The Four Books and Five Classics published by the Senate are completely different from those of this time and space, not only in that they are beautifully printed and papered, but the content is also carefully selected—of course, standing on the shoulders of their predecessors, for example, Yang Bojun's Commentary on the Analects is added to the back of the Analects. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The advantage of this book is that it is short and concise, without a single word of nonsense, and it is very precise in the grasp of text annotations, in addition to adding Yang Shuda's "Analects of Loose Evidence", which far surpasses Zhu Xi's collection of annotations in this time and space in terms of reading comprehension; The Senate edition of the Four Books and Five Classics and the Collected Commentaries are basically the editions after the Qing Dynasty, and the richness of the content is far better than any book in this time and space.

In addition, the Senate version of the Four Books and Five Classics also has one of the biggest advantages is that the price is cheap, as the saying goes, the poor are rich and rich, and reading is generally the only way for the poor to change their fate. The poor people who read are not like the scholars under the jurisdiction of the Senate, everyone has books and clothes, they pay their own money to go to private schools, and they have to pay for books and pens, ink, paper and inkstones, and these things are basically expensive things in this time and space. So many readers borrow their books from other people in this way, rich people, rich people, officials like to buy some books, if there are poor people come to borrow books, they will generally be happy to borrow and allow the readers to copy. It's a good thing to have a good relationship with a scholar, and if the first person is in high school, maybe he can come back and make a fortune. Even if they don't have a high school, as long as they can be admitted to the famous Xiucai Tongsheng, they can have a tax-free land area allowed by the government, and they can attach their land to the names of these scholars, and give them a small fee to get tax-free. Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if they don't get any fame, there is no loss for the rich, at least they have earned a good reputation, and they can lure more readers to come and borrow books, cast a wide net, and always get a few.

However, the appearance of the Senate edition of the Four Books and Five Classics has dealt a heavy blow to the book market in nearby states and counties, and the price of this large pile of Four Books and Five Classics is only ten yuan, even if it turns hands a few times, it is only sixteen or seven taels of silver. Scholars can borrow money to buy it if they grit their teeth, and any investment can be recovered when they are in high school anyway. Even if the printing department lacked enough printing presses, and the binders and the personnel who selected movable type were not skilled in their work, they were able to produce more than 500 sets of books in a month, so these four books and five classics were basically swept away by the purchasers as soon as they were printed, and the printing house and the large library responsible for supervising printing inexplicably became a piece of the sweet cake of the commercial department.

But the most surprising product is not these four books and five classics, but a book with a thickness of almost 700 pages - "Xinhua Dictionary", the dictionary of the elders of the big library once hoped to change this dictionary into the "Senate Dictionary", but this suggestion was directly rejected. This dictionary was issued on the basis of the "Xinhua Dictionary" of the old time and space after some revisions, and its original purpose of revision was mainly to provide the education system of the Oriental Port, but it was soon seen as a business opportunity by outsiders. The Senate version of the "Xinhua Dictionary" is consulted through pinyin and the side, and at the end of the book, there is a way to check the traditional Chinese characters on the side, and according to the requirements of the dictionary buyers, the printing department has specially revised a "Xinhua Dictionary" that searches for words through the traditional Chinese side. This batch of "Xinhua Dictionary" was immediately purchased by the buyers, and was soon sold to many cities in the Wu Dynasty, and it is rumored that this kind of dictionary priced at one yuan has been sold for about 16 taels among the readers in Mingzhou, and the price is doubled in cities such as Songzhou and Hangzhou further north.

"Xinhua Dictionary" is different from other books in this time and space, this dictionary has a detailed explanation of the definition, word formation, and sentence formation of each word, which can not only recognize words, but also get a lot of unimaginable knowledge. Among the ancients, there were not only scholars and peasants, but also many lovers of physical science, and many words related to physical chemistry in the "Xinhua Dictionary" basically had special explanations, and even added "strange shapes" such as molecular formulas and physical formulas. For this reason, many of the letters written by enthusiasts from all over the world were brought to the port of the East through the merchants, and since they did not know which senator to give them, most of the letters were directly handed over to the port office, and the senators of the port office were confused, so they could only continue to hand in the letters step by step, and finally handed over the letters to the large library.

