"One hundred thousand volumes!" Cai Yong was shocked.
"It's just a hundred thousand volumes, it's nothing!" Liu Xiu said lightly.
Each bamboo slip has less than 500 characters, and one hundred thousand scrolls has only 50 million characters. It’s really nothing.
In the Han Dynasty, thousands of books were enough to open a library.
Five carts of learned wealth and five carts of bamboo slips may seem like a lot, but in fact they are not much, only 700,000 words.
Reading hundreds of volumes will lead to erudition.
In terms of future generations, after all, it will be too little.
"In three days, please come to Langhuan Library, teacher!"
Liu Xiu invited.
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A month later, Langhuan Library became famous all over the world.
Langhuan Library, low-key and restrained, shocked the city of Luoyang after only one month.
Langhuan is the place where the Emperor of Heaven keeps books.
The furnishings of the library are simple, antique and elegant. Rows of rosewood wood shelves are used to store hundreds of books. The books are not bamboo slips, but Caihou paper... which is whiter than Caihou paper and looks like jade.
The bookshelf is divided into nine subjects: classics, law, engineering, agriculture, mountains and seas, art of war, Qimen, and arithmetic, recording the knowledge of hundreds of schools of thought.
The paper is as thin as cicada wings and white in color. Each ancient character is engraved on it, and it is extremely neat. It is not written vertically, but horizontally, with punctuation and sentence breaks.
Cao Cao pulled out a book from the bookshelf and flipped through it. This book was "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu.
In the past, twenty-five bundles of bamboo slips were needed; but now, it is just a thin book with less than twenty pages, which can be taken easily.
On the bookshelf there are "Six Tao", "Wu Qi's Art of War", "Sun Bin's Art of War", "Wei Liaozi" and so on. They are all thin books with all the records.
"The great plan of heaven and earth is that after three years of plowing, one year of food will be left; in nine years, there will be livestock for three years; in eighteen years, there will be six years of accumulation; in twenty-seven years, there will be nine years of reserves; even if there is a drought,
The disaster is that the people should not be poor and exiled. If the country does not have livestock for nine years, it is called insufficient; if there is no livestock for six years, it is called pity; if it does not have livestock for three years, it is called poverty. Therefore, there is a benevolent king and a wise king.
If you are disciplined and self-sustaining, you will be able to endure the heaven and the earth without being freed from the dangers of hunger and cold. If a tyrant is greedy for power and tyrannizes under him, and invades and exploits his people to satisfy his endless desires, then the people will not be able to be harmonized by heaven.
You are a virtuous person."
“If a family doesn’t have three years of savings, it’s hard to build a family; if a country doesn’t have nine years of savings, it’s hard to build a country!”
Langhuan Library has a large collection of books, far exceeding 100,000 volumes.
Whatever the Cao family can find, it can be found here; what the Cao family can't find, it can also be found here.
In the center of the library, there are tables and chairs where you can sit and read.
Suddenly, Cao Cao saw an acquaintance who was tall and handsome, walked with dignity, and was a hero. It was Yuan Shao.
Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, etc. all studied in Taixue, and they had a good relationship with each other.
After saying hello, they each sat down and read the books.
Yuan Shao held the teapot, poured a cup of tea, and said: "This is tea, produced in the land of Sanwu. It is a specialty of Langhuan Academy. It has gone through eighteen procedures and is suitable for scholars!"
After pouring the tea, Cao Cao also took a sip. The taste was light and made him cry a little, but he had an endless aftertaste.
After just one sip, I fell in love with tea.
Two hours later, Cao Cao stood up and said, "Can the books here be sold? What's their price?"
"If you want to buy it, you can go to the second floor. There is a collector's edition there, which is suitable for you!" the clerk said.
People are divided into levels: commoners, poor families, and noble families. And books also follow the levels. Regular editions, elite editions, and collector's editions are respectively targeted at civilians, poor families, noble families, etc. The ordinary edition is very cheap, almost cabbage price; but the elite edition,
It's just that it's expensive; as for the collector's edition, it's the Heavenly Edition. But the collector's edition was sold in large quantities, and there was no shortage of rich people in the Han Dynasty.
