Li Si smiled slightly, with a slightly happy look on his face.
He caressed the books on the ground, and the one on the top of them was his book "Laws".
uncut version.
After informing the emperor, the emperor allowed him to spread the unabridged version of "Law" to the world.
In the past few months, the Manufacturing Department worked day and night to print four books: "Laws", "Qin Laws", "Thousand-Character Classics" and "Selected Works of Literature".
Li Yang stood beside Li Si and looked at Li Si with an excited look on his face.
His father is about to become the first "son" in the Qin era.
This is the last child of the old era and the first child of the new era.
His father will surely be famous throughout the ages.
And he, as Li Si's only son, can naturally follow Li Si and become famous throughout the ages.
This is certain.
Even enjoying the shadow of his father is enough for him to live freely and comfortably.
What's more, Li Yang is not a gangster, but a real and capable person.
"Father, how do we distribute these books?"
Li Si put his hands behind his back and walked out.
His long-cherished wish will soon come true, how can he not be excited?
"Shaofu Chen has not told me this yet."
Li Si squinted his eyes and looked at the sun in the sky.
It's a nice weather today.
"Maybe we're waiting? After the new year passes."
Li Si pondered for a moment: "It seems that Chen Ke attaches great importance to things at the beginning of the year, so he postponed the dissemination of books."
He thought he would just wait.
But looking at those books placed on the ground, I always feel that my thoughts are messy.
Just like a lottery winner, even if he knows he has won, he will still be anxious when he doesn't get the money.
Just like a person who has been recommended, before seeing an increase in his subscriptions, he will be like an ant on a hot pot, too anxious to write anything.
"well."
Li Si sighed heavily.
"That's fine."
He stood up and walked directly outside.
"Get me a car!"
"I'm going to find Chen Ke! Ask him how on earth these books were spread!"
"I've been looking forward to this for many years, and I can't wait any longer!"
Li Yang stood there, watching blankly as his father rushed out with a blank look on his face.
Is this still his steady father?
However, he quickly reacted, followed Li Si's footsteps, and walked towards the distance.
............
Baijia Palace, in the Palace of Science and Technology
Lin Fang and Zuo Ge were sitting there, with some Mohist disciples sitting next to them.
Zuo Ge took the document handed over by a disciple in his hand and looked at it carefully.
Liu Kun on the side was still saying: "Teacher, my uncle said that there are some problems with our books and we need to call them back and revise them again."
Zuo Ge was a little surprised while looking at the design of the ship in his hand.
Have some problems with the books?
He had ordered his disciples to modify it according to the requirements of his junior brother. How could there still be problems?
But at this time, the design of the ship in hand is the most important.
Zuo Ge immediately said: "Lin Fang, take a look."
"See where the problem is and correct it before bringing it to junior brother."
Lin Fang nodded.
He took the book from Liu Kun's hand, but found that something was wrong with Liu Kun's eyes, which seemed to be a little erratic.
Lin Fang frowned subconsciously,
When he picked up the book, he felt some sweat on Liu Kun's hands, which seemed to be caused by nervousness.
Therefore, Lin Fang kept an eye on it.
While flipping through the books in his hands, he focused on looking at Liu Kun.
Lin Fang looked at page after page. Just when he turned to a certain page, he found that Liu Kun's emotion had reached its peak!
I saw Liu Kun running away instantly!
Lin Fang instantly shouted: "Catch him!"
Before the disciples on the side could react, they subconsciously obeyed Lin Fang's words and instantly suppressed Liu Kun to the ground.
Zuo Ge was also confused by this sudden thing. He looked at Lin Fang and signaled with his eyes.
"How is this going?"
Lin Fang held the book in his hand with a serious expression: "Teacher, when the disciple took the book from Liu Kun's hand, he realized something was wrong."
"His eyes were wandering and his hands were sweating because he was too nervous."
"So the disciples pay special attention to him."
"While looking through books, I discovered this article."
Lin Fang took out the article so that Zuo Ge could read it in detail.
After only reading one title, Zuo Ge instantly understood why Chen Ke had typed this book back.
He looked at Liu Kun and asked directly: "Why?"
That article dealt with statecraft!
And this, Chen Ke said from the beginning, is absolutely not allowed to happen.
Even Zuo Ge explained this matter many times.
Liu Kun lowered his head, with a hint of panic in his expression, and then the panic disappeared.
"Teacher, disciple, disciple, I just feel that Uncle Master is already the Shaofu after all, and he is deeply trusted by the First Emperor."
"Why can't we turn a blind eye to our Mo family's books?"
