The daily activities of the Hallym Academy are not only to perform its function of handling political affairs, but also to exercise their ability and increase their knowledge. For example, the various edicts issued in the name of the emperor were supposed to be drafted by the ministers, but in fact most of the general documents were ghostwritten by the Hanlin officials, which helped the Hanlin officials adapt to government affairs, deepen their experience, and strengthen their familiarity with state affairs; The compilation of the records of the Ming dynasties was generally led by the cabinet ministers, and Hanlin was responsible for the actual editing, which strengthened the Hanlin officials' in-depth understanding of the stories of the political canons of the previous dynasties; In the lectures of the feast, the Hanlin officials were constantly familiar with the imperial court etiquette and important national policies; At the same time, the relationship between the monarch and the minister, as well as the teacher and the student, formed by the lectures and readings, became an important condition for the Hanlin officials to enlighten the monarch's heart and exert influence on the emperor during their time in the court or when they were in charge of the government in the future.

In addition, Hanlin officials had more opportunities to get close to Confucianism and important people, and they could also enjoy historical materials and newspapers and participate in some important meetings, so as to gain a specific and in-depth understanding of the political situation and current affairs. These make the Hanlin bachelors continue to accumulate political knowledge and experience, and prepare better political knowledge for the future, so this official is not big, but this kind of position has a bright future in the Ming Dynasty, and it is easier to be promoted to a high-ranking official, but the premise is that there are political achievements, what is the political achievements in the Hanlin Academy, and the compilation of history books is undoubtedly the greatest achievement, so after the imperial examination every year, the imperial court will always let those talented students enter the Hanlin Academy, and compile the history books, canons, and historical manuscripts of the previous dynasty or the current dynasty, so as to obtain the qualifications for promotion.

Wang Zhi Yongle was a scholar in the second year. Revision. Chronicles of Ming Renzong, Xuanzong two dynasties, at least Zhan Shi and bachelors, in this position for some years, has long wanted to move the position, so this time the compilation of the "Yuan History" is particularly attentive, he first let Zeng Heling and others find all kinds of classics of the Yuan Dynasty from the treasury, including "astronomy", "chronicles", "geography", "river canals" four historical materials, in addition, one is a record, the second is the "classics", the third is the collection of inscriptions, the fourth is an interview. After a lot of effort, the compilation work began, because before Genghis Khan's state, the Mongols did not have a written language, and later borrowed the Vulhur script to write Mongolian, and created the Mongolian script of the Vultures.

After the Yuan Dynasty conquered the Central Plains, Kublai Khan ordered the national teacher Phags-pa to create the "new Mongolian characters" in Tibetan as the official Mongolian script. Therefore, the history of Mongolia before and after the founding of the state is recounted later, which is relatively brief and has errors. The history book "The Secret History of the Yuan Dynasty", compiled from the period of Mongolian Taizong (Wokotai) to Xianzong (Mengke), was written in Mongolian with the character of Vulture. This history book is of great value for understanding the history of the Mongols in the first half of the 12th and 13th centuries.

Yuan Shizu was in the second year of unification. Governor Wang He Jianyi, Kublai Khan established the Hanlin National History Institute and began to compile the history of the country. In the first year, the Mongolian Hanlin Academy was set up to record historical events in Mongolian. The establishment of these institutions made the Yuan Dynasty except for the "actual records" of Emperor Yuan Shun missing, and the other thirteen emperors had relatively complete "actual records", which provided the main historical basis for the compilation and revision of the "History of the Yuan". Later, because the last emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Yuan Shun, had no real record to substantiate, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Ouyang You and 12 other people as interview officers to Beiping (now Beijing), Shandong and other places to collect historical materials for continuation. However, the task of editing was extremely heavy, and although Song Lian was a well-educated person, he made a lot of mistakes, which also included the truth and falsity of many historical materials.

In addition, the "Biography of the Queen's Concubines" of the past dynasties is also an important source of information for the "Yuan History" and the biography.

There are also a lot of history of the canonical system of the Yuan Dynasty, mainly including the 880 volumes of the "Imperial Dynasty Jingshi Canon" (the "Zhi" and "Table" in the "Yuan History" are mainly based on this), the "Yuan Canon" that has survived to this day, Wang Zhen's "Agricultural Book", Guo Shoujing's "Time Granting History", etc., which are all important reference materials for the revision of the "Yuan History". In addition, there are some miscellaneous historical materials, such as the Song people's "Black Tartar Affair", "Mengtar Record", "Changchun Real Journey to the West", etc., these are the sources of material for his compilation of the "Yuan History", compared with the original history books, this time he tried to do rich historical materials, check and fill in the gaps, with this requirement, the entire "Yuan History" actually took twice as much time.

In terms of materials, after a long period of war, a lot of historical books were lost, and it was difficult to collect and complete them, and the materials that had been collected were limited to translation conditions and were not fully utilized. For example, "The Secret History of the Yuan Dynasty" and the Mongolian classics and archives of the Yuan Dynasty are all great shortcomings. The main problems pointed out are: copying as you go, repeating before and after, and losing tailoring; They do not oppose each other, test the similarities and differences, and sometimes see contradictions. For example, the book may be written again and again, or the biography may be passed on by one person or two.

The same proper name, the translation is different. Historical translations and alterations sometimes completely reverse the original meaning. Following the text of the case, the official titles of Geng Shenzheng, Tian Situ, and Hao Shenzheng appeared in the "River Canal Chronicles" and "Sacrificial Records" without recording their names. According to the case, a chronology of the prime minister was compiled, and only his official title was deleted and not examined, so that he had no surname. For this kind of problem, Wang Zhi did not blindly adopt it, but listened to Yang Zheng's advice, and first consulted the materials for the places that needed to be scrutinized, and then combined with the history books before and after, carefully deduced, and then researched, these problems have been excellently improved.

