Shen Zhoujin frowned and said with a smile: "Speaking of which, I have to say something... Unless it's an incurable disease, don't come to me. I've probably spent very little time in the capital in recent years. You can't come to me if you want to." Difficult. The other thing is, my master,"
She gestured to Shen Jiming beside her: "My master is not good at curing diseases of wealth and wealth. He is better at treating internal and external injuries in the world, or breath disorders caused by martial arts. For other diseases, don't come to my master. It's useless."
Min Zhaohua laughed anxiously and said, "How long will the prince stay in the capital this time?"
Shen Zhoujin asked: "You mean there is an incurable disease in your family?"
Min Zhaohua smiled bitterly and said: "Exactly, Jia Yan is seriously ill, and the imperial doctor doesn't know how to treat him."
Shen Zhoujin frowned: "We just stopped working there for a day, and we can't do anything without me."
From behind, Huo Lingjue's voice said: "I guess there will be many people asking you to treat their illnesses in the future."
Shen Zhoujin turned around and saw a middle-aged man coming with Huo Lingjue. This should be his cheap uncle, the current Marquis Zhongsu.
This was the first time we met, but Marquis Zhongsu was extremely attentive and polite, and they exchanged a few words with each other.
Then Shen Zhoujin turned around and said: "That's it, Master Min asked someone to send your father's personal information to my house first. I'll take a look at it first, and then... I'll go back and put a notice directly in front of my house. I want you to I treat patients, and they can send the pulse records to me. No matter when I come back, if I see the pulse records, I will take them if they are suitable. After receiving them... for example, the literati, the patient himself or his descendants can give me a handwritten copy. I can sell the four volumes of books, or you can give me a store that I like and give them to the shopkeeper and assistants, or you can give me a farm and give them to farmers and stewards."
Everyone was dumbfounded for a moment: "..."
I have never seen anything like this.
But to be honest, for them, it is much more convenient to put something directly on the table than to ask people to guess. Moreover, this is the price of asking a divine doctor to treat a disease, and it is not asking for a bribe, so there is nothing to criticize. of.
But to say it openly, and the shop has to send it to the shopkeeper or something, it really makes people wonder what to say.
Shen Zhoujin rubbed his chin and thought for a while, then added: "In addition, if you have the title of Jinshi, or a scholar with a literary name, at least as famous as Han Qingxi, or an official of third rank and above, you are willing to give I hand-copy a set of the Four Books with annotations. No matter what the disease is, I can designate one person who I will treat. Under the same conditions, if someone gives me a set of annotations of the Four Books and the Five Classics, I will treat all his immediate family members and teaching masters. It can be treated once or nursed back to health. Of course, I can’t be here at my call anytime. I have to be free. By the way, for example, for officials of third rank or above, they have to copy it themselves, and copying by their nephews and disciples does not count.”
These days, the manuscripts of famous people are very valuable. For example, there is a Jinshi. In the palace examination, he may just be a fellow Jinshi and not noticeable, but in their own province, he may be a Jieyuan, so his manuscripts are sold to them and sold to the public. With the name Jieyuan, someone will buy it at a high price.
And if you are a world-famous talent like Yu Zhiyuan or Han Qingxi, if you copy a set and put it in a bookstore, it will be a treasure of the store. If it can be sold for a sky-high price, the key is that it looks high-grade and the whole style is improved.
These days, those who are lucky enough to enter this hall basically lack everything except their lives.
So everyone was very interested and gathered together again. Then someone said: "Your Majesty, what if a family member is seriously ill and there is no time to finish the copy?"
Shen Zhoujin said very profiteer: "If I didn't copy it myself, I can owe it first and just add interest. I can cure it and then copy it, but I also need to add interest. For example, if I copy it one month later, I will copy another set of three hundred thousand?" "
Three hundred thousand is the "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Surnames", and "Thousand Character Essay" for children's enlightenment. In total, it only has more than 2,700 words. She is really too generous.
