Meet Your Majesty!”

A group of top leaders from all industries who were signing and selling books stood up and saluted respectfully.

"No gifts!" Emperor Shihuang strode to one of the desks selling books with joy on his face. The author was the world-famous musician Shixuan.

Music compilation is not a book, but a set of books, edited by Shi Xuan, and has gathered dozens of famous scholars in the music industry to organize and edit.

It collected almost all the music books that could be found in Shang and Zhou dynasties and organized into books with different contents such as music scores, music theory, song and dance, music rhyme, instrumental music, etc., forming a music series called music compilation.

The whole set of books has a total of twenty-five volumes, more than three million words, more than 300 musical notes, and more than 700 poems. The rest of the content involving music theory and instrumental music is also very detailed, making it the greatest musical work in China's history.

In order to print this set of books, the publishing house specially organized a professional team composed of carving, lacquer artists and musicians. Shi Xuan personally provided guidance. It took dozens of people a full two years to complete the engraving and layout of all the pictures and music scores.

Because this set of books is detailed and collects ancient and modern music, it was named the Chinese music compilation series after it was published and was elected by all the famous scholars who participated in the comments as the first in the series.

Although Chen Xu did not agree with this evaluation very much, believing that music could not be compared with monographs such as Xu Fu's Compendium of Materia Medica and Zhang Cang's geometric summary, he was unwilling to use his power to oppress others and change his ideas.

After all, the inheritance of rituals and music is the most core content of Chinese civilization. Etiquette is considered a matter of natural justice and the most basic moral code that restricts the people from doing things and being human. Music is the spiritual expression of nature and harmony in the world. With rituals and music, the prototype of Chinese civilization has been established.

Although the Qin Dynasty is considered to be the country that disrespected the rituals and music among the princes and is a typical representative of the collapse of rituals and music, after the unification of the Qin Dynasty, with the reform and economic development, with the stability of the country and the prosperity of people's livelihood, the traditions of rituals and music, which were abandoned by the powerful country, gradually began to flourish. The rituals and music represent entertainment, but also the direction of social morality and value.

Although the development of science and technology is important, civilization and morality have nothing to do with technology. Human beings have countless brilliant civilized empires that have passed in a flash. In the end, it is because the moral value system cannot support the scale and development of the country. A society without virtue can only collapse in barbarism and killing.

The death of the Second Emperor of Qin in history was because the empire's moral system was completely collapsed and suppressed by magic to an unsupported level. With powerful disciples of the Legalists like Li Si and treacherous villains like Zhao Gao, the Qin Dynasty was not just as simple as the collapse of rituals and music, but from the king to the ministers who uphold the center of the court, there was no morality at all. The butcher's knife was raised, flesh and blood were tragic, and the people were living in poverty.

Therefore, even though Chen Xu did not quite admit that this music series could occupy the first place, he decided to accept and respect the ideas of contemporary people and put the elegant culture of music first, in order to express his recognition of the moral civilization of the inheritance of rituals and music.

Shi Xuan is a frequent guest at the imperial banquet in the palace, and Shi family represents the highest achievement of Chinese music. The First Emperor saw Shi Xuan at a glance, and then he was the first to walk to Shi Xuan. At this time, everyone who signed and sold the books seemed to deserve it. Chen Xu could only sincerely believe that even if the First Emperor advocated magic and hated the complicated etiquette of Confucianism so much, in fact, from the heart, he still had a Chinese soul full of ritual and music traditions. From the core, he still loved music etiquette, otherwise he would not have found a great Confucian scholar to be a teacher for Fusu.

From this we can see that the First Emperor is a person full of contradictions in his heart.

He wanted to achieve the goal of governing the country through magic, but at the same time he wanted the world to be full of etiquette and kindness. He kept traveling and recording his merits, and at the same time vigorously promoted the education of benevolence and morality, trying to use harsh magic to achieve the goal of making the people both hardworking and brave, and kind and kind.

There are rewards for hard work, but regardless of specific environmental factors and conditions.

There are rewards for bravely killing enemies, but the conditions for making meritorious deeds and the punishment for failure are extremely harsh.

He would be punished if he didn't save him, but he could not save the bad. He would encourage others to do good but encourage others to sue the evil...

Overall, the harshness of Qin's law is manifested in many aspects, and it is an extremely contradictory complex.

The ideal of the Legalists is to use the law to put morality in it, try to use the law to forcibly restrict morality, and form a set of rule of law civilizations that are different from the ritual and music civilizations.

While Emperor Qin Shi's permission to implement all this, he may also feel that complete magic has great disadvantages and needs to be assisted with benevolence and moral education. But he knows that it is one thing, but he is confused and confused to change and cannot find the right direction at all.

Overall, when Chen Xu appeared, Emperor Qin and Li Si were still feeling the stones across the river. However, the river was too muddy and wide. Qin had not yet found out that he had stools and had not left the edict to enthrone the crown prince. In order to preserve his position, Li Si also ignored the law, so Qin quickly capsized.

At present, Daqin has completely embarked on another path. Under Chen Xu's reform, Daqin has already had the right direction. Therefore, Emperor Shin was more concerned about the development of rituals and music, and had great interest and enthusiasm for the series of books launched by the publisher.

