I am the cook, but I am Li Er's son-in-law

Li Shimin then asked urgently.

Yin Xuan glanced at him.

Just about to find an excuse to prevaricate, but seeing Li Shimin's sincere and serious face, Yin Xuan tightened his face, and was ready to answer seriously.

"The most critical part of this question is that we are too smart." Yin Xuan cleared his throat and said softly.

Li Shimin's brain circuits can't keep up.

Didn’t you just talk about merchants and trade, why did you suddenly talk about “blame us for being too smart”?
What does this have to do with solving that problem?
Yin Xuan rubbed his hands, and without waiting for Li Shimin to ask a question, he continued: "The knowledge we are learning now, whether it is the Analects of Confucius or Mencius."

"Even counting."

"In fact, there is only one purpose, and that is to govern and employ people."

Li Shimin nodded in agreement.

This is true.

"This is a top-notch and smart idea. All problems and all contradictions can be summarized as contradictions between people and problems between people."

Speaking of this, Yin Xuan also felt a little emotional.

When talking about such topics with people in previous lives, there will always be a group of people who uphold the idea that with the improvement of productivity, all problems can be solved.

This concept cannot be completely right, but it cannot be completely wrong either.

The improvement of productivity can indeed solve some problems and delay the outbreak of some problems, but it will also bring some new problems.

If all expectations are placed on productivity, it is tantamount to expecting that when a child grows up, he can learn without a teacher and solve all the troubles he encounters.

Productivity palliative.

In contrast, starting from the person is the root cause.

However, this path cannot be completely correct. If it is completely correct, it will not have been circulating in a closed historical loop for thousands of years.

"But, have you ever thought about it, is this method correct?" Yin Xuan asked a question.

Li Shimin was stunned.

This is not only the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, but even the foundation of the entire Han people. Thinking about whether this method is right is a path he has never thought of.

In other words, he never suspected that this path was wrong.

Without waiting for Li Shimin to reply and come up with a suitable thought, Yin Xuan continued: "The biggest problem in the world now is that the people can't eat enough?"

"Thinking about nobles and nobles, the aristocratic family can eat less, and the common people can eat more. I want officials to be all dusty, and I want officials to be clean and upright."

"But have you ever thought that if the soil can grow several times more food, wouldn't the problem of not being able to fill the stomach be solved?"

On the table next to them, Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling and the others also came over, listening to Yin Xuan's words, some shocking, even absurd words for them.

Li Shimin smacked his lips: "This, how is this possible."

"How can there be several times more grain in the field?"

Yin Xuan nodded, and sighed with emotion: "Yes, how can there be several times more grain growing out of the soil for nothing."

Li Shimin was taken aback and heaved a sigh of relief. He thought that Yin Xuan really had a way to make more food grow out of the land.

But he hadn't had time to speak yet.

Yin Xuan went on to say: "But who would have thought before that a mere sand can make colored glaze, and a mere Zhu Yuguo can make a fan automatic."

"If you don't even try, how can you know whether this road will work or not?"

Several people froze, frowning and thinking.

Yin Xuan said with emotion: "It's because I'm too smart, thinking about how to solve this problem fundamentally, but it's not so easy to solve it fundamentally."

Li Shimin thought deeply.

Fang Xuanling couldn't hold back and asked, "So the shopkeeper means that farming is the most important thing?"

This kind of thinking is quite similar to the idea of ​​farmers.

Yin Xuan shook his head: "Not just farming, but all creative industries should be properly encouraged and promoted."

"Let people be willing to study these things, rather than being forced to make a living and have to study these things."

Saying that, Yin Xuan couldn't help laughing.

He was also a little helpless.

As far as printing is concerned, the earliest woodblock printing originated in Tang Dynasty. According to what Yin Xuan saw and heard, this technology has been promoted to a certain extent.

But the relatively simple "movable type printing" was not invented until more than 400 years later.

And this technology was really popularized and used on a large scale, and it was not even used on a large scale until the Ming Dynasty, 300 years after the invention of movable type printing.

Why is such an important technology so dusty?
Very simple.

One word, two words "useless".

Reading is a very luxurious thing. Scholars don't care whether they are reading books printed with engravings or movable type. Even in poor families, dozens of books are always bought at the expense of others.

Booksellers don't need to care about the cost, someone will always pay for them.

Movable type printing is more convenient, concise and useful than woodblock printing, but can this thing fill your stomach?Can you protect the world's poor and happy people?
No.

Therefore, technologies that cannot benefit the people and benefit the world are "useless" in their concept.

And the impact brought by this technology - the dissemination of words, ideas, and explosions, which in turn triggered a lot of people's thinking and cognition of the world.

And the industrial revolution that indirectly spawned it.

These are doomed to miss.

"The literature studied by the shopkeeper?" Wei Zheng added abruptly, "So the shopkeeper's rhetoric is just promoting your own knowledge?"

Yin Xuan glared back unceremoniously: "That's why I hate you officials. I'm just a commoner, chatting with old man Li, talking about wars on paper, imagining important family and country affairs, and just open my mouth?"

"Bah, I don't know how to become an official, and I can't do it after a while?"

Wei Zheng opened his mouth, and for the first time, he was so stunned that he couldn't speak.

Is what Yin Xuan said makes sense?

Have.

But the problem is that those who listened to what he said just now are His Majesty, Attendant, and Pu She.
But it's hard for him to speak out about his identity, so he can only hold back until his face turns red, staring at Yin Xuan with hatred, still unable to utter a word.

Li Shimin fell into thinking and began to ponder.

At the next table, Li Shu spoke and asked Yin Xuan for help in aggrieved manner. The eldest grandson had something wrong with the equations again.

Outside Huaizhen Square.

Two men who were dressed as Tang people, but could be seen as not being Tang people, followed the flow of people and slowly stepped into Huaizhen Square.