Living leisurely in Tang Dynasty

Chapter 21

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Although it was cold in winter, Li Yuanying still found time to go out to the palace.

Li Yuanying is extremely shameless, he sent all the people to Gaochang, and then ran to tell His Majesty Li Er that he accidentally forgot to keep two to protect him.

His Majesty Li Er was always annoying him, so he ordered two people to follow him every step of the way, and he was not allowed to get rid of him wherever he went.

Is Li Yuanying the kind of person who cares about others following? He didn't care at all, but rather pleased with himself, he led the people out of the palace to inspect his new site: Before Dai Ting left, he had already completed what he ordered, and bought a street-facing shop in the West City area. house.

The West Market was called Liren City in the Sui Dynasty, and it was surrounded by civilian houses. The things they sold were relatively down-to-earth, and the rent was relatively cheap. Consumer sites.

The people accompanying Li Yuanying when he left the palace thought that he would go to the East Market to play, but Li Yuanying looked at the map he had copied and walked straight to the West Market. Walking to a shop covered with red silk cloth on the signboard, there was already a waiter waiting outside, it was Dong Xiaoyi beside Li Yuanying!

Dong Xiaoyi trotted behind Li Yuanying and led Li Yuanying inside.

This place used to be a restaurant, and it couldn't make ends meet, so it had to be sold to others. Coincidentally, it couldn't live in the next door, so Li Yuanying said with a lot of money that the two would buy it together and rebuild it!

Now that the two stores have been renovated inside and out, Li Yuanying stepped in, and saw tables and cases neatly arranged in the hall, and some slogans persuading students were pasted on the walls and pillars on both sides, which looked very interesting. Reading atmosphere.

Li Yuanying naturally doesn't understand design, but he has a system in hand! When he proposed to generate the "Datang Library Design Drawing" by the system, the system readily arranged and combined various household furnishings that existed in the early Tang Dynasty, and handed over the generated design drawing to Li Yuanying (the system even cried with joy, After all, Li Yuanying finally has the need to use it, and no longer puts countless points and long hair in vain).

The concept of the library, Li Yuanying, has only been mentioned in the system. He heard that in the era of vigorous cultural development, there will be libraries open to the outside world in cities of all sizes.

Anyone can freely enter and borrow the books in it. When technology develops better, the library will become a virtual library like Wanjie Library, and everyone can know the world without leaving home!

Li Yuanying thinks that the library can first solve the problem that some people cannot afford books. As for more, Li Yuanying hasn't figured it out yet!

This small place is the Datang Library created by Li Yuanying.

Since many of the things needed are ready-made, and the slogans only need to be written by a writer for help, it doesn't take much time, so the reading room was remodeled very quickly.

On the contrary, the bookshelf has been in production for a longer time, and it has only been completed since Li Yuanying returned to Beijing.

Looking at the rows of empty bookshelves, Li Yuanying decided to go to rescue the soldiers.

Li Yuanying went to look for Kong Yingda first.

After returning to Beijing, Kong Yingda was busy with the affairs of the Imperial College, compiled teaching materials for the supervisors, and had to give lectures to Prince Li Chengqian. He would never have the chance to see Li Yuanying who called him all day long.

Seeing that Li Yuanying actually came to look for him, Kong Yingda felt a little strange: "Why is Your Highness looking for me?"

Li Yuanying told Kong Yingda that he wanted to build a library. This place is usually open to the outside world, no money is charged, anyone can read books, if he wants to hold any activities, he will clear the venue and requisition the venue.

Li Yuanying said: "I set up this library in Xishi. There are more people who can't afford books in that area, and it's easier for people from outside the city to find books when they come to the city."

After hearing Li Yuanying's arrangement, Kong Yingda was a little shocked. Studying is difficult, the difficulty is that you can't afford books, you can't afford to worship a teacher, and you can't even get away from the fields.

Therefore, there are too many difficulties. Even if the imperial court opened the imperial examination, there are not many people who take the exam every year!

His Majesty Li Er has been discussing with him about the expansion of the Imperial Academy's enrollment, and almost every year he will ask the Imperial Academy to recruit more students. But, not enough! Far from enough!

State affairs are difficult!

Kong Yingda stroked his beard and asked, "Why is your place called 'library'?"

Li Yuanying thought of the answer early on, and answered quickly: "The weather is too cold recently, and I hide in the house to read a book. Recently, I read "Historical Records". In "Historical Records", there is such a story written. Han Gaozu led people to invade Xianyang, Everyone else was busy robbing gold, silver and jewels, but Xiao He first collected the laws and decrees of the prime ministers and censors of the Qin Dynasty. Later Han Gaozu established the Han Dynasty, and he could easily take over the Qin Dynasty. How many families know the sufferings of the people, which mountains and rivers are dangerous and where the defense is weak, all because of the Qin Dynasty books collected by Xiao He! Therefore, the useful books in the world can be called "books", and the library of books is naturally called "books" Pavilion'."

After listening to Li Yuanying's well-founded answer, Kong Yingda asked, "What do you want me to do for you?"

Li Yuanying said shyly: "That's right, I don't have any books in this library. Can you lend me the students from the Imperial College for a few days so that they can copy some books for me? Anyway, they all want Those who practice calligraphy, let them copy it for me!"

Kong Yingda choked on Li Yuanying's words.

If it was anything else, Kong Yingda would definitely drive this brazen guy out. But what Li Yuanying did made him irresistible. If it were someone else, who would be willing to spend a lot of money to buy two big stores and wait for something thankless? Even if this kid is a bit shameless, it's always good to do this thing!

