Su Yueling's operation directly caused the price of secret color porcelain to drop a lot. Many people who paid high prices to collect it were crying and cursing behind their backs.
Secret color porcelain is so expensive, on the one hand because it looks good, but on the other hand it is also because it is rare and expensive. Now that the production of this thing has caught up, the price has naturally fallen. Although Su Yueling has not yet
Touting to the outside world has only happened in the past few years.
The Xie family is naturally the most unhappy about this. After all, their family has the largest collection of secret-color porcelain. However, no matter how unhappy they are, there is nothing they can do about Su Yueling. They cannot let Su Yueling sell the secret recipe of the porcelain kiln to them. Who doesn't know that Su Yueling is the most unlucky person?
What is lacking is money.
Soon, they were no longer in the mood to worry about the secret color porcelain. The emperor made movable type printing public and planned to build libraries all over Daxia. The emperor also said that if he was willing to lend out the only copies at home, he would publish them in the book
Write down their names on the title page.
As soon as these decrees came out, the whole of Great Xia was in a sensation. Everyone criticized the emperor's benevolence, especially the scholar Qingliu, who was not stingy in praising it, thinking that it was educating the people and practicing the way of a saint. Some families have unique copies of this book.
People are even more prepared to lend out their only copies. If their names are left in the books in the library, even if they are not preserved, they will still be remembered in history. No literati can resist such a temptation.
The scholars were happy, but the aristocratic families who saw the emperor's purpose couldn't laugh anymore.
Movable type printing! Everyone can see the advantages of this printing method. If it is promoted nationwide, it can reduce the cost of books. When the cost is reduced, ordinary people will be more likely to provide reading and literacy for their children at home.
Coupled with the library that is about to be built... In terms of books, the royal family's collection may not be as good as that of the aristocratic family, but if all the power of the world is gathered, the aristocratic family will lose.
The emperor obviously planned to let more and more scholars emerge from poor families. This was to dig into the foundation of their aristocratic families!
Not only the Xie family, Wang family, Li family... many aristocratic families couldn't bear it anymore.
They gathered together in the capital and secretly held a small meeting. Each of them no longer had the calm and graceful demeanor in front of outsiders, and they almost crushed the cup with their hands.
"This is unreasonable, this royal family is simply too much! Have they forgotten the contribution of the aristocratic family in the founding of the country? Without the help of the aristocratic family, can the Rong family secure the throne? They eat their own meat, but they don't even plan to leave soup for us
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Now that their status is stable, they have the idea of thousand-year-old families like them.
"We should have woken up long ago when the Wang family was confiscated."
"We should have helped the Wang family at that time. Brother Wang died so tragically."
When they said this, they ignored the fact that the Wang family's home was confiscated because they colluded with the Qiang people, and they were there to cry out for the Wang family.
"Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer forces belonging to us in the court. We can no longer influence national policies as we did before. If this continues, we will be reduced to being no different from other powerful people. How long can we endure it?"
The stronger the imperial court becomes, the less status their family loses.
While they were crusading, they couldn't help but miss the scenery of the previous dynasty where the aristocratic families were superior and the court could do nothing about them. They even came up with the idea that the previous dynasty was better.
The question is, how do they solve the current dilemma?
Originally, they had pinned their hopes on Xie Yunzi, intending for her to confuse the harem and distract the emperor from political affairs. But it turned out that Xie Yunzi was more useless than they imagined. Not only did she accomplish nothing, she was also overpowered by her former disciples.
"How about rebellion?" The head of the Li family stroked his beard and made a suggestion.
The heads of other aristocratic families looked at him as if they were a fool.
What are they using to rebel? Now that the world is at peace, the emperor's prestige among the people has reached the highest level in history, and the strength of Daxia's soldiers and horses has become extremely strong. If they show any signs of rebellion, they will be drowned in the saliva of the common people.
die.
As for assassinating the emperor, don't even think about it. He couldn't assassinate him before, let alone Rong Ji's control over the palace is getting stronger now.
The head of the Li family also realized that he had come up with a stupid idea and couldn't help but smile.
"We can't control movable type printing, but it would be relatively easy to destroy the library."
"A fire and a barrel of oil are enough to reduce a library to ashes. I don't believe that the imperial court has enough money to keep building a library."
The head of the Xie family, Xie Buchuan, flashed his eyes and said, "If birds are allowed to hold flames in their mouths and cause a fire, then God is dissatisfied with the emperor and has sent down a divine punishment."
At that time, fanning the flames among the people will be enough to keep the emperor Rong Ji busy. He can also take advantage of the chaos to attack the prince in the palace. It is easy for a child to die young. In his opinion, when there was no prince before,
, Rong Ji's methods were relatively mild, but in recent years they have become more aggressive. I don't know if it was to pave the way for the prince.
In the past two years, the Xie family had been fighting with the royal family and suffered frequent defeats. Xie Buchuan's stomach had long been filled with dissatisfaction.
When he said this, everyone else's eyes couldn't help but focus on him.
"Are you sure you can really do it this time? Your eldest lady was in great disgrace last time."
A specially trained bird by the Xie family actually pooped Xie Yunzi all over her body in bird droppings. After the news came out, people in the know were laughing at the Xie family's joke.
Xie Buchuan's eyes darkened and he said, "There won't be any mistakes this time."
After the other family heads looked at each other in disbelief, they decided on this plan. Anyway, it was the Xie family who took the lead. If the matter really broke out, the Xie family would still be there to block it.
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Xie Buchuan and the others were still having a small meeting secretly, but Su Yueling soon got the first-hand news.
If it's in Xinzhou, that's fine. This is the capital.
With the White Lotus Sect and Yuebu in hand, it is really difficult to hide any troubles from Su Yueling. Especially the Xie family and other aristocratic families have always been Su Yueling's key targets.
Su Yueling was moved by their persistence in finding trouble. If they had used this persistence in business, they might have restored the family's glory long ago.
The library hadn't even been built yet, and they couldn't wait to cause trouble.
Do you want to burn down the library? When the time comes, just retaliate in the same way.
If the Xie family had used other means, it would have been fine, but they chose birds... Wasn't it clear that they were giving her a head in her hands?
If this thing works well, it can discredit these pretentious families.
When the royal family was in full swing using movable type printing to print books, and many literati and poets actively donated their treasured books, a major event occurred in the palace - their favorite concubine Hui Bin passed away from illness in recent years.