It was already night, Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin still didn't sleep, and the two lit kerosene lamps on their desks to read a few books given by Tao Enpei. I have to say that these thieves are indeed very wise, they make books, and these books do not advocate the so-called Christianity of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but only use Confucianism to discuss Confucianism.

This reading made the two of them can't help but read it again, and the more they look at it, the more cold sweat breaks out on their foreheads. Jiang Guolin is reading the "New Notes on the Four Libraries of the Whole Book", and the rest of the books Jiang Guolin is not not interested, but when he was the editor of the Hanlin Academy, he can be said to have great respect for the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book", he is very curious about what virtues these thieves have, how can they dare to write a new note on the Four Libraries of the Whole Book?

Open the home page, the beginning is the general outline of the book inscription, summarizing the origin of the Siku Quanshu, "Siku Quanshu" is under the auspices of Emperor Qianlong, compiled by Ji Xiaolan and other more than 360 high-ranking officials and scholars, more than 3,800 people copied, it took 13 years to compile. The series is divided into four parts: scriptures, history, children, and collections, hence the name of the four libraries. There are more than 3,500 kinds of books, 79,000 volumes, 36,000 volumes, and about 800 million words, basically including all the books in ancient China, so it is called "the whole book". In that year, Emperor Qianlong ordered people to copy 7 copies of the "Four Libraries Quanshu" by hand and ordered them to be hidden all over the country. First copy the four parts of the good and store them in the Forbidden City Wenyuan Pavilion, Liaoning Shenyang Wensu Pavilion, Yuanmingyuan Wenyuan Pavilion, Hebei Chengde Wenjin Pavilion Collection, this is the so-called "North Four Pavilions". After copying the three parts of the good Lu stored Yangzhou Wenhui Pavilion, Zhenjiang Wenzong Pavilion and Hangzhou Wenlan Pavilion treasures, this is the so-called "South Three Pavilions".

The book reads: "The book hidden in the South Three Pavilions has been obtained by my heavenly kingdom. The four libraries of the South Three Pavilions are all stored in the Wuxi Library, and there is not a single page or word of damage, and they are all properly preserved...... "Seeing this, Jiang Guolin breathed a sigh of relief. Secretly thinking that it is fortunate that these thieves still have a sense of reverence for the books that the sages have painstakingly compiled, and they have not damaged it, it seems that these thieves are not useless.

Then I read it, Jiang Guolin felt that it was not quite right, "This book is a book compiled during the Qianlong period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Subsequently, the four libraries were discussed. The Wei Song people said that Liao Jin Yuan, and the Ming people said Yuan, and their arguments were especially biased. Everything is intended to be destroyed,...... After Longqing, as for the late Ming Dynasty, it will be written by the ministers. There is no legacy. On the occasion of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The works of Huang Daozhou, Zhang Huangyan, Yuan Jixian, Qian Sule, Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, and Sun Qifeng are all banned. After that, there are famous works that have to be included, and they must also be changed to violate the words before they can be destroyed. From time to time, there are famous people in Shanghai who have collected books in the year of Yu Gongsong, and there are tens of millions of books in the family, among which there are many ancient books before the Ming and Qing dynasties. He ordered the edict of the Heavenly Kingdom to recruit 321 scribes from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and proofread the four libraries of the Manchu Qing Dynasty together with the Yu family. However, if the Manchu Qing Dynasty tampered with or deleted ancient books, they were listed in this book, thinking that they should read the proofreading of the Siku Quanshu in case later generations made mistakes in the so-called complete book edited by the Qing people! ”

Seeing this, fine sweat began to seep out of Jiang Guolin's forehead, and the Siku Quanshu, which he has always regarded as a classic, was wrong? That's impossible! Jiang Guolin gritted his teeth and began to look down, hoping to find out the mistakes and omissions of these thieves, so that he could calm his heart a little.

At first, Jiang Guolin wondered why such a grand set of books as Siku Quanshu was only annotated by such a book, and it turned out that this book was only annotated and corrected by the Manchu Qing Dynasty where deletions, additions, tamperings, inaccuracies, and errors were made, and those that were the same in ancient books were no longer listed.

