After Xiong Shangshu arranged his cousin, he felt that he had removed a matter of concern. As the highest-ranking official in the family at this time, most of the things in the family have to ask Xiong Sheng to adjudicate or help. However, Xiong Shangshu himself knew how powerless he was.

The Mongols destroyed dozens of countries, and the Great Song Dynasty killed Jiaozhi and Zhancheng, and the work of the Ministry of Rites was very small. Just when Xiong Shangshu was ready to enjoy the winter in Hangzhou, the Wa Kingdom sent an envoy.

The Great Song Dynasty had not engaged in the tributary system of the Celestial Empire for many years, and the Wa Kingdom had completely restored normal diplomatic relations with the Great Song Dynasty, but it had no intention of paying tribute on a regular basis. This time, the Wa Kingdom sent an envoy to make Xiong Shangshu unable to guess what they were coming for.

"May I ask Xiong Shang Shu, Mei Youqian is an official of the Great Song Dynasty, right?" The Japanese diplomat asked in broken Chinese.

"Mei Youqian? What does he do? Xiong Sheng didn't know the name at all.

"No kidding! That Mei Youqian was a person sent to our country by the Song State. The Japanese diplomat shouted in a very excited tone.

"I ...... I really don't know this person. Xiong Shang said dissatisfiedly. With a map and a globe, Xiong Sheng knew very well how big the country was. The Song State is now not even a false Mongolia, and it is impossible to have any feelings about the Wa Kingdom. However, for such a country with diplomatic relations, Xiong Sheng still tried to be polite, he asked: "I don't know what this Mei Youqian has done?" ”

"He stole my country's "Golden Crow Jade Rabbit Collection". The envoy's tone was excited.

Xiong Shang squinted a little at the envoy of the Japanese kingdom opposite, and he felt an indescribable void of heart from the envoy's excited tone. There must be a big problem with this kind of heart deficiency, especially with this excited tone, that is an extraordinary heart deficiency.

"Whose book is this "Golden Black Jade Rabbit Collection"?" Xiong Shang asked.

"This book is the treasure of our country's Abe's Ming Yin and Yang Liao. This Mei Youqian stole the book. Now Heiankyo's Onyo-liao has been in chaos. ”

"You said he stole it, but he stole it?" Xiong Sheng expressed his opinion.

"Is it difficult for Song Guo to protect this person?"

"What you say is very unreasonable. Why should we believe what you say? ”

“…… Is it difficult for the dignified Song Kingdom to deceive people? ”

……

Xiong Shang had an argument with the envoy of the Japanese Kingdom, so he let the envoy of the Japanese State go down first. Then Xiong Sheng felt that what the envoy of the Japanese Kingdom said might be true, if it was not true, the Japanese Kingdom would not have crossed the sea to ask for it so vigorously.

Yin and Yang Liao Wangwen Shengyi, it should be some feng shui flavor, probably like Si Tianjian of the Great Song Dynasty. In this case, what is this "Golden Crow and Jade Rabbit Collection", looking at the name, it is completely Chinese.

In the next two days, Xiong Sheng contacted other departments and had no clue at all. According to the envoy of the Wa Kingdom, the book thief Mei Youqian wanted to dedicate the book to the Zhao official family of the Great Song Dynasty. Xiong Sheng couldn't find any other clues, and his subordinates brought back news from the Great Song Library.

"Shangshu, the index in the library of the Great Song Dynasty has this book."

"Oh? Sure enough, it is our Chinese book! Xiong Shang immediately felt relieved. It would be too embarrassing if Mei Youqian of the Song Kingdom stole an original book of the Wa Kingdom.

"I read the introduction of this book, but it was stolen by Abe Nakamaro, the envoy of the Japanese Kingdom, during the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was in turmoil, and the book was lost. ”

"Oh? And such stories? Xiong Shang felt that he understood a little bit of what was going on. Zhao Jiaren, an official of the Great Song Dynasty, was a person who paid great attention to cultural governance. After he returned to Lin'an, he built the Great Song Archives and the Great Song Library. Originally, China had a catalogue of books from all dynasties, and perhaps this Mei Youqian wanted to get a reward by getting a precious lost copy.

Guessing such a process, Xiong Sheng lost interest in catching thieves. However, the envoy of the Japanese kingdom was not so considerate, and he came almost every day to ask for a meeting, and his tone was very firm, as if he wanted to get the book back anyway.

This kind of rude behavior aroused Xiong Shang's curiosity, he didn't expect the envoy of the Japanese State to be so two, wouldn't such an attitude prove that Da Song was a book thief? Even if he didn't want to bear this title, it was impossible for the Great Song Dynasty to return the book to the Wa Kingdom. And what kind of content does this book have that makes the Wa Kingdom care so much?

Xiong Shang, who was full of curiosity, simply went to see Zhao Guan's house. As the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Xiong Sheng certainly wouldn't be stupid enough to ask if the Zhao Guanjia had sent someone to steal books in the Wa Kingdom. He just pretended to be casual and asked, "Have the officials heard of the book "The Collection of Golden Crows and Jade Rabbits"?" ”

Hearing this answer, Xiong Sheng immediately determined that the envoy of the Wa Kingdom was not lying, and that the Zhao Guanjia at least knew about this book, even if he was not behind the scenes. So Xiong Shangshu told Zhao Jiaren about the envoy of the Japanese State who came to pursue the book.

