The swords and guns were put into the warehouse, and the horses were placed in the south. After the war was over, put away all the money-spending items and began to enjoy the peaceful days. But soon the swords and guns would rust, and soldiers would forget to fight. When the war was needed, they could no longer form combat power.

The same is true for technology. If it is not maintained at a loss, when needed, the equipment will be eliminated and workers will grow old and they will no longer be able to continue production and development.

Although movable type printing is invented, it is always a loss, and every production is a loss. However, the loss must continue, because it does not last, and in more than ten years, movable type printing will be forgotten again.

Yunyao actually wants to promote movable type printing, but now traditional woodblock printing is very mature, and no one is optimistic about this printing technology that has been losing money.

So there is no way, so Yunyao can only pay for money to print something, but if the newspaper appears, the advantages of movable type printing will be revealed.

In today's era, if you want to quickly spread text, copying is the fastest way. All scholars are human copiers. The engraving plates are batch printing of classic books or mass-produced products.

In short, if you lose money, you should lose money. Yunyao thought that after the newspaper could make money, she would definitely send a special correspondent to follow Tang Seng to obtain the scriptures. When they came back, they would come to report on the various strange things that Tang Seng encountered on the way to obtain the scriptures.

Just when Yunyao was thinking about doing something big, Li Shimin and Empress Changsun found her. Although they had talked during the day, they only agreed to raise funds and did not discuss the details. This time, they could not let Yunyao come forward, either let the prince come forward or the emperor came forward in person. In short, Yunyao is still too young.

Empress Changsun saw the sketch on Yunyao's desk and knew that this was what Yunyao arranged for the palace maids to learn before. It was a very strange painting. She admired it and said, "It's really realistic." She felt that these paintings were already very realistic and continued, "I remember that during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, some Buddha statues were influenced by carvings in the Western Regions and were also very realistic. This should be the way of painting in the Western Regions."

"Yes, this is indeed the Western Region style." Yun Yao said.

Li Shimin also took a few pictures to read, and found it very interesting: "The painting skills of the Western Regions and the Tang Dynasty are very different, and they emphasize the form rather than the spirit. The appearance is often realistic, but it is difficult to grasp the magic of things."

Yun Yao thought to himself that it was because the philosophy in the two places was different, and philosophy affected aesthetics, behavior, and development paths.

Why philosophy is so important is because philosophy is an expression of a collective ideology. The philosophical foundation of the people in the Central Plains is change, while the philosophical foundation of the Western Regions is transcendence.

Change makes the aesthetics of the Central Plains focus on meaning rather than form. Because all things change from the birth, the shapes grasped by painters cannot show the essence of a thing. Only artistic conception can express the essence of all things.

Transcendence makes Western aesthetics focus on form but not on meaning. Because they believe that one thing must be included in another broader thing, this broader existence is transcendence. The soul, spirit, and everything are like endless dolls. There is an infinite and vast space for transcendence. What a person can show is only a corner of the world, and it can never be a whole. Since painters cannot show the whole, they can only grasp the part and portray it perfectly. No painter can draw everything, because there is a higher level of transcendence above everything.

This is the difference, which leads to aesthetic differences.

Of course, Li Shimin was not here to talk about art, but told Yunyao that he had approved the shipbuilding matter, but there must be a detailed plan. Moreover, if Yunyao cannot come forward, he has to find an agent, and the prince will not come forward. The prince must study hard and take less money. Li Shimin has arranged an agent, Yuan Shouye.

When Yunyao heard that this person had something to do with Yuan Shoucheng? It didn’t happen to be Yuan Tiangang’s uncle.

This Yuan Shoucheng is the one who made the Dragon King of Jinghe angry and privately change the Jade Emperor's imperial edict. He is a very powerful fortune teller and Yuan Tiangang's uncle.

Because the Dragon King of Jinghe wanted to behead his head, he asked Li Shimin for mercy. Li Shimin agreed to forgive him, but unexpectedly Wei Zheng still cut off the Dragon King of Jinghe. This was why the Dragon King took Li Shimin to travel to the underworld, which led to Li Shimin's idea of ​​seeking scriptures.

