Dress to be a celebrity

Originally, he had already been granted an official position in Song Dynasty, so he should have changed into a sixth-rank blue men's suit and entered the palace when he had an audience, but he hadn't formally reported to the Ministry of Rites, so he still entered the palace in the scarlet robe and jade belt.He had to get off the sedan chair outside the palace city, and he stepped out of the car calmly, and walked slowly behind the eunuch, calmly and unrestrainedly, as if it was not the first time he was summoned by the emperor, but an old minister who had been on duty in front of the emperor for a long time.

All the officials and servants I met on the road took a second look and praised Fengshenxiuyi.

When it was passed into the side hall of the Wenhua Hall, the scarlet robe seemed to be dragged by the sun's glow, which made the hall seem brighter.Emperor Xintai, who was looking at the scenery outside the window, also turned his head to look at him, and nodded slightly: "Sanyuan Jidi, it is indeed better than the ordinary champion."

Song Shi quickly thanked him, and under the guidance of the chief eunuch who brought him, he knelt down in front of the emperor and bowed down.

The emperor raised his hand, and the servant at the side asked him to get up.The chief eunuch who served the imperial court asked on behalf of the emperor, "Your Majesty wants to see how Song Zhuangyuan made the Song version of the book. Did Song Zhuangyuan bring something?"

Naturally.In order to let the emperor feel at ease, he even brought a roll of paper for printing the book.

He took the mimeograph box and parchment paper from the waiter who led the way, and confidently replied: "The calligraphy of this minister is a literati printing method, as long as the printer can read and write. If your majesty wants to see it, I will open it and try it." Show it to His Majesty?"

The emperor asked: "Can you print a book with just this box? What is your printing method based on?"

Song Shidao: "Your Majesty, Xu Chen, please open the box and explain."

A long time ago, a servant brought the case and put it in front of him, and someone opened the box for him. Song Shi pointed to the gauze shelf on the mimeograph machine, the glass ink palette, the ink knife, and the stylus. .

The eunuch in charge, who was watching carefully at the table, presented the tools to the imperial court from time to time, and also boasted a few words in front of the imperial court: "The book can be printed out with such a few simple things, and you can do it yourself without using a knife or chisel. You have to wait for the craftsman to engrave the woodblock for several months, which is really a rare and practical printing method."

As expected, only one Sanyuan has been produced in a hundred years in Dazheng, and only a dozen Sanyuan have been produced in the past dynasties. Others can't make this thing again!

No, it's not his invention, it's the wisdom of the people...foreign peoples.Song Shi didn't take credit for it, he lowered his head and silently stared at the mimeograph machine on the desk, holding the roller with his left hand, rubbing the ink on the roller evenly on the ink mixing board.

The emperor smiled and asked: "Just use this thing to dip the ink on the paper and brush it, and then you can print the article? But I still can't figure out how a thin layer of paper can be used for engraving. Song Zhuangyuan printed it face to face. Just come and read an article with me."

Song Shi responded neatly: "Please point out an article, Your Majesty, and I will print it immediately."

The emperor had planned to test him a long time ago, and ordered: "The question you made on the day of the palace examination was good, so let's print another border policy today. You don't need to go down and write it, just engrave it here and show it to me face to face."

Regardless of internal cultivation, only write the policy of fighting against the outside, without counting the number of words, it is much better than the palace policy.

A waiter had already prepared a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and wanted to lead him to the table in the corner of the hall to make a draft.Song Shi shook his head slightly, cupped his hands upwards and said: "I don't need to make a manuscript to engrave this method of seal, I just need to write as usual. I would like to engrave a manuscript in front of the emperor and submit it to the emperor."

The Son of Heaven was a little surprised, and nodded with a smile: "Sure enough, he is the number one scholar in Sanyuan, with such confidence. You can write it here for me to see."

In the Song Dynasty, after receiving the decree, he walked back to the book case, and a small servant brought the embroidery pier and put it in front of the book case.He spread out a piece of stenciled paper with vertical grids, picked up the stylus, and did not need to make a draft, just picked up the stylus and carved on the stencil——

It's not that he deliberately showed off, but that writing with a brush is not as smooth as an iron pen after all.There are too many engraved stencils, and the feel of picking up a pen to write homework in the previous life is almost the same, which is less laborious than writing with a soft pen hanging in the air.

