Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

"The old man has never seen such a book before." Xiao Yu said with a smile, and flipped through it casually after speaking. Li Xin sat patiently opposite him and waited.

This textbook named "Basics of Economics" by Li Xin took him four full months. In fact, there are not many serious economics content in it, because there are many contents that are dangerous in his opinion and have to be hidden. As a result, the book appears a bit thin.

In order to make this "book" look thicker and have some "dry goods", he had to add a lot of tax law content in it. This is relatively safe. After all, there have been some reforms to the tax law in the past dynasties, and some criticisms have been raised about it. Even if it is a little more radical, it is not a big problem. After all, this is just a book. As long as it is not implemented, it will have little impact. There will naturally be no disputes for the interests of others. What's more, Li Shimin is behind to protect him.

The content of the book was indeed written by Li Xin, but the words in the book were not written by him, but Chen Youlan helped organize them. She has gradually adapted to the job of Li Xin's little secretary, and is very interested in these novel contents written by Li Xin, and is very happy to be the first reader. Of course, it is unavoidable to laugh at Li Xin's dog crawling characters while copying.

Li Xin had no choice but to spread his hands helplessly.

By the way, Chen Yin was very dissatisfied with Chen Youlan's behavior of running to Chu Palace every now and then, and told her several times. Later, every time Chen Youlan returned to the Chen Mansion, she would use her excellent memory to repeat a section of "Basics of Economics" to him. After he heard it, he was silent for a long time, and finally didn't say any more, but asked Chen Youlan to report to him every time what Li Xin wrote, then shook his head, laughed and scolded "monster" while walking away.

Chen Xinheng was also very interested in "Basics of Economics". He tried to pester Chen Youlan with questions, and even asked her to act as an intermediary to ask Li Xin some questions. Li Xin had a good impression of this brother-in-law, and he knew everything without saying a word. Chen Xinheng also had to drink a cup, and said to Chen Youlan with emotion: "I, Chen Xinheng, consider myself a smart person. I didn't know what a real monster is until I met this future brother-in-law."

Although Chen Youlan was secretly happy in her heart, she would not admit it, she just rolled her eyes and said, "What kind of genius is he, he is just a freak."

That's right, Li Xin is indeed a freak.

Xiao Yu was originally a scholar, with many years of reading books, coupled with Li Xin's plain and easy-to-understand writing, his reading speed was naturally fast, but within a cup of tea, he had a rough look at the "Basics of Economics" in his hand. Of course, there are also punctuation marks and subsections, which greatly reduce the difficulty of reading.

After closing the book, Xiao Yu read the thread-bound book over and over again several times, buckled the binding line on the side curiously, and then said with a smile: "It's easy to understand, even an old man like me can understand it. There's nothing to fix."

Li Xin said with a smile: "What did Xiao Lao say? With Xiao Lao's knowledge, it is no problem to be able to understand the boy's nonsense."

Xiao Yu was noncommittal, and said directly: "It is indeed a good book worthy of being promoted by the Ministry of Household Affairs. What's even more rare is that it can be made into such a portable form, which is easier to read than booklets. Wonderful, wonderful." The kind of long memorial that people often see on TV. This kind of thing already existed in the Tang Dynasty, but it is not suitable for recording large books, so it is usually only used for writing memorials.

"Is it easy to make such a book?" Xiao Yu asked seriously, "If it's easy, it's not just the Ministry of Household Affairs. Other officials should also take a good look."

Li Xin laughed, took out an identical book from the other sleeve, and said, "Of course it's not difficult."

Xiao Yu took another book, opened it and looked at it twice, and found that the two books were exactly the same. He was about to say something when he suddenly realized something was wrong. He quickly flipped through several pages, compared the two books carefully, and then looked up at Li Dao: "These two books...why even the subtleties of the handwriting?" They are all exactly the same? Who copied them?"

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the dissemination of most books depended on handwriting, which is also an important reason why books are valuable.

Li Xin suddenly smiled and said, "This book was not copied by hand."

"What?" Xiao Yu showed a puzzled expression.

When Li Xin saw this, he knew that he was right—as expected, printing had not yet appeared in this Tang Dynasty.

In the history he was familiar with, the earliest printing technique, the so-called block printing technique, originated in the early Tang Dynasty. The specific time is unknown, and it was not widely used until the middle and late Tang Dynasty. Therefore, he inquired about it in many ways, and found that there is no such thing as printed books these days.

It's that simple.

Aren't you against punctuation and horizontal typography? I will first print books with horizontal typesetting all over the world, and everyone will have a copy. Let me see how you object!