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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 500: The Great Literary Prison

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    It was already night, and Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin still didn't fall asleep. They lit kerosene lamps at their desks and carefully read several books given by Tao Enpei.  I have to say that these rebels are indeed very clever. They wrote books and books, but these books did not advocate the so-called Christianity of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but just discussed Confucianism based on Confucianism. Jiang Guolin and Zhou Qibin could not help but adhere to the basic Confucian scholarly attitude.  Open and read.

    This reading made the two of them unable to help but read on. The more they read, the more cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.  What Jiang Guolin read was "New Annotations on the Complete Collection of Siku". It was not that Jiang Guolin was not interested in the other books, but when he was the editor of the Hanlin Academy, he highly praised "The Complete Collection of Siku". He was curious about what these rebels were doing.  How dare you write a new annotation on Sikuquanshu?

    Turning to the home page, the book begins with the preface to the general outline, summarizing the origin of the Complete Collection of Four Repositories. The Complete Collection of Four Repositories was compiled under the auspices of Emperor Qianlong by more than 360 senior officials and scholars, including Ji Xiaolan, and copied by more than 3,800 people.  , which took thirteen years to compile.  The series of books is divided into four parts: Jing, Shi, Zi and Ji, hence the name Siku.  There are more than 3,500 kinds of books, 79,000 volumes, 36,000 volumes, and about 800 million words. It basically covers all books in ancient China, so it is called "Quanshu".  At that time, Emperor Qianlong ordered seven volumes of the "Sikuquanshu" to be hand-copied and ordered to be hidden throughout the country.  The four parts copied first are stored in the Wenyuan Pavilion of the Forbidden City, the Wensu Pavilion of Shenyang, Liaoning, the Wenyuan Pavilion of the Old Summer Palace, and the Wenjin Pavilion of Chengde, Hebei. These are the so-called "Four North Pavilions".  The three parts that were copied later were stored in Yangzhou Wenhui Pavilion, Zhenjiang Wenzong Pavilion and Hangzhou Wenlan Pavilion. These are the so-called "Southern Three Pavilions".

    The book reads: "The books hidden in Nansan Pavilion have been acquired by my heavenly kingdom one after another. All the four libraries of Nansan Pavilion are all hidden in the Wuxi Library. Not a page or a word has been damaged, and they are all properly preserved"  Seeing this, Jiang Guolin breathed a sigh of relief.  I secretly thought that it was a good thing that these rebels still respected the books that the forefathers worked so hard to compile and did not damage them. It seemed that these rebels were not useless.

    Jiang Guolin felt that something was not right as he read on, "This book was compiled during the Qianlong period of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. When Qianlong first issued an edict, he gnashed his teeth in the unofficial history of the Ming Dynasty. Later, the Siku Library discussed it. People in the Wei, Song and Liao Dynasties said that in the Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties,  The people of the Ming Dynasty spoke of their origins, and their arguments were particularly fallacious. Everything was planned to be destroyedAfter Longqing, as for the late Ming Dynasty, the generals and ministers presented their works. There are many survivors. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Huang Daozhou, Zhang Huangyan, Yuan Jixian,  The works of Qian Sule, Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, and Sun Qifeng were all banned. Later, the works of famous writers had to be included, and the offending words and sentences had to be changed before they could be destroyed. From time to time, there were famous writers in Shanghai  When Yu Gongsong was in his early years, he had tens of millions of books in his home, including many ancient books from before the Ming and Qing Dynasties. After reading this book, Xiao Hong, Queen of the West of the Kingdom of Heaven, found that there were many errors in it. She ordered the Imperial Palace to recruit 300 scribes from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.  Twenty-one people, together with the Yu family, proofread the Sikuquanshu of the Manchu and Qing dynasties. Whenever the Manchus tampered with, deleted or added ancient books, they are listed in this book to read the annotations of the Sikuquanshu to prevent future generations.  It was mistaken by the so-called complete book edited by the Qing Dynasty!"

    Seeing this, Jiang Guolin began to sweat on his forehead. The Sikuquanshu, which he has always regarded as a classic handed down from ancient times, is wrong?  This is impossible!  Jiang Guolin gritted his teeth and began to look down, hoping to find out the mistakes and omissions of these rebels so that he could feel at ease.

    At first, Jiang Guolin was surprised that such a huge set of volumes as Siku Quanshu was only annotated in this one volume. It turned out that this book was just annotations and corrections for places that were deleted, tampered with, not included, and erroneous by the Manchus.  If the ancient books are the same, they will not be listed again.

