Becoming a Saint by Leisure Reading - Chapter 84

[Chapter 84]

“Fourth senior brother…”

Song Tuizhi was holding the latest issue of “Daxuan Min Bao” and repeatedly reading the second chapter of “Swordsman” when he suddenly heard a voice from outside the door. Lou’s voice.

Song Tui panicked, the great Confucianism’s supernatural power “Nothing” was activated, and the “Da Xuan Min Bao” in his hand was instantly distorted and dissipated, as if it had never existed.

Only then did Song Tuizhi lightly straighten his robes, with a serious face, dignified and majestic, and said softly: “Come in!”

Chen Luo pushed the door open and entered, seeing Song Tuizhi being so upright, he also gave a respectful salute “I’ve met the fourth senior brother. Is the fourth senior brother still used to it here?”

Song Tuizhi nodded slightly: “Scholars, you can live in peace with a sack of food and a ladle of drink. I came here to take care of you. This place is very good.”

Chen Luo felt awe in his heart. That’s right, this is what a great Confucian should look like.

Look at that Wei Yan, and then look at that Liu Jingzhuang, what they look like!

Ineffective!

Chen Luo also put away his scattered thoughts, and said seriously: “I have some questions, and I want to ask Fourth Senior Brother to clarify them!”

Song Tuizhi’s eyes lit up.

“When it’s time, the little brother wants me to solve his doubts!”

“Finally, I can show my majesty as a senior brother.”

“I must let the little brother respect me as the fourth brother.”

“I The fourth child in the bamboo forest is finally about to stand up!”

Song Tuizhi’s whole body was full of righteousness, the altar had never been clearer than before, and the memories that had crossed the mountains of books and the sea of learning flashed in his mind, and the volumes of sage classics Shadow disillusioned behind.

“Junior brother, if you have any doubts, feel free to tell me.”

Chen Luo admired Song Tuizhi even more when he saw Song Tuizhi’s appearance, and was about to ask, when he suddenly felt that he was too rude to be so straight to the point.

Wouldn’t it be better to say hello first?

“Well, fourth senior brother, have you eaten?”

“Huh?” Song Tui was stunned, thinking to himself, “Have you eaten? What’s the problem?”

“No, how could the younger brother ask such a vulgar question? There must be a deep meaning in the question.”

“”Mencius” says that food is sex, sex is also. The younger brother went to the brothel yesterday, and today he asked me if I ate. It must be for this sentence. The following sentence says, benevolence, What is inside is not what is outside; righteousness is what is outside, not what is inside. This is the point of view put forward by Gaozi and Mencius in discussing the scriptures.”

“Mencius advocated that nature is inherently good, Xunzi advocated that nature is inherently evil, and Gaozi advocated that there is nothing good in nature and nothing bad in nature. ”

“This is a question of the righteousness of Confucianism! Do you want to use this question to test the way of Confucianism in my bamboo forest?

” The fundamental teaching of the veins.”

“I need to answer this question carefully, and don’t let the younger brother misunderstand the Zhulin lineage!”

Chen Luo looked at Song Tuizhi, who was thinking hard, with doubts on his face.

Did you just eat it? Have you thought about it for so long?

Seeing Chen Luo’s expression, Song Tuizhi shuddered in his heart: “Sure enough, junior brother has deep doubts…”

For a moment, the room fell into a deathly silence.

After a long while, Chen Luo couldn’t hold back any longer, so he had to say something again, probing: “What if there is no food? Why don’t I order a table of noodles from the Moon Tower, and we brothers and sisters can chat while eating?”

Song Tuizhi: (ω )?

Chen Luo: (〃’▽’〃)   ”

You just asked me if I ate or not?

”   Song Tuizhi: (╯°Д°)╯︵┻━┻   …

“Ahem…” Song Tuizhi coughed dryly twice, and forcibly wiped away everything that happened just now; “I’m not hungry for brother. Why are you confused, but it’s okay.”

Chen Luo blinked, feeling that this fourth senior brother Just wanted to do it.

Is this the coercion of a great Confucian with a positive mood?

But since the other party didn’t intend to exchange pleasantries, Chen Luo expressed his thoughts in detail.

“Do you want to sell the whole story at a low price?” Song Tuizhi also became serious when he heard the business, “How low?”

Chen Luo thought for a while: “It should be affordable for ordinary people. I want to set the price at ten taels One volume of silver. For example, “Swordsman”, there are about four volumes in total.”

Song Tuizhi frowned slightly: “A Yawen Enlightenment book is priced at a hundred taels of silver, and your entire story is less than half the price?”

Chen Luo shrugged: “No way, no matter how expensive it is, ordinary people can’t afford it.”

Song Tuizhi thought for a moment and said, “Do you know why Yawen books are priced so high?”

Chen Luo thought for a while and said, ” It is said that it is because copying elegant texts requires “writing a thousand words”, and Confucian scholars who can “write a thousand words” will have a better way to make money. Therefore, the price of books can only be raised.”

Song Tuizhi shook his head slightly: “That’s right, But it’s not true. It’s true that Confucian scholars who “write a thousand words” do have other ways to make money, but do you think I, the Confucian Mountain and Sea people, really care about the gold and silver wealth?”

“Not only my Confucianism, but also Taoist Buddhist scriptures. The price is sky-high, since they want to spread the word to the world, why don’t they lower the price?”