In the end, Cao Cao bought a box of books, containing about a hundred books, which cost a lot.
It has only been open for one month, and business is booming. The most books sold are The Art of War, followed by Legalism, and Confucianism the least.
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"Lord, we sold four thousand copies of the regular edition, three thousand of the elite edition, and more than five thousand of the collector's edition...the income..."
Jian Yong introduced the situation of Langhuan Library.
Liu Xiu was dumbfounded as he listened.
There was no shortage of wealthy people in the Han Dynasty, and so many collector's editions were sold.
With Langhuan Library as the center, all the nearby land and houses were bought, and restaurants, tea houses, etc. were opened. Selling books was only a small part, and tea and catering was the big part. It is like KFC does not make money by selling hamburgers, but by land.
With Cai Yong and Lu Zhi as his backers, Liu Xiu could open the Langhuan Library. Otherwise, some people would have eaten away all the bones left.
The amount of money-making ability is not important; the size of the backend is the most important.
Without a backing, it would be a common man's fault, but he would be guilty of having a jade in his possession; if there is a backing, it would be a matter of course.
Under Cai Yong's recommendation, Liu Xiu entered Taixue.
There are as many as 30,000 students in Taixue, and most of them are self-study.
Ph.D. professors mainly teach large lectures, and the number of people attending the lectures varies, up to a thousand. However, there are also small classroom teachings.
Yuan Shao was a student of Taixue, Cao Cao was a student of Taixue, and Liu Biao was a student of Taixue. During the Three Kingdoms era, most of the civil servants and generals came from Taixue.
Here I met Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, a large number of future geniuses, and established extensive connections.
If you want to succeed, you must be smart and hardworking, and it also depends on who you associate with. Being associated with talented people is destined to be extraordinary, while those who hang out with little people all day are destined to have a hard time succeeding.
Then, there is envy, jealousy, and hatred. Cao Cao has a good father, and Yuan Shao has a profound background. No wonder they will succeed.
Your family has been a poor farmer for eight generations, but when you finally went to college, the children of Lao Wang next door grew up with you. Lao Wang was a cadre at the deputy ministerial level or above, and Lao Wang's son also went to college.
Ten years later, you are still struggling to repay your mortgage, and it is very questionable whether you can even maintain your middle-class status. One day, you see on TV that Lao Wang’s son is already a division-level cadre.
Do you think it's weird? It's not weird at all.
I'm a hero, my background is different from yours, and my starting line is different. It's the same as running a marathon, you start from scratch, and they are already waiting for you halfway. Because your father didn't run for you, but his father has already done it for you.
The son has run most of the distance, so he just needs to run after him.
In later generations, there will be imperial examinations, college entrance examinations, and relatively fair competition. Although people have money to attend various tutoring classes, but if you don’t have money, you can only cold steamed buns, pickles, and boiled water to answer questions. But after all, everyone is equal when it comes to scores, so you only need talent.
Not bad, plus I work hard the day after tomorrow, I can still go up a little bit and run for my son for a while.
It was different in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Eastern Han Dynasty was still a society that paid attention to family background. You have been a poor peasant for eight lifetimes. What kind of university will you go to? University is only for people like you. To go to university, you must have a family background, a family tradition, and your father is a county man.
If you are a meritorious officer, you have a greater chance of becoming a county meritorious officer. Your father is a county guard, so you have a greater chance of becoming a meritorious officer of two thousand dan. If your family has four generations and three sons, then you don’t have to worry, no matter how mediocre your qualifications are.
As long as you're not too stupid, sooner or later you can get away with it.
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He was free to go to class and after class. Taking advantage of his freedom, Liu Xiu continued to do business as Zigong, blue and white porcelain, coal, silk, horse trading, etc., and even the salt and iron business. In the Western Han Dynasty, salt and iron were run by the government, but in the Eastern Han Dynasty, only taxes were collected.
That's all.
In 184 AD, the Yellow Turban Army revolted.
"The world is in chaos, and business cannot be done!" Liu Xiu sighed. The most taboo thing about doing business is war. Once war breaks out, it will be impossible to do business.