mtl008 Chapter 150 The Tsunami of Movable Type Printing
Chapter 150 The Tsunami of Movable Type Printing
Not far behind Li Chengqian, Di Renjie had gone mad and was specifically hunting down and killing Japanese women and children.
If for no other reason, it was because when he and Pei Xingjian were in Nanjing, what they saw most often were women and children who died tragically at the hands of the Japanese invaders.
He was madly chasing after the fleeing Japanese soldiers, women and children, while crying loudly! !
Poor child, how traumatized his young heart is.
After Li Chengqian killed a few more beasts that rushed forward, he looked at Di Renjie's condition.
"Vent it out, go crazy!"
"Kill at will!"
"Release the hatred in your heart. In the entire country of Japan, no Japanese is innocent..."
As Li Chengqian and his group committed wanton killing and arson, the entire Tokyo was burning.
Chaos, confusion, chaos everywhere.
Li Chengqian and his men alone, relying on their teleportation abilities, were able to throw the entire Tokyo into chaos.
The fire was spreading, but no army showed up to put it out.
Li Chengqian looked at the countdown in the air, there was only one minute left.
"It's time to go back to Datang!!"
Several people quickly gathered and teleported to the dilapidated temple. After picking up Liu Xiaoli, they disappeared...
At the same time, the news of the assassination of the Dog Emperor and Japanese high-ranking officials quickly spread throughout Japan and also reached the invading Japanese troops.
Coupled with the fact that Song Jin Shigen was killed earlier, the Japanese army on the mainland was suddenly thrown into chaos.
The previously formulated offensive plan was also shelved. They were waiting for the birth of the new emperor and the formation of a new cabinet to lead them in launching a bigger war of revenge.
But with so many high-ranking officials dying overnight, is it that easy to enthronize a new emperor and establish a new cabinet?
This also indirectly bought Jiang Guangtou time to deploy his defense. As for what Jiang Guangtou can ultimately achieve, whether he can seize this window of opportunity to make adjustments and live up to his reputation as a master of micro-control, it all depends on God's will!
At the same time, Western powers reported this incident extensively, and even the situation of the war in Europe was cooled down. However, this could not change the tide of the war, and what was going to happen would still happen.
Ten days later, those high-ranking Japanese officials who were not qualified to attend the cabinet meeting quickly supported the new emperor to ascend the throne, known in history as the Heisei Dog Emperor.
Moreover, since most of the high-ranking officials who were executed were from the Army Ministry, the high-ranking officials of the Navy Ministry gradually gained power.
After a few days of chaos, Japan quickly made adjustments and continued its attack plan on the mainland.
They followed their previous strategy, still aiming to quickly defeat the National Army's frontal forces and completely destroy the Chinese people's will to resist, and launched a larger-scale war.
At the same time, because the Japanese Navy was in power, they started their Southeast Asia strategy ahead of time and began to invade the South Pacific countries on a large scale.
History seems to have not changed, it's just moved forward!
But these have nothing to do with Li Chengqian and others.
The group returned to Datang again, and the system immediately gave feedback.
[Successfully rescued most of the people in Jinling, and rewarded everyone with a 50% increase in physical fitness...]
[Successfully kill the Japanese Dog King and reward everyone with a 50% increase in physical fitness...]
[Reclaim the teleportation gate ability. The next place to travel is being searched for. The time is one month...]
Everyone is feeling the improvement in their physical fitness.
Improve your physical fitness by 100% at one time, and the effect is very obvious.
Now it is not an exaggeration for Li Chengqian and others to call themselves supermen.
His strength is many times greater than that of an ordinary person, and his speed is as fast as lightning. His jumping ability and agility are comparable to the peerless martial arts masters in the martial arts world! !
If Qiao Feng comes, kill him!
This is especially true for Li Shimin and Li Jing, who are both older.
They have truly returned to their peak physical strength, and even their mentality has become much younger.
"Pharmacist, you are still as charming as ever!" Li Shimin laughed.
Li Jing also excitedly cupped his hands and said: "Congratulations to your Majesty for returning to youth. We can fight for another fifty years!!"
Cheng Yaojin also laughed loudly: "More than fifty years, Old Cheng, I can fight for another hundred years!"
"Destroy the countries. I will destroy all the countries that have not yet submitted to the Tang Dynasty. I will double or triple the territory of the Tang Dynasty!" Yuchi Gong shouted.
Everyone was very excited, but Li Chengqian sighed.
The most practical teleportation ability was taken back, what a pity!!
Fortunately, everyone's physical fitness has been improved by 100% this time, so it's not a complete loss...
Back in the Tang Dynasty, everyone was full of energy.
Li Chengqian held a wedding for Di Renjie and Liu Xiaoli, and the two officially became a couple.
At the same time, Liu Xiaoli was assigned the position of a primary school principal. She set up an experimental class in the imperial farm and arranged the grandchildren of Li Jing, Cheng Yaojin and others into this experimental class to try to learn new knowledge and see what the effect was.
But when Liu Xiaoli wanted to print books, she found that the Tang Dynasty was still using woodblock printing.
Woodblock printing is not only inefficient and costly, but the blocks are also difficult to preserve. If not properly maintained, they will decay and be eaten by insects.
This makes the cost of printing a book extremely high and the selling price is also extremely high.
Ordinary people simply cannot afford it, which limits the spread of knowledge among the people.
After learning about the situation, Liu Xiaoli quickly proposed the idea of movable type printing to Li Chengqian and Li Shimin.
Li Chengqian called himself a pig-brained person for forgetting such an important thing.
After understanding the role of movable type printing, Li Shimin decisively allocated a sum of money to set up a printing workshop with Di Renjie and Liu Xiaoli.
He ordered them to collect various books, print them with all their strength, and put them on the market at extremely low prices.
With the emergence of this batch of cheap books, another powerful weapon capable of destroying aristocratic families finally came onto the stage of history.
The reason why aristocratic families have been able to stand for thousands of years is not only because of their huge family size and assets, or their intermarriages.
More important is the monopoly of knowledge and the high cost of books.
Many profound books of knowledge are not only not circulated in the market, but are also kept privately among aristocratic families and not exchanged with each other.
Every noble family has its own classics that it is good at. These advanced knowledge are regarded by them as the foundation of their existence, and only the direct descendants of the family can read and study them.
Although Li Shimin was the emperor, he had no way of issuing an order for the aristocratic families to donate their collections of books.
He could only do his best to collect and print books from the Guanlong and Hedong gentry, including the royal collection.
Although it was still only a small part, as this batch of books flowed into the market, the aristocratic families panicked.
This is to break the aristocratic families’ monopoly on knowledge at its root!
The key is the imperial examination system that emerged during the Sui Dynasty. Because of the aristocratic families' monopoly on knowledge, the vast majority of those who could pass the exam were their people.
If these cheap books were allowed to become popular, wouldn’t the so-called “high-quality books have no poor families, and low-quality books have no noble families” be shattered? !
The reason why the aristocratic families can stand firm is precisely because of their monopoly on knowledge and official positions...