Datang: Only by resisting the decree can we become stronger

Just like what Sun Simiao said that day, if he didn't take the elixir they got indiscriminately, the foot disease would definitely not be so serious.

Even if it is maintained as before, it is better than now!

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On the other side, in Furong Garden.

After Princess Youle got married and Cheng Yaojin's daughter was settled, life in Furong Garden returned to normal.

At the beginning, Li Qiu agreed to go to Wei Zheng to collect books from all over the world.

Preparations for the construction of the Furong Academy Library.

After the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, a large number of classics and books in the world were lost.

Moreover, many ancient books have obscure graphics and characters, and are often discarded by people.

Now Li Qiu collects books from all over the world with his own strength, and rewards those who donate books with money and silk.

This is also a good thing that works for thousands of years.

Nowadays, as the tea industry is becoming more and more popular and the profits are getting higher and higher, Li Qiu Furong Garden is really the richest side.

not bad money...

Therefore, the rewards and pricing for book contributors are quite attractive.

For an ordinary book with about a thousand words, about 2000 words will be given.

Like the more precious and meaningful orphans, the price will be much higher.

At least, the price given by Furong Academy is twice, or several times, the market price.

And the most rare thing is that Furong Academy accepts books this time, and all comers are welcome.

As long as you are willing to sell, I will give you money.

Even if I have a duplicate version here, I will buy it.

As a result, once this news was sent out, it caused an uproar in Chang'an City and its surroundings.

Nowadays, the name of Furong Academy has been thoroughly resounded in the world.

No one knows, no one knows.

The credibility in the hearts of the people is simply higher than the announcements issued by the government.

Like some incompetent and greedy officials, they can often go back on their word, change orders day and night, and bully the people.

But this is definitely not the case with Furong Garden and Furong Academy.

It has been verified several times in the past that Furong Garden and Furong Academy will never let the people suffer.

As a result, the people who came to offer books outside the Furong Garden every day formed a long line early.

And with the spread of the news, people from all states and counties in the world are gathering here with their own collection of books.

Although Furong Garden has a lot of manpower, it is not short of money.

However, the difficulty and cumbersomeness of such a large project far exceeded the expectations of Li Qiu and others.

For example, after the person who presented the book brings the book, you have to conduct a preliminary appraisal and price.

Paying people the money in the first time can also improve the overall efficiency.

During this period, Ma Zhou, Wu Jue, Sun Simiao, and all the teachers in Furong Academy have already gone to battle.

Barely manageable.

However, after the successful acquisition of books.

The tedious process and hassle behind this has just begun.

For example, you have to repair, repair, and initially classify these books.

After classification, there are a series of professional and complex tasks such as adding regular script, rewriting, detailed sorting, and editing.

Upon seeing this, Li Qiu only felt that his head was as big as a bucket.

Ever since, he found Wei Zheng and said that he was going to quit the job.

Said that he still paid for it.

But I don't care about all other things in Furong Academy.

This kind of thing is really not something that can be done by one person.

Let Wei Zheng figure out the rest.

In fact, for Li Qiu's actions, no matter whether it was Wei Zheng or Ma Zhou.

Almost all literati and book lovers are extremely grateful.

In that era, literati were more important than their lives in the inheritance, compilation, and organization of culture.

It is precisely because of their great spirit that future generations can witness so much history.

and major events that have occurred.

As soon as he saw that Li Qiu was impatient and wanted to quit, Wei Zheng became impatient.

Repeatedly promised to solve the remaining troubles by him.

He coaxed Li Qiu to continue doing such a good deed that will benefit future generations.

With their manpower, material resources, financial resources, reputation, and convenient location of Furong Garden.

It is simply the most ideal choice for this book collection activity.

If Li Qiu quit here, I'm afraid this matter will basically be a mess.

Afterwards, under Wei Zheng's lobbying, a large number of scholars and Confucian scholars who value inheritance and despise fame and wealth immediately came to Furong Garden to help.

When they came, they had already said that they were not working for a merchant called the King of Peking.

Not to mention that they would not want any benefit from Furong Garden.

Even a sip of rice and water, they don't take advantage of Furongyuan.

What they are doing is only for these extremely precious and rare ancient books, and for future generations.

What makes Li Qiu feel funny is that these old scholars and Confucians are really weird and stubborn.

And he did what he said, even drinking water and eating were delivered from Chang'an City.

There is absolutely no relationship between a penny in Furongyuan.

And from their eyes, Li Qiu can also see it.

