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Chapter 75 Burning Books

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Seeing that Chen De did not refuse the entrusting Gu's responsibilities, Li Yu nodded comfortably and smiled at Li Tianhe: "Don't you want to hate the old master Gu found for you? General Chen is both civil and military, and will be your teacher in the future. Come on, I will give General Chen a ceremony to apprentice him."

Although Li Yu was praised by Li Tianhe, he knew that once he followed Chen De and left, he might never meet with Li Yu again, so he bit his lip and leaned over and bowed down. Queen Zhou was his aunt and stepmother, sobbing in a low voice, thinking that if his sister hadn't been worried about this child, she would never have sent him into the palace when she was seriously ill. She had been waiting for Tianhe as if she had been out of her own, and she did not want to be a child who had never suffered any hardships when her country was destroyed and her family had to follow others to bear the drift alone.

After performing the ceremony of apprenticeship, Li Yu caressed Li Tianhe's head lovingly and said to Chen De: "Chen Qing is a lonely talent and knowledgeable person."

Chen De nodded, pondered for a while, and said, "Teach the little prince, De must do his best. I am a military position and there are very few books in the palace. I heard that Your Majesty Jianye's study is the most collection of books in the world. I especially ask Your Majesty to go to the study to select a batch of books and pictures and take them back to the palace."

Li Yu was quite pleased to see that he was loyal to the matter, so he immediately ordered the eunuch to lead Chen De to the study to select books. He and Zhou Hou still stayed in the hall to talk to Li Tianhe. From the royal family to the people, the parents' feelings for their children were the same. Once they parted, they might never have time to meet, and they were repeatedly advised to say how to finish it.

As Chen De expected, although Huang Wen was promoted to the position of protecting the ritual, because of the abundant books and cultural relics in Jianye's study, it is difficult to find another person to take over her in the short term.

The eunuch went to Huang Wentong to follow Chen De's intention to pick up books and left. Huang Wen also instructed the palace maids who accompanied her to go to the outside to collect daily necessities, and the two hugged each other. When they looked up, the female Shi's eyes were already red and swollen, and she choked and said, "I heard last night that Song Jun broke the city and was worried about the general's safety and panic."

Chen De smiled and said, "I'm fine, don't worry, your husband's life is very strong." He reached out and held Huang Wen's slender waist, put her in front of him, and looked at her face carefully. After not seeing her for many days, she felt relieved again, and felt pity in her heart.

Huang Wen blushed and whispered: "If you really have an accident, I can only follow you underground." She stood up from Chen Dehuai and turned to face the bookshelf.

Chen De resisted the urge to hold the beauty into his arms and whispered: "Your Majesty has decided to surrender to the Song people. He will set off for Bianliang soon. There will be chaos in the city these days. I plan to take you out of the palace while the chaos is in chaos."

Huang Wen said "ah", covered her small mouth with a slender hand, and a surprise look appeared in her eyes. She slightly dotted her head and then said softly: "Then I'll wait for you here."

Chen De nodded slightly, and the two held hands and looked at each other. After a while, they woke up and found out that there was something to choose books. Chen De could just recite some ancient poems, and relied on Huang Wen to select some classics at this time and put them in the book bag. Chen De comfortably leaned against the study desk and admired her slim back.

Li Tianhe often goes in and out of the ban, and often goes to Jianye’s study to search for books. Therefore, Huang Wen is quite familiar with Li Tianhe’s academic progress, so he selected a batch of books soon.

While picking books, she stroked the slightly yellowed pages with her hands, and sighed: "Take more out, they are rare rare books in the world. I was sent to this palace at the age of ten. These books and albums accompany me through many lonely days, but Your Majesty wants me to burn them all before the Song people enter the city. I feel really sad."

Chen De shook his head and sighed, "Your Majesty is willing to give up the country to the people of Song, but he is still reluctant to give up these books, cultural relics, which is really a pity." He looked up at the vast collection of books and pictures, and felt quite a pity.

