Chen Cong observed the winery opposite Xingyoutianxia warehouse for two days. He found that the warehouse was very cautious and guards were vigilant. Anyone who went in and out had to check the waist sign and press the fingerprints.

But after two days of observation, I locked my target to a vulgar short-haired man. Seeing that his hair seemed to grow shortly, he should have been a thief monk before. This person was very frequent and seemed to be responsible for buying horses. Chen Cong kept seeing him leading his horse in.

In the evening, when the man came out of the warehouse again, Chen Cong and five subordinates stared at him from behind, turned into a narrow alley, Chen Cong quickly stepped forward, covered his mouth with his right hand, pulled his head back to his shoulders, and pressed the dagger in his left hand against his neck, and said with a smile: "Don't yell if you want to survive, do you understand?"

Chen Cong was wearing a wide-sleeved outer robe, and outsiders would not notice that there was a knife hidden in his sleeve. If someone didn't know, he would think that it was a joke between friends.

The man screamed "whimper" and from his terrified face, he knew what he meant and let go of his right hand.

The man thought he had encountered a thief who was robbing the road. As soon as he got free, he quickly whispered: "Give me your life! Good man, please spare me! I'll give you money."

At this time, a carriage drove to the entrance of the alley, and Shen Cong dragged him into the carriage, and the carriage then ran away.

"As long as you answer my question honestly, I will spare your life, otherwise there will be a dead end."

"Okay, okay, the guy asked... Woo woo woo woo woo..." But while he was talking, Chen Guang quickly flicked his eyes and stuffed a small bottle of medicine into his mouth. The man pinched his neck and coughed hard, but Chen Zhen took action too quickly and had swallowed it into his stomach when he didn't know the taste. Although there was still a little sweetness, he knew that this thing was definitely not candy, and his greasy face turned pale.

"This medicine is called the Broken Heart Pill. It is a Miao medicine passed down from Yelang. It is very strange. You must take the antidote within three days after taking it, otherwise it will cause the intestines to rot and the stomach to die. It will only take three days to take the antidote, and then you will also take the antidote." Chen Cong took out a bamboo tube from his arms, poured out a crystal clear pill, handed it to him, and then said: "This is the antidote, and you will not die for three days."

The unlucky man hurriedly took it and swallowed it directly. When he only went deeper, he was extremely bitter.

"Idiot, I'm very unfortunate to tell you that what I've eaten is the authentic Heartbreak Pill. It was just a bottle of diluted honeysugar water." Chen Cong looked at him with a smile, took back the dagger, and said happily: "You ate it yourself, don't blame me."

"You..." The unlucky man was stunned and his face turned pale.

Chen Cong asked with a faint smile: "What's your name?"

"My name is Zhu Xiong!" Zhu Xiong realized that the other party was not encountering a thief, and he might have been involved in a big deal.

Chen Cong pulled off his waist card, which indeed said "Zhu Xiong", No. 36.

"How many numbers are there?" Chen Cong shook his waist card.

“There are thirty-six numbers in total.”

"It seems you're not doing well! They're all ranked last."

Zhu Xiong said with a sad face: "The villain is just an insignificant little person. He is usually responsible for purchasing a slow horse. He doesn't know anything else. You can let me go."

At this time, the carriage had already driven out of the North City and walked slowly on the official road outside the city. Chen Cong asked again: "What is the warehouse in Xingyou Tianxia?"

"Silk, porcelain, tea, medicinal materials, oils, wood, cattle, horses, sheepskin, and wool, probably only these kinds of goods."

"What else?"

"there is none left!"

"Think about it carefully, don't be fooled with me. What else is there? For example, Mingguang armor, horizontal swords, etc." Chen Cong stared at him coldly.

Zhu Xiong's body trembled, and a strong look of fear appeared in his eyes, and he couldn't speak for a long time.

"I don't say it, right? I think you really want to die of a stool."

"You know everything, why are you asking me?" Zhu Xiong muttered dejectedly.

"How many armor and horizontal swords are there?"

"I don't know the specific number. I only know that it is placed in the warehouse secret room and guarded very closely. It was only when I was transporting it, but I realized it was armor and horizontal swords."

"How did it come?"

