"W-what are these?" Looking at the contents of the cargo box of a large van in front of him, the clerk of the Chinese Consulate in Edinburgh was shocked and speechless.

"These are some of the old books I found by accident before, and I think they should be returned to my homeland." Liang En smiled and said, "I remember that I said it on the phone before the donation, and I specifically said that there were more things."

"Ah, I know about this, but I didn't expect it to be so many—" The staff member said sorry, and ran to the room to call out a few people to pull the cart to help, and it took a long time to transport the boxes to a conference room.

After getting the news of the successful development of the new settlement of the mountain ghosts, because all kinds of things in the pioneer area came to an end temporarily, Liang En ran to the mountains under the pretense of retreat, and then returned to the modern world with a bunch of things.

As soon as he returned to the modern world, Liang En exchanged some of Isabella's legally obtained things for these books by stealing dragons and phoenixes, and then picked a day to take them to the consulate to prepare for donation.

It must be said that the supernatural powers are indeed easy to use, for example, these books have immediately changed from last month's printed edition to handwritten copies hundreds of years ago after being slightly transformed by alchemy and spiritual power.

For example, it may be difficult to forge a chain of evidence that has legally obtained something, but in Isabella's hands, it only takes a few illusions to do it perfectly in the modern world.

After completing the move, Liang was invited to the consul's office to have tea and chat with the consul, while next door several experts and staff began to count the donated books.

Isabella's intelligence investigation was very detailed, so Liang En happened to meet a group of scholars from several museums in China who were engaged in calligraphy and painting and ancient books on the donation day.

They had just arrived in Edinburgh yesterday and had an exchange meeting at the Chinese Consulate in Edinburgh this morning, so when they heard that dozens of boxes of ancient books had been donated by Chinese people at lunch, they quickly volunteered to help with the identification.

"I've heard that the donor is a young man in his twenties, and this character is definitely the best among young people—" After reading Liang En's book list with a brush, the gray-haired old man in the lead nodded, and then his eyes widened.

"Item 1, Ming Dynasty "Literature Dacheng" 1, packed in boxes 1-27, a total of 22,937 volumes, 11,095 volumes, including 60 volumes of catalogs, how .....is this possible?"

"Teacher Liu, what's wrong?" After watching the old man's body shake, a person in his 30s next to him, who looked like he should be his student, supported him and asked nervously.

"I'm fine, I'm fine—" Professor Liu waved his hand lightly after standing firm, and then said to the student, "Wang Hao, you can find these books in boxes 1-27, volume 480-481, volume 2279-2281......

Professor Liu quickly read out the names of more than a dozen books, and Wang Hao quickly opened the box and found them one by one after writing down the titles. Because the books were arranged in order, it took a few minutes to find all the books.

"That's right, that's right, it's all true—" As the books were opened one by one, Professor Liu's emotions became more and more excited, and his face began to become rosy.

"What's wrong, Lao Liu?" At this time, the other people in the living room also noticed Professor Liu's situation and asked out loud.

""Yongle Ceremony", it is actually "Yongle Ceremony"!" Professor Liu waved the yellow satin booklet in his hand and shouted, "This may be the full set of the Yongle Canon!"

Boom –

As soon as the words fell, the conference room exploded suddenly, because all the experts present were experts in this field, so they naturally knew what the "Yongle Grand Canon" represented and what was the meaning behind it.

The Yongle Canon is considered to be the largest encyclopedia in ancient Chinese history, and there are only two sets in history, one of which is the original from the Yongle period, and the other is a copy of the transcription in the last years of Jiajing.

The most valuable part of the book is that it contains a large number of books that have been lost, so that people can use it to get a glimpse of the leopard and understand the wisdom left by the ancients

Intelligent.

But now people can no longer see this huge work, in which the original Yongle has completely disappeared after the end of the reign of Emperor Jiajing, and no one has been able to find the whereabouts of those books.

There are different opinions on the final whereabouts of this set of "Yongle Canon", some people say that it has been completely lost, and some people say that this book was used by Emperor Jiajing for burial, but no matter which statement can not be found.

The copies copied in the early years of Longqing have been lost, and there are only more than 8,000 books left in the Qianlong period, and then with the decline of national strength, all kinds of problems of self-theft emerge one after another.

Especially in the Second *** War, the chaos caused by the invasion of the British and French forces and the existence of a large number of self-stealers caused the number of books to decline rapidly, and it is said that Wen Tingshi alone stole more than 100 copies of the Yongle Canon.

Therefore, when the emperor Weng Tong entered the Hanlin Academy in June of the twentieth year of Guangxu, there were only 800 copies left, and these books suffered heavy losses in the Boxer Rebellion six years later.

Finally, when the Qing Dynasty fell, only 64 volumes of the "Great Canon" originally stored in the Hanlin Academy were transferred to the Jingshi Library, and although Zhou Shuren had been committed to protecting them since the beginning of the period, only more than 400 copies survived and were collected by 30 institutions in 8 countries and regions, less than 5% of the original.

The only good thing is that almost all of these books have been digitized since the digital age, so even the books that have been lost overseas have been carefully read by scholars.

So after a quick proofreading by a few scholars, they determined that the content of the books matched exactly what was known, including some that were almost never made public.

At the same time, those calligraphy and painting experts also began to verify the authenticity of the books from various aspects such as the words, pictures, and the materials themselves.

"That's right, it's a bamboo-skin paper. It looks like a crystalline fiber, with a pronounced luster and a fine texture. At the same time, the yellowing is natural, not something that has been post-processed."

"There is nothing wrong with the ink, the red ink is cinnabar, and the black ink is Hui ink, although hundreds of years have passed, the color is still the same, and the reflection can be seen under the light."

"The same is true of the yellow satin on the cover, which is obviously a tribute to the court, and both the thickness of the silk thread and the manufacturing method are obviously the techniques of the court in the Yuan and Ming dynasties."

"The only strange thing is that the paper, ink, and silk are of better quality than the manuscripts now known, and the level of calligraphy is noticeably better."

"Isn't this the original Yongle original?" Listening to the discussion of the scholars, several young people standing on the side showed shocked expressions.

"Definitely not." At this time, Professor Liu, who had regained his composure, shook his head. "Because there were seals on them, but none of them had a seal on them."

"And what could it be?" Several young men scratched their heads, looking confused.

"I guess it's probably a copy of the Yongle Canon that we never knew about." Professor Liu hesitated for a moment and then said in a speculative tone.

"After all, not everything will be recorded in the history books, and this book is likely to be the existence that is not recorded in the history books."