The Yuan family is quite amazing. They are all good at astronomy, geography, meteorological divination. Since the Sui Dynasty, the Yuan family has been officials of the Imperial Heavenly Prison, responsible for helping the royal family organize astronomy and divine good fortune and misfortune. Moreover, they are also related to Guigu, and are considered to be a branch of Guigu. It is a significant force in the second mortal world. They know the existence of gods and immortals and inspire to protect mortals from interference from gods and monsters.

Second, there was no Dragon King in the mortal world, but during the six hundred years when Yunyao was in jail, Western religions and Heavenly Court cooperated and arranged one.

It is unknown whether Li Shimin arranged this agent to be Yuan Shoucheng's brother, but it doesn't matter. Anyway, Li Shimin said that he is smart and capable enough. This person will be responsible for implementing Yun Yao's entire plan and recording every expense of Yun Yao. With him, Yun Yao doesn't have to come forward.

"Okay." Yunyao had no objection, so it was fine to ask her to write a plan.

So a huge plan started in Chang'an. Because of the precedent and officials taking the lead, the fundraising speed was very fast. In the same year, the first newspaper published information on shipbuilding, and published knowledge about going out to sea and voyages, as well as a lot of contents of supply points, including Annanguo, overseas Liman, Chameng Kingdom, Zhenhua Kingdom, Pugan Kingdom...

After that, newspapers became something that everyone was accustomed to. Although not many people read it, they continued to run and the newspaper became more and more complete. Later, Li Shimin occasionally published some articles and used the newspaper as a political tool. It was not bad. Anyway, as long as Li Shimin gave money, Yun Yao would print everything for him. His father and daughter settled the score clearly and got what he paid for.

Just as time passed, Tang Seng was already eighteen years old. This year he was about to officially become a monk at Jinshan Temple. However, the abbot said that he still had a previous relationship, and he had not yet finished his previous relationship before he could become a monk.

So he told Tang Seng's life story, saying that when he drifted to Jinshan Temple, his mother's blood book was hidden in his cradle and the whole story.

"Xuanzang, your father was originally the top scholar of the Sui Dynasty, but he was killed by a traitor on his way to his post. You were a child. Your mother didn't want you to recognize the thief as your father, so she used the blood letter as evidence to let you flow along the river, and then came to Jinshan Temple. If you want to officially become a monk, you must have to clear your previous fate." said the abbot.

"Abbot, since I have the intention to become a monk, I must not be attached to the Dharma, not be greedy for things, and do not have to be entangled in the past." Tang monk Xuanzang said that he had become a monk and was in charge of what his parents did.

But the abbot shook his head and said, "It is true to follow the circumstances. Don't be attached to the Dharma, nor do you attach to emptiness."

Tang Seng was stunned. Is he obsessed with emptiness? What should I do?

"There was a monk in the previous dynasty who did not shed a single tear when his teacher passed away. But when a traveler who was staying in the temple died of illness, he cried silently, and God was sad." The abbot began to tell stories, hoping to awaken this smart disciple.

Xuanzang said that this is a high-spirited monk? The teacher will not cry when he dies. It can be understood as not obsessed with life and death. But why does a strange traveler cry when he dies? Does the traveler owe him money?

Why do the same person have two manifestations? Why? Is it not to be attached or to be attached?

The abbot said nothing, just waiting for Tang Seng to figure it out himself, and only by relying on his own strength can he find the other side.

Suddenly, Xuanzang had a flash of inspiration and thought of the reason, so he said, "The teacher passed away and did not cry. It was not that the monk was not sad, but because he knew that the teacher was a person who had attained enlightenment, so he could go to the other side. The traveler was sad when he died because the monk knew that the traveler was just an ordinary person, without the wisdom of Prajna, and suffered from reincarnation after death and was not liberated, so he shed tears." "Master Abbot, I understand that my father and mother are all people in the world, and we monks should save ourselves and others."
Chapter completed!