"They hollowed out the golden nanmu logs that several people hugged each other, put the armor and a horizontal knife inside, punched the empty end into the block, and then knocked the two ends into pieces. From the outside, it was exactly the same as the precious wood. When I first saw it, I thought it was put down from the mountain and hit the rock, and it turned out like that."

Chen Cong suddenly realized when he heard this. No wonder he avoided layers of levels. Such a treatment was really unpredictable.

"When will these things be sent away?"

"I'm not very clear. The horses are ready now. I don't have to buy them tomorrow. It should be in these few days." Zhu Xiong was very alert, afraid that the other party would kill him. He was so scared that he stammered: "Good man, the villain used to be a monk. After returning to secular life, he married a wife. The child was only one year old, and an old father asked me to support him. Please don't kill me, I, I have some usefulness..."

Chen Cong originally wanted to stab him to death with one knife, but when he heard the last sentence, he immediately changed his mind, and said calmly without blushing, "It is not easy to refine the heartbroken pill. I asked you to eat it, so I didn't plan to kill you. As long as you cooperate well, I will completely help you get rid of the poison after the matter is done!"

"Okay, okay, okay!" Zhu Xiong, who had almost gone to see the Buddha, hurriedly agreed: "I will definitely cooperate with the hero grandpa."

"Take me to your house and have a look."

...

At night, Chen Cong returned to the inn and bowed to Ling Jing and said, "You have gained something today."

"Sit down and say!"

Ling Jing poured a cup of tea.

Chen Cong took a sip and then told him about the arrest of Zhu Xiong. Ling Jing frowned and said, "Are you afraid that he will betray him?"

"Reported to the Secretary of the State, he was already frightened by the so-called Heartbreak Pill, and he also left a brother to monitor him at his house, and promised not to hold him accountable afterwards, and rewarded him with fifty gold coins. I believe he would not and dare not sell us."

"With both soft and hard, good means!" Ling Jing nodded and praised, and asked again: "When will they be going to send away weapons and armor."

"Just these few days."

"Okay!" Ling Jing wrote a short eagle letter, asking him to send it to Luoyang tomorrow.

...

The next day, after the scattered court, Yang Tong did not handle official duties. After having the cabinet, he became much more relaxed. He could hardly handle daily affairs in counties now. Local memorials now all took Yang Tong's established route, namely, "Competition of the Ministry of Political Science and Technology - Cabinet Reviews - Secretariat's Provincial Decision - Secretariat's Provincial Deliberation - Secretariat's Provincial Distribution - Secretariat's Departments'. After this round, it was linked. Some daily affairs were handled very well by the central officials. This also allowed Yang Tong to spend a lot of time to consider the actual matters.

After thinking about it, Yang Tong walked towards Hongwenguan.

Hongwenguan is located in the Secretary-General of Menxia. When the official system of the Sui Dynasty was established, it was actually "six provinces and six ministries", namely the Shangshu Province, the Secretariat, the Menxia Province, the Secretariat, the Secretariat, the Secretariat, the Secretariat, the Secretariat, and the Secretariat. When the first three were founded, they had become the real core official offices of the court. The latter three provinces were mainly to facilitate the emperor and had little effect on the country. By the time of Yang Guang's reign, the Secretariat, and the Secretariat had already died in name only, and the rank of the chief official was reduced again and again.

The functions of the Inner History Province are the same as those of the Secretariat. They are departments that draft emperor's edicts. Not only do they repeat the functions, but there are also unclear government orders and unclear responsibilities. Sometimes, a kind of government order is copied by the two provinces, but the way of writing is very different. Officials do not know who is right and who is wrong. Therefore, after arriving at Yang Tong, the Inner History Province was officially incorporated into the Secretariat and no longer exists.

The Secretariat is in charge of correcting pictures, proofreading classics, and publishing ancient books. The chief official is a secretary supervisor (third rank), and the second rank has a secretary supervisor. There are 4 secretary supervisors, 12 clerks, 4 clerks, 4 clerks, 2 clerks, and 2 clerks, and the lead book Cao, and the Grand Historian Cao... This official office is relatively leisurely, and its main responsibility is to correct books. Although there is no practical work, it has an indispensable existence for the education cause. Therefore, Yang Tong let it continue to exist, but only demoted it to the secretary supervisor. The chief official is only called a secretary, and his rank has also been demoted from the third rank to the fourth rank. This position was also served by the Zong Zhengqing Yang You, who likes to study and is relatively leisurely. As for the eunuch, it is the department responsible for the daily life of the royal family. As for the Yang Guang period, it was changed to Changqiu Supervisor.

