In the suburbs of Liyang, near the papermaking workshop, another printing workshop has been built in the past few days.

Bailixian only huānān, and translated all the 5,000 commonly used characters from small seal script into regular script. Then Xiangzhuang asked the bus to arrange carvings to carve the letter molds. Hundreds of carvings day and night, and in less than two days, they carved all the 5,000 commonly used characters into letter molds. The silhouettes were also commonly used characters, and hundreds of them were carved.[]

Then it was typed and printed. On the afternoon of the third day, the first line-bound book in the history of Chinese civilization, "Yu Liaozi? Forty-Two Chapters", was officially born!

Baili Xian and Wu She each held a book called "Wei Liaozi? Forty-Two Chapters", and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

Baili Xian and Wu She are very clear about what book borrowing means to a scholar!

It is no exaggeration to say that book borrowing is the life of scholars and everything about scholars. However, because bamboo and wooden slips are difficult to make and are bulky, the copying of book borrowing has become a big practical problem. Even the magnificent work of the Confucian school, "The Analects of Confucius", can only be circulated on a small scale, and many book borrowings are even some lonely books.

For example, the hundreds of thousands of volumes of book collections in the Xianyang National Library, Xiang Zhuang specially vacated hundreds of ox carts to carry them to Jiuyuan. When he went south from Jiuyuan to Jiangdong, he used thousands of pack horses to carry them back to Jiangdong from thousands of miles. At least half of these hundreds of thousands of volumes of book collections were isolated books, including another masterpiece of the Confucian school, "Shangshu".

There were so many lonely books, and scholars all over the world had no books at all. But now, with paper and printing techniques and the thin thread-bound book in their hands, scholars all over the world had borrowed hundreds of thousands of books collected in the National Library of the Qin Dynasty, because this thread-bound book is not expensive and not heavy!

With these thread-bound books, it will become very easy to spread the book borrowed!

"General, this is a big deal!" Wu Sheji's voice changed.

Baili Xian bowed deeply to Xiang Zhuang and said solemnly: "General, you have done a great thing for scholars all over the world. I am here to serve the scholars all over the world... Thank you General!"

"The words are heavy, the two gentlemen are heavy, and this is also the credit of Mr. Gongshu." Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and ordered Gongshu to "Mr. Gongshu, please send more than 100 books to borrow and print them into books, and then bind them into books with two hundred books of each type of book. This general is still waiting to use them urgently."

"Here!" The bus gave up and took the order.

Bailixian smiled slightly and suddenly said, "General, this is a great gift!"

The more than 100 books selected by Xiang Zhuang are all classic classics, but even the Shusun family, the largest old clan in Jiangdong, may not be able to collect half of them. Alone books like "Shangshu" are unique. It is completely imagined how surprised they would be when Sun Guan, the old clan of Shusun family, received this batch of books?

For the aristocratic families who passed on poetry and books, book borrowing is almost their lifeblood!

"Is that right?" Xiang Zhuang mocked the beard at the corner of Mochun and said calmly, "I hope so."

This batch of book loans will definitely be warmly welcomed by the Jiangdong aristocratic tribes, gentry and even clans. Xiang Zhuang's move will definitely achieve the goal of winning people's hearts. Not to mention bribing all aristocratic tribes, gentry and clans, it is no problem to bribe most of them. However, these aristocratic tribes, gentry and even clans do not know that the emergence of book loans will completely change their future destiny.

Originally, according to the original historical trajectory, these aristocratic clans and gentry evolved over more than 400 years of evolution in the Han Dynasty, and eventually formed the prototype of the aristocratic clan. After Cao Pi implemented the ninth-rank Zhongzheng system, the power of the aristocratic clans would reach its peak. From then on, high-ranking officials and outstanding titles were completely controlled by the aristocratic clans, and the common clans completely lost the possibility of entering the center of power.

When we arrived in the West, the East and the Jin Dynasties formed a deformed power pattern of high-ranking no poor families and low-ranking no geniuses!

To use later generations, this deformed power pattern is called class solidification. A class solidification society has no hope and will inevitably decline and perish.

History has proved the correctness of this conclusion. Since the country's superstructure has been controlled by a small group of gentry children who are dependent on various aristocratic families for a long time, a large number of capable poor children cannot rise to power and cannot serve the country. Many poor children have all their abilities and passion, but are not valued by the court at all.

This abnormal power structure eventually led to the long-term weakness of the Jin Dynasty, and thus led to the tragedy of the Five Barbarians in the Troubled Times. If it weren't for the emergence of the Heavenly King of Wudao, Ran Min, the Chinese bloodline would have been cut off long ago.

Then it was not until Emperor Yang of Sui that the aristocratic system finally collapsed!

If Qin Shihuang is the emperor of the ages, then Emperor Yang of Sui is the well-deserved two emperors of the ages. Although Emperor Yang of Sui's contribution to Chinese civilization is slightly inferior to that of Qin Shihuang, it is no less than that of Qin Shihuang. The first is to promote the imperial examination to eradicate the aristocratic family. The second is to build the Grand Canal that runs through the north and south, and thus make China completely integrated into the north and south!

