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Chapter 66 The Road to Rise

Xu You returned to the mountain and shouted casually when changing clothes: "Lu Shuang..." After a while, no one responded, and suddenly remembered that Lu Shuang was no longer there. He paused for a moment, went to wash and went to bed.

Regarding Xu You's personal servant women's choice, He Ru and the Winter Solstice have been having a headache. First, it was the autumnal equinox, and then walked frost. One served him since childhood, had the strongest feelings and the most familiarity, and the other was understanding. Her background and experience made her feel like a flower of understanding, so she was able to stay with Xu You for so long.

Xu You seems to be easy to talk, and his life is not luxurious, nor is he debauchery, nor does he have as many rules as the gentry family. In fact, those who know him know that the more casual theories, the more demanding the people around him are. He knows that both the masters are well-educated and can speak with each other, and must be smart and clever, know what to say and what not to say, and be even more loyal, especially after Lu Shuang's incident, loyalty is the most important priority.

There are hundreds of people in Mingyu Mountain now, and there is really no one who is suitable for Xu You to be a maid. He Ru is determined to sell a trained person outside, but picking and choosing is not something that can be found in two or three months. Dong Xie was bold and asked Xu You what kind of maid he wanted to take over Lu Shuang. Xu You smiled and said, don’t bother, just wait!

Over the past two years, Yu Tu has basically adapted to the leisurely life in Xu You Mansion. He does not have to intrigue with everyone in order to survive, nor has he no longer fear and urgency. He does not have to pretend not to speak Chinese to maintain his pitiful self-esteem. The most important thing is that everyone sees Xu You's favor for He Xi Chou Nu. In Xu You is the supreme Lord, and the Chou Nu is the little princess whom he loves thousands of people. So when he heard that the Winter Solstice wanted her to serve Xu You, he agreed without hesitation.

Xu You is not lustful, which is the consensus of hundreds of people in the Xu family. He respects even a beautiful girl like Lushuang. Yu Tu would not think that her face ruined half of her face and her body who had given birth to children and was a camp prostitute would make Xu You excited.

This is one of the benefits of outstanding character, which can save a lot of unnecessary trouble. The subtle power looks insignificant, but when it works, it is enough to make people jaw-drop.

Yu Tu did not do much to serve people, and it seemed a bit clumsy compared to the sliver and the autumnal equinox. However, Xu You was not the waste genius who even had to serve his maids in dressing, eating, and going to the toilet. What he needed was to help deal with those trivial chores and trivial matters, such as laying a bed and stacking quilts, serving tea and water, washing and drying, etc. In addition, if you are interested, you can accompany you to grind and study, such as slivering frost; if you are not interested, you can do your own things and do what you like, such as the autumnal equinox.

Yu Tu is in between. She is not interested in reading and practicing calligraphy, but she is willing to watch Xu You write and splash ink. In the eyes of northerners, the most charming thing about southerners is their talent in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine and flowers. Xu You is undoubtedly the leader among southerners.

A few days later, a rare guest came to Mingyu Mountain. He was the ancestor who had not seen for a long time. He carried a small package, coarse linen, and was covered in dust. The first sentence he said to him was: "I finally pushed to the second position of pi, as the husband said..."

Last time in Qiantang siege, the two agreed that when Zu Yan calculated the pi to the second position, verified that Xu You's words were correct, he would visit him.

Regarding Zu Yan's arrival, Xu You raised all his limbs to welcome him. His planning and layout urgently needed talents in the field of calculating and mechanical manufacturing. So he heard that Zu Yan had resigned from his post as a lieutenant colonel, settled his family's daughter, and followed Xu You to learn the "style" that could calculate the pi to more than 800.

Xu You was ecstatic!

The next first thing was that Xu You asked He Ru to isolate the Sajinfang from an area and use it as a newly established bookstore, and then hired thirty book servants with superb calligraphy.

He Ru asked in confusion: "Is Qilang preparing to collect books?"

The so-called book servant is a copywriter. Before the invented woodblock printing technology in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the business of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties developed and flourished. According to the "Book of Northern Qi? Biography of Zu Yi", "A guest from the state came and asked to sell "Hualin Bianluo". Wenxiang collected many book lovers, who wrote it a day and night, and said, "It's not necessary." This book "Hualin Bianluo" has a total of 700 volumes. Such a huge volume of books can be copied in a day and night.