The reason why Yang Tong went to the Secretary’s Supervisor for inspection today is that there is a Hongwen Pavilion in the Secretary’s Supervisor, where royal nobles and senior Beijing officials are studying here, and officials from the Secretariat teach knowledge such as classics, history and calligraphy.

At present, his older children are all here to receive enlightenment, and the children of all the important civil and military officials are also studying here, forming a large class with more than 50 children.

When we arrived at the yard where Hongwen Pavilion was located, waves of childish reading sounds had already been heard. Yang Tong did not disturb the children who were studying and went directly to Yang Tong's attic.

Yang You's position as Zong Zhengqing was very leisurely and had almost nothing to do. He stayed in the secretary's supervisor all day long and brought a group of well-educated scholars to correct books.

The two emperors of the Sui Dynasty attached great importance to culture. Due to the Spring and Autumn Period, the cultural classics of the Han Dynasty were damaged and lost due to hundreds of years of melee. In 583, Emperor Wen of Sui issued an edict to ask for books and offered one volume of books to reward one piece of silk. As for Yang Guang, he was a man full of romantic spirit. As early as when he was the chief supervisor of Yangzhou in Jiangnan, he recruited scholars to organize classics. In the past twenty years after he ascended the throne, he had completed 130 books and more than 17,000 volumes. Yang Guang also organized people to compile 400 volumes of "Changzhou Jade Mirror" and 1,200 volumes of "Qu Yu Tu Zhi", which made contributions to the preservation of ancient Chinese classics.

In addition, he also ordered all counties in the world to draw maps of customs and properties in various places, and compiled 131 volumes of "Records of Local Customs of the Counties" and 100 volumes of "Collection of the Pictures of the Prefectures". During his reign, he ordered the compilation of local chronicles and classics. It was a large scale. It was not only a summary work that inherited the past and opened the future, but also the beginning of the compilation of national local chronicles and pictures in history. It has a profound influence. When Pei Ju was ordered to go to Zhangye to manage the merchants in the Western Regions to hand over the market, he was ordered to collect information on mountains, rivers, customs and other materials in the Western Regions and wrote "Collection of the Western Regions". The book contains maps, records, and color drawings of people of all ethnic groups wearing ethnic costumes. It is a famous geography.

After the efforts of two generations of emperors, the total number of books was as high as more than 370,000 volumes and more than 77,000 books. In order to allow central officials to watch them instantly, Yang Guang also asked someone to copy and record them in Ziwei City, Daxing Daxing Palace, Zhuojun Linshuo Palace, Taiyuan Jinyang Palace, and Jiangdu Jiangdu Palace.

If Yang You wants to finish reading these books, his life will probably not be enough, let alone intensive reading and correction.

The book case is full of books, and he is directing his officials to do things. "There are too many books in the secretary's supervision. For the sake of reading, although it is divided into classics, history, places, travel notes, etc., but I found that many books are travel notes and have certain historical facts. If they are classified into a certain category, they are not reasonable and will easily make people who are looking for such books missed. In my opinion, travel notes can be subdivided into two subcategories: simply praising mountains and rivers to chant the aspirations, mountains and rivers, and the history of mountains and rivers. In addition, Too many books make people wonder what books exist, so we should write a book that specifically records the bibliography and accurately introduce the contents of the book. The query methods are divided into two types: first character pinyin and first character radicals. This article is placed together according to the pronunciation of the bibliography, and then sorted by the age of the book. Since many books in the past have prologues written by the sages, I will give you a month to collect and copy. Then we will sort them one by one."

The Chinese pinyin and initial vowel tables produced by Yang Tong have long been spread all over the world, and even the aristocratic families who have an exclusionary attitude towards Yang Tong have gradually paid attention to it. Therefore, pinyin has become a way for children to recognize words and read.

"Your Highness, time is too tight."

Yang You thought for a while and said, "This way, we can let students with excellent grades from Luoyang Academy participate in the collection and copying of books. At that time, we only need to correct them, so that at least half of the books do not need to be handled; you will compile the prelude to the collection of books."

The officials answered the order happily.

