Chapter 220: Subverting Perception
"It goes without saying that it must be a revenge on the court!" Queen Gongsun said.
"My mother is right!" Qin Mo gave an admiring look and continued, "So, everyone reads the Four Books and Five Classics, but how to understand it is their business. No one knows who the person he taught was.
Whether you love to do big things or hate to do big things, this is all very important.
If I want to change this situation, I have to start with the baby and let the children of ordinary people have books to read!"
Li Shilong nodded, Qin Mo's words reached his heart, "You are right. If a child has books to read, there will be so many problems there, but the key is that without books, you can't afford to read books.
Paper, pen, ink, and books are not something they can afford.”
"Father, that's what I think. No matter how hard I'm not suffering, no matter how poor my children are, no matter how poor I can't be poor in education, I have little education, and I don't have much education, so sometimes I envy those talented men. I heard that they don't have to spend money when they go to the yard."
In the first half of the sentence, Li Shilong was shocked and even felt it made sense, but in the second half of the sentence, he gritted his teeth in anger, "In your eyes, the advantage of studying is that you don't have to spend money on going to the yard?"
Qin Mo shrank his neck, "That's what I said, there is no need for you to react so much!"
"You already have Yu Shu and Chai Shao's daughter. If you dare to go to the raft, I will break your legs!" Li Shilong said angrily.
"Mother, look at him, he breaks my legs at any time and scares me, and is not at all kind!" Qin Mo hurriedly complained.
"Okay, Your Majesty, don't always scare this child!" Empress Gongsun hurriedly pulled Qin Mo over, "Although your father is a bit fierce, he is also doing his best. The women in the tram are not clean. When you get married to Yushu, your mother will reward you with some maids. Don't do anything wrong, do you know?"
Qin Mo nodded obediently. Who doesn’t respect such a considerate mother-in-law?
"Anyway, I just need to train more students, give them books, and let someone teach them, and there will be no results in a short period of time, but I think that after ten years, I will definitely continue to work hard.
There are many aristocratic families, are there still many people in the world? After three generations, if the aristocratic families are giving up, they will just let them get out!"
Qin Mo's words made Empress Gongsun excited, "Look, those people are not as insightful as my son-in-law, and they hide those little thoughts every day, and they are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality. They say they are for the world, but they do all the dirty things.
Your Majesty, we should listen to Qin Mo, raise and educate more children, and when the time is right, they will still dare to get angry?"
Li Shilong also nodded and expressed his affirmation, "But I want to overwhelm them as soon as possible. I am no longer young. Even if I can be an emperor for another twenty years, what should the next generation do? Without me, it is hard to say whether Cheng Qian can subdue these people!"
He was also worried at this time, and this was the first time he said such words in front of a foreign minister and son-in-law.
It is enough to show his importance and importance to Qin Mo.
Li Xin made a mistake before, why did Li Shilong take Qin Mo there?
He just planned to cultivate Qin Mo into Li Xin's confidant, and wanted Qin Mo to help Li Xin more.
"Li Yue had talked to me about this before, and we also discussed a solution. Without paper, we would make paper. Without pen and ink, we would make pen and ink. Without books, we would print books!"
"Li Yue has discussed this with you?"
"Yes, he always said before that he wanted to help his father suppress the aristocratic family, but others said slightest and had to talk to me.
To be honest, I don’t like to listen to these things at all. I’m so annoyed that I’m so annoyed. I’m annoyed every day!” Qin Mo began to make credit again, because what he was going to say next could not only shock the aristocratic families, but also fundamentally powerful cultural education!
"Then tell me what you have talked about." Li Shilong waved his hand, Gao Shilian and Feng Jin retreated from the Lizheng Hall, and the two of them dispersed the palace servants outside the Lizheng Hall, and then they guarded the door!
Qin Mo said: "Actually nothing. He said that if he wants to change the current dilemma, he needs to cultivate more scholars, so that everyone can afford to read."
"I also know that this is the solution to the fundamental problem, but do you know how much a book costs? A carved book costs at least ten taels of silver. If it is the Four Books and Five Classics, it will start with fifty taels.
It is not something that ordinary people can afford. Even if a person is studying a book with all his heart, he must have a suitable teacher to teach him. In addition to practicing, he must also salute the teacher.
A large piece of paper costs at least 150 cents, and in a year, it costs at least dozens of taels!
You also need a brush and ink strip. A better wolf hair pen costs five taels of silver, and a worse one tael of silver.
Not to mention the ink notes, there are several to several hundred taels. On average, if you want to train a scholar, you have to prepare at least 100 taels of silver a year and they also have to prepare their own dry food!" Although Li Shilong was in the temple, he was also a nobleman. Before the Li family subverted the Zhou Dynasty, he still knew the affairs of scholars quite well.
"My father came to the point. That day, Li Yue asked me if everyone could afford to use pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and produce in large quantities, as much as they need!" Qin Mo said.
"How is this possible? The pen and ink are all fine, but paper and books are very rare." Li Shilong vetoed it in one verbal voice.
"That's not necessarily!" Qin Mo raised his head, "I've already thought of a solution!"
Li Shilong widened his eyes, and then his breathing became rapid, "Hanzi, are you serious?"
"Of course, I can still lie to you, but this is also what I discussed with Li Yue. I can find cheap things instead!"
"What?"
"That's to use black edge!"
"Isn't that coal? Can it be used instead of pen?"
In Qin Mo's time and space, coal was called graphite in ancient times, and graphite used to make pencil cores was called black edges.
The same is true when working hard.
As a time traveler, although Qin Mo can write calligraphy, it is too difficult to write, and it is not as good as a quill or a pencil!
Moreover, it is actually quite easy to make pencils, not difficult, and the materials are simple.
The most important thing is that graphite is produced in Xishan Coal Mine.
"Coal is coal, black edges are black edges. Coal cannot be used to make pens, but black edges can be!" Qin Mo said: "A pen costs about one or two cents, and a pen can write about thousands of words!"
Chapter completed!