The Wei Empire did not have libraries, but that was not open, but was owned by the imperial departments and educational departments such as the Imperial College.

The libraries in Rome were not for the general public, and the general public could not read and write at all.

No matter what era it is, it is not easy for the poor to be educated. In modern times, this is true, let alone the Roman Empire in the third century AD.

The library is placed there to pretend, and the only things that can be used are the slave owner class and the wealthy family of merchants, which are not very different in meaning.

After saying this, Manur said that he wanted to visit the Imperial Academy.

So Xinpi and Wei Yong agreed to take Manur to visit the Imperial Academy.

As for public speeches, there is nothing like this.

There is one in the main square, just in front of the palace, the largest square in Luoyang is of great significance to the students.

In the big square, there were postings of the achievements made by Mr. Guo through his arduous struggle - the Five Classics scriptures designated as national law.

The punctuation marks were added to tell people all over the world how to break sentences, how to understand them, and inform them uniformly.

Other explanations are not allowed.

This is the ultimate unification of culture, and it is posted in the main square for students who come to copy it, and for the people who are willing to join in the fun.

Some people who are even more enthusiastic simply use the Five Classics texts as teaching materials to teach people to read on the spot.

Compulsory education that does not charge money.

In addition to the Five Classics, there are palace announcements.

Whenever the emperor made a decision to promulgate and implement it, he would write down the specific situation and post it in the big square outside the palace for people to watch and talk freely.

So when Manur saw the crowded scene in the big square outside the palace, he couldn't help but feel very shocked.

There were a group here and a group over there, and people gathered together in groups of three or five, standing in front of a wooden board.

There was a piece of paper stuck on the wooden board, with words written on it, and people communicated around the piece of paper.

Some of them communicate very calmly, just like having sex with friends, talking and laughing, and the atmosphere is lively and friendly.

Some of them communicated fiercely and had a tense momentum to argue. They refused to give in to each other and faced each other in a tit-for-tat way.

There was also an adult who led a group of children to point to a word on the paper and taught the children to read it, repeating it over and over again, constantly until the chanting was done.

As Manur walked along the way, he saw small vendors conducting commercial activities in the streets and alleys of Luoyang. People came and went, bought, and hawked. It was very lively and full of vitality.

But only here feels like the square in Rome, full of people's thinking and arguments.

"Is this the big square? Are those people engaging in debates on political issues?"

Manur couldn't understand Chinese, nor did he know it, and he didn't have time to do so. He was quite anxious at this time.

He felt that it would be great if he could understand Chinese, so that he could directly and clearly understand what these Wei people were arguing about.

"There are also political debates. The court will widely publicize the policies discussed by His Majesty and his ministers, post them in the square to let people know for discussion. People gather in groups to discuss the court's policies. Some agree and some oppose them, so there will be debates between each other."

Wei Yong honestly replied: "More people are paying attention to the Five Classics. These are the regular national law and Five Classics marked with punctuation. The content will not be changed from now on. This is the biggest reliance for a person like me who is of a humble background to become an official.

Wei Yong was full of emotion about the Five Classics of National Law and the series of social reforms made by Guo Peng.

As an official from a commoner family, he has no doubt firm support for all this.

Unfortunately, there was something in what he said, Manur couldn't understand.

He didn't know what the Five Classics are, what punctuation marks are, nor did he know what the meaning of these punctuation marks are.

It just sounds amazing.

Now he just knows a general idea, and understands a general idea. Some things cannot be explained clearly in the language that has just been achieved in mutual communication between the two countries.

Two languages ​​that have just begun to work together take longer to adapt to each other's context and content, and then they can achieve interoperability in a certain sense.

At present, even if both sides have fully mastered the basic language of each other, it is difficult to understand some of the proper nouns in the other country.

It takes a period of life and contact to truly understand some folk customs and political habits of the Wei Empire, and then Manur can truly understand what kind of ecology the Wei Empire is now.

Until then, Manur could say that he was a professional in the Wei Empire.

It was soon from morning to noon, and Manur had only contacted about one-fifth of Luoyang City, and had never even been to the most lively East City, West City, South City, North City.

Xinpi decided to invite Manur to have a meal at the best restaurant in Luoyang in the east city.

Dongshi, Shanhai Restaurant.

This Shanhai Restaurant was the first restaurant to be opened in Luoyang a few years ago on the eve of the large-scale development of such a restaurant.

It first belonged to Cao Hong, but later Cao Hong was finished, and Shanhai Restaurant belonged to the court, or to the emperor.

The emperor asked the inner court agency Dongchang to send special personnel to manage and manage it. After some reforms, the dishes and taste of the Shanhai Restaurant have been greatly improved.

And the pioneering first introduced singing and dancing to create high-end, comfortable and luxurious service quality. It is based in the high-end consumption field and is aimed at the powerful and wealthy businessmen in Luoyang, so it became the number one restaurant in Luoyang.

The consumption level is great. People who go there are either rich or noble. Everyone knows who is the backer behind this restaurant. No one dares to cause trouble. The atmosphere inside is very good.

Nonsense, the musicians are playing the court musicians, and the dancing girls are dancing in the palace. Who is behind the backer? Do you still have to consider it?

Mr. Guo is also OK.

