The wings of his nose twitched slightly, inhaling the refreshing fragrance of books, Lin Yi habitually rubbed his nose, and then followed the wisp of book fragrance and looked along the bookshelf. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info Soon, Lin Yi found an old brocade silk in a worn-out cardboard box under the bookshelf.

The brocade silk was very old and exuded a strong quaint atmosphere, which made Lin Yi couldn't help but exhale a few times, almost choking on the aura emitted by this scroll.

In fact, this brocade is an old book piled up in this cardboard box, and it looks like something is broken. It should have been deliberately put away by Mr. Ito, intending to dispose of it.

Lin Yi gently picked up the brocade silk and broke it, it was too broken.

It looks like it's about to be crushed, if it's a paper book, it's estimated that it would have been crushed into slag a long time ago, but fortunately it's written on brocade silk. Look at the handwriting above, very handsome and elegant brush words, look at the content, the Tao can be Dao, the very Dao, the name is famous, the name is very famous...... It turned out to be the famous "Tao Te Ching"!

In Chinese culture, Taoism complements Confucianism in parallel. The ancestor of Taoism is Lao Tzu, whose Bible is called Lao Tzu, also known as Tao Te Ching. It is said that Lao Tzu's surname is Li Ming'er, and Lao Tzu is an honorific title, which means old man; It is also said that his surname is the old name Dan, and he is called a son. also said that he was the director of the national library of the Zhou Dynasty and was very knowledgeable; Confucius had come to his door to ask for advice. The "Lao Tzu" that we can read now is only about 5,000 words in total, but its influence is beyond ordinary imagination. According to some statistics, the Christian Bible is the most widely spoken and ranked first among the world's translations into many different languages. In second place is the Tao Te Ching. The accuracy of this statement is unknown; Another very accurate statistic is that in ancient China, there were three emperors who signed and published the "Imperial Note on the Tao Te Ching", they were: Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, and Qing Shizu Shunzhi. This posture is enough to do.

However, strictly speaking, the current knowledge about Lao Tzu and his books is really not very reliable. And not only now, when Sima Qian wrote the "Historical Records" to Lao Tzu, it was no longer so reliable. In the short 500-word biography of Lao Tzu, Sima Qian has moved out three names, and it is difficult to determine who is the right person: one is called Lao Tzu, who has a relationship with Confucius, "writing the first and second chapters of the book, and saying more than 5,000 words of morality"; One is called Lao Laizi, "wrote fifteen books, for the purpose of Taoism, and Confucius at the same time"; There is also a person named Tai Shi Dan, who once saw Qin Xiangong in 129 years after the death of Confucius, "or said that Dan is Lao Tzu, or said that it is not also, the world does not know whether it is true or not", "Gai Lao Tzu is more than 160 years old, or more than 200 years old, and he lives a long life with his cultivation".

Some modern scholars believe that Sima Qian's unclear problems can be clarified; In the twenties and thirties of this century, they put forward their own opinions. Some people say that the 5,000 words of "Lao Tzu" that have been handed down are not quotations in the form of questions and answers, but special works, so they should be published after "Analects" and "Mencius"; Because at first there was no habit of writing books privately. Some people use some terms in the book "Lao Tzu", such as "prince", "prince", "prince of ten thousand times", etc., to prove that it is not like the handwriting of the Spring and Autumn people, and can only come out late. From this point of view, it is natural to turn to suspicion of Lao Tzu and his people. Some people deny that Lao Tzu grew up with Confucius, and deny that Confucius greeted Lao Dan, thinking that it was a rumor created by Taoists in order to suppress Confucianism. Most people tend to think that Lao Tzu and his book should be separated: although the book of Lao Tzu was completed late; Lao Tzu lived in front of him, because there is also a story of Confucius asking for gifts in Confucianism. As for when "Lao Tzu" was written late, some say that it was at the beginning of the Warring States period, some said that it was in the middle of the Warring States period, some said it was the end of the Warring States Period, and even said that it was during the Qin and Han dynasties and even when Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty was written.

Lin Yi likes to read and collect books. Therefore, there is also a dabbling in this "Tao Te Ching".

In Lin Yi's collection, the most precious is a copy of the "Imperial Note on the Tao Te Ching" of the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, in Taoist doctrine, the Qing Dynasty version like this is already a cherished version, and many people can't buy it with money.

Because the Tao Te Ching is so famous, there are all versions and styles. Engraved copies, printed copies, and also written on bamboo slips, on metal vessels, on brocade silk, and on gold leaf...... Some are even written in some unbelievable places--- such as human skin.

