Different from the subtle and somewhat embarrassing atmosphere in Guanzhong, the atmosphere here in Jiangling is more pure.

As the conquerors, the soldiers of the Western Wei army naturally enjoyed the joy of victory, and the soldiers of Jiangling, who were the conquered side, did not fall into the desperate situation of destroying the country and extinction, at least in terms of personal safety, they were fully guaranteed, so they were also slightly happy in their hearts.

The attack on Gangneung did not fall into a long-term confrontation between attack and defense, so the livelihood of the people in the city was not damaged to a great extent, and the city buildings remained largely intact.

Some of the houses near the city wall were damaged, and the Gangneung defenders demolished them in order to strengthen the city defenses, and these efforts proved to be very redundant and did not have the effect they should have had at all.

Usually when a large army enters the city, military discipline is a very difficult problem to control. Li Tai's Jingzhou army has been strictly disciplined for many years, but when it suddenly enters Jiangling, a city where the essence of the Southern Dynasty gathers the essence of the Southern Dynasty, it is inevitable that there will be out-of-control behavior, not to mention the Guanzhong soldiers who have used war and plunder as their main way to increase income.

Li Tai did not wait for the problem to occur before setting an example and emphasizing military discipline, from the beginning he did not order all the troops to enter the city and station, after the sporadic resistance in the city was completely eliminated and all the defenders of the Southern Liang were disarmed, the brigade was evacuated from the city and returned to the military camp outside the city to station.

In Jincheng, Jiangling, Li Tai arranged for his cousin Li Lian, who had been staying in Jiangling until then, and Linghu Yanbao, who came from the west of Xiakou, to garrison Luocheng, while Luocheng was garrisoned by Liang Shiyan and Li Yunxin.

On the night of the destruction of Jiangling City, due to the mutiny of the hundreds of officials and their dependents gathered in the inner garden, the main army was waiting for the enemy at the head of the city, because there were not enough guards to suppress the riots, Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang could only be forced to flee in the city, and the rest of the civil and military officials also led some men and horses to fight separately, making the situation in Jiangling City extremely chaotic.

At the beginning of the soldiers' entry into the city, although they quickly controlled Jiangling Jincheng and the Inner Garden, and quelled the riots in the Inner Garden, and captured Xiao Fangju, the prince of Southern Liang, and other personnel, they disappeared from the Liang Emperor Xiao Yi, and they couldn't help but feel quite flustered.

It must be known that half of the significance of the attack on Jiangling is on this Liang Emperor, because their advance was originally to take advantage of the weakness, and there are still many Southern Liang troops outside Jiangling. If Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang was not captured, but successfully escaped, then he could immediately summon the army of King Qin of all sides to counterattack Jiangling, so that the war would continue endlessly.

But fortunately, Wang Bao and other important ministers of the Southern Liang were captured in time, and with the cooperation of these people, the people who entered the city were able to control the inner and outer gates in time, and the flow of people in the city was prohibited. It was not until dawn that the whole city of Dasuo was found in the Tianju Temple in the city, Emperor Xiao Yi and his general Xie Daren, etc., so that the capture of Jiangling had all the merits.

After the situation in the city was basically under control, Li Tai immediately rushed to the East Pavilion Library in the Gangneung Imperial Palace. If the casualties of the historical Battle of Gangneung were too heavy and a big loss, then the second most tragic thing is the demise of culture!

Li Huan and others sneaked into the inner garden of Jiangling under the protection of Wang Bao, and took advantage of the personnel turmoil in the inner garden to enter the East Pavilion Library, and then they have been stationed here.

Although Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang was frightened away by the riots in the inner garden and did not have time to order the burning of books, these books were easily lost and destroyed in the war.

"Thank you, cousin, and all of you! This time, you should be the first to enter Gangneung and receive the rituals and rituals of the southern country, as well as the cultural relics of the scriptures and history!"

After Li Tai came here, when he saw Li Tuan and the others who were already waiting here, he hurriedly stepped forward and said with his fists to everyone.

When Li Tuan and the others saw this, they were also busy and responded modestly: "The lowly rank came by order, and because of the strong backing of the generals and the people of the military government, and the cooperation of the people in Gangneung, the actions were quite smooth. Gangneung scriptures, books, and all kinds of cultural relics have been preserved, thanks to the general's strategic work!"

Li Tai didn't say any more greetings, but just ordered Pei Hong, who was accompanying him, to record everyone's merits and wait for rewards, and then walked impatiently towards the library.

Li Tuan and others not only preserved these collections, but even a group of compilers appointed by Xiao Yi also controlled them, including Zhou Hongzheng, a famous scholar of the Southern Dynasty.

When Li Lian stepped forward to introduce Zhou Hongzheng and other editors to Li Tai, Li Tai couldn't help but take a few serious glances at this famous university scholar in the south.