How many book servants do you need?

Many scholars with poor life, from poor backgrounds, humble status, and lack of food and clothing, are willing to work as a book servant. At least they look more elegant and not so vulgar. But in fact, the process of copying books requires you to sit at your desk day and night, hot in summer and cold in winter, which is both boring and tiring. Moreover, copying books is not just random, and the requirements for calligraphy are extremely high, and ordinary people cannot do this job even if they want to do it.

"It's not a collection of books, we print books!"

"print?"

Not to mention He Ru, even Zu Yan was confused. He was appointed as the lieutenant colonel's order. He knew everything about the world's strange skills and tricks, but he never knew that there was a saying that he had printed books.

The woodblock printing technique had not yet appeared at this time. The most similar thing to the woodblock printing technique was the popular seal nowadays. There was a real person who liked peach wood seals with 120 words engraved on it. It was a short article that was regarded as the prototype and budding of the miniature woodblock.

Xu You roughly introduced the procedure for woodblock printing. Zu Yu first reacted and said, "This is the method of plagiarizing steles passed down from the Han Dynasty..."

"It is precisely because I found my thoughts from the peach wood copy of Tianshidao, and then imitated the method of plagiarizing the stele, and the two merged to create this kind of printing technique."

Zu Yan is the most outstanding natural scientist of this era. He is proficient in jurisprudence, astronomy, calendar and mechanical manufacturing. He instantly understands the great significance of the printing technique invented by Xu You. Teng stood up, his hands trembled excitedly and said, "Langjun is really a heavenly being descended to earth. In this way, the time and manpower spent collecting a book will be greatly reduced... This is, this is..."

He was too shocked and could not find the right words for a moment. He was spinning back and forth in the room, his blood surged from blushing to his neck. He Ru realized it and tasted it. He took the conversation and said, "This is the most powerful leap of my orthodox civilization in China after Cangjie created characters and Cai Lun made paper. Qilang, with this printing technique, you have left your name in history and no one can reach!"

It can allow one of the four great inventions to be released a hundred years ago and contribute to the Chinese civilization that has been passed down for thousands of years. Xu You is willing to steal this technology, but he is unwilling to steal this reputation. He said: "Don't say it's my idea to the outside world. Mr. Zu came, just as Mr. Zu came, just said it was a printing technique made by Mr. Zu."

"How can that happen?" Zu Qi strongly opposed it and said, "No matter how talented I am, I can't take away the beauty of others. Will the husband humiliate me?"

Xu You smiled and said, "Sir, I'm too worried! Printing is just a first-hand shape. If you want to become a reality, you have to rely on your talent. Seriously speaking, it's easy for me to come up with a thought, but there must be many problems to operate. At that time, I have to find a way to solve it. Therefore, half of the contributions to printing are me and half of you. I am now embarrassed and have a reputation too much, and I'm afraid of trouble. Mr. Husband is noble in character, and I know it deeply, so I'd rather let the printing technology be buried for the time being and declare it to the world when the time is ripe in the future."

"Don't..." People like Zu Zhi were itchy when they heard about their skills. How could they let the printing technology continue to be buried? He hesitated and said, "Okay, I will just be shameless to embezzle the reputation first. When the husband doesn't have so many concerns in the future, then let me explain it to the people of the world!"

"Okay!"

Xu You stood up and said, "Sir, I have lived in a bookstore for a while. I will send someone to guard it carefully. Remember not to leak any rumors!"

Zu Yan followed Li Mu to the bookstore with great enthusiasm, and He Ru sighed: "Sometimes I am really curious about what Qilang has in his head. I can make something surprising whenever I don't move."

Xu You smiled but didn't say anything. In fact, he was still a little ashamed. Stealing articles and poems were just a path, but even printing techniques were stolen. I would be sorry for the hard-working people who invented printing techniques with their supreme wisdom.

He Ru's sensual man came over and asked, "Qilang thought that the printing technique must have been a year or two, so why did he throw it out at this time?"

"Yuan Qingqi was a sacrificial wine, and the plan that originally planned to gradually rise in Yangzhou was no longer applicable. I am afraid that the longer I spend in Tianshidao, the easier it is to reveal flaws, so I have to take a different approach and win by surprise!"

“How surprising?”

Xu You seemed to remember something funny, and his fingers gently wrapped around his long hair scattered on his shoulders, saying, "Who is the biggest enemy of the Taoist sect?"

