(The previous chapter is not only a comment on Zhuge Liang, but also reflects everyone’s thoughts. It can also be regarded as a foreshadowing of the following chapters)
"My son/nephew needs to be taught." Most of the people present agreed sincerely and gratefully, especially the two non-staff members. Yun did not hide the words he said. He taught them with all his heart, and they could feel it.
Of course, I am willing to answer sincerely.
Yun nodded and discussed another matter with them about government affairs. He still let them express their opinions and made his own final comments. After discussing for a while, Yun saw that it was not too early and said to them: "It's already late today. It's time to arrive."
here."
"Thank you uncle/father for your teaching." Everyone present stood up and said in unison, then picked up their things and walked out. It was not the first time that Yun taught them this way. Everyone was familiar with the road. Since Yun didn't express anything special,
Just follow past practice.
But it was the first time for Zhu and Zhu to listen to Yun's teachings. For a while, they were stunned in place and didn't know what to do. When the princes and princes were gone, the princes said goodbye to Yun and were about to return to the harem together. Only Miaojin's son stood beside Yun.
They came back to their senses when they were about to return with him, stepped forward and saluted: "Uncle, Uncle Hou/Yuan Zheng is leaving."
"Slow down." Yun said with a smile: "Uncle, I have something to tell you. Although it's getting late, there is still time to say one or two things."
"What do you want to ask uncle?" Zhu asked.
"My uncle heard that when he was walking on the road a few days ago, Yuan Zheng was thinking about what his uncle would give Korea in return, and he guessed that he would be allowed to go to his uncle's study to choose a few books. He had already begun to think about what books to choose.
Did your uncle make a mistake?" Yun continued to talk with a smile.
"Uncle is right." Zhu's face turned slightly red and he whispered. He had already thought about the reward before he said it, which made him a little embarrassed.
Zhu Ze thought of another thing. "My uncle said this. Could it be that my nephew and Yuan Zheng's guess was wrong?" Since Yun mentioned the gift in return, and it was already the twenty-ninth day of the first lunar month, he really should explain this matter to them.
It's over. But Yun spoke like this again. Could it be that Yuan Zheng had guessed wrong and made a few jokes to lower Yuan Zheng's expectations, and then gave the real reward? Hearing Zhu's words, Wenyuan and others also stopped.
He turned around and prepared to hear Yun fall to the ground and ask for what he had given to Korea.
"Yuan Zheng, your guess is not wrong. It's very close. Because my uncle wants to reward North Korea with more than just a few books." At this point, Yun paused and saw curiosity and expectation flashing in Zhu's eyes.
He added: "What my uncle wants to reward North Korea is a complete set of books, "The Classic of Appreciating Wen"."
"What does uncle mean?" After hearing Yun's words, Zhu was immediately stunned and did not speak for a while. Zhu was also stunned for a moment, and then asked.
"My uncle's intention is very simple. He wants to give North Korea the "Jianwen Dacan"." Yun said.
Hearing this, not only Zhu was still in a sluggish state, but Zhu, Wenyuan and others were also stunned. "Jianwen Dadian" was a collection of books compiled by the imperial court at the beginning of last year. The whole book has hundreds of millions of words. That's it.
Rewards to North Korea?
Seeing that everyone present was stunned, Yuncai laughed and said: "Uncle will not give North Korea a whole set of books in return this time. After all, based on North Korea's tribute this time, even if uncle's gift is worth ten
It is twice as much, and it is far less than the value of "Jianwen Dacan"; secondly, it is not easy to store this collection of books. North Korea has no preparation before, so how can it store the books well? They will not all be damaged.
Yes? How can this be accomplished?"
After hearing these words, Zhu Cai came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Even if my uncle really gave me a copy of the "Book of Appreciation of Literature" in North Korea, my father would not dare to ask for it. With a collection of more than 20,000 volumes, I
The small North Korea cannot afford to store it." He then said: "Uncle's intention, but this time we want to reward North Korea with part of the "Appreciation of Wen Dacan"?"
"That's true." Yun said, "My uncle plans to print another five hundred volumes as a gift to Korea. You and Yuan Zheng can choose which of these five hundred volumes you want. In the afternoon, you can go and save the Canon of Appreciation of Wen.
"The history museum of "Check the catalog and tell the officials of the history museum, and they will print it out."
