The strongest nine thousand years old

Because Sifang Bookstore and Sifang Academy were closed down, Fang Han was even imprisoned in Tianlao.

Those bookstores that had united to cause trouble have all stopped their actions and are planning to wait and see for a while.

It was at this time that all the civil and military officials in the council hall remained silent and confronted Yan Yunzheng softly.

Yan Yunzheng snorted heavily, "I will personally prepare the examination papers for this time. Xiao Dongzi, pass out the examination outline for everyone to review."

Chen Dong called the guards and distributed the four books, "Arithmetic", "National Policy", "Law" and "Rites and Music", to the gentlemen respectively.

Especially Yuwen Qing, who was handed over by Chen Dong himself.

"Lord Yuwen, you must read this book carefully." Chen Dong said.

Yuwen Qing knew that Chen Dong was a favorite of Yan Yunzheng, but he didn't say a word to him.

He casually flipped it open, glanced at it, and put it aside.

Other court officials did not have the same determination as Yuwen Qing.

"Arithmetic? Such a lowly thing is actually a subject in the imperial examination."

"National policy is about how to govern a country. Are there such people among the people?"

"The exam outline and test questions will be drawn from this. Doesn't that mean that all the books stockpiled in bookstores have become waste paper?"

"sizzle"

Everyone couldn't help but gasp. The bookstore had a monopoly on the books on the market and even hired people to copy them, thus making huge profits. But Yan Yunzheng's move was a different approach, which directly cut off the bookstore's nose.

lost heavily!

Many ministers in the court participated in hoarding books, and their faces looked extremely ugly at this time.

Someone couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, how many of these four books have you prepared? There are tens of millions of students in the world. Your Majesty might as well take some other subjects."

"Lord Zhang, you are worrying too much. I have ordered Shang Workshop to print one million copies of these four reference books." Yan Yunzheng smiled indifferently.

"What? A million copies?"

"That's impossible! The imperial examination has only been in place for less than seven days. Even if tens of thousands of people worked day and night, they couldn't copy a million copies!"

"This is a serious matter, Your Majesty, please be careful with your words."

Yuwen Qing said coldly: "It seems that your majesty has long had the idea of ​​selecting scholars through imperial examinations. Your majesty really has a good method to wait until these one million books are copied before announcing them!"

"What a cunning man. We all underestimated His Majesty."

"Yes! I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate that His Majesty has such means."

Yan Yunzheng said calmly, "Master Yuwen is wrong. The imperial examination system has just been implemented, and these books were just printed in the past few days."

"Impossible!" Yuwen Qing said flatly.

Chen Dong said with a smile: "Master Yuwen, do you want to make a bet with this eunuch?"

Yuwen Qing looked at Chen Dong deeply. This little eunuch was too evil. He made a bet with Fang Han and sent Fang Han to the prison.

He didn't want to be associated with Fang Han's bad luck.

"Who are you to be worthy of this?" Yuwen Qing sneered.

Yang Ge Lao supported Chen Dong, "We were able to print a million books in five days, thanks to Eunuch Chen. Lord Yu Wen was wrong this time."

Chen Dong quickly said, "I just ran errands. All the credit goes to your majesty."

"This movable type printing technology is clearly..." Lord Yang almost told the truth.

Yan Yunzheng coughed lightly and interrupted the other party. "This movable type printing technology was given to me by Wenquxing in my dream. If you look closely at these books, there are commas, periods, question marks, and exclamation marks between sentences. These are punctuation marks, and they were also given to me by Wenquxing in my dream."

"Movable type! Punctuation!"

"Wenquxing came to me in a dream?"

"real or fake?"

The civil and military officials in the court were talking about it, all of them finding it hard to believe.

However, the punctuation marks in the book are indeed unprecedented in the world.

Moreover, the more than 30 books sent over had exactly the same characters on them, which would be impossible for a human to write by hand.

Movable type printing, what a magical skill!

Yu Wenqing's face turned pale. He had a far-sighted vision, and these two things had brought significant changes to the literary world.

The status of great scholars will be polarized. Those with real talent and knowledge can reinterpret the classics of saints through punctuation marks, while those who try to fish in troubled waters will be exposed.

