And this has another advantage. When Chengdu can produce paper and print books on a large scale, it can transport these to the Eastern Wu and Cao Wei territory. In this way, the poor families in the Eastern Wu and Cao Wei have channels to obtain knowledge without relying on the aristocratic families, so they will inevitably have conflicts with the aristocratic families.

In the Eastern Wu and Cao Wei, the territory of the country was dominated by aristocratic families, while the political forces in Shu could be divided into three parts. They followed Liu Bei's poor northern families very early. Needless to say, Guan and Zhang were the butchers and the other sold dates. They were not wealthy families, and Zhao Yun was just a lower-class warrior. Jian Yong and Sun Gan and others were all from poor families. Although the Mi Zhu and Mi Fang brothers had a lot of wealth, they were just rich merchants, not as good as the Wei family and Lu family.

Then there were the gentry in Jingzhou, such as Xu Shu, Pang Tong, Zhuge Liang and Liu Ba. However, Liu Bei was much more difficult to get their trust than to get Jian Yong and Sun Gan and others. The three visits to the cottage were not just about Liu Bei's desire for talent; most of the geniuses in Jingzhou looked down on Liu Bei, so most of them surrendered to Cao Cao after Liu Biao left.

Finally, there are local tyrants in Shu, such as Zhang Song, Yan Yan and others. Although Fa Zheng is a Fufeng native, it can also be regarded as this wave, including Zhang Yi, the prefect of Ba County.

Looking at these three groups, the aristocratic families are not the mainstream, so they will be happy about the popularity of papermaking, printing, and the spread of knowledge; while the mainstream of the aristocratic families is different from the Cao Wei, and the nine-grade Zhongzheng system launched by Chen Qun this year is more in line with their interests.

The Nine-rank Zhongzheng system was criticized in later generations, but from the current situation, it cannot be said that it is all wrong. On the one hand, it solved the problem of no standards for selecting officials, and clarified the administration of officials at that time; on the other hand, it alleviated the tension between the central government and the aristocratic families, and laid a solid foundation for the Wei and Jin dynasties to achieve national unity.

From the perspective of talent selection, nowadays, the big families monopolize knowledge, which is indeed easier to cultivate talents than poor families; but the premise is that they can indeed monopolize knowledge. In the era when they rely on borrowing books to copy and spread knowledge, they may still be able to do it, but after printing technology is prevalent, they cannot do it.

By that time, scholars from poor families could compete with wealthy families in terms of knowledge, and would they still be willing to be inferior to them? It is obviously impossible.

Zhuge Liang had a long-term thoughts. When he thought about this, he was worried and happy. What was worried was that the Zhuge family of Langya, which he was born, might be difficult to continue to flourish. What was joyful was that with this technology, he could continuously cultivate talents for Shuzhong and disrupt the situation in Eastern Wu and Cao Cao. In this way, Shuzhong would have a great chance of unifying the world.

It is said that Zhuge Liang is not tired of tedious government affairs and has to handle all matters of all sizes, which is exhausted. Therefore, some people have thrown the charge of the decline of talents in the later period of Shu Han to Zhuge Liang, saying that it was precisely because of his unwillingness to delegate power that it was difficult for Shu Kingdom to cultivate talents.

But from the fact that Zhuge Liang attached great importance to Jiang Wei, he did not pay attention to talents; it was just that Shu Han was located in a remote place and could not provide talents like Eastern Wu and Cao Wei. Since there were not enough talents, Zhuge Liang could only work harder.

"Light now reports to the lord Ming, asking the lord to build a workshop in Chengdu, make paper and print books, and spread to the world! Oh, we still need to call on the Shu family to offer collections for craftsmen to carve printed plates." Zhuge Liang said, if you want to print books now, you can't just have paper and carved plates, but ink, you still have to have the original book.

"If they are willing to give, they will naturally be fine. If they are unwilling, don't worry. I have read some classics and history. I can just silently write whatever the Prime Minister wants. As long as it is not Lianshan Guizang, eight ropes and nine hills, most classics and history can barely be remembered." Chen Long said lightly.

With Wang Anshi's memory, he can memorize most classic history. Even if there are those that Wang Anshi has not read, there is a tablet computer installed in the Chenlong space. There are a large number of photocopies downloaded from the National Digital Library's ancient book database. As long as it is a classic that has been passed down from later generations, what can't be found?

Zhuge Liang was shocked by Chen Long and dared to say such words. Then he asked several classics and Chen Long memorized the beginning smoothly, which was no different from Zhuge Liang's memory. Even if Zhuge Liang asked about the classics he had wanted to read but had never found, Chen Long memorized them.

Zhuge Liang was surprised repeatedly, "Who did Zifeng learn from? His knowledge is so profound." My master, Mr. Shui Jing, is probably far from comparable to that of Sima Hui.

"Liang Xiang is unfaithful and knowledgeable, but compared with Zifeng, he was at a disadvantage!" Zhuge Liang sighed. At least he must not have much study, and his martial arts skills are even worse than those in woodworking machinery.

"Does Zifeng understand how to treat the astrological signs?" Zhuge Liang asked.

"Understand." It's natural to say that medical skills are astronomy. Now astronomers around the world are all together and are not enough to beat Chen Long alone. As for divination, he has also learned some from Huang Yaoshi.

"Can you understand academic numbers?" Zhuge Liang asked again.

"I'm really arrogant. If you talk about mathology, you can be the best in the world!" Not to mention the gains from various tasks, I just went to college and did not fail the advanced mathematics subjects. Can that mathematician in the Three Kingdoms do it?

"Can Yin and Yang and Five Elements be understood?" Zhuge Liang asked again.

"Understand." We learned the orthodox Qin and Han rituals with Qin Shihuang, but Zhuge Liang seemed to have many interesting things in this regard, so Chen Long asked him for advice on the "Eight Formation Map" and "Star-raising Methods to Protect Life". Zhuge Liang then breathed a little relieved. It turned out that there were things you didn't understand, so he explained to Chen Long in detail.

Liu Bei quickly passed Chen Long's request, asking Wang Lian to take charge of his position as the chief of the Salt Administration in Shuzhong, and allocated money, grain, land craftsmen to let Chen Long open paper and printing factories in Chengdu; at the same time, let Chen Long go in and out of the palace to discuss various important matters.

After Cao Cao's death, news kept coming. Cao Pi replaced Cao Cao as the prime minister, King of Wei, changed the reign to Yankang, appointed Jia Xu as the Grand Marshal, Hua Xin as the Prime Minister, and Wang Lang as the Censor; Yi Mao, appointed Xiahou Dun as the General, and Feng Wei, Fuyu Shanyu, Yanqi, and Yutian all sent envoys to offer sacrifices; Sun Quan also sent envoys to congratulate him.
Chapter completed!