This book is divided into four parts: unrecorded, deleted, tampered with, and wronged, the first part is to list the famous works that have not been included in the Siku Quanshu, the book says: "There are many ancient books in the Yu family's collection, and there are more than 3,000 volumes that have not been included in the Siku Quanshu, and the rest of the books that have not been included in the book are the books that hinder the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and I want the Manchu Qing to humiliate the words of the sages in order to dominate the Han people, and I feel sad and indignant, and the books that have not been included in the Siku are listed as follows...... "Then the titles of more than 3,000 books are densely listed. Author's name and source, etc. At the end of this part, it is also written: "The above books are only found in the collection of the Yu family, if you think you don't believe it, you can go to the Songjiang Yu family library to have a look." In addition, "Yangzhou Ten Diaries" and "Jiading Massacre City Chronicle" are books written by the remnants of the Ming Dynasty who traveled to Fusang, and there is no circulation in the Central Plains, and you can also look at the viciousness of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the past years! Yu Gong Songnian once said that the collection of books collected by the Yu family is less than one or two of the ancient books circulating in the world, which shows that there are no less than 3,000 kinds of classical books that have not been included in the four libraries of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and burned and destroyed more than 3,000 kinds of books, and as many as 60,000 or 70,000 volumes, which shows that the four libraries of the Qing people are actually four incomplete books. Zuo Gongzong Tang, a talented son in Hunan Province, sighed and said, the Qing people compiled and repaired the "Four Libraries Quanshu" and the ancient books died! ”

Seeing this, Jiang Guolin was already stunned, and Zhou Qibin looked at the book "Manchu Confucianism Chronicles" and sweat was dripping down his forehead, Zhou Qibin wiped the sweat on his forehead and said: "Yunong, I think of these books now, just when the Taiping Army attacked Guangzhou, according to the inspection of the Yamen had confiscated a batch of so-called anti-books, I didn't pay attention to it at the time, but now I read the title and content of the books before I remember, these books seem to have been circulated among the people. ”

Jiang Guolin was stunned for a moment before he said, "Why didn't you check it at that time?" Zhou Qibin sighed: "At that time, I was busy dealing with the Taiping army's siege, how could I get the manpower to check it?" Speaking ......of this, Zhou Qibin couldn't go on, Jiang Guolin sighed lightly and continued: "Now that Taiping has occupied Guangzhou, I am afraid that these books are swaggering and openly placed in the bookstore for sale." ”

Zhou Qibin didn't continue to speak, lowered his head and continued to read, a literati is like this, he likes to read books, especially books that shake his three views, he has to find out the mistakes and omissions, so that he can calm his heart a little.

Jiang Guolin also continued to read, the second part is the deletion and addition, the more than 300 Jiangsu and Zhejiang talents who wrote this new note proofread the four library books in the South Three Pavilions, and compared them with the folk local chronicles, the ancient books collected by the Yu family, etc., and listed the deleted and added parts of the book one by one. For example, Song Huangxiu's "Maoting Hakka" has two comparisons, one is the school Song book, the other is the four library books, the same kind of book, but the articles of the two books are often different, and the four library books are mostly deleted and modified by Huayi's words.

Another example is Song Hongmai's "Rong Zhai Essays" to "Five Strokes" of the Song Dynasty and the Ming movable type, of which three are not found in the Qing Dynasty engravings. Examples are also given. One is "The Suffering of the Beidi Captives" in the third volume of "Rong Zhai Three Strokes" here - "The Yuan Wei broke the Jiangling, and all the captured soldiers and people were slaves, regardless of whether they were high or low. The same is true for the northern customs. Since Jingkang, those who have fallen into the golden captivity, the emperor's sons and grandsons, and the families of the official families have not been slaves and maids, so that they can do their work. Each person supports five buckets of weeds a month, so that they can be used as rice. get a bucket of eight liters, and use it as food; Five years of hemp, ordered to be arrested. In addition, there is no money or money. Men are not wanted. then nude all year round. If you are captive or mourning, you will be able to hold on to it, although you will be warmed by the fire from time to time, and then you will go out to get firewood. Then sit by the fire. The flesh and skin fall off, and they die soon. However, there are crafts, such as doctors and embroiderers, and so on, usually only sit on the ground, with a defeated seat or a reed to line it, meet guests to open the feast, introduce the musicians to make the skills, and the wine is scattered. Each is the beginning, still sitting on the embroidery: let it live and die. Treat it like a mustard. Article 2......

