The elites would continue to gossip with their sycophants, and I flashed to the side and slowly walked to the corner.

I'm eating.

I said to myself, don't be so competitive! You see, there are thousands of people eating in the entire canteen, and you are already in the top 100, with your own food, your own utensils, and your own attendants, and you can compete with them for status?

At this time, a person flashed over - Tanhua Zhao Yuyang.

He took it out of his pocket, took out a white silk cloth, wiped the chair and table, and sat down.

He sighed.

I looked at him.

He said, "You're right, the chief of the inner court is just using us as bookcases and calculators. He gave us a lot of books that we didn't even have in the Royal Library and asked us to memorize. But I'm too brain-dead to memorize things or count things. They all said I didn't deserve to be third, called me a waste, and kept squeezing me out. ”

Me: "Oh. ”

Him: "In the mentally retarded world, a smart person is mentally retarded. ”

I thought about his words.

I said, "They have the final say in the world, because there are so many of them." Even if we control them, we control them with their characteristics. ”

Him: "I'm always thinking. The world is full of people who don't know what to say! Whether it is the court or the people, the inner court or the outer court! ”

Me: "Oh! Well, does the chief of the inner court know more? ”

Him: "Of course, because he's the head of the inner court." ”

Me: "How much does he know?" ”

Him: "All." You know, the golden age of humanity has passed, and we are just the ashes of civilization. The inner court preserves the spark of civilization, but even they don't understand the meaning of those things. ”

I said, "The Inner Court does have all the knowledge—how unfathomable it is to say that the Inner Court is in charge." ”

He looked left and right, pouted, and said, "It's all gone, and you're still saying that?" ”

I looked at him.

He said: "With all the waste that the chief of the inner court has chosen, do you think he is unfathomable? Hum! ”

I looked him in the eye.

He's here to trick me?

It doesn't look like the eyes!

I thought, "What kind of thing am I?!" A sixteen newcomers! Assistant of the Department of Broadcasting and Storage of the Ministry of Internal Affairs! What's there to do?! ”

I said, "What the chief of the inner court has given you is compared with what is in the royal library...... True? ”

He thought for a moment and said, "One is more and one is less, one is coarse and one is fine, what does it have to do with right and wrong?" ”

I nodded yes.

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So I went to the Royal Library.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw Zhao Pumin - of course, not once.

I was jealous and hated the "Elite Society", but not everyone - except for two people, one was Zhao Yuyang, because he was too smart; One is Zhao Pumin, because he is too stupid.

Zhao Pumin is in the Royal Library of the Ministry of Rites, and his official position is the assistant to the director.

He's in the library when he's at work, and he's still in the library when he's not working—he doesn't care about anything but reading. He only reads medical books, no matter what medical books he reads, including: "Ming Medicine", "Confucian Medicine", "People's Medicine", "Medicine Medicine", "Divine Medicine", "Taoist Medicine", "Buddhist Medicine", "Private Medicine", "Pseudo Medicine", "True Medicine", "Heart Medicine", "Western Medicine", "Poison Medicine", "Yin and Yang Medicine", ......

He said: "I must study medicine well, for the emperor, for the court, and for the people!" ”

- Of course, he certainly wouldn't say that, because his brain was too straight.

He said: "I must study medicine well, not be a eunuch!" ”

Everyone looked at him...... But he didn't care......

I went to the Royal Library this time, and he took a copy of "Critique of Western Medicine" and read it with relish.

I looked at the Royal Library.

The most obvious of them is a couplet written on the central pillar - "Faith is truth, reason is destruction".

I asked Zhao Pumin, "What kind of thing is this?" ”

He said, "You ask me, who do I ask?" I saw it on the first day I came. ”

I said, "It's unlucky to keep this thing in a library, it's like selling coffins in hospitals, or throwing paper money at weddings." ”

He said, "It looks like a cult thing!" ”

I didn't care about that and continued to read all kinds of books.

The books are placed on shelves, each two meters wide and seven stories high. Three shelves are placed in a row, a total of dozens of rows, a total of five columns, about a total of more than 1,000 bookshelves. I calculated, assuming that each book is three centimeters thick, then sixty books on each floor, four hundred books on one shelf, and counting the upstairs, there are more than 100,000 books in total.

This is just the book, in addition to a large number of letters piled up in the bookcase, piled up in the aisles.

These books are quite standard, and most of them are ancient books, not the waste books of today's sycophancy. The ideological system is extremely complex, many of them contradictory, and all of them are anti-royal ideas. Could it be that the royal collection of these things was only to gather evidence of rebellion?

There are also many books that I can't read at all. There are books with numbers arranged together, there are books with strange symbols, and there are books with strange drawings.

I saw a thick book at the very bottom, it was at least ten centimeters back, the gilded hard cover was shining, and there were strange words on it. I picked it up and opened it, and I was even more shocked inside. The paper is quite beautiful, even better than the paper used for paper gold dollars! Think about it, a piece of paper can print one gold dollar (or even ten thousand gold dollars), but so many pieces of paper actually print a book instead of paper gold dollars! The pictures inside are very beautiful, and I'm sure they weren't engraved or hand-painted, but like printed photographs. I was surprised whether the photo was real or fake, and how I stuffed it into the book, and I didn't put it on the paper when I touched it. The words on the paper are densely packed, totaling more than 1,000 pages, and they look like they are sprinkled.

The label on its spine reads: "Dynasty: Unknown." Author: Unknown. Origin: Inherited from the previous dynasty. ”

Obviously, it is the book of ancient civilizations; And it seems to be an ancient civilization that is different from ours.

