Yang Fan and his wife met Mr. Wu in the living room on the second floor of the RV.
Mr. Wu entered the RV alone, without his apprentice. He held the very simple-looking lacquerware box in his hands.
Yang Fan knew that at this time, Mr. Wu asked for an audience at night, which must be a very important matter. Mr. Wu is a good man and understands the ways of the world. He is so solemn, which shows that the matter is not small.
Mr. Wu knelt down opposite Yang Fan and didn't say much. He just pushed the lacquerware box in front of Yang Fan who was sitting on his knees. He said very excitedly: "Proprietor, when I was sorting out Shi Le's collection of books, I found this small wooden box. The contents inside
The stuff is of great importance and I can’t handle it, so I sent it to you late at night.”
Yang Fan nodded. Shi Le's book collection was found in the basement of Chen Xi's house. There were no gold or silver treasures in it. They were all silk books and bamboo slips, packed in nanmu boxes.
A lot of great things were found here. For example, the "Lianshan Yi", "Guizang Yi", etc. were donated to Yan University, and there are quite a lot of other good things. Because during the Sixteen Kingdoms period, Qin Shihuang burned books and harassed Confucians.
After Dong Zhuo burned down the city of Luoyang, another cultural catastrophe occurred.
Although Shi Le became emperor, because he was born a slave and had no education, he was particularly eager to learn cultural knowledge. He could not read, so he asked the ministers to read to him.
And if there is something you don’t understand, let the scholar explain it to him on the spot.
While listening, he also expressed his opinions at any time.
Once, Shi Le asked someone to read the "Book of Han" to him. When he heard that someone advised Han Emperor Gaozu to ennoble the descendants of the nobles of the Six Kingdoms, he said:
"Alas! It is wrong for Liu Bang to take this approach. Can he still win the world by doing this?"
The lecturer immediately explained to him that Han Gaozu did not do this because of Zhang Liang's dissuasion.
Shi Le nodded happily and said, "The Han family owes everything to Zhang Liang'er."
Although he did not study, the knowledge and vision of the founding emperor were still remarkable.
Shi Le had never been educated in Han culture since he was a child and was illiterate. But he was very envious of others having the opportunity to learn. After he became a general, he gradually understood that to achieve great things, force alone was not enough. He must have knowledge and use strategies.
Shi Le invited Zhang Bin, a Han scholar, to advise him and establish his own staff team.
He ordered his subordinates that if they caught a scholar, they were not allowed to kill him, but they must send him over and let him deal with it himself. He took in a group of scholars from poor families in the north and organized a "gentleman camp".
The people in Junziying were responsible for collecting books and classics everywhere. When his troops didn't go anywhere, they looked for books everywhere.
In this way, a large number of palace books and private collections that were lost in the late Eastern Han Dynasty were collected, and finally formed a huge scale.
It's a pity that none of his children likes to study. They only like drinking, women, and hunting.
In his later years, he found out helplessly that he had collected a lifetime of hard work, but was treated as a piece of junk by his descendants, and no one cared about him. He also saw clearly that these unlearned and unskilled scoundrels would not pass on his hard work, and he was disheartened.
Feeling cold, I buried all these books.
Because there were too many documents in this batch, Yang Fan had no time to take care of it, so he threw them all to Mr. Wu and asked him to sort them out slowly. As a result, Mr. Wu found this small box in a big box.
Yang Fan curiously opened the lacquer box, and Xiao Niangpi and Lin Yueru also curiously put their little heads over to take a look. Opening treasure boxes is an activity they both like very much. They often play the game of opening treasure boxes in Ryukyu's treasures.
However, when you open one layer of paint boxes, there is another layer of paint boxes inside.
"Hey, this is such a waste of feelings." Xiao Niangpi said with some dissatisfaction.
Xiao Niangpi was already ready to be amazed when she saw something good. However, there was still a box inside. She was looking forward to opening the treasure box and finding a rare treasure, preferably her favorite jewelry.
Yang Fan took out the lacquer box inside and looked around. This lacquer box was different from the outer one. The outer layer was inlaid with mother-of-pearl, while the inner one was made of gold and silver. The pattern was also more exquisite.
Yang Fan continued to open it, and inside was a bronze box. It was not big, but extremely beautiful. It was a box with many dragons coiled around it. The shapes of these dragons were very simple, and it was obvious at a glance that they were not in the style of the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties.
