-His subordinates replied that there were some discoveries in the imperial library of the Great Liao Palace, Xiao Ming immediately went to check, and now there are basically no guards in the entire palace, and Xiao Ming has arranged his own manpower, so Xiao Ming can empty the palace of the entire Great Liao Kingdom, but Xiao Ming is unwilling to do so.

The palace of the Great Liao State is basically imitating the palace architecture of the Han people, and most of the craftsmen are Han people, and the entire palace is extremely prosperous, but when the Jin soldiers occupy, the treasures and wealth have been looted, especially the colorful palace lamps hanging above the main hall, which are basically made of the East Pearl attacked by the Jurchens, which is the root of the Jurchens' hatred of the Liao Empire, and of course they will not be kept.

The Imperial Book Building is the Emperor Daozong of the Liao State imitated the secretary building of the Tang Dynasty, but the shape is very similar to the Chongwen Secret Pavilion of the Song Dynasty, the Taoist is a master of Sinology, the collection of books is very rich, which comes from the various precious classics that have been collected by the Liao State for many years, one of which is Confucianism and Buddhism classics.

Since the Tang Dynasty, the palace treasures and books and classics have been scattered in all directions after the rebellion of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, but the emperor of the Liao State is to search for many parties, looking at the whole of China, the richest collection of books is the Imperial Library of the Shangjing Palace of the Great Liao State, and the Song Dynasty of the Han Central Plains is far inferior.

The subordinates reported several special books, one of which is "The Mountains and Rivers of the Great Liao Kingdom" is divided into three volumes, respectively from the hands of two people, the first person is the Emperor Shengzong of the Liao State, the Chinese scholar Pei Yuandu when the Emperor of Wenwu Daxiaoxuan, this person has been Honglu Temple Zhengqing, and the other person is Ma Zhi.

Xiao Ming is not familiar with Pei Yuandu, but he is very familiar with this Ma Zhi, this person is the Zhao Liangsi who proposed to Emperor Huizong to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, and was appointed by Emperor Huizong as the envoy of the Great Song Dynasty to conspire with the siege of Liao in the Jin State! This person is now in the Song Dynasty, and according to his and Huizong's plan, he should have been in the Jin Kingdom five times.

Xiao Ming himself watched the "Chronicles of the Mountains and Rivers of the Great Liao Kingdom" and found that what Pei Yuandu wrote was the land of the entire Liao Kingdom before Emperor Daozong to conquer the countries of the Western Regions, as well as all the mountains and rivers in the western region of the entire Liao Kingdom, as well as some historical legends, the writing is very beautiful, and it is also a comparison between Chinese and Khitan languages.

If you knew that Ma Zhi had the intention of recovering the land of his homeland, you would find that the description of the mountains and rivers in Ma Zhi's book is basically a military map, because he marked some information about the march and garrison, where to garrison, where to defend and so on.

Xiao Ming was greatly surprised, it seems that Ma Zhi has long been making plans and preparations to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, this volume is simply a painstaking military intelligence, to say that Ma Zhi has been an official in the Liao State for 17 years, and the things he is sitting on are probably like this, saying that he is a patriot is indeed well deserved, and many historians in later generations also called him the head of the great traitor.

But Xiao Ming also has something to be confused, that is because the military significance of the next volume of "The Chronicles of the Mountains and Rivers of the Great Liao Kingdom" written by Ma Zhi is too obvious, like it: "Yuzhou is narrow, the only way to go north, and the soldiers can contain it, and the water source is enough for forty miles to stay in Tun, and it must pass through the south and north,...... Wait, can't others see such an obvious account?

Moreover, this volume is still written in Chinese, and it is obviously that the Liao Emperor also attaches great importance to it in the imperial library, and it is included in the classics, if Ma Zhi returns to the Song Dynasty, if he presents this book, Song Huizong may be able to better understand this person's heart to serve the country, but why did he not present this book after returning to the Song Dynasty?

The hidden meaning of this is confusing, only Ma Zhi himself may know the origin of this matter, Xiao Ming first accepted this book, the upper volume and the middle volume are the regional customs of the Western Regions of Liao and the northern customs, but the next volume is the Central Plains style written by Ma Zhi, I think this next volume is enough to complete the requirements of King Kang, Zhao Gou and Zhang Shuye.

