was very satisfied with his reading. The only drawback is that there are only a few surnames in the world, so that this booklet is too thin. If it is used in textbooks, Zhao Hongrun is not satisfied.

How to add some parts?

After he told the ministers of the inner court that he heard this, Jie Ziyun immediately smiled and said, "Your Majesty, this matter is Yi'er, why not add a few famous ministers and generals from my Great Wei to a certain surname..."

This is a good idea!

Whether it was Zhao Hongrun or the other ministers in the inner court, their eyes lit up when they heard this.

Take the word "Zhao" for example. You can add his story to Zhao Run, which is also a way to make a name for yourself. Although Zhao Run himself does not care about fame, the people of Wei should have some understanding of their kings, right?

"Very good, just do what Jie Zi said!"

Zhao Hongrun smiled and took a picture of the matter.

So, the Ministry of Rites began to organize and write again.

It took two months to write the second edition of "Hundred Family Surnames", which added celebrities to the inheritance of many surnames in the world - mainly celebrities from Wei. Only when they really cannot be compared can they choose celebrities from other countries.

For example, the surname "Lu" is. Although there is one among Zhao Hongrun's clan guards called "Lu Mu", and one among the lieutenants of the Imperial Guards was called "Lu Zhi", but compared with "Qi King Lu Xi", these two are very different. Therefore, the representative figure of the word "Lu" by the Wei State Department of Rites did not dare to take the blame for the world, and could only choose Qi King Lu Xi.

Similar words include Han, Chu, Qin, Ying and other words.

After revising it according to Zhao Hongrun's opinion, the Ministry of Rites sent the third edition of "Hundred Family Surnames" to Zhao Run, King of Wei.

Zhao Runzai carefully looked at it and found no loopholes. He summoned the eunuch Gao He and asked the latter to send someone to send the book "Hundred Family Names" to the Yefa Bureau, which was engraved and printed by the Yefa Bureau.

With the current technical technology of the Metallurgical Bureau, movable type printing is not a big problem. They can even choose single movable type made of iron in one step. Of course, since the mold cannot be so fine, it often requires manual polishing.

Not long after, the first edition of the printed "Hundred Family Names" was personally delivered to the Chuigong Hall by Wang Fu, the director of the General Administration of Metallurgical Engineering.

Zhao Hongrun read it carefully and praised Wang Fu very satisfied.

The ministers in the inner court were amazed by the printed book - they had never thought before that the classics left by the sages could be printed in this way.

Looking at the book "Hundred Family Surnames" which was called a thread-bound book by the young monarch, Du You, Li Liang, Xu Guan and other ministers of the older generation looked at each other.

Immediately, Du You tentatively asked Wang Fu, the Director of the General Administration of Yezhou and Zao, and said: "Mr. Wang, how long does it take to print such a printing? "

Although Wang Fu is not a technical official like Chen Dang and Xun Xin who are proficient in craftsmanship, he knows this issue well, after all, this is his duty.

So he thought about it and replied: "Printing is not complicated. As long as there is a movable type mold, you can type it in about half a day. Then check the typos and then apply ink to print it. It will take about a whole day."

"All day?"

Du You, Li Liang, and Xu Guan looked at each other, and smiled unconsciously on their faces: This so-called printing technique is nothing.

After all, it only takes about two or three hours for them to copy a copy of "Hundred Family Names", but the Meth and Construction Bureau takes a whole day to print.

Zhao Run could naturally see that the old ministers disagreed, and smiled secretly in his heart and asked deliberately: "Wang Fu, how long will it take to print a hundred copies of "Hundred Family Surnames"?"

Wang Fu hurriedly bowed, and after thinking about it, he replied, "It will take three days to report to Your Majesty."

『Three, three days?』

The smiles on the old ministers Du You, Li Liang, and Xu Guan suddenly froze: In just three days, even if they didn't eat or drink or stay or stay, they could not copy a hundred books and a hundred surnames.

"So, what about a thousand copies?" Zhao Hongrun asked intentionally again.

Wang Fu obviously saw something and replied with a smile: "Report to Your Majesty, ten days are enough!"

At this time, looking at Du You, Li, and Xu Guan, the three old ministers, were already looking at each other and unable to speak.

"This is technology, a few adults."

He glanced at Du You, Li Liang, Xu Guan, and Zhao Hongrun and said seriously: "In ten days, the Metallurgical Bureau can print a thousand identical books, which is something that the human resource copying institute cannot compare to..."

Looking at Wang Fu, Director of the General Administration of Yefa and Engineering, thinking about the craftsmanship and technology possessed by Yefa and Engineering Bureau, the Minister of Rites Du You nodded with deep understanding.

Suddenly, Du You thought of something: Since the Art and Construction Bureau can print "Hundred Family Names", in other words, can they also print other books?

Thinking of this, Du You immediately asked Wang Fu.

Sure enough, Wang Fu nodded and said, "Of course."

Du You, Li Liang, Lin Yuyang, Feng Yu and others looked at each other, and their hearts were stuttering.

In this era, compared with ordinary people, literati still have an inexplicable sense of superiority - most scholars may have good morals and will not despise those common people who cannot even recognize words, but in their hearts, they will inevitably think that they have a higher social status than these farmers who cannot recognize words.

