Wu Shu said: "Actually, it's not a big deal, it's just that five thousand sets of the dictionary have been printed, and I wanted to ask you when they will be sold."
Chen Jingke nodded and said: "Don't worry, the dictionary will definitely become a thorn in the side of the nobles, and issuing it hastily will lead to their attacks."
"When the imperial academy system is established, give priority to providing dictionaries to the students in the academy. By then, the attention of the nobles will be attracted by the imperial court and they will have no time to take care of us."
"Then we will take advantage of the trend and publish it all over the world, and we can complete the dictionary promotion work at the minimum cost."
Although the dictionary would affect the gentry's monopoly on learning, it was completely insignificant compared to the academic system and the imperial examination system.
If the former is a mosquito, then the latter two are knives. Once the court shows the knife, the nobles will have no time to care about their mosquito.
Moreover, the imperial academic and political system can be used to promote the dictionary, and it can be distributed directly to the world, saving a lot of publicity trouble.
Wu Shu also understood this truth and said: "That's fine, but don't forget the printing costs. We can forget about it if we don't make money, but we can't lose money."
Chen Jingke said funnyly: "Okay, you can calculate the accounts and I will go to my aunt to ask for the money."
As the two talked, they returned to Wu Shu's residence in the backyard. Yang spent most of his time living with his young daughter Wu Chang in the villa he had purchased before.
After she was the Yang family, she was also the direct wife of the warrior Xun Mingmei. In addition, the identity of the Wu Shu Sun family's wife was already widely known, and the old friends were slowly restored.
Human exchanges have become very frequent, and it would be inconvenient for her to continue living in Zixiaoguan, and it would also be easy for others to gossip.
After she fully recovered, she moved there, and Wu Chang naturally followed her mother there.
Wu Shu is the housekeeper of Zixiao Temple, and she stayed in the temple to facilitate management, so now she lives alone in this small courtyard.
When the two of them were alone, Chen Jingke would inevitably touch her, not for any other reason than to see Mrs. Wu looking angry and ashamed.
It wasn't until Wu Shu was annoyed that he pinched his waist twice before he calmed down.
"By the way, Sister Wu, my father-in-law's three-year period of filial piety is almost over, right?"
Wu Shu rolled his eyes at him and said, "There are still more than four months left. Why are you in a hurry?"
Chen Jingke did not answer her joke, but said: "Xie Xiao, are you going?"
Xie Xiao means that when the three-year period of filial piety is over, the children go to the homes of relatives and friends to express their gratitude. After finishing the work, the filial piety clothes can be removed, which means that everything will return to normal after the period of filial piety.
The smile on Wu Shu's face disappeared, and he said worriedly: "According to the rules, all ladies who have not left the court must participate, otherwise it will be rude."
Chen Jingke knew what she was worried about and said: "I really want to accompany you, but there is a high probability that His Majesty will not let me leave the capital. But don't worry, I have a way to make those two people behave honestly."
Wu Shu asked expectantly: "What are you going to do?"
Originally, Chen Jingke wanted to whet her appetite and give her a surprise, but if he didn't tell her a specific way, she would definitely not feel at ease. This was something he didn't want to see.
So he changed his mind and said: "My father-in-law has made great contributions to the Tang Dynasty. How can the imperial court treat his descendants poorly?"
"Before, it was inconvenient to appoint an official because the period of filial piety was not over. Now it is natural to put it on the agenda after the period of filial piety is over."
"The Baiqi Division happens to be short of people, and I'm going to ask the saint to recruit them to join. When the time comes, you go there with the summoned officials, and I don't believe they dare to jump around."
Wu Shu's eyes lit up, but he still hesitated and said: "Baiqisi is the saint's personal guard. Will he agree to let his brother join?"
Chen Jingke shook his head and said: "As early as the day I temporarily took charge of Baiqisi, it was no longer responsible for protecting the saint."
"The reason why I still bear the title of Guard is just to facilitate experiments. Let alone recruiting your brother, there will be no problem even if we add three to five hundred people."
The worries in Wu Shu's heart disappeared, and he relaxed his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Yes, Master, you are the most powerful, little girl, thank you for your help."
Chen Jingke raised his eyebrows and said dissatisfied: "You little lady is so ignorant. Why don't you repay such a great kindness with your own body and promise to do things like cows and horses?"
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Before you know it, a week has passed, and a new issue of "Wang Yue Tan" is on sale. The most eye-catching article in this issue is Chen Jingke's article.
In the last issue, he talked about the outstanding contributions made by the gentry to China by preserving Chinese classics during the turbulent years.
At the end of the chapter, he gave a preview: The next issue will focus on how noble families protect classics.
At first, everyone thought he would talk about how the noble clans fought unyieldingly, how many of their disciples sacrificed to preserve the classics, and how much they paid.
But when the new issue was released, everyone was shocked after reading this article. This is not advocating for the gentry, it is obviously a stab at it.
Gein's article is clearly about the formation of the gentry clan, starting from the period of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, continuing to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and finally talking about the present day.
This process is naturally full of dark and cunning tricks, such as land annexation, monopolizing official channels, cutting off promotion channels for ordinary people, etc.
It also focuses on describing the extravagant life of the noble family, including the wine pool and the meat forest. Everything about using carp whiskers to make soup, using chicken feet and hearts to stir-fry, etc. are all arranged.
Robbery of women is naturally a repertoire. He directly used the Taiyuan Wang family Wang Xiuqi's murder of a maid as an example to illustrate.
He also pointed out that the gentry controlled the official career by monopolizing knowledge and thought they were so noble that even the royal family despised them, let alone ordinary people.
In order to maintain their status, they usually only intermarry with each other.
But if great talents were born among ordinary people, they would actively send women and money to win them over and incorporate these talents into the gentry system.
Only in this way can they stay rich and noble forever.
The root causes of many unrests in history have even been attributed to noble clans. For example, in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the clans occupied too much land and the people had to rebel because they could not survive.
Chen Jingke also knew that it would be biased to simply attribute the Yellow Turban Rebellion to land annexation, but now it was to attack the gentry, who cares whether it was true or false, it would just be useful.
At the end of the article, I mentioned in passing that the noble families had so much wealth, so they naturally had enough energy to protect books.
Ordinary people don't even have enough to eat, they don't have the opportunity to study, and even if they want to contribute to this, they don't have the opportunity.
It can be said that this article has completely peeled off the skin of the nobles. As high as they were praised in the previous chapter, this chapter will trample them as hard as they can.
The key is that this article appeared directly in front of more than 100,000 readers across the country through Wangyue Tan. And through these readers, it reached the ears of more people.
It can be said that in just a few days, everyone in the country has become aware of it, and the gentry has become forgotten by everyone.