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Chapter 168 Source Power

He did it as soon as he said that Li Mu asked Li Chongyi and Dugu Jiu to go to the Ministry of Works and the Secretariat of the Secretariat respectively, and found Bi Laosan and Tang Guan.

The current Datang Daily is divided into two parts in the system. Part of it is written by Tang Guan, and the Secretariat is responsible for review and supervision, which belongs to the type of "official release". For example, advertisements, stories, and gossip news, the Zhulu Hou Mansion has the final say. Bi Laosan is only responsible for printing. Every day, both sides will provide Bi Laosan with the content that needs to be printed before the sun sets. At night, it is time for the printing supervisors to work.

Li Mu hasn't interfered in the Tang Daily for a long time. If Wang Ou hadn't mentioned the advertisement today, he might not have remembered it. But since he remembered it, it would be natural to integrate it and establish the Tang Daily.

Integration is a very simple thing, because the printing supervisor has moved to the craftsman's workshop. Bi Laosan is also an official of the ninth-rank work department. When Li Mu presented printing, the printing supervisor proposed to be established has now been officially incorporated into the official system of the work department.

Moved to the craftsman workshop, the printing supervisor expanded its scale and recruited more than a dozen people. Bi Laosan now has twenty people under his command, and he is the biggest in the one-acre and three-point land of the printing supervisor. He arranged things every day and taught his skills naturally formed a kind of superior demeanor. Now Bi Laosan is no longer as arrogant as before, and has a little bit of authority, but this refers to the fact that he dares not be arrogant at all when facing the craftsmen when he comes to Li Mu.

For people like Bi Laosan, Li Mu changed their destiny. This is "foreign". Moreover, both craftsmen, the longer they followed Li Mu, the more they realized Li Mu's power. In this era of self-treasure, it was already very difficult for ordinary people to learn a craft and master it. Li Mu knew almost everything. He knew carpenters, bricklayers, carvings, and ironworking. He also carved two tiles at the office of the Ministry of Works.

The Ministry of Works has gathered craftsmen from all over the world, and they have all kinds of skills, but they can't find anything that Li Mu can't do. It seems that as long as he takes a look at all, he can learn and master it.

The scariest thing is that Li Mu never makes mistakes.

Youdao is a layman watching the excitement, while an expert watching the trick. Craftsmen all know how difficult it is to make two things exactly the same, which is almost impossible. Everything that comes from Li Mu's hands is above the same level. The two squids at the entrance of the Ministry of Works are an example. They can be chiseled exactly the same with chisels. What kind of monster is this?

Some of the respect for Li Mu was also caused by this. Everyone has something that is proud of, and what craftsmen are proud of is their craft. When a person appears and reaches the level that you can't reach in your entire life, the feeling of admiration will naturally arise.

The same is true for Tang Guan.

Originally, he was not convinced by Li Mu, otherwise he would not have deliberately done anything bad and instigated Kong Yingda to cause trouble for Li Mu. However, after many things, he had become a complete fan. What Li Mu said was like an imperial edict to him.

When he heard Li Mu say that he would set up a Datang Daily near the Ministry of Works' Office and expand the scale, Tang Guan suddenly felt excited and said excitedly: "Brother, I agree with this suggestion! You don't know how difficult it is to maintain the Datang Daily alone! From writing articles to proofreading, it was all handled by me. It's a pity that the masters of Hongwenguan used to say that they were ignorant? They taught a few students as 'unlearning' as me?"

Changsun Chong couldn't listen to it anymore and said, "Tang Guan, I have heard of your reputation in Chongwenguan. Among the students in Hongwenguan, you have always been at the bottom, right? If you weren't for your good fortune and have such a brother, I'll see you..."

Tang looked at Changsun Chong and wanted to retort, but reason told him that he was the prince, but he was just a son. His status was too different. If his elder brother was here, he might be able to argue with Changsun Chong, but he... was a little bit less. Otherwise, why did he study Chongwenguan and Hongwenguan?

"Bang!"

Li Mu suddenly slapped the table, which scared the two of them.

"Changsun Chong! Do you dare to say to me? Let me tell you! What my younger brother said just now is not wrong! He is now a talent, a talent that is a hundred times more than ordinary Hongwenguan students! What's the use of studying well? You have to apply what you have learned, do you understand? If you keep studying, you may not be able to become an official after studying. My younger brother is now the ninth-rank imperial guard. Are you? Where are you?"

"I..." Changsun Chong wanted to say, I didn't want to be an official. If I wanted to be an official, I had to start from a sixth-rank official based on my family background and identity! But before he could say it, he was interrupted by Li Mu: "What are you? You fat man, if you were not the son of Duke Zhao, you would be a waste!"

