Li Chang responded, turned around and gave instructions to the guards.
Immediately, more than a dozen personal guards, holding iron trumpets, entered the village and shouted.
The remaining people all ran south quickly.
There, there are not only glass greenhouses, but also more than 200 farmers living here and there, and they all need to be notified.
"Your Majesty has an order. Anyone who wants to study in the hall should quickly go to the Book Making Workshop and collect the books!"
"Everyone in Lijiazhuang, listen up. Your Majesty has issued an order. Anyone who wants to study in the hall should quickly go to the bookmaking workshop to get enlightenment books after hearing this!"
"Everyone in Lijiazhuang..."
Hearing the shouts of these guards, all the farmers who had been hiding in the house or staying in the glass greenhouse all day because of the cold quickly came out.
"Brother Li Kuo, has your Majesty's bookmaking workshop really produced the enlightenment and mathematics books needed by the school?"
"Chang Ergen, you kid really didn't lie to me. Did your Majesty's bookmaking workshop really produce books?"
"Of course it's true. The two houses next to the book-making workshop are neatly filled with books. I saw this with my own eyes!"
"This matter is an order from the King. If you want to go to the school to study and learn to read, or if someone in your family goes to the school to learn to read, you should go to the King's Bookmaking Workshop to get books as soon as possible!"
All the personal guards also understood the suspicious bankers.
If they hadn't seen the books in those two rooms with their own eyes, they wouldn't have believed it.
"Yes, since the king personally gave the order, books must have been created!"
"But, how can so many books be made in the book-making workshop?"
"The king is a disciple of gods and immortals, a great sage in the world. He has unpredictable powers. How difficult is it to create a few books?"
"Don't wait any longer. It's better to go get the book first!"
"That's right, that's right!"
"A certain family will go first!"
As he said this, some impatient people couldn't help but run towards the book-making workshop.
Seeing this, the group of people who had been following him quickly couldn't help but start running after him.
Soon, in the entire Lijiazhuang, one could see villagers wrapped up tightly, walking out from various places, all running in one direction of Lijiazhuang.
A quarter of an hour later.
Outside the bookmaking workshop.
It was densely packed with people.
Everyone who comes here and sees the two open door library can't help but widen their eyes and look shocked.
“So many books!”
"How much does this have to be?"
"In this case, the little ones in the family are very lucky..."
At this moment, it felt like someone had arrived, so Li Xuan walked out of the house.
"I've met the king!"
Everyone quickly saluted Li Xuan.
Li Xuan also slightly cupped his hands, and then said loudly: "I wonder if any of the farmers are suffering from hunger now?"
"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. The rice jar in my house is full and there are all kinds of meats piled up, so I can eat every meal!" All the dealers replied quickly.
"I wonder if you have cotton-padded clothes to wear in the cold winter? Are you still living in a shabby thatched hut and suffering from the cold all day long?"
Li Xuan asked again.
"Your Majesty is merciful. I, the villain, and others live in cement houses, wear heavy cotton clothes, and have iron stoves burning. It is warmer than summer!" A group of farmers quickly replied.
As they spoke, they raised their hands, all wearing thick woolen gloves.
They dare to affirm with great pride that except for the nobles and rich people from the aristocratic families in the city, no one in the Tang Dynasty can dress better, live more comfortably, and eat delicious food than them!
Li Xuan nodded with satisfaction and continued: "Don't worry about the two hundred newly joined villagers. As long as you are willing to work hard in Lijiazhuang, your life will be very comfortable next year!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
"Um!"
Li Xuan nodded again, "I feel very relieved to see that you all are living a good life!"
Then, thinking of something, he sighed again.
"But, are you satisfied with living like this?"
Hearing this, all the dealers were stunned.
However, Li Xuan did not expect these bankers to ask him the reason, but continued.
"Let's not talk about anything else. You have all lived for decades, facing the loess and turning your back to the sky all day long, playing with these dozens of acres of fields. However, you can accurately calculate how much food you can grow in a year? And How much money can you make?”
"And how much of the money earned is yours, and how much is deceived and defrauded by others?"
"Also, now that you are well fed and clothed, will you give birth to more babies?"
"To put it more worryingly, because you can't read, write, or calculate numbers, you have been bullied by others for your whole life. Is it possible that those little brats who still want you to wait for them will be treated like you when they grow up? Being bullied like this?"
"Moreover, the house I built for you now can only house one family at most! In a few years, when you little ones grow up, they will marry wives and give birth to little ones. Have you ever thought about them? Where do you live?…”
As time passed, all the bankers began to quiet down.
What Li Xuan said was not a big deal, it was all issues that these bankers would slowly have to consider in the future.
"May I ask, Your Majesty, how to solve it?"
An older banker raised his hand and asked.
"I want to study, read, learn skills, and make money to build a house!" Li Xuan said directly.
"Everyone should also know that the workshops in Lijiazhuang, if taken out outside, are gold mines that can continuously generate money. Moreover, in my mind, there are more ways to make money.
But, how many people are there in the Tang Dynasty who can read and write? In particular, how many people can do arithmetic, calculate account books, have a flexible mind, and are worthy of my trust?"
"I have long said that as long as any of you can read three thousand characters, can add, subtract, multiply and divide hundreds of digits, and can keep accounts, I can help you in various prefectures and counties near Chang'an City. You can find a job or open a shop.
So, if you wait a month, why can't you earn more than ten guan, or even dozens or hundreds of guan?"
"In this case, why should you worry about not being able to make money, build a house, have enough clothes and food?"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Hearing this, all the bankers couldn't help but feel excited.
"You are so hopeless!"
Seeing this, Li Xuan couldn't help but said something venomous again.
All the dealers could only giggle.
"You must know that reading and literacy can not only make money. The most important thing is that reading and literacy can make you more capable! There are some things that I don't want to mention too much, but no matter how prosperous the Tang Dynasty is and how wise your majesty is, there will be no difference in the market. Some bad guys will exist.
I don’t know if you have ever been persecuted by such lowly people. However, if you learn to read and write, become capable, and make a lot of money, those lowly people will not dare to come to bully you or persecute you.
You bully your sons, sell your daughters, and make them slaves and maids..."
For an instant, all the bankers were silent, and some were even gnashing their teeth.
As tenant farmers at the bottom of society, how come they have never been bullied?
Even the case of bullying one's son and selling one's daughter is not unheard of.
However, they only work on farming all day long and do nothing else.
When you encounter those bullies, you have to swallow your anger in order to survive!