They have a sense of repulsion and disgust from the bottom of their souls towards Li Qiu, and even Ma Zhou.

As if they couldn't bear the smell of copper on their bodies.

But when they are facing this old and broken ancient books.

The ones they cherished were as if the ones in front of them were extremely beautiful young girls.

So much so that every time they turned a page, they were afraid that they would hurt the book.

Chapter 618 Extinguished

Among this group of literati and great Confucians, Linghu Defen, the servant of the Ministry of Rites, is the core.

When engaged in classification, book revision, compilation and other work, it is also the most attentive.

It has been introduced before that this Linghu Defen was born in a famous family and is an out-and-out scholar.

The three views are extremely positive.

This time, something happened to the Ministry of Rites, so he was recommended by his close friend Wen Yanbo to help.

He took the post of servant of the Ministry of Rites.

Originally, his work and position had been studying and repairing books in the Hongwen Library.

Even in history, his achievements are praised by future generations.

It has also made a great contribution to the compilation, preservation and continuation of historical materials.

Wei Zheng was extremely reassured about him.

So Linghu Defen was sent to take charge of this matter.

After having a group of upright officials and Confucians like them come to help, the work and efficiency of Furong Academy instantly increased several times.

It also shared too much pressure on Li Qiu, Ma Zhou, Wu Jue and others.

And Li Qiu even spent a lot of money to build a majestic, brick structure, three-story library in the outer house of Furong Garden.

Given the size of the Book Collection Pavilion, after it is completed, there may be a collection of tens of millions of books, which is not a problem.

Of course, these are things to follow.

Just when Li Qiu and the others were in full swing, they were busy collecting books from all over the world.

But suddenly he was called in by an imperial decree from the palace.

After Li Qiu came to the Chengqing Hall according to the order, Li Shimin, Li Jing, Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji, Xiao Yu, Wang Gui, Hou Junji and others had already arrived.

Moreover, the expressions on the faces of the people and the atmosphere in the venue were a little depressing.

At this moment, Li Shimin glanced at Li Qiu, "King of Peking, what have you been doing recently?"

Hearing this, Li Qiu was slightly surprised, but he still replied truthfully: "Report to Your Majesty."

"Thanks to His Majesty's great grace, I have been recuperating at home."

"I have nothing to do, so I built another book collection pavilion for Furong Academy, for the academy to teach and students to study."

Li Shimin sighed softly at this time, "As a general of my Tang Dynasty, how old have you been recuperating at home?!"

"Xuanling, tell him about the urgent military situation that has come from various places recently."

Hearing Li Shimin's order, Fang Xuanling followed the order and briefly introduced the latest military situation.

"According to the statistics of the military report sent back from the front line."

"Since the Tang Dynasty used troops against the Turks and penetrated deep into the hinterland of the grassland, hundreds of small ethnic groups in the grassland have been wiped out."

"Kill the Turkic population, nearly 40."

"Such actions have already attracted serious protests and dissatisfaction from surrounding vassal states and forces."

"Just in the past month, in the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, the Western Turkic Siyehu Khan personally led an army of [-] troops and sent troops to Mobei."

"There was a battle with Li Daozong who had been deployed here for a long time."

"After receiving this news, Chai Shao urgently led his troops back from the grassland for support."

"Prevent the Western Turkic Army from crossing the Yin Mountains and entering the Eastern Turkic Grassland."

"Otherwise, once the tribes on the East Turkic side get strong support, everything we have done before will be in vain."

"In addition, there are small countries like Gaochang, Qiuci, Dushan, Qiemo, Tochara, and Yanqi."

"Also imitate the Western Turks, provoking and putting pressure on our Tang border, especially the Liangzhou area."

"The Silk Road, which was threatened before, has also been completely blocked."

"The business contacts between the two sides were completely interrupted."

"In addition to the Western Regions, in the northeast of the Tang Dynasty, Goguryeo, Khitan, Baekje, Silla and other countries have also sent envoys to Chang'an."

"Protest our massacre on the Turkic steppe."

"Among them, Goguryeo is the worst."

"They have sent tens of thousands of troops out of Liaodong and Huaiyuan to put pressure on our Tang border."

"At the same time, the bureaucrats in Pingzhou, Jingzhou and other places in the southern part of the Tang Dynasty are also suspected of taking advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos."

"And these wars in many places are all based on bluffing."

"Only this Western Turkic, with 10,000+ control strings and strong troops, must pay special attention."

"They have a large number of troops and their combat power is second only to that of Jieli Khan."