Out of surprise at the number of natural sciences - the pursuit of knowledge of things, Li Zhe withstood the pressure of the executive committee, and did not continue to let the number of veterans of the big library drop again and again, so as to maintain a basic number of people who can continue to operate the science and technology department. By the way, Li Zhe also abducted dozens of naturalized citizens from the education department who had knowledge and culture and were interested in natural science, after all, Jiang Yan and he had to meet every day, so all other departments could only look at this "fait accompli" with red eyes. After a period of "being transferred" and then "self-supplementing" for a period of time, the current large library has now become a department with 12 veterans and 35 naturalized citizens, respectively managing data server security, network maintenance, and new book publishing and other tasks.

Li Zhe is now reviewing a "new book" - "100,000 Whys", because the knowledge involved in this book is too extensive, and it explains in detail many black technologies that the "Senate" tries to cover up, so the publication of this book needs to go through layers of approval, and finally through the approval of the Executive Committee and the plenary session before it can be officially published. Now Li Zhe's selection of "100,000 Whys" is mainly for ancient people who have not received modern education, so the first edition of 1962 is selected, which is divided into eight volumes, including physics, chemistry, astronomy and meteorology, agriculture, physiology and health, mathematics, geology and geography, and animals, in which nearly 1,000 "whys" have been selected after screening.

Nowadays, all the energy of the big library is focused on the review and proofreading of this set of books - just kidding, the "People's Republic of China" that will appear at every turn must be changed to "China", and the place names are also very different from this time and space, and what is even more annoying is the problem of personal names, and now there are still many people who appear in the book have not yet been born, so they can only be renamed the names of the patriarchs.

This led to a naming frenzy of the senators, who poured into the great library in an attempt to leave their names in such a work that would definitely go down in history. For example, Liu Yeqiang wants to change the unit of measurement to "industry", and Yuan Zhenli wants to abolish the unit of "nautical mile". But directly in Li Zhe here to veto, the unit of measurement must not be changed, not to mention that the elders themselves are educated by these units of measurement and received the knowledge, if it is really modified, then all the technical information in the server must be audited, and there must be a leakage, so the best way is not to mess with these units of measurement.

According to the plan of the big library, once "100,000 Whys" is approved for publication, the first batch will only print 1,000 copies, and they themselves have no idea how many sets of this "popular science book" can sell, and the price is temporarily set at 5 yuan a copy. They don't know whether a set of books for 40 yuan is expensive in this time and space, but they don't know if this set of books that are expected to be 980,000 words is sold at this price, which should not exceed the economic ability of Gewu lovers.

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As the morning sun rises from the sea, a man with a set of salutes on his shoulders is walking along the road to the south of the North Sea, along the rugged official road to the south. He arrived in Beihai City the day before yesterday, rested in the city for a day, and when he was eating in the hotel, he happened to hear that there is a new city about 100 miles south of the Beihai Sea, which was just a barren mountain last year, and this year it is already a huge city, and there are thousands of hectares of fertile land, supporting tens of thousands of people. In addition to these, it is also able to produce a large number of amazing products every day, and the price is cheap and sufficient. He has been traveling in China for many years, and he has heard a lot of such stories, but they are often just rural rumors, and often they either do not stand up to scrutiny or the truth is revealed when they go there. Hearing this, he couldn't help but laugh for a while, ridiculing that this was not true, but even the official who was sitting next to him drinking tea told him that it was indeed true.

Listening to these sayings, he also came to be interested, from the forty-first year of Wanli (1613), he has been traveling in the land of the Wu Dynasty for many years, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places have already traveled, this year came to Guangxi, and then along the official road all the way south to Beihai, originally thought that he had traveled to the extreme south of the Wu Dynasty, and planned to turn to Yunnan-Guichuan. I suddenly learned that there was a new city in the south, and I was completely interested, so I went south with my luggage at dawn this morning.

