Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1075
"Your Majesty, now that the country is unified and the world is stable, we should vigorously promote enlightenment. Your Majesty has promoted imperial examinations and established schools, but many schools still lack books. Most of the books are still orphans, which are privately kept by many gentry, dignitaries, and officials. This will inevitably affect the knowledge in the world. Popular dissemination is not even conducive to the protection of books."

Secretary Jian Yu Shinan accompanied the emperor to visit the Guanwen Hall of the Royal Library, and stood among the books in the hall to suggest to the emperor.

Yu Shinan was a famous calligrapher and a famous poet, and he also had a famous elder brother Yu Shiji, one of the four nobles of the Sui Dynasty.However, when Yu Shiji was in power all over the world, even though Yu Shinan lived with him, he was still willing to live in poverty and would never associate with his elder brother.

It is precisely because of this that although Yu Shiji died after the Sui Dynasty was destroyed, he was still reused in the new dynasty.In the Sui Dynasty, he was the secretary Lang and the housekeeper. After this dynasty, he successively served as the author, the secretary and the young supervisor, and he has been the secretary supervisor until now.

The Yu family was a well-known noble family in the south of the Yangtze River. His grandfather, Shi Nanliang, was a counselor for King Shixing, and his father, Shi Nanchen, was the bastard of the princes. They are very famous.

Yu Shinan's uncle, Yu Ji, was an official to the Minister of Zhongshu in the Chen Dynasty. Because he had no heirs, Yu Shinan adopted his uncle as his son, named Bo Shi.

He is calm and ascetic by nature, and has a firm will. When he was young, he and his brother Yu Shiji studied under the famous literary master Gu Yewang. He studied for more than ten years. Crazy learner.

He also learned calligraphy from the famous master Xu Ling. Later, Xu Ling also believed that he had obtained his own essence. Later, he learned calligraphy from the monk Zhiyong of the same county, and the monk Zhiyong was the seventh grandson of Wang Xizhi. Calligraphy has won the true biography of the sage of calligraphy.

It was precisely because of these efforts when he was young that even though Chen Mie entered the Sui Dynasty, he was still reused, but because he was dissatisfied with his elder brother's actions, he was still relatively withdrawn in the Sui Dynasty.

After entering the Sui Dynasty, Luo Cheng didn't care that he was Yu Shiji's younger brother, and he used him very much.

One of Yu Shinan's greatest achievements in the past few years is that under his auspices, he organized and restored the Guanwen Hall where the Sui Dynasty collected books.

The Guanwen Hall was built during the Daye period of the Sui Dynasty, and it was built in full compliance with Yang Guang's intentions, and Yu Shinan was involved in the construction at that time.

In front of Guanwen Hall, there are study halls on the east and west sides, each with twelve rooms.The corridor between the study hall and the main hall is paved with bluestone slabs engraved with dragon and phoenix patterns.There are twelve book kitchens inlaid with jewels in each study hall.

It is said that Yang Guang likes visiting the library very much, because Yang Guang likes reading very much.

"Your Majesty, after the Sui Dynasty ruled the world, Niu Hong, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, once proposed to collect folk books, order the world, offer a volume of books, and reward a piece of silk."

With the attention of the imperial court, the Sui Dynasty collected many books from the people, including many rare and unique books.The imperial court sent special personnel to sort out these books and classify them. Fifty copies of the important books were also ordered to be copied and stored everywhere.

Even because of the collection of rare ancient books collected by many aristocratic families, I have found and corrected the mistakes in many popular books.

Luo Cheng walked in Guanwen Hall, and found that the completely restored hall is very exquisite, and now it is full of books again.

The structure of the study halls in the east and west halls is the same. In the twelve small study halls, bright windows are installed symmetrically in the north and south, which are exquisite and exquisite.The carving process in the hall is magical and ingenious to the extreme.

The carved and painted beams, the beautiful patio, and the gorgeous citron heads complement each other and are radiant.

There is a square door in the middle of every three study halls, and colorful brocade curtains are hung on the door, and there are two lifelike immortals on the top of the door.

There are even organs placed on the ground at the door.

When Luo Cheng was approaching, some palace servants would hold the censer high and lead the way in front of the emperor.

A foot away from the palace gate, the palace man stepped on the mechanism with his foot, and the two immortals under the gate floated down, holding up the curtain and slowly rising.