There are many examples cited in the deleted part, most of which are checked against real books, Jiang Guolin began to panic in his heart, and at this time, he couldn't help but think of Songjiang and go to the Yu family's library to see those ancient books with his own eyes. But before he stood up, he suddenly thought that he was a prisoner, how could he get there? I couldn't help but sit down sullenly, and I wanted to leave the book on the side and not read it, but in the end I picked it up and read it again.

The third part is tampering, and there are many examples in the book, such as Yue Fei's famous sentence in "Man Jianghong", "Zhuang Zhi is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Xiongnu blood", which was changed to "Zhuang Zhi is hungry for food and eating meat, laughing and talking about wanting to spill blood", because "Hulu" and "Xiongnu" were taboo in the Qing Dynasty. The most ridiculous is Xin Qiji's "Eternal Happiness? "Eternal Rivers and Mountains": "The slanting sun grass and trees, the ordinary alleys and alleys, the humane slaves once lived", was changed to "the humane Song Lord once lived". "Jinu" was originally the nickname of Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was not related to the taboo "Hu", "Rong", "Yi", "Lu", etc., but the slaves were afraid of autocracy and obscenity, and for the sake of insurance, they were "highly conscious", and they should know that "dogs always run at the front". Another example is Zhang Xiaoxiang's famous work "Six States Song Head? Changhuai Wangduan describes the occupation of Confucius's hometown in the north by the Jin: "On the Su Si, the land of string songs, is also fishy. "Fishy" is taboo and changed to "withering". Chen Liang's "Water Tune Song Head? I don't see the word cloud of Nanshijiu: "The capital of Yao, the soil of Shun, and the seal of Yu." In the middle of the should be, a half shameful minister. "Shameful Chenrong" made a taboo and changed it to "Bow Carving".

The fourth part is a mistake, for example, the "Book of Jin" in the Siku book is innumerable and so on, the new note corrects these erroneous words one by one, and at the end of this part it is written: "There are thousands of people who edit the Siku, and they are talented people at that time, why is there such a mistake that children omission and typos?" At the time of Gain, the literati and writers had no eternal integrity, and the compilation of the four libraries was only for flattery. Yu and others speculated that this was deliberately done by the Siku Pavilions, Inner Government Officials, and Eunuchs in order to please Qianlong, so that they would mark it after Qianlong read the school book, and then reprimand the Pavilions' non-learning decrees, so as to make Qianlong's knowledge also above the Siku Pavilions who were "first-class in the sea and a time of liberal arts", and that's it. However, although Qianlong likes school books, he occasionally reviews them, and he is not word-for-word at first, and he is tired of them for a long time. Each sample is submitted, and it is not opened, and it is corrected by the big book of Zhu Pen, and it is printed according to the book. Although the person in charge knew that it was wrong, he did not dare to change the publication without authorization, so he made a mistake and miswrote the book of the four libraries. Yu and others do not put personal preference first, but only take right and wrong as the foundation, and mark them with careful proofreading and examples, so as to prevent future generations from learning to make mistakes after reading this book......"

It's very spicy irony, Jiang Guolin couldn't help but blush after reading it, I remember that when I read the Siku Quanshu, he also found a typo, and he also asked the teacher, but the teacher just couldn't tell why, and the last thing was to say that this book is written like this, and you will read it like this! Now that I think about it, Jiang Guolin can't help but feel half cold, and even his teacher's attitude towards learning has been emasculated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty to the point that he is left with a straight reading of books, where is there still half of the cautious attitude of Confucian sages in learning?

At the end of the new note, the last one reads: "The book of the four libraries, including four subsets of scriptures and histories, covering most of the ancient books, the Qing people are not standing for the ancient books, but they want to use this move to unify the literary world, but in the future, there is a book that does not match the four libraries is the demon book, that is, the book that should be destroyed, the Manchurian people are able to clamp down on the world's readers' thoughts, and do not hesitate to use this book as a cover, it is actually the world's largest text prison, and future generations should be ......cautious when reading this book."

When he finished reading this book, Jiang Guolin was already sweating and heavily clothed, and the sky was also cloudy and bright, he pushed open the window, and the sun shone into the house like fire, he stared at an ancient pine in the courtyard, and his mind was full of a sentence he saw in the book, "The people who edited the four libraries no longer have the backbone of the scribes who generously went to righteousness in the late Ming Dynasty, and they are all people who tend to be inflammatory, although they have the name of Confucianism, but the wind and bones have disappeared...... "Is he also such a person?" Jiang Guolin felt that his three views had begun to waver. (To be continued......)