After listening to Xiong Shang's introduction, Zhao Jiaren sighed: "These Japanese people don't know what to do at all." ”

"Official, what is this book about?" Xiong Sheng wanted to know why this book made the Japanese people care so much.

"Most of the content in this book is yin and yang feng shui,"

"How few?"

"A small part of it is written about surveying before the Tang Dynasty."

"Metrosome?" Xiong Shang asked in surprise. He originally thought that this was something earth-shattering, but he didn't expect it to be just about surveying.

"Xiong Shangshu, do you know that the canal we have now has actually been determined in the time of the Han Dynasty. Including the Grand Canal excavated by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, in fact, it is just to dredge and collude the canals of the Han Dynasty? Zhao Jiaren asked.

"Official, I don't do this, I really don't know." Xiong replied.

"Hmm......" Zhao Jiaren found that he couldn't help himself, so he also calmed down for the time being. In the 21st century, Zhao Jiaren went to visit the tomb of King Chu in Xuzhou. The tomb of a certain king of Chu in the Western Han Dynasty is a double tomb road. Some good deeds measured the tomb and found that the tomb was straight. So someone better measured the angle between the two and found that there was a slight angle between the two tombs. Even better people calculated the intersection of this angle, and found that the two tomb roads actually converged in Chang'an, the capital of the Western Han Dynasty.

The coffins of the king of Chu and the queen of Chu are placed in the double tomb, and if the souls of the two advance along the tomb road after death, they will be reunited in Chang'an.

The tomb road is straight, and it can be said that the craftsmen are of high quality. The tomb passage has an angle, so it can be said that the measuring tools at that time were not precise enough. The result of the included angle makes it impossible for the 'error faction' to say that this is the result of error. If it is an error, why did the angle error go to Chang'an. Chang'an is the only meaningful existence among all errors.

There is no record of the tomb of King Chu of the Western Han Dynasty in the "Golden Black Jade Rabbit Collection", and this book is completely about the theory of yin and yang feng shui and the technique of how to measure feng shui. What really interests Zhao Jiaren is that there are some things recorded in it.

In the Qin and Han dynasties, at certain standard distances, the state would build a rammed earth platform. This table is a base point for measurement. That is to say, in the vast land of China at that time, there were countless such measurement base points, and these measurement base points neatly covered the land of China. Those surveyors do not use any unusual equipment, as long as they can accurately find the direction of Chang'an according to this kind of measurement base point near the tomb of King Chu of the Western Han Dynasty.

If you want to make accurate measurements, you don't need any satellites, as long as you have a thin observation equipment, and you can use fire light to measure at three points and one line in the middle of the night.

If the Qin and Han dynasties really had such a measurement base, what can be proved is only the mobilization of the Han Dynasty and how strong the national capacity was! The measurement base point stretching from Chang'an to Xuzhou can never be a year or a few years, it is a system that the Qin State has continued to build and maintain since the Shang Dynasty changed the law and continued to build and maintain it until the collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty. That's tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of basis points.

In the eyes of the rulers of the Qin and Han dynasties, China was made up of standard squares composed of these measurement base points. That's the way that only industrial countries have to look at countries. Based on this model, the Qin and Han dynasties were able to easily calculate the area of land per acre, and only then could they effectively carry out various plans for the country's land. And it is taxed in a quantitative way. Without such a measurement base, all quantitative management is empty talk.

Why this system has not been handed down, Zhao Jiaren can easily figure it out. It took a lot of investment to maintain this system, and when the Qin and Han systems collapsed, the state was no longer able to maintain such a strong central government. It is impossible for those rammed earth measurement base points to persist for hundreds of years under wind and rain, let alone resist man-made destruction.

Zhao Jiaren has no way to verify the content written in this "Golden Crow Jade Rabbit Collection", and he can only think that this is the word of the family. However, Zhao Jiaren found that he himself needed this family word as him to rebuild the Qin and Han dynasties, a model of strong central direct control over the grassroots.

Seeing that the Zhao official family had something on his mind, Xiong Sheng tried to ask: "Guanjia, let me send the envoy of the Wa Kingdom away." ”

Zhao Jiaren broke free from his thoughts, and he replied, "We have already copied the book, you can take it with you." If the envoys of the Wa Kingdom are interested, you should return the original to them. ”

"This ...... But originally. ”

"Originally hairy!" Zhao Jiaren replied very unhappily, "This book was originally copied by Abe Zhongmaro, and I am afraid that it is also a copy when it is passed into the hands of Abe Jingming." The real original was probably gone during the Anshi Rebellion. Alas, I must be strong. Otherwise, we will build a big library, but I am afraid that we will not be able to keep it in the end. ”

When he said this, Zhao Jiaren was very sad. Historically, the famous libraries were inevitably burned down. Imagining the grand occasion when scholars were overflowing with the fragrance of books at the height of civilization, Zhao Jiaren only felt a little sad.

Xiong Sheng couldn't understand the thoughts of the Zhao official family, as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, he just responded, "Yes!" ”