Chapter 222 Capital Volume
Li Yu led the way, Zuo Chen and others followed, found a wing in the inner courtyard and lived in it.
“What a strong herbal smell!” After Caiyi entered the room, she immediately covered her nose with her hands.
She looked around and found that there was a stove for making soup on the table, with only the dregs of medicine left.
The medicine should have entered Li Yu's stomach.
I also found that there were a lot of soup bowls for medicinal purposes. Some of them were not even cleaned up in time, so they were temporarily placed on the table and piled up into a small mountain.
“How much medicine do you need to drink this day!” Cai Yi was stunned.
Li Yu smiled and said nothing when he heard this.
This is the place where guests are received, it is very spacious. But unlike most houses, this is an inner room, not along the corridor.
Da Liang often builds courtyards with the intention of "viewing the landscape and customs". Because of this, the hall for receiving guests is generally not located in a wing room, but a special window with pillars and flowers is chosen. Or the cottages along the corridor.
In this way, you can not only drink tea, but also look at the rockeries arranged in the garden.
It can be said that you can sit on the ground and watch paintings, which is also a kind of leisurely elegance among the wealthy people in Daliang.
Prince Jing’s place is completely different.
He chose a wing as the reception room. The doors and windows were closed tightly and it was airtight. There was a unique stove in the middle of the wing. There were only some black gems piled in it. There was no flame, but it could rise. Rolling heat wave.
"Winter is coming soon, the cold wind is blowing and hurting, and my body is weak, so I can only meet you here. Please don't mind."
"Conversing is not about looking at the scenery. It doesn't matter where you are." Zuo Chen said: "In your own yard, the most important thing is to live comfortably."
"That's what you said."
Everyone sat down, and the maid next to them poured tea and took a sip to soothe their throats. Then Li Yu’s eyes fell on Guan Jinping:
“As a descendant of the returning lineage, I really didn’t expect you to come with Taoist Zuo. This."
"You know me?"
Guan Jinping showed a hint of vigilance.
“We know you naturally.” Li Yu said with a smile: “After all, the roots of the Guixiang lineage are in Yuzhou, and the capital also specially greeted me at the beginning. If I didn’t know you again, it would be a bit too slow.
“And...over the years, I have protected the returnees several times. It's just that every time I want to send someone to contact you, you will hide and it's really hard to find. Over time, I gave up this idea. ”
Guan Jinping showed a slightly embarrassed look on his face.
She vaguely remembered that Yuzhou soldiers did come up to them several times, but the returnees at that time had been beaten and frightened. Do you still dare to contact these majestic soldiers?
He was frantically looking for a place to hide, but he didn't expect that he didn't come here just to kill people.
“I brought her here mainly to talk to you about the Fragments of the Capital.” Zuo Chen said to Li Yu, “I wonder if Prince Jing knows about the Fragments of the Capital?”
Finished After saying this, Zuo Chen suddenly noticed a strange expression on Li Yu's face, half-smiling but not smiling:
"But what about the nine skills of people's livelihood?"
"Huh? ”
Guan Jinping really didn't expect that Li Yu knew about this!
As a returnee, I am a close confidant of the capital. I only learned about this matter after getting in touch with Zuo Chen recently, but I didn't expect that Li Yu had already known about it.
"Don't be so excited." Li Yu waved his hand and asked Guan Jinping to sit down. "As a vassal king, I still have some means. And I am very interested in the affairs of the capital. I only know more than you. More, no less than you."
Guan Jinping calmed down and sat back down.
But she was still confused and curious, staring at Li Yu.
Seemingly sensing Guan Jinping's thoughts, Li Yu laughed:
"Who do you think is responsible for publishing the Nine Arts of People's Livelihood in Daliang?"
Listening to Li Yu's words, Guan Jinping His eyes widened even more, and even Zuo Chen looked at Li Yu with a little surprise.
Li Yu stopped trying to sell things off and talked about what he had experienced over the years:
“From the time I was born to the time when I inherited the title of Prince Jing as a young man, I have been living in Kyoto. That's when I got the Nine Arts.
"After all, the investigation into the death of the capital cannot go around the library. At that time, I was young and very angry. I took my servants to the library again and again, just to get some clues. At that time, the library was very enthusiastic about me on the surface, but secretly But he was secretive about various things in the capital and refused to tell me the truth.
"I was so angry that I finally got angry and led people to forcefully break into the library and give it to those acid scholars. I was so frightened that I was asked to go to the library to check it out on my own. Of course, the library staff had already sorted out the library and taken away the important cultivation techniques. There were no cultivation techniques left over from the capital in the entire library, only these livelihood techniques.
“I was young at the time and did not understand the importance of these livelihood skills. I just felt angry and felt that it was not good for me to go to the library with so much effort and come back empty-handed, so I asked for help from the library. People's Livelihood Technique. Maybe the library staff were arrogant and didn't give up the trust and gave me all the books.
