Chapter 47: Notes on Copying Books
Fu Xuechen asked tentatively: "Princess, how many people have read this set of books?" ”
Wang De smiled slightly: "Naturally, there are a lot, this book is only forbidden to be passed on to the world, and it is not forbidden for the emperor and courtiers to read it, as a history book, not to mention all the historians, even most of the scholars of Hanlin have read it, and those who have read it go back to make some relevant notes and articles or something, it is not prohibited." ”
Oh! That's it! That's it! In this case, if it is said that my grandfather has seen it, there should be no one to pursue it. Fu Xuechen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, Yu Zuo had purposefully found the "Biography of Zhuge Liang" in the Book of Shu, and he couldn't wait to read it, and he wanted to know if there was really such a thing as a straw boat borrowing arrows in history.
Later generations often have a misunderstanding that the ancients did not have to work hard to learn ancient texts, but in fact, the ancients usually spoke in the vernacular, and they were not as simple as the ancient texts, unless they quoted the classics.
Therefore, for ordinary people, even if they know some words, it does not mean that they can understand classical Chinese, which is a text that can only be easily understood by readers.
That is to say, from literacy, to the ability to understand classical Chinese and understand its meaning without obstacles, to being able to write poems and classical Chinese, the ancients also needed to learn, which is not much different from the students of later generations learning classical Chinese.
Therefore, in the face of this history book, it is not easy for Yu Zuo to read, but fortunately, he has been learning classical Chinese since he was a child, and he has long been accustomed to it, and his reading level is about equal to that of later liberal arts college students, so he can understand the content.
The narrative of the whole book of "Three Kingdoms" is very brief, so the length of "The Biography of Zhuge Liang" is not long, less than two quarters of an hour, Yu Zuo finished reading, he was amazed by the wisdom and achievements of the prime minister of Shu in the record, but he was also very puzzled.
He turned his head to look at Fu Xuechen: "Yuchen, in this book, there is no mention of the case of borrowing arrows from grass boats, are you sure you are not misremembering anything?" ”
Fu Xuechen also took a few volumes of the "Book of Wei" at this time, and she didn't remember how many volumes of the "Three Kingdoms" in the original time and space there were, but as far as she could see in front of her, the "Book of Wei" in this time and space seemed to be missing.
For example, the historical record of the return of the Three Kingdoms to Jin that she is most concerned about, judging from the brief records in the book, after Emperor Wei Ming, there was no such thing as Sima Yi usurping the throne and establishing Jin, and he went directly to Dayan to the south and swept the Central Plains.
The history of Dayan is not included in the records of the Three Kingdoms, so in the Wei Shu Wei main biography, only a few sentences are mentioned about this, that is, after the death of Emperor Wei Ming, because he had no heirs, he entrusted Sima Yi.
Although Sima Yi was in charge of the government, there was no new lord inside, and there was a large army of Yan State outside, and soon, the Wei State was destroyed and surrendered, and Sima Yi also died violently, and the Yan State at that time, the surname of the lord was Zhu, just like that.
Perhaps, if you have to consult the historical documents of the Dayan Empire, you can roughly guess whether the founding lord of Dayan is also a traverser, but the guess is only a guess after all, and it is still impossible to confirm.
This is as if in the previous life, there were many people who suspected that Wang Mang, who usurped the Han Dynasty, was a traverser, and correspondingly put forward a lot of corroboration, why did the queen wear a short skirt, kill all the sons of the predecessor, invent vernier calipers, try to make flying machines, etc., but Wang Mang himself never said that he was a traverser, so people can only doubt in the end.
Fu Xuechen was wandering for a short time, and suddenly heard Yu Zuo's question, and flatly denied it: "Absolutely not, that's what my grandfather said, I remember it clearly!" Since there is no similar record in this "Biography of Zhuge Liang", maybe it is a little story that my grandfather casually made up for his grandson, right? ”
"Oh!" Yu Zuo was disappointed and envious: "When you were young, you were able to listen to such a wonderful story told by the Duke of Xianjingguo, even if it was made up, it was very enviable!" ”
Fu Xuechen smiled and said: "Your Highness, why should you be envious, my sister got a bookstore a few days ago, and signed a few scripts to prepare some new scripts, one of which is the story of the Three Kingdoms." ”
"My sister plans to compile several small stories of the Three Kingdoms told by my grandfather into a new script, and I will send a set to His Highness."
Yu Zuo was overjoyed when he heard this: "That's great! Then I'll wait. ”
Fu Xuechen pointed to the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in front of him and said: "It's a pity that it's hard to find it outside this set ......of books, in order to keep the compilation of the new script from being too outrageous and deviating from historical facts, I wanted the master to read through this book."
Yu Zuo glanced at her funny, this will also react, no wonder this goods want to tell him the story of the grass boat borrowing arrows, it turned out to be for this set of books, but it is a pity that the books of Wenyuan Pavilion can be borrowed by royal people in the palace, and courtiers can also be read in the court or in the palace, but they are not allowed to lend them outside the palace.
"So be it!" Yu Zuo thought for a while and said: "I see that you have always looked bored in the Ministry of Industry these days, and in the next few days, I will go to the Ministry of Industry by myself, and you will come here to read by yourself in the afternoon!" You have a warrant to enter and exit Wenyuan Pavilion, and I will ask my Li companion to show you the way, it should be fine. ”
Fu Xuechen smiled happily and hurriedly thanked: "Thank you, Your Highness!" ”
"No thanks, I'm also here to see the new script of the Three Kingdoms you said as soon as possible."
Yu Zuo smiled gently, and carefully asked the eunuch Wang De and the princess to bring some paper, spread out the pen and ink, and made it easier for Fu Xuechen to take notes, and then left Wenyuan Pavilion first, and went out of the palace to the Ministry of Industry as usual.
Fu Xuechen first wrote down the word "Book of Wei" on paper, and prepared to transcribe some key information from the historical materials recorded in the Book of Wei, such as the birth and death years of important people, the names, places and changes of their positions, the relationship between the characters, important words and deeds, articles and experiences, etc., in addition, according to the chronology, the events that happened in that year were briefly recorded.
Because the entire story of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" exists clearly in her memory, and the romance is a romance after all, not a rigorous historical record, so she doesn't need to verify the historical facts in detail, just write down the corresponding information as needed.
It is not an easy task to extract the essence from a pile of messy materials, and it takes a lot of time to repeatedly consult the materials, deduce and create.
What Fu Xuechen wants to do is the opposite, she has a complete story first, and she only needs to add some detailed information that is difficult to remember accurately, which is relatively simple, and it is estimated that it can be completed in a few days.
It was still too time-consuming to write traditional Chinese characters with a brush, and Fu Xuechen felt inconvenient as soon as he finished transcribing the brief personal information of Cao Cao, an important figure.
Fortunately, she already knew that there were "fountain pens" in this era, but they were not called fountain pens but bamboo pipe pens, not mainstream writing tools, and immediately asked Wang De's father-in-law to find one for her.