"Oh? There's such a thing ~? "
Inside the Datang Daily editorial department, Li Zexuan was a little surprised after hearing Ma Zhou's words. He only knew that the Warm Tang Foundation's charity 'storm' had spread to the palace, to the homes of the civil and military officials, to the private merchants, and to the common people, but he didn't expect it to spread to the 'novel circle'!
This indeed showed that the Warm Tang Foundation's charity effect was very impressive!
However, the authors of "Zhang Xiaohua's Biography of a Cultivator" and "The Long Journey to Immortality", Chen Tianhua and Liao Fei-chen, were both students of Yanhuang College. It was very likely that they had been influenced by helping the poor in various provinces and counties, so they donated money to charity. This didn't really explain the problem!
Outsiders might not know that Chen Tianhua and Liao Fei-chen were the authors of these two novels, but how could Li Zexuan and Ma Zhou, the two most powerful people in the Datang Daily editorial department, not know?
Li Zexuan wouldn't criticize his students for writing novels while attending school to earn money, as long as it didn't affect their studies! Moreover, he had also written novels when he was in university in his previous life, but it was a 'flop'. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had to worry about finding a job when he graduated.
"Tomorrow, put a paragraph at the top of 'Datang Daily – Dahua Jianghu' to publicize Chen Tianhua and Liao Fei-chen's charity work. Tell all the authors that if anyone is willing to donate their rewards like them, Datang Daily will not take any commission and will donate the full amount!"
(According to the rules, the editorial department will take a 50% commission for the rewards received by the authors.)
Li Zexuan thought for a while and said.
Ma Zhou smiled and replied, "Yes! Marquis! "
Li Zexuan chatted with Ma Zhou for a while. Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, Brother Ma, the headline on Datang Daily today is very good. Brother Ma, you have a deep chest and a poetic mind. No wonder Mr. Li Gang has been praising you!"
Ma Zhou was stunned, then he waved his hand and said modestly, "Marquis is overpraising. It's not that Ma Zhou wrote it well, but that Marquis said it well! Ma Zhou was enlightened and benefited a lot from those two sentences, 'establish your heart for the heavens and earth, establish your life for the people'! "
"Haha! Brother Ma, you're too modest! I can't write that splendid essay of yours! "
Li Zexuan smiled and walked two steps with his hands behind his back. Suddenly, he stopped and said, "Actually, there are two more sentences after these two sentences!"
"Oh ~? Please enlighten me, Marquis! "
Ma Zhou's eyes lit up, like a hungry man seeing a peerless beauty. He stared at Li Zexuan with burning eyes.
Li Zexuan sighed and said softly, "The complete four sentences should be: establish your heart for the heavens and earth, establish your life for the people, inherit the lost knowledge for the past saints, and establish peace for all ages!"
After that, he shook his head and walked out of the door, leaving Ma Zhou in a daze.
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"Eh ~? Mr. Wang? Why are you here? "
After leaving the Datang Daily editorial department building, Li Zexuan inadvertently caught a glimpse of a familiar figure coming out of the ironworks yard in the west. He couldn't help but be curious. He chased after him and found that it was Wang Ji. He couldn't help but ask.
"Oh! So it's Yamachō! "
Wang Ji's hair was disheveled and his beard was unshaven. He looked like a prisoner who had just been released from prison. His appearance was completely different from the glorious image that a teacher of the Academy should have. When he saw that the person who called him was Li Zexuan, he hurriedly tidied up his messy hair and said,
"Yamachō, I heard that a big blast furnace was built in the workshop, but I was too busy with the Academy's affairs to take a look. Later, when the students finished their exams, they were dragged down the mountain by you, Yamachō, to help the needy. I wanted to take a look and verify some of the chemical reactions recorded in the textbook 'Chemistry'!"
Li Zexuan was speechless. No wonder it was not easy to meet Wang Ji in the Academy recently. It turned out that this old man came to the workshop. Looking at his sloppy appearance, he probably ate, drank, and slept in the workshop. How much "hatred" did he have to work so hard?
"I'm just verifying some chemical reactions. Mr. Wang, you don't have to be like this …"
Li Zexuan pretended to be puzzled.
Wang Ji's expression was awkward. He laughed and said, "Ahem! I've been a little busy recently and forgot to clean up. Sorry for my rudeness! But with Yamachō's current state, you shouldn't judge a book by its cover like the rest of the world, right? Moreover, compared to those people who look good on the outside but are rotten on the inside, I'm much better! "
Li Zexuan cursed in his heart. This old man had been in the Academy for so long, when did he become a little … shameless? Was he influenced by the bearded man?
"Oh! That's right! Yamachō! I've recently discovered something new. Come and take a look! "
Suddenly, Wang Ji patted his head and said excitedly.
Li Zexuan was just about to ask what it was when Old Wang pulled him by the arm and walked quickly to the workshop's office building!
After going up to the third floor, they turned left and right again. The two of them walked to the door of a room. Wang Ji said as he opened the door, "This is a room that I asked Manager Fu to specially use to test some chemical reactions. Recently, according to the teaching materials, I found someone to help me burn some tools. I've been doing experiments in this room for the past few days!"
While they were talking, the door had already opened. Li Zexuan almost thought that he had transmigrated back to the modern world because the table in the room was filled with glass containers of various shapes, such as distillation bottles, beakers, measuring cylinders, test tubes … and so on. Also, Li Zexuan even saw an alcohol lamp!
This old man really knows how to make a mess!
At this moment, Li Zexuan really admired Wang Ji. When he was writing the academy's "Chemistry" teaching materials, he only drew some rough outlines of the experimental equipment and briefly introduced the principles of some chemical reactions. He didn't expect the students to understand all the chemical reactions in the book. He felt that it would be good enough if the students could understand the nature of matter through the "Chemistry" class!
In other words, the "Chemistry" teaching materials he wrote were incomplete. Due to the lack of experimental materials and equipment, the whole course lacked a lot of experimental evidence. Most of the time, it was only limited to theoretical explanations!
Of course, such a "Chemistry" couldn't be considered complete!
But even if it was incomplete, he still wanted to introduce this course. He wanted to present the theory first and leave some of the specific things in it for future generations to verify when the conditions were right. For example, the "Periodic Table of the Elements" that he proposed. At this time, the students might not think much of it, but in a few decades or two or three hundred years later, people would definitely be amazed by the "Periodic Table of the Elements"!
He wanted to introduce the knowledge of chemistry to the Tang Dynasty and be a "prophet" in this field!
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