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Chapter 18 Money for a word

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At the end of the Warring States period, there was a big businessman in the state of Qin named Lu Buwei. When he was doing business in the state of Zhao, he had sponsored King Zhuangxiang of Qin (named Zi Chu, who was a proton in the state of Zhao at that time) and sent his concubine Zhao Ji to him. He gave Zichu his wife, and after Zichu took over the throne, he was granted the title of Marquis of Wenxin and lived in the prime minister.King Zhuangxiang died of illness after only three years on the throne. His thirteen-year-old son Zheng (born by Zhao Ji) took over the throne. He was the famous Qin Shihuang in history. Zhao Ji's hands.

At that time, it was very popular to support scholars. The famous four sons of the Warring States Period had thousands of followers, and Lu Buwei also raised 3,000 followers. As his think tank, he came up with various ways to consolidate his regime.These diners, people from various religions and nine streams, have everything that one expects to find. Each of them has their own opinions and experiences; all of them are put forward and written down in writing.Collected together, it became a masterpiece with more than 200,000 words, nominated for "Lu Shi Chunqiu".Lu Buwei regarded this book as a classic for Qin to unify the world.At that time, the Lu family announced the book in Xianyang, the capital of the Qin State: a reward was offered, saying that anyone who could add or subtract a word in the book would be rewarded with a thousand gold (a catty of gold).

For this record, see "Historical Records": "Biography of Lu Buwei".Later people, based on this story, extended it into an idiom of "one word is worth a thousand gold", which is used to describe the value of an article is very high, or to praise an article for its excellent rhetoric.For example, we read a new work by a famous scholar. He proposed a new teaching method, which can not only improve the academic level and quality of the students, but also increase the teachers’ own training accordingly. For such an extremely valuable article, We can say that it is "a word of gold".In modern society, everything has become a commodity, including articles. Then we say that the high price of an article by a certain author is equivalent to "a word of money".However, it is usually more appropriate for us to describe the value of the article or the beauty of rhetoric.

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