Chapter 27: The Library of Heaven

(Reader Junjian: From the beginning of Chapter 16 to Chapter 28, the "Kingdom of Heaven" part of these 12 chapters is for Qin Beiyang's learning of the advanced way, which seems to be fantastic and flying, but in fact it is a secret practice, and will eventually return to the world, please watch it patiently...... )

It is both a kingdom of heaven, a library, and a prison.

However, Qin Beiyang did not feel afraid. Because of the company of the sea of books, it seems to be with thousands of ancients, and there is even the illusion of bustling rubbing shoulders! Qin Beiyang frantically palmed the lamp and read, like returning to the underground palace of Emperor Guangxu.

When I opened the catalogue of books, I saw the words "Yongle Canon".

Qin Beiyang's eyes widened, and he almost wanted to burn incense and pray, this is the treasure that scholars in the world dream of!

"Yongle Canon" - even if Gengzi's indemnity is 450 million taels of silver, I am afraid it will not be worth this set of books.

During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, ordered the cabinet to be the first assistant to Xie Jin, the editor-in-chief of the encyclopedic literature collection. With 22,937 volumes, 11,095 volumes, and 370 million words, the book brings together seven or eight thousand ancient books, and is recognized as the largest encyclopedia in human history. It is enough to prove that Chinese civilization may not be the oldest, but the civilization written in Chinese characters is the richest, stretching for 3,000 years, and there is no other branch!

But in this paradise of the "Kingdom of Heaven", how can there be this long-dead "Yongle Canon"?

There is only one set of the original of the Yongle Canon, and the legend is buried in the Ming Tombs, which is the long tomb of the Yongle Emperor? Or Emperor Jiajing, who once rebuilt a copy of the Yongle Canon? Or is it the Wanli Emperor who has not been in the early dynasty for decades? There is no way to verify, unless the tombs of these emperors are dug up. I don't know if there are coffins and tomb beasts of the above three emperors in the cave of the replica of the underground palace of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang?

In the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Jiajing book "Yongle Canon", which has experienced many vicissitudes, is collected in the Hanlin Academy in Beijing. In the year of Gengzi, the Boxers besieged the embassy area of Dongjiaomin Lane, and the Hanlin Yuan was unfortunately adjacent to the British Legation and became a battlefield of firefighting.

However, the catalog of the Heavenly Library makes it clear that during the Gengzi Incident, the Heavenly Kingdom sent "righteous soldiers" to the human world, lurking in the turbulent city of Beijing, taking advantage of the chaos to rescue a complete set of Jiajing's "Yongle Grand Canon", and send it to the Heavenly Library for proper preservation, just like the imperial coffin and tomb beast protected by them.

Facing the bookshelves as high as the city wall, it is as if you have entered an ancient tomb full of gold and silver treasures, and you are a tomb robber. Qin Beiyang knelt down and kowtowed three times, not only to the world's only existing "Yongle Canon", but also to the "righteous man" who protected this set of Chinese treasures - no, the world's treasures.

For seven days and seven nights, he locked himself in a cave, stayed at home, reversed day and night, and immersed himself in the vast sea of books.

But if you want to read all the "Yongle Canon", you can't do it in your lifetime. Qin Beiyang can only be like a sponge, from a total of 370 million words, select the most interesting part, absorb only one percent, that is as many as 3.7 million words!

The first book he read was "Mozi", which was undoubtedly infected by the wooden kite mirror tomb beast he witnessed in the heavenly tomb.

On the last day, Qin Beiyang found a copy of "Pushing Back Pictures" on the bookshelf.

Turning the title page, the signatures are two people: Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang. The second page: "On the fifteenth day of the first month of the seventeenth year of the Tang Dynasty, the above, the emperor, the sage and the name of the Confucian must not know also, this book is so big, there are the rise and fall of the country, there are the common people, the natural disasters are not collected, the war is chaotic, and the fear of leaking the heavenly opportunity should be cautious. ”

On the third page, a picture is drawn of a man sitting on a stone, holding the sun and the moon in his hands—

The first is like Jiazi Qian, which is dry under and dry on top

Proverb:

The vast world does not know where to end.

The cycle of the sun and the moon repeats itself.

Ode said:

Since Pangu to Xiyi, the tiger and dragon are fighting for things.

