The county magistrate of Qi hurriedly hurried, and finally, before entering the twelfth lunar month, the exterior of the Qian'an County Library was decorated, and the stone tablet in recognition of the donation was engraved, and it was officially opened on November 27th.
Their work in the county is to be completed every month and delivered to the house. In November, when the library opens, the house lord can send someone to confirm his eunuch performance in the twelfth lunar month. With the library and the four eunuchs under his control, when the pilgrimage of the first lunar month and the officials pass the hall, the Shangguans will always say a few good words for him for the sake of the library and the four eunuchs in the county
He was diligent and diligent in this job, and he favored the people, so that he would not make a "greedy and cruel" comment; he was young, and he was physically fit and strong, and he was not afraid of being accused of being "old or sick". As long as you don't fall into the remaining "soft, careless, impetuous, and lack of talent" four eyes left by the inspection, you will be able to successfully serve as a magistrate again. At that time, without the influence of the flood from the previous year, he couldn't believe that he would not be able to show a better official performance!
Qi Sheng was ambitious. He arrived at the yali early in the morning, glanced at the official documents, and took his subordinate officials to the county library to preside over the grand opening ceremony.
Firecrackers, silk satin, and musicians have been prepared in the library, and the courtyard gate is covered in red, just waiting for him to preside. Mr. Lin knew this event for a long time, so he just had a day off from school and came over to join in the fun with the students.
Cui Xie ran over after his martial arts practice in the morning. Before the sweat on his forehead was dry, he wore a hood to block the cold wind, and his eyebrows and eyes were hidden behind the fluffy wind fur. But his complexion is extremely white, and his body is also slender and tall, which he has trained in the army. He is lined with a green satin fox fur cloak. Even if it is wrapped in a zongzi, it is the most dazzling one in the crowd.
Qi Xianzun got down from the sedan chair and saw him crowded at the entrance of the library as soon as he opened his eyes, he beckoned him to come over, and asked warmly, "Why are you here so early? You are with me today, and you will be on the plaque later. Later, a monument will be erected.”
The library has been established, and in the future, I will ask Cui Xie to publish the "Jian Qian'an County Library Record" engraved on the stele together with his old articles and print it into a book, which will live up to his talent and ambition.
The magistrate of Qi County twitched his beard and saw that all the people with heads and faces in the county had arrived, so he simply said a few words in the face of the cold wind. Then the plaques were put up, the guns were fired, and the musicians played fine music.
The weather was fine on this day, and the fire wall in the house was deliberately hot, and people even felt a little hot when they walked in. Cui Xie tore off the cloak and held it in his arms, followed behind the county magistrate Qi and walked around the reading room to help introduce the collection of books inside.
He also helped to design the notes and symbols printed on the back of the collection, which are simple and easy to remember. The bookshelves are affixed with the corresponding color and emblem paper, and there is a comparison table on the wall, so that readers can find what they want to see.
On the spot, everyone took out the book and read it, and while watching Bianzan County respected the worries of scholars and loved what the people loved, it added a place for the county to teach and help students with indoctrination and customs. These are the clichés they often say, but this time they say it with all the heart. Books are precious and rare things. Ordinary people have books in their collections and they should be put on a shelf, and no one is allowed to borrow them. Except for children of aristocratic families and rich merchants, who has seen so many books
The county magistrate can get so many books and put them here. Xu Renbai looks and copies them. It is an excellent good governance for students and those who have children at home.
The county magistrate Qi is used to listening to clichés. He can tell if he is sincere or fake, and the smile on his face is getting deeper and deeper. He coughs lightly, draws everyone's attention to himself, and smiles: "There is another one. Things have not been done, and when they are done, there will be a book office to register your identities and issue reading certificates. In the future, you can come in and read at will with your certificates, or you can get another library card and borrow your books home.”
Oh, it's asking for money. Everyone had a bottom line in their hearts, and felt the purse around their waists and the purse in their sleeves, either calmly or apprehensively followed him to the courtyard.