Of course, these problems are not big problems, and the most headache for the editors is that when Zhu Yuanzhang asked people to revise the "History of the Yuan", he copied the family biography of the inscription and the like, and there were many improper trade-offs. The cadres who rewrote the chronology actually mistakenly pushed back 60 years, making the historical facts completely confused. There are many examples of emperors who do not have a specific temple number in historical materials, and there are many examples of mistakes when rewriting, such as mistaking Taizu for Taizong, Taizong for Taizu, Xianzong for Shizu, Shizu for Xianzong, etc.

The compilers were also not familiar with the system of the Mongols in the previous dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, for example, the states of the Song Dynasty had other military names and county names, and the "Geographical Chronicles" described the evolution, but it was written that a certain state had been changed to a certain army and a certain county. Another example is the plucking of the ears of the Mongolian khans, the death of the Khan "his account is not empty", and the descendants of the concubines are kept to enjoy the gifts of their years, and the editor of the "Concubines Table" actually lists the wives and concubines of a certain emperor according to this list. And so on, so that he really took a lot of effort, fortunately, Yang Zheng gave a reminder from it, the territory of the Yuan Dynasty was huge, after the Ming Yongle, the feat of going to the West, also brought back a lot of historical materials of the Yuan Dynasty, although most of them are second-hand and third-hand information, but as a reference, it is beneficial to check and fill in the omissions.

Another example is the severing of the ears of the Mongolian Khans, the death of the Khan "its account is not empty", and the descendants of the concubines are kept to enjoy their gifts, and the editors of the "Concubine Table" actually list the wives and concubines of a certain emperor according to this list have been well solved, it can be said that this book, in addition to its historical materials taken from the official history, also searched for "The Secret History of the Yuan Dynasty", "The Emperor Yuan Shengwu Qin Records", "Yuan Dian Zhang", "Yuan Wen Class" and Yuan Humanities Collection. In particular, for the first time, foreign historical materials were used to supplement the northwest public opinion of the "Yuan History", and its historiographical value and status in the history of historiography were thus established. In addition, the book makes a great deal of corrections to the shortcomings or discrepancies in the old history. There are many corrections to the errors and omissions in the "History of the Yuan", so this book is much thicker than that of the early Ming Dynasty.

The whole book still adopts the style of the official history and biography, with eighteen volumes of the original chronicle; 129 volumes; Table 20 volumes; One volume of Zhi, a total of 160 volumes. However, the whole book was not completed in time, and one hundred and forty-six volumes were saved. The content of this book is not limited to the Yuan Dynasty, from the rise of the Mongolian ancestors to the decline of the Northern Yuan regime and the lineage of the three khanates of Mobei, which breaks through the traditional pattern of Yuan history research in time and space, and is a historical record based on the activities of the Mongolian people. In addition to citing the correct history, this book also collects Chinese and foreign historical materials such as "The Secret History of Mongolia", "The Origin of Mongolia", "Historical Collection" by Rashid Din, "History of Mongolia" by Dosan, and many historical facts other than "Yuan History".

He also collected, researched, and enriched the historical facts scattered in the biography of the "History of the Yuan", and wrote and annotated himself, correcting many errors in the "History of the Yuan". In particular, there are many corrections to the prehistory regarding the origin and rise of the Mongol people, the situation of various tribes, and the lineage and land of the Chagatai Khanate, the Ilkhanate, and the Kipchak Khanate. For example, "The Century", "The Biography of Wang Han and Zamu", "The Biography of Naiban Tayang Han", "The Biography of Genghis Brothers", etc., describe in more detail the origin of the Mongolian nationality, Genghis Khan's unification of the Mobei tribes and other historical events of the four dynasties of the pre-Yuan Dynasty; The "Clan Lineage Table" and "The Biography of Timur" record the decline of the Northern Yuan regime and the rise and fall of the Timur Empire in Central Asia after the defeat of Tuhuan Timur Khan and the fall of the Yuan Dynasty; The biography of the Western Regions, the Legend of Zhele, Kublai Lai, the Biography of Zhebei and the Subei Etai Lie, the Biography of Humble Chi, the Biography of Ba Bald, and the Biography of Xiban have detailed records of the three western expeditions after the rise of the Mongols, the establishment of the four khanates, and the deeds of the subsequent kings.

Because the author has conducted field investigations in the Northeast and Mongolia, he can know the ancient and current names of the birthplace of the Mongolian people, the geography of the Northwest and the Eastern Kings and the transportation between China and the West. Dazu Supplement Flood (Jun) and Wei (Yuan) are wrong" (this book "Ordinary Cases"). There are also some historical deeds that are not included in his books, such as the Beijing earthquake contained in the "Shundi Ji", which is not seen in books such as "History of the Yuan Dynasty" and "History of the New Yuan Dynasty". At the end of each volume, there are historical theories, many of which are concise and novel, such as analyzing Kublai Khan's merits and demerits, praising him for "knowing that non-Han law is not enough to govern the Han people, so after ascending the throne, he cited Confucian ministers and participated in major political decisions; The facilities have changed the arbitrary style of my grandfather and brothers, and gradually opened up the rule of civilization." He also criticized him for "being diligent and far-sighted, and after the Song Dynasty, he didn't know how to settle the people." …… Fighting civil engineering, the years are endless. The country is scarce, but it is urgent to manage money, and the middle is quite covered by Ahma, Lu Shirong, and Sangge's disciples, although they know that they are upright.

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