He felt that there was no need for these musicians and dancers when there were no important banquets.

He himself, including his family, doesn’t like to listen to music and dance, and he doesn’t have that time. He only needs these dancers and musicians to appear when holding banquets to entertain ministers or foreign guests.

I don’t use them a few times a month, but I can’t pay less money, so it’s a waste of money to support them.

So he thought for a while and decided to send them to the Shanhai Restaurant to perform singing and dancing.

Take turns to schedule shifts, work in the morning and afternoon, and take turns to take off. Anyway, you have to use your expertise to attract customers and increase the income of Shanhai Restaurant, so as to enrich Mr. Guo’s small treasury.

In this way, when Mr. Guo needs it, the people who stay in the palace can also take over it in time, make the best use of the labor force of these professionals, and insist on maximizing interests.

Mr. Guo’s ugly face was fully exposed in these matters.

Mr. Guo has never kept idle people. Anyone who serves in the inner court must do his job for him and do things in earnest before he can stay in the inner court. Otherwise, he will get out as soon as possible.

Because Luoyang people love to pursue royal preferences, Mr. Guo feels that this wave is definitely profitable.

The rumor was specially released and spread throughout Luoyang, and then spread to the surrounding area along the Luoyang people, saying that the dancers and musicians of the palace were dancing and singing, and the chefs from the palace were cooking.

So Luoyang people and rich people who came to Luoyang from other places flocked to him, sprinkling gold, silver and jewelry, and wanted to see what the emperor and his son usually admired and what kind of fairy singing and dancing food they ate.

Some people deeply feel that this is a good opportunity to curry favor with the emperor, so they often spend a lot of money at Shanhai Restaurant. The money earned by Shanhai Restaurant is huge and the profit is extremely high.

Mr. Guo was so happy.

The daily life of Shanhai Restaurant is full of people. I don’t know how many high-ranking officials and nobles came to consume. I threw down a brick and killed a single person. None of them were flat-headed ordinary people.

They are all nobles, officials, and wealthy businessmen who are rich and have no money at home.

I have to say that the musician dancers raised in the palace are all first-class in terms of skills and figure.

The chefs who came out of the palace cooked dishes were different from other places. The taste was full of flavor, and they felt very delicious no matter how they were eaten.

And the price is very high. A plate of green leafy vegetables is enough for more than a dozen yuan for other restaurants, and it costs ten times the price here.

It looks like it is exquisitely used! Other restaurants cannot compare!

That's right, these dishes are all royal purchase channels. The royal family uses the remaining dishes here, and the quality used here is second only to the royal family.

The emperors all eat dishes from the same channel!

Do you think it's appropriate not to charge you ten times the price?

The meat and vegetables were even more expensive at 20 times and 30 times. Some dishes that Guo Peng didn't eat at all and had never heard of were invented by the money-making experts in the East Factory, and made money in Shanhai Restaurants under the reputation of royalty.

When the envoys from the Western Regions were still there, they often spent huge sums of money here to spend, enjoying the songs and dances. They stayed all morning and afternoon, and many people spent a lot of money.

Anyway, these guys have nothing but money, so just spend money hard.

They think that they can experience the noble royal enjoyment here and the pleasure of being an emperor. If you say it out, I will eat the same food as the emperor. How glorious is this?

Isn’t it worth spending money on this?

What we eat is not food, but environment, style, interpersonal relationships, and a noble experience.

These things are not available for money.

Guo's sickle usually cuts these kinds of leeks wearing gold and silver.

Now that the envoys of the countries in the Western Regions are gone, the richer Roman envoys have arrived. Xinpi feels that he needs to bring him here no matter what, so that he can take him to spend a lot of gold and silver in his pockets here.

Aren't these guys rich anyway?

Wei Yong felt it was quite exciting.

He was a grassroots official, a small translator. Because he wanted to become an official as soon as possible, he didn't even take the imperial examination. He directly participated in the study class and learned the language, and then took a shortcut to become a diplomatic official.

Although he received a good salary, he could send money to his family every month. The family replied to him and told him that his family was much better, and he was very happy.

But it is for ordinary people.

When it comes to Shanhai Restaurant, it is a place where officials under 1,000 stones in the imperial government are afraid of talking. They think that they will never have a good meal if they go there for half a year.

If you can still eat well after going there once, you have to target the three departments and other relevant departments.

For example, Cheng Yu.

Can you still live so comfortably after going to Shanhai Restaurant?

Let's go have a cup of tea and chat slowly, and talk about whether you are using your property or other industries to live so comfortably. Does the court know? Have you reported it in advance?

Cheng Yu would look at them with a look of looking at the dead.

This shows how high consumption of restaurants in Shanhai is.

This is a preparation for the nobles and nobles. It is not a place where they are small officials and minor officials should go. If they insist on slapping themselves as fat, they will also have to take risks.

But this time, it was obviously not my own payment. The one I had to pay must have been sent by Xinpi, or went directly to the public account. There were special accounts for the reception of Roman envoys. His Majesty specially approved a sum of funds to let him wander in Luoyang.

But this is only once, and the next time, he will have to spend money on his own.

Of course, as long as he likes it and gives him the ultimate enjoyment, he will not be afraid that he will not spend money in it.

What is a huge profit?
Chapter completed!