Jiang Han led Liu Shang through the hall and came to a huge wooden table. On this table were a dozen or so books more than two inches thick, each two feet long and one foot wide, and the pages were much larger than those seen on a daily basis. There were also some paper, ink, pens and inkstones next to it, and two or three other people were also looking through these big books, and from time to time they were copying something on the white paper.

"This is a catalogue of books and manuscripts that can be borrowed, you can first look at the content you are interested in, take a note on paper, and then I will take it to the counter to go through the borrowing procedures. Jiang Han explained to Liu Shang how to use these big books in a soft voice: "You can borrow up to three materials at a time, and you can borrow them again after returning them." ”

Liu Shang also lowered his voice and asked, "Can the borrowed manuscripts be taken out of the library?"

Jiang Han shook his head and said: "It's not okay for us to wait for civilians, only the students of Sanya University run by the government, and the officials who work as errands in various yamen, can register with certificates and borrow manuscripts for a few days." ”

"I see!" Liu Shangxin said that there are quite a lot of rules in this library, but if it is not so, I am afraid that the materials collected here will disappear one after another for no reason in a few days.

Liu Shang looked at the covers of those big books again, which were written literature, geography, science, law, etc., and he was about to think about which aspect of the information to read first, Jiang Han had already raised his hand and pointed to a catalog on the table and said: "The history of the Haihan Kingdom, the materials that Mr. needs to refer to, probably looking for it here." ”

Liu Shang took the table of contents according to what he said, only to find that there were many small tabs on the side of the book, which were densely packed with small tabs for quick query of the contents. Liu Shang quickly found the "War" column, and then flipped through the label, and saw that the entries listed were also full of pages.

The history of the Haihan War is archived in years, starting from the first armed conflict between the landing in Yulin Bay and the Ming army in 1627, and then the battles over the years have been recorded one by one. Among them, since 1628 to participate in the Annam civil war, the war has been intensified year by year, and there are many opponents, in addition to the Ming army, Haihan has been with Guangdong Liukou, Fujian pirates, South Vietnamese rebels, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, Zhejiang armed maritime merchants, Shandong bandits, Liaodong Houjin army and many other forces have a record of fighting. Even the recent records of the wars with Johor and the United Kingdom at Sing Tao in the South China Sea have been added to the last column.

Before Liu Shang came to Sanya, he had a rough understanding of the Haihan war, but the information he had could not compare to the details of this record, and he had never even heard of many of the battles that took place in the South China Sea. But thinking about Haihan's ability and past achievements, these battles should not be fictional. With such a dense frequency of fighting against many forces, and many battlefields are thousands of miles away from this Hainan Island, it is simply unimaginable that the manpower, material and financial resources required to invest are unimaginable, and the terrible degree of Haihan's national strength and military strength can be seen from this.

Liu Shang remembered that Jiang Han had said before that it would be enough to say that it would take a year and a half to adapt a few battles, and now it seems that if the history of the Haihan War is changed to a storytelling, I am afraid that the compilation of books will not be able to catch up with the speed of the Shanghai Han Army's war. However, the Haihan army is strong, and it is said that there has never been a defeat in foreign wars, and it has gained a lot, otherwise with such an intensive war, even if there are mountains of gold and silver, they will be defeated long ago.

Liu Shang turned his head to Jiang Han and said: "Boss Jiang, there are so many wars, when I first arrived in Haihan, I don't know which ones are suitable for adapting the storytelling, do you have any suggestions?"

Jiang Han said: "I can't say this well, in fact, most of the wars have been tried to be adapted in the past, such as the battle of killing Eighteen Zhi in Fujian a few years ago, the government also specially arranged a play to perform in various towns, but I think the joke changed by Mr. has a unique flavor, even if it is a new bottle of old wine, it should also have a good performance." In recent days, I have asked the regulars in the store, and they all said that the book you said sounds interesting, and as long as there is a new story, I will come and listen to it. I see which paragraph you are interested in, so I can check the information of which paragraph!"

Liu Shang's mind was not on storytelling, and he was only engaged in this business to have a safe identity cover-up, and he did not have the heart to slowly study the history of Haihan's foreign wars, but today he had a rare opportunity to come to this municipal library, and he also wanted to find out how this institution operated. Liu Shang immediately pointed to the directory and said: "Before coming down to Haihan, I had heard that Marshal Qian led the army to defeat the pirate Eighteen Zhi and the red-haired people in Nanri Island, Fujian, and the battle was very exciting, why don't you borrow the relevant materials of this battle to take a look?"