Yang You also said: "The predecessors made may not be accurate, and later generations may not be inferior to those of the predecessors. In order to be more accurate and to promote the enthusiasm of students, we can follow the example of Emperor Gaozu Wen and encourage students to write the preface of books. Once they are hired, they will be rewarded."

When Yang Tong heard this, he couldn't help laughing. Isn't this an essay contest?

When everyone heard the laughter, they all looked over. When they saw Yang Tong, they put down the books in their hands and saluted, saying, "Brother/Sage".

"The Tang King has a very good idea. You can do it as he told me."

"Here!" The officials knew that Yang Tong had something to say to Yang You, and they stepped out with tactfulness.

"Brother, why are you here?" Yang You was very happy when the emperor arrived rashly.

"You are idle!" Yang Tong found a seat and said casually: "Your idea of ​​collecting articles is very good. I think it can be expanded to various university palaces and officialdoms. If a book has hundreds of references and references, students can save effort and read it. They can also roughly understand the true meaning of this book before reading the original book, which makes it much easier to understand. On the other hand, when reading the article in the preface, many things are suddenly enlightened."

Yang You suddenly said, "Brother Emperor means that I am going to print a preface for classic books?"

"That's true!" Yang Tong said with a smile: "One hundred people have a hundred interpretations of the Analects of Confucius. Some people even have ten thousand insights into the sentence "The Analects of Confucius". Once presented in a sophisticated article, they will inspire endless people. If everyone does this, do you know what it means to me, the Great Sui Dynasty?"

"A hundred schools of thought bloom and books are released many times, which can be regarded as a grand event in the literary world. Today, it will surely become a holy world admired by future generations." Yang You said excitedly.

Yang Tong smiled, "Your father-in-law, Shangshu Kong, invited Confucian scholars from all over the world to reorganize the "Justice of the Four Books and Five Classics". The day the book is completed is the time for him to become a saint."

"I know this!" Yang You said frustratedly: "It's a pity that I don't have enough knowledge and cannot participate in this grand event."

"I remember telling you before that our Yang family has famous generals, famous ministers, emperors, poets, calligraphers, military strategists, politicians, but there are no educators and saints. Although you cannot participate in the compilation of "The Justice of the Four Books and Five Classics", there is one thing you do well and Kong Shangshu can only be under you."

"What's the matter?"

"I just heard you say you want to reorganize your book, and thought of a way to index it with pinyin and radicals. This idea is very good! But even if the outline of your book is completed, its influence is far less than that of "The Justice of the Four Books and Five Classics". What I want you to do is to write a "Dictionary" similar to "Shuowen Jiezi"."

"Shuowen Jiezi" was compiled by Xu Shen of the Han Dynasty. It explains the source of the font word by word. After Xu Shen finished writing it, it was dedicated to Emperor An of Han. This is the first dictionary in the calendar.

However, since the paper has not yet flourished, after more than five hundred years of history, the content has long become incomplete. Even after the efforts of the two emperors Wen and Wu, the complete "Shuowen Jiezi" was not collected. As for the 21st century, most of them were versions of the Song Dynasty or commentary versions of the Qing Dynasty.

"Shuowen Jiezi" set a precedent for radical searching characters. Some people call this book "a book that has never been seen before in ancient times, created by Xu Jun", and most of the dictionaries in later generations also adopted this method.

If Yang You could use pinyin and radical indexes to explain in detail the origin of each character, the different writing methods and meanings of different eras, and introduce the common words and original meanings of the idioms of the character, then this kind of dictionary will definitely not exist in the ages.

The compilation of "Dictionary" is mainly about collecting and organizing, removing the drought and retaining the essence, sorting and copying. It is large and cumbersome, and it emphasizes slow work and meticulous work. It is not possible to complete it with a simple thought. The source, image, interpretation, source and meaning of each word must be carefully considered, and compared with ancient books to strive for perfection. The academic requirements for "Editor-in-Chief" are not too high, and what is tested is the care and patience of this person. Yang You is a quiet person, and the most important thing is care and patience.

Yang Tong naturally had to leave this great thing that would last forever for his family. Once Yang You compiled a far-reaching classic like the Dictionary, it would be enough to make him a god in one book. In terms of its influence and dedication to the entire nation, ordinary wise rulers could not compare to him.

"Are you interested?" Yang Tong asked.
To be continued...