"Can't the teachings of our Mohist sages be known to the world and spread to the world?"
The more he talked, the more he felt aggrieved.
"This disciple is also avenging injustice for my ancestors of the Mohist family!"
Zuo Ge narrowed his eyes slightly and sneered.
"Avenging injustice for my Mohist sages?"
"Liu Kun, because of the many years of master-disciple relationship, I will give you one last chance."
"If you tell the truth, I can let you go."
"But if you are stubborn, don't blame me for being cruel!"
Liu Kun frowned: "Teacher, disciples have absolutely no two minds!"
"It's really just a feeling of injustice!"
"Why can't the ideas of our Mohist sages be spread in Great Qin? Haven't we already entered Great Qin?"
"That violence..."
Before he could finish the last sentence, Zuo Ge quickly picked up the inkstone on the table and hit Liu Kun on the head.
In an instant, the two disciples who suppressed Liu Kun also reacted and knocked him unconscious.
Lin Fang looked at Liu Kun with a solemn look on his face.
"Teacher, there are so many people in Baijia Palace, so I'm afraid of this..."
Zuo Ge sighed quietly.
"There must be someone behind this, but I don't know which family it is from."
"Confucianism? Taoism? Agriculture? Yin and Yang? Five Elements? Or something else?"
Zuo Ge pondered slightly.
He looked at the paper in his hand: "But fortunately, we listened to your uncle and worked hard day and night to make this thing."
"Otherwise, I'm afraid that today's matter will not end well."
Lin Fang was a little surprised: "Teacher, do you want to...?"
Zuo Ge nodded slightly.
"Actually, your uncle wrote a letter saying that the Mo family should not be too public at this time, and asked us to find a way to defile ourselves and take out this object to offset the merits."
"This person came by chance."
Zuo Ge also sighed helplessly: "If I hadn't known that your uncle would not do such a thing, I would have thought that this person was sent by your uncle."
He straightened his clothes.
"Xiaosi, go check and see who Liu Kun has been in contact with recently. It's best to find evidence."
"Let's take a look at Liu Kun's residence to see if there is any money that does not belong to him."
Zuo Ge snorted coldly: "You are planning to frame our Mo family, but you still want to escape unscathed?"
"There is nothing so good in this world!"
After finishing speaking, Zuo Ge looked at Lin Fang and said, "You go prepare the car, and let's go see His Majesty!"
Lin Fang nodded and said respectfully: "Here."
............
Chen Ke's Mansion
Li Si walked back and forth in the courtyard with an impatient look on his face.
"Brother Chen, how do you want to spread these books?"
Li Si looked at Chen Ke with an extremely impatient look on his face.
"You also know that I have been waiting for one day for more than ten years!"
"I have been waiting for this day since I came to Daqin."
Li Si's voice was hoarse.
"Back then, when my junior brother Han Fei came, I was scared."
"Fortunately, Han Fei was unwilling to be used by His Majesty, and Your Majesty did not let him go and handed him over to me."
When Li Si said this, the expression on his face was upright and he didn't feel ashamed at all.
In fact, Li Si didn't feel that he had done anything wrong in this matter.
"So, I poisoned him!"
Li Si snorted coldly: "But I don't know who spread this matter. Since then, everyone in the world has said that I, Li Si, am not as good as Han Fei."
"Kill Han Fei because I am not as talented as Han Fei!"
"The world even calls Han Fei "Han Feizi"! "
Having said this, Li Si stood up angrily, panting like an ox.
"Is that guy worthy of becoming one of the disciples?"
"It's just death!"
"When he died, I knew it was over! A living person can never compare to a dead person!"
"For so many years, I have even forgotten about this."
"Although it has become a knot in my heart, I never thought that this knot in my heart could be untied."
"Now, Brother Chen has given me hope. How can I continue to wait?"
"I have been waiting for this day for more than three thousand days and nights!"
Looking at the anxious Li Si, Chen Ke smiled.
He looked at Li Si and said, "Brother Li, I want to tell you a way, but don't you have to give me a chance to speak first and listen to me first?"
Li Si was stunned when he heard this, and then felt a little embarrassed for a moment.
really.
From the time he came to Chen Ke's mansion until now.
He kept talking without even hearing it, and he didn't give Chen Ke a chance to speak at all.
"Ahem."
He sat down awkwardly, then looked at Chen Ke and said, "Brother Chen, tell me."
Chen Ke put down the cup in his hand and said with a smile: "Brother Li, distributing books is actually simple."
"The key to the matter lies in papermaking and printing."
"The bigger key, of course, is papermaking."
Chen Ke smiled with narrowed eyes, like a fox.