This is definitely not alarmist.

It is said that in the late Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng attacked Luoyang three times, and Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, called on the death squad to resist, announcing that anyone who killed a thief would be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver, so that the respondents were like clouds, causing great losses to Li Chuang.

However, King Fu did not have mountains of gold and silver, in order to raise military salaries, he sold a special version of the "Tao Te Ching" he treasured to the wealthy man of Luoyang City, and raised more than 100,000 silver taels...... And this special version of the Tao Te Ching is the only Taoist classic written on human skin in history.

It is said that the human skin was a person who had attained the Tao and asked a famous master to engrave it before he died, so that "although he died, the Taoist classics would be passed on for eternity". Because of this, this human skin "Tao Te Ching" is extremely precious.

It's a pity that Luoyang City was finally captured by the thieves, and Zhu Changxun, the king of Fu, was finally in a different place, and some people say that he was boiled into "Fulu soup" by the king of Chuang, and he was eaten by his subordinates, so as to relieve his hatred. Others say that he escaped into the Taoist temple and was captured alive, and finally beheaded in public. In short, he died so much that he couldn't die anymore. And the rich man who bought his "Tao Te Ching" at a high price did not escape the fate of being captured alive by the thieves, and his family wealth was also copied. It's just a pity that most of those thieves are rough people, who only recognize gold, silver, treasures, pearls, and agate, and have no interest in those ancient books and rare books, so that even the human skin "Tao Te Ching" was burned together. Until Niu Jinxing, a high-ranking official in the camp, found out about this, he was extremely annoyed, thinking that this was a tyrannical thing......

Because Lin Yi often reads books, he knows this extremely obscure rare book story.

However, the current volume of "Tao Te Ching" is also extremely weird, first of all, it belongs to the category of "silk books".

And Lin Yi clearly knows that the earliest record of the "Tao Te Ching" in the "Silk Book" should be the two volumes of "Lao Tzu" unearthed from the No. 3 Han Tomb of Mawangdui in Changsha, Hunan Province in 1973.

This silk book is copied with a small seal and official script with official calligraphy respectively, and is named "Silk Book Laozi A Edition" and "Silk Book Laozi B Edition". The silk book is the earliest version of Lao Tzu that can be seen in the seventies and eighties, and the biggest difference from the hand-to-hand version is that it is not divided into chapters, while the popular version is divided into 81 chapters.

The excavation of the silk book Lao Tzu overturned the assumption that "Lao Tzu" was written after Qin. Because the order in which "virtue" is compiled in front and "Tao" is compiled in the back, it is the order in which "Han Feizi" explains the old and Yu Lao; It shows that this version already existed in the Han Fei era. In addition, in terms of individual words, silk books and popular books are also occasionally different and superior to each other, which is a common phenomenon in the popularity of ancient books, and it is not surprising. As for the question of whether "De" is compiled first or "Dao" is compiled first, when the silk book was unearthed, it was regarded as a top priority, saying that "De" was compiled in front of the Legalist scriptures, and "Dao" was compiled in front of the Taoist secret book, so as to confirm the significance of the Confucian struggle, and so on.

Twenty years after the silk book Laozi was unearthed, in 1993, the bamboo slip Laozi was unearthed from the Chu tomb of Guodian in Jingmen, Hubei. This is the earliest Tao Te Ching that has been seen so far. The total number of words is about one-third of that compared with the silk books or popular books, indicating that they are not yet full. Even so, although they together do not constitute a full book, their existence is enough to show that the completion or preliminary writing of "Laozi" was also a matter of the middle of the Warring States period at the latest, and it is much older than "Mencius" and "Zhuangzi".

In order to smoothly figure out the origin of this volume of the silk book "Tao Te Ching", Lin Yi looked around and saw that Mr. Na Ito was busy helping him organize and pack the books, so Lin Yi put his mind at ease and released a trace of aura from his body to explore the true history of this silk book.

As the wisp of aura came into contact with the silk book, the aura contained in the silk book immediately "sparked" with the aura released by Lin Yi.

Lin Yi's mind suddenly presented a broad historical picture.

Jin Ge Iron Horse, Drink Horse Glacier.

In the middle of the Tang Dynasty, An Lushan rebelled. The Tang Dynasty was in danger, and a man in cloth assisted Suzong to eradicate the rebellion and help the world.

During the war, livelihoods withered and many people were left homeless and displaced.

Thieves are rampant, and there is no distinction between people and ghosts.

The original glorious Tang Dynasty may collapse at any time.

The man in cloth labors hard and plans to plan.