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I shouted, "Zhao Pumin, come here!" I found a strange book. ”

Him: "Don't call me when you see a book." ”

Me: "This book is really weird. ”

He came over and took a look at it, and said, "There are a lot of strange books like this, and some people say that they are witch books from ancient times." ”

Me: "I don't think so. You see it's very detailed and very material, it's not like it's made up, it looks unfathomable, isn't it before-foreign books? ”

Him: "You're still stupid, don't study blindly!" What a foreign country! ”

"Look closely," I said to him, pointing to the strange words, "how do you explain those words?" What do they have to do with us? ”

"That's an older hieroglyph than the oracle," he said. ”

He pointed to the strange words on the cover, and he pointed to the "O" and said, this one refers to the sun; He pointed to the "o" and said, "This is the moon; He pointed to the "E" and said, "This is a plow." He pointed to the "N" and said, this is a rake; He pointed to the "X" and said, this is a fork; He pointed to the "Y" and said, "This is watering; He pointed to the "L" and said, "It's the ditch"; Finally, he pointed to a string of big characters "ENGLISH" on the cover and said: "This sentence is to say that the working people in ancient times were working hard to farm, and this is an agricultural book." ”

Me: "! I've studied oracles, and these aren't at all. The oracle bone inscription is carved into the turtle shell bone with a knife. What does it mean to print on paper? Still such a beautiful book! I would venture to say that the Royal Printing House is not able to produce such a beautiful book now. ”

Him: "Okay, okay, what do you say!?" ”

Me: "We have tens of thousands of words, and there are thousands of commonly used words, but this book, more than a thousand pages, I only see dozens of 'words' repeating, which means that they are not words at all, but something similar to strokes, or similar to our 'ㄅㄆㄇㄈㄉㄊㄋㄌㄍㄎㄏㄐㄑㄒㄓㄔㄕㄖㄗㄘㄙㄨㄩㄚㄛㄜㄝㄞㄟㄠㄡㄢㄣㄤㄥㄦ', and the combination of those spaces is the 'character'. It must be a foreign word, some empire that perished during the Second Mass Extinction, as I read from Historiography. ”

Him: "You're talking nonsense again, I've said it all, how can there be any foreign country!" ”

Me: "As long as you think about everyday things, you can find a lot of clues, and there are many things that are very special. ”

"For example," I continued, "take these words on the bookshelf in front of you, 012345679, these are called Arabic letters or Arabic numerals, but what the hell is Arabic and what the hell are the letters, don't you think it's strange to call them?" Didn't anyone notice that they were different from tens of thousands of other words? ”

Him: "What's so strange about the Arabic alphabet, Arabic is an uncle called 'Allah', hence the name 'Arab'. For example, my nickname is Ah Tian, and when I am old, I will be called 'Ah Tianbo'. If I invent a kind of character, it will be called 'Ah Tianbo Character'. ”

Me: "Fortunately, it wasn't invented by your mother, otherwise, 123 would have been called the Ah Tianpo alphabet!" ”

Him: "Are you tired?" Thinking about this all day! What does it matter? What's the use? ”

Me: "I'm curious. Don't we read books for curiosity? ”

Him: "Just yourself!" ”

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At this time, Tanhua Zhao Yuyang floated in, and while walking, he pointed to the book with his finger and wiped his nose with his other hand.

We all looked at him.

Zhao Pumin: "Zhao Yuyang, you're here again." ”

Zhao Yuyang: "You are here too." ”

I was about to hide the strange book in my hand, only to hear Zhao Pumin say: "We found a strange book!" ”

Zhao Yuyang glanced at it and said, "Oh, that foreign book." ”

Me: "Rub! How do you know? ”

Him: "Everyone knows it. Why don't I know? ”

Me: "Have you seen it?" ”

Him: "I've seen it, but I can't understand it." ”

He glanced at the book again, and then continued to flip through the various novels—he was a man who only read novels.

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I studied it all the time I came to the rest of the day.

It's a foreign book for sure!

There is not a single kanji in it, but there are quite a few Arabic numerals. Some Arabic numerals appear to be dates, such as 1776.7.4, 1914.7.28, 1949.10.1, 2401.10.10, etc. I guess it's the date, because the middle number is no more than 12, which must be the month, and the last number is no more than 31, which must be the day, and the date combination conforms to the law of "one three, five, seventy, eighty, thirty-one days is never bad". But what puzzles me is: what is the number in front? According to the law, it should be a year, just like it is now the 21st day of May 2 in the Ming Empire, I can write it as 21.5.2, but what the hell is the number of more than 2,000 in this book? Can a foreign emperor live for more than 2,000 years? Is it true that the ancient emperors recorded in the books lived for hundreds of years and hundreds of years? I don't believe it!

Some of the illustrations can be understood, such as cars, planes, ships, etc., but the cars, planes, and ships in them are very peculiar, and there are many kinds, unlike our cars, planes, ships, and ships that only have one kind. There is also a photo inside of several hundred planes parked on a large ship. I guess it's a blind drawing, how can a ship be filled with hundreds of planes at a time, what a big ship! How do you take off on it? There was even an identical ship flying in the sky......

There are also some that I can't understand, like a guy in bloated clothes and a glass mask playing with a flag with stars and bars in the desert under the blue moon. Is there anything to occupy in the desert? I am in the Ming Dynasty, the east and south are the vast oceans, and the north and west are the boundless deserts—I guess this ancient country may be in the desert of the northwest.

……

I looked at it slowly, and suddenly it dawned on me - the dictionary! It's a dictionary! Its style is the same as that of our dictionary, and the words are explained one by one, but the words are different.

Except for being able to understand a few words in a way that corresponds to words and pictures one by one, the rest is confusing.

Temporarily abandoned.