Qin Mo and the others had been paying attention to the sales of the bookstore. The bookstore center, which had already entered a stable period, suddenly had an explosive sales volume.
A group of strangers came to the bookstore. No matter what kind of books they were, they bought them all and loaded them away.
The cunning old man sent someone to check and found that it was the five surnames, Seven Wangs, who were buying them.
Qin Mo, who received the news, could not help but sigh that the Five Surnames and Seven Wangs had probably made a stupid move this time.
Although in this era, the five surnames and seven Wangs represented wisdom, they naturally couldn't play with Qin Mo a thousand years later.
They thought that the cost of the People's Press's books was the same as others. They had made a big mistake, so they had a beautiful misunderstanding.
The cunning old man who discovered this came to Qin Manor for a meeting.
"The actions of the aristocratic families are a little strange. I don't know what they're up to.”The cunning old man looked puzzled. Logically speaking, the Shi clan should have stopped them from selling the books, so why were they here to help?
Qin Mo couldn't help but smile. The old man was used to using schemes and liked to think of the worst.
"If you didn't know about movable type printing, how much would Uncle Zhangsun think the cost of a book was?”Qin Mo smiled."Those aristocratic families probably thought that we were selling at a loss, so they naturally had to buy it with a lot of effort.”
The cunning old man came back to his senses."That's right. I'll arrange for the bookstore to work day and night to earn a sum of money before they come back to their senses.”
"When the aristocratic families come back to their senses, they will definitely surround the bookstore and seal off the production materials. We still need to make plans early.”In terms of schemes and plots, even a hundred Qin Mos would not be able to match up to the old man, but in terms of economic means, the old man could not compare to him.
With his reminder, the old man and the others naturally knew how to deal with it.
The movable type printing business was handled by the cunning old man and the others. If the cunning old man had not come to Qin Manor for a meeting, he would definitely not have asked. His focus was still on the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Now, there were Confucian teachers and teachers from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
The teachers of the other subjects had yet to be recruited, and the students had yet to be recruited.
The old masters were busy compiling the Xinhua dictionary. There were more than 800 people in total. When the Xinhua dictionary was compiled, these people would be the main force to promote Pinyin.
When the time came, he could request Li Er to send these people to the provincial capitals to spread the word, striving to spread it throughout the Great Tang within three years.
By then, with movable type printing and improved paper-making, in less than ten years, the entire Great Tang would be filled with scholars.
The era of the aristocratic families monopolizing education was also coming to an end.
Qin Mo did not want to destroy the aristocratic families, but the aristocratic families were blocking his way of revenge, so he could only get rid of them.
Old Kong and the others wanted to include all the Chinese characters in the Xinhua dictionary, but Qin Mo stopped them when he found out.
There were as many as 100,000 Chinese characters. If all of them were to be compiled, it would take a long time before they could be compiled. Therefore, he suggested that they be divided into two parts. 3,000 commonly used characters would be one part, and a dictionary of rare characters would be compiled.
Old Kong and the others gladly accepted it. Now that the 3,000 commonly used words section was almost finished, the speed could be said to be very fast.
When they arrived at the academy, Qin Qin went to the Academy of Agricultural Sciences to check on the work of Jia Luren and the others.
Jia Luren was appointed as a Ninth Pin agricultural official, and his two brothers were also appointed as Ninth Pin subordinates to assist him in the research of hybrid rice.
Although he was only a ninth-grade official, he had given the Jia family hope and was full of energy.
Qin Mo gave them the wild rice and became a hands-off shopkeeper.
With the correct guidance, success was only a matter of time.
He did not directly bring out the super rice of the later generations, mainly because he wanted to form a complete rice planting theory in the Great Tang, rather than relying on him to bring everything from the later generations.
Moreover, he didn't know how to cherish things that were too easy to obtain. If Li Er could easily obtain 500 kilograms of rice per mu, why would he pay attention to science?
Qin Mo didn't even tell him about the potatoes. He planned to plant them in his fief first.
Xue Rengui was now full of energy. He had personally seen Qin Mo and Li Er discussing government affairs, so he was full of confidence in his future and joined forces with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The security guards of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were all veterans who had retired from the Left Military Guards. For safety reasons, Qin Mo asked Old Qin to recruit 100 people.
Qin Mo appointed Xue Rengui as the captain of the guards, and those veterans were not convinced. Thus, Qin Mo had them compete with Xue Rengui. Whoever could defeat Xue Rengui would be made the captain of the guards, and the result was naturally Xue Rengui defeating them.
After inspecting the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qin Mo returned to the director's office to drink tea and write a tutorial.
Not long after he sat down, a guard reported that someone had come to apply to be a teacher.
Qin Mo asked someone to invite him in.
"Ma Zhou greets Uncle Lan." It was a thin young man in his mid-twenties.
Ma Zhou?
Qin Mo was shocked and asked,"Mr. Ma, do you have a surname?"”
Ma Zhou said,"I'm King Bin.”
"It's indeed Ma Zhou, the famous prime minister of the early Tang Dynasty." Qin Mo was overjoyed."Could it be that I've been acting like a tyrant recently?"
Ma Zhou, also known as King Bin, was born in 601 AD in Qinghe, Shandong Province. When he was young, his parents died and his family was poor, but he was familiar with the Book of Songs and the Spring and Autumn Annals. During the reign of Emperor Wude, he once served as a state teaching assistant, but because he ignored the government affairs, he was criticized by the governor Da Xi Shu and resigned. Later, when he arrived in Bianzhou, he was humiliated by Cui Xian, so he went west to Chang 'an and took refuge under Chang He. Later, he was appreciated by Li Er and rose to the top.
Qin Mo searched for news about Zhou.
He didn't expect Ma Zhou to come to him instead of Chang He.
"May I know what subject you want to be a teacher of?”Qin Mo naturally didn't doubt his talent.
"I have done quite a bit of research on mathematics and would like to apply for a position as a mathematics teacher.”Ma Zhou said.
"You know math?" Qin Mo was a little surprised.
In ancient times, mathematics was not very important, and there was no record of Ma Zhou being proficient in mathematics.
Ma Zhou said proudly,"I've studied the Nine Chapters of Arithmetic. Uncle Lan Tian, please come up with a question.
It was the first mathematics book written by a Han scholar in ancient China, and it was the most important book in the Ten Mathematical Classics.
The content of Nine Chapters on Arithmetic was very rich. The book was in the form of a problem set, which contained 246 applied problems related to production and life practice. Each problem had questions (questions), answers (answers), and techniques (steps to solve the problem, but there was no proof). Some had one problem and one technique, some had multiple problems and one technique, or one problem and multiple techniques. According to the nature and solution method, these problems belong to the nine chapters of Fangtian, Millet, Decay, Shao Guang, Shang Gong, Average Loss, Surplus and Deficiency, Formula and Pythagorean.
Seeing how confident Ma Zhou was, Qin Mo wrote down a question on the white paper:5012(10-30=?
This was an elementary school question. Considering the ancient people's mathematics level, Qin Mo did not come up with a very profound one.
However, Ma Zhou was dumbfounded. It was as if he was looking at Martian language."What language is this?”
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