This book can allow Xiao Ming to fulfill his promise, which is also a good thing, in addition, Xiao Ming ran to the Tibetan scripture tower of Baoshan Temple, Baoshan Temple has become very dilapidated, and the monks in the temple are not there, only some foreign monks live again, and at the same time take in a large number of urban displaced people, although the war is over, but in just over a year, Shangjing has gone through several wars, or caused a part of the people to be called refugees.

These people were displaced and homeless, so they took shelter in Baoshan Temple temporarily. When Xiao Ming led people to rush into Baoshan Temple, this group of refugees who were not covered were so frightened that they scattered and fled, the Tibetan scripture building of Baoshan Temple was well preserved, everyone broke into the door, only to see the well-shaped back to the platform inside, the ground was all overhead, and the books and volumes on the wooden board were all covered with thick dust.

There are many scriptures in Baoshan Temple, in addition to the general "Diamond Sutra", "Huayan Sutra", "Forty-two Chapters Sutra" and other traditional Buddhist classics, there are also ten volumes of "Huayan Sutra Sui Pinzan" written by Emperor Daozong; Zhongjing Bao'en Missionary Temple on Yuantong Dharma Master Fa Wu wrote five volumes of "Shi Mahayan on Praise Xuanshu", three volumes of "Branch", and one volume of "Great Branch"; Master Shouzhen of Pure Wisdom of Guiyi Temple in Yanjing wrote ten volumes of "Tongzan Shu", three volumes of "Branch", one volume of "Great Branch" and so on.

In addition, there are 14 volumes of "Detailed Collection of Four-point Laws, Deleting Complicated and Supplementing Que's Banknotes" written by Cheng Yuan, the national teacher of Yanjing Fengfu Temple; Sixiao wrote one volume each of the Five Precepts of Near-Dwelling, the Eight Precepts of Near-Dwelling, and the Ritual of Self-Oath and Ordination, three volumes of the Bodhicitta Precepts, and four volumes of the Mahayana Confession; There are all the scriptures of "Prajna Rational Points", "Repaying Grace and Offering Pots", and "Eight Great Bodhisattva Mandalas".

Xiao Ming is not interested in Buddhism, he has only read some Buddhist classic annotations on Ding Jianpeng's computer, he knows that these things are very valuable, but they are always religious escapism, but such a vast collection of scriptures is not much compared to the priceless treasures in the Dunhuang scripture cave, since it is wealth, Xiao Ming will naturally not let go.

So he ordered all the books in it to be removed, except for the shelves, but also to turn over the cabinets, many rare books of silk yarn and sheepskin scriptures are the scriptures from the Western Regions and Tianzhu, all of which have become Xiao Ming's trophies, and this is also one of his next tricks to deal with Kailong Temple.

When Xiao Ming came out, he saw the refugees huddled in the corner, frowned, and sent someone to call Xiao Gan, ordering him to take measures to take measures to contain the homeless refugees, and arrange work and food together with the soldiers who were working as coolie laborers outside, otherwise these people would be frozen and starved to death before the winter passed.

He rushed back to screen and scavenge all kinds of Buddhist classics, in fact, in addition to a large number of Buddhist classics, Baoshan Temple also has a lot of biographies, various monks' travels, customs and customs in the Western Regions and Liao, famous products in various places, and the most important thing is that I don't know that the monk wrote the "World Gold and Stone Minerals Map Cloth Things" which is equivalent to a mineral resources report of the land of Liao!

Xiao Ming's eyes lit up when he saw this! If he didn't have to be annoyed to death by the room full of Buddhist books, this kind of thing is of great use to Xiao Ming, honest and unkind, of course, he has it for himself, and he has no time to screen the rest, he thought of Monk Jiming.

The next day, Xiao Ming brought people to Kailong Temple, to support the master of Xian Yan has been on the road, I heard that he first went to the Spring Bowl Conference, and then went to Yingzhou, it is estimated that he will not come back for a while and a half, and it is Xian Yan's younger brother Xian Xie who stayed behind, and I heard that the left envoy, the general Xiao Ming came, and hurriedly went out to greet him.

Xiao Ming said: "I recently got a large number of Buddhist classics atlas documents, now the war has just stopped, lest the classics be lost, but it is not good to collect, so I thought of Kailong Temple, I heard that there is a national teacher palace in Kailong Temple, just can collect these classics, I don't know if willing?" ”

Xian explained: "Lord Xiao is compassionate, but also the savior of my Buddhist family, Kailong Temple can collect Buddhist classics is a supreme honor, but the opening of the national teacher's palace in addition to the national teacher himself, must also have the authorization of the king of Lanling."