Kong Yingda said: "Okay, I'll ask someone to copy it for you. However, they shouldn't be asked to bring their own pens, ink and paper, right?"

Seeing the cold expression on Kong Yingda's face, "If you say one more thing they were about to write, I will kick you out", Li Yuanying gave up this aggressive request and made a positive statement: "Then I will ask someone to send all these things to you tomorrow." Guozijian!"

After Li Yuanying found Kong Yingda, the Minister of Education, he went to harass Wei Zheng and others one by one. They also had students and subordinates, and they had a lot of books at home. As long as everyone contributes a book, the world will become a beautiful world!

Li Yuanying wandered around, and almost everyone knew that he was going to build a library, and even Fang Xuanling was approached by him, saying that he wanted to ask for some criminal law files to be placed in the library, so that everyone Increase legal knowledge.

Fang Xuanling was also overwhelmed by Li Yuanying's idea of a library, and readily agreed to have someone transcribe criminal laws and typical files and send them over.

The collection of books in the library gradually became richer.

Since people who look like scholars often come in and out of this mysterious new store, many people are very curious about what kind of store it is. The student officials who were ordered to help copy the books all shut up and didn't answer, with a bitter look on their faces. Who would want to bury their heads in copying books when they have nothing to do? After working so hard and copying for so many days, they just want to arrange these books as soon as possible, and they don't have the mood to pay attention to the discussions and inquiries of the people around them!

The more no one said anything, the more curious everyone became, and they speculated that there are so many books in this place, maybe they are selling books! Why don't you go to Dongshi to sell books? There are not many people in this area who can afford books!

Since the number of books that meets Li Yuanying's requirements has not yet been collected, the library will not be officially opened to the public until the end of the year. This fellow Li Yuanying sent others around, but he himself was idle. He stayed in the palace and read books for several days, and felt tired, so he led the two guards seconded to him by His Majesty Li Er to play in the West Market.

This time Li Yuanying strolled around the West Market casually, and finally fell in love with a big rooster at first sight at a street vendor: the big rooster has a red comb and bright feathers, no matter how you look at it, it is the best among chickens!

Seeing the big rooster's arrogance, Li Yuanying decided to borrow the name of an airplane and call it "Fighting Chicken"

The more Li Yuanying looked at it, the more he felt that his fighting chicken was very proud. After a few days of raising it, he sent a message to His Majesty Li Er, wanting to use the fighting chicken to challenge the big chicken that His Majesty Li Er asked someone to raise carefully.

His Majesty Li Er is also a fan of cockfighting. After reading Li Yuanying's outrageous challenge letter, he became very excited. He picked a day for someone to bring a cock to fight with Li Yuanying.

The two brothers instigated two chickens to fight each other, cheering for their "fighting chickens". Just as the fight was over, the two chickens lost a lot of hair, someone hastily reminded: "Your Majesty, Minister Wei is here!"

His Majesty Li Er's face froze.

Li Yuanying was still yelling at the fighting chicken amidst the passionate cries of the two chickens: "Peck it, fighting chicken, what a chance, come on!" Li Yuanying only looked up when he realized that His Majesty Li Er on the opposite side had made no sound.

sky! It was Wei Zheng who rushed in with a dark face!

Old Wei's face darkened and he was more fierce than a fighting chicken!

Before Li Yuanying could say hello, Wei Zheng had already started to remonstrate, to the effect that "you are the king of a country, how can you play with things and lose your mind? Do you think you are playing with a chicken? You are playing with the chicken of the world", during which there are countless quotations from the scriptures , Every sentence is a word that pokes people's lungs!

Li Yuanying was dumbfounded when he heard this, secretly counting how many allusions Wei Zheng used, this is really a rare on-site teaching!

Li Yuanying was listening with great interest, but Wei Zheng finished spraying His Majesty Li Er and turned to look at him!

Li Yuanying reacted vigilantly and swiftly: "I was enlightened by what you said. I think Brother Huang and I should be too wrong, so I decided to kill my fighting chicken tonight and take it to the Your family will eat with you! What’s so fun about cockfighting, it’s better to eat chicken! I haven’t been to your house for a long time, and I really miss your food!”

Compared to being sprayed with blood, Li Yuanying would not take pity on a chicken!

Sure enough, Wei Zheng choked back when he heard what he said.

The mood of spraying people has been interrupted, Wei Zheng can only salute to His Majesty Li Er, and said: "I will take my leave first." After speaking, he turned around and walked away, obviously dissatisfied with His Majesty Li Er's behavior of coming to play cockfights .

His Majesty Li Er glared at Li Yuanying.

You're the only one who pretends to be cute!

If it weren't for your afternoon, who would come to the cockfight? !

Li Yuanying was not afraid of His Majesty Li Er being angry at all, and asked His Majesty Li Er: "Brother, do you want to kill your chicken too? Otherwise, I think Old Wei will have to scold you when he goes to court."

His Majesty Li Er thought about Wei Zheng's character, and reluctantly ordered his left and right: "Go, kill these two chickens, and send them to Wei Shizhong's house!"

Li Yuanying approached and tried to persuade His Majesty Li Er very kindly: "Brother, don't be sad, the old chicken won't go, and the new chicken won't come. The whole world belongs to you, are you afraid that you won't find a chicken that suits you?"

His Majesty Li Er scolded: "Get out, get out!"

The author has something to say:

Little prince: Fighting chicken, rest in peace, you will be stewed, steamed, cut in vain, and eaten with dipping sauce!

Note: The content related to the word book is translated from "Historical Records Xiao Xiangguo Family"