When he saw the box, Yang Fan didn't feel anything. However, Xiao Niangpi and Lin Yueru took a breath of air and grabbed one of Yang Fan's arms tightly with their little hands.
You can tell at a glance that this box is used to hold jade seals.
Shi Le was also an emperor after all. He found a box of jade seals in his secret treasure. It is obvious what was inside. Although it was the treasure of the previous emperor, could ordinary people touch this thing?
The two girls immediately became short of breath.
Moreover, both of them are ambitious and hope that their master can achieve greater development. Although it is the jade seal of the previous emperor, it is a good fortune.
Yang Fan gently opened the lid, and there was golden silk wrapping the inside, which was very soft. A small seal carved from green jade lay quietly there.
It's not white jade, which makes them a little disappointed. The one with this color may be blue field jade.
This small seal is not big, only one inch square.
The first thing Yang Fan saw was the Yin Niu, which was five simple chi dragons, tumbling and intertwined, commonly known as the Five Dragon Intersection. Yang Fan did not take it out in a hurry. Instead, he looked at it carefully.
At this time, a carbide lamp was lit in the room. It was illuminated brightly.
A golden light flashed under Yang Fan's hair, and on Yuxi's shoulder, there was a small horn shining with golden light.
Yang Fan was suddenly excited. Originally, he didn't pay much attention to His Majesty Shi Le's seal. He had been in Ming Dynasty for a long time and had seen a lot of good things. It was just a seal of the previous emperor, nothing to make a fuss about.
But this small seal and the golden reflection on his shoulder made him sit up straight. In his accumulated historical knowledge, it seemed that only one jade seal was repaired with gold.
"How is this possible? It's unbelievable." The little girl couldn't close her mouth. Lin Yueru was also stunned. Obviously, everyone knew what the jade seal on the shoulder was made up of with gold.
Yang Fan couldn't wait to take out this small piece of jade seal from the box, turned it over and looked at the words on the front.
"If you receive orders from Heaven, you will live forever"
Although it is a Niao-Chong seal script, many people in this era know the small seal script. On the bronze mirror around Xiao Niangpi's neck is "Tushan Song" in Niao-Chong seal script.
"Ah!" Lin Yueru and Xiao Niangpi screamed together. Their fingernails dug into the flesh of Yang Fan's arm. Yang Fan pinched his teeth in pain, thinking that these two girls were crazy.
"Why is it so small? It can't be a fake. I remember that the jade seal cannot be smaller than four inches square." Aunt Mei couldn't help but said as she knelt on the side.
Yang Fan smiled bitterly and said: "If it is really four inches square, it must be fake. On the contrary, it can be true if it is one inch square."
Yang Fan took the tablet and found a picture in a few seconds.
"Look, this is the earliest jade seal I can find. It was unearthed from the tomb of the Nanyue King in the Western Han Dynasty."
The picture is exactly the "Emperor Wen's Seal" found in the tomb of King Nanyue of the Western Han Dynasty. Moreover, this seal is the largest seal unearthed so far. However, this "largest" seal is actually only 1.8 cm high and 3.1 cm long.
.The seals of the Qin and Han dynasties were really only this big.
There are many seals handed down and excavated during the Qin and Han Dynasties, and private seals are even smaller.
This tablet is what the girls usually play, such as Angry Birds, Plants vs. Zombies, etc. They are no strangers to tablets.
Yang Fan couldn't get over the shock for a long time. This thing appeared in the secret collection of the Sixteen Kingdoms, which actually confirmed that it might be true. Yang Fan looked at the words on the seal carefully.
"Mr. Wu, I heard that these eight characters were written by Li Si. If we have Li Si's original handwriting, we can compare them."
Mr. Wu smiled and said, "I'm already prepared."
As he spoke, he took out three bamboo slips from his arms and placed them in front of Yang Fan.
"There are bamboo slips in this batch that have been handed down from the Qin Dynasty. I have studied them carefully and found that these should be the original works of Li Si. In addition, there is another way. There is a stone carving in Mount Tai, which is the original work of Li Si. There is no doubt that this stone carving is the original work of Li Si.
It is recognized. You can send someone to make a rubbing and make a comparison."