Becoming a Saint by Leisure Reading - Chapter 84

“Fourth Senior Brother…”

Song Tuizhi was holding the latest issue of “Daxuan People’s Daily”, and repeatedly read the second issue of “Laughing in the Wind”, when he suddenly heard Chen Luo’s voice from outside the door.

Song Tuyi panicked, and his great Confucian supernatural power was activated, and the “Daxuan People’s Daily” in his hand was instantly distorted and dissipated as if it never existed.

Only then did Song Tuizhi lightly straighten his robes, his face was serious and dignified, and he said softly, “Come in!”

　　Chen Luo pushed open the door and entered. Seeing Song Tuizhi being so upright, he also bowed respectfully: “I have seen the Fourth Senior Brother. Is Fourth Senior Brother still used to being here?”

　　Song Tuizhi nodded slightly: “Scholars, they can live in peace with just a bowl of food and a scoop of drink. I’m only here to take care of you. It’s very good here.”

　　Chen Luo was in awe. That’s right, this is what a great Confucian should look like.

　　Look at Wei Yan, and then look at Liu Jingzhuang, how are they alike!

　　Good-for-nothing!

　　Chen Luo also put away his distracted thoughts and said in a serious tone: “I have some questions, and I want to ask Fourth Senior Brother to clarify my doubts!”

　　Song Tuizhi’s eyes lit up.

　　”It’s here, it’s here, little junior brother wants me to solve his puzzles!”

　　”Finally, I can show the majesty of a senior brother.”

　　”I must let the younger brother die in admiration for me, the fourth senior brother.”

　　”I am the fourth child of Bamboo Forest, and finally I get to stand up!”

　　Song Tuizhi’s whole body is True Noble Qi, and the altar has never been clearer than before. It once crossed the mountain of books and the sea of ​​learning flashed in his mind, and the phantoms of the sage’s classics became an illusion behind him.

　　”Junior Brother, if you have any doubts, just come.”

　　Seeing Song Tuizhi’s appearance, Chen Luo admired him even more and was about to ask, when he suddenly felt that he was being too straight to the point that it was too rude.

　　Wouldn’t it be better to greet each other first?

　　”That, Fourth Senior Brother, have you eaten?”

　　”Huh?” Song Tuiyi was stunned, and thought to himself, “Have you eaten? What’s the problem?”

　　”No, how could the younger brother ask such a vulgar question, there must be a deep meaning in this question.”

　　”Mencius” says, the desire for food and sex are natural. The younger brother went to the brothel yesterday, and today asked me if I have eaten, it must be to discern this sentence. After this sentence, it is said, benevolence comes internally, not externally; Righteousness is external, not internal. This is the point of view put forward by Gaozi and Mencius.”

　　”Mencius maintains that nature is inherently good, Xunzi maintains that nature is inherently evil, and Gaozi maintains that there is no good and no evil in nature.”

　　He wants to question the righteousness of the Confucian sect! Does he want to use this question to test the Confucian sect of our Bamboo Forest Sect?”

　　”Little Junior Brother is worthy of being the master of the Fourth Road to Heaven. A mere trial has touched the fundamental teachings of my lineage.”

　　”I need to answer this question carefully, and not let the younger brother have any misunderstandings about the Bamboo Forest lineage!”

　　Chen Luo looked at Song Tuizhi, who was thinking hard, with doubts on his face.

　　The question was only whether or not he had eaten? Why is it taking so long?

　　Seeing Chen Luo’s face, Song Tuizhi froze in his heart: “Sure enough, little junior brother has deep doubts in his heart…”

　　For a while, the room fell into deadly silence.

　　After a long while, Chen Luo couldn’t hold back any longer, so he had to speak again and tried to say: “If you haven’t eaten, why don’t I ask for a table at the Manyue Building, and let’s chat as brothers while eating?”

　　Song Tuizhi: (??ω??)?

　　Chen Luo: (〃’�’〃)

　　”You’re just asking me if I have eaten?”

　　”if not?”

　　Song Tuizhi’s whole body collapsed, the mountains of books and the sea of ​​learning were shattered, and the phantoms of the classics turned into bubbles and dissipated.

　　Song Tuizhi: (╯°Д°)╯︵┻━┻

　　…

　　”Cough cough…” Song Tuizhi coughed twice, forcibly wiped away everything that happened just now; “I’m not hungry. What’s making you confused, talk about it.”

　　Chen Luo blinked, feeling that this fourth senior brother wanted to do something just now.

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　　But since the other party didn’t mean to ignore him, Chen Luo explained his thoughts one by one.

　　”You want to sell the whole story at a lower price?” Song Tuizhi also became serious when he heard the business, “How low?”

　　Chen Luo thought for a while: “It should be affordable for ordinary people to buy. I think it will be priced at 12 taels of silver for a volume. For example, “Laughing in the Wind”, the whole book is about four volumes.”

　　Song Tuizhi frowned slightly: “A Yawen introductory book is priced at one hundred taels of silver. Your entire story is less than half the price?”

　　Chen Luo shrugged: “No way, no matter how expensive it is, ordinary people can’t afford it.”

　　Song Tuizhi thought for a moment and said, “Do you know why Yawen books are priced so high?”

