"The improved papermaking and movable type printing technology have reduced the cost of books exponentially! As a carrier of knowledge, cheap books allow more people to easily obtain knowledge. It may not have any effect in the short term, but ten or twenty years later, when those ordinary people who have mastered a certain amount of knowledge through these cheap books enter the court to become officials through the imperial examination...will my Tang Dynasty still lack officials?"

In Liangyi Palace, Li Chengqian was still explaining his plan to Changsun Wuji and others!

Changsun Wuji and others also looked at Li Chengqian from the beginning to the final shock and disbelief!

"Not only that, another means for aristocratic families to influence the world is public opinion! What is public opinion? Simply put, it is what the people say and what they say! The so-called three people become tigers. Today's news basically relies on word of mouth. One lie, one person says no one believes it, and three people say no one believes it, but when ten people, hundreds of people, or even tens of millions of people are saying it, then this lie may become a fact and be remembered by the world!

The aristocratic families have mastered the literati class, and these people have a high status in society. Their words are often more likely to convince the people. If they say that the emperor is extremely debauchery and cruel, then the people will naturally think that the emperor is like this, because the people can't see the emperor at all, and they don't know what the emperor did. Everything is just listen to others' words!

Just like this, the Imperial College students petitioned this time, but they did not see the entire story of Xinchang Gong vomiting blood and dying. How could they firmly believe that I was the one who angered him to death? Even though the father had issued an imperial edict to explain this matter before, they still didn't believe it! Isn't it because everyone was saying that I was the one who angered Xinchang Gong to death?

The role of newspapers is to broaden the channels for spreading news, so that people can get news no longer rely solely on others to spread it..."

For half an hour, Li Chengqian finally told the whole story.

However, Changsun Wuji and others were already in deep thought at this time. They were all recalling what Li Chengqian had just said, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt it made sense.

But...

"Your Majesty, cheap books and newspapers have a great relationship, and it will definitely cause strong resistance from people from aristocratic families, and there may be greater turmoil," Fang Xuanling said with some concern.

"Uncle Fang is too worried. Although it is certain that the aristocratic family boycotts, they cannot stop the promotion of these two things! Especially the newspapers, they will not notice their true purpose so quickly!" Without waiting for His Majesty Li Er to answer, Li Chengqian answered his uncle's concerns.

Fang Xuanling frowned and then suddenly said: "Yes, if your Highness hadn't told you personally, I wouldn't have thought that the function of the newspaper would be to guide public opinion. I would only think that the newspaper was just for publishing news!"

"That's right, that's exactly that!" Changsun Wuji and others also understood in an instant!

"And... the newspaper will not mention it for now, just talk about cheap books... How could the people and poor people, as the most direct beneficiaries, watch the aristocratic families stop the spread of cheap books?"

"But... how could they know that those aristocratic families were stopping cheap... Yes, newspapers, or newspapers!"

Li Chengqian didn't need to explain any more, and everyone understood the intention of Li Chengqian's entire plan!

...

On the other hand, the story of Jubaolou selling cheap paper books spread throughout Chang'an City in a short time. Even the people in the surrounding areas of Chang'an went to Chang'an City to buy it after learning the news!

As Li Chengqian expected, the newspapers that appeared on the streets and alleys of Chang'an City on the same day as cheap books, but the response from the people was very dull. They just discussed the interesting things published in the newspapers with each other and did not take this thing seriously at all.

The heads of various aristocratic families stationed in Chang'an City were gathered together to discuss how to deal with Li Shimin's killing of many students.

After hearing about Jubaolou selling cheap books, some of them were also very confused.

"What's going on? How could Li Chengqian sell such exquisite books at such low prices? Was he crazy?"

"Yes, if you don't talk about anything else, this paper may not be the only money, right? What exactly does he want to do?"

"It seems that as we guessed, Li Shimin punished Li Chengqian to think about his mistakes behind closed doors. The real purpose was to let him escape this storm!"

"Haha, our purpose is not Li Chengqian. What does it matter if he really thinks about his mistakes at Zongzheng Temple?"

But someone also saw some tricks about this matter and frowned and said to everyone: "Don't you understand the impact of this matter yet?"

"Influence? What does Brother Zheng mean?" Everyone looked at this person in confusion, not knowing what he meant.

"What is the most fundamental thing that has been passed down by my aristocratic family for thousands of years? It's just knowledge... To put it simply, it's books! But once such cheap books are promoted, who else is willing to rely on my aristocratic family? How can my aristocratic family pass on it?"

His words made everyone present stunned for a moment, and then suddenly, everyone's faces showed a solemn look!

And everyone's first reaction was...

"No, you must not allow such books to be promoted, you must stop them!"

"Yes, I must stop it!"

...

The next day, in the court, except for those military generals and a few confidant ministers of His Majesty Li Er, almost all officials stood up and denounced Jubaolou's public sale of books, and asked His Majesty Li Er to immediately order the ban of Jubaolou and severely punish the prince behind the scenes Li Chengqian!

The reason they gave was that how could the articles of saints be measured by stinky things? It is a serious blasphemy to the saints when you sell articles of saints on public sale!

These people cleverly equated the books sold in Jubaolou with the articles of sages, and immediately changed the nature of the whole thing completely!

If it is just a simple purpose to make everyone in the world have books to read, Li Chengqian's behavior of promoting such cheap books cannot be said to be of immeasurable merit, and it is also a great kindness to the people and poor students!

If it were replaced by a sage article... As the crown prince, you, Li Chengqian, took the lead in blaspheming the sage articles, is simply unforgivable and must be punished, and it must be severely punished, and you will be directly punished!

In the eyes of scholars, the articles of sages are priceless treasures and sacred things! Linking money, such as money, with the articles of sages, is a great insult and blasphemy to the sages - this is a concept that no matter whether the poor or the wealthy family is confused or the officials of the court, the great scholars in the world are firmly believed in!

However, although one person also condemned the sale of articles of sages to the people at a certain price, his request was not to punish Li Chengqian, but to distribute these books to the people of the world for free!

This person is nothing else, but one of Li Chengqian’s teachers - Kong Yingda!
Chapter completed!