"Thank you, uncle." Zhu said, and when he was about to say something else, he suddenly heard Zhu's very excited voice coming from beside him: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for the gift!" The voice was loud and his expression was enthusiastic.
At this time, Zhu's heart was filled with gratitude and admiration for Yun. He had always liked reading, and he was very yearning for the "Jianwen Dacan" compiled at the beginning of last year. When he came to the capital and met Yun, he immediately asked for permission to go to the history museum to read.
I was immersed in the ocean of "Jianwen Dacan". I didn't even look at the prosperous and wealthy street scenes of the capital. I stayed in the history museum during the day. When I went back at night, I thought about what I had read during the day. I wrote it down silently, and got up early the next day to go to the history museum.
.This cycle will only stop when he visits Yun in the palace. Now Yun's words are equivalent to telling him: you don't have to work so hard to read the book, you can take it back to read, and you can write whatever you want on it. What does he do?
Excited, how can you not be filled with gratitude and admiration?
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for the gift!" Zhu said again.
"Why do you need to call me your Majesty?" Yun said.
"I would like to ask my uncle to forgive me. Yuan Zheng was excited for a moment, and the uncle's reward was given to the Korean vassal state, so he addressed himself as Your Majesty and asked my uncle to forgive me." Zhu said hurriedly.
"There's no need to forgive me, but I just have to remember to call me uncle next time," Yun said again.
"Yes, uncle." Zhu hurriedly pulled Zhu to agree.
"And if North Korea wants the remaining more than 20,000 volumes of the "Jianwen Dacan", they can take it back. In the following years, my uncle just gave North Korea part of the "Jianwen Dacan" every year." Yun said again.
Zhu and Zhu bowed again to thank them. At this time, Wenyuan and others also came to their senses and came to congratulate their brothers. Zhu and Zhu hurriedly smiled and accepted their congratulations. But Wenyuan and Wenqi probably didn't think much about it.
, but Wen Yin was thinking in his heart: 'Why did my father suddenly give North Korea the "Appreciation of Wen Dacan"? Even if he admired Zhu, he would not reward him with such a valuable thing.'
'I hope that the "Jianwen Dadian" can be preserved for a long time and will not be like the "Yongle Dadian" in the previous life.' Yun thought at this time.
Historically, the Chinese regimes have written countless books, but countless books have also been destroyed by wars. The most famous of them is the "Yongle Dadian". There are only two copies of the "Yongle Dadian" in history, one of which was destroyed by the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty.
After the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing, most of them were lost, and only about 800 volumes remained.
Although Yun printed many ministries, if a large-scale war or natural or man-made disaster occurred, these printed ministries may not be completely preserved to later generations; although he has been working hard to carry out reforms so that the transition to capital can be achieved without large-scale turmoil.
(Although the purpose is to maintain the rule of the Zhu family), there is no complete guarantee. Moreover, this is different from an ordinary change of dynasties. It is a change in the social system. Almost no country can make the transition without fighting.
If a large-scale war breaks out, he can't do anything else, but he can still do something to preserve important domestic books so that they will not disappear when dynasties change. And one of the measures he needs to take is,
The first is to print several volumes and keep them in different places; the second is to give the "Jianwen Dacan" bit by bit to various vassal states, including Korea and Fusang, through rewards.
Needless to say, the rewards were given to each vassal state. The method of casting a wide net was to pray that so many vassal states would not be unable to preserve the complete "Jianwen Dacan". As for the rewards to Korea and Fusang, it was because of the history of these two countries.
Large-scale wars rarely occur in the world, and even the large-scale wars they call are like children's play compared to the Central Plains. Even if they mobilize an army to conquer the country, the Central Plains dynasty can only deal with it with a military district; so even if they
War also causes less damage to books, and precious books are more likely to be preserved intact.
Of course, Yun did not give up the idea of preserving complete books in the Central Plains, but in order to increase the probability of preserving the complete "Jianwen Dadian" as much as possible, he spread the "Jianwen Dadian" more widely.
Of course, Zhu, Zhu, Wen Yuan and others could not have imagined Yun's purpose. Zhu and Zhu continued to accept the congratulations from Wen Yuan and others with joy, and then bowed to Yun.