Seeing that he was sighing, Huang Wen thoughts flashed in her mind, and looked around and saw no one around. Looking at Chen De, she whispered: "I really can't bear to burn them with my own hands. It's better for me to sort out the precious calligraphy and painting books and send them to your mansion in the name of the little prince's study. You can collect them well and wait until the world is peaceful, and then let them return to the world."

Seeing that she looked at these books with a look of nostalgia, it was also a very cruel thing to try to destroy the things she loved most in her life, Chen De nodded and said, "Anyway, this is not a big deal. As long as you think it's good, I will let the guards accept these books at the gate of the palace."

After hearing Chen De's agreement, Huang Wen's smile bloomed and she happily walked around the house for three consecutive times, but she almost jumped up. When Chen De was with her, she felt that this woman was quiet and beautiful, but she had never seen such a lively side.

The two of them were entangled for a long time before they parted.

When they returned to the back hall, Li Yu and his wife, together with Li Tian and Jun, had their eyes red and swollen, and they all seemed to have cried.

Chen De needed a lot of books to write. Huang Baoyi, who had already entrusted the study to manage the study, sent someone to organize it, pack it up, and sent it to the mansion by the eunuchs in the palace to tomorrow night. He bid farewell to the emperor and led Li Tianhe to the mansion in a sedan chair. All the guards saw him bringing a child back, and no one asked more questions.

On the afternoon of that day, Xu Xian returned from the Song camp and reported to Cao Bin that Li Yu led all officials to surrender after three days. At this time, the Prime Minister's Office came to report that Chen Qiao was wearing court uniforms and actually hanged himself in the office. The clerk of the office was afraid of taking responsibility, so he had seized Chen Qiao's body and refused to take back his family.

These two things caused Li Yu to be quite a blow. The next day, he sat in the study all day, feeling depressed, and even ignored the matter of how to deal with Chen Qiao's body when the Prime Minister's Office asked for instructions on how to deal with Chen Qiao's body. The water and rice were not mixed all day long, and the Zhou Hou personally presented the imperial meal, but there was no relief. Many eunuchs and palace maids dared not persuade him. At night, he suddenly cried for several hours and almost fainted. He ordered the kitchen to drink strong wine and was drunk.

When he woke up the next day, Li Yu felt a split headache. He was extremely depressed and walked around shakingly. He actually came to the study according to his usual relaxation habits. Baoyi Huang Wen was taking several palace maids to sort out the booklets. Seeing Li Yu coming in drunkenly, he was so scared that he immediately lay on the ground to pay his respects. Li Yu waved his hand and asked them to wait outside the hall.

Only in this study and in the country of books, Li Yu felt that he was a real emperor. The vast books recorded the civil and military methods since the founding of China, which was the source of his life. He was about to be no longer owned by Li, just like the misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River. Looking at the densely packed books, he felt a little regretful. If he could focus more on military affairs and governing the country, his ancestors might not have fallen so much.

Thinking of this, he picked up a lit candle and gently lit a yellow silk book. The flames were beating and burning very quickly.

Almost instantly, the rare yellow silk books on half of the bookshelf burned.

"The way of civil and military affairs is gone today!" Li Yu felt a little more happy in his heartache, "Zhao, you have occupied the country of orphans, but you, as well as your descendants, will never have the chance to get these ways of civil and military affairs." Thinking of this, under the mixed feelings of sorrow and joy, I couldn't help laughing wildly: "Hahaha" Regardless of the bookshelf and some medieval bamboo slips, they were also ignited, burning violently with the sound of beating and peeling, but they danced in the study, "The way of civil and military affairs is gone today. Hahaha, did you miss the orphans or you miss it!"

Huang Wen and the palace maid heard the sound inside the wrong one, and vaguely saw flames in the study. They were all scared. While calling eunuchs to put out the fire, they pulled and dragged Li Yu into the study.

The sandalwood bookshelf and the strange fragrance emitted by the burning of various ancient books filled the entire palace. Li Yu refused to go away and forbid everyone to put out the fire, but took.../.#With a deep feeling, the entire Jianye study turned into ashes little by little.

