You have mastered the art of thunder and you tell me that it is in a strange world?

Chapter 222: Capital

Li Yu led the way, and Zuo Chen and his group followed. They found a room in the inner courtyard and moved in.

"What a strong herbal smell!" Caiyi covered her nose with her hands immediately after entering the room.

She looked around and found that there was a stove for boiling soup on the table, with only medicine residue left.

The medicine should have entered Li Yu's stomach.

I also found that there were quite a few soup bowls used for taking medicine. Some of them had not even been cleaned up in time and were temporarily placed on the table, piling up into a small mountain.

"How much medicine do you have to take in a day?" Caiyi was stunned.

Li Yu heard this, but smiled without saying anything.

This is the place for receiving guests, it is very spacious. But unlike most houses, this is an inner room and not along the corridor.

The Daliang courtyards are mostly built with the intention of "taking in the beauty of the mountains and rivers". For this reason, the hall for receiving guests is generally not located in the wing rooms, but in a special place with pillars and flower windows, or in a veranda along the corridor.

In this way, one can drink tea while looking at the rockery and artificial hills arranged in the garden.

It can be said that sitting on the ground and appreciating paintings is also a kind of leisurely and elegant activity for the wealthy people in Daliang.

The situation here with Prince Jing is completely different.

He chose a wing as a reception room. The doors and windows were tightly closed, making it airtight. There was a unique stove in the middle of the wing, with only some black gems piled inside. There was no flame, but it could produce billowing heat waves.

"Winter is coming soon. The cold wind is hurting people. I am weak, so I can only meet you here. Please don't mind."

"It doesn't matter where we are, we are talking rather than looking at the scenery." Zuo Chen said, "It's your own yard, so it's most important for you to feel comfortable."

"That's what you said."

Everyone sat down, and the maid beside them poured tea. After taking a sip to moisten the throat, Li Yu's eyes fell on Guan Jinping:

"As the descendant of the Guixiang lineage, I really didn't expect that you would come here with Taoist Zuo."

"you know me?"

Guan Jinping showed a hint of vigilance.

"Of course I know you." Li Yu said with a smile: "After all, the Guixiang clan has its roots in Yuzhou, and the capital also specifically greeted me at the beginning. If I still don't know you, I would be a bit too slow.

"Also...over the years, I have helped returnees several times. But every time I wanted to send someone to contact you, you would hide, making it difficult to find you. Over time, I gave up the idea."

Guan Jinping showed a slightly embarrassed look on her face.

She vaguely remembered that soldiers from Yuzhou had indeed come looking for them a few times, but the people returning home at that time had already been frightened by the beatings, so how could they dare to come into contact with these powerful soldiers?
He hurriedly looked for a place to hide, but he never expected that the other person was not here to kill anyone.

"I brought her here mainly to talk to you about the Capital Fragments." Zuo Chen said to Li Yu, "Does Prince Jing know about the Capital Fragments?"

After saying this, Zuo Chen suddenly noticed a strange, half-smile expression on Li Yu's face:

"But what about the Nine Arts of Civil Affairs?"

"what?"

Guan Jinping really didn't expect that Li Yu actually knew about this!

As a returnee and a close confidant of the capital, he only learned about this matter after coming into contact with Zuo Chen recently. He did not expect that Li Yu had known about it for a long time.

"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 know more than you, not less."

Guan Jinping finally calmed down and sat back in her seat.

But she was still curious and stared at Li Yu.

As if seeing through Guan Jinping's thoughts, Li Yu laughed:
"Who do you think is in charge of publishing the book on the Nine Arts of Civil Affairs in Daliang?"

After hearing what Li Yu said, Guan Jinping's eyes widened even more, and even Zuo Chen looked at Li Yu with a little surprise.

Li Yu no longer kept the secret and talked about what he had experienced over the years:

“From the time I was born until I inherited the title of Prince Jing in my youth, I lived in Kyoto, and it was at that time that I learned the Nine Arts of Minsheng.

"The investigation of the death of the capital cannot be avoided without the library. At that time, I was young and hot-tempered. I took the servants to the library to make trouble again and again, hoping to get some clues. At that time, the library was very enthusiastic about me on the surface, but secretly disobeyed me, hiding all kinds of things about the capital and not telling me the truth.

"I was so angry that I finally got mad and led people to break into the library. The sour scholars were so scared that they let me go to the library to check. Of course, the library staff had already sorted out the library and took away the important cultivation techniques. There was no cultivation technique left in the capital in the entire library, only these livelihood techniques.

"At that time, I was young and did not understand the importance of these livelihood techniques. I just felt angry and felt that it was not good to go to the library with so much effort and return empty-handed, so I asked the library staff for the livelihood techniques. The library staff may have been arrogant in their hearts, so they did not refuse and gave me all the books.