"The batch of books produced by the Manufacturing Department working day and night is not the whole of this plan."
"With these few books, it is impossible to spread Brother Li's writings, my writings, Qin laws and anthologies to all parts of the world."
He looked at Li Si and said, "Moreover, just relying on these books produced by the Manufacturing Department every day is not enough."
“So we have to leverage other people’s strengths.”
other people?
Li Si had a confused look on his face: "Others? Who can we help?"
Chen Ke smiled slightly: "Brother Li, do you still remember how Lu Buwei's "Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals" spread? "
Lu's Spring and Autumn Period?
Li Si's expression changed, and he immediately understood what Chen Ke meant.
"You mean, with the help of merchants?"
Chen Ke nodded.
"It's not just relying on the power of merchants, but turning them into a part of us."
He looked at Li Si and said, "Brother Li, what do you think the status of businessmen has been since Lord Shang's reform?"
Li Si was silent.
"It's naturally low."
"The theory of focusing on agriculture and suppressing business was proposed by Lord Shang."
Chen Ke said with a smile: "If Brother Li is a businessman, the court will tell you that as long as you are obedient, you will be an imperial businessman in the future."
"The Point Guard Is Here"
"He's from the imperial court."
"Will you be obedient?"
"Even if I ask you to hand over your wealth?"
Li Si immediately said: "Of course."
"The status of pure businessmen is so low that even a random official can manipulate them,"
"But becoming an imperial merchant is different."
"Even the county governor of the same place will have no choice but to cooperate when meeting the imperial merchant."
Huangshang represents someone who is the emperor.
Although it is not as good as "I am here in person", it is enough to calm some people.
Chen Ke narrowed his eyes and smiled.
"That's what I mean."
"We can absorb some of the wealthy merchants as imperial merchants, and then teach them papermaking and printing methods."
"Their family documents and papers will remain in Xianyang City, while they can travel to various places to do business."
“That’s when the real trend of thought will emerge.”
"These four books of ours will appear all over the world. Anyone who wants to read and study openly should read these four books of ours!"
Chen Ke sneered.
"And the lives and fortunes of those wealthy businessmen are all in our hands, so we can naturally control what books they print!"
"We can even print a series of numbers on these books!"
“Identical books have the same numbers, as do the words on the master plate of each book.”
"This is called a "book number." "
"Books circulated and printed without ISBNs are considered banned books!"
"Those who read banned books will be fined 10,000 yuan in minor cases and jailed for ten years in serious cases!"
Li Si was stunned for a moment when he heard what Chen Ke said.
Chen Ke always made him feel that he, who was born in a Legalist family, did not look like a Legalist person like Chen Ke...
Even though he was a representative of Legalism, he never thought of it.
Is this still possible?
But then, Li Si thought of the benefits contained in it.
His eyes sparkled.
"Brother Chen, your method is really wonderful."
But in an instant, Li Si had a look of confusion on his face: "But I have a problem."
"What should we do if it is a book like "The Analects of Confucius", or if other people among the hundreds of scholars want to write a book? "
Chen Ke smiled slightly: "It's very simple."
"I will propose this to His Majesty later."
"Set up a separate agency, and this agency will be used to review those books."
"By reviewing the books, we can give him a book number."
"This ISBN was prepared in the imperial court and various places, and it was also arranged in order."
"After you get this ISBN, you can look for wealthy merchants in those places to print books."
"certainly--"
Chen Ke drawled: "Printing books also costs money, so they have to pay!"
"The more you pay, the more we will print for them!"
"Even, as long as they give enough money, we can even help them spread these books!"
Help them spread these books?
Li Si put these words in his mind and immediately understood the meaning.
Isn't it just to help sell?
He smacked his lips, feeling that he saw the potential of a profiteer in Chen Ke.
"Then what will be the income from selling these books?"
"Are they all attributed to the author of the book?"
Chen Ke glanced at Li Si in surprise, as if he heard something incredible.
"All belong to the author of the book?"
"Brother Li, are you crazy?"
"Doesn't it cost us money to print those books? Doesn't it cost us money to help him sell those books?"
"Should we help them disseminate these books for free?"
"Do you really think that all money comes from strong winds?"
Li Si looked at Chen Ke speechlessly. He wanted to say, didn't you receive money for printing and selling books?
But looking at Chen Ke's upright look, Li Si felt that he seemed to be the unreasonable one...
He looked at Chen Ke and said, "Then how will the money be divided?"
Chen Ke is straightforward and speaks righteously.
"Sanqi!"
Thirty-seven?
Li Si felt a little surprised that Chen Ke was so kind?