"There is no need to be too polite." Yun said again: "Now I want to say to you two as the emperor: I rewarded this collection of books to North Korea to broaden the horizons of North Korean scholars and increase their knowledge, especially princes like you.
, we should be diligent in reading, rather than shelving it on the shelf."
"I will definitely obey your majesty's teachings." Zhu and Zhu You agreed hurriedly.
After that, Yun said a few more words, to the general effect of telling them not to let the books get dusty and to keep them carefully, and then he asked them to leave. Zhu and Zhu hurriedly bowed and left.
"I didn't expect His Majesty's reward to be so generous!" After leaving Qianqing Palace, Zhu said again in surprise.
"Your Majesty is really an emperor who cares about the world!" Zhu praised it sincerely, and immediately said: "Even if it is only five hundred volumes, its value far exceeds the tribute from North Korea. Your Majesty is really very kind to North Korea."
The brothers praised a few more words, and Zhu said: "Go to the history museum early tomorrow morning to select books?"
"My brother can't wait to go now. My brother wants to get up before five o'clock tomorrow morning to eat and get dressed, and he will go to the history museum as soon as the curfew is lifted." Zhu said.
"It's useless for you to go so early." Zhu said: "The museum won't open until the Chenshi History Museum. If you go early, you'll just wait at the door and won't be able to read the books inside. We'll just wait until around 4 o'clock to get up. We won't do anything.
It’s too late.”
Zhu Ping suppressed his excitement and knew that his elder brother was right, so he could only agree.
"What book are you going to choose tomorrow?" Zhu asked again.
"Ancient books. The "Jianwen Dadian" does not include the full text of all books. Some books only excerpt the most important parts. However, all pre-Qin classics are an exception, and every word is included. It happens that there are not many ancient books in Korea.
They are all books handed down from the Goryeo Dynasty. There are some ancient books that the Ming Dynasty discovered from the people and were thought to have been lost. My brother just happened to take a copy."
"However, the number of words in the ancient books is not very large. More than a hundred volumes are more than enough. The rest are the annotations and historical books of the great scholars of the past dynasties. Although His Majesty said that we must follow the original intention of Confucius, the great confucians of the past dynasties have more or less misinterpreted the original intention of the great Confucius.
But since they can become great Confucian scholars, their understanding of the original meaning of Confucius must be better than that of ordinary people. Reading more of their words will also be beneficial to understanding the original meaning of Confucius, but you must pay attention to distinguish the misinterpretations."
"As for history books, it is because history books can provide reference for governing the country. My father's favorite books are history books, so he brought back all the history books from past dynasties. However, if all the history books were brought back, five hundred volumes would not be enough," Zhu said.
Here, he suddenly remembered that there are many historical books from past dynasties. Not to mention that he wanted to bring ancient books and commentaries by great scholars. Even if he only brought back five hundred volumes of history books, it would not be enough. He could only start to think about which ones to discard and not bring back this time. But he thought for a while,
They had already reached the imperial city but could not make a decision because they were reluctant to give up any book. They sighed: "I really hope that your majesty will reward the entire "Jianwen Dadian" to North Korea as soon as possible. I will tell my father when I return to the country.
, I request my father to increase the tribute to the Ming Dynasty next year and let your majesty give more books to Korea."
"Five hundred volumes is just right." Zhu Que suddenly said: "If there are more, my father may not be willing to accept it. Although my father appreciates people who love reading, keeping so many books will increase the cost, and some of them are regarded by my father as
You may not be willing to buy useless books. So don’t be too greedy. Select the books you want to choose tonight or tomorrow, and go back and read them slowly. If you finish reading them, you can ask your father to send the Ming Dynasty envoy to the capital to read books again. "
"But that's hard to say. My father likes you so much, and His Majesty also praises you so much. Maybe my father will be willing to accept more books from the Ming Dynasty," Zhu You smiled.
"Brother is joking." Zhu said with a smile.
"Brother, I'm not kidding. I've been to the Ming Dynasty twice as an envoy. Although His Majesty showed great affection for me and gave me gifts, he never changed the rewards because of this! But this time you came to the capital,
The change in reward shows that His Majesty loves you very much and is more important than me." Zhu casually smiled.
Zhu just said it casually, but Zhu felt that it was not good and hurriedly said: "Brother is joking." Then he changed the topic. Zhu didn't say anything else.