"Later, when I was older, I took the books to Yuzhou and became the Prince of Jing. I also discovered the power of these books, so I spent a lot of money to publish them."

After saying this, Guan Jinping was stunned. She never expected that Prince Jing had done this so many years ago.

Li Yu also showed a nostalgic expression on his face, mixed with a hint of sneer:
"I asked around in Kyoto, and the samurai laughed at me behind my back, saying that I didn't know what was valuable. I went to the library and took away all the most useless books.

“Oh, in their mouths, I am ignorant and stupid, saying that the lower class people simply cannot understand the livelihood techniques in these pamphlets. As a result, I have been promoting livelihood techniques for thirty years, but these descendants of the nobles have enjoyed all kinds of conveniences. It is really ironic.

"They were not able to take the credit. It's not that they didn't want to take it, but after they handed the books to me, they completely forgot about it and didn't remember it at all.

"I once met a noble who asked me questions. He thought that some common scholar had collected various arts and compiled the Nine Arts for the People's Livelihood. It was really ridiculous."

After listening to Li Yu's description, Zuo Chen also understood what happened. Although the booklet is easy to use and can be easily spread among the people, the first step of promotion is crucial.

The literacy rate in Daliang was extremely low. If villagers wanted to write or read letters, they had to spend money to find a scholar, and ordinary knowledge and allusions were passed down by word of mouth.

Reading?

That's incomprehensible.

In this situation, it is even more impossible to ask them to spend some money to buy books in the bookstore.

Unless someone specifically promotes it, or simply pays out of their own pocket to get a batch for free and deliver it door to door, how could anyone spend money to watch this?

Zuo Chen guessed that Li Yu didn't think about how far these little tricks could spread at first. He was busy taking care of his own Yuzhou, so how could he care about other places?

But this little trick was so useful that it spread throughout Daliang within thirty years.

"It's a pity that the bookstore didn't pay much attention to the booklet at the beginning, and many of them were contaminated by the disaster of the sea of suffering and could not be read at all. As a result, a large part of the booklet is missing now. If it can be completed, the lives of the people of Daliang will be improved 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 Guixiang Pavilion and helped us sort out the books. Among them, there should be what you need, Prince Jing."

Hearing this, Li Yu was obviously stunned and a look of joy appeared on his face.

Wasn't he also looking for the remaining fragments of the capital's manuscripts?
Over the years, he had searched many places and indeed found some books, but they were filled with curses of suffering and could not be read at all.

But I didn’t expect Guan Jinping to bring the book today!

"really!"

"really."

Li Yu was overjoyed and asked her maid to call the civil officials.

Not long after, many civil officials in official uniforms came into the small room.

They seemed to have just returned home not long ago and hurried back, all with puzzled faces, not understanding why Li Yu suddenly called them back.

It was not until Guan Jinping tilted the flower basket downwards and books poured out of the basket like a waterfall and filled the entire room that these civil officials all widened their eyes.

After a quick look, I found that they were all the Nine Civil Regime, and there were indeed some contents that they did not record at all.

These civil officials finally understood why Prince Jing called them back.

He simply called the servants and asked them to move the books out one by one in batches and sort them out.

Guan Jinping felt a little worried, so he followed them out and stared at this group of civil officials.

But as she watched, she found that these civil officials were even more enthusiastic than she had imagined. When they saw the books that were not recorded, they would even hug and kiss them.

Just like being crazy about books, he is only pursuing the truth.

On the contrary, Guan Jinping was a little at a loss. She could only sit on the stone steps next to her and stare at the group of civil officials in a daze.

"You all should be careful! These are all treasures! Don't break them!"

The sound of civil officials shouting and yelling could be heard outside the wing room. The maid closed the door, blocking out the noise and the cold wind.

Li Yu was a little uncomfortable after being blown by a gust of cold wind. He coughed twice and then smiled and looked at the closed door.

"I have specially selected these young men over the years. I don't like the nobility, so I just picked them from the common people. They are much more useful and practical than those so-called talents."

Retracting his gaze, Li Yu said to Zuo Chen:
"Master, my brother has already told me the purpose of your coming here. You want to find out something about the capital, right?"

Zuo Chen nodded: "At that time, King Wei said, you have been investigating the affairs of Kyoto for a long time, you must know a lot, can you tell me about it?"

Li Yu did not rush to answer, but asked first:

"How much did my brother tell the Taoist priest?"

"Not much."

Zuo Chen told Li Yu everything that King Wei had said at that time, and Li Yu nodded as he listened.

After Zuo Chen finished speaking, Li Yu sighed and said:

"I know why you came to see me, but unfortunately, I can't provide any useful information."

"You didn't find out either?"

"No, on the contrary, I found out a lot of things." Li Yu said, "But... I can't tell you."

"Ok?"

Li Yu pointed to the sky:

"Some things are being heard in heaven."

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