"Given Author Qi, are we at a bit of a loss?"
As soon as he finished saying this, Li Si regretted it.
Because he saw Chen Ke looking at him with that incredible look for the second time today.
At the same time, he also heard Chen Ke's extremely shocked words.
"Brother Li, what are you talking about?"
"What does it mean to be the author of seven??? Of course we are seven!"
"We put in so much effort, how could we only get three?"
Chen Ke asked Li Si, "Are we doing charity?"
Li Si looked at Chen Ke and was speechless: "Then what if the author has no money and cannot pay for printing?"
Chen Ke blinked.
"After reviewing it, if you feel that the book has potential, you can sign an agreement with the author."
"Give them a sum of money and all proceeds from the book will be ours."
He touched his chin and said with emotion: "But after all, I am a kind-hearted person, the court is also a kind-hearted court, and Your Majesty is a kind-hearted Majesty!"
"So the printed books have the author written on them and the author's name."
Chen Ke said with emotion: "I am really so kind!"
At this time, Li Si didn't want to say a word.
He originally wanted to ask how his books could be disseminated.
But I didn't expect to hear Chen Ke's heart-rending words...
But it sounds reasonable...
This is very strange.
He sighed softly: "It's better to wait until the end of the year for these things. The New Year is coming soon, and it's not easy to deal with things piling up."
Chen Ke nodded: "I personally want to wait until the end of the year to deal with it."
"But we can go ahead with finding wealthy merchants to print our four books."
"The proceeds from the dissemination of these books belong to us."
"When an organization to review books is actually established in the future, that will be a matter of books in the future."
Li Si almost laughed out loud when he heard this.
He knew that Chen Ke would never trick anyone else but himself.
"That's fine."
"Then leave this matter to me."
Li Si put down what he was holding and stood up in a hurry.
"Then I'll take my leave first!"
With that said, he ran directly towards the distance.
Li Si was afraid that if he stayed for a while, he would find Chen Ke in front of him disgusting...
But he still felt a little relieved that he didn't get into trouble...
As for what to do with his books in the future?
Just do whatever you have to do...
He is a dignified Prime Minister of Qin, and of course he must abide by the laws of Qin.
But those wealthy merchants don't abide by Qin's laws, so what do they care about them?
The wealthy businessman refused to accept his money. The wealthy businessman had to give him all the income from his books, and he also had to advance the money himself. What did Li Si have to do with him?
He, Li Si, did nothing.
In the courtyard, Chen Ke also smiled when he saw Li Si leaving in a hurry.
Li Si must have understood what he meant.
He stretched.
"Oh, senior brother and the others are going to see His Majesty today to talk about the ship, but I still can't go."
"Lest His Majesty catch me as a coolie."
Chen Ke curled his lips, lay down on the recliner, with a tired look on his face, and yawned.
"I feel like I am no longer a coolie at His Majesty's place. I am not even considered a cheap labor force. I am simply a free labor force!"
"Be lazy if you can."
“The New Year is about to come to an end, and I’m going to be lazy for the last time this year...”
"Well, last year."
Chen Ke lay on the recliner and slowly swayed his body along with the twists and turns of the recliner.
A gust of autumn wind blew, which seemed very pleasant.
.............
Zhangtai Palace
When Ying Zheng was reading the memorial, he suddenly heard Han Tan say that Zuo Ge's master and apprentice asked for a meeting, with a strange look on his face.
"What do these two people come to see me for?"
"Is there something important?"
Han Tan on the side reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, there were rumors in Xianyang City a few days ago."
"It seems that they saw people from the Mo family steering a huge ship in the water. Do you think it could be because of this?"
Ying Zheng raised his eyebrows.
He felt that this was really a possibility.
"What you said makes sense. Maybe it's really because of this."
"Let them in."
Han Tan nodded slightly, with a respectful expression: "Here."
Within a moment, Zuo Ge and his two men walked in with respectful expressions on their faces.
"I have seen your majesty. Your majesty has lived for ten thousand years, and the Great Qin has lived for ten thousand years——"
Ying Zheng waved his hand: "Get up."
He looked at Zuo Ge and Lin Fang kindly, and then said in a gentle tone: "You two came to see me today, but what is the important matter?"
Zuo Ge lowered his head and said in a respectful tone: "Your Majesty, I was ordered by Your Majesty a few days ago to study a giant ship that can sail far away."
"In our Mo family, there have been records about this matter before. Now that we have arrived in Xianyang City, with the support of the Manufacturing Department, we can manufacture it."
"Today, my master and apprentice are here to return to life."
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