Li Shimin touched the book of "waste paper" and felt it was very good. Although the quality of this paper is relatively low, it is better because of its low price. In the future, books can be popularized on a large scale and improve the education level of the people.

Since the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, the power of aristocratic families has been very large and can even monopolize the officialdom. The original system of selecting officials was the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, which was entirely to help the gentry and make the gentry increasingly powerful. The gentry also monopolized the right to education, making many poor people unable to obtain the right to education, so those in power had to appoint gentry as officials.

Although the Sui Dynasty opened the imperial examination method to enter the officialdom, it was rare to choose to enter the officialdom of poor students. Because the cost of studying in this era was very expensive, and a book cost hundreds of stagnant, which was unbearable for most poor students. However, the geniuses had books accumulated over hundreds of years to support their descendants to read. They were not a genius and could become a second-rate talent after more than ten years of study. And those poor geniuses may become obsessed with everyone because they did not study.

Although the imperial examinations wanted to recruit poor students on a large scale to enter the government, there were not many poor students now because the cost of studying was too high. If books like Jingwen could be popularized, there would probably be more poor students in the world, which would be of great benefit to breaking the monopoly of the gentry.

"Go and call you all!" Li Shimin said.

Soon, all the adults were called by Li Shimin.

When the officials saw Jing Wen beside Li Shimin, they were immediately confused and didn't know what Jing Wen was doing. However, they obviously regarded Jing Wen as a eunuch around Li Shimin, so they didn't take it seriously. There were many such eunuch palaces, and they could not affect their power and status.

"Dear friends, I have recently created a new type of paper. Although the quality is not very good, the price is cheaper. Moreover, I have also developed a method of printing books, called movable type printing. With these two methods, the price of books has been reduced by at least a hundred times, and the more printed it, the lower the price. Do you think it should be promoted?" Li Shimin asked.

Jing Wen complained in his heart that Li Shimin actually said what he invented, which is speechless. This new papermaking and movable type printing technique were clearly invented by Jing Wen, but Li Shimin actually asked for the identity of the inventor, which made Jing Wen complain about Li Shimin in his heart. But now he didn't say anything to stop him, because who made Li Shimin the emperor? So Jing Wen did not dare to point out that Li Shimin was "academic fraud".

"The emperor is wise and should let all students in the world learn the teachings of saints!" said an old man with white beard.

Jing Wen looked at the old man with white beard, and he should be a third-rank official. However, the old man with white beard was full of scholarly spirit and should be an academic official, but he didn't know who he was.

"Kong Aiqing, as the Imperial College Priest, you are a descendant of Confucius. This is a good thing for you to increase the glory of your ancestors! Of course you have to support me!" Li Shimin said.

When Jing Wen heard Li Shimin call this old guy Kong Yingda, he happened to know him. Because there were many novels from the Tang Dynasty that appeared later, Jing Wen happened to know him. Kong Yingda was the 32nd generation grandson of Confucius and was very proficient in Confucianism. Moreover, if the printing and papermaking techniques could be popularized throughout the world, then Confucius' reputation would probably be even greater. Now, the so-called Confucius' reputation is very famous enough, and it is only famous among students. As for Confucius in the hearts of ordinary people, he has no status at all.

If everyone's Confucian education can be popularized, the descendants of Confucius, Kong Yingda, will have a higher status and a stronger reputation. The reason why Kong Yingda was able to achieve today is that in addition to his academic achievements, he is more because he is a descendant of Confucius, which gave him the current status. For example, he is already bound to his ancestor Confucius, so the higher the status of Confucius, the better it will be for him and his descendants.

However, if some people agree, then naturally some people will object.

"Emperor, since ancient times, studying and becoming an official has been the affairs of our gentry. How can we let all the people in the world get the opportunity to study? If this is the case, will the world be in chaos? So, I think it is better not to let everyone study, so that the world can avoid chaos in the world. If everyone in the world studies, then who in the world will be at ease and want to be an official. In this way, the world will be completely in chaos." The minister said.

When Jing Wen heard this remark, he knew that this guy was definitely a gentry. In ancient times, the biggest advantage of the gentry was not land, nor money and wealth, but public opinion propaganda power. They were representatives of cultural people, so they mastered the channels for communication with the people. If the emperor had any government orders, they had to convey them to the people through them. If they deliberately promoted and mobilized the people to fight against the imperial power, they might be able to succeed.

The people are very easy to be incited. Not to mention in ancient times, even in the 21st century, when compulsory education was popularized a lot in the country, wasn’t it the people who were incited by some people? So, this was even more so in ancient times. Those people were easily incited by the gentry. But once the people were all studying, it would be much more difficult for them to incite, because rumors stopped at the wise! If the people were all studying and could enter the official career, their status in the officialdom would become less and less. Even if the emperor was willing, the emperor could appoint poor families to fight against the gentry. The gentry would continue to decline and instead be swept into the garbage dump of history. Now Li Shimin had to appoint the gentry to prevent him from being unable to rule the country at all. However, the gentry was more concerned about family interests than the history of the country, so many emperors disliked.

"I invented this. What if I must promote it?" Li Shimin suddenly said seriously.

"Then please approve our resignation!" said the official of the gentry.

"Disclaimer? Okay, I have approved it!" Li Shimin said coldly.
Chapter completed!