Generally speaking, it must be owed.
After all, the text alone of the Four Books alone contains hundreds of thousands of words. If a courtier wrote two to three thousand words a day, he would have to copy them for three or four months and add annotations, which would be countless. There are hundreds of thousands of words.
The text of the Five Classics must be more than 500,000, plus the annotations... it is simply impossible to calculate.
Unless you are a person who is not an official and can copy for more than ten hours a day, copying thousands or tens of thousands of dollars, it may take two or three years to complete the copying.
Then another civil servant said: "With annotations, which book should be used?"
Shen Zhoujin thought for a moment and said, "Whoever wants to copy, I will give you the template."
As soon as this was said, more than one literati said: "I wonder whose model this is?"
This is what scholars are most concerned about. Shen Zhoujin laughed and said, "A model for learning from the strengths of others?"
Of course, the books at this time also had annotations, and there were even special annotations for everyone.
Literati would call serious works "jing";
The text that annotates the "Jing" is called "Zhuan" or "Annotation".
Because the earliest notes on the sutras were usually just a few sentences, and later they would be supplemented and called "notes";
Later, someone would comment on "Zhuan" and "Jian" again, which was called "Shu".
To give one of the most common examples, the "Book of Songs" was originally just called "The Book of Songs". It was called the "Book of Songs" after it was listed as a Confucian classic; the commentaries made by Mao Heng on the "Book of Songs" in the Han Dynasty were called "Mao Zhuan"; and later Zheng Xuan wrote the "Book of Songs". "Mao Zhuan" was supplemented and called "Zheng Jian"; in the Tang Dynasty, Kong Yingda also added annotations to the main text of "The Book of Songs" and "Mao Zhuan", and "Zheng Jian" became "Kong Shu".
And it's more than that.
An ancient book is often annotated by more than one company. If someone compiles the annotations of various schools and adds his own annotations, this is a collection of interpretations, also called a collection of interpretations.
To put it this way, it sounds very troublesome, but in fact it is quite troublesome.
For laymen and beginners, there is just one word, chaos.
It is certainly a good thing for a hundred flowers to bloom, but it is really confusing for future generations who are accustomed to "standard answers" and "score points".
Even if you buy a collection of anthologies and see three annotations at once, what are their annotations? Can you tell me, which one should prevail?
Why is this so?
Because the literati at this time paid great attention to family inheritance, and many things were passed down through explanation and word of mouth. Therefore, for scholars in this era, it was extremely important to worship a good teacher and obtain books that had been annotated by the master. That's a great favor.
But in Shen Zhoujin's view, this is just like Chinese textbooks also need to be determined in one version. Learning the same book does not prevent students from growing into talents in all aspects, so determining an authoritative version will prevent beginners from taking detours. It's a good thing.
How can there be so many masters in this world? Scholars who are enlightened in the countryside are rare.
Reducing students' dependence on "masters" is also a great thing for the court, as it reduces party strife at the root.
So she pushed the imperial court to compile such an authoritative version in a similar historical dimension. In addition to the Four Books and Five Classics, there were also three hundred thousand.
It took a full eleven years, and the host was her mentor in that plane, and she herself also participated.
She still had three ounces of ink in her belly. She thought it was already very good and could be called perfect, but if it were placed in the circle of literati, there would definitely be different voices.
It doesn't matter, anyway, if you want to ask me to do something, just do it my way.
At that time, in addition to the "Zhang family manuscripts" and "Li family manuscripts" of the same edition, she can also produce ordinary editions in Taige style, which will be called Guange style in later generations. As long as I sell enough, It’s cheap enough, and there is no market for your products!
The literati were still chasing her to ask what version it was, when Rong Siping came out and said, "Your Majesty, the Emperor wants you and Prince Huo to go in."
Shen Zhoujin nodded and said to Marquis An Ning: "Please, Lord Marquis, please take care of my master."