Your Majesty, now that the country is unified and the world is stable, we should vigorously promote education. His Majesty carried out the imperial examination and established schools, but many schools still lacked books, and most of the books were still solitary, and were privately collected by many scholars, magnates, and officials, which would inevitably affect the spread of knowledge among the people, and even be detrimental to the protection of books. ”

Yu Shinan, the secretary and supervisor, accompanied the emperor to visit the Guanwen Hall of the Imperial Library, and stood among the books in the hall to suggest to the emperor.

Yu Shinan is a famous calligrapher and a famous poet, and he also has a very famous elder brother Yu Shiji, one of the four nobles of the Sui Dynasty. However, when Yu Shiji was in power, although Yu Shinan lived with him, he was still willing to live in poverty and never collude with his brother.

Because of this, although Yu Shiji died after Sui was destroyed, he was still reused in the new dynasty. In the Sui Dynasty, he was a secretary and a housekeeper, and after arriving in this dynasty, he successively served as a writer, a secretary and a young eunuch, and until now he is a secretary and supervisor.

The Yu family is a famous family in the Jiangnan family, his grandfather Shi Nan Liang is the advisor of the King of Shixing, and his father Shi Nan Chen is the prince's concubine, all of whom are very famous.

Yu Shinan's uncle Yu Ji, in the Chen Dynasty when the official to the Zhongshu Shilang, because there was no heir, Yu Shinan passed to his uncle as a son, taking the word Boshi.

He was quiet by nature, resolute-willed, when he was young, he and his brother Yu Shiji studied under the famous literary master Gu Yewang, and studied for more than ten years, working hard and thinking unremittingly, sometimes not washing his face and combing his hair for more than ten days, which can be described as a school idiot.

He also studied under the famous master Xu Ling, and later Xu Ling also thought that he got his own essence, and later worshiped the monk Zhiyong of the same county as a teacher to learn calligraphy, and the monk Zhiyong is the seventh grandson of Wang Xizhi, so later Yu Shinan's calligraphy, won the true transmission of the sage.

It is precisely because of these efforts when he was young that although Chen later became the Sui Dynasty, he was still reused, but because he was dissatisfied with his 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 was very important to him.

Yu Shinan's greatest contribution in recent years is that under his auspices, he sorted out and restored the Guanwen Hall of the Sui Dynasty.

The Guanwen Hall was built during the Sui Dynasty, in full accordance with the intention of Yang Guang, and Yu Shinan participated in the construction at that time.

In front of the Guanwen Hall, the east and west compartments are all study halls, each with twelve rooms. Between the study hall and the main hall, the bluestone slabs engraved with dragon and phoenix patterns are paved with a corridor. Each study hall is equipped with 12 study kitchens inlaid with beads and treasures.

It is said that Yang Guang likes to come to the study hall very much, because Yang Guang likes to read books very much.

"Your Majesty, after the Sui Dynasty ruled the world, Niu Hong, the secretary of the ministry, once suggested collecting folk books, ordering the world, offering a book and rewarding a silk horse."

Under the attention of the imperial court, the Sui Dynasty collected many books from the people, among which there were many rare and unique books. The imperial court sent a special person to sort out these books, classify them, and ordered fifty copies of the important books to be copied and treasured everywhere.

Even because I received many rare books from the Maison's collection, I also found and corrected errors in many of the books that are currently popular.

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

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

The carved beams, the beautiful patio, and the gorgeous whirlpools complement each other and are full of brilliance.

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

There's even a mechanism on the ground at the door.

When Luo Cheng is coming, there are palace people holding incense burners high and leading the way in front of the palace.

A foot away from the palace gate, the palace people stepped on the mechanism with their feet, and the two immortals under the door floated down, holding the curtain and slowly rising.

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

The library has a collection of 10,000 volumes, and the books collected are all copied by the school scrivener in regular block letters, without the slightest change or error.

The cut binding of the book is gorgeous and clean.

"Your Majesty, from the Qin and Han dynasties to the Sui dynasty, there is no comparable work written by literati."

