After Xiong Shang arranged his cousin, he felt that he had one of his worries. As the highest official position in the family at this time, most of the things in the family had to ask Xiong Shang to come forward to make judgments or help. However, Xiong Shang himself knew how powerless he was.

Mongolia destroyed dozens of countries, and the Song Dynasty killed Jiaozhi and Chameng again, and the Ministry of Rites had very little work. Just when Xiong Shang was about to enjoy the winter in Hangzhou, the Japanese sent an envoy.

The Song Dynasty had not developed a tribute system in the Celestial Empire for many years. Japan had completely restored normal diplomatic relations with the Song Dynasty, but it had no intention of paying tribute regularly. This time, the Japanese sent envoys to make Shangshu Xiong Shang unable to guess what they were going to do.

"May I ask Mr. Xiong Shang, Mei Yougan is an official of the Song Dynasty?" Japanese diplomats asked in a bad Chinese.

"Mei Yougan? What is he doing?" Xiong Shang had no idea of ​​this name at all.

"Please don't joke! That Mei Yougan is a person sent to our country by the Song State." The Japanese diplomat shouted in a very excited tone.

"I... do not know this person." Xiong Shang said dissatisfiedly. With the map and globe, Xiong Shang knew very well how big the country was. Song State is not even worthy of Mongolia now, and it is even more impossible to have any feelings for Japan. However, Xiong Shang should be as polite as possible for such a country with diplomatic relations. He asked, "I don't know what Mei Yougan did?"

"He stole the "Golden Crown and Jade Rabbit Collection" from our country." The Japanese envoy said excitedly.

Xiong Shang looked at the Japanese envoy opposite him with a squinted look. He felt an indescribable guilt from the envoy's excited tone. This kind of guilt must have a big problem, especially when combined with this excited tone, it is particularly guilty.

"Whose book is this "Golden Crown and Jade Rabbit Collection"?" Xiong Shang asked.

"This book is the treasure of the temple of the Yin-Yangliao in Abe Jingming, our country. Mei Yougan stole the book. Now the Yin-Yangliao in Heianjing is in chaos."

"You said he stole it, but it was him stumped it?" Xiong Shang expressed his opinion.

"Does Song State want to shelter this person?"

"Why are you unreasonable? Why do we believe what you said?"

"...Is it possible to deceive people if the Song State is in a daze?"

...

Xiong Shang had a dispute with the Japanese envoy and let the Japanese envoy go down first. Then Xiong Shang felt that what the Japanese envoy said might be true. If it were not true, Japan would not have mobilized such a large number of troops to come across the sea to seek it.

The Yin-Yangliao Wangwen is a kind of Feng Shui flavor, probably like the Sitianjian of the Song Dynasty. Since that's the case, what is the "Golden Crown and Jade Rabbit Collection"? It depends on the name of it is completely Chinese.

In the next two days, Xiong Shang contacted other departments and had no clue at all. According to the Japanese envoy, Mei Yougan, the book-thief, wanted to dedicate the book to the Zhao official family of the Song Dynasty. Xiong Shang could not find any other clues, and his subordinates brought back the news from the Song Dynasty's library.

"Shangshu, this book is included in the index of the Great Song Library."

"Oh? It's indeed our Chinese book!" Xiong Shang immediately felt relieved. It would be too embarrassing if Mei Yougan from Song State stole an original Japanese book.

"I read the introduction of this book. It was stolen by Abe Nakamaro, the envoy of the Tang Dynasty of Japan. The Tang Dynasty was in chaos and this book was lost."

"Oh? There is such a story?" Xiong Shang felt a little clear about the whole story. Zhao Jiaren, an official from the Song Dynasty, was a man who paid great attention to civil affairs. After returning to Lin'an, he built the Song Dynasty Archives and the Song Dynasty Library. Originally, China had a catalog of books of all dynasties. Perhaps this Mei Yougan wanted to get rewards by getting precious lost books.

After guessing this process, Xiong Shang was even less interested in catching the thief. However, the Japanese envoy was not so considerate. He came to ask for a visit almost every day, and his tone was very firm, and he seemed to have to get the book back no matter what.

This behavior that can be called rude aroused Xiong Shang's curiosity. He didn't expect that the Japanese envoy was so slandered. Wouldn't this attitude prove that the Song Dynasty was a book-stealing thief? Even if he didn't want to bear this title, the Song Dynasty would not be able to return the book to Japan. And what content does this book actually make Japan care so much?

Xiong Shang, who was full of curiosity, simply went to meet Zhao Guanjia. As the Minister of Rites, Xiong Shang certainly would not foolishly ask the Zhao Guanjia whether he had sent someone to steal books in Japan. He just pretended to be nothing and asked: "Have the official family heard of the book "Golden Crown and Jade Rabbit Collection"?"