    This book is divided into four parts: unrecorded, deleted, added, tampered, and erroneous. The first part lists the works of famous writers that have not been included in Sikuquanshu. The book says: "The Yu family has a lot of ancient books in the collection, and Sikuquanshu  There are more than 3,000 volumes of books that have not been included in it. The rest of the books that have not been included are books that hinder the rule of the Qing Dynasty. It is thought that the Manchu Qing Dynasty insulted the sages in order to control the Han people.  Out of sadness and indignation, I specifically listed the following books that have not been included in the Siku" Afterwards, the titles, author names and sources of more than 3,000 books were densely listed.  At the end of this part, it is also written: "The above books are only found in the collection of the Yu family. If you don't believe it, you can go to the Yu family library in Songjiang to take a look. In addition, "Ten Diaries of Yangzhou" and "Jiading Massacre Chronicles" are from Fusang.  The books written by the survivors of the Ming Dynasty have not been circulated in the Central Plains, which can also be seen at a glance to show the ferocity of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties in the past! Yu Gong Songnian once said that the collection of books collected by the Yu family is less than one or two of the ancient books that have been circulated in the world, which shows that the four treasuries of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties  There were no less than 3,000 kinds of classical books and as many as 60,000 or 70,000 volumes that had not been collected but were burned or destroyed, which shows that the Sikuquanshu of the Qing Dynasty was actually a collection of four incomplete books. Zuo Gongzongtang, a talented scholar in central Hunan, sighed and said, "The Qing Dynasty people  Compiling the "Sikuquanshu" and the ancient books perished!"

    Seeing this, Jiang Guolin was stunned. Zhou Qibin was looking at the "Manchu Confucian Chronicles" and sweat was pouring down his forehead. Zhou Qibin wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "Yunong, I think of these books now.  When the Taiping Army was attacking Guangzhou, the Inspector-General¡¯s Yamen once confiscated a batch of so-called anti-book. I didn¡¯t pay attention to it at the time, but now I read the title of the book.Only then did I remember that these books seemed to have been circulated among the people for a long time.  "

    Jiang Guolin was stunned for a moment and then asked: "Why didn't you check the seizure at that time?" Zhou Qibin sighed: "At that time, we were busy dealing with the Taiping Army's siege. How could we have the manpower to check the seizure? Now" At this point, Zhou Qibin couldn't continue, Jiang Guolin  He sighed softly and continued: "Now that Taiping has taken over Guangzhou, these books will probably be sold in bookstores with great fanfare."

    Zhou Qibin stopped talking, lowered his head and continued reading. This is how people with a literati background like to read books, especially books that shake his three views. He has to find mistakes and omissions, so that he can feel at ease.

    Jiang Guolin also continued reading. The second part was about deletions and additions. More than 300 talents from Jiangsu and Zhejiang who wrote this new annotation proofread the books in the Siku of Nansan Pavilion, and compared them with folk local chronicles, ancient books collected by the Yu family, etc.  Check it out and list the deleted and added parts of the book one by one.  For example, there are two copies of "Maoting Guest Talk" by Huang Xiu of the Song Dynasty, one is the Song proof version, and the other is the Siku version. They are the same kind of book, but the articles in the two copies are often different. The Siku version has deleted and edited them.  Most of them are Huayi words.

    Another example is the shadow Song version and the Ming movable type version of Song Hongmai's "Rong Zhai Essays" to "Wubi". Three of them are not found in the Qing Dynasty engravings.  The book also gives examples.  One of them is "The Sufferings of Beidi Captives" in the third volume of "Rong Zhai San Bi" - "The Yuan and Wei Dynasties broke through Jiangling and made all the captured scholars and people slaves, regardless of high or low. This is true for the barbarians and common people in the north. Since Jingkang  After that, those who were trapped in the golden captivity, including the emperor's sons, grandsons, and the official families, were all slaves and maidservants, and they were made to work. Each person was given five dou of tares for a month and ordered to pound himself into rice. One dou of eight liters was used for  Seed grain; five handfuls of hemp every year, ordered to seize the fur. In addition, there is no money or silk. If a man cannot seize, he will die all year round. If the captive or mourns him, he will be held in charge of the copper, even if he is in trouble.  Heating, then go out to get firewood and return. Sit next to the fire again. The skin and flesh will fall off, and you will die soon. Only those who like to have crafts, such as doctors and embroidery, usually just sit together on the ground, with mats or reeds as a backdrop.  , meet guests and arrive at the banquet, invite the talented musicians to perform their skills, and the guests disperse in the wine room. Everyone returns to their original state, still sitting around and embroidering: letting them live and die. Treat them like grass. Article 2

    There were many examples in the deletions and additions, most of which were compared and proofread with actual books. Jiang Guolin began to panic. At this time, he couldn't help but think of Songjiang and go to the Yu family's library to see those ancient books with his own eyes.  But when he stood up, he suddenly thought that he was a prisoner. How could he get there?  I couldn't help but sit down depressedly. I wanted to put the book aside and not read it, but in the end I picked it up and read it again.

