Chapter 21
Although it was cold in winter, Li Yuanying still took the time to leave the palace.
Li Yuanying was extremely shameless. He was sent to Gaochang and ran to tell His Majesty Li Er that he accidentally forgot to leave two to protect himself.
His Majesty Li Er was always annoyed him, so he followed him with two people without leaving any steps. He was not allowed to get rid of him anywhere.
Is Li Yuanying the kind of person who cares about others following him? He doesn't care at all, but is quite happy. He leads people out of the palace to inspect his new territory: before Dai Ting goes, he has already done what he ordered and takes a house with street shops in the west city.
Xishi was called Liren City during the Sui Dynasty. It was surrounded by civilian houses, and the things sold were down-to-earth and the rent was relatively cheap. Dongshi was close to the residence of Daguan Guiren, and there were many high-end consumption places such as restaurants and luxury stores.
When Li Yuanying left the palace, everyone who accompanied him thought he would go to the east city to play. As a result, Li Yuanying looked at the map he copied and walked straight to the west city. When he arrived at a shop covered with red silk cloth on the sign, there was an eunuch who looked like an eunuch, waiting outside, Dong Xiaoyi next to Li Yuanying!
Dong Xiaoyi trot behind Li Yuanying and led Li Yuanying into the room.
This place was originally a wine shop, and it was too late to make ends meet, so it had to be sold to others. Coincidentally, it could not be managed by the next door, so Li Yuanying said with great wealth that the two families bought it together to rebuild it!
Now the two stores have been renovated inside and out. Li Yuanying stepped in and saw tables neatly arranged in the hall. There were slogans of encouragement to study on the walls and columns on both sides, which looked very interesting.
Li Yuanying naturally didn't know about design, but he had the system in hand! When he proposed to systematically generate the "Tang Dynasty Library Design Drawing", the system readily arranged and combined various home furnishings that were already in the early Tang Dynasty, and handed over the design drawings to Li Yuanying (the system even cried for joy for this, after all, Li Yuanying finally had the need to use it, and no longer had countless points in vain and had long hair).
The concept of libraries Li Yuanying only heard the systematic mention of it. He heard that in an era of vigorous culture, all cities and cities will have libraries that will be open to the public.
Anyone can freely enter and lend the books in it, and develop better in technology. The library will become a virtual library like the Wanjie Library, and everyone can know the world without leaving home!
Li Yuanying felt that the library could solve the problem that some people could not afford books first. As for more, Li Yuanying had not yet thought about it!
This small place is the Tang Dynasty Library created by Li Yuanying.
Since many of the things needed are ready-made, the slogans only need to be written by the writer, which doesn’t take much time, so the reading room was renovated very quickly.
On the contrary, the bookshelf has been made for a longer time, and it has only been done since Li Yuanying returned to Beijing.
Looking at the empty bookshelf, Li Yuanying decided to go and bring reinforcements.
Li Yuanying went to find Kong Yingda first.
After returning to Beijing, Kong Yingda had to be busy with the Imperial College, compiled textbooks for the prison students, and gave lectures to the prince Li Chengqian. He never had the chance to see Li Yuanying who had never been calling him all day long.
Seeing that Li Yuanying actually came to find him, Kong Yingda felt a little strange: "What's your Highness looking for me?"
Li Yuanying told Kong Yingda about setting up a library. This place is usually open to the public and no money is charged. Anyone can read books. If he wants to do anything, he will clear the venue and requisition the venue.
Li Yuanying said: "I set up this library in Xicheng City. There are more people in that area who can't afford books, and it's easier to find people outside the city when they come in."
After listening to Li Yuanying's arrangement, Kong Yingda felt a little shocked. The difficulty of studying is that she can't afford to buy books, can't afford to worship teachers, and even can't get rid of her body in the fields.
Therefore, there are too many difficulties. Even if the imperial court held the imperial examination, not many people came to take the exam every year!
His Majesty Li Er has been discussing with him about the expansion of the enrollment of the Imperial College, and he will ask the Imperial College to recruit more students almost every year. However, it is not enough! It is far from enough!
State affairs are difficult!
Kong Yingda stroked his beard and asked, "Why is your place called a 'library'?"
Li Yuanying had already thought of the answer and answered it like a stream of thought: "The weather was too cold recently, and I was hiding in the house to read books. Recently I read "Records of the Grand Historian". "Records of the Grand Historian" wrote a story. Emperor Gaozu of Han led his people to Xianyang, and others were busy robbing gold, silver and jewelry. Only Xiao He first collected the books of the rule of the Qin Dynasty's prime minister and the censor. Later, Emperor Gaozu of Han established the Han Dynasty and could easily take over the Qin Dynasty's world, knowing how many families there were, knowing the sufferings of the people, knowing which mountains and rivers should be dangerous and which places should be weak in defense. The reason is the Qin Dynasty books that Xiao He found! Therefore, useful books in the world can be called "books", and the library of books is naturally called "library".
After hearing Li Yuanying's reasonable and 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 a single book in this library. Can you lend me the students of the Imperial College for a few days and ask them to help me copy some books? Anyway, they all have to practice calligraphy, so let them help me copy them!"
Kong Yingda was choked by Li Yuanying's words.
If it were something else, Kong Yingda would definitely drive this shameless guy out. But what Li Yuanying did made him unable to drive him away. If it were someone else, who would be willing to spend a lot of money to buy two big stores and sit and wait for something thankless? Even if this kid is a little shameless, it would be good to do this!
