There are really people who know the goods, plus for such a long time, whether it is Yang Nianzhong or his mother Yang Lan's excited mood has calmed down, everyone told the servants to serve coffee and tea.

The family sat around the sofa and on the coffee table was the red sandalwood box, as well as the Yongle ceremony wrapped tightly by hand in the red sandalwood box.

John put down the teacup in his hand, looked at his most beloved Aunt Yang with cotton white gloves on her hands, holding a magnifying glass, and was holding a table lamp in Yang Nianzhong, carefully observing this Yongle Canon, observing and admiring at the same time.

"That's right, it's true, both the size and the record of the book cover are really David, we really found a priceless treasure."

Before Yang Nianzhong could say anything, John coughed on the side, attracting everyone's attention to himself, and then said.

"Aunt Yang, can you tell us all about this Yongle ceremony?"

My mother put the magnifying glass in her hand on the table, poked the edge with her elbow, and Yang Nianzhong, who was holding the lamp, said angrily.

"Boy, I taught you before, haven't forgotten it, let's talk to everyone, if you make a mistake, I'll knock out your front teeth."

As soon as he saw his mother say that he wanted to break off his front teeth, Yang Nianzhong said that he was not nervous, it was fake, fortunately, the things that his mother told him about the Yongle Ceremony, Yang Nianzhong remembered it clearly.

Seeing that the whole family was curious, and the mother looked at herself with warning eyes, Yang Nianzhong coughed, put down the lamp in his hand, picked up the teacup and took a sip, and then picked up the cigar and lit it and smoked.

Yang Nianzhong's set of business, whether it is his mother Yang Lan or Annie, Yang Nianzhong is too much fragmentation, if you don't let him get ready, he will definitely not speak.

Seeing that Yang Nianzhong drank tea, moistened his throat, lit a cigar cigarette, and took a beautiful puff, everyone waited for him to speak, Yang Nianzhong coughed and said.

"Speaking of this Yongle Canon, it is an encyclopedia made from the essence of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, whether it is mountains and rivers, geography, humanities, flowers and birds, and miscellaneous operas, all of which have been registered in it."

"The producer of the Yongle Ceremony is the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and he is also the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

"But due to the destruction of many years of war, many ancient books have been lost and destroyed, in order to inherit the crystallization of the wisdom of these Chinese people for thousands of years, the Yongle Emperor ordered the compilation of an encyclopedia, which is the Yongle Canon."

Speaking of this, Yang Nianzhong stopped, saw the stunned looks of the people in the family, and said triumphantly. "Don't look at the industrial civilization that arose in Britain and broke out in Europe, but the encyclopedia of Westerners is more than a hundred years later than the Yongle Canon of Orientals."

"The Yongle Canon has been compiled for too long, the size of each book is 50.3 centimeters high and 30 centimeters wide, and the size in the Ming Dynasty is 1 foot 5 inches 6 minutes high, 9 inches wide and three parts are grand."

"After programming, the catalog alone occupies about 60 volumes, with a total of 22,877 volumes, 11,095 volumes, and about 370 million words."

Speaking of this, seeing the people in the family with a lot of emotion, Yang Nianzhong said even more proudly. "And everyone knows that in ancient classical Chinese, the meaning contained in just a few words can be translated into hundreds of words in vernacular, and what a huge content these 350 million words contain."

Speaking of this, Yang Nianzhong's mood was obviously low, and he shook his head and sighed. "It's a pity, when the Yongle Ceremony was compiled, it was divided into two sets, and I heard that the main set of books was buried."

"The book of the deputy has been preserved, but it has been destroyed by war and all kinds of accidents over the years.

"When Emperor Qianlong found out that someone was stealing books, he closed the nine doors and searched strictly, and put the two Yongle canons under the book thief on a bridge, and then chased them back."

"It's a pity, when I arrived in modern history, the unprecedented catastrophe of the Chinese nation came, the Yongle Canon that originally existed in Hanlin Yuan, there were more than 8,000 volumes, and there were hundreds of copies left in the last years of Guangxu, some stolen and some damaged, anyway, how to disappear are there."

"When the British and French forces attacked the capital, the British embassy set fire to the Hanlin Courtyard and burned hundreds of other copies of the Yongle Ceremony."

"Even those books that have gone to the people have been bought by foreigners at high prices and brought abroad, as for which country abroad has such a collection of Yongle books, it is unknown."

When everyone was feeling pity, my mother Yang Lan coughed and then said to everyone. "What David said is basically correct, according to my investigation over the years, there are only more than 220 volumes of the Yongle Canon preserved in the entire Huaxia."

"The most preserved in other countries is that it seems to belong to Japan, and there should be more than 100 copies of the Yongle Canon publicly preserved in small Japan, and even more in the private sector."

"In addition to Little Japan, 36 volumes are kept in the United Kingdom, 10 in Germany, more than 100 in the United States, 4 in Vietnam, and one in South Korea."

As soon as Yang Nianzhong heard his mother say this, he was first startled and then asked angrily. "Even Vietnam and South Korea have the existence of the Yongle Grand Ceremony, it is really no tiger and monkey in the mountains and no overlord, these two countries belonged to the vassal countries of China back then, when did the vassal countries start to bully their own suzerains."

As soon as he saw Yang Nianzhong gritting his teeth, even his mother Yang Lan felt indignant and said. "What do you mean by a subject? In fact, it is a group of wolves that are not well fed, they flatter when the master is strong, and when the master is weak, they are eager to bite off a piece of meat from the master. ”

As soon as Yang Nianzhong heard his mother's analogy, he felt that it was very appropriate, and Yang Nianzhong wondered in his heart when he should make some small moves to steal back the Yongle Ceremony of these two countries.

How can the priceless treasure of the Chinese nation, the crystallization of wisdom, and the inheritance of the culture be in the hands of foreigners, which is a shame for the entire Chinese nation.

At this time, although John was angry, he asked a key question. "Aunt Yang David, shouldn't we make persistent efforts to sort out all those boxes, maybe there are other Yongle canons to discover, wouldn't it be better if we found 10 books and 8 copies?"

Ouch, John got to the point, and when he found the Yongle Ceremony, both Yang Nianzhong and his mother Yang Lan were excited, and they cried bitterly and forgot about this stubble.

After being reminded by John, both Yang Nianzhong and his mother Yang Lan did not stop for a moment, hurriedly ran to the garage, and then began to disassemble the boxes wrapped in wax.

Then you listen, the whole garage came from time to time with the sound of loud cheers, until the evening, after the efforts of Yang Nianzhong's mother and son, all the remaining boxes were dismantled, and a total of 280 Yongle canons were found.

You heard it right, that is, all 280 volumes of the Yongle Dictionary are placed in boxes carved from precious red sandalwood, and all of them are wrapped in the most precious silk brocade.

In a well-preserved state without a trace of damage, a book is regarded as a priceless treasure, and these 280 volumes of Yongle Dictionary are 280 priceless treasures.