Zhou Hou rushed over and accompanied Li Yu in silence to watch the study room finally turned into gray embers. She was not born to persuade Li Yu, who looked painful because she knew that what the fire burned was the beauty of the past.

At night, the east wind slowly blew away the smoke and dust during the day. Captain Li Si received forty boxes of books and picture albums given to Chen De, the governor of Wuchang Army, at the entrance of the palace.

./.#This batch of books and picture albums include many famous paintings of King Zhong, including "The Landscape of the Spring and Summer of Jiangxiang", "Picking Melons on the Mountain Travel", "The King of the Foreign tents", "Lu Sidao Shuo's Travel", "The Customs of the Monthly Orders", "The Picture of the Women in the Snow Clothing of the Two Lands", "The Cat", etc. There are "The Song of the Niang Shang and Feather Clothes" that Li Yu and the Zhou Dynasty reasonably collected and completed, as well as many ancient music scores, documents, pictures, calligraphy and paintings, a total of more than 2,000 volumes.

These things were not sent back to Chen's mansion, but were piled up in half of the tunnels that were originally excavated into the palace according to Chen De's instructions. In order to prevent the accumulated water seeping after the rain from damaging these priceless treasures, Chen De asked Li Si to backfill the tunnel with greystone and digging soil overnight, so that there was no gap in the tunnel. Finally, he used a stone mill to compact the ground at the entrance. Li Si led the guards until the next afternoon before completion.

In the past two days, the situation in the city has become increasingly chaotic. If the Song army had not been outside the city, Jinling would have fled to become an empty city, and the morale of the various battalions was floating. Only Heiyun had received favors from the world, and the entire army was still intact and was still insisting on the defense of the palace city. However, according to Chen De's estimate, the Song army would have room to use when entering the city to change defense. At that time, he would be very sure to lead the personal guards to break in through the side door.

On the third day, Li Yu wore a white hat, bare feet, exposed his upper body, carried a thorn, and held the Tang Kingdom Yulei in both hands. He led the 45 people including Yin Chongyi, Xu Xuan, Zhang Bo, and others to surrender. Cao Bin ordered Li Yu to return to the palace to pack his luggage, and boarded the ship to Kaifeng two days later, and personally apologized to Emperor Song Zhao Kuangyin.

The Song army immediately advanced to Jinling.

Note: Every time in war, the south is always stable than the north, and it becomes the concentration of cultural relics collections. The unification of the world often conquers the south, and the war has led to a huge cultural catastrophe. The biggest destruction caused by this in history was two times, one was Emperor Yuan of Liang burning books, and the other was Li Yu burning books. Countless cultural relics and classics no longer reappear, which is undoubtedly the tragedy of my Chinese civilization. Here is a quote from a true story that is ironic:

Many of the book "Jin Louzi" written by Xiao Yi, Emperor Yuan of Liang of the Southern Dynasty, were written on the basis of collecting the thoughts of famous scholars and famous scholars of the Six Dynasties and adding Xiao Yi's own explanation. It was extremely precious and was searched by Li Yu and collected in Jianye's study. For this reason, he was mixed with emotion and wrote "Preface to the Entries of the Jin Louzi". The preface said: Emperor Yuan of Liang said: Wang Zhongxuan was in Jingzhou and wrote dozens of books. Jingzhou was ruined, so he burned all his books. Now there is one article. All well-known people valued it. He saw a tiger with a hair.

Knowing that his spots were found. Later, the Western Wei Dynasty destroyed Jiangling, and the emperor also burned his books, saying: The way of literature and military affairs has been tonight. He Jingzhou ruined the two words of burning books, and the same order. The poem lamented it: "Toothpicks wrapped in red gauze, and Wang Can's calligraphy was burned together with fire. If the ancestor dragon left his face, the remaining poem would be obtained today." Volume 8 of "Complete Tang Poetry", published by Zhonghua Book Company in 1960. "Complete Tang Poetry" was added later: "The small slip of the maple window says, this poem is kept in the inner treasury, and today it is mistakenly written in the Jin Dynasty. Hui Temple was wiped out, and later it was like a prophecy and entered into gold."

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