Even old ministers like Du You and Li Liang cannot avoid this.

But now, the Metallurgical Bureau has the ability to print a thousand books in ten days by using printing technology, which will inevitably lead to excessive volumes of books, resulting in low prices (non-value) and may be so low that even farmers who work in the fields are able to buy them.

Although ministers like Du You, Li Liang and other ministers attach great importance to farmers who reclaim the land and believe that they are one of the cornerstones to make the country prosperous, they still cannot accept this situation. In their opinion, only a small group of outstanding people are qualified to read books left by sages. If you were born a farmer, you should go to the fields to farm honestly, rather than touching the classics left by the sages with your hands full of soil.

This is the inherent prejudice of literati in this era and cannot be eradicated.

"His Majesty!"

Suddenly, Du You shouted loudly and bowed to Zhao Hongrun, which scared the latter.

"Du Qing?" Zhao Hongrun asked in surprise.

Du You bowed his hand and said with a serious look on his face: "Your Majesty must hand over the machinery for printing books by the Metallurgical Bureau to the Ministry of Rites for supervision."

Zhao Hongrun understood as soon as he heard it.

It is obvious that Du You was worried that after the Ye Zao Bureau had this ability, it would print thousands or tens of thousands of books owned by the Wei Kingdom, and spread them widely among the people. The consequence of this was that the royal family and the gentry could no longer monopolize the books, and their status would be seriously affected by the children of ordinary people in the next twenty years.

Secondly, the so-called rare things are precious. Once books become popular, even if they are left by previous sages, their prices and value will inevitably have an impact, which is unbearable for Du You.

Zhao Hongrun nodded slightly, and he also understood Du You's concern: if the books of sages are flooded by ordinary people to use him as toilet paper, it not only goes against his original intention of printing books, but also insults the sages who write these books.

However, he had already considered this matter: "Du Qing, don't worry, I will not sit idly by and watch the classics of sages spread because of the emergence of printing techniques. Even in order to teach the people to recognize words, I will only allow the Yicai Bureau to print enlightenment books such as "Hundred Family Surnames". Those books of the sages will not spread among the people."

On the one hand, he made such a decision to appease the royal family, nobles, and gentry so that they would not be frightened; on the other hand, it was also because he felt that the Wei State had not yet reached the point where he could print a large number of books of sages.

He also understands the harm of the squeezing of seedlings to grow.

After hearing Zhao Hongrun's words, Du You felt relieved, but he still asked Zhao Run to send someone to keep the secret of printing technology - this is not only for the upper class of Wei, but also for the aristocratic class of other countries in the entire Central Plains.

However, Zhao Hongrun did not agree, because he knew that although printing technology was a cross-age process technology, if this thing was in the hands of King Ran of Han and King Xiong Tuo of Chu, these two would definitely put it on the shelf and would never abuse it. The reason is that the influence of printing technology is too far-reaching. For the countries in the current era, the pros and cons are mixed, and it is definitely not the kind of process technology that can make the country prosperous and strong at once.

"Let's do this, Wang Fu, after you return to Yecheng, ask someone to organize it and hand over the printed equipment to the Ministry of Rites."

After thinking about it, Zhao Hongrun decided that the Ministry of Rites would take charge of this artifact. After all, the Ministry of Rites itself is an institution that controls rituals, and of course it also includes the education of the people.

"Yes!" Wang Fu bowed and bowed.

"Your Majesty is wise!" Du You, who is over 60 years old, bowed deeply to Zhao Hongrun.

Zhao Hongrun waved his hand and reminded with a smile: "Du Qing, I have given you such a magical artifact to the Ministry of Rites, but I don't want your Ministry of Rites to put it on the shelf... I think you also understand that you must not ignore the deviation caused by this object because of the turmoil. For example, the Ministry of Rites uses this object to print some newspapers or slightly print some books, and only spread them within the court officials. This is not a problem."

"I am taught." Du You bowed and said.

Indeed, if only hundreds of books were printed and only circulated in court officials like county magistrates, county magistrates, and commanders in various places, this would not be a problem in Du You's opinion. After all, those people themselves belong to the category of aristocratic people.

"Next, let's discuss the school matter."

Zhao Hongrun clapped his hands and said.

Since there are already textbooks for popularizing character recognition, it is natural to consider how to popularize education. Of course, this education refers to popularizing character recognition, and the State of Wei is not able to truly popularize education.

The best way to popularize education is of course to open a school.

In fact, before this, there were similar schools in the Wei State. There were palace schools that specialize in teaching princes, and the zongfu also had schools that cultivated children of their clans and zongwei. Even in the court, there were young officials - to be precise, schools that should be advanced training, which were under the jurisdiction of the Hanlin Administration.

A few years ago, the State of Wei founded a military school in Daliang, specializing in training officers and trained those brave generals and military marquis into commanding generals who could recognize words and understand the art of war.

However, there was no school for the people in the court.

Among the people of Wei, most wealthy families still hire teachers to teach their children's models, while poor children have almost no chance of getting to know their knowledge.

Many aspiring young people rely on the work of wealthy families. Only after they win the favor of their masters can they have a chance to see the books.

However, the possibility of this type is too small. In most cases, these young people need to have some money at home.
To be continued...