Realize the true meaning of the cycle, and try to discuss the yuan machine after the Tang Dynasty.

Qin Beiyang was thinking about it, when someone broke into the cave and pressed his hand on the back of Qin Beiyang's neck, which was exactly the location of the red antler birthmark.

"You found the book."

It turned out to be a ghost mask, and water and food were delivered.

"Teacher, have you also read "Tui Bei Tu"?"

"I've read it!"

The book turned to the next page, and the illustration was a pile of fruit on a tray, roughly counted, twenty-one in all—

"All things are born in the soil, and the twenty-nine come to fruition. Unification of the Central Plains, Yin and Yang are exhausted first. The ghost mask read the words again, "This plate is plums, and its number is twenty-one, from Tang Gaozu Li Yuan to the last emperor Zhaoxuan twenty-one lords." Twenty-nine refers to the total of 289 years of the Tang Dynasty. Yin Sheng refers to Wu Zetian's heroine in the world, and Tang Xuanzong favored Yang Guifei, which led to the Anshi Rebellion, and the Tang Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline. ”

Qin Beiyang was surprised: "This book was written in the seventeenth year of Zhenguan, the era of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and actually predicted the later Wu Zetian and Yang Guifei?" ”

"Yes, Tang Taizong Li Shimin ordered Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang to calculate the fortunes of the country with Zhou Yi gossip. Unexpectedly, Li Chunfeng was out of control, not only calculated the fall of the Tang Dynasty, but also launched the fate of China a thousand years later...... Until Yuan Tiangang pushed his back and said: The heavenly machine must not be leaked, so it was named "Pushing the Back Picture". ”

"Teacher, I have also heard of it - Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang's "Tui Bei Tu" is really a big prophecy book."

"There are a total of 60 images in Tui Bei Tu, and each image has 'Sayings' and 'Songs', predicting major events from the Tang Dynasty to the future." The ghost mask quickly turned the page, "Coincidentally, there was a great prophet in the French Middle Ages, Nostradamus, who also had a prophetic book called "The Centuries", but it was far inferior to "Tui Bei Tu". ”

"What's the difference?"

"Tui Bei Tu" is based on the philosophy of Zhou Yi Xiang Number, and all the diagrams and poems are interpreted according to the gossip of the Book of Changes, counting the heavens, the people, and the earth, which alludes to many truths of Western science, and is by no means a nonsense of spirituality and astrology."

The ghost mask used seven days and seven nights to explain to Qin Beiyang the sixty elephants of Tui Beitu, which correspond to the prophecies - which have become history and reality, and which ones need to be verified in the future.

"Teacher, since you are also proficient in this way, can you calculate a hexagram for China?"

"When will China?"

"In recent years, there is no need to count it - these turtle grandsons of Beiyang warlords, China can't do it well!" Qin Beiyang had an idea, "Then it can be regarded as a hundred years of China!" ”

"Predicting a hundred years from now, we have to use not only the way of Zhou Yi, but also the way of science - such as probability, cybernetics, ......"

In the Heavenly Library, the ghost mask never sleeps, burying his head in hundreds of manuscript papers, and it turns out that fortune tellers have to write drafts and formulas, and they keep sketching and drawing.

He took out another abacus and crackled the calculations, like a shrewd bookkeeper, and finally there were dense numbers, and countless small insects flew on the white paper......

Qin Beiyang naturally couldn't understand it, and the ghost mask was exhausted and explained-

"In a hundred years' time, China will be more than 130,000, not just 45,000,000. Hundreds of millions of people have been uprooted from their homes. The barren land has created a steel and concrete forest, and the ancient inaccessible land is connected in an instant. The train station is wide and noisy, crowded with people, and the river is endless. Stainless steel and glass waiting halls line the railway line, the starry sky is decorated with smog and ink paintings, and the city lights up like a world war. One-sixth of the earth's population travels all year round, and returning home for the New Year is called 'Spring Festival'. An unprecedented time that will not be possible in the next tens of thousands of years......"

"I want to get out!" Qin Beiyang jumped up from behind the bookshelf and read out the last sentence of "Tui Bei Tu", "The end is the end, the beginning is the beginning!" It must also contain the password of the Tomb Beast. ”

His words: The password of the tomb beast made the eyes behind the ghost mask light up.

"Qin Beiyang, you graduated!"