The general trend of the world has gradually stabilized.

An Lushan died, and Shi Siming was defeated.

More than ten years have passed, and the battlefield has been fighting.

He was originally spotless, and he was a person who was dedicated to the Tao, but he couldn't help but be born early and become ill from fatigue.

One night during the recuperation period, the stars hung high in the sky.

He walked out of the bedroom in his cloak and looked up at the starry sky to see the world's complexion.

I couldn't help but think of more than ten years of hard work, folk suffering, and lamenting the hard-won peace and prosperity of the world, so I turned back to the house and wrote this volume of "Tao Te Ching".

Take the Tao as the world, and help all things with virtue.

With moral evidence, the world can be peaceful!

……

Lin Yi took his mind back, at this moment he already knew the origin of this silk book, and he knew who the Taoist master in the cloth world was.

He is Li Mi, who helped save the world.

Li Mi is a veteran of the Tang Xuan, Su, Dai and De dynasties, but he advocated the way of Lao Zhuang who was born without doing anything all his life, and regarded fame and wealth as if he was a piece of merit, so he resigned as prime minister several times in the Su and Dai dynasties, and finally stayed away from the court and lived in seclusion in Hengshan for many years. I don't know why, in June of the third year of Zhenyuan, he finally agreed to Dezong's request to become the prime minister, but he was already sixty-seven years old at that time. Even though he wanted to contribute all the wisdom and effort that Suzong and Daizong couldn't ask for back then to the lucky Emperor Dezong, God did not give him and Dezong more time. In March of the fourth year of Zhenyuan, Li Mi passed away. Although he was in power for a short time, Li Mi did many significant things during his tenure, thus ensuring the peace and stability of the overall situation of the empire to a considerable extent during the Zhenyuan period.

He participated in the palace plan, assisted the imperial court, strategized, planned strategies externally, and cooperated with the pace of Guo Ziyi and other generals to make it successful, and it can also be said that he was an important figure in the three dynasties of Suzong, Daizong, and Dezong. It's just that because he has loved immortals and Buddhism all his life, he has been rejected by the subjective views of the great Confucians who have always been born in Confucianism and writing history. Speaking of his indifferent ambitions, he is quiet and far-reaching, and he is good at using Huang Lao's way of setting things right, and he is really like a fairy among the gods.

Thinking of this, especially thinking that this silk book turned out to be the "Tao Te Ching" written by the legendary Tang Dynasty immortal-like character Li Mi, Lin Yi was excited for a while.

As a collector of ancient books, Lin Yi clearly knows that the Song and Yuan versions in this world are rare but not available, and even the Ming engraving books are pitiful, not to mention the ancient books of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms before the Song Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty.

Ancient books are divided into engraved copies and manuscripts, among which the manuscripts are unique and have great collection value. Many big collectors like to collect manuscripts from famous people. For example, the volume of "Diamond Sutra" handcopied by Su Dongpo, a Song scholar, that Lin Yi bought at millions of dollars last time, if it is brought to the real auction market, it will be worth at least tens of millions.

Now this volume of "Tao Te Ching" is even more remarkable, it is actually the handwriting of Li Mi, the legendary immortal prime minister of the Tang Dynasty......

Just thinking about it can be terrifying.

If such a treasure is taken out, it will definitely shock the world and completely subvert the entire collecting world.

……

Lin Yi tried to suppress the excitement in his heart, he took a deep breath, and it happened that Mr. Ito helped him wrap up all the old books he had selected.

Lin Yi pretended to be very relaxed and asked him, "Mr. Ito, do you sell the old books in this cardboard box?" ”

Ito was stunned for a moment and said, "Those are all broken old books, and they don't have much value in collecting. Originally, I collected them in the hope of finding someone to fix them...... Not going to sell. ”

Lin Yi smiled and said, "I like these books very much, can you sell them to me?" ”

"This ......," Mr. Ito hesitated, "I'm so embarrassed--- I'm sorry." ”

"It's okay, in fact, I also know a little bit of repair technology, not to mention that although these old books are broken, the paper inside is very good, even if the repair is not good, you can use it as repair paper."

"Ah, I didn't think that the gentleman even knew how to repair the art, which is rare...... If you really like it, I'll sell it to you. ”

"Then the price ---," Lin Yi asked with a deep groan.

"The price is good, if you think it's acceptable, it's 100,000 yen in full."

Lin Yi smiled, "Deal." ”

100,000 yen is only 6,000 yuan, which is definitely a good deal.

What's more, Lin Yi's real target is the rare "Tao Te Ching----