"There must be something strange?" Yu Wenwen recalled this sentence. His first reaction was a joke in later generations, but he soon got into the state and began to think about it. Yang Ji was different from him. According to the perspective of this era, he was indeed a 'scholar'.

In the Ming Dynasty, scholars had to take the imperial examinations if they wanted to make a name for themselves. They were studying how to make various articles on the eight-legged essays every day. According to the instructions, scholars should only be interested in eight-legged essays, but Yang Ji seemed to be an exception.

Read history books all day long, what do you want to do? Learn from experience and rebel?

Of course it was not a rebellion. The country was in turmoil in the late Ming Dynasty, and many people were drunk and dreaming, but many people wanted to share the worries of the country. Yang Ji was one of them. Therefore, Yuwen Wen could understand this feeling of studying history books hard and trying to find a way to save the country in the old papers.

"Tell me, what do you think?"

"King, this is just the only opinion of the lower officials. Whether it is right or wrong, the king has to think about it carefully."

"You go around, just go around, and you can go around again and you won't talk!"

"Ahem, can the king remember Di Wuxiang's incident?"

"Di Wuxiang?" Yuwen Wen originally thought that Yang Ji was talking about Di Renjie of the Tang Dynasty, but when he thought that the word "Wuxiang" seemed to be a posthumous title. Since there is "Wu", he should be a military minister. A military minister named Di and can still have a posthumous title, that is...

"Are you saying that Di Wuxiang was slandered and died of fear?"

“That’s right.”

Yang Ji nodded and said yes, starting to talk about the events during the Northern Song Dynasty.

Di Qing, whose courtesy name was Hanchen, had a tattoo on his face and was called "General Mian Nie". He was a famous general in the early Northern Song Dynasty. Because the court defended military generals as if they were guarding against thieves, Di Qing was highly suspicious. Later, he was involved in the whirlpool of political struggle and offended those who could not be provoked.

Various false accusations came one after another, such as Di Qing's guardian's head growing on his head, Di Qing's house suddenly shining, etc., and Di Qing was demoted and died of fear not long after.

Of course Yuwen Wen knew what Di Qing had happened, so he probably heard what Yang Ji meant: "Are you saying that Liu Xuan's forged books might have been framed?"

"King, can you tell what book "Lianshan Yi" presented by Liu Xuan?"

"I don't know, but since there is the word "Yi", I think it is related to Zhou Yi?"

"However, this book has some background..."

Yang Ji had some of his own "simple opinions" about Liu Xuan's forgery of books. It is rare to meet an extremely suitable person to talk to, so he naturally had to talk a lot.

According to historical books, there are more than 100 volumes of "Lianshan Yi" and "Historical Records of Lu". If you estimate the number of words per volume, there are more than 900,000 words. What is this concept?

The Analects of Confucius is only more than 10,000 words. Liu Xuanxian's book is worth ninety Analects of Confucius in terms of the number of words. Not to mention that books of this scale are temporarily edited to cheat rewards, it will take a long time to copy other books together.

Not to mention that while pieced together, you also have to "molish" and "integrate" the contents of different writing styles, otherwise others will know that there is something wrong at a glance.

First, there is "Lianshan Yi", the so-called "Yi" is a book of divination. This kind of book is not done by just writing a temporary script. The divination technique must be systematic and comprehensive. The writing is ancient and profound. It must be able to make it up from beginning to end, and it is difficult to fabricate it out of thin air in a short time.

The so-called "Lianshan" was already in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The "Shui Jing Notes" written by Li Daoyuan of the Northern Dynasties quoted the content of "Lianshan". Li Daoyuan's era was about fifty or sixty years.

Emperor Yuan of Liang, Xiao Yi, who died more than 30 years ago, had dozens of volumes of "Lianshan" in his hand, which shows that in the late Southern and Northern Dynasties and the early Sui Dynasty, "Lianshan" or "Lianshan Yi" should have been popular in the world.

Liu Xuan claimed that he was not very good at "The Book of Changes", so why did he dare to forge the Book of Yixue? Liu Xuan is a famous scholar of classics. Even if he wanted to fake it, he should fake it in the field he was good at. This is why he is more "special". Why did he choose Yixue, which he is not good at?

Secondly, the title of "Records of the Grand Historian of Lu" presented by Liu Xuan should be the historical books of Lu State. "Spring and Autumn Annals" and "Zuo Zhuan" are well-known classics that are well-known to scholars, based on the national history of Lu State. How dare Liu Xuan blatantly fake it out of thin air?