The movable type printing technology will greatly reduce the cost of books, so that everyone can have books to read and everyone can read.

The reason why the noble families are superior to ordinary people is their vision, knowledge, and pattern, which together are knowledge. And now these two things will break the noble families' monopoly on knowledge!

This is even more terrifying than the imperial examination!

Yuwen Qing looked up at Yan Yunzheng sitting on the dragon throne, a hint of fear flashing in his eyes.

This man has been hiding his two powerful weapons all this time, and he threw them out during the imperial examination, in order to cut off the roots of his family!

The civil and military officials in the court were immersed in the shock brought by punctuation marks and movable type printing, and did not think as deeply as Yuwen Qing thought.

Yan Yunzheng was very satisfied with the reactions of the court officials. After announcing the adjournment of the court, he immediately had someone read the imperial edict outside the palace gate.

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Yan Yunzheng issued an imperial decree, setting this year's imperial examination at the end of the year, with four subjects to be examined.

He got excellent grades in all four subjects, namely, Arithmetic, National Policy, Law and Rites and Music, and was qualified to enter the palace, be interviewed personally by Yan Yunzheng, and become a disciple of the emperor.

If any subject is excellent, the test paper will be submitted to Yan Yunzheng, who will mark it and decide whether to admit the student.

If you score below honors, you will have to wait until next year to take the exam again.

Once the imperial edict was issued, everyone was stunned.

"Arithmetic is one of the subjects. That's great! This is a chance for poor students to stand out!"

"I am familiar with Dayan Law, I will definitely pass this exam!"

"The way of rites and music needs to be cultivated from a young age. This is a path left for the children of aristocratic families."

"National policy is the policy for governing a country. Anyone who can get an excellent grade in a subject will definitely be promoted and reused by His Majesty!"

While the people were discussing this, millions of books were sent out from the palace.

"Arithmetic", "National Policy", "Law" and "Rites and Music" are prominently listed.

Each book costs only ten copper coins.

"Oh my god, it's only ten copper coins!"

"Look at these words. They are exactly the same. Could it be that they were copied by the same person?"

"Impossible! Even if the same person copied it, the handwriting would be slightly different."

"And the sentences are actually separated into sections, which makes them really easy to understand."

"I heard that this is punctuation. With this punctuation, there will be no ambiguity in these sentences in the book."

“And this book was printed, not written by human hands.”

"What does printing mean?"

"First, carve out individual characters from wood, then arrange them into a sentence, cover the characters with rice paper, and brush with ink, and an article is ready."

"Oh my god, this is too magical! This is magic!"

"Who created this punctuation and this printing technique?"

"Of course it's Your Majesty. My second uncle's third cousin's niece works in the palace. I heard from her that Your Majesty was visited by the God of Literature in a dream, saying that the literary tradition of Great Yan was not smooth, so he bestowed punctuation and printing technology, and also bestowed the method of imperial examinations to help Great Yan select talents and boost the literary tradition."

"What? It turned out to be Wenquxing who came to me in my dream!"

"Your Majesty, you have the blessing of the gods in heaven, and Dayan will surely have good weather and good harvests."

"Long live your majesty!"

With the help of people with good intentions, punctuation marks, movable type printing, and the imperial examination system were all promoted by Yan Yunzheng under the will of immortals and gods.

In ancient times, when people were not enlightened, the idea of ​​immortals and gods was very useful. Especially since Yan Yunzheng was the emperor and shepherded the people on behalf of the gods, he had such ability, which made it easier for the people to accept him.

What the people want!

The four books printed were quickly sold out.

This is the examination syllabus. Any student who wants to take the imperial examination will buy a copy to study.

Compared with the dozens of taels of silver that a book costs in a bookstore, the price of ten copper coins is even cheaper than my grandma's.

This pricing also made people realize that Emperor Yan Yunzheng was not trying to take advantage of them or extort their money, but really wanted to select talents for Dayan!

Yan Yunzheng's reputation instantly reached an unprecedented height.

And Yan Yunzheng is also going to reward Chen Dong according to his merits.