Jiang Han responded: "Although this battle was a war four years ago, the news came back to China that year, but it was a great boost to the people's hearts. At the beginning, there was a lot of controversy in China about sending troops to Fujian, and it is said that the heads of the executive committee also had different opinions, but after this war, there were no objections, and then they marched into Taiwan and went north to Zhejiang and Shandong, which can be said to be the foundation laid by this war. Mr. Liu has picked this battle, and he is indeed discerning!"

At that moment, Jiang Han led Liu Shang to the borrowing office in the depths of the library and reported to the staff the battle records that needed to be checked. After a short time, the staff took three relevant materials, one was a special issue of the Times that recorded the whole process of the war at that time, "Haihan Times: Records of the Battle of Nanri Island", which set a record for the circulation of the Times that year, and the newspaper reprinted it three times to meet the market demand; one was written by Yan Mingjun, a visiting professor of Sanya University and the former governor of Danzhou in the Ming Dynasty, "The Bloody Battle of Nanri Island", which has been included in the compulsory textbook of the Haihan Senior School; and the other is the "Bloody Battle of Nanri Island" written by Ning Qi, the current Minister of Culture and Education. 1631 The Battle of Fujian", Ning Qi was the leading official of the Fujian Mission, and witnessed the fighting that broke out in the Fujian Strait from May to July of that year, and he wrote this article as the manuscript used in his report to the Executive Committee after returning to Sanya, and later published in the official media.

These three articles have their own characteristics, the first is a time-sensitive article, and this special issue was published the day after the fleet sent to Fujian returned to Sanya, so that the propaganda of this war could be carried out at the best time, and it also received very satisfactory results. The second article, written by Yan Mingjun, a former Ming official, was in the genre of song fu, and the description of the war was relatively abstract and more literary, so it was selected into the textbook. The third article, written by one of the witnesses, Ning Qi, is more realistic and detailed, but because this manuscript was originally an internal reference, a large number of specific figures related to military intelligence in the article have been redacted down.

This book was first published on the Genesis Chinese website, and the following content will be re-edited later for anti-theft

Jiang Han led Liu Shang through the hall and came to a huge wooden table. On this table were a dozen or so books more than two inches thick, each two feet long and one foot wide, and the pages were much larger than those seen on a daily basis. There were also some paper, ink, pens and inkstones next to it, and two or three other people were also looking through these big books, and from time to time they were copying something on the white paper.

"This is a catalogue of books and manuscripts that can be borrowed, you can first look at the content you are interested in, take a note on paper, and then I will take it to the counter to go through the borrowing procedures. Jiang Han explained to Liu Shang how to use these big books in a soft voice: "You can borrow up to three materials at a time, and you can borrow them again after returning them." ”

Liu Shang also lowered his voice and asked, "Can the borrowed manuscripts be taken out of the library?"

Jiang Han shook his head and said: "It's not okay for us to wait for civilians, only the students of Sanya University run by the government, and the officials who work as errands in various yamen, can register with certificates and borrow manuscripts for a few days." ”

"I see!" Liu Shangxin said that there are quite a lot of rules in this library, but if it is not so, I am afraid that the materials collected here will disappear one after another for no reason in a few days.

Liu Shang looked at the covers of those big books again, which were written literature, geography, science, law, etc., and he was about to think about which aspect of the information to read first, Jiang Han had already raised his hand and pointed to a catalog on the table and said: "The history of the Haihan Kingdom, the materials that Mr. needs to refer to, probably looking for it here." ”

Liu Shang took the table of contents according to what he said, only to find that there were many small tabs on the side of the book, which were densely packed with small tabs for quick query of the contents. Liu Shang quickly found the "War" column, and then flipped through the label, and saw that the entries listed were also full of pages.

The history of the Haihan War is archived in years, starting from the first armed conflict between the landing in Yulin Bay and the Ming army in 1627, and then the battles over the years have been recorded one by one. Among them, since 1628 to participate in the Annam civil war, the war has been intensified year by year, and there are many opponents, in addition to the Ming army, Haihan has been with Guangdong Liukou, Fujian pirates, South Vietnamese rebels, Portuguese, Dutch, Spanish, Zhejiang armed maritime merchants, Shandong bandits, Liaodong Houjin army and many other forces have a record of fighting. Even the recent records of the wars with Johor and the United Kingdom at Sing Tao in the South China Sea have been added to the last column.

