Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Of course, Liu Fangliang also has an important task - not to allow a single book, a picture, or a word to leak out of the Ming Dynasty!

Since taking office with [-] tax policemen, Liu Fangliang has captured more than a dozen ships transporting Chinese books.

More than [-] lost books were saved.

Among them, there are many classics, which are the "symbols of civil rule" of the previous dynasty that only the Wenyuan Pavilion of the Imperial Palace in Beijing can preserve.

You must know that China is the cradle of human civilization. Throughout the ages, all heroes who aspire to the world have implemented civilized rule after establishing a country.

Because there are only two ways to highlight the great achievements of these heroes - the military territory overshadows the sages, and the literary rule is immortalized in books.

The books that the emperor ordered the court to compile were a symbol of the civil rule of the dynasty!

For example, "Yongle Dadian" is a symbol of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, the contention of a hundred schools of thought is a symbol of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

How many books are there?

Let’s not talk about Pre-Qin. Pre-Qin was the most prosperous period of ancient culture. A hundred schools of thought contended and a thousand schools of thought sang together...

Only official compilations, not history books.

At the same time, due to the length of the words, only the ones with greater impact will be mentioned.

The "Seven Strategies" of the Western Han Dynasty - recorded 590 six schools (one hundred schools of thought) that could be seen at that time, and [-] volumes of books.

The total number of words is unknown...

(Note again: The Hundred Schools of Pre-Qin are not one hundred schools of thought, but a "name". With the "programme", there are 189 schools that can be counted, and the total number of miscellaneous schools is [-], which is a thousand schools.)

There are more than [-] volumes of "Huang Lan" written by the Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms, with a total of more than [-] million words.

You know, this is carved on a bamboo slip!

There are more than 20 million characters. Even if a bamboo slip is carved with an average of 40 characters - a total of more than [-] bamboo slips are needed!

The specifications used for official history books are larger than the common bamboo briefs.

According to research, the weight of a single piece of these archaeologically excavated bamboo slips was about 30 grams when they were written.

In order to facilitate calculation, the bamboo slips used by Huang Lan were calculated based on 50 grams per piece - which is equivalent to the weight of an egg.

This is [-] kilograms.

20 tons!

If you understand this, you can understand why - I have always said that official books were a sign of the flourishing literary age of the dynasty!

The Southern and Northern Dynasties were relatively chaotic, but there were many official books, such as "Hualin Panlue", "Yu Lan", "Shengshou Tang Yu Lan"...

Here are a few famous ones -

The Northern Qi Dynasty's "Xiuwen Palace Yulan" is divided into 55 categories, with a total of 360 volumes and 240 sub-categories.

The total number of words is unknown...

"Hualin Panlue" 620 volumes.

The total number of words is unknown...

(Note: Some of the books from the Northern and Southern Dynasties are preserved in the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.

It's a pity that the shameless scum court allowed the West to rob it...)

Four major categories of books in the Tang Dynasty:

"Art and Literature Collection" 100 million words;

"Beitang Shuchao" is suspected to be 173 volumes, 852 categories, and the number of words is unknown;

"Beginner's Notes" 23 parts, 30 volumes, 313 sub-headings, unknown number of words;

"Bai Shi Liu Tie" has 30 volumes and an unknown number of words.

"Tongdian" has 200 volumes, more than 1500 sub-items, and about 190 million words.

Not to mention the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

Song Dynasty:

"Taiping Yulan", 55 volumes, 550 categories, about 1000 volumes, 5474 categories.

The number of words is unknown... (According to research, it is about 500 million words.)

"Taiping Guangji" 92 categories, 500 volumes, total number of words unknown...

——This book is a collection of ancient novels about gods, monsters, and strange stories, similar to "Youyang Zazu" in the Tang Dynasty, "Natural History" in the Jin Dynasty, and "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" in the pre-Qin Dynasty.

"Wenyuan Yinghua" has 39 categories, 1000 volumes, and more than [-] selected articles. The total number of words is unknown...

"Cefu Yuangui" has 31 parts, 1104 chapters, 1000 volumes, and a total of more than [-] words.

Knock on the blackboard and write down the key points - the total number of words in "Cefu Yuangui" is nearly [-] million!

This is the most important point.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Chen Yuanliang, a survivor, compiled "Shilin Guangji" in 43 volumes, 51 categories, and the total number of words is unknown...

Yuan Dynasty:

"Yuan Yi Tong Zhi" has 600 volumes and 1300 volumes. The total number of words is unknown...

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The above list is not all the ancient Chinese official classics, but only a representative part of the non-historical books.

You know, the number of books compiled by individuals in ancient times was even more terrifying.

"Wo Shengqing" alone allows us to have book titles to count - more than 71 books were burned!

……

Why do I mention these books so many times and specifically use "Cefu Yuangui" as an example?

Not just because "Cefu Yuangui" is the first of the four major books of the Song Dynasty!

It’s because after more than a month of reading the book——

——I have fully grasped the process of the loss of "Cefu Yuangui", and I have sufficient evidence to prove the process of the loss of "Yongle Dadian"!

In fact, from the loss process of "Cefu Yuangui", we can already infer the loss process of "Yongle Dadian".

Similarly, we can also deduce the process of the West stealing Chinese classics!

——Similarly, given my personality, this is not just my reasoning, there is evidence!

If you take a careful look at the two small notes I specifically listed below, it will be clear at a glance!

Note 1: - The process of losing the book "Cefu Yuangui" is recorded in "Ziuzhongzhi":

Zhang Juzheng discovered that he was being hawked along the street by his former great scholar Zhang Wenjian, which triggered what Liu Ruoyu said about the whereabouts of the original copy of "Yongle Dadian" -

"I don't know (note: referring to "Cefu Yuangui") whether there is still a cabinet today?

With the passage of time, the situation is different from that of previous years.

Then who dares to ask about the existence or non-existence of this book and the storage of "Yongle Dadian"? "

Zhang Wenjiangong: After a whole day of flipping through books, I finally found my real name - Zhang Bi.

Zhang Bi, a native of Shishou, Jingzhou, Huguang, entered the cabinet in the 23rd year of Jiajing. He was a bachelor of Dongge University and was given the posthumous title "Wen Jian".

That is, "Zhang Wenjian Gong" in "Ziu Zhong Zhi".

Small note: As mentioned before, I could not find who Zhang Wenjiangong was in "Ziuzhongzhi".

As I wrote this, I got sick of being angry, so I had to dig up the list of ministers with the posthumous title of "Wen Jian" in the Ming Dynasty, and then compare their lives one by one...

In the end, this person was found to be Zhang Bi.

Position - Bachelor of Cabinet Dongge!

Year - Jiajing 23rd~24th year.

see it?

Cabinet Bachelor!

Only at this level can one obtain the precious books kept in the palace without any imperial edict or court discussion!

Because the duty of the cabinet bachelor is to "follow the instructions of the old rules, check the questions and report, draft the votes and approve the answers, so as to support the common government."

Note 2: - Based on the level of "Cefu Yuangui", it should have been a book hidden in the palace.

However, Guo Moruo discovered two copies of "Cefu Yuangui" in Huayan Temple, Laoshan, Qingdao.

These are not two books!

But two versions from different eras!