    The third part is tampering. The book also lists many examples. For example, Yue Fei's famous line in "Man Jiang Hong" "The ambition eats Hulu meat when hungry, laughs and talks about drinking the blood of Huns" was changed to "The ambition eats meat when hungry, and talks about lust when laughing."  "Sprinkle your blood" because "Hulu" and "Xiongnu" were taboos in the Qing Dynasty.  The most ridiculous thing is Xin Qiji's "Yong Yu Le? Eternal Country": "The setting sun, grass and trees, ordinary alleys, the slaves of humanity once lived" was changed to "The Lord of Song Dynasty once lived".  "Jinnu" was originally the nickname of Liu Yu, the founding emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, and had nothing to do with the taboo-violating "Hu", "Rong", "Yi", "Li", etc. However, the slaves were afraid of the abuse of power, so for the sake of safety, they "had a high level of consciousness".  ", note that "the dog always runs first."  Another example is Zhang Xiaoxiang's famous work "Six Prefectures Song Head? Looking across the Changhuai River" describing the occupation of Confucius' hometown in the north by the Jin people: "On Zhusi, the place where string songs are played is also smelly." The word "stinky" was taboo, so it was changed to "withering".  Chen Liang's "Shui Diao Ge Tou? I haven't seen Nan Shijiu for a long time" goes like this: "The capital of Yao, the land of Shun, and the seal of Yu. There should be half a shameful minister Rong in it." "Shameful minister Rong" is a taboo,  Changed to "drawing the carved bow".

    The fourth part contains errors. For example, in the "Book of Jin" in the Siku Book, the number of incorrect words cannot be enumerated, etc. The new annotation corrects these erroneous words one by one. At the end of this part, it reads: "Compilation of the Siku Book"  There were thousands of them at that time, and they were talented people at that time. Why did they make such mistakes as children, omissions, and typos? Because the literati at that time had no integrity, and the compilation of Siku was just to flatter people. I guessed that this was Siku  In order to please Qianlong, the ministers, internal officials and eunuchs did this deliberately, waiting for Qianlong to read the favorite school books and mark them out, and then reprimand the ministers for their lack of learning, so that the emperor would be happy, and Qianlong's learning would be improved.  That's all, above the Siku officials who were "all first-class in the country and a man of erudition for a time". However, although Qianlong liked to proofread books, he only occasionally reviewed them. At first, he did not proofread verbatim, and over time, he got tired of it. Each copy was submitted.  , without opening his eyes, he always corrected the errors in the big calligraphy with a red pen and printed them according to the original. Although the administrator knew the errors, he did not dare to change them without permission, so he made typos and corrected the books in Daxing Siku. The rest of them studied.  I do not put personal preferences first, but only regard right and wrong as the basis. I carefully proofread the examples and annotations to prevent future generations from learning typos after reading this book"

    It was such a bitter irony that Jiang Guolin couldn't help but blush after reading it. He remembered that when he was reading Sikuquanshu, he also found typos and corruptions and asked the teacher, but the teacher hesitated and couldn't explain why.  Come on, finally just say that this book is written like this and you read it like this!  Thinking about it now, Jiang Guolin couldn't help but feel half cold. Even his ownThe teachers' scholarly attitude has also been castrated by the Manchus to the point where they can only read directly according to the book. How can they still have half of the cautious scholarly attitude of the Confucian sages?

    The last new annotation ends with: "The Book of Siku contains four volumes of Classics and History, covering most of the ancient books. The Qing people did not do this to pass down ancient books to the world. They just wanted to use this move to unify the world of literary world. From now on, there will be no parallels with the four  A book that does not match the library is a demon book, a book that should be destroyed. The Manchus, in order to suppress the thoughts of the world's scholars, did not hesitate to use this book as a cover. It is actually the world's largest literary prison. When future generations read this book, they will  Be cautious"

    After reading this book, Jiang Guolin was already sweating through his clothes, and the sky was getting brighter. He opened the window, and the scorching sun shone in like fire. He stared at an ancient pine in the courtyard, and his mind was filled with books.  I read a sentence in the book, "The people who edited Siku no longer have the integrity of the scholars who generously served for justice in the late Ming Dynasty. They are all followers of fame and charm. Although they have the name of great Confucianism, their integrity has disappeared" I  Is this the same person?  Jiang Guolin felt that his three views had begun to waver.  (To be continued)
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