Kong Yingda said: "Okay, I'll ask someone to copy it for you. However, you won't ask them to bring their own pen, ink and paper, right?"
Seeing Kong Yingda's cold expression, "You say something they were going to write, I'll drive you out", Li Yuanying gave up this demand of being more and more arrogant and expressed his positive attitude: "Then I'll send all these things to the Imperial College tomorrow!"
After Li Yuanying found Kong Yingda, the Minister of Education, and went to harass Wei Zheng and others one by one. They all had students and subordinates, and they also had a lot of books at home. As long as everyone contributed a book, the world would become a beautiful world!
Li Yuanying walked around and almost everyone knew that he was going to build a library. Even Fang Xuanling was found by him, saying that he wanted to ask for some of the Criminal Law Books and put them in the library so that everyone could add some legal knowledge.
Fang Xuanling was also conquered by the library concept told by Li Yuanying, and readily agreed to send someone to copy criminal laws and typical scripts.
The library's collection has gradually become 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 students and officials who were ordered to help copy books shut up and looked bitter. Who would like to spend all their time copying books? After working hard for so many days, they just want to quickly arrange these books and do not have the mood to pay attention to the discussions and inquiries of the people around them!
The less anyone talked about it, the more curious everyone became. They guessed that there were so many books in this place, and they were the ones who sold books! Why didn’t they sell books in the East Market? There were not many people in this area who could afford books!
Since the books had not yet been raised that meet Li Yuanying's requirements, the library was scheduled to be officially opened to the public until the New Year. Li Yuanying, who was the one who sent others around, was idle. He stayed in the palace for several days and felt tired of it, so he led the two guards seconded by His Majesty Li Er to go to the West City to play.
This time, Li Yuanying took a casual walk around the West Market, and finally a vendor fell in love with a big rooster at first sight: the big rooster was full of red cocks and her feathers were extremely bright. No matter how you look at it, they were all the best among chickens!
Seeing the big rooster being so proud, Li Yuanying decided to borrow the name of an airplane and name it "Fighting Cock"
The more Li Yuanying looked at it, the more he felt that his fighting cock was very proud. He asked someone to raise it for a few days before he sent a post to His Majesty Li Er to use the fighting cock to challenge the big chicken that His Majesty Li Er asked someone to raise carefully.
His Majesty Li Er is also a cockfighter. After reading Li Yuanying's unremarkable challenge letter, he became excited and chose a day to take the chickens to fight with Li Yuanying.
The two brothers instructed the two chickens to fight each other, and cheered their own "fighting cock" with one sound. Just as they were in a hurry, the two chickens had lost a lot of hair. Someone hurriedly reminded: "Your Majesty, Wei Shizhong is here!"
His Majesty Li Er was furious.
Li Yuanying was still shouting at the fighting cock in the excited cry of the two chickens: "Pede it, fighting cock, a good opportunity, get on!" After realizing that His Majesty Li Er on the opposite side had no sound, Li Yuanying looked up.
Oh my God! It was Wei Zheng who rushed in with a dark face!
Old Wei's face is even more fierce than fighting cocks!
Before Li Yuanying greeted him, Wei Zheng had already started to persuade him, saying that the general idea was "You are the king of a country, how can you lose your ambition to play with things? Do you think you are playing with a chicken? You are playing with a chicken of all over the world." During this period, countless classics were quoted, and every sentence was all about poking the lungs!
Li Yuanying was dumbfounded when he heard this and secretly counted how many allusions Wei Zheng had used. This was really a rare on-site teaching!
Li Yuanying was listening with relish, but after Wei Zheng finished spraying His Majesty Li Er, he turned to look at him!
Li Yuanying responded alertly and quickly: "Your words made me enlightened. I think the emperor and I are too inappropriate, so I decided to slaughter my fighting cock tonight and take it to your house to eat with you! What's the fun of fighting cocks? I'm still happier to eat chicken! I haven't been to your house for a long time, I miss your meals so much!"
Compared to being squirted, Li Yuanying would not pity a chicken!
Sure enough, after hearing what he said, Wei Zheng choked back.
The mood of slandering was interrupted, and Wei Zheng could only salute His Majesty Li Er and said, "I will take my leave first." After that, he turned around and walked away, obviously very dissatisfied with His Majesty Li Er's behavior of running to fight cocks.
His Majesty Li Er glared at Li Yuanying.
You can pretend to be good at playing tricks!
If you hadn't issued a letter of war, who would have fought a cock?!
Li Yuanying was not afraid that His Majesty Li Er would be angry at all, and asked His Majesty Li Er: "Brother, do you want to slaughter your chicken too? Otherwise, I think Old Wei would have to scold you when he went to court."
His Majesty Li Er thought about Wei Zheng's personality and ordered his side helplessly: "Go, slaughter these two chickens and send them to Wei Shizhong's house!"
Li Yuanying leaned over and persuaded His Majesty Li Er very well: "Brother, don't be sad, the old chicken will not go, and the new chicken will not come. The whole world is yours, are you still afraid that you can't find a chicken that suits your wishes?"
His Majesty Li Er scolded: "Get out, get out of here!"
The author has something to say:
Little Prince: Fighting cock, rest in peace, you will be stewed decently, steamed, cut white, and eaten with dipping sauce!
Chapter completed!