It has to be said that the evaluation of the two emperors, Qin Shihuang and Sui Yang, was extremely unfair in the history books of later generations.

However, there is a very important prerequisite for Emperor Yang of Sui to promote the imperial examination, that is, there are a large number of poor students. If there is no low-priced books or a large number of poor students, Emperor Yang of Sui would not have the chance to implement the imperial examination system.

Now, books have appeared in advance, and in the near future, a large number of poor students will inevitably emerge. So will the aristocratic and gentry still have the opportunity to form a family system?〖Answer〗The answer is obviously no. Even if the aristocratic and gentry try their best to control the power center along the original historical trajectory, Xiang Zhuang will never agree.

In the future Great Chu Empire, the selection of talents will directly enter the imperial examination system!

The farming and war system of the Great Qin Empire will further evolve into the farming and war system of the Great Chu!

The Qin Empire implemented a pure farming and warfare system, rewarding farming and military achievements, and appointed a large number of farmers and soldiers who received titles as officials in various counties and counties.

Facts have proved that this would not work. The reason why Chen She and Wu Guang's riots quickly lost control in a short period of time and eventually formed a prairie fire in Kanto was the main reason for Hu Hai and Zhao Gao's rebellion, which was also related to these uneducated farmers and county officials who were military-born.

Therefore, the farming and war system must be further improved into a farming and reading war system.

In addition to rewarding farming and military merits, you also need to reward study. If you work hard on farming, you can get a title, fight bravely, kill more people, and you can get a title. You can also get a title if you are good at studying. Of course, if you want to get a title through study, you have to pass the exam. This is actually the imperial examination.

In the future Great Chu Empire, obtaining a title and becoming an official will have two different concepts!

In the future, the Great Chu Empire, obtaining a title means that you have a noble status. In addition to receiving a Dai fortune from the court, you can also obtain various privileges corresponding to your title, such as exempting various Yao soldiers. One of the most important privileges is shared by all levels of titles, that is, the selection of officials.

In other words, after a nobleman has a title, he must take another exam before he can become an official!

In this way, the children of the aristocratic clans can use the benefits of their parents to become nobles without any effort, but the children of the common clans can also obtain titles and become nobles by joining the army, farming and studying. However, whether it is the aristocratic clans, the children of the aristocratic clans, or the children of the common clans, if they want to become officials, they must take the exam!

Of course, just like the fraud in the national examinations in later generations, such selection exams cannot be truly fair. The children of aristocratic families and gentry obviously enjoy more resources and are easier to be selected. However, these are not within the scope of Xiangzhuang's consideration, because he knew that it would be impossible to cover all systems and be perfect in every system.

Xiang Zhuang was so sensible that he was alone, Baili Xian and Wu She were tactful and did not disturb him.

But Hu Yan Zhengde, who was striding from the front, was unaware of it, bowed to Xiang Zhuang and shouted: "General, Xiang Tuo is here to apologize for his guilt!"

"Huh?" Baili Xian and Wu She were slightly stunned when they heard this. Xiang Tuo was guilty of apology?

Xiang Zhuang also came back to his senses from his meditation and asked casually: "Hu Yan, what did you say just now?"

Hu Yan Zhengde said: "Report to the general, Xiang Tuo has come to apologize for the crime, and he is outside the east gate of Liyang!"

Xiang Zhuang pondered for a moment, and immediately took Xiang Bailixian and Wu She to the east gate of Liyang. Along a distance, Xiang Zhuang saw a young man standing in the cold wind with his back on his back, carrying a thorny strip. The weather was still tightly cold. The man's body had already been green and purple, obviously it was frozen.

Xiang Zhuang recognized at a glance that this man was Xiang Tuo!

The weather is extremely cold nowadays, but Xiang Tuo held his head up and tinged. The captain behind him tried to put on a tiger-skinned cloak several times, but Xiang Tuo sternly refused.

Seeing this scene, Xiang Zhuang couldn't help but feel a little moved.

It seems that not all the Xiang clans are fools like Xiang Bo, Xiang Han and Xiang Ying. At least Xiang Tuo is a wise man. Because of Gao Chu's assassination, Xiang Tuo was able to cross the river and apologize for guilt by himself, which is enough to show that he is a person who knows the overall situation and considers the overall situation. Xiang's family is not without talents!

"Atuo!" Xiang Zhuang strode forward and said anxiously, "What are you doing?!"

"General!" Xiang Tuo no longer called Xiang Zhuang Aji as before, but turned over and knelt on the ground on one knee, then bowed and said, "The General of the Third Army is not strict in governing the army, and is incompetent in control of the subordinates, so that General Gao Chu was almost killed by the captain of the Second Army's personal soldiers. Today, he crossed the river. The General of the Third Army made a special trip to apologize. Please punish him!"

"Get up, Atuo, get up quickly." Xiang Zhuang said, "Get up and talk."
Chapter completed!