?Zhouxue, Library, Kong Yingda looked at the rows of endless bookshelves behind the borrowing office, and didn't know how to describe his mood. So many books must have been collected by spending a lot of manpower and material resources.

Each bookshelves has a person as high as his hand, and the books are densely packed with books. Those books are a little different from those familiar to Kong Yingda. He has read books since he was a child and the books he read are all in one volume, but the books he sees now are indeed "books".

"What book do you want to look for?"

"Uh, let's take a look at the book list..."

When facing the inquiry from the "borrower" of the borrowing office, Kong Yingda was a little unhappy. His main purpose today was not to read books, but to see what the library that Xiao Yu praised for looked like.

Now it seems that it is indeed very strong. Kong Yingda thinks that if the books on the bookshelf are all real, the library's collection is really not simple. If you want to read books, the procedures are also a bit special: they are handled uniformly in the borrowing office.

The borrowing room was a long counter, with more than a dozen men wearing uniform colors sitting inside, for the "borrowing clerk", and there was a sign on the chest with the name written on it.

Those who want to borrow books can get a book list with a catalog of all the books in this branch. Of course, in order to facilitate visitors to check, there is a bulletin board on the wall opposite the borrowing office, and a book list with huge fonts is posted for everyone to view.

After confirming it, I told the borrower the relevant title and number of volumes. After a moment, someone brought the book from the bookshelf, which didn't take long.

Books can only be read in the reading room next to them. If you want to borrow books, you have to apply for a loan card, and you have to be a student of the state. In Huangzhou Prefecture Library, there are four borrowing offices, and the corresponding books are divided into "Classics, History, Science, and Collection".

Each borrowing office collects books under relevant names, and those who want to read them will receive the corresponding borrowing office to go through the "procedures".

The Department of Sutra contains scriptures and related works, including Books, Poetry, Etiquette, Spring and Autumn, Filial Piety, General Meaning of the Five Classics, Four Books, Music, Primary School, etc.

The Department of History includes historical books, including official history, chronicles, miscellaneous history, various history, geography, official, political books, catalogs, history reviews, etc. Among them, official history includes historical books such as "Records of the Grand Historian", "Book of Han", and "Book of the Later Han".

The Zidian contains works and books from various schools of thought, including Confucianism, military, legalism, farmer, medical, astronomical algorithm, art, genealogy, miscellaneous, etc.

The collection department contains a collection of poems, lyrics, and special collections, including Chu Ci, separate collections, collections, and poetry reviews.

Kong Yingda is now at the borrowing place of the "Sutra Department". When he carefully looked at the book list, he found that there were a wide variety of books he had read since childhood, which was comparable to the collections of many aristocratic families.

Although there are more than a dozen borrowers in the borrowing office who can receive the same visitors at the same time, now there are people in front of the counter, and the number of people waiting for borrowing books behind Kong Yingda is gradually increasing. Although no one complains, he dare not delay for too long.

"Laozhu, Gongye Chang's fifth place in the Analects of Confucius."

The borrower repeated the same way to confirm, then took out a pair of wooden signs and gave them to Kong Yingda in one piece: "Mr. Please wait at the counter over there."

The book was brought quickly, and the borrower handed the book to Kong Yingda and whispered: "Mr. Please go to the reading room to read the book. When you leave, you must return the book. Remember not to make noise. If you have any needs or questions, there is a bookkeeper who can help solve it."

Kong Yingda nodded and walked in with the book, turning into the reading room next door, but saw that it was almost full, with men of different ages all at their desks reading books. There was almost no other sound in the huge reading room except for the sound of flipping through books.

Just as he was looking for a vacant seat, a young man stepped forward and guided Kong Yingda to a vacant seat, one by one, and a sign was placed on the desk, with the words "Ding, Siwu".

"Mr. Please remember this book number so as not to find the location after you come back from changing clothes."

Kong Yingda whispered thanks. After the man left gently, he looked up and found a young man in the same uniform dress in the reading room, sitting quietly on the Hu bed beside the wall. He thought he was the "school boy" he had just borrowed the "school boy" he said.

It's morning, and the reading room has good lighting. The light in every location is good. There are a few strange small pillars in the room, with glass cups at the end, but I don't know what it is for. Kong Yingda wondered if it was the "eternal light" mentioned by Xiao Yu.

‘I think it’s time to light the lamp until night. Could it be that the glass at the end of the pillar is the lamp oil?’

Kong Yingda thought so, and then opened the book in his hand. "The Analects of Confucius" is very familiar to him, his ancestors, and I don't know how many times he read "Gongye Chang No. 5". The reason why he read it was to see the quality of the book.

This kind of thread-bound book has the title and the name of the book on the "book". It is obvious at a glance, but Kong Yingda feels that since it is a "book", it also has "volume" written on it, it looks a bit awkward.

But this form of books is indeed much easier to read. The cover of the book contains the title and volume name, and then it is opened from right to left, and the text is from top to bottom, from right to left, and there is nothing awkward.

The key is that there is content on both sides of each page, and the quality of the paper is good, the handwriting on it is clear, and the handwriting on both sides of the front and back will not be seen on the other side. In this way, there will be a lot of content in a book.

After reading it carefully, Kong Yingda found that there were no mistakes in the book, and there were no typos and other words, which means that the book is really good.

What interested him was that the footer of each page of the book was marked with a page number, and the so-called "header" was a small line of words "published in the Zhengtong Five Years".

Now is the sixth year of the orthodox period of Zhou State, which means that this book was published last year, but the two words that Kong Yingda is concerned about represent the meaning: this book is not a handwritten copy, but is "published".

What is publishing?

Kong Yingda was puzzled and flipped through the book, remembering the "preface" in front, and then turned to the front again and looked carefully. The preface mainly explained the basic content of the book, compiled the intention, and wrote the book process.

"Proofreading books, Wu Xing Zhanghua...Study Society published in July of the fifth year of Zhengtong..."

Study Society and publishing, these two words attracted Kong Yingda's attention. He knew that this book must have been "published" by a bookstore called "Study Society", so if you want to solve your doubts, you have to find this study society.

Then he found a line of small characters: Study Society, Xiyang City, Huangzhou, the east end of the south city, No. 23, the south side of Shusi Street.

‘There are all addresses? Anything like this is OK?!’

Kong Yingda only felt that he could not describe his mood at this moment in words. He had never seen such a blatant "advertising" in the book, but it was also true that his curiosity became increasingly uncontrollable.
Chapter completed!