"Mr. Shi, can you sign a set for me as a souvenir?"

"The grass-roots are innocent, why dare to let Your Majesty ask for help!"

Shi Xuan stood up and bowed respectfully, then ordered a student behind him to take a set of brand new books, sit down, pick up a brush and add ink and write it in one go, write the words given to the First Emperor on the title page, and sign and write the date. Finally, he picked up a jade seal and carefully stamped a bright red seal. After the ink mark was dry, he handed it to the First Emperor with both hands.

"Haha, okay, thank you Mr. Shi for giving me. I haven't carefully read this set of music. I will definitely read it carefully when I go back today. I will give you a reward of 100 taels..." Emperor Shi waved his hand happily to instruct the accompanying palace servants.

"Your Majesty also asks you to take back Cheng's mission. This book was not compiled by Shi Xuan alone, so I dare not accept the bounty!" Shi Xuan quickly bowed and refused.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Shi doesn't like money, so he loses the meaning of giving. A thank you is enough!" Chen Xu also quickly exonerated Shi Xuan, for fear that this stubborn guy would ruin the First Emperor's excitement.

"Well, Mr. Shi is a famous scholar. He doesn't like money and other external things. But it's impolite to come and go. I remember that the Shaofu also collected an guqin, which was obtained from the Chu Palace. Some people speculate that it was a famous zither collected by King Zhuang of Chu..."

"Is what Your Majesty said abruptly?" Shi Xuan was shocked and couldn't help but interrupt the words of the First Emperor.

Emperor Qin Shi did not think it was offended, and nodded, "Well, some people speculated that it was a guqin around the beam, but King Zhuang of Chu has been around for more than 300 years. A zither would not have been preserved for so long. Most musicians in the palace thought it was a fake made by famous zither craftsmen. However, this zither was well-made and made and the sound was pleasant and clear. It was indeed a rare and good zither. I left it in the palace to let the pearls cover the dust. It would be better to give it to Mr. to the gentleman to enjoy the soulmate of Boyaziqi!"

"Thank you, your Majesty!" Shi Xuan couldn't stand firmly, threw down his brush and bowed deeply to the First Emperor. After getting up, he danced like a child, and was so excited that he could not express his feelings.

"Congratulations to Mr. Shi!"

"The friendship between Your Majesty and Mr. Shi will surely become a beautiful conversation in the world in the future!"

"It's the extreme, it's the extreme. In the past, I met my soulmates with mountains and flowing waters. Now, I have given the zither and books to each other to pass on the world. Your Majesty's kindness is a role model in the world, and I respect it!"

Zhang Cang, Xu Fu and others came over to congratulate each other and flattered him. He immediately made Emperor Shi’s first emperor so happy that he couldn’t stop talking about his ears. He pointed to the book in front of Xu Fu and said: “The set of Materia Medica Compendium is actually no less than that of Mr. Shi’s music compilation in my heart. Today, how can Doctor Xu not give me a set!”

"Natural and natural. Your Majesty doesn't say that I want to give you one. However, the Compendium of Materia Medica is not done by me alone. Apart from dozens of professors and imperial physicians in the health center, the greatest contribution is the Marquis of Qinghe. I would like to sign and give it to you with Marquis of Qinghe. I wonder what the Marquis of Qinghe wants?" Xu Fu smiled and bowed.

"The Marquis of Compendium of Materia Medica has no contribution to the slightest, why did Doctor Xu take me on?" Chen Xu couldn't help but laugh.

"Fu was just a priest from Donghai. Fortunately, he met the Marquis in Qinghe Town. Otherwise, Fu would have been harmed by bandits. The Compendium of Materia Medica was named by Marquis himself and proposed many compilation plans. He also explained the medicinal properties, pharmacology and even prescriptions of many medicinal materials. Fu thus had the idea of ​​compiling this book. Now this book prescription has been completed for a total of ten years, but Fu still feels that there are many unsatisfactory points in it. He still feels that his understanding and application of Marquis' medicine is less than ten. Therefore, Fu still needs to learn from Marquis and will spend his whole life to continuously improve this set of medical books. The prescription will not fall into the name of the Chinese medical saints. Therefore, Fu asked Marquis to sign and give it to His Majesty. Fu really dared not monopolize the name of this book!"

"Well, I will sign and present this set of medical classics with you. I also hope that Doctor Xu will not forget his original intention, continue to compile and organize more medical works, and make greater contributions to the medical cause of Daqin!" Chen Xu had nodded and agreed.

"That's great, please!"

"Please doc Xu!"

The two bowed slightly, and then signed their own names in one go. Xu Fu also took out his seal and stamped a bright red ancient seal on the title page, and then respectfully placed this set of medical books, which also had more than ten books, in front of the First Emperor.

"Okay, the medical co-author of the Taishi and the Taiji Xu will inevitably be passed down through the ages and become a beautiful story. I will take this set of books as a souvenir!" The First Emperor stroked his hand and sighed, and ordered the accompanying palace servants to wrap the set of books and put them away.
Chapter completed!