Xiao Ming said: "Oh, Lord Xiao Fengxian, I will go and inform him, now I am also busy with official business, now I will open the palace, move the collection of books into it, and then say, the national teacher is a Buddhist family, there should be no objection to this, besides, you Kailong Temple got so many doctrinal classics for no reason, didn't it also increase its popularity?" ”

Xian explained: "What Lord Xiao said is, but the general scriptures and classics, we have the scripture building of Kailong Temple itself, and there is no need to collect other types of books, this still needs to be screened."

Xiao Ming said: "This is simple, you can screen it, come on!" Bring in all the scriptures! ”

The soldiers under his command moved in several large boxes of books, of course, there are some precious classics Xiao Ming himself knows, it is honestly and unceremoniously kept by himself, of course, he thinks it is not important to move in, but he is not sure, Xianjie needs to be screened, so let him screen it.

And Xian Xie took the initiative to propose that there are not many masters with high Buddhist attainments in Kailong Temple at the moment, so the guest monks can participate, he is talking about Master Jiming, Xiao Ming of course has no opinion, so everyone moved the books into the main hall, and more than a dozen old monks began to flip the books together.

When they saw that these classics were basically very precious books, everyone was also very surprised, and some people recognized that many Buddhist classics were treasured by Baoshan Temple, how could they fall into the hands of this Lord Xiao? But he didn't dare to ask Xiao Ming questions, so he had to turn the book with his head bored.

Master Jiming's translation work has basically come to an end, and he can't help but be surprised to see so many Buddhist classics, but Xiao Ming gave him a task, that is, to pick out some share capital and rare books, and he is ready to let Jiming bring it back to the Great Song Dynasty, which can be regarded as his Xiao Ming's contribution to the development of Buddhism in the Central Plains.

Regardless of Xiao Ming's development of the Buddhist cultural undertakings of the Great Song Dynasty, after Xiao Ming opened the palace of the national teacher, what he found was enough to surprise him, it turned out that Bana Tie Ji actually collected the original engravings of the Tripitaka engraved by the emperor of Daozong of the Great Liao State when Yelu Hongji was in the palace, and the power of the whole country was more than 113,000 pieces in total, almost filling the collection room of the entire palace!

This kind of engraving printing of the Tripitaka is the pinnacle of the development of Chinese Buddhism at that time, and later the original and version spread to the Fusang country, and then flowed back to the Central Plains, is the best cultural relics to study the development of Buddhism and printing technology at that time, but Xiao Ming scoffed at this, for no other reason, the current Song Dynasty, the publishing and printing has long applied the movable type printing technology invented by Bi Sheng, and this kind of stereotyped carving, time-consuming and labor-intensive, the cost is too high, and it has long entered the ranks of elimination.

However, Xiao Ming looked at the engravings, but he was also amazed, the craftsmanship of ancient Chinese craftsmen is really not to say, the text is just enough, especially the pictures on it, all kinds of Buddhist legends, statues and single illustrations, not only beautiful shapes, smooth lines, it is really a beautiful work of art, Xiao Ming can't help but be greedy.

Xiao Ming wandered around the palace, the palace of Bana Tie is basically a three-entry and exit palace, although the system is elegant, but the interior is very simple, in addition to the worship hall, there are storage rooms, and rest rooms, the monks of Kailong Temple are busy cleaning the storage room and cleaning the main hall, these books seem to be temporarily placed on the main hall.

Xiao Ming pretended to be nothing, in fact, he was trying to figure out how to take those engravings as his own, he sat on the throne of the national teacher, put his hands on the armrests on both sides, and suddenly found that the lion's head on the armrest of his right hand could move, so he flicked his hand, and suddenly he raised his buttocks to the bottom, and it seemed that there was a mechanism to remove the baffle of the seat.

Xiao Ming was surprised in his heart, but he remained silent on the surface, stood up and blocked the sight of others with his robe, and looked under the seat, where there was indeed a dark grid, just in it, the upper baffle was controlled by the mechanism, and now the baffle was no longer there, revealing the dark grid below, and there was a wooden box in the dark grid!

Xiao Ming saw that no one was paying attention to him left and right, so he copied the wooden box in his hand, and then relied on the cover of the robe to put the wooden box into his arms, and there was nothing else in the dark grid, Xiao Ming restored the mechanism, and his heart was pounding, "Hehe! I don't know what the big secret is! It seems that the Great Liao National Teacher also has something unsightly! ”