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Chapter 402 The Forgotten Treasure

 Zhang Siwei and his fellow villagers sat here for a while before going back. Although the Hanlin Academy was relatively leisurely, the time passed after drinking tea and reading the residence, it was still not possible to leave the post for a long time.

After the two left, several people came to visit. After all, Zhu Ping'an's official position was placed. From the sixth rank, in this huge Hanlin Academy, only nine people were higher than Zhu Ping'an, that is, the bachelor's degree in the school, the bachelor's degree in attendance, the bachelor's degree in attendance, the bachelor's degree in attendance, the bachelor's degree in attendance, the bachelor's degree in attendance, and the sixth rank of attendance, the other editors, the reviewers, etc. are all lower than Zhu Ping'an's level.

These people are respectful and respectful when they visit, but the sympathy or gloating in their eyes is still indispensable. These people are like Zhang Bo, knowing the Hanlin Academy well, and also knowing the "best Hanlin Academy" errands that Zhu Ping'an is responsible for.

However, Zhu Ping'an's mentality has always been very calm, which disappointed them. They also want to see Zhu Ping'an's expression of worry.

After these people left, Zhu Ping'an made a pot of tea for himself again, got up and went to the first, second and third floors of the library again to go around each floor. Because there were servants in charge of cleaning the library, the floor and bookcases were very clean, but the books were placed a little messy.

On the third floor, Zhu Ping'an saw the "Yongle Encyclopedia" that later generations could not see. After the baptism of history and war, only more than 700 volumes remain in modern times. However, on this third floor, there is a complete set of "Yongle Encyclopedia", which has a total of 22,937 volumes, divided into 10,095 volumes, occupying a total of six sizes of the third floor.

Zhu Ping'an remembers that he had read some novels at Qidian before, such as the library, and I had a golden finger novel in my mind. Now when I saw this set of "Yongle Encyclopedia", Zhu Ping'an felt that he had discovered a treasure, which was the largest encyclopedia in the world. The history, geography, literature, art, philosophy, religion and other encyclopedias before Yongle of the Ming Dynasty were all in this set of books. This set of books can almost be said to be a treasure ship full of thousands of years of civilization and culture in China. Now this ship is in front of him.

Just now, Zhang Bo and the others thought that this was one of the worst errands in the Hanlin Academy, but when they saw the books and classics on the entire floor, especially the Yongle Ceremony, Zhu Ping'an thought that this was the best errands in the Hanlin Academy.

Unlike modern libraries, the Yongle Ceremony is not a combination of Chinese pinyin and Arabic numerals, but a "Hongwu Zhengyun" as the ordering basis, because there was no such thing as pinyin at that time. Based on "Hongwu Zhengyun" following the map, you can easily retrieve the books you need from these ten thousand volumes of "Yongle Ceremony".

Zhu Ping'an took the first volume of "Yongle Encyclopedia" from the first bookcase and found that this set was just a copy and there was a layer of yellow silk on the outside, and the thick and exquisite rice paper cover under the yellow silk. There was a rectangular bookmark on the yellow silk, which read "Yongle Encyclopedia". There were two lines of small characters below that listed the number of volumes of this book.

After buying it, Zhu Ping'an found that there was dust on the book. It can be seen that this book, to be precise, should be this set of "Yongle Encyclopedia" and that it should have had considerable thoughts and no one could read it.

This Yongle Ceremony is about the first volume. After opening it, Zhu Ping'an found that it probably records the background of the compilation of the Yongle Ceremony. The first page is an edict from Emperor Yongle:

"The things in the world are recorded in various classics in a variety of books, and are voluminous and difficult to search. I want to collect the things recorded in each book widely and use rhyme to supervise them for the purpose of searching. In this way, searching things is as easy as taking things. I hope you will collect the books of the classics, history, and literature from all generations since the beginning of the text. As well as astronomy, geography, yin and yang, medical calculations, monks and Taoism, and skills, and collect them in one book. Don't think it's too numerous."

After reading the edict, Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but sigh. It is said that this set of "Yongle Encyclopedia" took several years during the Yongle period, and more than 20,000 court officials and scholars participated in the compilation. It is said that after completion, more than 100 calligraphers took six years to copy a copy!

Such a hard-working "Yongle Encyclopedia" is actually covered in dust! "Yongle Encyclopedia" is a forgotten treasure.

After putting the book back on its original position, Zhu Ping'an walked along the aisle several rows. He chose a book shelf and selected another book, and opened it to read it.

This is a military type book. The page that Zhu Ping'an opened is an interlude, and the style of a crossbow is drawn. It can be seen that the drawing was made with a brush, but the shape is realistic and very exquisite. The arrows on the crossbow almost rolled out.

Curious, Zhu Ping'an turned forward several pages and found that the scroll was called: Divine Arm Bow!

"The arch of the god arm is a real crossbow. It uses mountain mulberry as its body, sandalwood as its trunk, iron as its gutter, steel as its machine, mast and thread as its string. The bow body is three feet three, the string is two feet five, and the arrow is fired and more than three hundred and forty steps. The bow can stand on the ground, pull the trigger, and can penetrate 300 steps of iron armor."

This volume describes the Divine Arm Bow in extremely detailed descriptions, from material selection to production to use to arrangement of troops, the illustrations in the volume draw each subtle structure of the Divine Arm Bow separately, and each subtle section is drawn in extremely detailed. Zhu Ping'an can certainly copy the standard Divine Arm Bow through this volume.

What a good book! Very practical.

After reading this volume of divine arm bow, Zhu Ping'an put the volume back to its original position, and then walked away in a row and selected a volume to open it.

This book is geographically oriented, with very rich illustrations, and the mountains, rivers, city blocks, etc. are very detailed, of course, they are incomparable to the current map. In Zhu Ping'an's eyes, there are many errors in this book that describes Shandong geography, but it cannot be too high. Generally speaking, it is still very standard.

If the emperor reads the complete geography, sitting in the study can bring his own country into his mind.

If it weren't for lunch time, Zhang Siwei asked himself downstairs to go out for dinner together, Zhu Ping'an would definitely be immersed in the "Yongle Encyclopedia" and forget to eat day and night.

"We will go find the following generation to have lunch together. I guess there will be no chance at night. Their Dali Temple will also welcome them to the new Jinshi of Guanzheng." After Zhu Ping'an went downstairs, Zhang Siwei took Zhu Ping'an out to find Wang Shizhen.

"You mean that our Hanlin Academy will also welcome us to the evening?" Zhu Ping'an frowned and asked, why are there another banquet? I have drunk a lot of wine these days, but I don't want to drink it anymore.

"Yes, this is all routine. But it is said that we are welcome to us, but in fact we will pay at that time," Zhang Siwei said and curled his lips.

This is not the point, okay.
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