"Later, when I got older, I took the books to Yuzhou to be Prince Jing, and I also discovered it. The greatness of these books is why a lot of money was spent to publish them. ”
After saying that, Guan Jinping was dumbfounded. She didn’t expect that Prince Jing would have done this so many years ago.
Li Yu also had a nostalgic expression on his face, mixed with a sneer:
"I asked around in Kyoto, and the nobles laughed at me behind my back, saying that I had blind eyes and could not recognize the treasure mountain, so I went to a I went to the library and took away all the most useless pamphlets.
"Oh, in their mouths, I am ignorant and ignorant, saying that the lower class people cannot understand the people's livelihood in these pamphlets. However, after thirty years of promoting people's livelihood skills, these descendants of the gentry have enjoyed all kinds of conveniences, which is really ironic.
"They couldn't take away this credit. It's not that they didn't want to take it, but because after they handed those books to me, they completely forgot about this matter and didn't care about it at all. I remember.
"I met a nobleman before and asked him. He thought it was some folk scholar who collected all kinds of alchemy and compiled the Nine Arts for People's Livelihood. It's really ridiculous. ”
After listening to Li Yu's description, Zuo Chen also understood what happened. Although the brochure is easy to use and can easily spread among the people, the first step of promotion is crucial.
The literacy rate in Daliang is extremely low. If people in the village want to write and read letters, they need to spend money to find scholars. Common knowledge and allusions are also passed down orally.
Reading a book?
That is incomprehensible.
In this case, it is even more impossible for you to ask them to spend some money to buy books in a bookstore.
Unless someone specifically promotes it, or simply spends his own money to get a batch for free and delivers it door to door, how can anyone spend money to see this?
Zuo Chen estimated that Li Yu didn't think about how far these small techniques would spread at first. He was busy taking care of his own Yuzhou, so he couldn't care about other places.
But this little technique was so useful that it spread throughout Daliang within thirty years.
"It's a pity that the library didn't pay much attention to the pamphlets at the beginning, and many of them were contaminated by the disaster and could not be read at all. As a result, a large piece of the pamphlet is now missing. If it could be filled in, It can take the lives of the people of Daliang to a higher level.”
Hearing Li Yu's emotion, Guan Jinping hesitated for a moment and took out the flower basket:
"Some time ago, the Taoist priest came to the Homecoming Pavilion and helped us sort out the books, which should contain what you need, Prince Jing. ”
Hearing this, Li Yu was obviously stunned and looked happy.
Isn't he looking for the remaining fragments of the capital?
Over the years, he has searched many places and indeed got some books, but the top is covered with the curse of the Sea of Bitterness and cannot be seen at all.
But I didn't expect that Guan Jinping would deliver the book today!
"Seriously!"
"Seriously."
Li Yu was overjoyed and asked his maid to call the civil servants.
Not long after, many civil servants in official uniforms came to the small room.
They looked like they had just returned home not long ago, and they hurried back again. Their faces were full of confusion, wondering why Li Yu suddenly called them back.
It was not until Guan Jinping tilted the flower basket downwards that books like a waterfall poured out from the flower basket, filling the entire room, that all the civil servants' eyes widened.
After a little reading, they are all Jiumin Tongjian, and there are indeed some contents that they have not recorded at all.
These civil servants finally knew why Prince Jing asked them to come back.
Just call the servants directly and ask them to move the books out one by one in batches and sort them into categories.
Guan Jinping felt a little worried, so she also went out and stared at the civil servants.
But as she looked at it, she found that these civil servants were more enthusiastic than she thought. They even hugged and kissed them after seeing the unrecorded books.
It is like being crazy about books and only pursuing the truth.
On the contrary, Guan Jinping was a little overwhelmed and could only sit on the stone steps nearby and stare at the group of civil servants in a daze.
"Be careful! These are treasures! Don't break them!"
The whirring sounds of civil servants came from outside the courtyard of the wing. The maid closed the door, blocking out the noise outside and the cold wind.
Li Yu just felt a bit uncomfortable due to the cold wind blowing again. He coughed twice, then smiled and looked at the door that had been closed:
"These young men are all me. I have been specially selected over the years. I don’t like the nobles, so I just choose them from the common people. It is much easier to use and more pragmatic than those so-called talents.”
Withdrawing his gaze, Li Yu looked at Zuo. Chen Dao:
"Taoist Master, my brother has already told me your purpose of coming here. You want to find out something about the capital, right?"
Zuo Chen nodded: "At that time, King Wei said that you must know a lot about Kyoto after you have been investigating it for a long time. Can you tell me about it?"
Li Yu did not rush to answer, but asked first :
“How much did my fellow Taoist brother say?”
“Not much.”
Zuo Chen told all the things that King Wei said at that time Li Yu, Li Yu nodded while listening.
After Zuo Chen finished talking about everything, Li Yu sighed softly and said:
"I know why you came to me, but it's a pity that I can't provide any useful information."
< br>"You didn't find it either?"
"No, on the contrary, I found a lot of things." Li Yu said: "But...I can't say."
" Huh?”
Li Yu pointed at the sky:
“There are some things that are listening in the sky.”
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(End of this chapter)