It also saves the trouble of writing it again and copying it again.

He lowered his head to engrave fiercely, and the little servant who was waiting next to him could only see him writing strokes on the paper, but only slight scratches could be seen on the engraved paper, and he couldn't recognize what he wrote.And farther away, the chief eunuch Wang Gonggong and the emperor on the throne can only see him pinching the front of the pen holder with a novel gesture that does not seem to be writing or drawing, and his wrist is attached to the table. Slowly move downwards.

That hand was beautiful, with slender fingers, short and round nails, and slightly protruding joints, which looked very powerful, not like ordinary frail scholars.

The pen in his hand scribbled line by line on the paper, but it seemed like he was writing a script without words. The emperor stared at the manuscript paper, and the curiosity and exploration in his heart kept accumulating, and he almost wanted him to print what he wrote first.

Fortunately, he finally finished writing a page, and Director Wang, who was standing in front of the imperial court, said with a wink, "Can Song Zhuangyuan print this page first and then write the next one?"

Song Zhuangyuan responded with a smile, picked up the written manuscript paper and clipped it under the screen, put a piece of fine thick leather on it, picked up the ink-soaked roller from the ink mixing board, and rolled it lightly and evenly on the screen .

This set of mimeographs has been used several times, and the gauze has already turned black, so nothing can be seen, but when he lifts the gauze frame, the bottom of the mimeograph box reveals the clear, steady, delicately written text When looking at the blank paper, Xintai Emperor's eyes could not help showing a bit of novelty and love.

As the emperor, he has never seen a craftsman print a book, let alone such a magic trick, from a wordless book to a manuscript paper full of words.

Eunuch Wang was about to come down to get it immediately. Song Shi held the edge of the paper with both hands and reminded: "Eunuch, be careful not to touch the ink characters. This ink is made of oil. Dry slowly. If you touch it, your hands will be stained." The clothes are all there, and the writing on the paper is also wasted."

The disadvantage is that it takes a while to dry the ink before it can be used, but compared to the speed of ordinary book engraving, the time to dry the ink is negligible.

Eunuch Wang smiled and said: "Our family knows that every day we write with ink pens, don't we have to let the ink dry? Song Zhuangyuan just gave the manuscript paper to our family."

The two of them handed it over carefully with the edge of the paper, and the other took the back of the paper carefully, and put the printed countermeasures in front of the emperor, and showed the emperor a glance.

The characters are like silver hooks painted on iron, which are exactly the same as the few books that flowed to Da Nei.

The emperor only glanced at it, and saw that "the generals are publically selected for promotion", "the frontier reserve is prepared for emergency payment", "the place is carefully secured to curb the border people"...

It is actually more profound than the questions and answers of the imperial examination, and all of them are usable strategies. It can be seen that he has studied the side affairs carefully. Candidates for the questions are comparable.

Compared with his full of talent, learning and practical work, calligraphy printing has become the least important thing.

Emperor Xintai was delighted with his talent, so he simply didn't need the eunuch to read it, and just looked at it with the hand of the chief eunuch, Eunuch Wang.

Although the ink characters are small, there is no sticking or blurring due to the slenderness of the brushstrokes. The ink color is extremely glossy and thick, and it is lined with snow-white and thick paper, so it is easy to read.Not long after he looked at the countermeasures, he read from the beginning of the way of recruiting talents, "do not stick to the officials, issue actual records, and understand the recommendation" to the "repair and build the barracks of the officers and soldiers to prepare for the officers and troops to stay in the border". The method, the more I read it, the more delightful I feel. I clapped my hands and sighed: "This is really a practical strategy for strengthening the army and securing the frontier! Song Zhuangyuan——"

Song Shi hurriedly put down his stylus, got up and replied: "I am terrified. I am not a person who understands soldiers. This strategy can only be answered correctly by the candidates in front of the palace. How dare you call it a practical strategy."

The emperor smiled and said: "Just now I saw that you are arrogant and talented, and you don't add drafts when you write articles. How can you be humble again? This memorial is indeed useful, so you stay in the palace and finish it. I will read it later."

Song Shi heaved a sigh of relief, and cupped his hands to thank him. All the servants came up and carried his desk and moved it steadily to the corner of the hall outside. Song Shi followed the past and wrote one page after another, writing a complete three thousand words of countermeasures.

