Chapter 104: The monopoly of knowledge is a thing of the past

After Xu Shu came to Luoyang, he went around to worship the famous people in Luoyang and learn from them.

Because of his mother's guilt and his own persistence, Xu Shu was studying and enriching himself every day when he was in Luoyang.

But Xu Shu learned not only the traditional Four Books and Five Classics, but also the art of war and strategy.

And Xu Shu spent almost all of his money on books.

It is also thanks to the appearance of books printed on paper that Xu Shu's study cost has dropped a lot.

Xu Shu didn't know who made those books made of paper nails.

But without these books, he would be slower to learn now.

Each set of slips, the price is very high, not Xu Shu can afford to buy, he wants to see those slips, can only borrow, or go to other people's homes to see, a day can be read is very limited.

But although Xu Shu is not rich, he can barely afford to buy books made of paper, and he can stay up all night at home to study the knowledge in the books.

Xu Shu is very grateful to the person who made the books, if there were no books and papers, he didn't know how many times it would take to finish these books, and he didn't know how many people would have to bear the eyes of people when reading these books.

Although I don't know why these books are compiled so that people can read them line by line, instead of reading them vertically.

But after the initial discomfort, Xu Shu admired the people who used to make books more and more.

The experience of horizontal reading is much higher than reading vertically, and the book itself has broken sentences, so Xu Shu can understand the content of the book very well.

The original slips, for beginners, must have a teacher with them, otherwise they can't understand it at all, or the meaning they understand is completely different from what the slips originally wanted to express.

If there is a chance, Xu Shu really wants to meet this person.

Putting down the historical record in his hand, Xu Shu blew out the oil lamp on the table.

If it were changed to before, he would never dare to think about the historical records, and he could only go to other people's homes if he wanted to see them, but even so, if he was only the identity he is now all his life, he would not be able to read the entire historical records for the rest of his life.

The historical records of more than 500,000 words are engraved on the slips, and it takes many carriages to install them. A slip can only write more than 20 characters, and a historical record needs 25,000 roots.

In the entire Han Dynasty, few people can have a complete set of slips in their homes, and many families have only barely included some of them.

This way of recording is destined to be a single book for most sets of books, which is expensive to produce and inconvenient to circulate.

In many families, all the slips in the study room add up, and the number of words is only 100,000 or hundreds of thousands of words. And most of them are Confucianism. Doctrines such as the Art of War, Historical Records, and other schools of thought are very scarce.

And now, he is a commoner, and he only needs to spend 200 yuan to have a set of historical records of his own, and he can carry it with him.

This is something Xu Shu never dared to think about before.

In this era, there is no concept of being poor and rich in martial arts, because if you want to study, you need to spend more money than practicing martial arts.

The knowledge system is completely controlled by those families, more than 90% of the slips are in the hands of these families, ordinary people want to study, at most they apply for a private school, learn a word, and learn from the slips owned by Mr.

And these gentlemen and teachers have a pitiful number of simple scrolls, most of which are the simplest enlightenment books.

Spring and Autumn Period, Zuo Chuan, and such books all require students to find opportunities to study on their own in the future, not to mention such monumental works as Historical Records.

And ordinary people, who can't afford a set of simple slips, are lucky enough to know a few children of the family, or are favored by them, they can go to the family's study to watch for a while.

If you're unlucky, you'll lose all of these books in your life. After recognizing a few words, I still have to go to work in the fields.

But the books that came out of Black Wind Village have lowered this threshold infinitely.

Books will no longer be the product of the monopoly of the family, even ordinary people like Xu Shu can also have a masterpiece like Shiji.

Talents will no longer be exclusive to the family, and more knowledgeable talents will appear among ordinary people.

The reason why the original Xu Shu was able to abandon martial arts and follow literature really had a lot to do with the fact that he killed people in anger for his friends at the beginning.

Killing people for the anger of friends is in line with the blood nature of the common people of the Han Dynasty, and many people with status are willing to befriend Xu Shu because of this, and they will not hand over Xu Shu to the government because of this kind of thing.

Even if the government gets the news and comes to get people, they will also help Xu Shu escape.

But the original Xu Shu, even with the help of these people, took more than ten years to study.

But now Xu Shu has shortened this time far from him, and what he lacks is only accumulation, as well as experience in many things.

On this day, Xu Shu, as usual, first communicated with a few friends, and after that, he was ready to go home to continue his studies.

But he was stopped on the way.

"Xu Gongzi, my husband is invited."

Xu Shu: "Dare to ask who your husband is?" ”

Xu Shu thought about it in his mind, but he didn't recognize which gentleman's person this little guy in front of him was.

In order to study, in order to be able to make faster progress, Xu Shu also visited celebrities and scholars in Luoyang and humbly asked for advice.

But although Xu Shu killed people in anger because of his friends, his identity was still too low, and he could only make friends with those who were the same age as him, and those Confucians still looked down on Xu Shu.

Although Xu Shu has learned from many gentlemen, there are few who can really get it.

"Xu Gongzi will come with me to know." Liao Hua said, not revealing Zhao Hui's name.

Xu Shu also studied martial arts before, and saw Liao Hua's obvious martial arts style, but Xu Shu was not afraid, and nodded: "There is labor to lead the way." ”

Although Liao Hua looks extraordinary, Xu Shu is not worried about danger, he is just an ordinary person, as long as it is not from the government to take people, Xu Shu does not know who else will target him.

Following Liao Hua, Xu Shu soon came to a private house.

Although it was just an ordinary house, Xu Shu did not show a disappointed look.

can have someone like Liao Hua as a small servant, and the master must be extraordinary.

In Luoyang City, no one knows which room is hidden in a celebrity.

"Xu Gongzi, please!" Liao Hua opened the door.

Xu Shu walked in, and there was a small courtyard inside, and the three people in the courtyard looked at Xu Shu together at this moment.

Two men and one woman, all three of them are extraordinary, but none of the three Xu Shu know each other.

At the moment, he said: "I don't know what advice the three of you have for Xu to come?" ”

Zhao Hui said: "I heard Mr. Xu's name, so I invited him, and I asked Mr. not to blame." ”

"Xu Moujie common people, what kind of names can they have, but how many people seem to be extraordinary, I don't know how many high surnames and big names?" Xu Shu asked.

How famous he can be, Xu Shu himself knows very well, his current fame is all because he helped his friends kill people, and because he changed his name, it is impossible for ordinary people to know.

knew that his original name was Xu Fu, and he was just a few close friends.

Zhao Hui only said his name for the time being, and he was a person from Youzhou, as for the matter of Heifeng Village, Zhao Hui would not tell Xu Shu immediately.