Zhou Hongzheng is in his fifties, it is estimated that he is good at health preservation, he doesn't seem to be much old, standing among the officials, he doesn't have much panic, and he is only humble and arrogant in the face of Li Tai's gaze.

And behind Zhou Hongzheng, there are Yan Zhiyi and Yan Zhitui brothers who will be more famous in later generations. Compared with Zhou Hongzheng's indifference, the Yan brothers are a little cramped, and they seem to be a little lacking in confidence in the face of Li Tai, a Western Wei general who is about the same age as them.

Li Tai didn't care about their respective attitudes, but just motioned for a few of them to walk into the library building with them, and gave him a detailed introduction to the categories and names of the books in the collection.

Upon entering the library, a very complex smell of spices, ink, paper, silk and wood came to your face. It doesn't taste very good, but it has a soothing effect. Li Tai looked at it, and immediately saw what it means to be full of sweat!

In the tall room, there were bookshelves and cages stacked on the beams, all of which were filled with picture scrolls. And there are more than a dozen rooms like this!

Li Tai is not unprecedented, and the number of books in some large bookstores and libraries in later generations is estimated to be much more than the number of books in front of him. However, the kind of books with modern bindings and as neat as bricks are completely different from the visual impact and psychological shock brought by such ancient scriptures nowadays.

Li Tai strolled through this book pavilion, listening to the narration and introduction of Zhou Hongzheng and other officials of the Southern Liang Dynasty, but he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart.

Gangneung has a collection of more than 100,000 volumes, and it is second to none in the entire Later Three Kingdoms, and this should be the pinnacle of cultural accumulation in Gangneung and even the entire Jingxiang region!

In history, when the city of Jiangling was broken, Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang ordered all these books to be burned, burning not only the essence of Southern Liang culture, but also the cultural foundation and development space of the entire Jingxiang area.

Since then, the entire Jingxiang region is no longer known for its culture, even in the era of the unification of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Jingxiang region has lost its original glory in history, and is no longer closely related to the general trend of the world, but more as a place of miasma in Shannan, often as a place of exile for people who have lost power, and maintain a little pitiful sense of existence.

The idiom is unprecedentedly said that Jingzhou in the Tang Dynasty was weakened in culture and education, and many people were not famous every year, so it was called the Heavenly Wilderness Solution, until the middle and middle years of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Yuan was sent to Beijing from Jingnan to Beijing for reference, and won the Jinshi in one fell swoop, so it was called unprecedented.

From the center of culture to the desert of culture, it may not be entirely attributed to the fire of Emperor Xiao of Liang, and this fire is undoubtedly the biggest reason for the transformation! Not only was Jingxiang's culture and education burned, but the cultural essence accumulated by the Southern Dynasties for hundreds of years was also reduced to ashes in this fire.

The Western Wei Dynasty attacked Jiangling, wreaked havoc on the livelihood of Jiangling, and plundered the people of Jiangling, making the Jingxiang area after years of development in the Southern Dynasties regress greatly. Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang was mediocre and incompetent, unable to defend the country but reckless and angry, and burned this place to a desolate land. There is no doubt that they are all sinners!

However, before he went crazy and set the fire, he said in his heart that Xiao Yi had done a very good job in the protection and sorting of these books. Some of these hundreds of thousands of volumes have been carefully edited and sorted, while others are still properly sealed and have not yet been opened and proofread.

Although the old gentleman Zhou Hongzheng lacks the respectful and humble posture that a captive should have, he has a deep understanding of the editing of books. He is not only good at metaphysics, but also has a deep attainment in Confucian classics and Buddhism.

Nowadays, the compilation of books has been classified into subsets of classics and histories, and under Zhou Hongzheng's in-depth explanation, Li Tai also has a preliminary understanding of the collection and compilation of these books.

He took great pains to preserve these books, of course, not to put them on the shelf, but to continue to edit them, and to extract from them the essence of the ideology, culture, and spiritual outlook suitable for the new era, so of course the book revision must continue.

Because there are still a large number of books sealed and protected inside, Li Tai did not lead everyone too inside, but retreated back to the outermost book pavilion, looked at these people and said: "The scriptures and meanings here are all preserved by the wisdom of my ancestors in Zhuxia, in order to enlighten future generations, not the exclusive of one time and one place, and we need to accept this inheritance and carry forward the inheritance with a broad heart!"

Liang ruled the country without Taoism and mastery, so he got this disaster, but his academic profundity is also the facts, and his regret in his life is probably that he can't be a hermit in the book and mistakenly live in the emperor's house, so as to harm others and himself. You are all appreciated and appointed by him because of your scholarship, and I have no doubt that you will keep your own things to the past, so as not to be disturbed by swords, and if you have outstanding achievements, you will be especially rewarded!"

When everyone present heard this, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but after Zhou Hongzheng groaned for a while, he walked in front of Li Tai and bowed deeply, and asked in a deep voice: "May I ask General Li, now that the lord of our country has been controlled, what does the general want to do?"

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