"Although the Taoist sect is now a six-day enemy, the real enemy is still Benwu Sect!"

"If you want to sit in the Taoist sect, you naturally have to step on the enemy's corpse. The so-called surprising thing is to stab the monks in the most important thing!"

"Oh?" He Ruyang raised his eyebrows and said, "I have been a monk for ten years, but I don't know what monks value most!"

"You fake monk, you can't count the words and recite scriptures with desires!" Xu You's eyes were a little cold, and he said softly: "Whether monk or bull's nose, what they value most is orthodox!"

China has a thousand years of history, dynasties have changed, hundreds of schools of thought contend, and the difference between China and the barbarians is nothing more than two words: orthodox!

Buddha came from the West and wanted to completely integrate into this highly developed country of civilization, he had to justify his identity as the Hu religion. Great monks of all generations did not hesitate to integrate metaphysics into Buddhism, and also highly learn from the theories of Confucius, Mencius and Laozi and Zhuangzi. The purpose was nothing more than to make Buddhism gain a foothold faster, have a wider range of believers, and have transcendent influence among the gentry and common people before they could declare it orthodox.

That is, the national religion!

Since the Six Dynasties, Buddhism and Taoism have taken turns to serve the national religion, and in order to compete for fame and show their orthodoxy, it has caused countless bloody storms. What Xu You is doing now is just to put this contest, which is still in the brewing period, on the open stage. It seems that the war is not bloody, but it seems to be a little more literary than the battle between the court and the world. In fact, in terms of influence, it is unprecedentedly huge.

"Yes, it's orthodox!"

He Ru's eyes opened and the light flowed. He had an impulse to wait in his heart and said, "Where did Qilang's knife come from?"

“Come from the scriptures!”

"What sutra?"

"I'm going to transform into Hu Jing!"

In the next three months, Yuan Qingqi's boat traveled across the twelve counties of Yangzhou. Even Xu You could hear her news from time to time in Qiantang, and most of them were shocking so-called miracles.

First, he transformed green lotus in Fuchun County to fetch water, allowing the three-eyed clear spring that had been dry for ten years to flow again; then he used Tianlei to correct the law in Shanyin County, triggering a forest fire, burning 80,000 ghost soldiers, and saving countless people; then there was a water monster in Feiyun River in Yongnian County, who ate people. Yuan Qingqi raised the eight-scenery magic sword and fought for three days. He was seriously injured. He killed the water monster at the bottom of the river to protect the safety of the land. The most supernatural thing was that in Songyang County, a pregnant woman died of labor and died in difficulty. On the way to burial, Yuan Qingqi passed by, and said that the boy under Laojun was Linfan, forcibly dispersed the funeral team, opened the coffin and recited the magic spell, fed the pregnant woman to take talisman water, and immediately gave birth to a daughter. Yuan Qingqi regarded her as adopted daughter, and came to take her into the mountains to practice Taoism after she was seven years old.

All of these, after word of mouth, almost portrayed Yuan Qingqi as the Nine Heavens Xuannv, who could do everything and knew everything. The incense of the Yangzhou master in Tianshidao was so popular that the Taoist temples in various places were crowded with people, and the tax on renting rice was almost chasing Du Jingzhi when he was appointed to sacrifice wine.

The root of this is not that Yuan Qingqi showed more miracles than Du Jingzhi. You should know that Du Jingzhi was a great real person who used talisman water to treat the plague. He thought about the treatment after chaos, and people's hearts need to be entrusted.

Because the white thief's destruction on Yangzhou was too deep and too strong, many people had their wives and children, their families were broken, and those who survived had no place to live, and they could not eat, and their bodies and spirits were subjected to double torture. At this time, religion became the best destination. Therefore, Yuan Qingqi took advantage of the situation and showed miracles frequently, and finally let the Tianshi do the best and turn the fish back again.

"The Heavenly Master Taoist is full of talents, Qilang really needs to be extremely careful!"

At the top of the mountain of Mingyu, there is a pavilion called Wangyuan. Xu You and Qingming talked with each other while He Ru leaned on the railing alone, looking at the summary of the information handed over from the Winter Solstice. The one mentioned most was Yuan Qingqi.

By the way, her current Taoist name is Ning Changyi, and everyone respectfully calls it Zuo Shenyuanjun but dare not name it!
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