During the Sui Rebellion, the Guanwen Hall was almost destroyed in the war, but fortunately it was preserved, but many books were also lost at that time, and new books have been added in recent years to restore the original prosperity.

Luo Cheng took out a book and looked at it, the books hidden here were not those precious originals, but basically new ones copied by Sui Shi.

"It's a good thing to collect new books, in order to make everyone actively contribute books, the court can make special explanations that the books they offer are given different rewards according to different categories, such as at least one horse of silk per volume, and some precious books can be rewarded with ten horses and one hundred horses per volume of silk. At the same time, in order to improve everyone's enthusiasm, the imperial court collected these books, only transcribed, and after the transcription was completed, the original was returned to the old owner, and the treasures of others were not plundered. ”

Books were extremely precious in ancient times, and most of them were even hidden in the hands of scholars, who were generally reluctant to lend books, let alone donate them.

For thousands of years, the Chinese civilization has been passed down from generation to generation, and many classics have been handed down, but they have also led to many errors, which need to be corrected and revised from other treasures.

"Also, the Guanwen Hall is gorgeous, but it is still not enough to use it as a palace collection. I believe that it is necessary to open a large royal library in Liujing, with a collection of 100,000 volumes, which are classified according to the subsets of classics and histories, and the catalogue is revised and treasured separately. It is no longer limited to the viewing of royal officials, both officials and civilians, as long as they are clean and tidy, they can borrow books from the library. ”

Yu Shinan was surprised.

"Can you borrow books from any shishu?"

"Of course, even if he is a beggar, as long as he can dress neatly, wash his hands cleanly, and have no smell on his body and do not affect others, he can still be allowed to enter the library to borrow books."

Let the knowledge spread more widely, let the knowledge out of the monopoly of the scholars, Luo Cheng thinks it is very necessary, if the knowledge is not disseminated, the imperial examination system is not much meaning, and the examination is the children of those scholars, so what is the point.

"Now the improvement of papermaking and printing technology has reduced the cost of books a lot, and the secretary of the province, as an institution of the imperial court, should play a guiding role, collect private collections, correct and compile the bibliography of the four libraries, and salvage and repair, transcribe or print copies of many rare books."

The emperor had even decided to print 10,000 copies of each of the Nine Classics, the compulsory examination book for the imperial examination, and sell them at the same time in the six capitals.

At the same time, the emperor also designated the "Historical Records", "Book of Han", "Book of the Later Han" and "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" four historical books as the official official history, and each engraved and printed 10,000 copies and issued them together.

In the future, the National History Museum of the Imperial Court will publish 10,000 copies of the Great Qin Entrepreneurship and Living Notes, Jin Books, Southern History, Northern History, Song Dynasty, Southern Qi History, Liang, Chen, Wei, Northern Qi Dynasty, Zhou and Sui Books, and these twelve historical books of the Jin and Northern Dynasties until the Qin Dynasty are repaired, and they will also be printed in 10,000 copies and listed as official history.

The catalogue of the Han Dynasty library collection has seven strategies, which are six categories: six arts, Zhuzi, military books, mathematics, square techniques, and poetry.

Luo Cheng planned to directly sort out and catalog all the books into four subsets of scriptures and histories according to the classification method of later generations.

This work will be entrusted to Yu Shinan's secretary to do, and the project will definitely be huge, but it is worth doing.

"Bo Shi, what do you mean by Huaxia? What is China and what is the Han Chinese? I think that it is because culture, which has been passed down from generation to generation since the pre-Qin period, has solidified us as a whole, so even if the dynasty changes and the rivers and mountains change hands, what remains unchanged is that we are all Chinese and Chinese. It is the historical mission of each generation to pass on the culture, and it is as important as the expansion of the territory. ”

"Not only must there be martial arts to expand the territory, but also there must be a cultural civilization to pass on."

After hearing this, Yu Shinan was very excited.

"I am fortunate to have been entrusted with this important task by His Majesty, and I will definitely live up to my 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 the four sentences, "Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations", "

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