Hearing this answer, Xiong Shang immediately confirmed that the Japanese envoy was not lying. Even if the Zhao official family was not instructed behind the scenes, they at least knew about the book. So Xiong Shang Shang took the Japanese envoy to pursue the book and told Zhao Jiaren that the Japanese envoy came to pursue the book.

After listening to Xiong Shang's introduction, Zhao Jiaren sighed: "These Japanese people have no idea what to do."

"Official family, what exactly does this book mean?" Xiong Shang wanted to know first why this book was so concerned by the Japanese.

"Most of the contents of this book are yin and yang and feng shui,"

"What about a small part?"

"A small part of it is written about measurement techniques before the Tang Dynasty."

"Measurement?" Xiong Shang asked in surprise. He thought that the earth-shaking event was written in it, but he didn't expect it to be just about measurement.

"Shangshu Xiong, do you know that our current canal has been confirmed during the Han Dynasty. Including the Grand Canal excavated by Emperor Yang of Sui, it is actually just a link between the canals of the Han Dynasty?" Zhao Jiaren asked.

"Official family, I don't know if I don't do this." Xiong Shang replied.

"Well..." Zhao Jiaren found that he couldn't help himself, so he calmed down for a while. In the 21st century, Zhao Jiaren went to visit the tomb of the King of Chu in Xuzhou. The tomb passage of a Chu king in the Western Han Dynasty was a double tomb passage. Someone who was interested in measuring the tomb passage was found to be straight. So a better person measured the angle between the two tomb passages and found that the two tomb passages had subtle angles. People who were better people calculated the intersection of the angle, and found that the two tomb passages actually intersected in Chang'an, the capital of the Western Han Dynasty.

The coffins of the King of Chu and the Queen of Chu are placed in the double tomb passage. If the souls of the two people die, they will meet again in Chang'an.

The tomb passage is straight, which can be said to be a very high-level craftsman. The tomb passage has angles, which can be said to be that the measurement tools at that time were not fine enough. The result of the angle was that the "Error Segment" could not say that this was the result of error. If it were an error, why did the angle error go to Chang'an? Chang'an is the only meaningful existence among all errors.

There is no record of the tomb of the King of Chu in the Western Han Dynasty in "The Collection of Golden Crows and Jade Rabbits". This book is entirely about the theory of Yin and Yang Feng Shui and the techniques of how to measure Feng Shui. What really interested Zhao Jiaren was that some things were recorded here.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, every standard distance, the country would build a rammed earth platform. This platform was a measurement basis point. That is to say, on the vast land of China at that time, there were countless such measurement basis points, which neatly covered the land of China. Those surveyors did not use any unique equipment, and could accurately find the direction of Chang'an based on the measurement basis point near the tomb of King Chu of the Western Han Dynasty.

If you want to make accurate measurements, you don’t need any satellites. As long as you have fine observation equipment, you can use fire to measure them in the middle of the night with three points and one line.

If the Qin and Han dynasties really had such a measurement basis, then what can be proved is only how strong the mobilization and national capabilities of the Han Dynasty were! The measurement basis that stretched from Chang'an to Xuzhou could never be in one or a few years. It was a system that Qin State continued to build and maintain since Shang Yang's reforms to before the collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of measurement basis.

In the eyes of the rulers of the Qin and Han dynasties, China is composed of standard square shapes composed of these measurement basis points. It is a model that only industrial countries have to look at the country. Based on this model, the Qin and Han dynasties can easily count the land area, effectively plan the country's land in various ways, and tax it through quantitative methods. Without such measurement basis points, all quantitative management is empty talk.

Zhao Jiaren can easily figure out why this system has not been passed down. It takes a lot of investment to maintain this system. When the Qin and Han systems collapsed, the country no longer has the ability to maintain such a powerful central government. The measurement basis points of those rammed earth cannot last for hundreds of years under wind and rain, and cannot resist human destruction.

Zhao Jiaren cannot verify the content written in this book "Golden Crown and Jade Rabbit Collection", and can only think that this is a one-person statement. However, Zhao Jiaren found that he himself needed this one-person statement to rebuild a powerful central government's model of direct control of the grassroots level in the Qin and Han dynasties.

Seeing that Zhao Guan’s family was worried, Xiong Shang tried to ask: “Official family, I will send the Japanese envoy away.”

Zhao Jiaren broke free from his thoughts and replied, "We have copied the book, you can take it away. If the Japanese envoy is tactful, you can return it to them."

"This... is the original."

"It was originally a hairy!" Zhao Jiaren replied unhappily, "This book was originally confiscated by Abe Nakamaro. It was probably a copy when it was passed on to Abe Jingming. The real one probably disappeared during the Anshi Rebellion. Alas, China must be strong. Otherwise, we would not be able to save it in the end if we build a large library."

When Zhao Jiaren said this, he was a little sad. The famous large libraries in history were inevitably burned to death. Imagine the grand occasion of scholars in the peak of civilization, and the fragrance of books was everywhere, Zhao Jiaren felt a little sad.
Chapter completed!