Before Liu Shang came to Sanya, he had a rough understanding of the Haihan war, but the information he had could not compare to the details of this record, and he had never even heard of many of the battles that took place in the South China Sea. But thinking about Haihan's ability and past achievements, these battles should not be fictional. With such a dense frequency of fighting against many forces, and many battlefields are thousands of miles away from this Hainan Island, it is simply unimaginable that the manpower, material and financial resources required to invest are unimaginable, and the terrible degree of Haihan's national strength and military strength can be seen from this.

Liu Shang remembered that Jiang Han had said before that it would be enough to say that it would take a year and a half to adapt a few battles, and now it seems that if the history of the Haihan War is changed to a storytelling, I am afraid that the compilation of books will not be able to catch up with the speed of the Shanghai Han Army's war. However, the Haihan army is strong, and it is said that there has never been a defeat in foreign wars, and it has gained a lot, otherwise with such an intensive war, even if there are mountains of gold and silver, they will be defeated long ago.

Liu Shang turned his head to Jiang Han and said: "Boss Jiang, there are so many wars, when I first arrived in Haihan, I don't know which ones are suitable for adapting the storytelling, do you have any suggestions?"

Jiang Han said: "I can't say this well, in fact, most of the wars have been tried to be adapted in the past, such as the battle of killing Eighteen Zhi in Fujian a few years ago, the government also specially arranged a play to perform in various towns, but I think the joke changed by Mr. has a unique flavor, even if it is a new bottle of old wine, it should also have a good performance." In recent days, I have asked the regulars in the store, and they all said that the book you said sounds interesting, and as long as there is a new story, I will come and listen to it. I see which paragraph you are interested in, so I can check the information of which paragraph!"

Liu Shang's mind was not on storytelling, and he was only engaged in this business to have a safe identity cover-up, and he did not have the heart to slowly study the history of Haihan's foreign wars, but today he had a rare opportunity to come to this municipal library, and he also wanted to find out how this institution operated. Liu Shang immediately pointed to the directory and said: "Before coming down to Haihan, I had heard that Marshal Qian led the army to defeat the pirate Eighteen Zhi and the red-haired people in Nanri Island, Fujian, and the battle was very exciting, why don't you borrow the relevant materials of this battle to take a look?"

Jiang Han responded: "Although this battle was a war four years ago, the news came back to China that year, but it was a great boost to the people's hearts. At the beginning, there was a lot of controversy in China about sending troops to Fujian, and it is said that the heads of the executive committee also had different opinions, but after this war, there were no objections, and then they marched into Taiwan and went north to Zhejiang and Shandong, which can be said to be the foundation laid by this war. Mr. Liu has picked this battle, and he is indeed discerning!"

At that moment, Jiang Han led Liu Shang to the borrowing office in the depths of the library and reported to the staff the battle records that needed to be checked. After a short time, the staff took three relevant materials, one was a special issue of the Times that recorded the whole process of the war at that time, "Haihan Times: Records of the Battle of Nanri Island", which set a record for the circulation of the Times that year, and the newspaper reprinted it three times to meet the market demand; one was written by Yan Mingjun, a visiting professor of Sanya University and the former governor of Danzhou in the Ming Dynasty, "The Bloody Battle of Nanri Island", which has been included in the compulsory textbook of the Haihan Senior School; and the other is the "Bloody Battle of Nanri Island" written by Ning Qi, the current Minister of Culture and Education. 1631 The Battle of Fujian", Ning Qi was the leading official of the Fujian Mission, and witnessed the fighting that broke out in the Fujian Strait from May to July of that year, and he wrote this article as the manuscript used in his report to the Executive Committee after returning to Sanya, and later published in the official media.

These three articles have their own characteristics, the first is a time-sensitive article, and this special issue was published the day after the fleet sent to Fujian returned to Sanya, so that the propaganda of this war could be carried out at the best time, and it also received very satisfactory results. The second article, written by Yan Mingjun, a former Ming official, was in the genre of song fu, and the description of the war was relatively abstract and more literary, so it was selected into the textbook. The third article, written by one of the witnesses, Ning Qi, is more realistic and detailed, but because this manuscript was originally an internal reference, a large number of specific figures related to military intelligence in the article have been redacted down.

(End of chapter)