Chapter 978: The Library is established
"It's really the queen of the Kong family!" The onlookers couldn't help but exclaim when they saw the huge Confucian family sign outside the store.
"Could it be that the Confucian family runs a bookstore, and I heard that the Confucian Mansion swept through the major booksellers in Chang'an City a few days ago, and bought no less than tens of thousands of books." A merchant remembered the strange behavior of the Kong family that was rumored in Chang'an City a few days ago, and today he finally got an explanation.
"After Confucius, go into business! It's just a big joke in the world, isn't the court's preferential treatment of the Kong family enough, the Kong family is still so greedy for money! A Confucian student rebuked angrily.
All dynasties have given great preferential treatment to the Confucian family, among which the head of the Confucian family in the past dynasties will be named the Yan Sheng Gong from generation to generation, and at the same time, the imperial court will also give a large amount of land to support the Confucian family, and the Confucian family is also naturally interested, willing to be a mud bodhisattva, and strive to maintain the reputation of the Confucian saint, becoming a symbol of Confucianism.
"The Confucian family has been famous for thousands of years, and today I am afraid it will be ruined." A scribe looked up to the sky and sighed, and his heart ached.
As the crowd grew, many people pointed at Kong Desheng and sneered, and Zheng Chang couldn't help but show a trace of pride when he saw all this.
Kong Desheng was expressionless, still insisting on going his own way, waiting for the arrival of the auspicious time.
"The auspicious time has come!" As the sun rose, a member of the Kong family shouted.
Kong Desheng couldn't help but show a sneer when he saw the citizens who surrounded the front of the store, the Zheng family thought that he could embarrass the Kong family because of this, but he didn't know that the more people he invited over, the more humiliating he became, and finally only made a wedding dress for the Kong family.
"Thank you for coming, Kong is very grateful." Kong Desheng arched his hand around, and with a wave of his hand, he was ready to unveil the plaque of the store.
"Wait!" Suddenly, Zheng Chang said loudly and stretched out his hand to prevent the unveiling of the Kong family.
"Seniors can think about it, this is related to the reputation of the Confucian family for thousands of years, if this plaque is unveiled today, then there is no room for turn, Xiaosheng is not talented, and he admires the name of Confucius all his life, and he really can't bear the name of Confucius to be tarnished." Zheng Chang said with a high demeanor.
"However, Confucius is the most holy master of our ranks, and even though Confucius and others are the queens of the Confucian family, they must not wantonly damage the reputation of the holy masters." One by one, the Confucian scholars were indignant.
"If Senior Kong can get lost and know his way back, we will definitely treat this incident as if it never happened, and we will not blame the past!" Zheng Chang saw the excitement of the crowd and said proudly.
Kong Desheng sneered: "There is no one who has more obligation to maintain the reputation of the ancestors than the descendants of the Kong family, the old man does not need to be taught by you, the descendant, and all the consequences are only borne by the old man alone." ”
At that moment, Kong Desheng stretched out his hand, and the red satin fell, revealing three big characters - library!
"Library!"
"The Kong family really started the bookseller business again."
Everyone was in an uproar, they already had an answer based on the previous actions of the Kong family, but the scene in front of them confirmed their guess.
"The Kong family is killing themselves!" Zheng Chang snorted coldly, he didn't care about the Kong family's own death, just now he was righteous and Ling Ran dissuaded Kong Desheng, if it spreads in the future, it will definitely be a good reputation.
Kong Desheng said loudly: "There are thousands of books carefully collected by the Confucian family in this library, but all the books that can be bought in Chang'an City are included. ”
Everyone suddenly realized, and only then did they know the reason why the Kong family bought books in Chang'an City a few days ago.
"In addition, there are tens of thousands of books collected by the Confucian family for thousands of years, which are also open to Chang'an students." Kong Desheng broke another fierce news.
"The Confucian family has tens of thousands of books!"
Suddenly the onlookers were in an uproar, especially some Confucian scholars were even more excited and couldn't help themselves, you must know that the books collected by the Confucian family for thousands of years are even more rare treasures, and ordinary people are rare to see!
"Such a precious lone book of the Kong family is willing to take it out, if it is accidentally damaged, I am afraid the gain outweighs the loss!" Everyone talked about it, and as book lovers, they naturally knew how precious a unique treasure was.
"Of course, it's all rubbing." Kong Desheng explained the confusion for everyone.
"I see." Everyone suddenly realized, but even rubbing is extremely rare.
"Don't talk about Kong Yingda, even if the Kong family in Qufu has scattered all their wealth, I'm afraid it will be difficult to make tens of thousands of books engraved and printed." Zheng Chang disagreed, and snorted coldly.
However, then, Kong Desheng's words made him instantly slap his face and said: "Now that time is pressing, the Confucian Mansion has just printed nearly 100 rare books of the Han Dynasty for you to borrow, but you can rest assured, within half a year, the Confucian family will definitely let all the 10,000 books in the collection be published, so that people from all over the world can see it." ”
"Hundred rare books of the Han Dynasty!" The crowd of onlookers couldn't help but breathe, and some book lovers couldn't wait.