At the same time, the doors of the two halls were opened, and the bookcases were also opened. When the emperor left the hall after finishing the book, the curtains rolled up on the doors hung down again, returning to their original state.

There are tens of thousands of books in the book hall, and all the books collected are copied by the school secretary in regular regular characters, without any changes or mistakes.

The cut-out binding of the book is gorgeous and clean.

"Your Majesty, from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty, there is nothing comparable to the works written by literati."

During the chaos of the Sui Dynasty, the Guanwen Hall was almost destroyed by war. Fortunately, it was preserved, but many books were lost at that time. In recent years, new books have been added to restore the original grand occasion.

Luo Cheng took out a book and flipped through it. The books hidden here are not the precious originals, but the new ones transcribed in the Sui Dynasty.

"It's a good thing to collect new books. In order to encourage everyone to actively contribute books, the imperial court can specifically explain that the books they donate will be given different rewards according to different categories. For example, at least one piece of silk will be rewarded for each volume. Some precious books, You can reward ten or a hundred pieces of silk for each volume. At the same time, in order to increase everyone’s enthusiasm, the imperial court collected these books and only copied them.

Books were extremely precious in ancient times, and most of them were even hidden in the hands of those gentry, and these people were generally unwilling to borrow books, let alone donate them.

For thousands of years, Chinese civilization has been passed down from generation to generation, and many classics have been handed down, but there are also many mistakes, which need to be found in other treasured books and corrected.

"Also, the Guanwen Hall is very magnificent, but it is still not enough just to store books in the imperial palace. I think it is necessary to open a large royal library in the six capitals, with [-] volumes of books in the library. Classify, revise the catalog, and collect separately. It is no longer limited to viewing by royal officials, regardless of officials and civilians, as long as they are clean and tidy, they can go to the library to borrow books."

Yu Shinan was surprised.

"No matter the common people can borrow it?"

"Of course, even if he is a beggar, as long as he is neatly dressed, his hands are clean, and there is no peculiar smell on his body that does not affect others, he can enter the library to borrow books."

Luo Cheng thinks it is necessary to spread knowledge more widely and let knowledge go out of the monopoly of the gentry. If the knowledge is not spread, the imperial examination system will not make much sense. What's the point?

"The improvement of papermaking and printing technology has reduced the cost of books a lot. As an institution of the imperial court, the Secretary Ministry should play a guiding role in collecting private collections, correcting and compiling the bibliographies of the Siku. salvage restoration, transcription or printed copy."

The emperor had even decided to print [-] copies of each engraving of the nine classics, which are required for imperial examinations, and sell them in Liujing at the same time.

At the same time, the emperor also designated "Historical Records", "Hanshu", "Later Hanshu" and "Three Kingdoms" as the official official history.

In the future, the National History Museum of the imperial court will annotate Daqin's entrepreneurial life and Jinshu, Southern History, Northern History, Song, Southern Qi, Liang, Chen, Wei, Northern Qi, Zhou, and Sui. These twelve history books from Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to Qin , will also be printed ten thousand copies, listed as official history.

The catalog of books collected in the library of the Han Dynasty is compiled into seven chapters, which are divided into six categories: Six Arts, Philosophers, Art of War, Mathematics, Fang Ji, and Poems.

Luo Cheng intends to directly organize and catalog all the books into four sub-collections of classics and history according to the classification method of later generations.

This work was handed over to the secretary province in charge of Yu Shinan. The project must be huge, but it was worth doing.

"Bo Shi, what do you call Huaxia? What is China, and what is Han people? I think it is because of culture, which has been passed down from generation to generation since the pre-Qin period, and solidifies us as a whole. The owner has changed, but what remains unchanged is that we are all Chinese, and we are all Chinese. It is the historical mission of each generation of us to pass on the culture, which is as important as expanding the territory."

"Not only must there be martial arts to expand the territory, but also there must be cultural governance and civilization to be passed down."

After hearing this, Yu Shinan was very excited.

"I am honored that Your Majesty entrusted this important task, and I am determined to live up to the mission. Even if I spend my whole life, I must complete this mission!"

Luo Cheng patted him on the shoulder, "My generation should keep in mind four sentences, "Build a heart for the world, build a life for the people, inherit the knowledge of the past, and create peace for all generations."

(End of this chapter)