　　Chen Luo thought for a while and said, “It is said that transcribing Yawen requires ‘writing a thousand words’, but these Confucian scholars who can ‘write a thousand words’ will always have better ways of making money. Therefore, the price of books can only be increased.”

　　Song Tuizhi shook his head slightly: “That’s right, but it’s not right either. What’s right is that Confucian scholars who ‘write a thousand words’ do have other ways to make money, but do you think my Confucian scholars really care about that gold and silver wealth?”

　　”Not only my Confucianism, but Taoist Buddhist scriptures are also sky-high prices. Since they want to preach the world, why don’t they lower the price?”

　　Chen Luo nodded slightly. If nothing else, Buddhism is notoriously shameless for preaching.

　　Anyway, as long as the human race has the talent to read through and read the scriptures, they can practice. If Buddhist scriptures can be seen everywhere, then there will naturally be more Buddhist disciples.

　　Seeing that Chen Luo was distracted by himself and stopped thinking about what happened just now, Song Tuizhi felt relieved, and then said: “Actually, the reason is very simple. Copying the classics is the way to get closer to the way of the predecessors.”

　　”But after copying it for a long time, the transcriber’s own truth will inevitably be assimilated with the truth of the book being transcribed.”

　　”This is why my Confucianism has the most “Yi”, then it is followed by the Four Books and Five Classics. Because they are the fundamental meaning of the classics. There is no worry of assimilation.”

　　”But even the semi-sages, including the great Confucians, their classics are actually their own paths, not suitable for everyone. Some people will even be completely blocked because they transcribed classics that differ from their own way forward.”

　　”So the high price is a kind of guarantee for the copyists and also to compensate them.”

　　”Buddhist teachings are not passed on to six ears, and Taoist preaching should not be lightly passed on. In the final analysis, this is also the truth.”

　　Chen Luo understood it, but in fact, the productivity couldn’t keep up, so he had to make things more expensive to ensure the market supply. If productivity rises, prices will actually fall, but the total market volume will remain unchanged.

　　”But…” Chen Luo suddenly thought, “What’s going on with the copywriting department of Wenchang Pavilion? Also, since there are such restrictions, why did those academies agree to take my books and copy them?”

　　”The Transcript Division has always copied the commentary of some great Confucians, but it has never exclusively published the words from just one writer. Naturally, it will not affect the copywriters.”

　　”As for your book, of course there is something special about it.”

　　Song Tuizhi stroked his beard under his jaw and explained: “Your article is full of literary talent and it contains natural literary spirit, which is the closest to my Confucian school. But it is rare that you do not talk about the struggle of cultivation and righteousness. Your works only just narrate and write about mortals, naturally it will not affect the people who transcribe.”

　　”Secondly, Yawen’s articles must bring the power of heaven. You must have already sensed your colorful red dust energy. Many people have already sensed it. This energy does not contradict the Confucian way, and even faintly harmonizes with it, complementing it even. How could those shrewd people in the academy let it go?”

　　”Thirdly, you spread the word to people through newspapers. Even if you don’t follow the immortal path of my Confucianism, you will still have the power of enlightenment, and the heavens and the gods will favor you. They will transcribe articles to help you, but you will also gain a trace of virtue.”

　　”It is a great thing to be able to transcribe without considering the negative impact of the article on oneself.”

　　After Chen Luo heard this, his face turned black. It’s a shame that he thought the academies were good people, but they had just been plucking his wool all this time. No wonder I’ve been losing a bit of hair these past two days…

　　Dirty heart!

　　”However, since my article will not affect the transcriber, is it possible to bypass the drawbacks of the high price and sell it at a low price?” Chen Luo asked again.

　　Song Tuizhi pondered for a moment and said, “Yes, but I don’t recommend it.”

　　”why?”

　　”If you publish the full text of the article at a low price, will your People’s Daily still be doing business? If the People’s Daily doesn’t have the support of your story, which is now in full swing, your newspaper will fall from the sky and down into the mud in an instant. “

　　”This newspaper will be of great use to your future enlightenment! Don’t give up!”

　　Chen Luo frowned. He really thought about it. In any case, he had a lot of stories in his mind. He can just publish a whole book and different stories at the same time right away. But he quickly dismissed the idea.

　　Only he can write Yawen’s stories, and he releases multiple stories at the same time, which can accommodate a lot of different audiences, but the return will still be the same. Besides, his articles are not the entertainment novels of the previous life, one can just finish reading them right away, but he needs readers to recite them repeatedly to gain strength and Chen Luo to get feedback. At present, releasing multiple options at once may reduce efficiency.

　　Seeing Chen Luo pondering, Song Tuizhi said again: “Furthermore, you must know the allusions of Zigong Redeemer[1]. If you have a low price for the full text, what will those moral masters think?”

　　”In the long run, the pay and income cannot match, and no one is willing to take out their own scriptures and only spread them within their own families. Wouldn’t that harm the foundation of human race cultivation instead?”

　　Hearing what Song Tuizhi said was so serious, Chen Luo also froze in his heart.

　　He didn’t expect this level.

　　But is there any way to not only prevent the serialization of the People’s Daily from being affected, but also to make his articles spread more quickly in the world, and at the same time not arouse the repulsion of other book writers?

　　A flash of light suddenly flashed in Chen Luo’s mind: By the way, someone has come up with a solution for a long time, isn’t it–