There were more than ten pages when it was printed, and it couldn't be opened on the desk, so he asked the little servant to help him find another place to hang it.

He is Sanyuan, who has not been seen in the country for a hundred years, and the servants are very polite to him, holding his articles as if they are holding porcelain, and put them away to dry them carefully, so that the emperor will read them in the future.

Song Shi watched them rushing in and out, and remembered that the main character on TV wanted to give money to the eunuch, and it was the same in Ming and Qing novels. He scattered with everyone.

There was a wry smile on the chubby and friendly servant's face, he shook his head and waved his hands and said, "The number one scholar is Sanyuan Jidi and Wenquxing descended to earth, how can our family ask for your money? Besides, this is an imperial mission, and the master personally What we have confessed, we should do our best to do a good job, how dare we be rewarded by the number one scholar!"

Eunuchs are so high-spirited, isn't it in line with history?Song Shi was not used to this kind of treatment, so he reluctantly took back the money after a few pushbacks, and thanked them verbally for their hard work.

The eunuchs were quite satisfied, as if they were not praised by him, a young official who just entered the court, but by some prince or prince.

After a while, the person who went to Bingbao to report that he had finished printing the policy question led the prince back.

Behind the prince, a row of eunuchs led a row of eunuchs, each carrying newly made black gauze, official robes, official boots, golden flowers, silver ingots, imperial wine... on wooden trays, and came to him and announced an oral order.

Song Shi Yili knelt down to receive him, thinking that he would be able to go back after paying the money and benefits, but unexpectedly the emperor's oral order was not about today's entry into the palace, but for him to teach the aristocrats after he returned to serve in the court. Song's seal calligraphy.

The emperor has already scheduled to compile a "Xintai Canon" for the newly built Kunning Palace Library. When he returns from his hometown exhibition tomb, he will reorganize the Chinese secret library and prepare to compile a new book.And because of his newly printed calligraphy, he was very loved by the emperor. In addition to compiling books with the scholars and attendants, he also had to bring the well-known scholars to print the compiled books.

Students... No, interns really work for leaders in all ages.He had already guessed that the mimeograph technology had to be dedicated to the emperor, but he always thought that he would be able to work as a civil servant in peace and security by donating the technology. He didn't expect that his brilliance as a traverser was too bright, and he would be picked out as a backbone wherever he went.

He complained a few words in his heart, accepted the order with a normal expression, and expressed to the new emperor behind Wang Gonggong that he was positive, not afraid of hard work, and willing to devote his youthful blood to compile books for the country. In exchange for Wang Gonggong's love With a smile on his face and rewards worth tens of taels of silver, he left the palace.

After he left the palace, the prince and his apprentice sighed secretly: "You are worthy of being the third and second person in this dynasty. He is talented and stable, and he is worthy of His Majesty's respect."

His disciple was the one who printed the book for Song Shi, and he also echoed, "The Zhuangyuan Gong is very polite to us people, which is quite different from those people outside. He also scattered money, and the apprentice dared not accept his money." .”

Ordinary civil servants naturally look down on eunuchs, and only curry favor with eunuchs in power, and the more virtuous, upright and clean they are, the more they dislike them.They serve in the palace, and they are used to looking at people's eyes. They look at the faces of those officials as if they were peeking at the sun. Same--

He has clear eyes and is easy-going, and he does not praise or criticize others because of his status as a eunuch.Although he is willing to give money, it is obviously not for flattery, nor is it the feeling of a high-ranking person rewarding a subordinate, but just like ordinary friends giving something to each other.

He didn't treat these people in the palace as "eunuchs", but treated them as ordinary men.These palace people even feel that they are inferior to others, and the most rare thing is this feeling of being regarded as ordinary people.

After hearing his words, Wang Gonggong chuckled: "People say that there are few people in the Sanyuan world, so Song Zhuangyuan will naturally go smoothly in the future. Just wait, sooner or later his family will be able to fly to the sky because of him alone. It is luck to have such a son-in-law."

Such a talent is worthy even of a princess.

Concubine Zhou actually abandoned such a fiancé back then, and put all her eggs in one basket to enter the palace to be elected. She never thought that if she couldn't be selected as the concubine, it would be a pity to miss this fiancé?