Of course, Li Xian's big moves are not just small things like thread-bound books and folding fans, because not only him, but even ordinary officials and aristocratic families are happy when they see these gadgets, but they are not happy.
Thinking that this thing can impress the prince Li Xian with admiration, the most they can do is praise the prince for being smart. They even don't know that the folding fan was actually created by Li Xian. They think that Li Xian can lead the trend of folding fans just because he has a better vision.
Of course, they didn't even know that under this trend, Li Xian himself received a dividend of nearly 50,000 yuan, and this money was used by him to secretly build weapons and equipment.
However, due to Datang's control over weapons and equipment, all of his equipment was made privately. He quietly destroyed the weapons and equipment issued by the government, and secretly distributed the weapons and equipment he made privately to his real soldiers.
.There is no difference in the shape of these privately made weapons and armors from the officially issued ones. However, the real offensive and defensive capabilities of the weapons and armors that appear to be the same have already been improved tenfold.
In addition to weapons and equipment, Li Xian's huge wealth has also been used to attract talents. His own status as crown prince, coupled with the power of sugar-coated bullets, has already defeated more than half of the middle and low-level officials in the court and many eunuchs in the palace.
The maids and palace guards quietly attracted him to his sect. Of course, before doing all this, Li Xian had already secretly investigated the people he planned to win over. Only those with innocent identities, loyal characters, and not becoming Empress Wu's party members were arrested.
There are also some people who are qualified to win over Empress Wu. Li Xian recruited them out of strategic deception, and the purpose is naturally to deceive and paralyze Empress Wu.
Li Xian is really not short of money now, but if he wants to truly rise, he cannot rely on money alone. If he wants his position to be as stable as Mount Tai, he must find a way to gain recognition from more people, and if he wants to
To do this, one of the most direct and effective ways is to revise books and improve one's prestige through revising books.
The so-called "book repairing should be done in prosperous times" is a tradition that has been passed down for thousands of years. Whenever a prosperous age comes, there will always be a large-scale book repairing event. Take the Tang Dynasty as an example. During the reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Kong Yingda was ordered to be responsible for compiling the "Five Classics of Justice", as well as
Wei Zheng presided over the compilation of "Book of Sui", Fang Xuanling and others revised "Book of Jin", Yao Silian and others revised "Book of Liang" and "Book of Chen", Li Baiyao edited "Book of Northern Qi", Linghu Defen and others revised "Book of Zhou"
"Book", as well as Li Dayong, Li Yanshou and his sons during the reign of Taizong and Gaozong compiled "Southern History" and "Northern History". The Twenty-Four Histories that were later handed down, eight volumes were compiled in less than a hundred years in the early Tang Dynasty alone.
Accounting for one-third, it shows how grand the Tang Dynasty's book compilation was.
Later in the Gaozong Dynasty, although the two princes Li Hong and Li Xian did not compile books on a large scale, they still achieved some achievements, such as Li Hong's selection and compilation of "Yaoshan Jade Collection", Li Xian's annotation for "Book of the Later Han", etc.
As the new crown prince, Li Xian was naturally not exempt from customs, and in his view, such a grand undertaking as compiling books could naturally reflect his great organizational and coordination abilities as the crown prince of the dynasty.
Therefore, Li Xian also decided to compile a book, and it was to compile an unprecedented giant book. He had already thought of the name of this book, and the name was "Sikuquanshu", which compiled all the books in the world according to the classification of classics and history.
, forming an unprecedentedly large scale of books, and encouraging scholars, Buddhists and Taoists all over the world to copy and make copies of the collected books, and then present them to the imperial court. The imperial court will give appropriate rewards based on the number and rarity of the donated books, or
Rewards of money and silk, or rewards from lords, and at the same time ordered Wang Bo as the chief editor, Du Shenyan, Su Weiwei, Li Qiao, Cui Rong, Luo Binwang, Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, Taoist Pan Shizheng, Li Rong, Sun Simiao, monk Shenxiu, etc.
Among them, Yang Jiong initially refused the position of deputy editor because he was "ashamed of Lu Qian and ashamed of the queen". Later, due to Lu Zhaolin's persuasion and the temptation of such a large book editing event, he finally agreed.
Sun Simiao, on the other hand, had completed his famous medical works "Essential Prescriptions for Emergencies" and "Essential Prescriptions for a Thousand Gold Prescriptions". Seeing that Li Xian proposed such a grand plan to revise the book, he thought of adding his manuscript to it so that he could complete these two works.
After decades of painstaking efforts, the masterpiece could be passed down forever to benefit future generations of people, so he came to the Prince's East Palace specifically, and was persuaded by Li Xian to stay. He agreed to be the deputy editor of Sikuquanshu at the age of nearly a hundred years old, and specialize in collecting collections.
Compilation of medical books in the category and Taoist classics in the classics category.
In fact, the historical Sutras originally only included Confucian classics. However, because the royal family of the Tang Dynasty claimed to be descendants of Laozi, they respected Taoism beyond measure. Therefore, Taoist classics were also included in the Sutras, while Buddhist scriptures were treated as such.
Excluded, he could only be listed in the collection. However, in order to win over the hearts of Buddhists all over the world, Empress Wu even insisted on including Buddhist scriptures in the scriptures. Li Xian himself studied Buddhism, and his biggest purpose was to devote himself to
As for the unification of the three religions, it was not a deliberate effort to support a certain sect, and there was no reason to reject it. Therefore, the final Sutra turned out to be a large collection of classics from the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.
This was actually in line with the development of the three religions in the Tang Dynasty at that time, so although there were some disputes, they all agreed to this approach in the end.
Empress Wu was actually strongly opposed to Li Xian's revision of books, especially such a voluminous masterpiece, because she also knew that once such a masterpiece was successful, Li Xian's reputation would completely overshadow her own. However, she also knew how to prevent it.
It's of no use at all. Instead, it gives yourself a reputation of being narrow-minded.
And for another reason, she also knew that such a huge project could never be completed in one or two years. It might take ten years, or even more. If this matter could be used to expend more of Li Xian's energy,
She was also happy with it.
In fact, Empress Wu's idea was correct. This matter indeed involved Li Xian's huge energy. However, she did not know that although Li Xian borrowed the money to repair books, although he did require progress, his real purpose was to secretly seek power for himself.
As a cover, such a huge and time-consuming project is the best weapon to protect yourself.
Li Xian legitimately gathered all his most capable generals together through the book revision, and also attracted many elite scholars. Of course, he also secretly used scholars with low moral character and outstanding talents like Song Zhiwen.
Many big things happened. In addition to the progress of book revision, these big things also brought some unexpected gains.
History also proves that many of the major decisions in Li Xian's life were made under the cover of the book repair project. (To be continued.) This chapter has been completed!