Chapter 40(1/2)
I thought about it and refused politely. Although I don’t know how much he overlaps with the person in this time and space, at least he is just a passerby I met on my itinerary. Now is not the time to be high-profile and ostentatious.
However, he was really unwilling to refuse his affection and promised that he would not delay his plan at the nearby area for too long. He bought two large bags of tea cakes and several packs of thick and thin snacks in front of the temple. He cut a large plate of sticky steamed cakes made of yellow rice from the vegetarian shop, followed them across two streets and came to Fushe, not far from Chenguo Temple.
The so-called revival of the country is actually a backyard of an old book shop. The air is filled with the smell of ink and old paper. There is only a wooden board on the door and the door and the door is filled with "happy" of ink books. However, the regret of cleaning up is that at most various books and copyings of new and old.
Several houses leaning against the wall look quite like a fireworks, with melons climbing in a corner and a small flower bed beside it.
There is actually a manual printing machine with a stone plate bottom. The movable type is sprinkled with metal movable type that is not known to be lead or tin in the vine sieve. It has been very polished. I looked at the printing plate a little and it was actually a horizontal plate style according to modern customs, and it is not necessary to mention, it is another benefit left by Liang Gong, a senior of time traveler.
Put the things I bought on the old case I moved out, boil water and make tea, and then take them at will, and do their own things. It seems that they are much more casual and straightforward, obviously the same is true for daily life.
Some people use a book to the corner and read it on their own, shaking their heads; some people use water to dip their brushes to write something unknown; some people pick up knife and cut, repair the flowerbed happily, or just walk into the room with a yawn, and snore loudly after a while.
Therefore, in the end, only Cai Yuanchang was left to accompany me to continue introducing the situation here.
"Those who have quite the legacy of bamboo forests."
I smiled at Cai Yuanchang and said, "It looks a bit like an ancient literary home, and I will have the taste of a secret garden for fellow readers."
According to him, this is also a loose group with mixed interests.
As a daily event, it is said that in addition to collecting and reading various ancient and modern books, they often use some of their own experiences, poems and other things to be written here for everyone to appreciate, and then print some popular copyings in small circles as commemorations.
This hand-made printing machine is their largest public property.
In fact, because hundreds of years ago, the early promotion and popularization of movable type printing, the world's publishing industry has reached a very high level, including both the traditional royal engravings of the inner palace and the so-called Tai Pavilion engravings of the provincial Taiwan Ministry.
There are both the highest institution of learning in the traditional sense, the Imperial College, and the local schools in various prefectures and prefectures engraved books.
There are both local governments engraved books, as well as engraving books by various envoys.
There are books engraved by the minister's library, books engraved by the nobles, wealthy families, and various names of homes and ancestral halls.
There are both books engraved by ordinary families and professional academies.
There are books engravings in large and large bookshops that are popular among the folk elegance and vulgarity, as well as books engravings in temples with strong religious colors and persuasion. Therefore, the threshold for buying a simple printing plate mechanism like this is not too high.
What is really rare is the source of those metal movable types. You should know that these miniature casting and engraving techniques of the fly-headed and yin characters cannot be made in any hardware workshop. I can’t help but have more hidden attributes of their identities and more speculations.
According to a further introduction, Cai Yuanchang was born in a large Fujian family with a prosperous cultural heritage. Because his clan members served as officials in Xuzhou, they received a recommended place and went to the only remaining Pengcheng Academy in the local area to study. He entrusted his connections to buy and give it away.
Others have similar backgrounds or experiences, and at least they are children of wealthy and idle families, so they have enough time and energy to make friends and connect, rely on their daily interests and mutual attraction to form this small group.
Then, in this chaotic environment, we will work hard to maintain a little final tradition of the Shilin literary style, or dignity and pride, and promote our own ideas and propositions in our own way.
Because it can be said that this resumption of the society has no profit, but instead requires everyone to pay for it and subsidize it themselves. It seems that Cai Yuanchang was promoted to the leader because he invested the most.
And I specially invited me here, just to find some kind of joy to find a high-level topic that can be discussed.
I just heard that my current job is just a doctor, and I couldn't help but show some laughter and crying expression. I was a little confused and difficult to investigate.
"If you don't be a good minister, you will be a good doctor... Sometimes it's the same thing to save the world and cure diseases."
I explained lightly.
My previous experience in Luodujing made me and him not lack topics and allusions, and they could also involve some historical allusions and true and false unofficial historical jokes. So a few people gathered again and started talking about this topic of interest.
I also know a little about the situation of local scholars and cultural forests. Because Xuzhou is the key hub for the intersection of waterways, it has not been war-torn to the relative stability of the city of the prefecture for decades. Therefore, it has attracted the scholars from nearby Lianghuai, Liangzhe, and Fujian. It is also a rare place for people to gather in a peaceful and peaceful corner in this chaotic world.
Although the war has disrupted the rise of traditional imperial examinations and official studies, whether it is seeking office as a local minister or inheriting family business in the future, it requires corresponding cultural knowledge and vision. Therefore, a little market and space for study tours and further study were maintained.