The original flowers and trees in the yard have been removed, most of the yard floor is covered with blue bricks, and two old pine trees of Panqu Guzhen were transplanted on the west side, which means "the old year is cold, and then the pines and cypresses will wither"; There is also an osmanthus tree with a very dense canopy in the north. In this weather, there are only bare branches and leaves.
There was a large piece of land between these trees, with a stone tablet erected in the middle, surrounded by many craftsmen. When they entered the hospital, the monument was already standing there alone, covered with a red cloth. It was just that they were eager to see the reading room. The county magistrate Qi did not introduce it, and no one asked about it.
Now that the book has been read, the magistrate of Qi County clearly wanted to introduce the meaning of the monument, and everyone naturally cheered and asked, "Is this an inscription describing how the library was built? recorded!"
The county magistrate said with a faint smile: "Our county's library can't be established without the efforts of the county alone. It is more thanks to the donations and books by the good people in this county, and even more thanks to a righteous person in the county who donated this courtyard. ."
He glanced at Cui Xie with a smile: "Cui Yishi, come here."
When Cui Xie went up, he took his hand and said, "It was this Cui Yishi who generously donated money and house to make this library built smoothly."
Cui... This surname combined with Zhirong Bookstore is extraordinarily thought-provoking.
The more he didn't know that he was Cui Meiren, the more happy he thought, but those who really knew turned their faces away. So many eyes fell on Cui Xie's face, but he accepted it so calmly, without even moving his eyebrows, looked at the county magistrate with admiration and said, "This yard was originally left by my late mother, and it is also in my hands. It's just to collect some rent every year, so what's the benefit to the people of the country! Only by dedicating it to the county magistrates and building this library that can be read by readers at will, can the yard be used more or less. "
"Lord Xianzun loves the hearts and minds of our generation of scholars, Cui Xie has long been convinced." He looked back at the group of people who were looking at him with strange eyes, shook his head and sighed in a fake fashion: "If this yard was not rented to outsiders in the early years , it is not convenient to deal with late births. Last year, I heard adults lament that it is difficult for scholars to borrow books, and when they want to set up a study room for students to read together, they should dedicate this yard."
Cui Xie gently and skillfully drew the line between himself and the people who rented the yard and opened the bookstore. The county magistrate nodded lovingly, and uncovered the red silk engraved on the stone tablet.
Engraved on it is an inscription describing the process of building the library. When writing about the difficulties of building and collecting books in the middle, it also specifically stated that this place was originally the dowry of Cui Liu's family. Later, his son, Cui Xie, a citizen of Chiayi who received the title of the county, saw that Qian'an books were very expensive, and poor children often borrowed books to read, and they had the idea of helping their studies. When the magistrate of Qi County wanted to build a county library, when he looked around for a place to build the library, he donated the property he had just recovered and his own collection of books, without taking any money.
Of course, Qi County magistrate's praise is also soaked in rain and dew. Although he praised Cui Xie when it was raining like a waterfall, and others were like spring rain, he had donated money, books, and even volunteered to help repair and paint the yard.
The group of people who came to the opening ceremony in the cold wind in the morning have donated books, donated money, or helped organize books inside. Looking at the names on the stone tablets, they all felt that their hearts were frozen all morning. Warm and satisfied.
Cui Xie was also satisfied - from now on, the person who opened the bookstore was an outsider who rented his yard, and he was a kind and rich man who donated the yard to run a library without any hesitation. Who is Cui Meiren? Sorry he never heard of it!
The Qixian magistrate's yamen still has official business, and after presiding over the ceremony, he took people back. The self-owned book office came up and issued the reading card for everyone in turn, and the rich put money on the library card. Cui Xie himself confirmed it. He first registered his name when the register was completed. At this time, he also mixed in with a group of newly registered readers, and observed the shortcomings of the library he had created.
The library is still a trial camp for the past two months. Initially, it is open to students from the county and county, Confucian children who have not entered school, all the county government officials and non-entry officials, grain chiefs, ri chiefs, and taxpayers in the county. There are people with credit.
