243. Nine-layer locks
"Didn't Qin Shi Huang not believe in Confucianism and Legalism?" Wang Xueling looked at the bamboo slips placed on the shelves one by one and said curiously, she found one thing, that is, all the books here are Confucian books, but she can't see any books about Legalism.
Li Zimu also discovered this problem, not only that, but there are no other books here except Confucian books, and there is not even a single popular science book or a technical book, which is a little too abnormal.
After the four of them walked around the building a few times and didn't find anything, they went straight to the second floor.
"This should be copied directly from the Confucian lair...... "Li Zimu looked at the bundles of bamboo slips on the second floor and said, he found that there are many bamboo slips in it, all of which are the same, and there are quite a few of them, and the placement is also very arbitrary, and there is no classification at all. This was not at all what a library should look like, and after thinking about it carefully, he knew the reason.
On the land above the Jieshi Underground Palace, it is the land of Qilu in Qi State, that is, the nest of Confucianism in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
And these books in front of them should have been kept here when they were searched out and not burned, and the most direct evidence is that among all the bamboo slips in them, one is all Confucian books, and the other is that the two books of "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn" are missing.
"Yi" is a book about divination, and it is not among the forbidden burnings, so there is no stack of bamboo slips here that is "Yi".
"According to your speculation, it should be like this, but why is there no "Spring and Autumn" in addition to "Yi", Wang Xueling nodded and said, if it is really as Li Zimu speculated, then there should be "Spring and Autumn" in this library.
Because "Spring and Autumn" not only belongs to the Confucian Five Classics, that is, the so-called "Hundred Sayings of Poetry and Books", but also belongs to the historical books other than the "Qin Chronicle", that is, the so-called "Historians are not Qin Ji", logically speaking, it should not be spared the end of being burned and banned.
"Hehe, the book burning pits Confucianism, the "Book" and "Rite" are incomplete, and the "Spring and Autumn" is finished. There is a reason for this, because according to the records of the wild history, in addition to "Yi", there was also "Spring and Autumn" among the books burned and banned by Confucianism," Li Zimu said with a smile.
This is not a wild historical record at all, it is just a pretext used by Li Zimu to hide that he knows the truth, he was in front of him at the time, and naturally knew that in the list of burning and forbidden, in addition to "Yi", there is also "Spring and Autumn".
What Wang Xueling said is indeed good, "Spring and Autumn" should also be a banned book according to reason, but the result is the opposite.
Because the theories such as "great unification" and "one king" mentioned in it were exactly what the relatives who had just built a unified empire were happy to accept, and at the same time, they were also the most easy to introduce into the theory of actual political operation at that time.
Li Zimu took a volume of "Rites" and spread it out to look at the contents inside, feeling slightly happy in his heart.
I didn't expect that there was a complete version of "Li" here, and he was naturally happy about him who has always liked to read.
Because after hitting the book-burning pit warlock, the books handed down by Confucius and the Six Arts were almost burned, and there was no printing technology at that time, and each volume needed to be engraved by hand, so books were not so common, and they were gone.
However, after the Qin Dynasty was destroyed, Confucianism had a chance to turn over, and various Confucian classics were also resurrected by those Confucian scholars.
There are four families of Qi, Lu, Han, and Mao who passed on "Poems"; those who passed on "Spring and Autumn" included Ram, Zhu Liang, and Zuo; although there was only one Tian He who passed on "Yi", in addition to the Confucian "Yi" studies, there were still a large number of various "Yi" studies with divination as the main purpose; and only the two "Books" and "Rites", the two remaining scripture masters, each free Fusheng and Gao Tangsheng, were told and taught according to the remnants of the books in their hands.
In other words, today's "Book" and "Rites" are actually fragments, and the complete version has been burned, and now this volume in Li Zimu's hands is the complete version of "Rites"!
Of course, this kind of lonely plum wood was to be taken away, although he had it at the beginning, but he didn't dare to keep it privately, so he handed it all over, and later regretted it.
Now there is a complete version of "Rites" in this Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, it seems that God treats him well, thinking to himself, Li Zimu went around this second layer again, and put together the complete version of "Book", and then put it in his bag with satisfaction.
"You come and see above" Zhang Jingyang shouted to Li Zimu below at the staircase of the third floor, this scripture pavilion has a third floor, and when Li Zimu was still collecting files, he was walking to the third floor, but he didn't expect to find a good thing on the top floor of this scripture pavilion.
"What is this?" said the Spirit, looking at the boxy box in front of her, which was supposed to be made of metal, with delicate textures carved on each side of the box, and a small hole on the side facing her.
"The box with things is ......" Zhang Jingyang buried his head in observing the box and said, when he came up, the third layer was empty, only such a delicate box, and after careful observation, he found that this was a box with a lock, and the hole on the front was a keyhole.
Li Zimu looked at this thing and didn't speak, he had seen this thing in the book, the name is called the nine-layer lock, it is the organ box that Ying Zheng used to keep his important things, originally produced by the Mo family, and was later taken away by Ying Zheng, but he had seen the record, but he didn't expect the real nine-layer lock to be here......
"Can you open it?" the spirit nodded in agreement with him, but before it was opened, it looked very interested, maybe there was nothing in it......
"It's not a big problem" Zhang Jingyang smiled and said, rummaging through the body to find a thin wire, although he does not have a key, but who said that the lock must be keyed? The lock in ancient times and the current lock principle are almost the same, so it should not be a big problem.
"You can't open it without a key" Li Zimu shook his head and said lightly, without a key, if you want to open the nine-layer lock that the Mo family spent time and energy to design, don't even think about it, the mechanism inside is so complicated that it can't be a small wire, and it is even more difficult to open if you mess up the rotation device inside.
"Is it really such a big deal? What if you don't have a key?" said in surprise, listening to Li Zimu's previous explanation, she knew the origin and value of this thing.
"The key you are talking about...... It can't be this, right?" Seeing the three of them surrounding this box and not knowing what to do, Wang Xueling slowly took out a metal object with a strange shape from his sleeve and said.