"I'm not a waste!" No matter how good Changsun Chong has a good temper, he has to be anxious when he is called a waste. He stares at him and says, "If you don't want to accept me as an apprentice, you don't have to insult me, right? Why am I a waste?"

Li Mu sneered and said, "Okay, tell me, put aside the identity of Changsun Wuji's son, what else can you have left with everything you have now?"

"I..." Changsun Chong was a little confused. For a moment, he really couldn't think of anything.

"The world respects you and treats you with courtesy, just like me. I can speak to you patiently for your father. If you were not the Prince of Zhao, you would have beaten you up long ago because of your long time with me."

Changsun opened his mouth and could not say anything. He could no longer bear such insults and stood up and prepared to leave.

"stop!"

Changsun rushed to the standstill, but did not look back, his voice choked and said, "You have already defamed me like mud, what other bad things do you want to say?"

"You misunderstood what I mean. I am not defaming you, but telling you a fact. My real intention is to motivate you and make you become a talent. Do you want to live in this world? Do you have the greatest achievement to inherit your father's title after a hundred years? Do you yourself, don't you want to leave a note in history books?"

Changsun Chong was stunned, and everyone who heard this sentence was a little stunned.

Li Mu continued: "I have done it! The Zhenguan plow can double the efficiency of farming, and no more awesome people can cultivate fields. With this, later generations will inevitably mention me when they write history. But I didn't stop. I was studying new things every day. Why am I for? Is it to make money?"

"No! Absolutely not!"

"Money is like clouds to me, and I regard money as dirt! Everything I do is to prove my own value, make the country stronger because of me, and make the people more prosperous because of me. This is the meaning of my existence in the world. And you, Changsun Chong. How low and dirty your ideas are? Is it so difficult to admit the excellence of others? Tang Guan may have been an ignorant student in the past, but today he is the best editor of my Tang Dynasty. His manuscripts are read by thousands of Chang'an people every day, so that the people know the imperial decrees and major events that have happened in the country? Compared with him, they are like Kong Yingda and others. How many people have read their articles? The students of Hongwenguan, Chongwenguan and Imperial College have all been combined, but there are many people in Chang'an?"

Changsun Chong was irrefutable, and the facts were indeed the case. Before the Tang Daily, books were like heirlooms. If anyone had a collection of books, they would cherish them and not show them to others easily, so how could they talk about educating the people?

But Tang Guan was so happy that he didn't expect that he was so great that he immediately straightened his waist. The most important thing is that next time he would say he would have something to say when he was ignorant.

Changsun Chong was silent for a while, turned his head and bowed to apologize to Tang Guan: "I just said nothing."

"Oh..." Tang Guan was startled. He didn't expect Changsun Chong to apologize to him. He was the Prince of Zhao! Subconsciously reached out to help him. At this time, Li Mu coughed, and Tang Guan retracted his hand that he stretched out, cleared his throat, and said reservedly: "It's easy to say, knowing mistakes can improve, I forgive you."

Li Mu raised his hand and knocked him, laughing and scolded, "You are still stolen, okay, this matter will be revealed. I will discuss with His Majesty the matter of recruiting people in the newspaper. You two will do the things tomorrow first, Bi Laosan." Li Mu looked at Bi Laosan who had not spoken, and Bi Laosan hurriedly said, "Marty, I'm here."

"You are now an official, and you can no longer call yourself a young man. You should call yourself a low-ranking official... It seems that it is not right for the lower-ranking official. I am no longer the Minister of Works." Li Mu paused for a moment and said, "Let's call yourself 'me', we don't distinguish between high and low."

"How can this be done!" Bi Laosan said in fear and fear: "The Marquis treats me like a new parent. No matter what, the young one dare not be so rebellious."

He is a grateful person!

Li Mu said with gratitude: "It is a good thing to talk longer. OK, it is just a small matter. You should do things well and be serious. What are the skills of the Printing Officer recently?"

"Reporting to the Marquis, the young man was about to tell the Marquis that recently, craftsmen tried a lot of materials because of carving mahjong. A craftsman accidentally discovered that using clay to carve characters, printing each word, and then burning hard to make mud movable types, has better printing effect and is more durable than the wooden movable types and stone movable types used before."

Li Mu just asked casually, but unexpectedly he had an unexpected gain.

He recalled the history textbooks he learned in middle school. It seemed that the movable type printing technique invented by Bi Sheng used clay movable type. Sure enough, after long-term practice and research, the working people were the driving force for progress. Li Mu was overjoyed and said, "Tomorrow, bring this craftsman to my residence to see me, bring his clay movable type with him. If it is really as you said, this marquis will be rewarded!"
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