Chen Luo nodded slightly, among other things, the Buddhist sect is notoriously shameless in order to preach, so why don’t they start a price war on classics?

Anyway, as long as the human race has the talent to read the scriptures, they can practice. If the scriptures can be seen everywhere, then there will naturally be more Buddhist disciples.

Seeing that Chen Luo was distracted by himself and stopped thinking about what happened just now, Song Tuizhi felt relieved, and then said: “The truth is actually very simple. Copying the classics is a way to get close to the way of the predecessors.”

“But after copying for a long time, my own principles will inevitably be assimilated by the principles in the book.”

“This is why I have the most Confucian “Yi”, followed by the Four Books and Five Classics. Because they are the fundamental scriptures. There is no assimilation worry.”

“However, even semi-sages, including great Confucianists, their classics are actually their own paths, which are not suitable for everyone. Some people will even copy classics that are different from their own principles. Completely blocked the way forward.”

“So the high price is to protect the copyists and also to compensate them.”

“Buddhist teachings should not be passed on to six ears, and Taoism’s preaching should not be passed on lightly. In the final analysis, this is also the truth ”

Chen Luo finally understood, but in fact, the production capacity couldn’t keep up, so he had to make things more expensive to ensure the total market volume. If productivity increases, prices will actually fall, but the total market size will remain unchanged.

“But…” Chen Luo suddenly thought, “What’s the matter with the Transcription Department of Wenchang Pavilion? Also, since there is such a restriction, why did those academies take down my books and transcribe?”

“The Transcription Department has always been Transcribed the annotations and commentaries of some great Confucians, but never released the systematic opinions of the great Confucians. Naturally, it will not affect the staff of the Transcription Department.”

“As for your book, it is naturally special.”

Song Tuizhi He stroked his beard under his chin and explained: “Your articles are full of literary talents and have a literary spirit, which is the closest to my Confucian school. But what is rare is that you don’t talk about the dispute of the great way, and there is no distinction between the righteousness, just narrative, Naturally, the person who writes it will not affect the person who transcribed it.”

“Secondly, an elegant article must have the power of heaven. Many people must have sensed your colorful mortal aura. This aura is not as good as my aura of righteousness. There is no exclusion, and there is even a sense of harmony and complementarity. How can those smart people in the academy let go?”

“Third, you spread the world with the people, even if you don’t follow my Confucianism and immortal road, you still have the potential to educate Good luck, heaven and fortune favor. They write articles to help you, but they will also get a little bit of virtue with them.”

“It’s a great thing to be able to be virtuous without thinking about the impact of the article on yourself.”

After hearing this, Chen Luo’s face turned dark. Fortunately, he thought that the gang of academies were good people, so it turned out that they had been plucking his wool. No wonder I’ve lost my hair these two days…

My heart is really dirty!

“However, since my article will not affect the writers, can it be sold at a low price by avoiding the disadvantages of high prices?” Chen Luo asked again.

Song Tuizhi pondered for a moment, then said: “Yes, but I don’t recommend it.”

“Why?”

“If you published the full version of the article at a low price, would your Minbao still be able to do it? If your story is gone now Support, the development momentum of Minbao is in full swing, it will fall from the sky into the mud in an instant.”

“This newspaper will be of great use to your future enlightenment! Don’t give up!”

Chen Luo frowned, he really thought about it, anyway There are so many stories in my mind, the big deal is that one is serialized, and the public newspaper is hung, and all one is published. But he quickly dismissed the idea.

Only he can write Yawen stories, and he releases multiple stories at the same time, which disperses the audience, but the recycling is still the same. Besides, his articles are not the kind of entertainment novels in the previous life, just read them, but readers need to read them repeatedly to gain strength, and Chen Luo can get feedback. At present, releasing multiple options at once may reduce efficiency.   Seeing Chen Luo pondering, Song Tuizhi

said again: “Furthermore, you must know the allusion of Zigong’s redemption[1]. If you sell the full text at a low price, what will those moral masters think?”

No match, no one is willing to take out their own scriptures, and only spread them within the family, wouldn’t it harm the foundation of the human race instead?”

Hearing Song Tuizhi’s words were so serious, Chen Luo also shuddered.

He hadn’t thought of this level.

But is there any way to keep Minbao’s serialization unaffected, and make his articles spread all over the world faster, without arousing the resentment of other book writers?

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in Chen Luo’s mind: By the way, someone has already thought of the solution, isn’t it——

【1】Zigong redeeming people (magic reform): In ancient times, when humans and barbarians fought, barbarians liked to exchange human captives property. At that time, there was a law in the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty: Anyone who redeems a compatriot of the human race can go to the Ministry of the Interior to reimburse the cost of the redeemer. Zigong Jiafu, a disciple of Confucius, thought it was human nature and the righteousness of the same clan, so he didn’t accept the reimbursement money. Confucius rebuked and said: If you don’t accept gold, how dare others accept it? Is it not human to accept it? If things go on like this, no one is willing to redeem their compatriots…

Today’s two chapters are the foreshadowing of a turning point, and there is no way to avoid it. Everyone is a literate person, so I’m sure you’ll love to watch it…

Continue to ask for a monthly ticket, please recommend it…

PS: The broken chapter craftsmanship is still there~

(End of this chapter)