Just like the foreign vassal princes, although most of them obey orders from Luodu, they disobey or act on their own, they did not prevent the military generals and officials from sending their children to Luodu's two studies and three attachments to practice and study.
But since we are welcomed,
I also gave them several ideas, so that they can use their existing things and their own expertise to get a little bit of income-generating opportunities. Although there are not many, they have the advantage of stability and long-term flow.
These people are not poor and noble people who are stupid in reading. Especially in this chaotic world of hunger and war, they can easily ask about the feasibility and personnel arrangements in detail.
For example, I started a copying bureau, and started from a small place to rely on Chenguo Temple to print some vernacular Buddhist scriptures and stories of life that encourage people to do good, and printed some guides for temples and bookmarks for scenic spots. They were sold in the incense shop next to the temples. There were definitely many people who bought them.
If you don’t have it, you can also compile some reading manuals such as Thousand Characters and Three Character Classics. The paper and materials are ready-made, and the amount of time and labor is spent. It is convenient for others and benefits yourself.
For example, collecting old books, re-frame them, starting a book rental business to the outside world, etc. The huge market in the city is always short of various cultural and spiritual needs... When it comes to various longings and electronics for starting businesses and doing odd jobs in student days, their skills are not as rich and colorful as modern people.
I even thought of the name of the copying bureau.
"Just ask Donglin to copy the bureau..."
“Very good.”
Cai Yuanchang narrowed his eyes and said.
"Take it from the fences in the south and the east, and wander around the forest and spring..."
"Do you need couplets?"
I thought about taking the railway to take the heat.
"Brother Xia, what's the best thing?"
The sound of wind and rain
Family affairs, state affairs, and everything in the world
As soon as this pair came out, there was a lot of praise. Wang Fu, the best calligraphy, immediately copied it.
What I gave them was actually the couplet written by Gu Xiancheng, the founder of Donglin Academy in the Ming Dynasty, which was a little bit of malicious interest. Since there was a Fushe, there would be no Donglin Party.
I really look forward to the future such as the leader of the New Donglin Party and the last conscience of the literati, Cai Yuanchang, etc. If he was really the person in history, he would always have a chance to make a comeback.
Although the imperial examination system has collapsed, in the separatist areas of the vassal states, some academic and examination systems are still retained in order to provide assistance in governing local officials. After all, the operation of local governments cannot rely entirely on nepotism.
While talking, I heard the sound of talking gradually coming again, and several somewhat happy men walked into the yard.
"Boji..."
Cai Yuanchang greeted the tall man in the lead and nodded.
"This is my fellow countryman, Li Boji, Shaowu people..."
I have also seen it. Those who gave high-profile speeches in Chenguo Temple turned out to be the same group of them.
"Although this Xia Sheng is just a first-time meeting, it is a bit refreshing and insightful."
Cai Yuanchang introduced to those people again
"I'm just trying to introduce it to you... I think it's a good time to make friends and get close to you."
"Xia Sheng is polite..."
Li Boji speaks with a straightforward and neat taste
Then they introduced themselves that they belonged to another small group called Kotanshe.
The original speech in public is not the tradition of the dynasty, but only emerged after the first year of Qian. This is also one of the legacy of the two studies, one of the good policies passed down by Gong Liang founded various studies.
However, compared with Cai Yuanchang, who was so idle that he was a little bit homeless, the people in the Tanshe River had a little more radical look.
Therefore, it can be easily felt that these are purely composed of scholars from the country and local wealthy families. There are also two factions in the small literary circle.
But it is understandable that everyone is the age of the second-tier school, and has been passionate and angry young people. Even in college, there is a so-called dispute over literature and theory.
"So the same year as Kotanshe and Fushe will help..."
Then another person shouted
"He started fighting with Zhao Yuanzhen, Li Taiding, Hu Bangheng and others again..."
A group of people ran out of the yard like a wind, and even my head-to-head squatting and I were carried over.
Then at a back door of Chenguo Temple, a bunch of heads wearing hijabs had gathered together, and the sound of loud arguments could be heard from afar, because this scene made me feel familiar and kind.
With the addition of the crowd of the Fushe Society, the tone and atmosphere became a little intense. Cai Yuanchang, who was beside me, also sued him and squeezed in to reconcile.
I listened for a while and found it meaningless, so I stood up and greeted me and prepared to leave.
"What do you think about brother?..."
A voice called me
"I have no insight..."
I shook my head,
"I don't understand what you said again..."
"Then brother, you can stay for a while. Listen to my clarification of the proposal and make an assessment."
I sighed. This kind of literary youth who always thinks that shouting more slogans can affect others to change the world is the most annoying and troublesome. Especially when they think they are reasonable.
"Is it necessary?"
“Of course it’s necessary…”
The other party said something meaningful.
"If you still have the heart to move forward to the Tao..."
What are all about this? I frowned. Did they misunderstand something?
At this time, Cai Yuanchang also squeezed out, his face a little bad.
"What does Brother Xia think of them..."
To be continued...