Sun Wenwen said hysterically: "You are talking nonsense! How can you be so kind?!"
Li Mu smiled contemptuously and said: "A sparrow knows the ambition of a swan! How can a person like you understand my thoughts? But it doesn't hurt to tell you. As we all know, the Ministry of Industry occupies a square of land, which was originally a stockyard. The craftsmen
They built shanties to live in, and the conditions were very bad. I couldn't bear the craftsmen living in such an environment, so I made up my mind to change and build a craftsman's workshop for the craftsmen to live in. I advanced the money for this very purpose. The craftsmen will contribute their efforts to build the craftsman's workshop.
I contributed money, and now I have spent 5,000 guan, and not a penny has been allocated by the imperial court!"
Li Shimin really didn't know about this matter, so he glanced at Tang Jian and asked: "Ministry of Civil Affairs, is this true?"
Tang Jian stepped out and replied: "Your Majesty, I don't know very well, but the Ministry of Industry did not apply for funding. I can testify to this."
Li Shimin snorted angrily and said: "Sun Wenwen! Zhuluhou spent 5,000 yuan to build the craftsman's workshop and never asked for credit. If you hadn't made the false accusation today, I wouldn't have known about it. But you, with no merit, can only bark.
! It’s really abominable! If anyone comes, drag him out for me. He will be punished for twenty years and sent three thousand miles away! You will not be allowed to return within five years!”
Sun Wenwen was dragged out, and Li Shimin glanced at the remaining two people. The warning was self-evident. Chen Danqiu and Zhao Qing also felt a little guilty. Li Mu was so eloquent, and the emperor was obviously standing behind
On his side, today's impeachment will most likely fail. But they have received too much favor from a wealthy family, so even if they know they have failed, they still have to bite the bullet.
Chen Danqiu gritted his teeth and stood up and said: "Chen Danqiu, the chief secretary of the Imperial Academy, told Marquis Zhulu to despise culture and education, despise the world's scholars, and clashed with the Imperial Academy to offer wine. Kong Yingda, the queen of Confucius, caused Kong Ji to faint and fall ill.
I will stay in bed for several days without being able to get up. Zhuluhou, this is a fact, what do you have to say?"
"What I said is not entirely true. It is true that I despise the scholars of the world, and it is false to despise culture and education. As for the incident of rushing into the Imperial Academy to offer wine to Kong Yingda, causing him to become ill, I cannot admit this. Your Majesty was present that day, and what I said was true of Kong Yingda.
Your Majesty saw what Jijiu said. As a baron, Kong Jijiu took advantage of his status as a descendant of Saint Kong to preach to me and speak rudely. I thought he was older and did not argue with him.
After remembering that he was a Confucius saint, he respected him a little more and said several times that he did not want to argue with him. But he refused to give up and insisted on my apology. I just wanted to prove that my poems and essays were not worthy of me.
To me, it was not worth mentioning, so I wrote a poem and gave it to him. Who knew that after the poem was finished, he was so angry that he fainted. How can you blame me for being so small?"
Chen Danqiu had already visited Kong Yingda. How could he not know what happened that day? He said: "Even if your title is higher than that of Kong Jijiu, he is older and a descendant of Kong Sheng. What's wrong with teaching you a few words? How can you
Don’t you respect him?”
Li Mu glanced at Chen Danqiu and said, "You are the Registrar of the Imperial College. You must have learned the teachings of Confucius and Mencius?"
"I have learned it before!"
"Okay, then I would like to ask you, what is etiquette?"
"I..." Chen Danqiu was choked and speechless. Li Mu continued: "I have never learned the ways of Confucius and Mencius, but I know some etiquette. It's ridiculous that the descendants of Confucius don't know this.
What else can Hou say?"
"Then you shouldn't say that poetry and prose are trivial and look down on the world's scholars!"
Li Mu frowned and said: "I really can't understand the thoughts of you people. Do you think that the great road is the great road? You are not as good as me, but you are not allowed to despise me. What's the point? I just want to say that poetry is a small road.
You want to despise all the scholars in the world. What do you want? If you want to compare poems and essays, you can build two hundred-foot-high platforms in the downtown area tomorrow. You and I will each stand on the platform and say one sentence to another. Whoever can't match it will immediately jump off the platform. What do you think?
?”
"You, you, you... are disgraceful to politeness!" Chen Danqiu had read the three poems written by Li Mu. He really had no confidence that he could beat him, but he was still unconvinced and said, "How can we do things about culture and education?
Are you like a reckless man? Even if you can compose poetry, can you educate your disciples?"
"This is on point." Li Mu looked at Li Shimin. Li Shimin nodded slightly. Li Mu got permission and said: "When it comes to literature and education, I privately believe that the lack of literature and education is related to the lack of books. It is controlled by aristocratic families.
Books have been passing by for a long time, so that there are no books circulating among the people, and students cannot get them if they want to learn. In order to change this situation, I invented a thing. With this thing, one set can produce a thousand books in one day. From then on,
There will no longer be a shortage of books in the world, and the prosperity of culture and education is just around the corner."
"Don't lie, how could such a thing happen?"
Li Mu ignored him and looked at Li Shimin. Li Shimin coughed lightly and said, "Marquis Zhulu did invent this thing and named it printing. I have seen it and what I said is true. Not long after, the Ministry of Industry will
A printing supervisor will be set up. At that time, I will open the collections of Chongwen Hall and Hongwen Hall, print tens of thousands of books, and distribute them to all counties and counties in the world for students to read."
As soon as this statement came out, not only Chen Danqiu, but also many civil and military people in the Manchu Dynasty changed their faces. Without exception, they all came from aristocratic families. You know, for thousands of years, aristocratic families have prospered because they controlled
The inheritance and interpretation of knowledge means that no matter how the world changes, rulers cannot do without them and must use them. However, if this advantage is lost from now on, no one can be sure that talents will not return after a few generations.
Comes from a well-established family.
Chen Danqiu never expected that Li Mu still hid this hand, and his mind went blank. But he was still awake and knew that with this printing technology, Li Mu had made great contributions to cultural and educational matters. No matter how much he criticized Li Mu, he just couldn't find it.
Feeling at ease, he bowed to the end and saluted Li Mu: "Marquis Zhulu has a great talent, which is beyond the reach of my generation. I know that I was wrong. Please forgive me, Marquis Zhulu."
"Easy to say, easy to say," Li Mu helped him up and said, "Although I am young, I often meet with my uncle, your majesty, the emperor, etc., and I have learned some principles. Do not be afraid of anything when doing anything, especially learning.
If you are jealous of talents, you should lower your attitude, learn more from others, and make yourself better, so that you can make further progress."
Chen Danqiu looked at him, took a deep breath, and said: "Xiaguan will keep the teachings of Zhuluhou in mind. I would like to ask again, Zhuluhou thinks that poetry and prose are trivial, so I don't know how much Zhuluhou thinks about his own works."
What’s your evaluation of the poem?”
"Well... I can't be considered very good at composing poetry. It's just like 'I write with great enthusiasm and shake the five mountains, and the poem becomes a smiling and proud Ling Cangzhou', that's it."
Chen Danqiu finally understood why Kong Yingda was so angry that he had been striving for a state that he could not reach all his life. How could a young man be so arrogant and open his mouth to make people angry? But after all, he was younger than Kong Yingda and could still bear it.
Stopped. He pursed his lips and bowed again and saluted. He turned around and faced Li Shimin and said, "I don't pay attention to the details and slandered the Marquis of Zhulu. Please punish me for my crime."