The officials in charge of the "acceptance" books in the imperial court should be a well-educated person. Whether the books presented by Liu Xuan only need to compare them with "Spring and Autumn Annals" and "Zuo Zhuan" to know. Why do you need to "suddenly realize it" after being reported to someone later?

Third, when Liu Xuan was young, he studied at Liu Zhihai's family, which had many ancient books. It is very likely that he had seen ancient books that had never been circulated, which was somewhat different from the historical materials passed down in the world.

Therefore, the "Lianshan Yi" and "Lu Grand Historian" presented by Liu Xuan are probably not forged, but are supplemented based on the classics and historical materials he has read and added them based on the well-known versions.

"The king started a study club and published countless books. You should know that if ancient books, especially ancient books in the pre-Qin period, would have to be passed down to this day, there would inevitably be many versions, right?"

Yuwen Wen nodded when he heard this. There are indeed many versions of ancient books of this era, especially the ancient books of the pre-Qin period, which are all bamboo books. They are prone to decay and scattered over time and require manual copying.

Mistakes are inevitable, and different people copy the errors. After hundreds of years, it is hard to say who has the book in his hand that is "original and authentic".

Not to mention that Qin Shihuang burned books and buried scholars, many ancient books of pre-Qin disappeared from the people, but there were official books. However, the King of Chu burned the Qin Palace with fire, and many books were buried in the sea of ​​fire, and only a little remains in the hands of folk collectors.

This will lead to a problem: the original pre-Qin ancient books are gone. If there are books passed down from the people and the contents of the books in the hands of each collector are different, then who is the "authentic"?

It can only be verified by famous scholars of classics, and the verification conclusions of each era will be different. Perhaps a certain pre-Qin ancient book was verified as a real book in the Han Dynasty, and in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, it was verified as a "fake book".

When Yuwen Wen thought of this, he vaguely concluded in his heart: "So what do you mean?"

"King, perhaps Liu Xuan's "Lianshan Yi" or "Lu Grand Historian" is somewhat different from the recognized version of the content, but he did not make a falsification, but added it based on the ancient books and historical materials he had read."

"The contents of different versions of books are different. You can sit down and quote the classics and carefully examine them and convince people with reason. This was originally just an academic issue, but someone made a big fuss and splashed sewage, saying that Liu Xuan made fake books and cheated of rewards!"

Worried that Yuwen Wen's mind had not turned around, Yang Ji continued to explain: "The second Liu can do academic research but can't be a human being. They are too enthusiastic about their scholarly business. They offend people during academic debates but do not know that they are born in poor families. It is normal for them to be jealous of their children from aristocratic families. The second Liu is arrogant and has become angry with the public."

"The so-called "multiple words make gold" is said to make money. Di Wuxiang slandered all the censors and could not argue. Even if the Emperor Song was willing to protect him, he could do nothing. Emperor Sui Yang Jian was not a famous scholar of classics and did not know the twists and turns in ancient books. Seeing the great scholars rising up and attacking him, the three of them naturally became tigers and thought that Liu Xuan's morality was corrupt."

"The king, the trees are beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy them. The sharpness is revealed, and people will correct them. The two Lius are talented but cannot deal with people. Therefore, their career is bumpy and their life is terrible."

"The officials thought that Liu Xuanxian's "Lianshan Yi" and "Lu Grand Historian" should not mean deception and rewards. Of course, this is a brief opinion of the officials. If it is right or wrong, please let the king know the truth."

Yuwen Wen did not take the bait, and resisted the urge to sarcastically, and said, "Mingjian? You haven't finished speaking yet, continue."

"Ahem, the king still remembers Kong Yingda's story?"

Yuwen Wen sneered: "Liu Shiyuan's student Kong Yingda, a great scholar in the early Tang Dynasty, made his debut at a young age in the Sui Dynasty, which made his seniors look dull. Some even sent assassins to assassinate him several times. Thanks to Yang Su's protection, nothing happened."

Speaking of this, he began to play with the self-defense dagger: "Haha, these people can't do anything? They can't play with knowledge, so they use secret tricks to frame Liu Xuan to make fake books and cheat rewards, and slander the other party's moral problems. This is the most vicious way!"

"King, Liu Guangbo has arrived in Huangzhou. This opportunity cannot be missed!" Yang Ji was excited. His views were recognized by Yu Wen Wen, so his enthusiasm instantly exploded.

"I'm not good at writing, how are you?"

"Dare not obeying!"
Chapter completed!