Seeing this, Kong Desheng couldn't help but smile, I have to say that movable type printing is indeed terrifying, coupled with the fact that the Confucian family specially selected a collection of books with a small number of words to print, but when it came to the New Year's greetings, under the overnight rush, nearly 100 books were printed, of course, the small number of each publication is also one of the reasons.
"Since it is the business of the Confucian family, I and other juniors should strongly support it, and Xiaosheng is also a lover of books, and he admires the masterpieces of his ancestors, I don't know how to sell this rare book of the Han Dynasty." Zheng Chang said deliberately.
Kong Desheng said proudly: "Zheng family child, you underestimate the Kong family too much, the Kong family's books are not sold, only borrowed, and a copy is not charged." ”
"Borrow a book!"
"Don't charge a penny!"
The crowd of onlookers couldn't help but be stunned.
"Not bad! As long as you are studying in the world, you can come to the library to borrow three books, each borrowing period is one month, only need to return it when it expires, if you don't read it, you can also renew it for free for half a month, and you will not be charged a penny! Kong Desheng said loudly.
"Three books to borrow for free for a month and a half!"
The onlookers and scholars were in an uproar, everyone in the world is the way, traveling thousands of miles, reading thousands of books, but there are many people who travel thousands of miles in this world, and there are not many people who read thousands of books, the reason is that it is not easy to borrow or buy so many books, and now the library opened by the Confucian family can make it easy for people all over the world to achieve this goal, and it can be achieved without spending a penny.
"The Kong family is worthy of being the queen of Confucius, and today's actions will go down in history! Xiaosheng apologized to Senior Kong. A scribe solemnly bowed to Kong Desheng and apologized.
"Offended!" Many scholars were even more ashamed, they had previously reprimanded Kong Desheng for tarnishing Confucius's reputation through business, but the library was open to the world without a penny, and even if Confucius was resurrected, they would praise him.
"What is wrong with you to maintain the name of the ancestors, it is too late for Kong to be grateful, today the Confucian family opened a library, which is to inherit the will of the ancestors, there is no class, so that everyone in the world can have books to read, today the library is open, the library has a collection of books, you can choose as much as you like." Kong Desheng clenched his fists to everyone and made way of the gate.
"Good!"
In an instant, everyone who had been impatient poured into the library, eagerly selecting the books they had long wanted to buy, but were always reluctant to start, and a month and a half was enough for them to read the books thoroughly.
As everyone poured into the library, only Zheng Chang stood there dumbfounded, the reason why the children of the family are excellent, in addition to a good education, there is also an important reason that there are many books in the family, whether it is knowledge or knowledge, it is far beyond the children of the family, this is the only magic weapon for the children of the family to maintain their advantages, but the Confucian family opened a library, so that the children of the family can read countless books without spending money, and even exceed the number of children of the family.
If the previous promotion of primary schools to train schoolchildren, it will take more than ten years for these schoolchildren to grow, so that it has left more than ten years of time buffer for the family, and the establishment of the library directly gives the family a salary, without waiting for the children to grow up slowly, but can directly increase the knowledge of the children of the poor families in the world, and even have the tendency to surpass the children of the family, so that the children of the family can immediately face the challenge of the children of the family.
"Young master, it's not good!" At this moment, Zheng Bo hurriedly stepped forward, handed Zheng Chang a copy of the Confucian periodical, and said with a solemn face.
Zheng Chang took a look and saw that there were three poems in the poetry column of the Confucian magazine.
"There is a golden house in the book, and there is a Yan Ruyu ............ in the book"
“………… Persuade the monarch to cherish his youth. ”
"Knowledge is power, knowledge is wealth!"
Zheng Chang meditated silently in his heart, but in his ears was the sound of a respectful recitation in the library, obviously this poem was also posted in the library, such an inspirational persuasion poem, coupled with the library that can read thousands of books without spending a penny, he can imagine that the entire Chang'an City will definitely set off a feverish study fever, if he is not a child of the family, I am afraid that he will be passionate and rush into the library to borrow a few books before he dares to stop.
The last time the Confucian family renovated the primary school, the family rebelled against the master and the students to stop it, but this time the Confucian family opened a library, and the five wangqi surnames could only stare at each other helplessly, after all, they could still control the legs of the children of the poor family.
"Young master, look at the signature of this poem!" Zheng Bo reminded.
Zheng Chang didn't look at it, gritted his teeth and said, "Mo family."
After all, in the world, the only poet who can write such wonderful poems and is accustomed to writing two and a half poems is the Mo family, and there is no other semicolon.
However, this was not the worst, the Confucian family opened a library, and the Mo family wrote persuasive poems, which were published in Confucian magazines, and the information conveyed in them had to make Zheng Chang realize an even worse situation.
That is, under the strong pressure of the five surnames and seven hopes, Confucianism and Mohists began to join forces.