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Literary man: What, everything, everything is free, this future world is too good, that library, I really want to go there and read books, spend a whole day there, it’s full of books, I can’t even imagine it.

Confucian scholar: There are so many books. If I could take a look at them, I would have no regrets in my life.

Scholar: Our books are very expensive, and people like us from poor families can’t afford to buy books. Even if we want to borrow them, it’s not easy.

Moreover, to borrow books, one had to put aside one's dignity and, most importantly, one had to know a relatively wealthy scholar whose home had books.

Of course, you can’t borrow it for too long, as the reader still needs to read it.

Confucian scholar: If we had so many books to read here, I would stay there reading every day.

Other scholars and literati all came out to agree. They really couldn't imagine that they could read so many books for free.

It is very difficult for them to read books. Books are expensive, very expensive, and they simply cannot afford them. There are not that many rich people.

Some businessmen saw an opportunity.

Manager of Heqi Bookstore: In our store, you can read books for two hours for two cents. Welcome to come to our store to read books.

At once, many people who were looking for bookstores also showed up.

Although two cents is not a lot of money, what about a lot of two cents?

The main idea is to make small profits but quick turnover. Besides, there are so many scholars in the world, and even more who cannot afford to buy books. If they do this, they can also have a good reputation, right?

These scholars, especially those who could not afford to buy books, were all excited. Once one bookstore did this, other bookstores also emerged, seeing a huge business opportunity.

Li Wu also smiled when she saw the barrage. She thought she had done a good thing.

Now those scholars who couldn't afford to buy books now had a place to read. Two cents was still affordable. To buy a book, they really couldn't afford it. The cheapest one would cost 100 cents. Moreover, the price of books varied in different dynasties.

A book cost 100 wen during the Song Dynasty, and it was the most common kind, which cost an ordinary person a month's money.

"This is the Compendium of Materia Medica by the medicine saint Li Shizhen. I'm holding this copy, which contains records of some common herbs," Li Wu opened it and saw that it was accompanied by pictures, so that you can see more intuitively what these herbs look like.

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Citizen: This, this is a herbal medicine? There are a lot of these on the roadside. I have them on the roadside near my house.

Li Shizhen, the Medicine Saint of the Ming Dynasty: My book has been passed down to later generations?

This made Li Shizhen very moved. At least his book could be passed down to later generations. As long as he existed in later generations, he should have left his name in this heavy history, right?

King of Medicine Sun Simiao: This book is a huge project. If those who want to learn medicine have such a book, they will definitely learn much faster.

Doctor Child: If I had a book like this, I would be so happy.

Many doctors came out in the barrage, most of them praised the book.

Li Wu did the same thing, and she had read the Compendium of Materia Medica several times.

After reading for a while, seeing that it was still early, Li Wu said, "I have finished reading for today. I am not a big student, so it is very good to have read for such a long time."

"It's still early, why don't we go to the school and take a look? A school is a learning place. I think you ancestors must be very interested in this," Li Wu felt that he had not read a book for such a long time. To be honest, it felt pretty good.

When I went outside, it was still early, not just past five o'clock, and the sun was still shining.

Li Wu went to university. The university she went to was the original owner's previous university. She only needed to register to enter.

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Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng: Little immortal, this is the school in later generations, is it so big?

Empress Wu Zetian: Here are so many women.

Princess Changle of the Tang Dynasty: Can women in the future go to school? Is it possible? Is it possible?

When seeing many girls in the school, many people were extremely excited, especially the ancient girls, who stared with bright eyes and dared not blink, for fear that the picture would disappear if they blinked.

"Of course, in our later generations, both men and women must go to school. There is nine years of compulsory education, which means that the state requires people to study, and it is free," Li Wu couldn't help laughing when he talked about this, and he admired the country's strength.

In just a few decades, the country has become very powerful. In the past, studying was something only the rich could think of.

Poor people dare not even think about it. They can’t even get enough food to eat, let alone study.

"Besides, whether you are rich or poor, you have to go to school for nine years. It is against the law to prevent you from going to school."

Everyone who heard Li Wu's words was dumbfounded and couldn't even imagine that this was true.

I thought it was strange to see women in the academy, but later generations actually let everyone study, and it was free. Not studying was against the law. How powerful must this country be to allow everyone to study!!!

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Common people: Little Immortal, is this really the future? Can everyone really read, like, common people like us, poor people can also read?

Common people: How could this be the afterlife? It must be the fairyland. Only the fairyland can do this.

Common people: Free education, no money required? My child is very smart, I also want to send him to school, but education is too expensive, our family simply cannot afford it.

Many people came out, and most of them respected the scholars very much. They thought that scholars were very powerful, knowledgeable and learned, and different from them, the peasants. They would become officials in the future.

Women also yearn for this. It would be great if women could study and go out instead of being locked up in the backyard.

They must be very happy, right?

The emperors were also amazed.

Qin Shi Huang Ying Zheng: The later generations are indeed very powerful.

Zhu Di, Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty: It is indeed powerful. I wonder, little immortal, how long is the future away from us?

"Did I say that I had nothing to do? I did!" Li Wu blinked and thought about it. Didn't she say how long her era was away from the ancients?

The barrage was full, and it only mentioned Daqin, not them.

"It has been about 2,200 years since Zheng Ge. Taking the last dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, for example, it has only been more than 300 years." In fact, more than 300 years is neither long nor short.

More than three hundred years ago, they were still in a feudal dynasty and people were not well fed and clothed. Now things are completely different.

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Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty: What? In just over three hundred years, it has developed so rapidly?

Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty: Little, little fairy, are you joking?

Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty: How is it possible? It's only been three hundred years, and everything is completely different. Is the little immortal really our descendant?

The last emperor Puyi: It did develop very quickly.

Puyi sighed, saying that he had seen airplanes flying in the sky when he was seven years old, and he had also ridden in a car, so the development was indeed very fast.

No one could believe that this was true, especially those who lived in the Qing Dynasty, who could not even imagine it.

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