Each visitor will be given a free reading card, and the cardholder's name, origin, appearance and other information will be written on the back of the card, and the certificate will be used for reading. Those who want to borrow can spend 40 taels of silver to get a library card. One card can borrow two books for a period of one month. If it is overdue, an extension fee of 6 cents per day will be charged, and it will be doubled if it is overdue for more than one month. .
On the wall of the lobby hangs a pair of couplets with Cui Xie's nasty inscription "Books must be borrowed and cannot be read. Below are two desks for registering books for borrowing and returning. Books returned by readers are sent to the backyard by Zaoli at intervals, separated according to the color of the paper on the back of the book, and the signature of the monogram, and placed back on each roof truss.
After the library opened, the county magistrate Qi wrote a detailed summary of the official document and submitted it to his boss. Yongping government asked someone to verify the matter according to the routine, and it was verified that it was true. He was so happy that Wang Zhifu couldn't help but praised him at home for a few days, and the comments issued were full of praise-
Nengli county library building is much better than being good at supervising the transportation of money and grain. During the pilgrimage next year, I went to the Hall of Officials to talk about it, and it was also under the rule of their government that such a literary event was held!
The county magistrate of Qi was busy preparing for next year's plan, and it took a few days for the "Repair of Qian'an County Library" to be revised and handed over to Cui Xie. Just when the picture of "Antian Conference" for the emperor was finished, Cui Xie took it and worked on the typesetting of travel notes non-stop.
In the past, the sales of books were driven by characters and scenes, but the county magistrate Qi was a small and fresh amateur travel friend. He himself is not good at landscapes, so early on, he asked a handyman who was good at painting to go outside Qian'an City to play sketches, and he traced the temples and landscapes that fit the artistic conception of the text, engraved them into a large double-page map, and lightly printed a layer on the paper. The scene is primed, and then the text is printed.
The whole book is almost full of large and small landscape pictures, surrounded by texts that are separated into blocks, and they are well-proportioned. Cui Xie didn't draw many pictures, he just picked a few suitable places to add a slender figure, and occasionally he drew a large picture of him looking into the distance with a worried look interspersed.
The county magistrate Qi himself was not bad looking. He was the kind of traditional handsome man with a thin, elegant and beautiful beard, but he was a little older. Wrinkles and bags under the eyes are saved when painting, and people are instantly younger and more handsome. Whether it is wearing black gauze, wearing a rigorous dress with cyan patchwork, or a wide-sleeved wide robe with Wei and Jin charm, all of them appear to be handsome and gentle, which makes people feel good at first glance.
His copy of "Remembering the Library of Qian'an County" is even more important and listed in the first article. Cui Xie accompanied this article with a picture of him standing in front of a row of bookshelves in the library, holding books on the shelves, with a happy smile in his eyes, and printed this picture as the cover.
The cover of the finished book is also special, and it is covered with a protective cover like a modern book. The part folded in on both sides of the protective cover is printed with Ju Anzhai's hall number and inscription. On the left side of the cover is a pale yellow bookmark inscribed with "Qi Zhiyuan's Public Works". A hand behind him and the sleeve and hem of the robe drag over the spine of the book and fall to the back cover, with a connected bookshelf in the background.
The sample book was soon printed, and Cui Xie personally took it to the county government and gave it to the county magistrate to read. He didn't have time to read it, and after opening a few pages, he couldn't help but sigh: "My article is actually printed in such a book. My article is printed in such a book, and it feels like everyone's writing, not like I wrote it. yes."
Cui Xie said with a smile, "Your Excellency's article is simple and natural, and it has the legacy of Tang and Song Dynasties, so why should you be humble?"
The county magistrate Qi couldn't bear to let go of the book, but he lifted his eyes from the book, looked at Cui Xie and said, "I know in my heart that you have worked hard these days. I will go to Beijing in two days to prepare for the Hajj plan. If I can After passing this hurdle, I will continue to be the county magistrate next year..."
He thought about it, and at Cui Xie's age and article, he didn't actually point to the place where the county magistrate helped him, but he himself benefited a lot. So he sighed softly: "Forget it, you should study hard, recite the imperial imperial official and the court's petition, and prepare for the three children's exams next year."