At noon, he had arrived in a mountain along the road, the dense forests of the Annam Mountains were far from being comparable to the inland mountain forests, he could not see the sun when he looked up, and the official road was full of weeds when he looked down, and it was almost impossible to distinguish the official road, if it were not for the road signs on both sides of the road along the way, he was afraid that he had already lost his way, and he couldn't help but feel worried about the danger of getting lost. I don't know how far the road ahead is, if there are such roads for hundreds of miles, how to spend the night in this mountain forest.

Suddenly, he heard the neighing of horses in the distance, and he couldn't help but wake up, and hurriedly jumped to hide, but from the south mountain road came a man and a horse. Seeing him from afar, the rider beckoned to him and said, "Brother Tai in front, I don't know how far Beihai is away?" ”

He paused, hesitated for a moment, looked up and replied, "The journey is about half a day, and the North Sea is there. Halfway through he asked, "I wonder how long this journey will take to find a place to rest?" ”

The rider nodded, "This is the official road, there is a post station to walk south for half a day, it is an official post, the brother can rest there, and tomorrow you should be able to go to the Oriental Port for another day." ”

"Port of the East?" He silently recited the name, which was easy to remember, and bowed his hand to the rider, "Then may I ask if this way is peaceful?" Is there a ......?" he paused at this point, in fact, he didn't know what the rider was doing, but he thought that the man seemed to be believable, and continued to ask, "Is there a strong man on this road?" ”

The rider smiled, and shook a belt sign from his waist at him, and when he looked closely, it turned out to be a messenger who carried letters in the middle of the station, but he was relieved that the messenger could stop and chat with others on the road, and there must not be many road-cutting robbers on this road. Sure enough, the messenger said, "Brother Tai is not from Annam Province, is he? At the beginning of the year, the Dongfang Gang people dispatched a large army to exterminate all the bandits in the thirty miles around Dongfang Port, and they had already been expelled from the territory of the Wu Dynasty. There are not many robbers in the province of Annan who still dare to stay in the territory of this Wu Dynasty. As he spoke, he pointed to the south, "If you go fast, there is a caravan not far in front of you, which is also going to Dongfang Port to buy goods, you can go with them, and you should be able to reach Dongfang Port at noon tomorrow," he arched his hand, "Then I will go first, and Brother Tai will go slowly." Without waiting for a reply, he turned his horse and ran toward the north.

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The messenger rode a horse and arrived at the city of Beihai after about an hour, Beihai is a large city with about 10,000 people, the city wall is as high as five zhang, the city gate is magnificent, the gatehouse is as high as eight zhang, the whole city is divided into four gates, because of the prevention of pirates, the city gate to the east is not open all year round. When the messenger's horse reached the south gate, he was stopped by the soldiers at the gate of the city, and after checking the plate of the waist, he let him go, and he drove all the way to the post house in the city, and gave the official document to the handyman of the post house. Not long after, the document was sent to Liu Chuanzhi's desk.

Liu Chuanzhi came to the study as soon as possible and picked up the official letter from the leash. After reading the contents of it at a glance and ten lines, his heart immediately rose up and down. If he wanted to say peace of mind, he was indeed relieved when he saw this document, because this official letter was sent by An Yun Zhou Jinfeng, and it clearly stated that the Yan people had no intention of waging war against the Wu Dynasty, and hoped to donate a sum of property to the imperial court in exchange for land rights or rental rights in the Dongfang Port area. In the letter, Zhou Jinfeng stated that the people had no intention of making a move, and that there was no sign of a large-scale movement of the army of the people in An Yun and Dongfang Harbor - this Cen Min had already reported to him; But there are also things that make him feel uneasy, a few days ago the typhoon hit Annam, and many places were affected, but it seems that there is not much damage in the territory of the people, and they still work and live as usual every day. And Zhou Jinfeng also mentioned that according to the exact information he got from the Dongfang Port eyeline, the Yan people had defeated more than 100,000 Annan troops who attacked Zhancheng Port, and the name of the army seemed to be called "South Shore Army".

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